New Hotel for Bed Burg
An old building at 2 Franklin Avenue (at Wallabout Street) that in recent years housed a Save Rite store has been converted into a hotel called Pointe Plaza. Here’s the description from the DOB filing: “HOTEL WITH ACCESSORY EATING AND DRINKING ESTABLISHMENT AND WITH PROPOSED HOUSE OF WORSHIP AS PER PLANS SUBMITTED HEREWITH AND FOR…
An old building at 2 Franklin Avenue (at Wallabout Street) that in recent years housed a Save Rite store has been converted into a hotel called Pointe Plaza. Here’s the description from the DOB filing: “HOTEL WITH ACCESSORY EATING AND DRINKING ESTABLISHMENT AND WITH PROPOSED HOUSE OF WORSHIP AS PER PLANS SUBMITTED HEREWITH AND FOR A NEW FIFTH FLOOR VERTICAL ENLARGEMENT.” Given the location, it’s pretty safe to assume that this is a project by and for the Hasidic community.
Thanks to all for wishing us well.
The Pointe Plaza hotel is welcoming any and all guest traveling to the New York area
For booking and reservations we can be reached at:
http://www.pointeplazahotel.com
718-782-7000
2 Franklin ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
It is a very attractive building that respects its industrial past. Nice to see.
Agree with some that the architecture here is quite good, and the renovation looks alright. It’s an odd bird, though, as the expressionist/deco look and bourgeois banners seem to indicate that it’s aiming for normal central Brooklyn clients and not just the hasidic locals, who tend to prefer a different look to their hotels and rental event spaces.
It’s all stylish and good looking.
What it really needs to fit in with “Community Standards” is more brick facing and steel I-beam balconies walled in with scabbed together doors and plexiglass.
Can you get a liquor license in a house of worship? I’m from Texas with the prudes and what not. No bars near a church.
Well, it seems the whole thing is exempt now as a religious school (NYC Finance site) so maybe this new use will at least make some of the property subject to tax.
Yeah, I wonder what percentage of the building they can get to fall within the tax shelter.
House of worship = no taxes. working the system!
A hotel for Bed Bugs? It does kind of look like the corner of a mattress.