Comfort Inn Brooklyn Bridge: Still Ugly, Now Open
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 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]
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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.
“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.
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.
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.
All new buildings suck. Landmark everthing. I love vacant lots. I hope NYC crime returns to 1990 levels. Michael Moore for President.
$179 is outrageous for this. The Marriot was $175 two years ago. (I know Brooklyn is booming) But this should be $99 a night..
maybe kobe will stay here when he’s in town to play the nets.
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.
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.