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The gentrification train continues to chug apace throughout Park Slope, continuing down Fourth Avenue all the way to the site of a forthcoming Holiday Inn Express. Situated on an otherwise Maclaren-free block of Union Street, the Holiday Inn will offer an expanded continental breakfast (for the homeless), marble bathrooms (for the cokeheads), and self-parking (for the foolish). It sounds like a glorious alternative to the Hotel on Rivington, but the Daily News asks:

Will price alone - $129 to $199 a night - be enough to draw guests to a street with five auto body repair shops and a gas station?

Of course it will — Slopesters like Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer can't just romance their hookers in broad daylight, you know.

Park Slope Hotel Is a Bold Gamble [NYDN]
A Hotel Grows in Brooklyn. Next to an Auto Repair Shop. [Gridskipper]