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Expensive: Library Hotel
With rooms organised according to the Dewey Decimal System, The Library is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a literary-themed boutique hotel with 6,000 secondhand books crammed into 60 rather posh rooms. Double rooms with bathroom from $399 per night.
Library Hotel, 299 Madison Avenue, at 41 St (1-212 983 4500/www.libraryhotel.com). Subway: 4, 5, 6, 7 to 42nd St-Grand Central.
Moderate: Chelsea Hotel
Join a long line of celebrity guests from Mark Twain to Madonna (and, um, Nancy Spungen, who was murdered in room 100 by Sid Vicious) at New York’s infamous but well-priced Chelsea Hotel. With large, characterful rooms, a small art gallery in the lobby, flatscreen TVs and the odd marble fireplace. Double rooms with bathroom from $149 per night.
The Chelsea Hotel, 222 W 23rd St, between 7th & 8th Avenues (1-212 243 3700/www.hotelchelsea.com). Subway: C, E, 1 to 23rd St.
Budget: Hotel 17
Hotel 17’s accidentally ’50s decor thankfully doesn’t stretch to its shared bathrooms which are kept scrupulously clean. This cult classic is made all the more notorious by reigning resident celeb Amanda Lapore – watch her 4am interviews with the hotel’s garbage collector on YouTube. Double rooms with shared bath from $110 per night.
Hotel 17, 225 E 17th St, between 2nd & 3rd Avenues (1-212 475 2845/ www.hotel17ny.com). Subway: L to 3rd Avenue.
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