Lefferts Manor Bed and Breakfast is the perfect place to stay during your visit to New York City. It's just a couple of minutes from Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. It's also a short distance from the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Public Library and public transportation. You can easily reach the Q and B trains which will take you into downtown Manhattan in a short fifteen minute ride. If you're headed to Midtown it'll take closer to twenty minutes.
The rooms are simple and quaint but they do have a nice mix of period style furniture with some international touches. The house where the Bed and Breakfast is located holds on to much of its original turn of the century details. There is oak parquet flooring, a beautiful grand staircase and the front parlor is the perfect place to enjoy breakfast with your fellow guests.
The bed and breakfast is small, giving it a very personal and intimate feel. There is one single room and three double occupancy rooms. There is also one triple room. All rooms have a there night minimum stay requirement.
Facility amenities include:
A filling gourmet breakfast that is available for and additional $10
Morning newspapers
Information on travel and transportation
A dining room and parlor lounge
Free linens and towels
Air conditioned rooms
Wireless Internet Service
A public computer
If you're coming from Newark International Airport you can go southwest on I-95/New Jersey Turnpike South Toll Road for about three and a half miles. Take exit 13 which will take you to I-278 in the direction of Verrazano Br/Goethals Br/Elizabeth Partial Toll Road. Stay left when the road forks and continue following the signs for Verrazano Bridge/I-278 I/Goethals Bridge. Merge onto I-278 East Partial Toll Road. When you see exit 24 take it and merge onto Prospect Expressway/RT-27 East. Exit on exit 5 in the direction of Fort Hamilton Parkway east. Merge onto East 5th street and turn left when you see Caton Avenue. When you see Flatbush turn left and then take a right at Rutland Road.
Reviews
Michael Pullman
Positives:
Fantastic clean, comfortable rooms. Washington Suite has a wonderful view over Fort Greene park.
Negatives:
Nothing. 100%. In a really safe area of Brooklyn too, it's lovely
97%
Anonymous
Positives:
Beautiful building, lovely big bedroom
Negatives:
Location is a little awkward for walking distance to good eats and drinks
97%
Anonymous
Positives:
Great accommodation in lovely Brooklyn
Negatives:
Nothing
100%
Diego Duchowny
Positives:
The friendliness of the staff, cleanless and quietness. They made us feel like we were…
Negatives:
Nothing
94%
Anonymous
Positives:
Facilities were clean.
Negatives:
The description doesnt correspond to the reality, we had to move to a different hostel…
46%
Rebecca Carter
Positives:
+1. Mark was an amazing host - really informative and helpful.
+2. Quiet location -…
Negatives:
A little bit too far from Manhattan if you like nightlife (it's about 45 minutes…
94%
Naomi McKenzie
Positives:
We had a fantastic time! Great location, great room, loved the whole experience of staying…
Negatives:
nothing
100%
Directions to New York Penn Station
Total Distance: 10.3 mi
Head
east on
Rutland Rd toward
Bedford Ave.
Take the 1st
right onto
Bedford Ave.
Turn
right onto
Caton Ave.
Turn
left onto
Coney Island Ave.
Take the 2nd
right onto
Church Ave.
Turn
right onto
NY-27 W.
Keep
left at the fork, follow signs for
I-278 E/Bklyn-Qns Expy/Queens/Bronx and merge onto
I-278 E.
Continue onto
Brooklyn Battery Tunnel/Interstate 478 N (signs for
Battery Tunnel/Manhattan)
Toll road
.
Turn
right onto
West St.
Turn
right onto
Canal St.
Turn
left onto
Hudson St.
Continue onto
8th Ave/Abingdon Square/Abingdon Square ParkContinue to follow 8th Ave
Destination will be on the right
.
Directions to Brooklyn Bridge
Total Distance: 4.8 mi
Head east on Rutland Rd toward Bedford Ave.
Take the 1st left onto Bedford Ave.
Turn left onto Empire Blvd.
Turn right onto Washington Ave.
Turn left onto Atlantic Ave.
Turn right onto Boerum Pl.
Continue onto Adams St.
Continue onto Brooklyn Bridge.