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Hi, I have an internship this summer in NYC and I've been searching for places I could live. I came across a website about The Webster Apartments. I was wondering if anyone has heard of this building, if anyone one has stayed in it, or even if it is safe. Also, it is at 419 West 34th Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues. The price is really low, and I'm wondering if it really is too good to be true. Thank you so much!
In terms of location, it's fine and convenient to many subway lines. One person notes the location is very noisy which I'm sure it probably is, but if everything else is fine that shouldn't stop you.
The place itself is beautiful. It was built in 1923 by a very noble person with a very noble goal: to provide “home-like environment for working NYC women”. I am positive that Mr. Webster wouldn’t like how the newest management handles his place. The staff is rude, loud & unfriendly. Tenant girls often call the place the Alcatraz as no male visitors are allowed beyond the 1st floor. Even if a father wanted to help his daughter to pack her stuff, he must be escorted upstairs by staff member. By any means, IT IS NO HOME-LIKE environment!!
I have to say that it suits well students and working low-paid working women.
Room charges for the internet are $30 per month & the service is most horrific! Very unprofessional customer service. Where every decent hotel offers free internet service to its guests, the Webster charge $1 per10 minutes….
Hi! I spent one month in the Webster Apartments in may of 2010. Meaning that kisa1941 and me seem to be talking about the same way "the newest management handles his place".
And I don´t agree with what she says.
Sure there are one or two women working at the front desk that are not the friendliest.. But the vast majority of the stuff is overly nice. Helping out whenever you need help. Say you´d forgotton your keys in your room - they´d come up with you and open the room. Or you have problems with printing things, they would immediately send someone to help. And also there are some male persons working there, in the entrance, in order to let nobody in that doesn´t really belong there, and they are the kindest persons, really!
And of course you can´t expect a perfectly "homelike environment". The community rooms though are more then homelike, compared to my home at least, and the hotel rooms are modest, but easily to be decorated and thus soon become homelike, as well.
The "no-man-upstairs-policy" may not be to everybody´s taste but allows girls traveling all on there owns, like I did, to feel as save as you can feel in a city like NYC. So the fact that you need staff members when you wanna take your father up with you is more than tolerable, I think.
You can buy wireless lan for 30 dollars a month. That is one dollar a day. I don´t think this is unprofessional.
What has not been mentioned yet is that they have a maid clean your room every day.
So. In conclusion I have to say that my stay in the Apartments was very nice, especially for this low price, and I felt at home. Yes, I did. I wish I could come back!!!!! =)
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