We ended up staying at Minhaj's place for a month. The area is a diverse area with many stores, restaurants, and pretty much every thing you need within walking distance. The area itself is a decent up and coming area.
There are bus stops right outside the house which can take you either directly to NYC via the tunnels or to Journal Square where you can then take the Path Train to get to Manhattan. Both ways will cost $4.50.
As Minhaj mentions in the Airbnb listing, there is no parking with the listing. You will be able to park on the street, however, depending on what time of day you are parking, it might be difficult. We had many nights trying to find parking and even had to search some nights for 45 minutes. There were times we were able to find parking very close to the airbnb and others where we parked 10 minutes (by foot) away. Also the area allows for 4 hour parking during the week and no limit on the weekends. During the week however, you need a permit to park here. We ended up paying $95 for the permit for the month. You can buy a permit with the Jersey City Parking Enforcement for $5/day but you need to go in person. You will want to make sure you are conscious of where you park as there are signs indicating where you can park, and there are some areas with no signs, that you have to know the laws for. We ended up getting a tickets while here for parking on a yellow curb which was a bummer since that was the only parking in the area.
As for the place, you have your own living room, bedroom, and private entrance. It was nice to have all that space to ourselves. You share the Airbnb with the host. This includes the kitchen and bathroom. Minhaj was hospitable and checked in on us to ensure everything was OK with our stay. He provided recommendations on where we should go eat and also on the best way to get to NYC. He also invited us out one night which was very sweet of him.
Two things to note about the place. 1) It can be noisy. You are right on a main street, so you hear all the traffic going by. Its not too bad at night. There are also people living both upstairs and downstairs. We heard running upstairs and the people downstairs yelling. We mentioned this to Minhaj. He apologized and said he would reach out to the people. I worked from here during the day which was when most of this happened. But you will hear them at night as well. 2) The bed was not comfortable. It was a single mattress and was not a regular mattress. I'm not sure what kind of mattress it was, but it didn't provide much support.
Aside from those items, we had an ok stay. Overall the area is safe, quick to NY, and less expensive than some of the other places nearby and Minhaj is an attentive host.