THE PROPERTY

The living green wall is twenty-five feet tall. Obsidian rocks — six thousand pounds of them, individually hand-tied with rope by Brooklyn artist Rachel Mica Weiss — cascade from the base of the staircase like a controlled landslide. The staircase itself is a structural ode to the bridge it faces: rough steel with exposed welds, hung from rods that mirror the suspension cables. The lobby floor is barnwood inset in concrete, reclaimed from local water towers. The ceiling panels feel like the inside of a shipping crate. The effect is industrial without being cold. Nature without being precious.

LOBBY CULTURE

The living green wall is twenty-five feet tall. Obsidian rocks — six thousand pounds of them, individually hand-tied with rope by Brooklyn artist Rachel Mica Weiss — cascade from the base of the staircase like a controlled landslide. The staircase itself is a structural ode to the bridge it faces: rough steel with exposed welds, hung from rods that mirror the suspension cables. Communal tables from almost-untouched reclaimed wood. Earthy leather seating. The Neighbors café on one side, the farmstand on the other. This is a lobby you stay in, not pass through.

DESIGN NOTES

INC Architecture & Design worked with makers from four of New York's five boroughs. Rugs based on the mottled surface of rusty ship hulls. Slipcovers that recall ribbed packing blankets. A cocktail table made from Domino Sugar Factory beams. Leather accents from upholstery waste. Lighting fixtures grown from mushroom pores. The elevator walls recall the inside of a shipping crate. The granite pillars in the lobby came from the same quarry as the Brooklyn Bridge. More than half the hotel was built from reclaimed materials. The result is a hotel that looks like it has always been here — which, in a sense, it has.

BAR & SHARED SPACES

Harriet's is two rooms split by intention. The lounge on the tenth floor is dark and fire-inspired — quarry stone, charred wood, a cocktail list built on seasonal produce and fine spirits, live DJs on weekends. Above it, the rooftop proper, landscaped by the same firm that designed Brooklyn Bridge Park, with a bar, firepits, a shallow pool, and the Manhattan skyline unobstructed across the river. The Bamford Wellness Spa occupies the lower level — NYC's first outpost of the brand, with a hammam, zero-gravity flotation, and treatments guided by the same sustainable principles as the hotel itself.

ROOMS THAT MATTER

Floor-to-ceiling windows that actually open. Custom Keetsa mattresses wrapped in organic cotton. A five-minute hourglass in the shower. Filtered water flowing from every tap in the building. The Bridge Studio Suite frames the Brooklyn Bridge like a painting you never close the curtains on — king bed, sofa bed, living area, bridge view. The Riverhouse at the top spans two bedrooms, a carved stone soaking tub, a hammock, and panoramic views of the bridge, Manhattan skyline, and the Statue of Liberty simultaneously.

THE VERDICT

Brooklyn's most site-specific address. The reclaimed materials aren't a concept here — they're a consequence of where the hotel sits, what stood here before, and who built it. The lobby earns the visit on its own. The rooftop views are among the best in the city. And the Bridge Studio Suite, with those windows open and the bridge in frame, is one of the better rooms in New York. Worth the trip across the water.

9.3

/ 10

Property

1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge

Brand

1 Hotels

Category

Sustainable Luxury

Rooms

194

Opened

2017

Address

60 Furman Street, Brooklyn, NY

Sustainable

Waterfront

Views

Brooklyn

Rooftop

Design

Wellness

Pet-Friendly