Union Theological Seminary Landmark Guest Rooms

Yes!
Came here for a Silent Film showing and was pleasantly surprised by the Host, who was an expert in silent films. Will definitely come back here for more events. :-)

Clean and inexpensive (relatively). A great option for UWS if you’re there for related purposes.

Stay away from here. This is one of the worst places I’ve ever been in. My room is small, very very VERY old, the bathroom has tiles from the 18^th century, the bed covers are very thin (it’s winter and freezing cold outside), the heaters didn’t work until 11 pm and I had to go to the front desk 3 times to get a guy to come fix them, I can’t even get close to the small windows because there is a freezing breeze blowing in from outside (the windows are closed and the «engineer» said that’s the way it is, no fixing that). This morning 1 of the 2 heaters is down and nobody will come to look at it for another 30 mins because they are on lunch break (!).
No breakfast here during the weekend, you have to go out even for a coffee. No kettle or anything in the room. There is a mini-​fridge that is so noisy it keeps me up at night. Room is on the street and I can hear people talking and yelling from outside as if they were in the room with me. Cars and trucks even worse.
Internet is horrible, it disappears every few minutes and when it’s on it blocks every few seconds.
I’m here just because I need to go to Columbia U. at 8 every morning for a few days and I wanted to be close, but if I could I would have checked out the first day and never returned. But other hotels are full and they would charge me the entire stay if I did.
Never ever again.

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135 bucks a night for a single bed room. If you are a Columbia Alum you can get a discount.
Its clean and close to campus.

Union Theological Seminary rents rooms. The rates are $ 135.00 (single occupancy: $ 156.93w/tax) and $ 165.00 (double occupancy: $ 191.35w/tax) per night per room. I don’t know if you’ve tried to rent a hotel in New York in this price range that doesn’t involve staying in a cardboard box under a bridge overpass. I once rented a room in this neighborhood for about $ 100 a night and the bed was one foot smaller than the room itself.
OK. Union is at W 121 and might not be downtown, but it is at Columbia University and the 1 train is about three blocks away. There are plenty of restaurants and sights right there. I arrived on a Friday afternoon and there was plenty of safe street parking.
The room is not frilly, but it’s very comfortable compared to other hotels at this prince range. The air conditioner could be stronger (I just opened the windows and was fine), and the cable television hardly worked (you are in New York, why are you watching TV anyway? About 20% of the people in New York with Time Warner Cable are having the same issue with cable not working on any given night).
I was checked in by a joyless security guard. My room looked into a very quiet courtyard (more like a cloister) with trees and gardens (perhaps ask to be placed on that side). There is wireless Internet that works without any issues. The rooms are very quiet. There was a small kitchen area in my room with a refrigerator. The shower works great. There is lots of hot water and all the soap that you feel like stealing. For New York, this location, and the price it’s a pretty good deal. It was very easy to rent the room. I found that calling them was more effective than sending e-​mail.
This is from their description of the room:
Each room is NON-​SMOKING and comes with:
~private Bath
~iron and hair dryer
~miniature refrigerator
~basic cable television
~free local telephone service (all incoming calls are free also. We
do not have long distance service)
~housekeeping services
~24 hour access front desk security
~ free wireless internet access