A Manhattan model seriously hurt while skating says the downtown outlet of the W Hotel should have left the frozen cocktails at the bar when it installed an artificial-ice rink, according to a lawsuit.
Daniel Taylor, 43, says the rink, complete with “ice bar,” was too crowded with drunken patrons for it to be safe during his 2010 visit, when a fellow skater ran over his foot, breaking it in multiple places, he charges in Manhattan Supreme Court papers filed last week.
The hotel was “encouraging and fostering the consumption of alcohol [by] ice skaters as they utilized the skating rink,” Taylor claims in court papers.
“The promotion by the W Hotel of alcohol, drinking and ice skating on an unusually tiny, 8- to 10-foot-wide artificial synthetic rink . . . became a recipe for disaster,” said Taylor’s lawyer, Marc Held.
Starwood Hotels, which owns the W, did not respond to a request for comment.