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The Best Western Gregory Hotel in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn offers high speed internet access, spacious meeting rooms, and free continental breakfast. Also offered: Murder! Yesterday the body of a 52-year-old man was found in the bathtub at the hotel, with his mouth gagged with duct tape. "The police said they were investigating the death as suspicious." Well, they know better than me, I guess. But hey, it's the same hotel where a 26-year-old man was stabbed to death in December by his lady friend after sex got too rough. Sounds like the lesson is, don't stay here if you are into kinky sex and your age is any multiple of the number 26. Or, more likely, the killers were looking for the guy (from, predictably, New England) who wrote this incredibly entitled yet asinine online review of—we remind you—a Best Western in Brooklyn:

"An Uninspiring hotel with tired decor and a brain-dead desk staff" Best Western Gregory Hotel

This is a hotel that exudes mediocrity. I booked it out of necessity, not out of choice.

Having said that, it was an adequate place to stay.

Upon check-in, or I should say attempting to check in, the desk clerk dutifully ignored me for about five minutes. She must have received her customer service training at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

I asked for a quiet, non-smoking room and received one. The stay for one night was perfectly fine. This is not the place to book for a honeymoon—unless you want an instant divorce.