Humming room!! Hmmmm
We stayed here for 2 nights on 27th September. We arrived at 11am and thought we would chance our luck to see if any rooms would be available early (just so we could go out and explore NY straight away) We were told that none of the rooms were ready, which was fair enough as it was still early. The man behind the desk kindly said we could leave our suitcases in a secure place within the hotel so we could go straight out.
We came back later on in the afternoon and we were checked in by friendly professional staff.
The room was really nicely decorared and included a microwave and fridge. The only bad thing about the room (floor 8) was the view. We were facing what looked like an office block at the back of the building. Although not great,we didnt mind as we would be out of the room all day anyway so it didnt matte about the view.
The only issue was in the evening. We started to hear a deep humming noise. It went off periodically, 15-20 mins humming and then silence. You could feel vibbrating on the wall and it sounded as though it came from the corner of the room near the air conditioning. We did not have the air conditioning on though.
After about 2 hours we were annoyed by the sound and knew we couldnt listen to it for the next 2 nights. I phoned down to reception. They told me they would send a maintenance man up to check out the problem. I told them its nothing to do with the air condtioning as it wasnt turned on and that we felt it came from either from another room or outside. They told me that there wasnt anything they could do until someone inspected it. 
The mainetence man came to our room after about 20 minutes, he was super friendly and helpful. He told us he thought it was the fridge at first ( we told him it wasnt as we had turned that off already), after coming back and fourth to our room a few times he told us that he wasnt quite sure what it was but it was probably coming from someone else's air conditioning. I asked if we could be relocated to another room as it was so annoying and he told us that there was no other rooms in the hotel and that they were fully booked. He said that if we stayed in the room for our one night, we could then the next morning ,if we went to reception, get another room. 
We were not happy about this, but obviously if there is not another room availble there was nothing we could do.
We then settled in our nice room (still a constant buzzing room) and tried to take our minds off it by ordering a pizza (included in our booking, pizza package). The reastaurant who make and deliver the pizza are based in the lobby of the hotel so its quick delivery, which is good.
Pizza was not very nice at all.Infact, we left most of it. We were also supposed to get a 2litre bottle of drink included in our package but we received 2 small paper cups of soda on both nights which we were annoyed about. 
We settled down for the evening and the noise stated getting worse. We turned on the air con to try and drown out the sound but it made things 50 times worse. Turning on the air con triggered a constant clicking noise that we tried but failed to turn off. By this time it was 11.30-12pm at night. We were so tired.
We rang down to reception and explained our issue and that that we had been experiencing the same issue since earlier that day. The person we spoke to was great (think it was security man due to the late hour), he told us we could go to reception and collect keys to a different room.......straight away!!! We we perplexed to why we couldnt have had a new room sooner and were annoyed that we had been lied by someone earlier about no other rooms being availble.
We moved into our new room and it was great, silence.......at last!!!!! The room was exactly the same decor, but smaller and had no microwave or fridge, we did have the view of The Empire State building to make up for it.
No one apologied or acknowledged our issue the next day. It was like nothing happened. 
The rest of the stay was great no other hiccups. Im not sure we would recommend this hotel as they let us down when we had a problem and they were prepared to let us stay in our noisy room for our first night!
PRO'S.... Friendly reception staff on check in- out, Nice decor, modern rooms, great location. clean and tidy
CON'S.... Awful pizza, bad at solving maintence issues, might end up in a noisy,vibrating humming room.