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Opened two years ago from what essentially was a snowboarder flophouse, Basecamp has now expanded, buying and razing another rundown motor court, adding 24 rooms (74 in all), meeting spaces and a hot tub large enough for the entire Swedish ski team to take a soak.
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Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
At the east end of Great Jones Street lay the Bowery, a once-reputable boulevard that had become a notorious thoroughfare lined with brothels, beer gardens, flophouses and pawn shops.
—Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
The film captured the city’s most explosive bands tearing up their stages and flophouses, making Spheeris the poet laureate of disenchanted young Los Angeles.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
If the land trust homes were going to be long-term investments rather than flophouses, the residents were going to need more than Cunningham’s handyman skills.
—Wes Enzinna, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
One success Possert cites is the Palace Hotel in Medford, a former single-room occupancy hotel (once known as flophouses) in southern Oregon.
—oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2023
The flophouse cots were stained and rusted.
—Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
Twenty years after the Royalton, the Ace Hotel turned a seedy flophouse on 29th Street into a 24-hour living room with leather couches and a DJ spinning late into the night, luring the creative set north of 14th Street to a formerly unremarkable stretch around Madison Square Park.
—Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Dec. 2022
But the pad isn’t a flophouse for stoners.
—John Carlisle, Freep.com, 18 Aug. 2022
Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
At the east end of Great Jones Street lay the Bowery, a once-reputable boulevard that had become a notorious thoroughfare lined with brothels, beer gardens, flophouses and pawn shops.
—Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
The film captured the city’s most explosive bands tearing up their stages and flophouses, making Spheeris the poet laureate of disenchanted young Los Angeles.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
If the land trust homes were going to be long-term investments rather than flophouses, the residents were going to need more than Cunningham’s handyman skills.
—Wes Enzinna, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
One success Possert cites is the Palace Hotel in Medford, a former single-room occupancy hotel (once known as flophouses) in southern Oregon.
—oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2023
The flophouse cots were stained and rusted.
—Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
Twenty years after the Royalton, the Ace Hotel turned a seedy flophouse on 29th Street into a 24-hour living room with leather couches and a DJ spinning late into the night, luring the creative set north of 14th Street to a formerly unremarkable stretch around Madison Square Park.
—Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Dec. 2022
But the pad isn’t a flophouse for stoners.
—John Carlisle, Freep.com, 18 Aug. 2022
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“Flophouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flophouse. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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