Update!

New York Hotels. Rooms available for sold out dates. Call Hotel Network at 1-800-964-6835.

• Landmark Guestrooms, Union Theological Seminary, around $80 per night.
  3041, Broadway at 120th Street, a block from the CTR, phone: (212) 280-1313, fax: (212) 280-1416.

• Excelsior Hotel, $89 per single per night, very clean, nice, near the Museum of Natural History, a 1/2 hour bus ride from Columbia.
  45 W. 81st Street, phone: (212) 362-9200.

• Empire Hotel, $120 per night, also a 1/2 hour bus ride away.
  44 W. 63rd Street, phone: (212) 265-7400.

• Milburn Hotel, for a special Columbia affiliated rate of $81 per night, contact Mildred Ehrlich to make the reservation. Nice hotel but not the nicest neighborhood.
  242 W. 76th Street, phone: (212) 362-1006.

• St. Moritz, nice location, variety of rates depending on choice of room. Facing courtyard is $120 or $130, but they also have rooms facing the avenue or with a park view that are more expensive. 1/2 hour bus ride away.
  50 Central Park South, at 6th Ave. & 59th Street, phone: (212) 755-5800.

• Park Central Hotel, nice hotel, not a bad neighborhood, 1/2 hour bus ride away.
  870 7th Avenue, (212) 484-3340.

• Hotel Bedford, 45 minutes away, take the number 4 northbound bus on Madison Avenue to Columbia.
  118 E. 40th Street, between Lexington and Park, phone: (212) 697-4800, fax: (212) 697-1093.

• West Side YMCA, around $50 per night, 1/2 hour bus ride from Columbia. Take the no. 104 bus on Broadway to 120th Street.
  5 W. 63rd Street, between Central Park West and Broadway, phone: (212) 741-9226, fax: (212) 875-1334.