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Gadling Braves Hotel Carter, "Where Dreams Go to Die"

Where: 250 W 43rd St [map], New York, ny, United States, 10036-3970

Well, we've gotta hand it to Mike Barish over at Gadling for risking his health, life and happiness for the hotel bloggin' cause. This week, he went where HotelChatter would never, ever have the guts to go: inside the Hotel Carter, a.k.a. the Dirtiest Hotel in America several years running.

After writing a post about TripAdvisor's newest list of the dirtiest hotels in the country, Gadling commenters urged him to investigate the scene of so many crimes against hospitality. Finally, donning a home-made haz-mat suit and armed with a UV light, he checked in (with a thick wall of plexiglass between his face and the front desker's), was schooled on the hotel's strict no-guest policy, and headed upstairs and through the Shining-esque hallways to room 812. It was in those hallways that "it began to dawn on [him] that the Hotel Carter may be the place where dreams go to die."

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