You can do better. Don't stay here!!!!!!!!!!
After reading this just look for other competing hotels in the area because you will not like it! Try Hampton, Fairfield Inn or even the Holiday Inn Express times square or Holiday Inn Express Wall Street. I stayed in the HI express Wall street location and the Times square location and both were good.
This location is just way too congested. 
First of all there is no lobby. Not even 1 couch.
Second the location is not really that good. Its located on 45th street between 5th and 6th Ave but not the part of 5th Ave we all are familiar with like 5th Ave and 59th street where FAO Schwartz, Befgdoff Goodman, Central Park and the Apple store are. 
The computers are located in the basement in the HALLWAY right when you get off the elevator. And get this there are actually guest rooms in the basement. Who in their mother would stay down there is beyond me. I was using the computer and people were getting off the elevator and bumping me with their suitcase as there is no space to move.
There is no gym as there are in most HI express hotels
But here is the worst part. The complementary breakfast. 
Its really why most people stay in Holiday Inn Express for the complementary breakfast. But this hotel did not have a dedicated breakfast room. Instead they put 1 big table and chairs (think IKEA) and some bar stools in the area behind the front desk. The food is placed in the far corner and everyone just pushes and grabs like herds of animals and before you know it everything is finished. The oriental lady who tends to the breakfast area can't keep up in there cramped conditions because she has to pass the front desk and elevators and go to a room at the other end of the hotel in order to get more food and supplies to replenish. On her way back to the breakfast area people are literally grabbing anything she has right off the tray before she can even make it back to the breakfast area to refill it.
The 2 days I was there the pancake machine never worked. The second day they took it out all together. I went for a glass of OJ and the machine was empty. So I grabbed cranberry. The second day the cranberry was empty as well so i had to have apple. One day there was no lids out for the coffee so I went under the cabinet myself and got them. Another day all the coffee creamer containers were empty so I had to grab 2% milk from the fridge, open it and waste the rest of the milk. The whole point to the breakfast buffet is not just because its included in the room but because it saves time because you can just go from your room and get breakfast and the go to where you want to go without wasting time. BUT I THINK I WASTED MORE TIME FIGHTING OVER FOOD AND PUSHING AND SHOVING THEN I WOULD HAVE ORDERING BREAKFAST AND EATING IT IN A DINNER. 
Speaking of Diners try TOM RESTAURANT (DINER). Its the one from Seinfield and the Susan Vega song. They are really fast, good and reasonably priced. Just take the 1 train to 110th St/Cathedral Parkway and walk 1 block. The address is 2880 Broadway New York, NY 10025.
I think the fact that most of the guests are European the prices must come out much cheaper for them in Euros because the hotel was no bargain at 300.00 a night. For the same price you can stay at the Marriott Grand Marquis right in the middle of Times square.
My advise to the owners of this hotel would be to clear out 1 floor (there are only like five rooms per floor) Make this entire floor a breakfast room with a food prep area to the side. Put the computers on this same floor near the breakfast area and put a small exercise room. Then the hotel would be ok. Until then its a ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I do have 1 good thing to stay. The front desk staff were polite and the guest rooms were fine.
 But I will never, I repeat never be coming back to HI Express. There are far better ones in NYC.
You can do much better and you deserve much better. This hotel does not live up to HI Espress standards.