The worst experience of our life- by far!
Let's be clear on a thing, first: this is not a hotel. At best, it could be described as a cheap student's dorm. A really cheap one, run by very, very unpleasant staff.
On the first day, we discovered that the breakfast, who was supposed to be free, was in fact 15$, and served by a lady who missed her vocation: prison guard. She almost throw the 4$ coffee at us, with no smile, no thanks, and a remark about the tip we didn't give, after such service.
The room, dirty and the size of a closet (and it was the biggest in all the ''hotel'') was not the one we reserved, was not ready when we arrived, at 5 PM, and the front desk guy was very unpleasant and impolite. We discovered later that ALL the staff was like him! Every one of them, wich means at least seven people. Impolite and extremely rude, they were absolutely of no help for anything, even essentials... 
First, we had to ask for the maid for three hours, on the first day, when we found used condoms in the bathroom and beside the bed. 
The spread on the bed was stain and extremely thin, the heat was broke (in five days, no one came for reparation, and we ask two times a day) and we were frozen, so we ask for a blanket, that we got on the third day! We had to find the maid each day and ask for the towels, the shampoo, the soap she didnt left in the bathroom she never cleaned in five days, for that matter. If you didn't stay in the room during the cleaning and ask for it, the maid did not replace anything, like the sheets, and did not clean anything! She was just emptying the garbage can and that's all!
The wi-fi was also supposed to be included, in our room, but the signal, when there was one, was not nearly strong enough to get caught by our computer and iPhone.
We got no hot water for two days, even before the hurricane Sandy, where we got ourselves stucked in this place for two more days. Their response? Its the same for everyone, so, stop asking! At 255$ a night for the room, which was supposed to be 175$, it's hard to believe, but it's not the worst thing we saw at the pod... The bed, for exemple, seems to be made of cement...
During Sandy, the price of the room doubled, even if there were no services at all in the hotel(maid, hot water, wi-fi)and there was absolutely no trouble in upper manhattan, except a few drops of rain and the subway, which was closed. They were clearly taking advantage of the situation, because they knowed that the clients could not leave. Port Authority, JFK, Armtrak and Laguardia was closed, and I finally preferred to pay 1000$ to a perfect stranger to drive us to Montreal instead of staying one more minute in this place.
I traveled around the world for years, and its the worst place I ever seen in my life. It ruined our trip, totally, and the perfect last touch was the bill: they charged us 400$ more than it was supposed.
Do not believe what there saying on the website: I never seen a such amount of lie since Richard Nixon...Stay away of this place, even if you have to go to a homeless shelter: it will feel the same, anyway, and at least, you wont get robbed.