Boutique BRAWL: Hotel Williamsburg Vs. Williamsburghotel

If you squint real hard, there is still some of Williamsburg's soul left that hasn't been ruined by GQ, and it's just enough to stack a bunch of bodies up to the sky for $300 apiece. But is the 'burg chill enough for two boutique hotels with nearly identical names?

In one corner we have the Hotel Williamsburg, located on North 12th between Bedford and Berry. Though "Brooklyn's first full-service luxury boutique hotel" began taking reservations yesterday (starting at $295), the hotel's bar won't be open until Friday. It will also feature a 40 x 20 foot swimming pool, a step up from the kiddie pool that you blacked out in this summer after three Turkey's Nest margaritas.

In the other, theoretical corner, is Williamsburghotel, a 440-foot-tall structure designed by the Miami firm Oppenheim Archetecture+Design. According to The Architect's Newspaper, its planned location is right next to the old Williamsburgh Savings Bank (no, not THAT Williamsburgh Savings Bank) on 175 Broadway, near Driggs Avenue. The firm's design won a secret contest sponsored by the parcel's secret developer, and hopes for it to be LEED Platinum certified. If and when the 86,000 square foot behemoth will be built, no one can say.

Which hotel will you demand your landlord pay for when your apartment is being gassed for bedbugs? Will there be Bushmills in the minibars?

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By Christopher Robbins in News on November 2, 2011 1:49 PM

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remyngtin

williamsburg .... loserville

chee1rs

hipster heaven

pillow_case

This building will ruin one of the greatest Brooklyn views... sad.

PicoPhreako69

Good freakin' GAWDDDD but that first pic of it is SO ugly.
Ew.
And who said that W'burg needs to look like an early draft of Blade Runner?
Hell to the NAW.

Dan Lurie

Anyone else notice how Manhattan is backwards in the first rendering? They have the ESB being south of the Williamsburg Bridge.

janelle

looks like it might be the woolworth building. i think.

Daniel Harris

This is hideous. The Ebbetts Field Houses look more inviting.

sarobby

Driggs Avenue..

Detex

First, who really needs a record player in your hotel room? Second, it is not a Porsche, but I think some strange rendition of an old Aston. Third, that last picture is freaking badass and I would love to stay there!!

luke_1

Looks like some clone of the Ferrari 250 GTO to me.

TheOkayestGeneration

I kind of doubt they're building that high, unless we're starting to compete directly with Dubai.

Detex

well, I really hope they DON'T build it. It is pretty ugly other than the last room.

TheOkayestGeneration

But look at the city in that last rendering. That's a cruising-altitude hotel floor.

TheRealCannibal

Queens is nice.

luke_1

I paid $9 for a beer in Queens the other day. Sorry, you're SOL (and I'm dumb for paying that much, I know). The only difference is that Queens attracts the transplants that are scared of non-white people.

TheRealCannibal

Queens is huge, most of it isn't even close to being gentrified, LIC and astoria being exceptions. I would totally move to Flushing, no 9$ beers there!

Nikki May

Queens attracts the transplants that are scared of non-white people? I'm genuinely confused... have you been to Flushing, Corona, Jackson Heights, Jamaica, etc, etc. lately?

RobertMosesSupposesErroneously

I do so like it here! Although I'm casting a nervous glance at those soaring glass condos popping up in LIC and wondering if we're next in line...

TheRealCannibal

if you are in LIC then yes, you are next in line. Sorry. LIC 10 years ago was a scary desolate place I didnt like to go to, and now its a bustling condotropolis

RobertMosesSupposesErroneously

It still has its scattered desolate post-industrial blight sections to be sure. I go there for only three reasons: PS1, Gantry Park, and Dutch Kills Bar.

And if I'm in a yuppie bacon-fad mood, Sage General Store can be good.