Rooms feature a mix of styles, from Tibetan to Moroccan
He was the architect of Nobu , the Japanese restaurants that framed (outside Japan) sashimi in a fashionable and avant-garde environment. Also the handyman of TribecaFilm Festival , who already walks alone, from TribecaGrill and of the Tribeca Theater . The godfather of Tribeca, in short.
Robert De Niro, hotelier
In 2008 opened with its first hotel , The Greenwich Hotel , also in Tribeca, of course. Greenwich is downtown, because he's a guy from lower Manhattan, just like Scorsese, who grew up in NoLiTa, and unlike Woody Allen, who's more uptown. The Greenwich has 88 rooms, 8 floors and the character that one expects, between industrial and cozy, in that part of the city; it is rough on the outside and delicate on the inside, cold on the outside and warm on the inside, like New York itself.
It features certain quirks for the area, like a semi-hidden patio and an indoor pool. But you don't need excuses even though it's a fantastic hotel - the fact that de Niro makes it a refuge very suitable for mythomaniacs.
The interiors feature the work of numerous artisans from around the world
Now, the actor dares with a new hotel . But he will not open it in New York, but in China, confirming his eye as an entrepreneur. He has taken over four buildings from the shanghai bund with the idea of revitalizing an entire block. The hotel will have many stars, of course, and the Art-Deco air that the rest of the area breathes. For now it's called Project 179 ”. He will continue.
Greenwich, a daring vision of craft design.
''Project 179'' the first hotel of his in China