You can't go wrong with the Radio City Apartments, on 49th just east of 7th Avenue. I typically stay a hotel chain where I have points accrued, but when I am meeting friends and need more space, this is perfect. It also has studios that are fine for one person. The prices are incredibly fair. It's an old, converted apartment building, but it's keep very clean, you get little kitchenettes in every room, as far as I know, and the lobby, while small, is gorgeous. Link is below. Another good bet is Priceline, as long as you're 100 percent sure that you'll be using the room. No cancellations with Priceline.
Coming to New World this fall, GOOD HOTEL stars Barrett Wilbert Weed as Becca Langhorne, a nineteen-year-old college student whose parents die, leaving her a failing and dilapidated hotel on the Delmarva coast. If she can keep it alive for a year, the family fortune is hers- if not, it all goes to the family lawyer.
The cast also features Dylan Saunders of Team Starkid as Joe, the older student who drops out to follow his crush and help her follow her dream by becoming her handyman, even though she didn't ask him to.