higher standards for the standard?
We'd made reservations for three nights on a trip to NYC to attend the Armory show, see a few other related art fairs, and to take in some Chelsea galleries. We usually stay at another hotel in Soho and thought we'd try The Standard - but we fled after one night and will not be going back. 
Where to start? 
First off, our room was just badly designed. The exposed shower leaked onto the carpet in the hallway - we had to build a dyke of towels to contain the water. The toilet room was far away from the bathroom. To get to one side of the bed you had to navigate a maze of furniture, the tv and other obstacles - finally stepping over the bed. You'd think for a hotel built from scratch, it would have been better thought out.
And then there were the trying-way-too-hard hip crowds downstairs when we came back in from dinner. Drunk, loud and rude.
The Standard clearly is not the hotel for us, and now we realize that - but others looking to stay there might take this into consideration before committing. Just wish we had not wasted the night there.