From recent memory:
I few years back, I was on a little whirlwind trip thru NY, MA, CT, etc, looking at colleges with my daughter. We ended up one night in podunk somewhere NY, in a hotel that had cracks big enough to easily see thru in the door, a shattered tv screen, no phone, and shady characters coming, going and meeting at a bench outside the rooms.
It was crappy, but heck we just needed a bed....