On this page, you’ll find my personal, hand-picked choices about the hotel rooms in New York, which can also be booked a few months in advance at discount prices.

Cheap hotels in New York

I have distinguished between a cheap hotel and a top-class hotel in New York. Below you’ll find my personal selection of cheap hotels that are affordable to book. These are not always the cheapest hotels in New York for these dates. However, they do have a very favourable price and are still good choices when taking location and quality into account.

Dates	Hotel	Price	Extras
Apr 16- May 21	Book the Red Lion Long Island City here	$799
May 14-May 19	Book the Yotel near Times Square here	$1301
Jun 11- Jun 16	Book the Candlewood Suites Times Square here	$1125

High class hotels in New York

The hotels below are more expensive than the cheap hotels. However, they are famous for their great savings compared to the regular rates in these periods. In short: a high class hotel in New York for a relatively low price. I also select these hotels myself daily based on current prices. Check out the table below to see which high class New York hotels you can book now!

Dates	Hotel	Price	Extras
Apr 16- May 21	Book the Hotel 50 Bowery here	$1580
May 14-May 19	Book the Artezen Hotel here	$1860
Jun 11- Jun 16	Book the Motto by Hilton here	$2265

Definition of symbols:

= Free to cancel (取消)

= I have stayed at this hotel myself for a minimum (最少量) of three nights

=You save a minimum of 30% compared to the regular taxi in this period

Fried foods like French fries are going high-tech thanks to a company in California. Miso Robotics Inc has released its Flippy 2 robot. It uses a large robotic arm and is directed by cameras and artificial intelligence. It takes frozen French fries and other foods out of a freezer, puts them into hot oil, and then places them ready-to-serve into a container.

Flippy 2 can cook several meals with different cooking processes at the same time. Miso says this reduces the need for employees and speeds up the time for people to get their food at drive-through windows.

Miso Chief Executive Mike Bell said that when an order comes in through the restaurant system, it automatically tells Flippy what to do. “It does it faster or more accurately, more reliably and happily than most humans do it.” Bell added.

The robot’s name comes from an earlier robot named Flippy. Flippy was designed to flip (翻转)fast-food burgers. But once Miso’s team finished that machine, they saw there was a greater need at the fry station, especially late at night. Several restaurant chains have started using the robotic fry cook. Next, the company is developing Sippy, a drink-making robot that will take orders from buyers and prepare drinks.

Bell said that in the future, people will “walk into a restaurant and look at a robot and say, ‘Hey, remember the old days when humans used to do that kind of thing?’…it’s coming. …It’s just a matter of… how quick.”

Growing up on a remote Michigan farm, Henry Ford knew little of all this-but he soon showed his interest more in the industrial future than in the agricultural past. His father, William, hoped his eldest son would join him on the farm, and finally take it over. But Henry hated farm work and did everything he could to avoid it. It was not that he was lazy but that the repetitive (日复一日的) daily life of the farm upset him. If given a mechanical (机械的) job to do, he would set to work eagerly. When he was twelve, he became almost uncontrollably interested in clocks and watches. Soon he was repairing clocks and watches for friends.

In 1876, His wife died in childbirth. Henry suffered a blow and decided to get away from the farm as soon as he could. Three years later, he worked as a mechanic in Detroit. One day in 1877, when he first saw a steam-driven locomotive (蒸汽机车), Henry went to the locomotive driver and asked him with plenty of questions about the engine’s performance. From then on, Henry became crazy about steam engines. Later, with the help of an old co-worker, Henry got an engineer position at the Edison Detroit Electricity Company. Although Henry quickly became chief engineer at the Detroit power factory, his interest in fuel engines dominated his life. He spent his most spare time trying to build an engine to his own design. Henry went through the hard way to build an engine by hand from the beginning. It was two years before he had succeeded in building a working car. It was unattractive-looking on bicycle wheels and driven by a rubber belt (橡胶带) that connected the engine. Henry called it the “Quadricycle”.

We often think that buying an artificial tree instead of a real one for Christmas will help the environment by not cutting down trees. However, this argument doesn’t consider the process of producing and disposing of the trees, during which a lot of CO₂, emissions are being let off into the air. Actually, increased demand(需求)for real trees is helping the environment.

Artificial trees, when created, give out an average of 40kg of CO₂. To harvest a real Christmas tree, very little CO₂ emissions are caused. If left to biodegrade (生物降解), a real tree will return to the earth in one to two years depending on conditions. An artificial tree, however, will take hundreds of years to degrade, letting out more pollutants into the air. Further, even if an artificial tree is recycled, the process will continue to produce even more CO₂.

Real trees do not have these problems. They can have positive effects on our health. When they are near a window and regularly watered, they will produce clean oxygen which can improve health.

Undoubtedly, cutting down trees is bad for the environment, so what makes cutting down Christmas trees any different? Christmas trees have specific farms where they are harvested, meaning that protected forests aren’t cut down, and, with every tree harvested a new one is planted. The trees aren’t harvested until they are between 10 and 12 years old and the farms always have trees growing while they’ re harvesting this year’s trees.

If you have already used an artificial tree, the best thing you can do is to keep using it year over year to save it from going to landfill.