Strictly Business
When you're visiting New York City, your hotel room is about 1 thing: sleeping. You want to be out in the city walking around, attending shows and eating in some of the great restaurants. You want to go back to your hotel late at night after enjoying this city that never sleeps...to sleep, so you can get up and party again the next day...or get to the airport if you must. It's vitally important, therefore, that the bed be as comfortable as possible and there are blackout drapes to blackout the light that comes in far too early if you've been enjoying some of the nightlife in NYC. 
The second important amenity is a good shower and/or bath. The city is a grimy place and you want to get cleaned up both before you venture out there and when you get back in. You need a good shower head at the very least and a clean place with a good mirror (magnifying if possible) for us ladies to make-up. 
There is a third amenity...a view is always nice in NYC. 
From back to front then....the view from our room was directly over the WTC construction. 9/11 will always be an extreme example of terrorism, fear, and innocent loss of life. The view, even though the window was as small it could be...(why they did not make the window bigger must be about money because there is no other reasonable explanation), was directly over the WTC construction. This view is both beautiful and sad. There is a 20th floor restaurant with a big terrace that has some of the most spectacular views of lower manhattan and the WTC you are likely to find. The view from this hotel is spectacular. 
The bathroom was small but fine for me and my man...we just used it at different times. We're spoiled and at home we have a sink for each of us. One sink is all that could fit in this bathroom. We have a Japanese washlet toilet at home, so anything other than that pales in comparison but the toilet did have a water saving flush system. The towels were fine although not nearly as plush as they could be...but then that's true everywhere unless you're staying at a property like the a peninsula. There was no bathtub and the shower was fine. I hate shower curtains though because they cannot possibly be sanitary unless they are switched for a brand new one between guests. The shower head was a hand held that was attached to a verticals pole to adjust for height. The shower head itself was like one of those waterpik heads. The problem? No hot water. The first time we took a shower, the water was tepid at best. We had just travelled from LA and it was too late for an engineer to fix it until the next morning. They did fix it and it worked fine after that but when the housekeeper cleaned the shower in between guests, did she/he not notice that there was no hot water? How long had it been that way? Had the prior guest in our room just put up with it? Strange. I do appreciate a hand held shower head to rinse all over so that was a plus. Oh, and I was happy to have a magnifying mirror on an arm from the wall. Very nice. 
The room itself was small but fine. We knew we were not getting a 5 star hotel here...my boyfriend was sent to NYC for business that was taking place in lower manhattan and he could walk to the offices from this hotel. 
The bed was seriously disappointing. We had a king bed...it was two twin beds pushed together with a filler in the middle. It was hard and the sheets were stiff, not soft. The pillows were great, too bad the rest of the bed couldn't have been as nice as the pillows. We are spoiled and have tempurpedic beds at home, so I admit it does take a very special bed to make me happy. But there is no excuse in NYC to have two twins pushed together. The mattresses were hard and the middle filler even harder...makes intimacy difficult because you have to be on one side or the other but not in the middle. The least they could do is put a king mattress topper over this mess to make it better. The room was clean and as other reviewers have said, the water outside your room is nice. However, the walls are very thin in this hotel and you could hear the people on both sides of you. There were good blackout drapes on the tiny window so we could sleep in. 
Since my boyfriends company paid for the room, we could not complain to them but the management should know that really the beds are subpar, and that makes it difficult to give them more than 2 stars. Get some nice (real) king beds please. 
The staff were great and very helpful with our hot water issue. The location, if you need to be near lower manhattan, is wonderful. However, there is a W hotel across the street with the same view of the WTC so unless club quarters fixes the bed problems, we will stay at the W next time. 
One last thing, yes there is a fitness room. It is a windowless room that no one would want to spend much time in. You're better off going for a run outside.