<p>Can someone please recommend a hotel (reasonably priced and safe) near CUNY Graduate Center, specifically Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium? </p>
<p>Also, it is reasonable that I can fly into Newark and get there easily, or, would it make more sense to use one of the other airports? </p>
<p>Appreciate very much any suggestions…</p>
<p>This is the next place I’m staying in NYC. I’ve not been there, yet, but it was featured on one of those cable travel shows and I became intrigued. If you go there, please post a review. It looked really cool. I often stay at the Marriott Marquis at Times Square, they have very nice suites, and they allow pets.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.hotelbentleynewyork.com/[/url]”>http://www.hotelbentleynewyork.com/</a></p>
<p>Wow - the internet price is certainly perfect. But - if this hotel’s address is 500 East 62 Street, and the CUNY Graduate Center is at 365 Fifth Avenue (between 34th and 35th streets), that looks like 28 blocks between hotel and end destination.</p>
<p>And those are NYC blocks too, which, I don’t know, is it a realistic commute (by any method - subway, taxi) if there’s an all day conference at CUNY and I’ll want to be there by 8:30 a.m.?</p>
<p>Those are short blocks…I’d walk that, no problem. Alternatively, taxi service is great, and inexpensive in NYC. If I read my notes correctly, room #2004 is “the one” to ask for.</p>
<p>As an aside, Driver, I’m staying guess where AGAIN next week. So I had this meeting set up; they sent email this morning saying “are you coming to our facility or should we meet offsite”? I replied with specs, never imagining that they’d want to come to me. </p>
<p>I wonder if you can imagine my amazement when the email came back and they accepted - with some enthusiasm - my alternative option (tossed out just as an afterthought) to meet at Harry’s - at 10:00 a.m. no less. Odd, everyone wants to be there…last trip I couldn’t get out of the place it seemed, and a friend of mine swears all the secret service hangs out there 24/7…</p>
<p>Ha! That is so funny.</p>
<p>There’s a Marriott, Residence Inn, nearby. (Residence Inn Time Square). Don’t know how the price compares.</p>
<p>It’s probably a 2-2 1/2 mile walk. The st. blocks are short ones, it’s the ave. ones which are long. The taxi ride would be an easy one from there, probably straight down the FDR and off at 34th.</p>
<p>Done - I snared a night at the Bentley a VERY good price, just before it doubles. I didn’t know there was a difference in distance streets vs. avenues - I just assumed everything was impossibly huge in New York. </p>
<p>Thanks everyone! Now if I can just find a decent flight…</p>
<p>The Bentley looks great–please come back and let us know how it was! If I don’t stay with my friends in the Village (depends on whether they’re in town or not), I stay at the Kimberly which is at E. 50th between 3rd and Lex. But it is twice as much, I think.</p>
<p>The Bentley looks great–please come back and let us know how it was! If I don’t stay with my friends in the Village (depends on whether they’re in town or not), I stay at the Kimberly which is at E. 50th between 3rd and Lex. But it is twice as much, I think.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.kimberlyhotel.com%5B/url%5D”>www.kimberlyhotel.com</a></p>
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<p>There are 20 street blocks and approximately 10 avenue blocks to the mile (although this varies from avenue to avenue). From that far east, a taxi is definitely your best bet.</p>
<p>Hyatt on the Hudson…Jersey City</p>
<p>We stayed there for 3 nights this summer. It is not walking distance to anything, but the PATH station is literally out the lobby door. For $1.50 each way you can zip to WTC or to midtown. Jersey City is not very nice, but this area is undergoing revitalization, and we felt very safe.</p>
<p>The service, and the view were incredible.</p>
<p>The price was unbelievable…We booked through Hotwire for $90 per night. I’ve read you can sometimes get it for less!!! The money we saved was used for dinner and a Broadway play.</p>
<p>You need to know the Hotwire system, and it is possible to purchase nights at a hotel without knowing what you will get. However, when we did it this summer, the Hyatt was the only Hotwire 4* hotel in Jersey City, and the list of ammenities matched the hotel, so we felt confident of our “bid”.</p>
<p>LOL, I couldn’t make my flights work for just one night, so, I snared a second night at the Bentley. Oh well, at least two nights will give me a good sense of the place - thanks to everyone for the help and recommendations, I appreciate it.</p>