If you’re traveling to NYC, stay here

Front parlor at The Erhart.

Increasingly, I’ve been staying in Brooklyn because neither of my sons nor any of the artists I know in NYC can afford to live on the Island of millionaires.

I stayed at Jessica Warren’s B-and-B, The Erhart, on Washington Avenue, in Clinton Hill just two blocks from the Pratt Institute campus (ask me about the Pratt cats). Jessica is a delightful hostess and she really does want her guests to feel at home in this meticulously restored 1887 Brownstone.

My room was HUGE and would have cost $1,000 per night had it been in a Manhattan hotel. My only regret is that I was so busy and the trip was so short that I had no time to hang with Jessica. “Pretentious” simply is not in her vocabulary.

I can’t wait to go back.