YMCA Greenpoint

Hotel Class: 1 out of 5 stars 1 Star - 4 Reviews and 36 Opinions

99 Meserole Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11222, United States

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2.5 our of 5 stars 40 Opinions

Excellent: 0
Very Good: 9
Average: 13
Poor: 6
Terrible: 12

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Greenpoint YMCA subway

by lovenewyawk

I know i brought this up before but I am staying

at the Greenpoint YMCA when i come back to the city

in January.

One issue though, I have heard service on the G is

awful. I will be coming back to my room in the

wee hours of the morning, will i have trouble getting

back to my room?

Re: Greenpoint YMCA subway

by IrishNYC

Service on the G is very sporadic at best during the day, and almost non-existent at night. The L train stops almost twice as faw away from the Y as the G train, and it's service is also fairly sporadic at night but better than the G.

Alternately you could take one of the better lines, E, F, 7, N, W, R to Queens or Queensboro Plaza then take a short cab ride to the Y.

Re: Re: Greenpoint YMCA subway

by lovenewyawk

How far away is the L actually? I mean I am very

used to walking. I went on a twenty mile walk

two weeks ago.

Re: Greenpoint YMCA subway

by nicolaitan

probably not a real good idea to walk anywhere from the L train's first several stops outside manhattan. probably shouldn't even be on the L train.

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by lovenewyawk

Never mind, the simpler solutuion is to stay at the

flushing the YMCA, where the #7 is around the corner

and has very good service.

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CHEAP!! Quiet area with lots of restaurants and places to buy food (I love the "Natural Garden" on Manhattan Avenue-it's Polish and has its own brands, but it also has fresh fruits, drinks, yoghurts and hot tea and coffee...)...

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bladedragon
Reviews: 301

3 out of 5 stars User Rating

Yet another YMCA hostel

The place is decent, the room is decent, TV and AC in the room, shared bathroom, no hot water for shower, 24-hour check-in.
There are some supermarkets and restaurants around the area.

Opinion of Price: less expensive than average

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CesVT
Reviews: 6

4.5 out of 5 stars Helpfulness

If you don't mind cockroaches...

The Whitehouse Hotel may be the cheapest place offering single and double bedrooms right in the heart of NYC, but, having stayed at enough hostel in my younger years, I couldn't face the lack of a ceiling to the cubicle-privacy?
So I found a hardly more expensive alternative in the more remote neighbourhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn... On my second stay there, I picked the regular (ie cheapest) type of bedroom, wich, with a weekly fee, brought the night rate somewhere around 37$... breakfast at a local diner included!!
Well, let's face it, that room and the corridors were badly in need of redecorating-filthy carpeting and bedcover (and I once saw a huge cockroach runing right under some bedroom door at the inferior level), although the sheets were perfectly clean and the towels changed every day. Toilets, showers and sinks reasonably clean considered they're being used by dozens of people every day, and I never really had to wait... You can also use the swimming pool and attend other classes if you want to exercise (it's included in the price)... In any case, it made it possible for me to spend close to 2 weeks in the city twice, both in the fall of 2005 and the spring of 2006, and I didn't mind the commuting (you get there with the subway, G and L lines)... But if you're ready to face old and dusty, I still recommend to pick a double "Deluxe", which has a very comfortable double bed and a TV (not the main point), and, in my experience, was cleaner than the regular bedroom...

Unique Quality: CHEAP!! Quiet area with lots of restaurants and places to buy food (I love the "Natural Garden" on Manhattan Avenue-it's Polish and has its own brands, but it also has fresh fruits, drinks, yoghurts and hot tea and coffee...)...

Opinion of Price: less expensive than average
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Fewf
Reviews: 251

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How did it....oh.

At first we couldn't understand how we'd just gotten such a ridiculously cheap room right across the East River from Manhattan. Then we realized that the bathrooms (and showers) were out in the hall, and were shared by the entire floor. That actually didn't prove to be much of a problem at all--there was a sufficient number of showers that there was no line, etc.--and we'll probably try to get a room there again next time we're in the city.

Greenpoint is a Polish neighborhood, so you're likely to run mostly into Poles while around there. We found that once we went into the side streets, some of the people we'd try to talk to couldn't understand English and would answer in Polish. Russian got me along, but with great difficulty. Get on a main street if you want to ask for directions or anything else in English.

Opinion of Price: least expensive
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FlemmingH
Reviews: 1

Cheap and in Brooklyn but 15min gets y t manhattan

Was there for 14 days and it only cost me $350 pr week ($399 for the double)

Easy to catch the G train down to the Lorimer where the L train gets you across to Manhattan.

Opinion of Price: least expensive
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Yet another YMCA hostel

If you don't mind cockroaches...

How did it....oh.

Cheap and in Brooklyn but 15min gets y t manhattan

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