Beware the noise
My family and I booked two rooms for two nights at this hotel. Prior to booking our hotel rooms we read the current reviews on TA. Some of them mentioned the issue of noise in the rooms facing the street, so when booking we specifically asked for room in the back of the hotel and on the highest floor possible.
Since we were travelling with young kids we also asked for adjoining room, and to make sure our request was not forgotten I called ahead a day before our arrival and was promised that we will be allocated the rooms we have asked for.
Upon getting to the hotel we found out that: (1) are rooms were on separate floors; (2) at the front of the hotel, and (3) on the 3rd floor (first floor is actually the ground floor). 
Since the receptionist claimed that they were fully booked for the night we had no choice but to take the rooms that were offered to us (they managed to somehow colocate us on the same floor) and bear the consequences. And bear we did... there's a lounge/club right across the (narrow) street and throughout the night we could hear the base, the music and the noise a lot of happy partiers are making. The windows are not soundproof, so you feel as if you are right in the middle of the club. Nice if you're a 20y.o. hipster, not so nice if you want to do something so outrageous as sleep....Needless to say neither we nor our kids slept much that night (by 4:30am the party winded down, thankfully...). Next morning we explicitly asked the receptionist to move us to the rooms in the back that we originally asked for. He promised he will, as soon as people check out. Upon returning to the hotel in the afternoon we discovered that not only we weren't moved to another room, there were no rooms available as no one was supposed to check out... the former receptionist was apparently clueless and had no idea what was going on at the hotel (including which rooms were located in the front or the back of the hotel)... Once again we spent the night tossing and turning, since it was too late to move to another hotel. 
The following morning we checked out, vowing not to return to this hotel, despite it's brilliant location in NYC.