NewYorkology’s got the goods on the new Holiday Inn Express that’s expected to be open by April of this year (we’ll see about that). The location of the 90-room, 8-story building makes a lot of sense to old-school local blogger Amy Langfield:

Located on a semi-residential street pocked with auto repair shops, it’s situated where the “slope” of Park Slope flattens out to meet the “Gowanus” of Gowanus Canal. A mere half block from the R subway line, it’s a block and a half uphill to Park Slope’s 5th Avenue, where the new shops and restaurants is turning this stretch into Brooklyn’s new Smith Street. (CitySearch even has a “hot blocks” page dedicated to the area around 5th and Union.)

What do you think? Is this a win-win for the hotel and the hood?
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