This place is a great hotel actually. Wonderfull rooms, high ceilings, loads of space and modern decoration. All amenities to cook, eat and/or have breakfast are there. Plenty deli's close by and some bigger supermarktes are only a brisk ;-) walk away. Or you take the free cab that comes with the stay!!
Friendly and very helpful personnel. Clean rooms. Wonderfull lobby with free use of two computers as well as fast (free) wi-fi internet all over the place.
Although the Box House is at the utmost end of Greenpoint, it's still close enough to the subway and other transport systems, and then the free cab comes in handy as well.
If you don't want to cook or make breakfast, there are enough nice (modern) restaurants and breakfast places nearby (Eagle Trading Company is great and super friendly and also Champion Coffee is very nice and around the corner)
All this makes it a great place to be. And you can be in Manhattan in less than 20 minutes by subway (G to the L or 7 from Queens)
Love it!