Tag Archives: Financial District

Hotel Of The Day: Andaz Wall Street

By Caroline Patek, Contributor

What: Take a stroll through New York City’s Financial District, and you may just miss Andaz Wall Street. Housed in the old J.P. Morgan office building, it’s truly a respite from the bustle outside. In traditional Andaz fashion, the 253-room, Rockwell Group-designed hotel feels soothing and modern with the incorporation of natural materials such as cerused oak and end grain bamboo, farm-to-table cuisine and top-notch technology. Once you walk through the doors, you’ll be taken aback by the lobby’s central staircase—made of metal and glass—and the way it seamlessly curves its way up from the hotel’s lower spa and meeting areas to the second-floor Bar Seven Five. Don’t forget to check the staircase’s giant TV screen, too, which plays a live news feed of current happenings. …read more

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest

Lucky Bolt Aims to Revolutionize Take-Out, One Bike-Delivered Sustainably Packaged Burger at a Time

By Amy Westervelt, Contributor

San Francisco is full of techy food ventures–there’s Good Eggs (sort of an Etsy for food), Seamless (online delivery food orders from the city’s best restaurants), and too many food trucks and food truck variations to count. Add to that mix Lucky Bolt, a food delivery start-up that takes orders online for a menu that pulls from two to three different local eateries each day (including food trucks) and delivers the meals via bicycle to hungry Financial District workers. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest