Is the Marriott Hotel taking over the Court Square Toyoko Inn development?

I love the idea of hotels in the area-nice ones with hotel bars and rooftop dining. the kind of place you can actually have family stay in….but not low end types like marriot & tokyo inn. I think they devalue the neighborhood.

My landlord owns 3 buildings on 23rd Street and she said they contacted her to try and buy her out but she won’t sell. Apparently, they successfully bought out all the tenants in the red brick building on the corner. The only one who would not take their offer is the guy who owns the Chinese food restaurant on the ground floor. I believe his lease lasts a few more years. It is such a tragedy that they are putting up a big building in that space. There are two blocks of low rise townhouses backing up to where the construction will be. Those houses have little back yards with gardens and trees. A pretty little enclave is about to be swallowed up by a mega hotel.

Okay, I live around the corner from here on 23rd St… Come on #2 and #3. Out of scale with the neighborhood?

The tallest building between Manhattan and Boston.

So out of scale.

“I love the idea of hotels in the area-nice ones with hotel bars and rooftop dining. the kind of place you can actually have family stay in….but not low end types like marriot & tokyo inn. I think they devalue the neighborhood.”

What kind of snobs are your relatives? Marriott is low-end? My parents stayed at the new Marriott in Downtown Brooklyn recently; it is super-nice and not cheap. they have also stayed in the Comfort Inn in LIC, which is nothing fancy, but relatively affordable, clean, and convenient.

the Ravel reviews on Yelp are hillarious: http://www.yelp.com/biz/ravel-hotel-new-york

12, low end to me is a tourist class hotel with no service, a lumpy mattress, and shitty furnishings. If you’re lucky, you get a complimentary stale bagel and coffee. Marriot hotels, though kind of anonymous and dull, are certainly a step or two above that.

Again, 14. I think most people would not say “low end of the quality spectrum” when they think of Marriot. You sure you aren’t made of money? Functional, modest, serviceable, decent — those are words that seem closer to their brand.

Ravel Hotel. What a joke. What a thug infested horrible place. To bad, and the goons are from outside of the neighborhood. So I think it’s unfair that the projects are somehow associated with the bad manors of this hotel.

If you look on trip adviser…the small amount of fans for this place are mostly French.