- From: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:40:43 -0400
- To: Chris Welty <cawelty@gmail.com>
- Cc: Christian de Sainte Marie <csma@ilog.fr>, RIF WG <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
The Madison Ave location is near Central Park and seems much nicer. michael On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:45:57 -0400 Chris Welty <cawelty@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The addresses are: > > 33 Maiden Lane > New York, NY 10038 > > and > > 590 Madison Avenue > New York, NY 10022 > > The former is in the financial (wall street) district, the latter is on the > northern side of midtown (57th St.) in Manhattan. I am trying to find out if > IBM has a special rate with any hotels. > > -Chris > > > > Christian de Sainte Marie wrote: > > > > All, > > > > There are three possible locations for F2F1, all in or close to New-York > > city: > > - In Hawthorne, where we already had F2F7; > > - In New-York City, midtown Manhattan; > > - In New-York City, downtown Manhattan (that's around Wall Street). > > > > The group seemed to prefer NYC to Hawthorne, but we wanted to reconfirm > > that preference before finalizing the location, the point being that > > there might not be hotel rooms within walking distance in NYC (*) and > > that room price are likely to be in the 300$ and above, unless you stay > > in Brooklin. > > > > (*) Well, that depend what you call walking distance, of course, but do > > not count too much on finding a room much closer than 3 to 5 blocks. > > > > Chris will post the exact adresses of the prospective location on the > > F2F11 wiki [1] asap. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Christian > > > > [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/F2F11 > > > > > > >
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