Prolific Brooklyn photographer Sam Horine aka f.trainer posted this photo to Flickr recently of the Comfort Inn that has been so ungraciously dumped in our midst by the style hounds at McSam Hotel LLC who are also responsible for bringing us that other vision of loveliness, the Gowanus Holiday Inn Express . That “Coming Soon” sign has appeared at some point since Gowanus Lounge paid a visit to the site two weeks ago. As Mr. Horine notes in his Flickr post, though, this is a bit of a challenging location:

Across the street, there are two motorcycle clubs. in the back, the hotel faces the wyckoff housing complex and at the end of the block there is an abandoned school.

What do you think? Is this the best we could have expected for this location? Should we just count ourselves lucky to have a cheap place to stash the relatives and move on?
Comfort, Gowanus Style [Flickr] GMAP