[Photo for GL by Steven Skollar] WTF? First, Hotel Le Bleu was lit up in blue like a nighmare vision of a Latvian bordello designed by a Karl Fischer protege where they decided that the red and pink of Amsterdam is too gauche. And now? That is the m*therf*cking Holiday Inn Express on Union Street. […]

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For all the talk of a hotel bust and how people like Sam Chang are no longer building hotels in Brooklyn, the ones that are already financed are coming along just fine. They may end up charging $58 a night or renting by the hour, but the cranes are on site and the steel is […]

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This one kind of fell through the cracks before the holidays, as a reader wrote us about going to Hotel Le Bleu on Fourth Avenue seeking to imbibe at the lounge on the top floor. As readers may know, we’ve been calling it Tres, Tres, Tres Bleu because the whole freaking hotel is lit up […]

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There may come a time when rooms in Gowanus are available for $29.99 a night because the entire Manhattan market has crashed, but for now, the hotels that will be charging those prices are moving along. We’ve already written of the Super8 that will be nearing completion on Third Avenue, but there is also activity […]

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Yesterday, Curbed had the Linden Hotel. Note that it has none of that nauseating Gowanus Super 8 puke-colored brick crap. Oh no. Per the Architects Newspaper, “The use of polycarbonate panels, clear glass, expanded metal mesh, and stucco cladding creates a varied composition of translucency, transparency, reflectivity, and opacity, qualities that change over the course […]

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That hotel that’s been under construction on Third Avenue for a while is not going to be a Days Inn or a Quality Inn or anything of that nature. While no permits have yet been filed with the Department of Buildings for signs a very reliable source–one of the construction workers–tells one of our GL […]

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How about a strange video tour/commercial for the Nu Hotel on Smith Street across the street from the Brooklyn House of Detention?

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Well, there is a hotel coming to Union Avenue at the site of what is now a Getty Station and in the middle of one of the hottest development strips in all of Williamsburg. There are many buildings going up there on Union Avenue, including a huge and steamy Hot Karl. Now, a new hotel […]

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Someday, this will be the Indigo Hotel, the Duffield Street lodging designed by our favorite Brooklyn architect Karl Fischer, who thrills us by giving Downtown Brooklyn a Hot Karl. After all, why should Williamsburg get all the Hot Karl action? (Answer: Everybody needs some Hot Karl. Even you, Park Slope.) The Indigo will be at […]

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Want to roll around in someone else’s “Love Stain?” Well, for the unbelievers or the… (no, we’re not going to judge) head on over to Brooklyn’s Red Carpet Inn at 980 Wyckoff Ave, slap down $116 for the night (sorry, we too can’t confirm the hourly rate), and get grubby! One brave visitor found out […]

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This is, of course, Hotel Le Bleu which opened earlier this year on Fourth Avenue in Gowanus. It was supposed to have a futuristic-looking lounge and restaurant at the top called Vue, which is described as “The new haunt of New York’s chic set. From its lofty perch on the 8th & 9th floors, take […]

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Workers have started reducing a President Street warehouse to rubble, clearing the way for another entry in Gowanus’ burgeoning hot-sheet scene hotel boom. A developer named SAI Hospitality plans to build a 100-plus-room hotel in place of the warehouse ; SAI also has designs on another vacant warehouse on the street, between 3rd and 4th […]

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“More than half of the 5,000 new hotel rooms once planned for Brooklyn may never see the light of day because of the nation’s dwindling economy, a top industry expert says. Sean Hennessey, CEO of Lodging Advisors, said that of the roughly 25 borough hotel projects in the pipeline six months ago only seven will […]

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McBrooklyn points to a story in the Eagle about the hotel planned for Degraw Street between 3rd and 4th avenues, noting that the developer says the property will be operated by Choice Hotels, “the worldwide franchiser of Cambria Suites, Comfort Inn, Econo Lodge and others.” There’s already one Comfort Inn in Gowanus, as well as […]

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We’ve always been amused by the marketing efforts of the Gowanus hotels that have opened so far. The Holiday Inn Express on Union Street says it’s in Park Slope rather than Gowanus. The Comfort Inn on Butler Street markets its proximity to tourist attractions to which it is far from proximate. Hotel Le Bleu on […]

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“One week, two more hotels planned for Gowanus.” Part of warehouse on Third Street is being converted to a hotel and a lot of DeGraw Street between Third and Fourth Ave may become a 10,000 square foot property. All told there are nine hotels underway or planned. You must check out the Gowanus Hotel District […]

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Will the Gowanus hotel boom, which has been thoroughly chronicled and mapped out by Brownstoner, come to a premature end? It will if City Council Member Bill de Blasio has his way. Mr. de Blasio and commmunity members will be holding a press conference before the City Planning presentation on Gownanus rezoning this evening that […]

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Demolition is underway on the site of a new hotel planned for Third Avenue between Douglass and Butler Streets. As reported by Brownstoner a couple of weeks ago, the hotel will be a Fairfield Inn. DOB records show that it will be a nine-story building with 134 rooms. The interesting thing is that when we […]

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Work has started on the Indigo Hotel, the big hotel on Duffield Street designed by the ubiquitous Karl Fischer. It will be 22 stories and have 164 rooms and was originally supposed to be completed.–Brownstoner

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The second Oro tower isn’t going to include a condo-hotel and about 100,000 square feet will be trimmed from the size of the building. The original plan was for a 38-story, 344,992-square-foot tower with a hotel. Hilton was said to have been interested in Brooklyn’s first condo-hotel.–Brownstoner

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Chalk it up to the mid-January slump, perhaps, but both Hotel Le Bleu in Gowanus and Hotel Le Jolie in Williamsburg have slashed their rates for “winter sales.” Rooms at both establishments are available for as little as $139 a night. We say this as a way of saying that prices for the time being […]

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On Friday, we ran an item (while most people were away or out shopping) that Hotel Le Jolie, the first hotel to open in Williamsburg/Greenpoint, had opened its doors. We stopped by yesterday to grab a photo of Hotel Le Bleu’s North Brooklyn sister property. Le Bleu rooms, we believe, offer stunning views of the […]

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We’d been checking the website for Hotel Le Jolie in Williamsburg waiting for it to open, but it turned out the low tech method was better. Passing by on the BQE yesterday, we saw a big “Now Open” banner draped across the top of the first hotel to open in Williamsburg/Greenpoint. Le Jolie is a […]

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This is Hotel Le Bleu, yesterday afternoon around 3PM, when the NOW OPEN signs stopped us dead in our tracks on Fourth Avenue as passed by to see if they’d made their opening date of November 2. They did. We have poked much fun at Le Bleu, but we’re happy to see it open. Things […]

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Hotel Le Bleu’s sister hotel, Le Jolie, on Meeker Avenue in an almost under the BQE location that on the fringes Williamsburg, is almost ready for action. There’s no solid word on when the hotel will be open and it doesn’t even have a website yet. But, the curtains are in the windows. A big […]

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