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Not all hotels are created equal. Some hotels may charge you more and give you less. On the other hand, some budget hotels in NYC may charge you less and give you even less. The Hotel Wolcott gives you the best value and the right balance for your money.
All of our NYC suite accommodations have been renovated and also have private full bathrooms with hair dryers, soap, and shampoo. Each sleeping room has a clock radio, in-room safe, telephone with voice mail and data port, color TV with pay movies, and WebTV Internet access as well as Nintendo games for both kids and kids at heart, and an iron and ironing board. Visitors can also enjoy free coffee and muffins every morning in our lobby. The Hotel Wolcott has some of the best budget NYC accommodations in town, making it a vacationers ideal discount choice for hotel stays.
Our budget NYC accommodations are located in the center of Manhattan, within walking distance to Broadway's theater district, Javits Convention Center, Penn. Station Railroad Station, Rockefeller Center, Madison Square Garden, Macy's department stores, Circle Line Boat Cruise, Toy district, Garments district, United Nations, Gift district, and 5th Avenue shopping. Everything that makes New York Famous!
Here are some other interesting facts about the famous New York that you may or may not have known:
- There are 6,374.6 miles of streets in New York City.
- The Times Square Business Improvement District (212/768-1560) dropped a ball designed and crafted by Waterford Crystal for New Year's Eve 1999.
- The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.
- The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is so long – 4,260 feet – that the towers are a few inches out of parallel to accommodate the curvature of the earth.
- New York City has 578 miles of waterfront.
- Some of the immigrants who passed through Ellis Island and went on to illustrious careers are: Irving Berlin, musician, arrived in 1893 from Russia; Marcus Garvey, politician, arrived in 1916 from Jamaica; Bob Hope, comedian, arrived in 1908 from England; Knute Rockne, football coach, arrived in 1893 from Norway; and the von Trapp family of "Sound of Music" fame, arrived in 1938 from Austria. (Source: “Ellis Island & Statue of Liberty,” Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island, 212/363-7620).
- The Consolidated Edison electrical substation, built in 1975, has an illusionistic mural of the Brooklyn Bridge by Richard Haas on one side to help it blend in with its historic neighbor.
- The Bronx is the only New York borough connected to the mainland.
- Since the 1920's, Queens has been the ‘home of jazz,' the residence of choice for hundreds of jazz musicians, including such notables as Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dizzy Gillespie (source: The Queens Jazz Trail Committee, 718/463-7700).
- Built circa 1680, the Conference House (also known as the Billop House) was the site of a fateful meeting in 1776.
- The British, represented by Admiral Lord Richard Howe, and the Continental Congress, represented by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Edward Rutledge, engaged in an attempt to forestall the American Revolution.
- The 2½ mile boardwalk at Brooklyn's South Beach (718/390-8000) is the fourth longest in the world.
- John Hertz, who founded the Yellow Cab Company in 1907, chose yellow because he read a survey by the University of Chicago that found yellow was the easiest color to spot.
- The triangular shape of the Flatiron Building (an early skyscraper on 23rd Street) produced wind currents that made women's skirts billow and caused police to create the term '23 skiddoo' to shoo gapers from the area.
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