#13 in Top 20 New York for Business · ★★★★★
1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge
A sustainability-led DUMBO base with Manhattan-skyline meeting rooms, a rooftop pool and Barbuto downstairs.
A sustainability-led DUMBO base with Manhattan-skyline meeting rooms, a rooftop pool and Barbuto downstairs.
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"The business traveller's Brooklyn play, a green, design-led hotel with the Manhattan skyline as its boardroom backdrop and the calm of the waterfront when the meetings are done."
Because it offers a different kind of New York work trip: calmer, greener and with a view that turns a meeting into an occasion. 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge opened in 2017 in DUMBO, inside Brooklyn Bridge Park at the eastern foot of the bridge, with the full Manhattan skyline directly across the East River. Around 194 rooms are built on a thorough sustainability ethos, with reclaimed wood and stone, energy-conscious systems and a pared-back natural aesthetic, which increasingly matters to travellers and companies that weigh a hotel's environmental credentials.
For business specifically, the draw is the setting and the meeting space. The hotel's skyline-view meeting rooms give a client presentation a backdrop no Midtown conference room can match, and DUMBO itself is a hub for New York's tech and creative sector, so a trip built around Brooklyn meetings can happen almost entirely on this side of the river. The honest trade-off is geography: if your meetings are in Midtown or on Wall Street, you are commuting across the East River each day, which is quick by subway but is a commute all the same.
Book a skyline-view room, and step up to a Bridge View or Manhattan Skyline Suite if you want the balcony and the full sweep of the view. The rooms carry the brand's natural-materials look, with reclaimed wood, organic linens and large windows, and the single biggest variable is orientation: the west-facing rooms look across the river to Lower Manhattan and the bridge, which is the outlook the hotel is known for and the one worth paying up for on a working stay.
The suites add the space and, in the higher categories, the private balcony that make them useful for hosting or a longer trip, while an entry room still delivers the design and the address. Whatever the category, ask for a high, west-facing room at booking; the skyline rooms are the first to sell in the spring and autumn peaks, and a park-or-city-facing room, while quieter and cheaper, misses the view that defines the hotel.
Book a skyline-view meeting room for the morning client session; the view across the river beats any Midtown conference suite. Keep Barbuto downstairs for the sit-down lunch, and treat the rooftop pool and bar as the place to decompress between sessions or host an early evening drink rather than as a lap pool.
The location is a genuine strength if your work is in Brooklyn and a manageable commute if it is not. DUMBO sits at the heart of the Brooklyn tech and creative cluster, so meetings on this side of the river are often a short walk, and the neighbourhood's cafes, galleries and waterfront make for easy, memorable places to meet a client informally. Brooklyn Bridge Park is quite literally at the door for a walking meeting or a clear-headed break.
For Manhattan, the York Street F train is about a five-minute walk and drops you into Lower Manhattan within minutes, while the High Street A and C trains and the East River Ferry give alternative routes, including a scenic commute by water to Wall Street or Midtown. Airports are the usual New York distances, with JFK and LaGuardia both reachable by car in roughly thirty to forty-five minutes outside peak traffic. The net effect is a base that is superb for Brooklyn and perfectly workable for Manhattan, provided you accept a short daily crossing.
Dining took a clear step up with the arrival of Barbuto Brooklyn on the ground floor, chef Jonathan Waxman's California-Italian restaurant, which took over the space formerly occupied by The Osprey. The park-facing, light-filled dining room serves Waxman's signatures, including the JW Chicken with salsa verde, and works equally for an unhurried lunch meeting and a relaxed client dinner without leaving the building. It gives the hotel a destination restaurant rather than a generic in-house option.
Above, the rooftop pool and bar is the hotel's social centrepiece, looking across the water to the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline. It is best understood as a scene and a place to unwind or host a drink rather than a serious swimming pool, and timed for early evening it is one of the more memorable spots in the city to close a working day. The lobby bar and the greenery-filled public spaces round out a hotel that is easy to spend downtime in between meetings.
Against the field, 1 Hotel wins on setting, sustainability and the skyline view, and concedes central-Manhattan convenience to the Midtown and Downtown addresses. The table sets it beside the nearest alternatives so you can match the hotel to where your meetings actually are.
| Hotel | Setting | Best for the business traveller who wants |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge | DUMBO, Brooklyn Bridge Park | A green, calmer base with a skyline view |
| Equinox Hotel Hudson Yards | Hudson Yards, Manhattan | A wellness-led Midtown West base with a serious gym |
| The Times Square EDITION | Midtown, Times Square | A design hotel in the centre of Midtown |
| Lotte New York Palace | Midtown East | A classic Midtown address near the big offices |
If your meetings are in Midtown West and you want a wellness-led base, see Equinox Hotel Hudson Yards; for a design hotel in the centre of Midtown, the Times Square EDITION; and for a classic Midtown East address by the big offices, Lotte New York Palace. 1 Hotel holds the niche none of them do: the greenest, calmest, most view-led business base in the city, on the Brooklyn side of the river.
The recurring praise is for the view, the design and the restaurant, and the recurring caution is about the Brooklyn location and pricing on extras. Across recent verified guest reviews, business travellers single out the Manhattan skyline outlook, the calm natural-materials rooms, the arrival of Barbuto and the rooftop scene. Many describe the setting as a welcome change from a Midtown tower.
The other side is consistent too. Guests note that the DUMBO location adds a commute for Midtown or Wall Street meetings, that the rooftop and bar can be busy and buzzy in the evenings, and that some extras are priced at the top of the market. None of this undercuts the hotel; it frames 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge as a design-led, sustainability-minded base with a signature view rather than a central-Manhattan convenience play.
Book 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge if your meetings are in Brooklyn or you want a calmer, greener base than Midtown, if a skyline-view meeting room would elevate your client sessions, and if sustainability credentials matter to you or your company. It suits travellers working in DUMBO and the Brooklyn tech and creative scene, anyone happy to trade a short Manhattan commute for a river view, and travellers who value design and downtime as much as location.
On timing, New York's business calendar is busiest and priciest in spring and autumn, when skyline-view rooms sell first and rates climb, so book well ahead for those windows. Summer is warmer and a little quieter, and winter outside the holidays offers the best value. For the easiest booking, aim for a midweek stay outside the spring and autumn peaks, and request a high, west-facing room in advance.
1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge sits at #13 within our Top 20 Hotels in New York for Business, scoring an aggregate 9.5/10 across Room & Design, Service and Location. It ranks where it does on a distinct strength rather than pure convenience: it is not the most central hotel for Midtown meetings, but for a green, design-led base with a skyline-view boardroom and a destination restaurant, it is a genuinely strong choice. If your dates are set, reserve a high, west-facing room early, and earlier still for the spring and autumn peaks.
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