Originally Posted by
Blumie
Not sure what staying in Downtown Brooklyn would accomplish. It's not particularly convenient to LGA or JFK. If you're gonna go to Downtown Brooklyn, you might as well go to Manhattan. (Splitting the difference probably means staying in one of the cheesy hotels on the LIE near the Van Wyck!)
By splitting the difference, I meant staying somewhere more interesting than a LGA airport hotel, but less expensive than Manhattan. Of course that assumes that the Brooklyn Marriott is in fact less expensive than a comparable hotel in Manhattan; I didn't check. Certainly it's possible that it isn't--there are Brooklyn neighborhoods where real estate is more expensive than parts of Manhattan.