Less than a 10-minute walk from Soho is the Sun Bright Hotel - where men pay just $10 a night to live in tiny cells bounded by chicken wire.
This single-room-occupancy hotel has been operating since the late 19th century and I doubt much has changed. Today men still live side by side in filth.
“It was horrible - like an animal shelter,” a first-responder, recently summoned to the hotel. “I picked up a suit on the wall and roaches fell out,” the rescuer said, “hundreds of them.”
For the full story on this "hotel", where some rooms measure 7 x 5 feet; smaller than the average 8 x 10 solitary-confinement cell in a state prison, check out the article in the New York Post.
But if you're squeamish and roaches, bedbugs, fleas and assorted other vermin aren't your thing, I probably wouldn't put this one on your shortlist.