Pursuits
New York Hotel Onslaught Brings Glut of Rooms to Brooklyn
Hotel construction on each side of a street in downtown Brooklyn, July 16. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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About half a mile northwest of Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, a 202-room EVEN hotel is rising next to a Holiday Inn that opens in October. Two blocks over, a tower for Marriott International Inc.’s Autograph Collection is under way.
And that’s just downtown. At least 32 hotel properties are planned or under construction in Brooklyn, a record for the area, raising concern that the New York borough won’t have enough demand to fill rooms as supply in Manhattan also surges.