Editor’s note: We sent two of our intrepid contributors, comedienne Jessica Delfino and photographer Alex M. Smith to check out the new Holiday Inn on Delancey Street. Here’s what they found.
Story by Jessica Delfino, photos by Alex M. Smith.
Just about everyone has reluctantly stayed in a Holiday Inn at one point or another. Whether it be a snap judgment while driving heavy-eyed along a dark highway in Cincinnati, Ohio or after a work event in New Haven, Connecticut, it seems like the kind of place I’ve only ever “crashed out at” rather than “consciously chose.” But when my husband and I were assigned to an undercover slumber party at the Lower East Side’s newest hotel on Delancey Street, I found myself checking in for the first time ever, on purpose.