The location of the apartment was not at all what we expected. We had several negative interactions with people in the area starting the minute we arrived.
Walking back and forth to the subway the first night we were there (we arrived around 6:30pm) we felt very unsafe. People yelled obscenities at us from their open car windows, there was a congregation of men drinking at the foot of the subway stairs asking for money and yelling obscenities at us.
The next morning we headed out to enjoy our day and a woman on the street (10ft from apartment front door) yelled “Get the $&@^ out of that basement, ain’t gonna be any white people in my neighborhood.” Then on the subway a few minutes later, a man stood behind my husband and I while loudly discussing my body and making other obscene comments related to my body.
At that point, we decided to change our reservation and moved to a new location. I thought I might be overreacting because I’m a small town girl, but I literally never felt unsafe at any other location in the city or at any other point during our trip so I now think my reaction was appropriate.