If you’ve got it, flaunt it!
That’s the rule — not the exception — at the exhibitionist-friendly Standard Hotel in the Meatpacking District, employees told The Post.
Photo Gallery: Peep Show At The Standard Hotel
Even hotel staffers and managers get in on the act, workers said, stripping down and posing provocatively in front of the massive floor-to-ceiling windows to draw attention to the hotel, which straddles the city’s new High Line Park.
“We don’t discourage it. In actual fact, we encourage it,” a friendly bellhop told a pair of reporters as they checked in yesterday at The Standard, where randy guests cavort with abandon to the dismay — or delight — of parkgoers below.
After the hotel opened late last year, the bellhop said, naked and semidressed staff members were encouraged to pose in front of the windows. The point, he said, was to create a buzz with the unexpected peep show.
“One of the managers even got naked in a room, and filmed it — they were considering a live feed for the Web site,” the staffer said. “She’s an exhibitionist, too.”
As The Post reported Monday and yesterday, the X-rated windows have infuriated some families, neighbors and visitors to the High Line.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn subsequently called for The Standard to tone down the sexcapades.
The hotel’s management responded by saying it would make “a concerted effort to remind guests of the transparency of the guest room windows.”
But there was no “reminder” when reporters checked into a room there yesterday.
Instead, when the front-desk staffer was asked about the army of cameras outside, she brushed aside concerns about keeping the curtains open.
“Do what you want,” she chirped. “Just enjoy it!”
Besides, she added, “It would be illegal for anyone to take your picture through the window.”
One problem: She’s wrong.
The only warning to guests was a letter, left in the room, from manager Ian Nicholson — and outlining the month’s window-washing schedule.
The cleanings take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, Nicholson noted, adding that guests who wanted to “maintain privacy” should “please keep your curtains drawn.”
The 18-story Standard opened with raunch-friendly ads.
“We’ll put up with your banging if you’ll put up with ours,” declared one ad playing on the ongoing construction at the hotel, and featuring a woman clad in nothing but a tool belt.
The hotel also has asked guests to share their “intimate and explicit photos with us — those floor to ceiling windows aren’t just for the views.”
Since then, onlookers have reported seeing men masturbating, professional porn films being shot, and couples engaging in sex in full view of park-goers below.
In a statement issued late Tuesday, the hotel did not directly address its employees’ claims to The Post, but said: “When we built The Standard, we hoped it would provide the best views of New York looking out. We didn’t anticipate that it would also provide those views looking in.”
It also said management would “continue to assiduously remind guests that their windows are transparent” and also “make it a point to remind guests about the considerate use of curtains.”