Prime Location NYC: Museum/ Gallery Building/Flagship/Institution A little about the project: Blue Moon is a former 1879 tenement filled with artifacts and personal affects transformed into a stately 8 story hotel. The building had undergone an extensive renovation akin to a public works project. The location could not be better since it is opposite the Tenement Museum which receives hundreds of thousands of visitors yearly. The Blue Moon is located on the Tenement Museum block of Orchard and Delancey. A charming block accessible to most NYC train lines, it is in the heart of the few NYC historic districts. The location has been touted in the New York Times as the “57th and 5th” of the Lower East Side. The Blue Moon is a dignified edifice to continue and extend a presence for your institution in a beautiful façade on a famed NYC block. It would be fitting for an institution or Museum to be presented a historical building (circa 1879) an award winning property on a museum block, with outstanding 5 year preservation aligned with new construction: steel concrete, elevator, steel canter levied balconies on two thirds of the rooms and positioned 3 stories higher than everything else. Clearly the building is a labor of love and cannot be duplicated “Settenbrino may fancy himself a painter, but the Blue Moon is his bricks and mortar masterpiece.” – Toronto Star Blue Moon, a meritorious art project, boasts 40+ articles and prestigious accolades via National Geographic Traveler, NY Magazine, Citysearch, and Rizzoli’s Best 100 Little Hotels. Step through our doors and enjoy a museum-like experience. Artifacts, moldings, mosaics, fixtures, and memorabilia are preserved as décor, while incorporating modern elegance, amenities and services. Here is some news about the BM to share with your benefactors. The latest segment regarding the hotel can be viewed by a clip from Sino TV featuring the BM. The Waldorf and Trump were the previous choices of Sino TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhOQPeo1HBU Here is the link to the offering memorandum https://www.dropbox.com/s/keiixae3njs92nh/Blue%20Moon%20offering%20memorandum.docx?dl=0 “Settenbrino may fancy himself a painter, but the Blue Moon is his bricks and mortar masterpiece.” -- Susan Pigg in the Toronto Star Settenbrino’s Blue Moon may be only one artifact among many in the ongoing and creative adaptation of the urban past, but it is conspicuous for the sensitivity and boldness with which it achieves an increasingly sought-after goal. James Gardner Bloomberg News "Settenbrino was...the guardian angel of every artifact that might be salvaged, refinished by hand and reinstalled in the building" -The Villager "History and Luxury collide in a Lower East Side Hotel filled with artful details from an original tenement" -Citi Search "Forging The Past Vibrantly"-John Freeman Gill, International Herald Tribune Randy, spent five years transforming the former Orchard Street tenement into one of Manhattan's more captivating new small hotels. Manhattan will always have its sprawling, soulless mega-hotels. And if you like staying at a Hyatt or a Hilton, that's fine. But a number of New York innkeepers have decided in the last few years that some of us might want something other than Room 29768. John Horn L.A. Time Additionally, here are links to previous films: http://youtu.be/2VsRQPxLNgA Tripfilms http://youtu.be/D5BgfM4UGmg Citysearch interview & tour http://youtu.be/sweVhADRo_I Travelgoat interview & tour link to hotel photos: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/snklag8iljudqyf/AACQQyk-iNBukla4N_2VZI7ka?dl=0 Settenbrino’s personal Art : http://pinterest.com/bluemoonhotel/randy-settenbrino-art/ Best wishes Randy Settenbrino