there are quite a few sites that you can search that will likely give you the best prices available. check out the website BookMe and you will be able to compare prices on all the reputable travel sites in just a couple minutes. it s very convenient and will save you a bunch of time and money. Also, make sure you buy them online... otherwise they charge much higher fees for phone orders. good luck.
Under the trestle on 125th street you can pitch a tent and use the 24 hour McDonald s as bathroom/changing room. I know your joking because everyone knows ain t sh!t for free in NYC. Well except food (Pantries are everywhere), public housing (good luck with that; after 6 months in the shelter you might get lucky). Job trainings, there is always work at that very same McDonald s.
Haha you want to go and have fun in NYC for free? like almost completely free... that isn t life girly... even cheap hotels would be booked by now... plan better and make more money lol... unless you have a friend there it won t be free... hostels are cheaper but they still aren t free... be realistic... you kind of have a 13 year olds idea of how life works...
UCLA has free space and you could also learn a thing or two about life at the University on the Corner of Lexington Avenue
Hostels aren t free.