Tl;dr - there are much better hotels for the price.
Pros:
- Clean
- Convenient location
- Quirky decor
- Mostly friendly staff
Cons:
- The building is 120~ years old and it shows, despite the obvious attempts to renovate.
- Parts of the wood floor in our room would bow underfoot
- Shower kept alternating between hot and cold
- The shower door, if you can call it one, was a single pane of immovable glass that only covered half the shower, which leads to water splashing on the floor. Brilliant design.
- The elevator (the only one) is rickety
- AC was barely able to keep the room below 75 degrees and sounded like it was actively breaking down
- The bed was a firm mattress on some kind of slab. One of the worst we've ever slept on.
When you're already paying the same premium as similar hotels for the location, you get there and they surprise you with an extra $20 per night "residence" fee, and then you have the problems we had, I just can't recommend it. Much better places near Times Square for the same price, such as EVEN Hotel.