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Standard Hotel installs black curtains in restrooms that exposed users to crowds strolling the High Line

New York Daily News
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The peep show is over at the Standard Hotel.

Black, waist-high curtains were installed in some restrooms at the hotel’s top-floor club after the Daily News reported passersby were getting an eyeful thanks to floor-to-ceiling bathroom windows at the 18th-floor hotspot .

A manager insisted the curtains had always been part of the design and were just temporarily removed.

“They were doing renovations and they forgot to put them back up,” said the manager, who wouldn’t give his name.

Some patrons were disappointed to be less exposed. “I think that’s really lame. That’s what the Standard is all about, being crazy and kind of salacious,” said Mackenzie Place, 22, of Brooklyn.

Douglas Lennox, 24, also of Brooklyn, said there was still no curtain in the men’s room he used. “You get a great view from the urinal. It feels like you’re peeing on New York,” he said.

edurkin@nydailynews.com