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Baseball Hotels :: Brooklyn's Le Bleu for Cyclones Action
Summertime...hot dogs, apple pie, and...baseball! In New York, there are literally hundreds of hotel choices giving you easy access to the subways and trains to get to Yankee and Shea Stadium.
We've rounded up some good hotels near MLB Stadiums but what about the minor league for a serious taste of the working man's ballgame? You can take the Staten Island Ferry for free to see the Staten Island Yankees, but trust us, you don't want to stay overnight on "Stranded Island."
Then there's the Brooklyn Cyclones, the borough's nod to its Dodgers history, and just as popular (the park reports attendance has already surpassed two million attendees).
Brooklyn has limited hotel crashpads, but the hotel closest to the action is Hotel Le Bleu in Park Slope. This small hotel, with 48 rooms, is as near to the diamond as you can get, and an underhand toss to the local subway that gets you out to Keyspan Park.
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Hotel Le Bleu Now Open...Finally
We were beginning to think Hotel Le Bleu would turn into Brooklyn's Six Columbus with delay after delay.
But GM Robert Gaeta wrote in to confirm rumors that the hotel opened over the weekend:
Hotel Le Bleu, Brooklyn's first luxury boutique hotel is now open as of 4PM Friday. The Department of Buildings gave us our Certificate of Occupancy. We had our first guests check in today. Guests from Virginia...Next big story: When the top floor restaurant and roof lounge Vue opens.
Hey, that will be a big story. Last we heard, it'll be opening sometime next year.
[Photo: Gregory P. Mango]
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Hotel Le Bleu Delayed Yet Again
Hey, remember Brooklyn's new boutique Hotel Le Bleu, which was supposed to open on Monday? We went to check it out last month, and things were looking good. But the place has hit a few snags, and as of now, the hotel is taking reservations for Nov. 2 and later. Oh, the irony. Six Columbus (which Hotel Le Bleu absolutely did not want to be compared to) opened on Monday instead.
So what's the hold up? General Manager Robert Gaeta went in for a meeting with the NYC Department of Buildings to finalize a certificate of occupancy. How'd it go?
Building Department has mis-located our paperwork and the meeting had to be re-scheduled. Another week? Very frustrating, but the rooms are ready to sell.
Gotta love that red tape. Once the hotel actually opens, it'll be a few more months before the rooftop restaurant and bar are in place.
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First Look Inside Hotel Le Bleu
The last we heard about Brooklyn's Hotel Le Bleu, it was waiting on a certificate of occupancy. We went to check it out to find out if it really does overlook the Gowanus Canal, if it does have a tiny lobby and whether or not it would open any time soon.
On that last bit, it seems that October 1 may actually happen. True, it's only weeks away, but there are just a handful of things holding up the certificate of occupancy: elevator indicators and standpipe checks are scheduled for this week. As GM Robert Gaeta told us, he's done his part, and he's just waiting for the city's approval. "We're not Six Columbus," he said more than once.
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Hotel Le Bleu Supposedly 'Just Waiting' on Certificate of Occupancy
Recently, we've been comparing the thrice-delayed Hotel Le Bleu to the eternally unopened Six Columbus but maybe we are being a little harsh.
A tipster informs us that the Hotel Le Bleu is indeed finished inside and out but they are simply waiting on a certificate of occupancy report from the city. This report did check out when we did a quick search on the NYC Buildings web site. Yet since we're not on the ground in Brooklyn we don't have any pictures of what the construction progress looks like, if there's anything left. (Hint, Hint.)
However, we do have a neighborhood description from someone and it goes a little something like this:
The Hotel's location is so odd... smack dab between a Yellow Cab depot and a U-Haul. And I'm talking full parking lots of those nasty vehicles. That is the view from the balcony, or if you're lucky the Gowanus Canal. Plus, the hotel's parking lot can only be entered from somewhere behind the hotel and if you are a guest approaching from there, you don't get to see the front and might mistake it for a Super 8.
Our informer also got to peek inside.
The lobby is hmmm...I'd compare it to the size of my boss' office. There were people setting up computers in there this weekend, however. The dividers on the balconies do not afford privacy between suites nor from the streets.
The newest opening date is now October 1.
Meanwhile, Six Columbus is mired in construction and some permit violations, although they did obtain a temporary certificate of occupancy. Still, our money's on Hotel Le Bleu.
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Hotel Le Bleu To Open, So They Say
Hotel Le Bleu might be shirking its similarities to the ever-delayed Six Columbus. On September 10, the hotel will finally open its doors in trendy Park Slope, Brooklyn. According to its internal site as well as hotels.com, Le Bleu is taking reservations starting on the 10th. After several delayed grand openings, we're not plunking down the $327 for a room only to see our reservations cancelled at the last minute. But for now, it looks like there will be a new, very modern and very blue, place to sleep near the N/R train.
Since many consider Brooklyn the new Manhattan, it's only fitting the up-and-coming borough started opening luxury hotels that rival its noisy neighbor. Yoga studios seem to line the streets of Park Slope, so it's nice to see a hotel take up real estate in an otherwise unsightly stretch of 4th Avenue. Plus, it's handy having a high-end place to rest one's well-stretched body after a long day of bending.
[Photo: Curbed]
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Hotel Le Bleu Following in Six Columbus' Footsteps
NewYorkology reports that Hotel Le Bleu has once again pushed back its opening date--this time to September 1.
September 1 is the new start date, pushed back most recently from August 13. Room rates start at $297 for the first night if you take advantage of the online "summer breaks" 15 percent discount. When the hotel was scheduled to open July 9, the rates were as low as $280.
Actually, when we checked the hotel site today for reservations, rooms were blocked out until September 3rd. It's also disappeared from Hotels.com even though we saw it advertised on the site a few weeks ago.
Whatever the delays are, NewYorkology says the hotel is located on an "unappealing stretch of 4th Avenue just across the street from the spot where a huge section of scaffolding collapsed during the weekend". So maybe Brooklyn's not the place to be after all.
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A Six Columbus Copycat? Hotel Le Bleu Pushes Back Opening Date Again
NewYorkology is reporting that the Hotel Le Bleu--Brooklyn's boutique hotel--has delayed its opening date yet again, but this time the wait is only an extra 13 days. For now at least.
Of course, these opening date push-backs remind us of Six Columbus but also interesting to note is that Hotel Le Bleu's opening date is just a day after the new opening date of August 12th now predicted for Six Columbus. We can only wonder who will get to the finish line first.
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Hotel Le Bleu Opening Pushed Back to August 1
Looks like Six Columbus isn't the only hotel in Manhattan facing delays. According to NewYorkology, Brooklyn's boutique hotel, Hotel Le Bleu pushed back it's opening to August 1. So far, this is the second time the hotel's pushed back its opening date. It was originally scheduled for a mid-July opening.
When the hotel does open whether August or later, it will be extremely tiny with only 48 modern-looking guest rooms and with its own restaurant called Vue on the 8th and 9th floors. Rooms will have WiFi, plasma TVs, iPod/alarm docking stations and limited room service hours.
Prices for August 1 were starting at $339 a night for a select king room with a promotional web rate of $309. Also available is a Summer Rate of $289 a night. Let's just hope it opens before summer is out.
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