New York: Hotels Sprout on New Ground | wsj.com

Hotels are popping up everywhere in Brooklyn and the other boroughs outside Manhattan, some in very strange places. The hotel wave is coming more than a decade after the 1998 opening of the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn's first new luxury hotel in a half century. Now dozens of new lodgings are coming to the borough, as well as to Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx.