I guess you get what you pay for.
What can I say about this hotel?
For NYC at $150 a night, it's a not a bad deal. Spending less would have had me staying at a hostel where I would have had to share a unisex bathroom so this was the next best thing in an effort to keep my bills down. 
The room was not too pokey, at least I could put my 2 suitcases against the wall and still have space to move about, good especially when my cousin came to see me with her baby in a stroller and we know strollers take up space. The bathroom was small (but that was expected). It was clean and well-stocked with tissue and soap, shampoo etc. The towels were spotless but they had a weird stale smell of damp that I couldn't get past (even the new ones that the maids brought in) and so I felt weird about using it to wipe my face, even my body.
The room was dark though (they used the yellow-light tungsten bulbs in the ceiling light fixture and in the bedside lamp) and I had to call them to replace the light bulb in the bedside lamp, which wasn't working but that didn't help much. Room was still dark. The carpet was a dark green, which further added to the dullness of the room.The pillows had some kind of plastic covering on them under the pillow cases, which made them less comfortable and frankly left me feeling icky.
My room faced the street and while street noise doesn't bother me, the very, very dirty platform outside that supported the sign of the hotel's name did. I know that they probably can't help that people in rooms above will drop cigarette butts and all sorts of trash on it but I wish there was some way they could block it from view so I didn't have to see it when I opened the blinds. Plus the glow from the sign light illuminated the room just a little at night.
The one thing that bothered me like crazy about this place was the window air-conditioning unit. First of all, it was dirty. Then it let in a lot of draft so that I caught a cold and had a very bad cough for weeks after that. I had to wear my cardigans to bed at night even with the heating on. I can't imagine what it's like to stay here in the winter. And the other crazy thing: even though the weather was still cold when I was there end of April and for a few days in May especially at night, the heating wasn't turned on till 3 in the morning!!! I know for sure because that was when it'd be warm to the touch and the clanging sound was the sign that it'd been sprung into action. And this was how it was for several nights.
Breakfast was a bagel or bun and tea or coffee.
I mean basically the place is clean but those shortcomings didn't do it for me at all. I probably wouldn't stay here again but I do understand that it is NYC and that's how things are for that rate and you really do get what you pay for. I'll be saving my pennies so that I can afford to stay at a better place next time.