We had a wonderful experience,the apartment was more than enough space for our needs . We stayed for 7days and found it very easy to commute into manhattan..using the 119 and the 125 buses...the only issues we had is there seemed to be a lack of dusting of the air conditioner and electronics...the a/c was working too hard and I noticed that there was a heavy buildup of dust on the coils and filter...my family and I found the apartment to be perfect for us...
The shared entrance was never a problem .