Best budget hotels and hostels in New York City
Find budget hotels in New York, including stylish new hotels and hip hostels, with our guide to cheap accommodation in the city.
Wed Feb 13 2013
Whether you’re on a tight budget or just prefer to conserve your cash for sampling the best restaurants and seeing the top Broadway shows, consult our guide to budget hotels and hostels in NYC. Then take a look at other ways to enjoy NYC on the cheap.
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The Bowery House
- 3/5
- 1/4
Two young real-estate developers have
transformed a 1927 Bowery flophouse into a stylish take on a hostel.
History buffs will get a kick out of the original wainscotted corridors
leading to cubicles (singles are a cozy 35 square feet, and not all have
windows) with latticework ceilings to allow air circulation. It might
not be the best bet for light sleepers, but the place is hopping with
pretty young things attracted to the hip aesthetic and the location
(across the street from the New Museum and close to Soho and the Lower
East Side). Quarters are decorated with vintage prints and historical
photographs, and illluminated by lightbulbs encased in 1930s and ’40s
mason jars; towels and robes are courtesy of Ralph Lauren. The
immaculate (gender-segregated) communal bathrooms have rain showerheads
and products from local spa Red Flower, while the guest lounge is
outfitted with chesterfield sofas, chandeliers, a huge LCD TV and an
assortment of international style mags. There’s a 1,800-square-foot roof
terrace, and an eatery serving eclectic small plates. To keep out the
riff-raff and the rowdy, guests must be over 21 and reserve with a
credit card.
- 220 Bowery, (between Prince and Spring Sts), 10012
Carlton Arms Hotel
- 3/5
- 1/4
The Carlton Arms Art Project started in
the late 1970s, when a small group of creative types brought fresh paint
and new ideas to a run-down shelter. Today, the site is a bohemian
backpackers’ paradise and live-in gallery—every room, bathroom and
hallway is festooned with outré artwork. Themed quarters include the
Money Room and a tribute to a traditional English cottage. Roughly half
the quarters have shared bathrooms. The place gets booked up early, so
reserve well in advance.
- 160 E 25th St, (at Third Ave), 10010
The Harlem Flophouse
- 4/5
- 1/4
The dark-wood interior, moody lighting
and lilting jazz music make musician Rene Calvo’s Harlem inn feel more
like a 1930s speakeasy than a 21st-century B&B. The airy suites,
named for Harlem Renaissance figures such as Chester Himes and Cozy
Cole, have restored tin ceilings, a quirky mix of junk-store furnishings
and period knick-knacks, and working sinks in original antique
cabinets. There are just two suites per floor; each pair shares a
bathroom.
- 242 W 123rd St, (between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Frederick Douglass Blvds), 10027
The Jane
- 4/5
- 1/4
Opened in 1907 as the American Seaman’s
Friend Society Sailors Home, the 14-story landmark was a residential
hotel when hoteliers Eric Goode and Sean MacPherson, of the Bowery and
the Maritime, took it over (some long-term residents remain). The
wood-paneled, 50-square-foot rooms were inspired by vintage train
sleeper compartments—there’s a single bed with built-in storage and
brass hooks for hanging up your clothes, but also iPod docks and
wall-mounted 23-inch flat-screen TVs. If entering the hotel feels like
stepping on to a film set, there’s good reason: Inspiration came from
various celluloid sources, including Barton Fink’s Hotel Earle for the
lobby. The "ballroom," decorated with mismatched chairs, oriental rugs
and a fireplace topped with a stuffed ram, evokes an eccentric mansion.
- 113 Jane St, (at West St), 10014
414 Hotel
- 4/5
- 1/4
- Critics choice
This reasonably priced hotel truly
deserves the boutique title. Nearly everything about it is exquisite yet
unshowy, from its power-blasted brick exterior to the modern color
scheme in the rooms that pairs gray headboards and red accents. Rooms
are equipped with fridges, flat-screen TVs and iPod docks, the bathrooms
are immaculate, and a working gas fireplace in the lobby is a welcoming
touch. Twice as big as it looks, 414 consists of two townhouses
separated by a leafy courtyard, which in warmer months is a lovely place
to eat your complimentary breakfast of fresh croissants and bagels. The
location in a residential yet central neighborhood makes it even more
of a find.
- 414 W 46th St, (between Ninth and Tenth Aves), 10036
New York Loft Hostel
- 4/5
- 1/4
Situated in arty Bushwick, this budget
lodging fuses the traditional youth hostel setup (dorm-style rooms with
bunk beds and lockers, communal lounging areas) with a fashionable loft
aesthetic. In the former clothing warehouse, linen curtains billow in
front of huge windows, and there’s plenty of industrial-chic exposed
brick and piping. Above the big shared kitchen is a mezzanine equipped
with a large flat-screen TV (DVDs can be rented at the front desk). The
spacious patio is the site of frequent summer barbecues and there's even
a hot tub deck. Unlike old-school hostels, there’s no curfew; an
electronically encoded room-key card opens the front door after hours.
- 249 Varet St, (at Bogart St), 11206
Pod 39
- 3/5
- 1/4
The city’s second Pod occupies a 1918
residential hotel for single men—the space that was once the gentlemen’s
sitting room is being reinvented as the Great Room, opening in early
2013, which will feature a fireplace, projection wall and ping-pong
table. As the name suggests, rooms are snug, but not oppressively so;
some have queen-size beds with room underneath to stash your luggage;
others feature stainless-steel bunk beds with individual TVs and bedside
shelves inspired by airplane storage. However, you should probably know
your roommate well since the utilitarian, subway-tiled bathrooms are
partitioned off with sliding frosted-glass doors. Travel-friendly,
soft-packaged Fix products by NYC spa Red Flower match the functional
aesthetic. Restaurant dream team April Bloomfield and Ken Friedman is
behind the on-site taqueria and bar, Salvation Taco, and the roof
terrace has a full-frontal Empire State Building view.
- 145 E 39th St, (between Lexington and Third Aves), 10016
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