Stay away from this rat hole
The hotel is cheap for Manhattan standards and in a very good location, if you like staying in Midtown. But that comes with a price, and what price it is!
So let's begin:
My partner and I stayed at this hotel in August 2012. A few days before our arrival we sent an email telling them about some purchases at amazon.com. To our surprise, when we arrived at the hotel they said they did not collect the purchases which had arrived one day before we checked in. No apologies, no regret, nothing. We were shocked - we lost many things we had bought. If only they had had the decency of answering our email and stating this policy we could have tried an alternative. But the money was ours, not theirs. So why would they bother?
Apart from that, if you want to have the free breakfast the hotel offers, be prepared to have it among several bags of garbage. I suppose sanitary authorities would most certainly disapprove this practice ... If you still have the stomach - cheap bread, cold donuts and things like that.
There's also the elevator issue. It's clear that the number of elevators is insufficient for the number of guests. Every time, and I mean every time, there was a long wait for them, especially if you're in a room in the back building, where there is only one elevator for all the guests.
Because the hotel is cheap, you're most likely to have cheap people as guests. So, it's quite common, and by common I mean every night, people slam doors and talk loud at 1, 2, 3, 4 am.
The noise of the air conditioning in the room was awful and the cleanliness was also below par.
So, don't try to save some bucks as we did. Next time, WE will not be cheap.