Holiday Inn Slips Into The Slope
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…
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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this address is so not Park Slope. To try and sell yourself as a hotel located in central Slope you have to be kidding me.
call it gowanus but I call this Park slope. this is only one and a half avenues from 5th avenue. there is a need for hotel rooms in brooklyn. do you think there is any place to build this in central park slope? this place is going to do great, the reason the marriot is expensive is its always booked, why lower the rates?
I though the Brooklyn Motor Inn catered more to the by the hour set popping off the BQE or out of the Battery Tunnel.
There’s a Brooklyn Motor Inn in Red Hook, just a few blocks from the upcoming Cruise Ship piers.
http://www.brooklynmotorinn.com/
Maybe hoping cruise line customers – just short cab ride to RedHook piers.
Holiday Inn = ew, this block = ew. Kinda like the Howard Johnson’s on the LES at Houston and Forsythe, minus the Manhattan location — is Gowanus really a tourist destination? Or will this eventually be trumpeted as only blocks from Ratnerville? Right, so all those tourists coming to Brooklyn to see the Nets can sleep in the suburban chain atmosphere they’re used to. Or so all those businesses in offices there can put up their out-of-town employees.
And as far as putting up the in-laws near Bed Stuy, what about Akwaaba? Much nicer atmosphere than a Holiday Inn, and much better rates than the Marriott!
definitely. immediately upon the next economic downturn, this building will become a rent-by-the-hour joint for the skanky hookers that still patrol nevins street or a single-room-occ shelter for homeless and mentally ill.
talk about shoddy construction. i watched this thing go up. it was built of cardboard.
it’s great. it’s wonderful. but if that part of Gowanus doesn’t continue improving, my fear is that in a few years, the Holiday Inn will be renting rooms by the hour, if you know what I mean.
I used to live one block from this location and agree with the previous poster – I never had any problems but it is pretty uninspiring visually and perhaps a little intimidating to people who don’t know the area. (Are there still rottweilers trolling the vacant car lot on that block??)