NYC Question
 

Planning to attend a conference at the Kimmel Center at NYU in February. Needing hotel recommendations within walking distance of 5 minutes and close to a subway stop. We will need a room with two beds.

Do you mean within 5 minutes walking distance of the Kimmel Center? If you're not joking, then you don't know much about NYC, since there are almost no hotels in that particular area. The one and only option I can think of is https://washingtonsquarehotel.com/

This one also seems to be close, but I know nothing about it: https://marltonhotel.com/

If you are willing to stay within 5 minutes of a subway stop elsewhere, you'll have many many options. You also don't say when you are traveling, but hotel rates vary wildly depending on the season. Right now they are at their highest.

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I don't know anything about the area thus the reason for the post. The conference is in February. Most hotel sites will tell you how far the property is from the Kimmel Center but it doesn't reference whether this is on foot, by car, etc.. Is there another area with easy subway access to both the hotel and the Kimmel Center. We prefer to have a short walk due to the unpredictability of the weather at that time of year.

Consider finding a hotel within a reasonable radius using whatever criteria are important to you & be willing to take a taxi if necessary. I feel a little silly suggesting the obvious but it might save effort, money & time over a closer location.

<<Most hotel sites will tell you how far the property is from the Kimmel Center but it doesn't reference whether this is on foot, by car, etc.. I>>

JapW82 - this is where google maps is your friend. if you put the Kimmel centre into the search engine, press "directions" and then enter the subway stop involved, it will some up with some symbols at the top for car, public transport and a little person. That's the one you want for walking times.

you can repeat that ad infinitum for whatever hotels you fancy, their nearest subway stops, etc. For example the Marlton Hotel is a 5 minute walk away across Washington square park. i just used the google map that Mme P posted above, and voila!

if you go further afield in NYC, do check that you won't have a awkward change on the subway from one line to another. The public transport button will help with this as it sets out all the alternative routes and the detail will come up as you select each option.

Google maps and a lot of sites calculate walking distance assuming 3 MPH. That's a pretty brisk clip of a walk for me, so just normal casual walking would be more like 2 MPH. So I agree that 15 minutes wold be about a half mile just casual walking. Walking distance of 5 minutes is about a block or 2 at most.

I agree 2 blocks might be nice in winter.

Washington Square Hotel and Marlton are the only options. The Marlton looks okay, they are both reasonably priced. The Wash Sq Hotel appears to not be able to even post photos on their website of the superior twin rooms, I am not impressed. The regular twins or even deluxe twins are obviously barely bigger than the beds which are only about one inch apart. If this is some colleague, no way would I want to sleep that close to someone like that. Although the Marlton rooms aren't huge either, they just look bigger but who knows.

If this is a business colleague, I'd personally rather stay a little farther away in some standard chain larger business hotel and have more room, there are several in Chelsea around 28th St subway stop, but that's the NWRQ line and trhe closest stop to Kimmill Ctr is still several blocks away. Maybe you don't even care about the size of those rooms though, a lot of NY hotel rooms are real small although I have stayed in the HIlton Garden Inn Times Sq near 50th and 8th, and those rooms are really very large.

We've stayed at the Washington Square hotel a couple of times. Rooms are small but very nice, even the included breakfast is good. Highly recommend.

Washington Square Hotel has twin beds so that option is out. Any recommendations for hotels close to a subway stop that would take us to the 8th Ave/NYU stop? If we were to stay within a 15 minute walk radius, are we better to stay West, East, Southwest, or Northeast of the Kimmel Center? I am thinking in terms of convenience to restaurants, subway access, shopping, sightseeing, etc..

While you might not be able to get a maximum two-block walk, remember that Washington Square is served by sub ways at Est 4th (F, D, and A Trains), Astor Place (6 Train) and 8th Street (R Train). The R Train stops in Times Square -- no problem finding a hotel. The 6 train stops a Grand Central again, many hotels in the area. I would expand your search to those areas. I live in Manhattan, so can't help with hotels.

I will be travelling with a colleague and sharing a room. I didn't see two doubles or two queens on their website.

What would the travel time be from each location?

You can find the travel time from any address that interests you by putting it into google maps or rome2rio.com with the destination either Kimmel Center or Washington Square. You'll have an answer faster than waiting for someone here to reply.

The walking time from any of those stations to Kimmel would be less than ten minutes. Subway ride from midtown probably about ten minutes.

Thanks so much for all the information. I have some decisions to make and will post any additional questions.

I have narrowed the options to the Courtyard SOHO or The Standard East Village. Which hotel would you stay at if attending a conference at the Kimmel Center and wanting to be within a 15 minute walk to the conference, restaurants, shopping, and a subway stop.

Either would be ok. Where is it you'd want to go by subway? There are many different subway lines in NYC and they don't all go the same place or necessarily connect to each other conveniently.

From nearby the Standard, there are subway lines that run up either Park Ave (north on the east side of Manhattan) , or up Broadway (cuts diagonally across Manhattan, up to Times Sq)
From nearby the Courtyard there are more subway lines that will take you to the same or other places, but the distance to NYU is farther.

There are probably more restarurant options in the immediate vicinity of the Standard, but still plenty close by the CY in SoHo.

I don't know either hotel, but of the two personally I'd pick the Standard for the location in East Village area.

I live in this area. There are hotels here.

People. Get out of Midtown. Stay where people live. Not where they stay for work.