Hotel Guests' "Peep Shows" Draw Stares

(CBS)  A Manhattan hotel is feeling the heat as complaints about high-rise hotel hijinx prompted a New York City hotel to ask guests to cool it down.

A New York City hotel is now saying it wants to be a good neighbor after complaints about guests putting on a racy, public show from their rooms.

CBS News correspondent Bianca Solorzano explained the goings-on at The Standard Hotel in Manhattan have been anything but standard.

The New York Post reported passersby seeing guests appear nude and even having sex in front of open windows, prompting headlines like "Inn Decency," calling the Standard Hotel "the eyeful tower." The Post even quotes a bellhop as saying the hotel encourages the exhibitionism.

Louise Regan, a mother of three children told CBS News, "I don't think a lot of people would really notice it, but some older kids could get hold of the information and come down here. We don't want people standing around gazing up there, do we?"

But attorney Mickey Sherman says it's not a clear-cut case of indecent exposure: this is not "public" nudity -- it's happening in private rooms.

Sherman said, "You've got to really be looking up there to see whatever's going on. It's not like it's so in your face. If it bothers you to look up there, then don't look."

A spokesman for the New York Mayor's Office says City Hall doesn't know of any complaints from the public, and is not taking a position on the issue.

The Standard Hotel, says it's "sensitive to the concerns of friends and neighbors," and will now "make a concerted effort to remind guests of the transparency of the guest room windows."

However, as Solorzano remarked, whether guests decide to keep it discreet, remains to be seen.

[dnamj]

Ummm. This is New York. People can see in Windows. There was a whole Alfred Hitchcock movie about it, fer cryin' out loud. The hotel straddles the new Highline park, so it's a bit more public.

[bobnjersey]

[A New York City hotel is now saying it wants to be a good neighbor after complaints about guests putting on a racy, public show from their rooms. ]

yet another seinfeld episode being played out for real.

[docpeter1953]

OK, I volunteer to be the "Morality Judge". What is the address of this HO tell?