The Ameritania, a three-star hotel ideally located at 54th and Broadway, offers reasonably priced rooms with a boutique style.

The 150-room Gershwin is a well-executed hotel thriving on the crazy energy of 1970s New York.

The SoHotel is a fabulous 96-room hotel in Nolita, a tiny 'hood between SoHo and the Lower East Side.

The Chelsea Star is an interesting beast, with hostel dormitories, cheap artist-shaped rooms with shared-facilities, and deluxe rooms with massive amounts of space.

We think the world of the Larchmont, a 66-room hotel in the West Village, which feels much more like a London budget bed & breakfast than a Manhattan inn.

Part SRO (Single Room Occupancy) and part hipster den, the Jane Hotel is a beautiful beast, a glammed-up flophouse well suited to the contemporary moment.

Run by the Evangelical Lutheran Church as a sanctuary for sailors, the Seafarers and International House is a real budget-friendly find.

Since 1931, the Edison Hotel has offered rooms next to Times Square with a "deco" touch.

Located on a quiet Harlem side-street in a gorgeous brownstone, 102 Brownstone's six rooms comprise a homey Uptown nest.

Situated in busy Midtown East, the Hotel 31 is a dependably inexpensive alternative to the pricier hotels crowding the neighborhood.

The best thing about St. Marks is likely the location, next to countless gritty Lower Manhattan attractions.

The upscale neighborhood of Tribeca is known for pricey everything (including hotels), but the three-star Cosmopolitan Hotel offers a solid value for the area.

A love song to "classic New York," the Mayfair Hotel shows its age, but the simple three-star hotel is a good value for the unfussy traveler looking for a clean, central place to sleep.

There's something just slightly precious about Hotel 17. Could it be the dark warren-like lobby and hallways? The receptionist's uniform? The old-fashioned signage out front?

A budget hotel in a Gramercy-adjacent neighborhood, Ye Olde Carlton Arms looks pretty inauspicious from the outside.

Located in the hear of Times Square, the Milford offers 1,331 recently renovated and reasonably priced rooms. (Note: The hotel is still undergoing renovations.)

The Chelsea Lodge has been run as a guesthouse since 1999, when it was radically re-engineered from a decrepit boarding house into a cozy inn.