travel42 Hotel Review: 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge

1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Located on Pier 1 next to the East River, within picture-perfect view of the Brooklyn Bridge and adjacent to Brooklyn Bridge Park, this 195-room waterfront hotel exemplifies ecodesign at its luxurious finest—and that's no contradiction.

No thought was spared in its conception: In 2012, after Hurricane Sandy changed Brooklyn's flood plain, zoning officials mandated that the hotel be raised by three feet. Rather than gloss over this substantive change, desi...