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Borough with a view: Brooklyn beckons with new hotels, other perks

Jake Gyllenhaal is walking into my New York hotel.

It's not on Fifth Avenue or one of the trendy corners of Lower Manhattan. It's in Brooklyn. And it - the 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge - might be the buzziest new hotel in the city, star sightings or no.

Because the 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, like the new William Vale Hotel and the Williamsburg Hotel, both new to Brooklyn's waterfront, have something that Manhattan doesn't have: the skyline panorama.

Developers have newly awoken to the Wall-Street-to-Harlem vista framed across the East River and begun touting

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