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WOR street reporter Natalie Migliore interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 2: No one better to do this topic. Bride-to-be Natalie Migliore
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  Speaker 2: knows what it's like to plan a wedding. And can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine what's happening to those brides at the Plaza Hotel?
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  Speaker 3: I cannot. I cannot imagine it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I could because that's one of my biggest fears
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  Speaker 4: now that I'm really into the deep end of planning.
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  Speaker 4: And the brides, imagine, all I thought about, you have
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  Speaker 4: the groom, you have the date, and then it's the
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  Speaker 4: venue that jilts you.
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  Speaker 3: You get jilted by the venue, right?
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  Speaker 4: It's been really a week now since news broke that
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  Speaker 4: the plaza would be closing in the new year for
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  Speaker 4: renovations that'll take at least four years. As the news
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  Speaker 4: came out, several brides with plans to host their receptions
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  Speaker 4: at the iconic hotel say they called to make sure
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  Speaker 4: this didn't impact their special day.
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  Speaker 3: But it turns out it did.
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  Speaker 4: OK, weddings with hundreds of guests canceled just like that.
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  Speaker 4: Brides even a week later still looking for answers. Anyone
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  Speaker 4: who has planned a wedding like me or know someone
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  Speaker 4: planning a wedding can sympathize.
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  Speaker 5: I feel sorry for them, but it's not the first
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  Speaker 5: time brides were jilted when a place closed. Hopefully the
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  Speaker 5: down payments have been made. They deserve to be compensated.
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  Speaker 5: the inconvenience after they they paid and.
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  Speaker 6: All uh i'd be pissed i'd i would be bridezilla
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  Speaker 6: like well did they already book it in advance they
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  Speaker 6: booked it in advance and they're closing.
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  Speaker 7: Oh are they gonna be compensated for that.
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  Speaker 3: Like i'm a lawyer there'll be a lawsuit i don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Okay we're hoping to represent them then maybe no I
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  Speaker 4: tried to get her business, but.
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  Speaker 3: She's like, no.
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  Speaker 4: But several brides say they've yet to get any sort
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  Speaker 4: of answer about what's going to happen with the money
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  Speaker 4: they've already put down. You know, when you do this,
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  Speaker 4: you sign a contract with venues, with really anybody who's
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  Speaker 4: going to do your wedding. And their event is now
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  Speaker 4: up in the air. It's not cheap to get married
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  Speaker 4: at the Plaza Hotel, OK? According to Tool Together... which
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  Speaker 4: is a website that sort of compiles how much people
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  Speaker 4: are paying at every venue really across the tri-state area,
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  Speaker 4: a 200-person wedding at the Plaza in the off-season, okay,
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  Speaker 4: because there are seasons for wedding, costs more than $ 167, 000.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so.
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  Speaker 4: Did the Plaza book all of these weddings knowing construction
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  Speaker 4: was on the horizon?
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  Speaker 5: I'm not going to say because, you know, sometimes things
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  Speaker 5: do happen sometimes. unexpectedly. I'm just going to give them
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  Speaker 5: the benefit of the doubt. On the other side of
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  Speaker 5: that coin, it's a possibility that they knew and selfish,
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  Speaker 5: but such is the greed of men, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's a full layer of finding a new location or
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  Speaker 1: finding a new date.
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  Speaker 5: It's another layer of stress, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Especially if you ever dream of getting married there, that
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  Speaker 1: could be such a nightmare.
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  Speaker 3: What was the cost?
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  Speaker 2: You said $ 160, 000? $ 7, 000.
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  Speaker 4: How's your budget going? Yeah, my budget's nowhere near that.
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  Speaker 4: Nowhere near that.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: We are on a strict budget to which I actually
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  Speaker 4: have to haggle with.
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  Speaker 3: I'm haggling with everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, good for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I should hire you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: And my sister's even better because my sister and I
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  Speaker 4: were getting married within months of each other, actually.
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  Speaker 3: So we go back and forth.
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  Speaker 8: I know.
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  Speaker 4: My dad's awesome, though. My mom's been awesome. They've been great.
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  Speaker 4: But I bet you nobody would be awesome enough if
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  Speaker 4: my venue closed. My venue said, we've got to find
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  Speaker 4: something else.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, but notice, you haven't once mentioned in any of
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  Speaker 9: these depictions the groom. I know if that were me,
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  Speaker 9: I'd say, oh, great, we can go get married, hooked
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  Speaker 9: up at the Marina Del Rey in the Bronx, you know,
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  Speaker 9: going over the Whitestone Bridge to Queens.
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  Speaker 4: That's where my future in-laws actually got married.
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  Speaker 3: The Marina Del Rey.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now, the Plaza Hotel.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: The Plaza Hotel is a Fairmont property, which has multiple properties...
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  Speaker 4: across the globe but they haven't said if they're going
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  Speaker 4: to offer these properties to these jilted brides it's just
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  Speaker 4: a lot's up in the air for the story being
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  Speaker 4: out as long as it has now it's not just
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  Speaker 4: the weddings though at the plaza tourists will be barred
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  Speaker 4: because of construction tourists love to go to the plaza
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  Speaker 4: it's something they look forward to it.
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  Speaker 8: Is iconic i mean me as someone who lived internationally
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  Speaker 8: and then moved here in 2021 one of the first
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  Speaker 8: things was everyone was asking me oh my god did
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  Speaker 8: you go to the plaza hotel and i was like
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  Speaker 8: yes i did like it's such a known thing even
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  Speaker 8: around the world and i think mainly because of home
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  Speaker 8: alone because of how big of a movie that is
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  Speaker 8: and you know they have the home alone ice cream
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  Speaker 8: sundae and all that so it has a crazy reputation
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  Speaker 8: yeah honestly i.
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  Speaker 7: Actually just watched an instagram reel where like this couple
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  Speaker 7: stayed in the suite for their anniversary and they ordered
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  Speaker 7: everything from the home alone menu And, like, I just
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  Speaker 7: thought that would be, like, the perfect anniversary date. And
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  Speaker 7: I'm like, I want to do that one day. But wait,
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  Speaker 7: I got to wait five years.
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  Speaker 4: Not happening anytime soon. So there you have it. The
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  Speaker 4: Plaza Hotel is supposed to close January.
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  Speaker 9: Let me suggest to all those brides who have to reschedule, elope.
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  Speaker 9: Shave everybody a lot of money.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly.
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  Speaker 2: The bride's dad's hoping for that. Natalie Migliore is going
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  Speaker 2: to be back tomorrow morning at 7.
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  Speaker 7: No, you won't.
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  Speaker 2: On Monday, you'll be.
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  Speaker 7: Back at 7.50.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoy your weekend.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, thank you. You too.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the George Washington Bridge shooting is causing some controversy.
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  Speaker 2: That's after the 8 o'clock news.