HotelChatter - Tag: Brooklyn Hotels

Brooklyn: Brooklyn Hotel Boom :: Maybe Not So Much

Jenna — 2008-08-08T15:02:34-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/brooklynsign.png" class="imgborder"> <a href="http://curbed.com/archives/2008/08/08/brooklyn_hotel_slaughter_rooms_slashed_in_half.php">Curbed </a>pointed us to a kinda sorta sad story about the Brooklyn hotel boom turning out to be, uh, notsomuch a hotel boom at all. Those 5000 hotel rooms on the way? Nopers! They summed it up: <blockquote>A <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/08082008/news/regionalnews/bklyn_inn_for_trouble_123620.htm">Post</a> report claims that of the 5,000 new hotel rooms planned for Brooklyn, more than half may never see their first check-in. According to an industry expert, of the roughly 25 Brooklyn hotels in the pipeline, many planned for Downtown Brooklyn and Williamsburg, only seven will be completed within the next three years. That's a total of about 2,000 hotel rooms, which would still significantly increase the borough's current tally of 1,200.</blockquote> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Gene%20Kaufman">Gene Kaufman</a> may

Hotel News Briefs :: Can You Tell Me How To Get to The Sesame Street Hotel in Gowanus?

juliana — 2008-07-29T18:03:35-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/sesamesthotelgwanus.jpg" class="imgborder">There's tons of hotel news flying around this week and we don't have time to give each and every story the love and attention it may deserve, so you will have to settle for some news briefs.· <a href="http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2008/07/behold_the_late.php">Gowanus's New Hotel Looks Like Sesame Street</a>: Brooklyn's newest hotel looks like something from Sesame Street. Does anyone see Oscar's garbage can? We do! [Brownstoner]· <a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gAkDaSkHWHboscdhQZwdRBt6hZnw">They're All Gonna Spy on You!</a>: Beware guests staying in foreign hotels in Beijing. The Chinese government will spy on you, so says a Republican senator. But the U.S. State Department backs him up saying hotel rooms will be monitored. Hmm...we don't want to go to the Olympics that badly. [AFP]· <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/antiguaandbarbuda/2469737/Antigua-honeymoon-shooting-Husband-brain-dead.html">More Honeymooner

Brooklyn: RoomMate Hipster is Way Cheaper Than RoomMate Grace

Jenna — 2008-07-23T10:23:03-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/nylofthostel_1.png" class="imgborder"> NYC's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/RoomMate+Grace+Hotel/local/1283">RoomMate Grace Hotel</a> (formerly the Hotel QT) had her dorm-sized rooms going for $349 a night on Quikbook last time we <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/15/233430/462/hotels/Hotels_Near_Times_Square_RoomMate_Grace_is_Kind_of_an_Expensive_Broad">checked</a>. Pass. Luckily, for those of us who happen to be down with the dorm-style hotel thing, we've got another NYC option in that lovely alterna-trendy Williamsburg/Bushwick area of Brooklyn. And it's $29.99 a night. How do you like that, RoomMate Grace? Take the L train (natch) down to the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/New+York+Loft+Hostel/local/1290">New York Loft Hostel</a> on Varet St. where you can live like the kids these days and stake out a bunk bed in a big, shiny room full of cheap hip young things. RoomMate Hipster (ha! We're so funny)

Brooklyn: Brooklyn Hotels Safe from Weekend Power Outages

Jenna — 2008-07-21T11:50:14-05:00

Things got unpleasantly steamy in four parts of Brooklyn yesterday - Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park and Park Slope - when 4 "big feeders" malfunctioned and knocked out power to 2,000 Brooklyn residents and businesses. And it was hot. Like, really hot.

Con Ed reduced voltage in the area by 8 percent to keep the power failure from spreading, so for those who still had power, "television sets flickered, washing machines halted midcycle and fan blades turned at lower-than-usual speeds all day."

So what about the hotels in the area?

Brooklyn: Brooklyn's "Nu"-est Hotel Gets Thumbs Up From Neighborhood Blog

juliana — 2008-07-14T16:54:19-05:00

The Brownstoner blog checked out Brooklyn's newest hotel, The Nu Hotel, and was "positively surprised" by what they saw.

They didn't try to get too cute with the design, keeping it light and modern, made the room sizes decent (helped by the fact that the building was originally designed as a condo) and priced it right; it's also in the best location of any hotel in the borough that we can think of, with Smith Street at its doorstep.

Speaking of pricing, the introductory room rates are so reasonable, at $199 during the week and $149 on the weekends. Let's just hope this hotel wisely chooses to forgo obnoxious gaming advertecture.