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by hn_throwaway_99 988 days ago
Except it's easy to verify:

> At the end of 2019, New York City ended the year with 703 hotels operating in the city and 138,000 available rooms. A year earlier, New York City had 672 hotels operating with 122,000 rooms.

And that was before Covid took tons of inventory offline, though guessing a lot of that has rebounded.

https://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2020/06/17/nyc-may-...