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Fouquet’ s New York, on the cobblestoned streets of Tribeca, is a beacon for celebrities and other wellheeled travelers.
HOW FOUQUET’ S NEW YORK QUICKLY BECAME THE SCENE TO BE SEEN.
By DAVID EISEN
Most hotels don’ t like to publicize their celebrity guests. Fouquet’ s New York didn’ t have to: the celebrities did it for them. Around the time the Tribeca-located hotel opened in 2022, the supermodel triad of Cindy Crawford, Helena Christensen and Christy Turlington snapped a selfie at the hotel’ s tucked-away Titsou Bar that quickly went viral.( They were later joined by husbands Rande Gerber and Ed Burns.) It’ s the kind of publicity a luxury hotel might shy away from, but from there on, the hotel, with its Parisian heritage, became a locus for the glitterati, a who’ s who of musicians, actors and athletes— yes, Taylor Swift— imbibing cosmos at Titsou or nattering over Dover sole at Brasserie Fouquet’ s.
How Fouquet’ s New York came to be is a question best left for Joshua Caspi, CEO of
Caspi Development, which developed and owns the hotel alongside equity partner Jim Parks of APW Avenue Group.
Since the late 1990s, Caspi has led more than $ 2 billion in real estate transactions spanning development, acquisition, repositioning and restructuring, with other landmark New York hotels including The Chambers and The Watson, which in its prior incarnation as a Holiday Inn was known for its rollicking rooftop pool and eccentric GM.
The Fouquet brand, as one might gather from the name, is not U. S. based. Barrière Group in France is a pioneer in hospitality with multiple hotels, gaming and restaurant outlets. A family business née Société des Hôtels et Casino de Deauville, its roots stretch back to the early 18th century. In 1962, scion Lucien Barrière took the helm and quickly modernized the company. In 1998, it acquired the famous Fouquet’ s brasserie and eight years later opened Hôtel Barrière Le Fouquet’ s above the restaurant at the corner of the Champs-Élysées and Avenue George-V. Today, fourth-generation
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Joshua Caspi is CEO of Caspi Development, which developed Fouquet’ s New York.