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There’s the YMCA across from Lincoln Center where the rates are low and international guests abound. Our foreign students stay there all the time. There’s also the Hostelling International youth hostel at Amsterdam Avenue at 102nd Street on the Upper West Side.
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For clean, reasonable, safe accommodations in a good location in Chelsea, I have always stayed at and loved the Leo House. It has an eight dollar breakfast that the Irish nuns used to prepare. It is along the lines of a "Let's Go Europe" pensione, at around $90 per night. It's in a very safe neighborhood. It is a four minute walk to subway. Lots of cultural things to do there.
I also recommend the Menno House -- close by if the Leo House is full.
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Mark and I stayed at the Chesea Pines Inn on 14th St last fall, when we had to stay several days in NYC. It was very reasonably priced and great fun. It's quirky, but very clean and the people are very sweet.
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It certainly isn't dirt cheap, but you can't beat the location. The Best Western Presidential is just off Times Square. You can walk to the Theater District and a lot of other points of interest. The drawback of New York City hotels is that they hit you with three taxes.
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I got a tip from the Cleveland Park Listserv that I used and will pass on. There is a group of hotels called the Apple Core Hotels, which are efficient and reasonable, at least by New York standards. I stayed in one with a friend in January and it was fine, and it includes a nice breakfast. We were in The Hotel @ Times Square on West 48th in the Theater District, but an easy walk to Fifth Ave. There are four other hotels in that hotel group, all of similar quality.
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I have stayed at the International Seafarers and International House in Greenwich Village, near NYU. It's very simple, very clean. When I was there the rate was less than $100 a night for a single with shared bath. You need to call in advance to make reservations, and you need to pay in advance by credit card.
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We used Priceline for our stay at the Millennium Hilton, overlooking the World Trade Center site, for just $160 -- not cheap but no worries about bedbugs, and very convenient to nearly all the subway lines for getting around town.
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The Econo Lodge Times Square has double and queen rooms available for $144 (without taxes) through Hotels.com, which is a pretty good deal for that part of Manhattan. However, the rooms are tiny, so small that there’s virtually no room aside from the bed. Still, it was clean, safe and well located. So that’s a recommendation, but with a bit of a caveat.
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