The Hotel Carter: Ye Olde Times Square Grime

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Luxoflux hired me to photograph locations all around New York City for the game True Crime Streets of New York.
When they asked for photographs of the lobby of a 'budget' hotel I went straight to the Carter.

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I've stayed at the Carter many times. It has it's seedy charms, but the best part is the roof. A friend and I hung out up there during one stay, climbing atop the elevator housing for great views of the city. There's also a curious penthouse-type abandonded structure that would interest Curbed readers. I remember thinking I should ask to rent it.

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Before I moved to New York for grad school I came out for a visit in Jun2 1992 and stayed at the youth hostel located at the top of the Hotel Carter for $15 a night -- and that included breakfast at the diner downstairs. Two things that I remember: Making sure not to make eye contact with the tranny hookers preening in the mirrored elevators, and being warned by the hostel staff that the hotel owner hated having the hostel on the premises.

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I have stayed at the Hotel Carter a few times during the past few years with my boyfriend. We like to saty at the carter because of the price and location. we have never had a bad experience. I think that if you don't want to spend alot of money or if you don't have alot of money and you are not expecting so much, then it would be fine. but then again, you will be paying alot more somewhere else.

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C'mon you guys. lighten up! the carter is fine! if you can afford to shell out the big bucks for a bling bling room then by all means go ahead. i would too if i had the cash!
but for those of you who know that you NEED places like the carter so that you could stay in times square and not some place in the outer boroughs that'll take you hours to get here and there. then the carter is fine! trust me.

-Brent

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Yesterday we had overbooking problems with this hotel. We were so mistreatened (they only gave us a telephone number to look for another hotel, when that was their duty), that I would NEVER recommend that place. We had to call the police because they didn't want to give us their license number for making a claim. A real SHIT (and dirty). Try the Chelsea Inn (http://www.chelseainn.com/)

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My husband and I spent a week there because of the bargain. First time we got on the elevator there was a dripping man wearing only a hand towel wrapped around his large middle.Scary yet, he got off on the same floor as us.
The transies were cool too. They loved my gothic evening clothes when we wen to the LimeLight.

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Because if you are not, that is why you chose to book a room at the carter. the hotel carter is a 1 star hotel.. you get a bed and bath. thats it. there is the westin hotel next door, which is a 4 star hotel. same location, different clientele. the rich, the ones with the corporate accounts stay at the westin. the tourist/traveler/student on a budget stay at the carter. i realize that most of the negative posters on this board come from a far away land where $100 would get you the sun/moon/stars. but WELCOME TO NEW YORK!!!! $100 is nothing......

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The "CARTER" is what it is... It's not a hotel, it's the "CARTER"!!! i would recommend that no one ever stay at this place!!!! if you want complete disapointment, then go ahead an and stay there, but ther are better rooms with the bums on the street! My window was broken and taped up. My closet was full of old hangers and dirty towels. My friends room had a knife under her dresser in her room. She also had a message from a gay guy that says he sucks cocks!!! The signs in the hallways look as if the are from the civil rights movement, and the loby looks like a strip club!!! The stair well was locked off because bums walk in and sleep there!!!!!! THE CARTER IS JUST AWFUL!!!

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My fiance and I stayed at the Carter for 2 nights in May of 2006. We went in prepared for the worst, but left pleasantly surprised. we paid $232 including tax for 2 nights and our room was clean and comfortable. of course nothing fancy though, no frette linens, or pay movies, or coffee makers.... just a bed, a table, a tv with 4 channels. we has hot water and a private bath. no problems whatsoever. we would stay there again. the location was better than excellent.

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I spent part of my honeymoon in this hotel back in 1960 when it was the Hotel Dixie. It's very interesting to me to view these pictures and comments, which reveal that the hotel apparently followed the same downhill course as the marriage.

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I checked into this hotel alone about 6:00 pm, put my suitcase in the room and left to have dinner. When I returned at 10:00 pm, I noticed that in my absence someone had been in my bathroom and defecated in the toilet and left without flushing!! When I told the desk clerk, his response was, "Why was someone in your room?" (Exactly my question to you, Hotel Carter). When I told the "security guard", his response was "What do you want me to do? It's late." I checked out immediately. I went back the next morning to ensure that my credit card wouldn't be charged. The desk clerk told me that the charge slip was ripped up when I checked out. Three days later, $232 in charges appeared on my credit card for two nights stay at the Hotel Carter. Calls to the manager Abdul (no one knows his last name) have gone unanswered. For the cheap price, I didn't expect luxury but I did expect to feel safe. And I don't expect to be charged for a room that I didn't stay in and then to be lied to about it repeatedly. The behavior of the staff of the Hotel Carter both on that night and since then has been criminal - they stole money from me as surely as if they had gone into my wallet. Steer clear!

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We stayed at this hotel called 'Dixie' then during our familly vacation to US in 1976. I was a 16 years old. I remember the place as dim lit, with old furniture and a collapsing gate elevator. Before we set out for New York from india, we were advised to be extra carefull in New York. I remember a window pane being smashed in a shop nearby and my uncle having to pay exrtra for the parking. My first experience of what I had never thought New York would be like.

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I did not notice such a bad place, it's really simple but not orrible. It is clean. There are no wierd animals, no huybs or spiders! I would go back.

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We stayed at Hotel Carter a few days after a murder had occurred in Sept 07-didnt know until I hear about it on TV. I would rather sleep in the streets than stay there again. air conditioning went out. a tv with only 1 channel and 1 volumn-very loud..a phone from 30 years ago.furniture that would not even sell at a garage sale-should be thrown away..I could not even take a shower, the bathroom was so disgusting. no door knob on the bathroom door (this would only take someone 30min to fix)..the air worked in the second room but the window above the air conditioner was broken-so we had fresh air also..I could go on and on.trash under the bed--evident the rooms are not cleaned before another person checks into the room. the health department needs to close down this place. they make money and cant or wont fix anything. where I come from this is called "slum lords"---you open your door and the person across from you is sitting on the bed waiting for her next customer...save a few extra dollars and DO NOT stay at this place.....

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This was scary indeed. Wonderful location. Bad place. Didn't see bugs, but also didn't want to look around for fear of what I would find. Dirty and old. Staff not accommodating or helpful. They either didn't speak English or if they did, they were rude. By the time my group had checked in, everything else in the immediate vicinity was booked or VERY expensive. You get what you pay for! Sometimes less.