Three-day weekend: imminent.

Your plans: hopefully insured.

Because here’s a compelling reason to cancel everything—it’s the sleek, sexy Ian Schrager incarnation of The New York Edition, tucked into the clock tower building on Madison Square Park, now open for holiday-weekend revelry.

Here’s a slideshow with... a lot more reasons.

The gold-leaf-covered, absinthe-soaked reasons.

The expansive-view reasons.

The Stephen-Starr-backed-menu reasons, involving oyster buckets and massive aged steaks.

And then you’ll make an informed decision about your weekend.

You look like the sensible type.