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July 16, 2007

Comfort Inn Brooklyn Bridge: Still Ugly, Now Open

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The Comfort Inn is now open on 279 Butler Street near 3rd Avenue, and according to its online photo gallery, its interior is as bland as its exterior. The hotel's website notes that it's in walking distance from BAM (though the stroll up 3rd Avenue isn't the most scenic trail Brooklyn has to offer), while the Times mentions that the hotel's location is "near the site of the proposed Atlantic Yards complex." Rates start at $179. — KZ
Comfort Inn To Open In All Its Ugliness [Brownstoner]
Comings and Goings [NY Times]
Comfort Inn Brooklyn Bridge [Home]




Posted by Brownstoner at 9:01 AM | Comments (28)
Categories: Atlantic Yards, Brooklyn, Gowanus, Hotels

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Great - $179 is just cheap enough so that I can get over there, bang my GF and get back before my wife figures it all out.

Posted by: Anon at July 16, 2007 10:13 AM

Shouldn't that be holiday inn gowanus?
I did a rate check for a week in september and was quoted $279 per night minimum. Ridiculous price.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 16, 2007 10:17 AM

Oh nevermind, it is a different location but almost identical looking building. Must be good money in hotels that are practically vending machines.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 16, 2007 10:19 AM

Who cares about the overnight rate: how much by the hour?

Posted by: anon at July 16, 2007 10:21 AM

I mean, really, what were you expecting the in and outside of a Comfort In to look like? Have you been anywhere in the USA except NYC?
Pretty much what this motels, hotels, inns whatever you want to call them look like. New, clean, sterile - exactly what a traveler is looking for.
And this is on a block that probably 98% of Brownstoners readers have never been on and have no reason to go to and ugly as sin anyway.
Since not great location - they will charge rates that are bit less than better locations and do fine. NYC hotels rates are very very high - and anything that an average tourist can afford will do fine.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 16, 2007 10:29 AM

From the NYTimes: "The hotel — at 279 Butler Street, near Third Avenue and between the Cobble Hill and Park Slope neighborhoods."

Isn't Butler at 3rd Ave Boerum Hill? Why the weird location phrasing ("between Cobble Hill and Park Slope")? Seems like it's either Gowanus or Boerum Hill.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 16, 2007 10:30 AM

10.30. oh my god weird location phrasing. It is the end.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 16, 2007 10:56 AM

waaaaa

it doesn't look like my brownstone mansion

nothing's more brooklyn than my brownstone mansion (and mos def of course)

waaaaa

Posted by: waaa at July 16, 2007 11:10 AM

Since I am not rich, and can't afford first class amenities when I travel, I just want my hotel room to be clean, safe, and decently comfortable. I'm not going there to hang out, it's only a place to sleep, and then leave to be a tourist, or spend the night on the way to somewhere else.

While certainly not the Ritz, or even the Marriott, this fits the bill. Hotels in NYC are stupidly expensive, so I think this one will do fine, no matter how unattractive 3rd Ave is.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 16, 2007 11:45 AM

would the person suggesting "boerum hill" as a possibility pls advise me where "the hill" is? i ask because my doctor says walking hills is good for cardiovascular fitness.

waaaaa might be a wiseass or s/he might remember when "brownstone" brooklyn very rarely included bed-stuy. i wonder why that was?

question: what's not "scenic" about 3rd avenue? too many rich white professionals or something else?

Posted by: Anonymous at July 16, 2007 11:50 AM

To the best of my knowledge, there's no hill in Boerum Hill. Realtors/brownstone renovators renamed the area Boerum Hill back in the 70s (rather than Gowanus); see the Jonathan Lethem novel for more.

Referring to it as "area between Cobble Hill and Park Slope" pisses me off because it's so typical of NYT snobbery. They can't seem to deign to know the correct names of Brooklyn neighborhoods, except for those with the most ex-Manhattan residents. By this point, I'd have figured that Boerum Hill would have hit their rich-person radar, but maybe this block is close enough to the projects that they don't realize its still Boerum Hill.

Posted by: anon at July 16, 2007 12:04 PM

Loosen up. Be greatful the Times even mentions the place.
Butler around 3rd Avenue would not be considered Boerum Hill by most people either. Recently some people use the term Gowanus as a 'neighborhood' but kinda unknown to most folks and since hardly residential has little meaning as a neighborhood description.
So between Pk Slope and Cobble Hill is quite accurate (also could have said Carroll Gardens or Boerum Hill and been just as accurate).
I think a bit too oversensitive this time.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 16, 2007 12:15 PM

maybe kobe will stay here when he's in town to play the nets.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 16, 2007 12:30 PM

$179 is outrageous for this. The Marriot was $175 two years ago. (I know Brooklyn is booming) But this should be $99 a night..

Posted by: Anonymous at July 16, 2007 1:04 PM

All new buildings suck. Landmark everthing. I love vacant lots. I hope NYC crime returns to 1990 levels. Michael Moore for President.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 16, 2007 1:20 PM

they can charge whatever and it will be full. there are so many people in the area and there's never been a good solution for visiting guests.

Tourists will conisder this too. Hotels in Manhattan are sky high.

Posted by: condo dweller at July 16, 2007 1:37 PM

The Lethem novel is not entirely accurate. There was a "Boerum Hill" prior to gentrification.

http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0542,mcevers,68837,15.html

See also the Wikepedia entry on BHill.

Posted by: crouchback at July 16, 2007 1:42 PM

"should be $99 a night". And I should be gorgeous rich and famous.
If you feel better you can get an internet rate of $170 these days.
And try HolidayINn express on union. Rates there are showing $260's a night.
Admit it. You are totally out of touch with reality and living in the 20th century still.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 16, 2007 1:51 PM

you can barely stay at a motel 6 in columbus ohio for 99 a night.

get real, please.

this place will be a HUGE hit with the european crowd who've been hitting brooklyn (especially park slope it seems) HARD.

they've been all over.

Posted by: anon at July 16, 2007 2:29 PM

Sorry aint buying it - Hotel Le Blue (on ugly 4th Ave) sure, Holiday Inn (on gross part of Union) maybe, but a Motel on Butler between Nevins and 3rd (near NOTHING except the projects) will serve only cheating spouses and craiglist hookups.

Posted by: David at July 16, 2007 5:35 PM

agreed 11:45....when traveling I am looking for comfortable clean accomodations at the most affordable price. As a tourist or vacationer I can travel to the attractions.I am not sitting in my hotel room so who cares what the view is. I don't see what all the discussion is about. Dont like it, dont patronize it. Simple.

Posted by: sally at July 16, 2007 6:33 PM

This hotel will do well for the next few years until the NYC hotel market goes to shit. It can't stay hot forever.

Charging $99/night doesn't work wtih land and construction costs. If you weren't able to charge >$150/night or the numbers wouldn't work and these guys would have to give it back to the bank.

Posted by: Realist at July 17, 2007 1:37 PM

seems like a good rate - the area is changing alot,was their Saturday saw tourists jogging. Hurray for whoever took the risk and built there- the capitalist.

Posted by: anonoymous at July 19, 2007 12:03 AM

I am from Texas visiting Brooklyn for the first time. I actually bid for a hotel in Brooklyn and got the Comfort Inn on Butler st. for $79 a nite. After, reading all your comments, should I be scared? I am staying there for 4 nites. But, actually we have plan for all four days. We just needed a place to sleep and get clean up. Actually, I am really freaking out now.

Posted by: JT at July 19, 2007 1:05 PM

I also just bid on the hotel and got it for $61. It looks like it's only a 5 minute walk to the subway. Is the walk ok at night?

Posted by: EB at July 19, 2007 2:02 PM

would the person suggesting "boerum hill" as a possibility pls advise me where "the hill" is? i ask because my doctor says walking hills is good for cardiovascular fitness.

waaaaa might be a wiseass or s/he might remember when "brownstone" brooklyn very rarely included bed-stuy. i wonder why that was?

Q: what's not "scenic" about 3rd avenue? too many rich white professionals?

Posted by: biz markie at July 19, 2007 8:35 PM

It's not the Hilton and it's sure isn't the Upper West Side but with the special rates they seem to be offering this is a great deal. I live in Park Slope and I'm letting my Mom stay there so don't worry. It's a short walk to nicer neighborhoods and you don't want to spend too much time at your hotel anyway when in NYC.

Posted by: me at August 2, 2007 5:49 PM

They should offer hourly rates, that would suit the neighborhood. You could buy your crack around the corner in the projects, have a drink accross the street in the clubhouse of the Bridgerunners Motorcycle Club, grab a toothless hooker on the corner and call it a night.

Posted by: Me at August 6, 2007 1:57 PM

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