Clambake Party on the Patio
Posted on 10. May, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Events, Hotel
Join us for a clambake party this wednesday on our awesome terrace on the top floor of the Roger Smith Hotel! Explore the upcoming hidden gem of Midtown and meanwhile, submit to our competition to name our bar, which will be located on the patio itself! Come on up!
wednesday may 12th
6-9pm
kick off the summer with some of the best food
the north east has to offer and at the same time
enjoy an amazing view of the NYC skyline!!
$25/person ( one bake serves 2 people ) & cash bar
for more information and reservation please
email us at lilysnyc@rogersmith.com or call 212-339-2097
therogersmithhotelny
501 Lexington Avenue, New York NY. 10017
212 755 1400 . reservations@rogersmith.com
www.rogersmith.com
www.rogersmithlife.com
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for reservations:
opentable.com lilysnyc@rogersmith.com or call 212-339-2097
Help us name our Bar! Rooftop Terrace of Roger Smith
Posted on 10. May, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Events, Hotel
One of the best things about the Roger Smith Hotel is the diversity within the property. Guest rooms, Lily’s Bar & Restaurant, lively events spaces, The Lab Gallery (for installation and performance art) and now for 2010 the Roger Smith Hotel introduces the ______________ our 16th floor terrace/roof bar.
With spectacular views, a breeze form the East River, food, cocktails and free WiFi it is sure to be one of midtowns hidden gems this Summer.
Below is a short video tour of the terrace and some insight as to what its all about. The main purpose of this post, besides letting you all know about the terrace, is to inform our loyal community that we want your help in naming it!
What is the point of being the “social media hotel” if we aren’t social… what better way than to have our friends and followers help us decide on the name of our terrace bar…
Please watch the video and submit your suggestions below.
Note: The winning name will receive a clambake for six people on the terrace anytime this Summer.
See you all soon on the 16th floor!
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand ‘Check-Ins’
Posted on 20. Feb, 2010 by BrianSimpson in Community, Hotel, Lily's Restaurant
Last Thursday afternoon I received a call from my friend Julia Roy. Julia had been approached by Susan Dominus, of The New York Times, to participate in an article Susan was doing on the social network FourSquare. Julia asked if it would be O.K. to do the interview at Roger Smith Hotel. Her reasoning was to hopefully include other FourSquare users in the article. (on most nights there is someone here “Checking-In” on FourSquare) This gesture alone shows why people like Julia excel in social media. FourSquare is a way of sharing your dining, shopping, traveling, museum hoping, train riding and sight seeing experiences with other people.
FourSquare is about the strength of community. To quote Kenneth Hartley Blanchard “None of us is as smart as all of us.” Julia could have done the interview on her own and it would have been great. She would have shared it, the twitterverse would have re-tweeted it and the world would continue to spin about one thousand miles per hour. Instead, Julia recognizes the greater strength and potential energy of community. Everyone has an audience: Damien consults on building your companies brand. Clay has studied under Seth Godin and now assists a variety of businesses with their overall strategies. Jill has a loyal community on YouTube as a videographer that surpasses most of its users. I (Brian Simpson) work at Roger Smith, a hotel that has become a go-to business for all types of social media personalities.
Collectively the story became what platforms like FourSquare stand for… connecting friends and strangers with commonalities to create conversation.
Jill Hanner's NYSC Mayorship
It was a great night and we at The Roger Smith Hotel wanted to thank Julia for including us. I/we would also like to thank Jill, Clay and Damien for sharing their unique and individual insights as to why FourSquare is important to them.
“Beyond Twitter: An App That Truly Lets You See City”
JOIN FOURSQUARE NOW: Here
Susan Dominus
Special thanks to: Susan Dominus, writer for the NYT and Nicole Tung Photographer for the NYT
Pedro Sousa Photography Exhibit in the Roger Smith Lobby Gallery
Posted on 30. Jan, 2010 by aleksdegtyarev in Art at Roger Smith, Arts
The Exhibit is Open: January 4 – March 12, 2010 Roger Smith Hotel Lobby Gallery 501 Lexington Ave. The Opening Party: 2.26.10 Time: 7:30pm @ Roger Smith Solarium Gallery
Last Studio Visit by Marlo Brown
Pedro Sousa and I have an enduring relationship; for a long time he wanted to kill me. His rage towards me wasn’t unwarranted. If you know anything about me, Marlo, you wouldn’t suspect otherwise.
In 2000 we were both attending Stony Brook University. Pedro had a sweet studio on the fourth floor of Staller Art Center. He was sharing the space with several artists and it was no-holds-barred-art-making-central.
Pedro is a photographer, so naturally he kept his tools at his studio space. Why wouldn’t he? It’s not like anyone went back home in those days or took days off from making art-stuff. While other artists prized their brushes and oil paints, Pedro’s payload was about eight cameras and loads of lenses.
On one particular day I remember visiting the collective studio space. A girlfriend of mine hung out with that crew and she probably wanted to see her ex-boyfriend who shared the studio with Pedro. To say I knew these art-folk would be an over statement. I maybe had met some of them once or twice. It’s a good bet I didn’t know anyones’ name. And if Pedro was telling this story, I’m pretty certain he would stress the exclusive nature of those studios. This was a tight knit community to which I wasn’t even worth spitting on. I was a freshman, but i certainly did not regard myself as such.
Back in those days I wasn’t easily impressed. Everything and everyone, that is, besides me, was “pretentious.” Being in a room of older more “established” males was not doing anything positive for my ego. Clearly these were a bunch of pretentious dicks! With a judgment of that caliber I took out a cigarette and lit it.
I almost remember smoking it out the window…
That was it. The rest was related by Pedro in a death threat back to my girlfriend of that time. He accused me of burning down the studio, but in more visceral words than that. To this day no one really knows if the cigarette I was smoking was the cause of the fire. One party believed it was. I believed otherwise.
What’s more, nobody cared for apologies which later morphed into half-excuses. In fact, certain members of that studio still consider me an arsonist and a prick, and I very well maybe a prick. But, I can tell you dear reader, that it was not my intention to create this animosity nor to burn down any studio.
Why am I telling this story here? Well, it’s a testament to Pedro really. He lost the most in that studio and at the same time he was the first to forgive me. After we moved on beyond that mishap, I was able to clearly see that here was a guy that was neither pretentious nor a prick.
Pedro is one of the most driven guys I know. He’s got the skills to rally people for a cause. To get shit done! Straight out of college he opened a gallery in a dead art zone known as Long Island. It is a miracle that his space held out for six years –packing out the house at every opening.
That was almost all Pedro’s work. While others spoke of a vision he executed his. He enabled other artists and himself by having a space to show work. For artists that is a huge deal! Having an art show means that you must produce. If you keep producing your work matures, you build a portfolio worth showing, collectors become interested, etc. Pedro fostered not only this space but its culture as well. He created a community where people could experiment and show those experiments. I was no exception.
Under terms that I would not burn down the gallery Pedro let me into this culture. I felt a belonging and now other people were looking at me as the pretentious dick. It was a great feeling. We were able to pull off all sorts of great events and spectacles: film festivals, experimental video nights, vaudeville art shows and other performances. The space like the people around it were in constant evolution.
When Pedro closed the gallery it was a surprise, but he listed the fact that he was spending too much time doing administrative work and not enough time producing art as a major factor. Sure, now that I am curating both the Solarium Art Gallery and the Lobby Gallery at the Roger Smith Hotel, I can relate. That is why I proposed an art show to Pedro as well as a co-curatorial role.
That is the relevance of community, of friendship, of culture. It is the ability of relation. To be able to relate is far beyond understanding. That is the torch that we carry and pass to each other. Back and forth it goes…
Julia, a dog named Waffle & The Ghost of Roger Smith
Posted on 21. Jan, 2010 by BrianSimpson in Community
Last night in the Penthouse of The Roger Smith Hotel Matt Semler & Danika Druttman, of The Lab Gallery, along with Julia Kaganskiy (MoMA) hosted a gathering of arts and tech enthusiasts. The main purpose was the introduction of smART Camp, a weekend long event in March, that will bring together influential artists, social network professionals and a community of people looking at ways the two are utilized for the exposure, education and sales for the art world.
The hotel, as many of you know, has a mysterious energy that seems to bring out the storyteller in all of its visitors, last night was no exception.
If you are skeptical… don’t believe me, believe Julia, Michelle Adam and a dog named Waffle.
Today’s #RogersRooms Giveaway by Matisyahu
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by AdamWallace in Hotel
For those who are just learning about #Rogersrooms, let me explain how the promotion works. We are giving away a room every night in January to be used before the end of the Month. Suite 1102 @RShotel is the Social Media Suite.
Thursday 1/21 competition: Send a message on Twitter to @Matisyahu and sign up to the mailing list for a chance to win #rogersrooms. Check out his new track One Day ft. Akon.
Matisyahu – “One Day feat. Akon” by matisyahu
One Day – Acoustic Version
Rogers Rooms Giveaway
Give us your most creative idea for a #RogersRooms Give-Away
Posted on 08. Jan, 2010 by admin in Hotel
Our Friday, January 8th #RogersRooms giveaway contest is in your hands. We want you to submit a creative idea for the January 9th #RogersRooms give-away.
On Tuesday it was the best Haiku, yesterday was a card game and today we want your input. To enter write your idea for tomorrows contest in our comments section and at 4pm a celebrity guest will pick the entry they find most creative. Think fun, simple and engaging.
We look forward to your ideas and hope to see you here at The Roger Smith Hotel soon!
#Rogersrooms: Stay with us, on us, in January @RSHotel
Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by AdamWallace in Hotel
As an appreciation for all of the support we received in 2009, the Roger Smith Hotel will be giving away one room every day in the month of January to our online community.
We will be giving information regarding Roger Smith Room giveaways with the Twitter hashtag “#Rogersrooms” so that you will be able to track the promotion.
How does this work?
Roger Smith Rooms will be given away by members of your community. Every day at 11 am we will announce who will be giving the room away and how they plan to do it. At 4 pm, we will announce a winner and that person will be able to pick a date in the month of January to come and visit us. Based on the scheduled availability plan on staying in Suite 1102.
Participation is the name of the game.
Each day a room will be given away through an online interactive method. It could be trivia, a creative competition, or just a first initiated response. For more information regarding this promotion please engage with us on Twitter with #Rogersrooms and we will answer any questions you might have.
As an added bonus, even if you are not picked for a free night, we will Direct Message all participants an exclusive promo code (only offered here) for substantial savings when booking a room.
In 2010 we aim to engage you as a member of the Roger Smith Community. What better initiation than to have you stay with us for a night to experience the pride of Roger Smith, his Rooms.
We look forward to having you as our guest. See you soon.
Thanks for the support.
Roger Smith.
NEW YEAR’S EVE WORLDWIDE WEBCAST
Posted on 31. Dec, 2009 by AdamWallace in Community
Happy New Year to everyone that is a part of the Roger Smith community!! Thank you all of such an amazing year and we miss you all the best in 2010. All of your support and participation in the community in the past year has been really amazing and taken us to new levels and we cannot thank you enough. Enjoy the Webcast : )
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Celebrate New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day at Lily’s
Posted on 29. Dec, 2009 by AdamWallace in Lily's Restaurant
watch the ball drop at lily’s!
we are seeing in the new year with a
sparkling crowd, exciting drinks, bubbly
and party favors at midnight.
don’t end 2009 freezing in times square – bring in a warm 2010 in lily’s
lily’s new years eve hours
breakfast: 7-11am
lunch: noon-2.30pm
dinner: 5-10pm
Bar open ’till 1am
(small bites available)
new years day brunch special
celebrate the first day of the new year at lily´s
prix fixe $20.10
brunch + bloody mary or a bellini (fiesta!!) 11-4pm
dinner: 5-8pm
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
for more information visit lilysnyc.com
for reservations call 212 838 0844 or email lilys@rogersmith.com
