Cozy Digs at a Brooklyn B&B
[nggallery id=”55805″ template=galleryview] We got to check out Downtown Brooklyn’s very own bed and breakfast, 3B, in the unassuming building at 136 Lawrence Street. A co-op of young people living on the second floor of the building took over the third floor a year ago and completely renovated the place into a four-bedroom B&B. Last…
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We got to check out Downtown Brooklyn’s very own bed and breakfast, 3B, in the unassuming building at 136 Lawrence Street. A co-op of young people living on the second floor of the building took over the third floor a year ago and completely renovated the place into a four-bedroom B&B. Last month they finished all the design elements and have hosted a steady stream of Brooklyn visitors. Overall, the digs are hip but still nice and cozy. Nightly rates run from $40 for a bunk bed in a room shared with others to $160 for one of the private rooms.
3B [Official Site] GMAP
Haters gotta hate.
If everything is legal, I think it’s great. I don’t understand all the snark. It’s tough out there, in case anyone hadn’t been paying attention. Finding a legal way to make money that works for them is just hunky dory with me. I’d go that route myself, if I had the facilities.
Besides, they are marketing a demographic like themselves, which is what most people do who have B&B’s do. If they were middle aged, with lace curtains and canopy beds, we’d hear as much complaining as here, with Ikea furniture and hand me downs. If they have satisfied, repeat customers who like what they see, and recommend it to their friends, and the owners are making money, who cares if anyone else likes it or not?
Place looks really cool. Glad to hear it’s legal. They should just show the space and the rates and leave out the talk of what your money goes to support. It doesn’t help them, in my book.
Ah – according to the Local post they seem to be way ahead of the game re legality. More power to them. I guess I just assumed anything this crunchy had to be on the downlow (to mix metaphors and communities). As to their hipser uber-coolitude? Well, I suspect my age bracket is not the targeted demographic.
Yuck… looks like it’s furnished with a combination of Ikea, Salvation Army and whatever they could find on the street on garbage night!! Take your bed bug spray!!
Hopefully, they’ve learned from the Hotel Toshi debacle and the on-going DOB rampage. I wish them the best (though I winced at the hipster-ish self-adulation); the place looks very nice.
It really bugs me that there’s a photo of a wunderkind with his feet up against the wall, boots on. Not a very nice way to treat a guestroom–or any room.
wunderkinds; warm, fast breeze; brewing kombucha; wakes to prophetic dreams, etc etc. gakkkkk!
Anyway in the comment portion of this article, it looks like one of the owners(?) responds to the legality issue.
http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/bb-brings-communal-hospitality-to-brooklyn/
Was it calling themselves wunderkinds, or the photo of one one of them brushing her teeth on the subway what BoD found nauseating?