SelectionThe Ace Hotel, with its chic and cool decor, honors the works of local artists. An ideal base to radiate in this “borough” of New York in full mutation.
Post-pandemic New York enshrines Brooklyn’s supremacy. Dynamic, modern, practicing a subtle mix between the different cultural communities, the inhabitants of always, the artists and the bobos, the borough is a destination unto itself. We can therefore definitely do without Manhattan.
Located a seventeen-minute walk from the spectacular Brooklyn Bridge, the Ace Hotel in the Boerum Hill neighborhood is the ideal place to land, halfway between Atlantic Avenue and its charming shops and the Barclays Center, home of the Brooklyn Nets basketball team. Both places tell the story and changes of the neighborhood. The Ace too, a masterpiece of cool 1970s spirit imagined by Roman and Williams, a duo of designers very prominent in New York. It is part of this community (a word so much more chic than chain) of boutique hotels that take care of the atmosphere and decor without driving up the prices.
Here, we project ourselves into an artist’s “refuge” all in waxed concrete, red brick, daylight and blond wood with a large place given to textile art, especially in the rooms where we give to see pieces by local designers.
Rooms from 7e floor (out of 13), are the best, and those located on the south side, such as 818, at 8e floor, also allow you to see the Williamsburg Bridge in the distance. They all cite Le Corbusier’s cabanon on the Côte d’Azur as their inspiration. In the lobby, where you can work at a large table, the light installation pays homage to the mythical Hotel Okura in Tokyo. The whole thing gives the pleasant feeling of being in a cultivated place.
At 482 meters: savor Jewish cuisine
The delis, temples of Ashkenazi gastronomy, offer chicken schnitzel and matzo ball soup throughout the city. With variable quality. Mile End, whose name is inspired by a Jewish district of Montreal, is clearly the top of the basket. You can take away or eat on shaded benches. You have to try the fried eggplant with tahini and the grilled chicken salad with zaatar inspired by the revolution spearheaded by chef Yotam Ottolenghi. Delicious and affordable.
At 640 meters: fall for novels in their original version
This 200-year-old literary club, established in Brooklyn for a few years, brings together established and aspiring writers who can rent writing studios or attend workshops or conferences. But, above all, the marvelous bookstore and café are open to the public. This encourages reading in English as the publishing sector competes in creativity to offer attractive covers. Everything makes you feel like in a confectionery. In the absence of VO, we can fall back on gifts as chic as the 1,000-piece puzzle around James Joyce.
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