You mean the White House Hotel doesn't exist?

Here's some quickie background info about flophouses. I'll have some more up here soon, but this article gives a little context.

Such scenes have defined the Bowery since the first lodging house opened in 1874, creating a cheap, transient place to stay for New York City’s homeless Civil War veterans. Small cubicles then cost a quarter, and a dime bought a canvas sling for the night, hung from the ceiling of a crowded room. By the early 1900s, the Bowery was lined with flophouses and their attendant whiskey bars, dime museums, theaters, slop joints and some of the first tattoo parlors in the country. By the Great Depression, more than 100 lodging houses dotted the Bowery, sleeping between 25,000 and 75,000 men each night.

Flophouse Redux: A new generation of cubicles goes up on the Bowery.
By Elana Berkowitz
December 3, 2003
NEW YORK PRESS

But don't put too much weight on Ms. Berkowitz' reporting. She later writes: "Today, there are only three flophouses left on the Bowery, the last of the others having been turned into backpacker hostels or sold to Chinese businessmen who lease the spaces to arriving immigrants."

While it's true that many flophouses have been converted, and the number is dwindling, it still hovers closer to 7. Proof? The author lists the three remaining flophouses, but doesn't include the White House Hotel...which, if you've been reading, obviously still exists.