Trendy Hotel Gets Big Whiff of Brooklyn

An upstart innkeeper on trendy Smith Street is facing off with transit officials over the decision to put a bus stop right in front of his hotel's entrance.

Bertrand Nelson, general manager of Hersha Hospitality Trust's newly opened Nu Hotel, tells The Brooklyn Paper that his lobby is filling up with bus fumes and that bus riders are fouling up the hotel's restrooms.

For that matter, it's a pretty weird place for a hotel, as guests also often see handcuffed prisoners being escorted into and out of the Brooklyn House of Detention across the street.

“I tell them it’s an episode of Law & Order," Mr. Nelson drily told the paper.