Don´t get it wrong this is not a hostel it's a HOMELESS SHELTER were men over fifty and a few hookers live on a permanent basis.
The rooms are so little your backpack doesn´t fit. The place is dirty, filthy all over and feels totally unhealthy. Bed bugs are welcomed along the homeless people. The noise from the subway tracks is too loud to let you sleep, now add people shouting and disputes all over the night.
Being a female solo traveller I would NEVER EVER STAY THERE, I was afraid the whole night fearing someone would break into my thin-as-paper walled room, I felt really insecure, left after 1 night having paid for two. Please stay away from this place, it's not a hostel is hell on earth. The most terrifying experience I have ever had.

So, looking for a NY getaway on the cheap? Have I got a suggestion for you! The streets, or hey, just ride the subway all night. Even the internet wouldn't want to publish pictures of my feet, legs, arm or back, due to the insane amount of bedbug bites I have on me. In roughly 72 hours, I was able to get about 9 hours of sleep. The room is smaller than your closet. "I don't have a closet" you say? It's still bigger! My first night, it was roughly 90 plus degrees in there. But that was the comfortable part. The ceiling is a screen door. There was a guy constantly sitting right outside my room who looked like the evil love child of Mickey Rourke and Gary Busey. The gent "sleeping next to my room, loved to wake up at 5 every morning and hock phlegmies for an hour or so straight. And that is when he stopped snoring. He also liked to cut some long gas passages, the last one I clocked at roughly 23 seconds. My guess, he was no more wanting to use their bathroom than I or the rats were. The rats, you don't see them so much as hear them, and I think they were weary of the surroundings as well. The guests, many of them residents. The ladies were kind of nice, because they're hookers namely. The evil creep behind the cage was somehow in cahoots with them. One guy likes to sit in the lobby and sleep and drool ropes. I also saw him going into the bathroom, his pants were not part of the deal, but he did have his hands over his crotch and buttocks as the bathroom trip clearly got started before he could get there. The shower was scary, and if you can sit on their toilets, you will likely get leprosy. And then, the bedbugs. Oh, the bedbugs are RAMPANT! In my 8 to 9 hours of sleep over three days, I was able to get hundreds, yes hundreds of bites. And I never once pulled back the sheets. No one offered to wash or change them, so you can still see my bloodstains if you go now. It is not just that they have bedbugs, they are the SOURCE of the bedbugs. NY is supposed to be having an issue with them, and if the D.O.H. would stop accepting bribes, and burn the place down, then burn the ashes, the bedbug problem would likely end. Not just in NY, but the whole wide world. Seriously folks, graveyards are a less creepy place to sleep. They don't mention their name on Craigslist, but it is the $30 ad with the tiny bed. It's so bad, you may just want to avoid Brooklyn altogether. I'm going to go write a horror movie about the place, and you know what? None of it would be fiction.

unless your into shotting herion,snoring coke or smoking crack with toothless drunk beeps, stay away....the city took the place away from the orginal owner only to turn around and sell it to the russian mob......this place is beyond a joke!!!!!

This is the most awful place I have ever been in in my life. We stayed there for one night and were so terrified we had to move. Everything the reviews say about this place is true...it is a crack den full of criminals, bed bugs, prostitutes, mental patients...There is no roof in the rooms and literally would rather sleep on the streets. I am sure Brooklyn is an amazing place but anyone who would stay here would not want to ever ever visit Brooklyn again. Hostel bookers should take this place off their site...It is obviously a halfway house for ex criminals and the owner has decided to squeeze some extra money from tourists by promoting it as a traveller friendly hostel. IT IS NOT. We were awoken by some drug dealers shouting about their forthcoming deal. No one here has mentioned the TRAIN TRACKS which are right next to the room. It is the worst place anyone could stay and it seriously needs addressing. People joke about how bad this place is, probably to deal with how traumatised they are from staying here, but seriously if a young girl (or boy) ended up here alone something really bad could happen. DO NOT STAY HERE OR BELIEVE THE [-] description that it gives you on hostel world.