It’s hard not to look at Hotel Le Bleu on Fourth Avenue in Gowanus and wonder if the hotel will ever open. The culprit is said to be some nasty lost paperwork issues with the Department of Buildings. The hotel’s original opening date was supposed to be around July 4. The revised opening date is […]

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[Photo courtesy of mrthespy/flickr] It can’t be, can it? Hotel Chatter reported that Le Bleu, the Gowanus hotel on Fourth Avenue with the white-and-blue themed interiors, glass showers and industrial neighborhood views, would be open around October 1. It described the vistas as follows: As for those views, half the rooms do have a glimpse […]

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Merde! After an original expected opening in early July, we’ve sat by helplessly as Hotel Le Bleu, the Fourth Avenue boutique hotel sandwiched between the taxi depot and the dialysis clinic, right near the Pep Boys and the Staples, has punted on repeated opening days. And so, the flagship hotel of the Gowanus hotel boom […]

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The Brooklyn hotel boomlet gets another dose of publicity with a NY1 story surveying the scene and taking note of the expanded Brooklyn Marriott, the Gowanus Holiday Inn Express, the Gowanus Comfort Inn and the Hotel Le Bleu as evidence of a developing “haven” for “Outer Borough tourists.” (Translation: your mother-in-law from Chicago visiting you […]

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The Comfort Inn on Butler Street in Gowanus is open. We even observed tourists coming out of the hotel. They appeared to be getting directions from an employee to what we assume was the subway. (Continue to read and you might understand why they potentially would be befuddled about their whereabouts.) Rooms we were glancing […]

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Was it just Saturday that we were gazing upon the Hotel Le Bleu nestled between the taxi depot and the dialysis facility on Fourth Avenue, thinking that it would be open in a matter of a few days. Well, newyorkology has temporarily burst our bubble by reporting that opening day has been kicked by one […]

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Frankly, we can’t get enough Hotel Le Bleu, probably because it’s a hotel in Gowanus and it’s the first one that isn’t a Holiday Inn or a Comfort Inn. It actually aspires to be, like, a cool boutique hotel. Now, if you know Fourth Avenue, you know that it’s sandwiched between a big taxi depot […]

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So, that image above is…from N. 6th Street in Williamsburg? Someplace in Chelsea? Uh, no. If you said Gowanus, you’re right. This is The Vue. It will be the new restaurant on the eighth and ninth floors of Hotel Le Bleu on Fourth Avenue. It is described as “The new haunt of New York’s chic […]

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[Photo courtesy of Real Deal] Hotel Le Bleu is coming to Gowanus and, along with it, Le View of the Gowanus. Gabby Warshawer reports on the Real Deal that Le Bleu will open on July 1: “Brooklyn’s first boutique hotel,” according to developer Dominic Tonacchio. Rooms at the Andres Escobar-designed Hotel Le Bleu at 370 […]

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