Perhaps you need a hotel room to finish your popular sex column while your hot boyfriend is (annoyingly) fixing up the floors in your apartment, and the hotel is where you may or may not hook up with your mean, hot ex (OK, you caught me--I was thinking of that Sex and the City episode)
You may not immediately recall what's at 25 Stewart Ave (corner Flushing Ave) but if you ever went to see art at The Active Space or Brooklyn Brush Studios, you likely remember stepping on a oily sidewalks as passing by an incredibly raw sight of a functioning scrap metal recycling facility