Regarding the Gramercy Park Hotel's latest special:

We "Hang Out" wherever our group of friends decide to have dinner and drinks after, but since I was born and bred downtown, normally there. You on the other hand, with your statement of "consistently packed with a good crowd"...if you idea of a good crowd is promoters that work at TenJune, you must be a Long Island Native, went to a Jap school like syracuse, wisconsin, michigan or the like... your idea of a "beautiful" woman is someone that is five foot four inches tall and weighs 130 lbs and wears close too tight, like a ten pound sausage in a five pound bag.

How tough is the hotel business these days? Multiple Little Birdys who still use A Small World forwarded this email blast they received yesterday, promising all members a buy one get one for 50% off at Ian Schrager's Gramcery Park Hotel. One LB comments, "Hotels are getting DESPERATE, even the GPH, I wonder how Rose Bar is doing these days lol?" Well, we know that Rose Bar is doing just fine, but selling $20 drinks is not going to pay off the buiding's debt service.

In other Ian Schrager news, a Little Birdy tells us that work is progressing on the first batch of Edition Hotels, Schrager's much ballyhooed partnership with Marriott. Some of the pioneer locations include Istanbul and Waikiki, certainly unique destinations to launch a global brand. More news will be leaking through the coming months, so stay tuned.

A Little Birdy was perusing Yelp and came across this announcement, proclaiming that "the fabulous Rose Bar at Gramercy Park Hotel NYC is now open for Happy Hour from 5-8pm." We are fairly confident that this refers to the hours of operation rather than any Buy 1 Get 1 free offer, but we hope to hear tails of unsuspecting Yelpers planning a field trip and complaining about the $18 Manhattans.

• Rose Bar Coverage [DBTH]