People of Tiki, Theres good news and bad news. The bad news is due to issues with Rockaway officials be we’re unable to have Tiki Disco at Rippers until after Labor day. The good news is that the amazing people at Playland Motel were nice enough to let us use their space once again. If […]
Rockaways Inn Rides Renewal Wave The Playland Motel as a Sign of Recovery By PERVAIZ SHALLWANI VISIT ARTICLE > Nearly a month after a boutique hotel called Playland Motel opened a few blocks from his Rockaway Beach home, Michael Mahoney went to check out the much-hyped spot. Mr. Mahoney, 63 years old, whose parents once owned […]
THE ROCKAWAYS ARTISTIC PLAYGROUND: PLAYLAND MOTEL Posted by Caroline Williamson VISIT ARTICLE > This month’s Destination Design stays within the states and lands in New York’s own Rockaway Beach at a recently opened, campy destination called Playland Motel. Full of Beats, Eats, and Sleeps, this motel took an early 19th Century building and restored it with the help of twelve prominent designers […]
Montauk Comes to Queens By ALAN FEUER Published: August 2, 2013 Visit Article > Imagine a beach club plucked from the East End of Long Island and dropped one block from the subway on Rockaway Beach Boulevard and you’ll start to get a picture of the Playland Motel, which began taking guests on the first […]
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Playland Motel View Article > By: Emma Greenberg Robin Scott and Jamie Wiseman are not new to the New York scene. They are, however, new to the beach. Scott, originally from London, and Wiseman, an Oklahoma transplant, are the savvy business minds behind the development of the Brooklyn club Output, and they are bringing their […]
Rockaway’s New Playland Motel: A Poor Man’s Hamptons? View Article > By Jenny Miller Rocktauk? Monkaway? We’re brainstorming new names for Far Rockaway, since the scruffy little beach enclave – despite devastating hurricane damage to its famous boardwalk – is fast becoming less down-at-the-heel. The latest upswing is the Playland Motel, which opened a few […]
Playland Motel – by Patrick Heij Visit Article > The Rockaways are already home to a colony of raffish surfers, young artists piled into bungalows and Bushwick-types who have made it their urban beach resort. Now it has a designer motel with a hopping bar scene populated by the sort of young, well-coiffed life-forms that […]