Willy's place is as described and spacious. He's very helpful and accommodating.
The neighbourhood is family orientated, quiet and friendly. As two ladies we had no issue walking around late at night.
There's plenty of off licenses and cash points within walking distance, as well as takeaways and restaurants. Where the Popeye's is (14min walk) there's clothing stores so you can go shopping too :).
The stations L and M are walking distance, M train is about 8-10mins walk and the L train is about 14mins walk. It takes about 40 or so minutes to get to lower Manhattan, 20 mins in a cab.
If coming from Newark Airport depending on what time you're coming in, leaving at around 4:30pm from the airport took us an hour and a half but on the way out was about 40mins in a cab, we left at around 7:45pm.