[BenLurkin]

Hoax?

[BenLurkin]

https://www.tiktok.com/@desireerosebaker/video/7043567145640316166

[SaveFerris]

(a bedroom overlooking the city.)

a bedroom overlooking the city residents as they eat

[NWFree]

Some people pay extra for that 🤪

[srmanuel]

If that video is real, I don’t know what’s more creepy watching people eat or sitting at a table while you look into someone’s hotel room.

[Skywise]

Nah - looks like the restaurant took over the street/sidewalk as part of the Covid protocols to survive.

[skeeter]

If things went south the police wouldn’t know whether to arrest the hotel patron for exhibitionism or the diner for peeping.

[hinckley buzzard]

Yeah, “Desiree Baker?” I think there is a little more to this story,

[livius]

Grow up, so lady. I’ve stayed in many nice places aboard where the rooms open onto an interior courtyard with bar or patio with restaurant. Now they’ve soundproofed the windows so your room is ok for sleeping. But even before then, it was fun just to watch people, listen to the band (always nice and quiet) , etc.

I’m just surprised NY still has something like this

[Deaf Smith]

One-way reflective glass tends to reverse when the interior light is much greater than the exterior.

Example is when one drives past office buildings at night and are able to see those still working in their office.

[higgmeister]

In 1981, the ITT company that I worked for booked me into the famous Algonquin Hotel in NYC and my nondescript room had plumbing pipes a couple of feet from the ceiling, running across the room.   It was a crude and dismal subway ride south to the ITT Building downtown.

At the time I had never heard of the "Algonquin Round Table" or Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and Robert E. Sherwood.

Since then I have seen a few Robert Benchley short films that I appreciated.   Then, the humorous anecdote from Dorothy Parker when she was asked to use the word horticulture in a sentence replied "you can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think" was very clever in my opinion.

But at the time I stayed there, I didn't even feel anything of the historic ambiance.   I only thought, no motel room I had ever stayed in had pipes near the ceiling.

[Clutch Martin]

I would have tried to work some deal in regards to free restaurant food.

[\/\/ayne]

In the '80s I worked for this company that took pride in their huge expense account. I had to stay over in Houston so they put me up in this gigantic expensive hotel with a great view, I was 15-20 stories up, I think. I really wanted to lean out the window to get this great shot of the city but it didn't open.

Well, I had a huge toolkit with me for the work so I just took the window off, leaned out and got my picture, then put it back on.

So that's my hotel window story. I guess we all got one.