I need somewhere to stay in New York City.

So, I'm sorry Melissa. I'm broke, in a bad-mood, starting two crappy new jobs, and really can't take any more houseguests soon especially since my parents are coming to stay with me next month. Anyways, we live in a not-so-nice neighborhood, right behind the williamsburg projects.

If all else fails, try the Chelsea Hostel. It's$27 for single-sex dorms, fairly clean [cleaner than my room, anyways], and in a great location. Good luck

when I went to NYC a couple of years ago I stayed at the Chelsea hostel, and it was fine. It's not free, but it's not a lot of dosh either. It was a bit hot (I was there the last week in Sept), and the windows were nailed open, but there are lockers, and it's a great location.

It's good to know about the hotel suggestions here, though.

http://www.gershwinhotel.com/

and also, where did Mel wind up?

I didn't get charged for a hotel the last time I stayed in NYC, but that was because we checked out very early and the desk guy was half asleep. Best $700 I never spent!

Like I said, then cancel your plans.

"Mayor Bloomberg reached agreements with the City’s labor unions to sign "no strike" agreements that would ensure all work during and around the Convention proceeds smoothly, and signed agreements that secure more than 22,000 hotel rooms for the Convention from nearly fifty hotels, with nearly 17,000 rooms located within one mile of Madison Square Garden. Almost 9,000 hotel rooms will be available to the delegates and attendees at an average rate of $156 a night."

Maybe you need a stetson.

ROOMS AVAILABLE FOR REPUBLICAN 'INN' CROWD

By STEFAN C. FRIEDMAN

June 21, 2004 -- Even with tens of thousands of delegates, media members and protestors flooding the Big Apple for this summer's Republican National Convention, the majority of city hotels still have their "vacancy" signs up.

While the New York Host Committee in early 2004 reserved 18,000 hotel rooms throughout Manhattan for delegates and the media, many of the unreserved hotels have plenty of space left.

Travel Web site Orbitz.com lists dozens of hotels — from the swanky SoHo Grand and Tribeca Grand to more modestly priced lodgings — that have plenty of rooms available from Aug. 29 to Sept. 2.

Roughly 20 percent of the city's more than 70,500 hotel rooms were empty during the months of August and September last year.

And while the 18,000 rooms reserved by the Host Committee will fill some of the void, many tourists who would normally come to New York in late August will stay home only because the convention is in town, according to a hotel-industry expert.

Still, a spokesperson for the city's tourism bureau said hotel rooms will be hard to come by.

"We expect that hotel-room occupancy will be high," said Arleen Kropf, senior communications manager for NYC & Co.

Security concerns during the convention means that uniformed cops will be assigned to each of the 25 hotels hosting delegates, media or others associated with the event, Crain's New York Business reports.

Cops will pay special attention to hotel ventilation systems, which could be used to spread nerve agents like sarin and anthrax. "It would be simple to introduce an agent in the vents," Anthony Martone, director of security at the Warwick New York, told Crain's.

Maybe some NYCer would like to contradict me?

last week in August, Monday to Monday, staying at the Clarion Park Avenue (looked at Chelsea Hostel private rooms, but they require a passport and

I should totally do this, right?

i assume you don't need to be glued to the TV during the Dem convention

lots of people leave town around then, but for some people that might be a good thing

Dude.. New budget hotel options..

The Jane Hotel

Same owners as Bowery Hotel, The Park, The Maritime. Budget hotel, "hip" rooms, free wifi, Ipod station, COMMUNAL BATHROOMS though. Rooms supposed to be extra-cheap for NYC. I'd totally stay there. Just opened some rooms for preview this summer. Not sure if they're renting rooms yet, but keep an eye out. Rooms for under $100, def.

Also, there's the new POD HOTEL

but yeah sure why not, come for a visit

okay, calling The Jane now, that place looks fantastic

oh wait a minute... what dates exactly? im gonna be out of town and will probably have moved into a 1br then in williamsburg.... if you want to sublet an apt instead of hotel... we've done fantasy basketball together so i totally trust you

I had it set for the 18th to the 25th, but I'm basically just looking for a week or ten days in the last couple of weeks of August. If that works, a sublet would be great.

i'm going to the west coast like aug 15-30.... i'm 90% sure im moving back to my old apartment which is a 1br in east williamsburg / west bushwick / whatever. 15'ish mins by train to union square.

there's not much to steal, but it'll be fully furnished.. lemme know when you get your plane ticket.. Could def talk about subletting. you can email me thru the ilx link.. i think its the right one...

maybe we can work something out.

also there's an ice cream maker in the pantry

i am coming to nyc aug. 7-13!

oh just in time for All Points West...

just one day haha. there are more important things to do

i guess i admire her cheek for just straight asking

harsh thread

http://gothamist.com/2009/01/28/times_square_hotel_is_dirtiest_in_t.php

"It's like a HORROR movie in real life, it's so bad that its just not for real. Barack Obama, please shut it down!")

love the hotel carter. the nyt did its own stay there (2 years before the body under the bed incident.) there's a deli attached to its lobby, the lucky star, where i used to go for a grilled-cheese sandwich.

When I worked at the NYT I'd go there for orange juice and a bagel in the morning. It's directly across the street from the old New York Times office.

When the Nightingales first came to play in america, that's where they stayed. They said their was a prostitute on their floor. I always thought they meant on the same floor of the hotel, but maybe they meant literally, on THEIR floor.

cheap hotel for 3 metalheads needed in nyc asap, recommendash????

this place on my block is a "budget hotel," whatever that means. i see a lot of youth-hostel types going in and out. they've been renovating it, i think it used to be more of an SRO type place. i can't speak to what it's like on the inside, but the neighborhood's nice and friendly...

Priceline is your friend. I got the Dream Hotel for hostel prices (and then got fucked out of going anyway...)