Our stay at Residence Inn Times Square came about because the hotel where we had originally booked--the Blakely by Luxe Urban--had closed suddenly, no warning, four days before our trip to NYC so we were scrambling to find a similar accommodation for three people, which Expedia helped me do.
We had a nice 34th floor room with a view of the Empire State Building with a king bed, pull-out couch, and kitchenette with large refrigerator. Very convenient for snacks, drinks, and leftovers.
The space was a bit smaller than the previous place would have been, but it was clean, comfortable bed, very convenient to walk to the theater district and subway stations. Overall, we enjoyed out stay.
The oddest thing, though, was when my adult daughter went down to the breakfast buffet, which was nothing fancy but quite adequate. She wanted to take a couple photos to show us what was available before we decided whether to come down and breakfast room staff sternly forbade her from taking pictures. They said "Copyright!" which was ...?? The next day while we were there I saw another woman try to take a photo of the buffet and the same thing happened. An employee jumped in and said "No pictures!" I intended to ask the desk clerk about this when we checked out, but forgot.