On the Waterfront: 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge

While staying at 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, you’re ever aware of the privileged perspective you’re getting (and that Brooklyn residents aren’t getting, unless they’ve purchased one of the units in Pierhouse, the adjacent condo building also developed by Starwood Capital Group, that disappointingly does not offer any low- or middle-income units for rent or for sale). The fact that funds from the hotel and Pierhouse help maintain the cost of Brooklyn Bridge Park, which is public, is the development’s saving grace. Because for as much as the buildings borrow from their waterfront park locale, they’re also giving back to it.