The Cheapest Hotel Room In New York City

That guy's croaky vocal fry voice makes me want to slap him.

A bed and bedbugs.

He's shirtless at about 5:03 for a second or two.

Because mostly you all want to watch this because he's sort of cute 20something

He's a cutie but wtf was that at 4:52?

[quote]In the morning, I see a collection of new faces. I can't tell if they're coming in or going out but many of them look young and I like that.

Has he... has he never been to a cheap hotel / hostel before? Because he just described what happens in those all around the world on a daily basis. In any case, he should maybe stay away from writing fiction. And I can't believe this is his most popular video - 746k views, really?

I suspect at least 700K of those come from people googling "cheapest hotel in NYC" R4

Oh, I spotted the golden wristwatch just now. Yeah, he's obviously slumming it for his audience's amusement.

r5 Of course, that makes more sense.

No windows in the room? Let me out!!

Good for a sleazy hump and dump. Otherwise go to a fancy hotel and get some tea.

Does it even have heat?

Dude's lucky he didn't wake up with any missing organs.

As a parting gift, bedbugs are included with the $45.

When I left campus this evening after teaching a late class, there was a drunk young punk splayed out in the lobby of the building, practically unconscious. His jeans were down mid thigh, his shirt hiked up, and he had a 6-pack and BIG junk. Some cruel students had put a "wet floor" sign on him. He looked like he was in for the night. Free lodging!

R13 Did you at least get a taste?

Some of us remember when all the rooms at Motel 6 cost $6.00.

Must be because that sleazy buy-the-hour hustler-ridden Elk Hotel at 42nd and 9th Ave has been closed for years and is just sitting there empty.

The place will soon be filled with NYC residents who are being priced out of their apartments.

Honestly if you are doing a vacation in NYC correctly, you are only going to be in the place you are staying to sleep. I would expect a lot of demand for a cheap and tiny place to sleep.

A privileged, 20something white guy on a poverty tour. Classy.

That said, I have had this place come up on a Priceline search before and it was interesting to get a better look. I saw a similar place in which the walls don't go all the way to the ceiling. Maybe miss priss was too chickenshit to visit that one.

R18 has a good point, but a hostel has got to be nicer and safer than the Bowery Lodge. Not mention you can often find great deals on places like Yotel or that former Holiday Inn.

I like the guy’s voice

I love him... I want to go get bedbugs with him in that little twin bed.

[quote]A privileged, 20something white guy on a poverty tour. Classy.

FFS NYC hotels are so expensive you see a lot of people like him staying on a budget. Most white people are not rolling in money. I don't know where that fallacy comes from, but only a small % of whites have $$$ to burn.

In fact, whites are the most oppressed minority in America right now, so I'd exercise some respect.

You could tell this guy was privileged just from looking at him? WOW!

Years ago there was the Hotel Dixie in NYC (now known as the Hotel Carter). I think their rooms are still under $100/night. This guy who used to work in my office who was known to be a cheap bastard booked 3 nights at the Hotel Dixie back in the late 70's. When he came back to work the next week he was still traumatized. He said the door to his room had no working lock, only one of those flimsy clip hook locks you find on cheap screen doors. The first night he was there he was awakened in the middle of the night by someone jerking on the door trying to get in. He jumped out of bed and ran to the door screaming he was calling the cops and whoever it was ran down the hallway like a madman. When he complained to the front desk he said they just laughed.

The Hotel Carter was voted the dirtiest hotel in the USA from 2004-2008.

[quote]Honestly if you are doing a vacation in NYC correctly, you are only going to be in the place you are staying to sleep. I would expect a lot of demand for a cheap and tiny place to sleep.

That's my philosophy of travel as well -- however, I will not lower my standards enough to use a shared bathroom.

The Hotel Carter is the jewel of NYC hotels.

He is vaguely cute but has the kind of personality where you wanna throw him through 50 layers of fine glass so he is shredded on every floor.

[quote]I don't know where that fallacy comes from

You projected it on me, so it came from you.

r29 automatically assumes a guy is privileged and has money because he's white.

I can’t even afford that hotel

his hard cock is certainly longer than that room is wide.

It's basically like a private room one would get at a sex club.

Sounds Hawt

He's not looking so good in this recent video.

OP, I don't think there's room for a pinch.

I am fascinated with rundown, cheap, eerie motels and hotels. Especially in places like NY or LA. I was always amused reading reviews from the Carter or the Cecil. Is this (Bowery) the same place that is also called the sunshine motel? There was a documentary on it … It was basically a flophouse, and full of longer-term residence, but might have functioned as a motel. The cheapest, worst in the NYC… Full of bugs and The walls did not go all the way to the ceiling.

R37 you might be interested in the collection "Up in the Old Hotel" by Joseph Mitchell. He wrote for the New Yorker about quirky corners of NYC.

Good God, he looks end stage terminal at R35.

Indeed, I wonder if he picked up some incurable disease from the pocket hotel

At least he color coordinated his hair and his teeth for the video at R35.

What the hell happened to him?