take a snooze

Eat your afternoon meal, take a snooze and come back revived for more family time.

He was always waking up just about sunset, when I wanted to take a snooze.

“Maybe knock down a bunch of pills. Gas the car up while it’s still in the garage and take a snooze. Something that wasn’t all messy.”

With live plants, soundproof curtains, noise-cancelling headphones and a dark, four-story environment, the company provides its “napping pods” for $15 a half-hour to anyone who wants to take a snooze any time during the day at its two locations near Grand Central and Penn stations.

Dressed in denim and a cowboy hat, Mr. Stanton’s hitchhiker immediately settles into the passenger seat as if to take a snooze, only to softly place a hand on G.T.O.’s knee.