Great Potential Wasted due to Poor Management and Terrible Housekeeping.
The area is sketchy and noisy, but this could be a nice hotel in a lower end neighborhood if it were well-managed. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be managed at all. Other than a single, rotating, bored person glued to a smartphone at the front desk, this hotel seems to have no full-time staff.
The hotel actually is well-outfitted in certain ways, with an elegant-looking lobby and reasonably well-appointed rooms, but maintenance appears non-existent. The hallways are not clean and the outside of each door is dented or badly scratched. If you were to look at a picture of a hallway, you might well conclude that the hotel had been abandoned.
I was a guest for six days, and was in my room for much of the day, yet I never heard or saw anyone cleaning the common areas. My room was cleaned just once in six days, and only because I requested it. My trash cans were overflowing.
The smell of marijuana is ever-present other than in the lobby. My room smelled of it.
If this were priced as a budget hotel, it might be worth a short stay, but at its current price point, travelers can do better at other Brooklyn hotels.