Hotels Near the Verrazano Bridge — Where to Stay on Staten Island & Brooklyn

There is no hotel at either end of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. The nearest lodging we could verify is a 1926 apart-hotel in Bay Ridge, 0.75 mi from the Fort Hamilton gate. The nearest chain hotels on the Staten Island side are about six miles north. So "near the bridge" is really a choice between a walkable Brooklyn base in Bay Ridge or Sunset Park, a quiet Staten Island base with free parking, or — if the trip is the point — one of the five luxury hotels in Williamsburg and Brooklyn Bridge Park, which are seven to nine miles away and, whatever else they look at, cannot see the bridge.

This page lists three tiers: the splurge, the mid-range you will probably book, and the small local places the big booking sites bury. Every price printed here is either a rate the property publishes itself or a charge the property quotes. Where a property publishes nothing, the page says so instead of guessing — and no rate band is invented anywhere: the only rates printed are the ones a property publishes itself.

Which Side of the Bridge Should You Stay On?

The Brooklyn side (Fort Hamilton / Bay Ridge) is where the lodging is. Bay Ridge starts at the bridge's Brooklyn landfall and runs south along Fourth and Fifth Avenues; it has the two closest verified hotels to the span, a long restaurant strip on Third Avenue, and the R train under Fourth Avenue. The Bay Ridge neighborhood guide covers where to eat and walk once you are based there. Sunset Park, ten minutes further north along the waterfront, adds five mid-range hotels, three of them on 39th Street, with the best subway access in this guide.

The Staten Island side (Fort Wadsworth / Rosebank) is quieter and emptier. No hotel or motel is within walking distance of Fort Wadsworth. The nearest hotel or motel on that side is the Hylan Inn, about 1.9 mi by road; the only lodging closer is one small family B&B on the Rosebank shore, a 15–20 minute walk from the fort and the one place here with a genuine bridge view from its porch. The two chain hotels that serve that end are both on South Avenue, about six miles north, parking free.

The choice is therefore about how you are moving, not about distance alone. With a car and an early start — the marathon, a dawn crossing — Staten Island's free parking and empty roads win. Without a car, or if you want dinner and a subway within walking distance, Bay Ridge wins, and the toll is the same either way.

Splurge: Five Luxury Hotels in Brooklyn

These are the properties to book when the stay is the point. All five are in Williamsburg or Brooklyn Bridge Park, facing Manhattan across the East River — a fine base for the city and a poor one for the bridge. Each address and phone below is the operator's own, and each property is seven to nine miles from the span.

The William Vale

The one to book if you want the Manhattan skyline. Twenty-two floors at 111 North 12th Street, with a private balcony in every room and room categories sold as Manhattan, Neighborhood and Panoramic views. Westlight, the rooftop bar, sits 22 floors up; Leuca is the hotel's Southern Italian restaurant. The span is 9.27 mi away and the sightline is blocked by 9 DeKalb Avenue, so there is no bridge view here — and the operator does not claim one.

1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge

The only one of the five on the water, inside Brooklyn Bridge Park at 60 Furman Street. The operator's own answer on views is "Brooklyn Bridge, Statue of Liberty and Manhattan skyline" — it does not list the Verrazzano. The 25-foot living green wall in the double-height lobby is a real, specific feature; the hotel makes no air-purifying claim about it, and neither should anyone else. Harriet's Rooftop is the rooftop bar. The span is 7.13 mi south, blocked by Quay Tower.

Wythe Hotel

A 1901 brick factory on Wythe Avenue, eight floors, converted rather than rebuilt — the operator's own line is "behind brick walls that have stood since 1901". Le Crocodile is the French brasserie downstairs; Reynard, which older guides still name, closed in 2019. Bar Blondeau is the sixth-floor bar and faces the Manhattan skyline, away from the Narrows. The span is 9.22 mi out.

The Hoxton, Williamsburg

The London brand's first US hotel, at 97 Wythe Avenue. The selling point is the lobby and restaurant as a place to sit with locals rather than a view: the operator describes it as somewhere guests "can hang out alongside the locals". The span is 9.13 mi out and has no line of sight from here.

Pod Brooklyn

The value end of the set: compact rooms at 247 Metropolitan Avenue, five floors, with the rooftop terrace Le Patio open in summer. The operator sells only neighborhood views from the roof, which is the honest description for a five-story building 8.80 mi from the span.

Mainstream: The Mid-Range, Both Sides

This is the tier that actually works as a bridge base. Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights hold the three closest hotels to the span, Sunset Park holds the value cluster 3.3–3.9 mi out with the best subway access, and the Staten Island end has two chain hotels with free parking. Not one of these operators publishes a fixed nightly rate, so none is printed here; what they do publish — parking, fees, breakfast, distances — is below, and it is what separates them.

The Bay Ridge Hotel / Bay Ridge ApartHotel

One property under two names: "The Bay Ridge Hotel" and "Bay Ridge ApartHotel" are the same 1926 four-story building at 315 93rd Street, and it is the nearest verified lodging to the bridge. It runs self-check-in — you are sent an access code, and there is no 24-hour desk. Units are studios, doubles and family rooms with kitchenettes (stovetop, kettle, cookware), plus a lift and a games room. Booking.com rates it 7.1/10 from 625 reviews. Its own site lists each unit with a per-night "from" price and no fixed nightly rate; booking direct adds complimentary early check-in or late checkout. Street parking in this part of Bay Ridge is what guests complain about, so call before you drive. It does not appear on either of the two city registers we checked — the DCWP hotel-license list or the OSE short-term-rental register — and whether it holds another permit we could not establish.

avid hotel Brooklyn — Dyker Heights

IHG's new-build midscale at 636 86th Street, 0.93 mi from the gate: 76 rooms, opened September 2023, free hot breakfast (eggs and a rotating protein, not a "continental"), free Wi-Fi, and an IHG guest rating of 4.5 from 324 reviews. Parking is the catch and it is worth knowing before you book: USD 30 per day, limited spaces, no in-and-out privileges, and the garage does not take SUVs. No pets. It is limited-service, so there is no restaurant on site — Bay Ridge's Third Avenue strip is the answer to that.

Best Western Gregory Hotel

The old-timer on the corridor: a 1928 building at 8315 4th Avenue, 70 rooms, complimentary continental breakfast with Brooklyn bagels, 3,000 sq ft of event space, and the R at 86th Street two blocks away. Use the direct line below — the number printed on older versions of this page belonged to no property at all.

Wyndham Garden Brooklyn Sunset Park

457 39th Street, 3.38 mi from the gate, with the D, N and R about three minutes' walk away. Parking is the most expensive in this guide and the operator says so itself: USD 50 plus tax per day, per vehicle, first come first served, and a Destination and Environmental Fee of USD 20 per day on top. Breakfast is a full breakfast that is served and charged, not included. Pet-friendly, 100% non-smoking, with Constantine Restaurant & Bar on site.

Holiday Inn Express NYC Brooklyn — Sunset Park

833 39th Street, 3.31 mi out, in an eight-story building finished in 2019. Complimentary Express Start breakfast, free Wi-Fi, a 24-hour desk, pet-friendly, microwave and mini-fridge in every room, and the 9 Avenue (D) platform about 150 m away — the best subway position of any hotel on this page.

Staten Island: the Two Chain Hotels That Work

Both of these sit on South Avenue, about six miles north of the fort, and both park for free — which is the reason to choose this side if you are driving. The Hampton is the simpler of the two; the Hilton Garden Inn is the full-service one, with an Italian restaurant and a bar on site.

The Rest of the Mid-Range, in One Table

Closest Lodging to the Bridge, Measured

Straight-line distances, because road distance on this grid runs 20–40% longer. Brooklyn rows are measured to the Fort Hamilton main gate at 101st Street and Sterling Drive; the Staten Island rows to the bridge's Staten Island landfall and to Fort Wadsworth, as labelled.

Local: The Small Places the Booking Sites Bury

This is a residential edge of New York, not a lodging district, and the licensing record is fuller than the neighborhood suggests: nine of the eleven hotels in this radius already hold a DCWP hotel license under the Safe Hotels Act, and the two that do not are the Bay Ridge apart-hotel and the Hylan Inn motel. The city has required a license for hotel premises since 3 May 2025. That record says nothing, though, about whether a place is a good base — and the local supply the booking sites bury, from a small family B&B to the individually registered hosted stays closest to the bridge, is below.

Harbor House Bed & Breakfast

One Hylan Boulevard on Staten Island's Rosebank shore, next to the Alice Austen House and about 1 mi from the Staten Island anchorage. About ten rooms in an old family house run by the owner, Mo. It is the one property on this page whose guests describe a bridge view: reviewers keep naming the Verrazano, Manhattan and Statue of Liberty view from the porch and the front rooms. It is also the only property here that publishes per-room nightly rates — Madison, Astoria and Brooklyn rooms from USD 119 a night, the Manhattan Room from USD 129 and the Liberty Room from USD 189, plus taxes, double occupancy, on multiple-night stays; single nights cost more and some weekends and events carry a premium. Go in knowing what reviewers say: lots of stairs, several shared bathrooms, no air conditioning in the common areas, minimal toiletries, and a house that shows its age. The trade is character and that view at a small-B&B price.

Hylan Inn

The honest budget option on the Staten Island side: 1274 Hylan Boulevard, a two-star roadside motel about 1.9 mi by road from the bridge's Staten Island end. It publishes no rates. If a bed within a short drive of Fort Wadsworth is all you need, this is the one on this page; if you want breakfast, a desk and a gym, take the Hampton up South Avenue instead.

The City's Short-Term Register, Read

If you want a hosted stay rather than a hotel, the legal supply exists but it is individuals, not lodgings. New York's Office of Special Enforcement register, published under Local Law 18 and read on 9 November 2026, lists 23 short-term-rental entries in Bay Ridge 11209 (21 of them registered) and, on the Staten Island side, 13 in 10305, 14 in 10304, 14 in 10303 and 26 in 10301 by the ferry. These are two-guest, host-present stays registered one at a time — no booking site surfaces them as a set, and none of them is a guesthouse.

Further out, if the bridge is not the point: Staten Island has two more small B&Bs on its north shore, 3–5 mi from the bridge and near the St George ferry. Fort Place Bed & Breakfast (22 Fort Place, 10301; fortplace.com) publishes USD 90 single and USD 120 double per night with a two-night minimum, and holds current city short-term registration. The Victorian Bed & Breakfast of Staten Island (92 Taylor Street, 10310; (718) 273-9861) takes reservations only and publishes no rate. Both are worth the detour; neither is near the bridge.

Getting Around: Subway, Ferry and the Bridge Itself

No subway station serves the bridge. The nearest is Bay Ridge–95th Street on the R, 0.40 mi from the bridge's Brooklyn landfall and 0.57 mi from the main gate. For the hotels above: 86th Street (R) is 0.35 mi from the Bay Ridge Hotel and 0.41 mi from the avid; 9 Avenue (D) is about 0.1 mi from the Knights Inn and the Holiday Inn Express. Bay Parkway (D) serves southern Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst, not the bridge — a distinction older guides get wrong.

The bridge carries vehicles only: bicycles are prohibited on the Verrazzano-Narrows under the bridge authority's own crossing rules, and the only people who cross the deck under their own power are the marathon field and the Five Boro Bike Tour. The Staten Island Ferry is free and runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, but it leaves from St George — about 2.5 mi north of Fort Wadsworth, 3.5 mi by road — so it is a Manhattan connection, not a bridge one. The ferry schedule guide has the timings.

What a Crossing Costs

Tolls are charged in both directions under split tolling, in force since 1 December 2020, on the schedule effective 4 January 2026: USD 7.46 for a 2-axle car with NY E-ZPass, USD 9.79 on a plate-based Mid-Tier account, and USD 12.03 by Tolls by Mail. Staten Island residents enrolled in the MTA's rebate pay USD 2.75. No 2027 schedule has been adopted. The full toll table covers motorcycles, commercial vehicles and the resident program.

Hotel parking, as priced by the hotels themselves: USD 30 per day at the avid (limited, no in-and-out, no SUVs), USD 50 plus tax per day at the Wyndham Garden with a USD 20 per day destination fee, and free at both Staten Island chain hotels. The Bay Ridge Hotel has no lot. Budget for the garage, not the street.

Questions Readers Ask

Is there a hotel within walking distance of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge?

Yes, on the Brooklyn side only, and just barely: The Bay Ridge Hotel / Bay Ridge ApartHotel at 315 93rd Street is 0.75 mi from the Fort Hamilton gate and the avid at 636 86th Street is 0.93 mi, both straight-line figures, so allow 15–25 minutes on foot. On the Staten Island side, the nearest hotel or motel is the Hylan Inn, about 1.9 mi by road, and the only lodging closer is one small B&B.

Which side is better for a marathon or an early crossing?

Staten Island, if you have a car. Both South Avenue hotels are about six miles from Fort Wadsworth, park free, and put you on the right side of the Narrows before dawn. Brooklyn works too if you are happy with a pre-dawn drive across the bridge.

Can I see the bridge from my room?

At Harbor House, guests describe the bridge, Manhattan and Statue of Liberty from the porch and front rooms. The five Williamsburg and Brooklyn Bridge Park luxury hotels are seven to nine miles from the span with no bridge sightline, and no Bay Ridge or Sunset Park hotel on this page sells a bridge-view room.

Why do most properties here show no nightly price?

Because none of the mid-range operators publishes a fixed nightly rate, and a booking-site "from" figure changes by the hour. Two properties quote their own prices: the Bay Ridge Hotel lists per-unit "from" prices without a set rate, and Harbor House prints room rates from USD 119 to USD 189. Parking and fees, which the hotels do publish, are printed on every property above.

How do I get to Manhattan from these hotels?

From Bay Ridge, the R at 95th Street or 86th Street; from Sunset Park, the D, N and R at 9 Avenue and 39th Street. From the Staten Island hotels, drive to St George for the free ferry, or take the express bus — the bridge will not carry you on foot.

Is street parking realistic in Bay Ridge?

No, and guests say so. The Bay Ridge Hotel has no lot and its reviews single out street parking as very difficult; the avid's garage is USD 30 per day with limited spaces and no in-and-out. If you are driving, the Sunset Park or Staten Island hotels are the easier choice.

Official Sources

MTA tolls: mta.info/fares-tolls/tolls/vehicle-types · E-ZPass NY: e-zpassny.com

City registers: NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection hotel licenses (the "Issued Licenses" dataset) and the Office of Special Enforcement short-term-rental register, both read 9 November 2026. Property details and distances were read from operator pages and city records on 5 November 2026; the B&B's published rates and review commentary were read on 9 November 2026.

Before you book: rates, availability and photographs change constantly, and a hotel's own site is the only place a rate can be quoted from. Confirm current pricing directly with the property.