Stay at Affinia Shelburne
My daughter aged 15 and I stayed in this hotel for a week which included five nights during and after Hurricane Sandy. The holiday was her 16th birthday present and I was hoping from the reviews that it would be a great hotel and the rooms would be as nice as they sounded as we would probably end up spending some time relaxing in our room at night after lots of sightseeing and shopping!
 The hotel is in a really nice location, mostly very helpful staff particularly reception and the room cleaning staff. We had a king size room with kitchenette which should have been great.
However, what really let the hotel down was the response to the loss of power after the hurricane. Despite days of warnings on the news to stock up on batteries etc, when the hotel lost power, the only thing the staff had to offer was a glow stick per room. Ours didn't work. There were some nightlights on offer later but these lit up a small part of the room and lasted about 6 hours so it still meant creeping around in the dark. When I asked if more lights were available, I was asked to hide the nightlight in my pocket as they had run out of even those.
Some guests went out and bought their own extension leads so they could use the sockets in the corridor but the hotel management didn't seem to consider buying any. 
I expected the hotel to reduce the price to compensate for the lost facilities but when I checked out and asked what reduction would be made on the bill, I was told they would check with management and the feedback was:
'you're lucky, other hotels have had to shut and guests have had to move'
'you're already on a reduced price' - not sure what this meant as had booked direct with the hotel??!
I was really surprised that the management considered this a reasonable and fair response to the lack of services - I will not be staying there again.