High Line is a Lust Cause

[Renew Deal]

Source: NY Post



Note to parents strolling the High Line: Don't let your kids look up.

The Meatpacking District's newly opened, much-touted urban park along an elevated, former railroad trestle has unwittingly turned into a peep show near The Standard hotel, as randy hotel guests perform sex acts in front of floor-to-ceiling hotel windows.

Disgusted neighbors say they've seen men masturbating, professional porn films being shot and couples engaging in sex in full view of the stunning High Line park path running alongside.
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"I've seen a few porn shoots -- three dudes walking around a hotel room with cameras and lights filming a couple," said Joe, a manager at the next-door Brass Monkey. "I've seen at least 10 different people having sex. Saturday nights are the best time for the show."
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Read more: http://www.nypost.com/seven/08242009/news/regionalnews/high_line_is_a_lust_cause_186207.htm

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:rofl:

[Cassandra]

1. I heard that the hotel was actually...

encouraging that sort of thing.

[Renew Deal]

2. They are/were

The hotel Web site beckons:

"Whatever you do, just make sure the shots are HOT and that you get them to us in whichever way you can. It's all about sex all the time, and you're our star."

After The Post contacted The Standard for comment, the posting was abruptly changed.

The 18-floor hotel opened at the end of last year -- with raunch-friendly ads.

"We'll put up with your banging if you put up with ours," an ad declared, picturing a woman wearing nothing but a tool belt.

[Blue_Tires]

3. a porn shoot?

what? was the Red Roof Inn overbooked?

[unpossibles]

4. this just encourages me to go!

(and/or to book a room....)

[SpiralHawk]

5. Frikkin Meatpackers

I am shocked, shocked, shocked I tell you.

[cliffordu]

6. Lessee, got that locked into my iphone's mapping software.......

meatpacking indeed...

:rofl:

[madmom]

7. Pity (?) for those of us who suffer from myopia.

[McCamy Taylor]

8. Wee! Now we dont have to go to Amsterdam to get a free sex show!

[Greyskye]

9. Hey, I know that guy!!!

Not really, but with his photo posted like that, how long until someone does?

I just hope it's not some kid saying: "Daddy?!"

[Libertas1776]

10. How did we go from Miss Lonely Hearts to Yuppie Exhibitionists?

God, I miss the old, "real" seedy New York City of working class underdogs before it got all sanitized and Disneyfied. Now it is nothing but a playground for rich trustafarian yuppie brats; posers who are trying to live a "quirky" and edgy" NYC lifestyle that they themselves utterly destroyed with their arrival. Yes, in this new New York, nudie bars and peep shows are wiped off the map but some young narcissistic egomaniacs with deep pockets can flaunt their junk, touch themselves, and pork their significant other in front of the masses with no repercussions. "Hey, down below, check out me. I'm naked. Take that society, I am so edgy and unique. You wish you were me, broke mothafuckas."

Here is an interesting article from a terrific website that compares the unique and artful voyeurism in Hitchcock's "Rear Window"

http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2009/08/naked-city.html



to this modern pitiful display.

[Lucky Luciano]

11. haha there is some truth to what you say

The rooms there are about $600 per night - and it is mostly locals who get them so they can party there instead of at their apartments where there would be noise complaints. At least that is how The Standard in Los Angeles is run when I used to party over there! Since I moved back to NY, I have a job that requires getting up far too early to get crazy even on the weekends...and I am getting too old for that shit!