The Bowery... Chinatown? Weren't you worried about being Shanghai'd and waking up on a Sampan somewhere in the South China Sea?
On a more serious note, nice looking place and unbelievably great rate.
How bad can the South China Sea be anyway?
A.M.O.R.C. = Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (duhhhh, what else would it stand for AS?)
You can explore a bit about them on their website: http://www.rosicrucian.org/about/mastery/index.html
Of course to get into the nitty gritty of what it provides, their annual membership at $150 is a bit more than a stamp.
A couple of times when I lived there, I should have taken a bar pickup to one of these fleabags instead of back to my apartment.
The upshot was losing a Garmin GPS (~$150) and a digital camera ($200) to some sticky fingers.
But, never having lost any vital body parts, can't complain!
This was most interesting as well as informative. I visited [via this post] each and every one of these and decided if I were to rent beyond my hotel room, I'd go with the hotels that were in Manhattan. I'd find these highly convenient! Thanks for the post, Adam!
So we should be on the alert for a Battle Royale between the Jesuits, the Vatican cardinals and Opus Dei for control of the Church?
The fools!
Only the Rosicrucians will ultimately profit from such a conflict.
For better or worse I don't know any of those firsthand, but I have stayed here:
http://www.uspacifichotelnyc.com
...on Bowery in Chinatown. $62/night for a room with shared baths down the hall. Scrupulously clean though.