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Ohioan wants to see NYC?
I have enough Spirit miles to fly almost free. Could tolerate a $100/150 /night hotel for January.
Interests are truck food, Katz Deli, etc. food from several boroughs (like Little Egypt), WTC, Times Sq, Jon Stewart or Letterman.
How do I pick a hotel and how do I learn to use the subways. It's a big town.
I found a couple of 3 star hotels near the north end of Central Park for under $100/night. One had a 91% rating. The rooms were described as small but I don't care about that.
Google maps shows routes for cars and mass transit where it exists. It tells you which bus or subway route and which stop, transfer, etc. If NYer's can get by w/o a car I can too.
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- LJLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Little Egypt isn't a borough. It isn't even a neighborhood.
A little geography lesson, if I may.
NYC is divided up into 5 unequal, city-sized sections, called "boroughs". The boroughs were determined by city charter when NYC consolidated in 1898. The boundaries between them are firm, and determined by law.
The 5 boroughs of NYC are:
Manhattan
Brooklyn
The Bronx
Queens
Staten Island
Within each borough are different neighborhoods. The neighborhoods grew out of custom, not law, so their lines are not firm. People disagree as to the boundaries of different neighborhoods, or even their names.
That being said, most people wouldn't regard "Little Egypt" as a neighborhood - it's just not big enough. It's really a section of a neighborhood called Astoria, which is in the borough of Queens.
As to hotels, you really cannot afford Manhattan. You might try to get a room through Expedia, or something like that, in Brooklyn or Queens. But be sure that any place you stay is very close to a subway station.
I can name a few lower priced hotels in Brooklyn that are convenient and fairly safe:
The Holiday Inn Express on Union Street.
The Super 8 Hotel at 237 3rd Avenue.
The Fairfield Inn and Suites at 181 3rd Avenue.
The Best Western in Sunset Park.
These are all on ugly looking blocks, but they are not in dangerous areas. And they are all pretty well located for mass transit into Manhattan. I have no idea if you can get a room quite as cheap as you want, but it's a place to start, anyway.
- LiliukalanaLv 58 years ago
For the subway etc., just buy an NFT guide, Not For Tourists. They're perfect, even NYers use them (hence the name).
I agree that hotels are tough to find for that price, but not impossible if you seriously don't care about quality. Like, seriously do not care at all. If you're looking at going to several boroughs anyway, why not concentrate on hotels not in Manhattan?
Letterman is really tough to get tix to, if you're an out-of-towner if you to answer a trivia question or win a lottery or something like that. I know nothing about Jon Stewart tix. When you go to Katz, be sure to split a sandwich. They're enormous!!!
- 8 years ago
For that price, unfortunately hard to find a hotel, but you can find I nice hotel in New Jersey and drive to NYC. It's not far about 30 min, but you have to pay a toll, when you crossing to NYC. Rental car much cheaper in NJ. Try this http://offerisor.com/categories/automotive/car-ren...
About subway. You can find a free map on every station.
Good luck.
