I can't believe that after all of the "come back to NYC" hype we heard after Sept. 11th, no hotel wants to work with him. Perhaps he can try some of the suburbs of NY, like White Plains, which is much less expensive and is a 20 minute train ride to Manhattan. There are a good number of nice hotels there within walking distance to the train station. Although I have heard that Atlantic City is very accomodating because they can't wait to get their hands on all of those potential gamblers (I hear that it's one of the least expensive places to have a wedding reception for that very reason).