beware of the size of the rooms
My wife and I stayed here for 5 nights in August and it was our first time in NYand were looking forward to staying here based on previous reviews we had read. We arrived about 3 and our room was ready. Our first impressions when we walked into the hotel was good as it appeared lively and trendy with a retro feel. Our good first impressions were abruptly sunk when we entered our room....we were not impressed....it was tiny! 
We were in NY for 5 nights as part of a 18 night trip to the states and we had 2 large cases and a 3rd smaller hand luggage size case.We literally had nowhere to put the cases so went down to reception to complain and see if we could get another room. We were informed that we had booked a mini room which sleeps 2 people (probably 2 kids in my opinion) and if we wanted a bigger room it would cost us $60 plus tax a night. The girl on the front desk was not understanding in anyway as I asked her how we could feasibly live in this room with our suitcases in the middle of the floor with no free floor space left to manouvre around the room. Her reply was to pay the extra and that was it.
The room itself looked more like a student room in a university campus, it had a unecessary large desk which took up most of the space not occupied by the small double bed. The bed was nowhere near big enough for 2 adults and there was 10 inches of clearence around the foot of the bed and side next to the window. My wife chose to sleep at that side as she had a better chance of actually not getting stuck while getting up to use the bathroom. Also in her way was a 10inch rail protruding from the wall for hanging your clothes on....we managed to get 2 items each hanging on this and that was all the hanging space....pathetic! After she manages to get out of the bed and avoid getting an metal rail in the face, she has to negotiate the wall mounted t.v. which is on a movable arm and protrudes over the corner of the bed at shoulder height...didn't realise the obstacle course was part of the deal!
The bathroom was ok nothing special and the shower had a curtain which had seen better days and made the bathroom look like something you would see in a run down public swimming pool. On the website the rooms look fabulous and very retro with smeg fullsize fridges and decks for playing vinyl records on with cool wall art....I don't doubt that they have those rooms but the websites are not explicitly clear about what type of room they are and what room you are booking and paying for. I can honestly say that we payed a sustantial amount of money for this hotel and actually went above our budget based on the photos and reviews, but was left bitterly dissapointed and it actually put a downer on our visit to NY as my wife wanted to spend as much time out of the room as possible. 
The only good thing to say was that we had a great view of the Empire State building from our window but because it is so close it is hard not to have a great view of it.
In summary it is a cool hotel for young people but the room we stayed in was just larger than the prison cells that we saw in alcatraz and is only functional for someone who travels light with hardly any luggage. I would not recommend this hotel for any of my friends as for the money they could get something much nicer.