“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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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 of the [...]

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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 [...]

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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 Fourth Avenue [...]

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