Aloft Brooklyn
Opening April 21. From the hotel:
Aloha! Aloft New York Brooklyn is a bold new hotel featuring loft-inspired design in NYC’s hippest borough! Manhattan is a quick subway ride away. Or stay and play just steps from the iconic Brooklyn Bridge, fantastic food, and unique boutiques.
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Hotel Coverage: Aloft Brooklyn
Book Your Brooklyn Hotel For The MTV Awards Before It's Too Late
It was announced two weeks ago that the MTV Video Music Awards will be heading to Barclays Center on August 25, making it the first major annual awards show to ever pick Brooklyn over Manhattan. And if you plan on doing the same with your hotel room, you better act...
April 12, 2013
Where Will You Stay When the Barclays Center Opens In Brooklyn Next Month?
Yes, the 18,000-seat arena co-owned by rapper Jay-Z is only one month away from opening in downtown Brooklyn. And as New York Magazine points out, there's a lot hinging on its success. For starters: will tourists start to see Brooklyn as a viable alternative to Manhattan when it comes to...
August 30, 2012
New Brooklyn Hotels Mean, Among Other Things, A Place For Lebron James To Party
91 days, 16 hours, and 54 minutes. That's the countdown to the opening of Brooklyn's new Barclays Center, a major new addition to the borough, and the new home of the Brooklyn Nets (formerly the New Jersey Nets). Understandably, residents are excited. Jay-Z (one of the arena's directors, and the...
June 28, 2012
3 Places To Stay During Brooklyn's Cherry Blossom Season
Spring has sprung in New York, thank goodness. And if you take a look at the CherryWatch map on the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's website, you'll see that quite a few cherry blossom trees have already begun exploding in the area. Meaning—anyone considering a trip to New York to enjoy the...
March 26, 2012
Two Aloft Hotels to Screen Sneak Peek of 'Portlandia' Season 2
A few quick questions: Do you like hotels? Did you watch (and laugh at) any of the first season of IFC's show Portlandia? Do you like free stuff? If you answered yes to at least two of these questions and you're anywhere near Brooklyn, NY or Portland, OR this...
January 03, 2012
In Brooklyn, A Hotel Room Is Cheap When You're A Jehovah's Witness
It's a scenario most New Yorkers would only dream of: stumbling upon a historic hotel built in 1909 that's still in good condition, and then learning you can stay there for free. For three nights! The New York Times picked up a story this weekend about the Bossert Hotel, which...
November 09, 2011
52 Aloft Hotels Down, A Million To Go
After the consecutive openings of Aloft Brooklyn, Aloft Zhengzhou Shangjie, Aloft Haiyang and Aloft Coimbatore Singanallur, Aloft has now passed its 50th hotel milestone (52 to be exact). Though that number is way off from an original target made back in 2006, they don't seem to be slowing down anytime...
September 16, 2011
Look What Aloft Brooklyn Caught On Surveillance Tape
When idle hotel guests are left to their own devices... Aloft hotels in New York have partnered up with indie music blog Pitchfork to create a a "video surveillance" live music series, featuring different bands performing in the rooms. While this is conceptually very reminiscent of Yotel's 100 Under 2...
August 30, 2011
Hotel Hopping On The East River
If you haven't already tried it, the East River Ferry is a great way to get around NYC—especially in the summer. For $4 a ride, you can zip between lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, and get to enjoy stunning views of the city while you're at it. But for...
August 24, 2011
Aloft Brooklyn Needs More Furniture
We come across a lot of hotels in our day-to-day routine. So it's not our fault that when we see something odd or out of place, we feel compelled to speak up. In regards to the room layout of the King Suite at Aloft Brooklyn, which has been open now...
August 01, 2011
Which Rooftop Bar Will Make Guests Enter Through a Sheraton and Exit Through an Aloft?
All good siblings quickly learn the art of sharing. And the same goes for sibling hotels Sheraton Brooklyn and Aloft Brooklyn, who are both owned by Starwood. In addition to sharing the same zip code, subway stations, and, indeed, the same pool, the neighboring hotels will soon divide the...
July 27, 2011
Gummi Bears And Ambient TV Art At Aloft Brooklyn
The results from our most recent outing to Downtown Brooklyn: a peek inside the lobby at the newly-opened Aloft Brooklyn on Duffield Street. The weather on Friday was kind of gray and drizzly—perfect conditions for lounging inside an empty, well-furnished lobby, taking pictures of snack trays. More on our...
June 28, 2011
Rates Get Low at These 5 Brooklyn Hotels
There's been a lot of action on the Brooklyn hotel opening front as of late, but right now, only one of those new properties is actually open (see below). Here's a look at the options for independent budget hotels in the Brooklyn area that you can book right this instant....
June 10, 2011
Aloft Brooklyn Finally (Finally!) Opens Today
Today is the day Brooklyn gets its own Aloft hotel. And really, it's about time. We've awaited Starwood's landmark 50th Aloft property since early this year, and when we last reported in April, the twice-pushed-back date had morphed into a June 9 opening. So hooray! We weren't lied to. At...
June 09, 2011
Aloft Brooklyn: Late To the Party, But Hey, There's a Pool!
When we heard rumblings from Brooklyn that the borough's new Aloft was set for imminent take-off, we scampered over to the website, fully expecting to see a May opening date. Silly us. Of course, the latest opening date is June 9. That's not the only downer, either. Based on our...
April 27, 2011
Aloft Brooklyn Delayed Until April 21
The new Aloft Brooklyn, scheduled to be the 50th property in the brand's portfolio, has pushed back its opening date to April 21 from March 31. Confusingly, the Downtown Brooklyn hotel says doors will open on April 21 but reservations will only be taken for May 19 or later....
February 21, 2011
Which Hotels Will Be The First On The NYC Scene In 2011?
The Nolitan.One of our favorite parts of a brand new year ahead of us? A clean slate of new hotel openings! We thought 2010 was a banner year for new properties in New York City, but 2011 is already looking like it will keep pace. As you settle back into...
January 03, 2011
Even More NYC Hotels to Lust After in the New Year
Just in case yesterday's serve of 6 More Hot NYC Hotels for You to Lust After wasn't enough to get you jonesin' for a New York hotel stay, we thought we'd keep the excitement level up by looking ahead to 2011. Yep, here are even more NYC properties we expect...
October 15, 2010
Brooklyn Won't Get Aloft Until January
BKL won't get its w xyz on until Aloft opens in January. Opening a hotel in New York City is a treacherous business--there are always delays. Which is what Starwood is finding as it tries to get the city's first two Aloft Hotels up and running. Aloft Harlem has had...
October 13, 2010
Aloft Harlem's Lift Off Is Delayed Again
Ruh roh! Harlem, we have a problem. Well, if you consider another delay in the opening of the long-awaited Aloft Harlem a problem, that is. Our heads would seriously spin so fast they'd fly off into outer space if we tried to recount the various opening dates this hotel has...
October 06, 2010
Starwood Wants An Even Bigger Bite Of The Big Apple
The W New York Downtown: Starwood's next move in NYC. Here we are in the middle of one of the busiest summers for New York City hotel openings—and along comes Starwood with plans for even more new hotels. Today there are 12 Starwood-operated properties in the city. But with...
July 26, 2010
An Aloft Will Not Grow in Brooklyn Until October 21
Construction on Aloft Brooklyn, June 2009. Aside from the fact that we desperately need a new reference other than A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for whenever we talk about Brooklyn hotels, we're totally bummed to find out today that the Aloft Brooklyn will no longer be opening on July 1....
April 23, 2010
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