My husband, me and an adult daughter stayed at Lou's place, visiting another daughter who has a studio nearby. We enjoyed our stay, and loved that it is a family home, complete with pics, posters and kids' artwork . It is a cozy NY apartment, but Lou and Kristen make good use of the space so there's room to sit and watch TV, make breakfast, and a bar height table to eat at. The apartment is on the 4th floor, so you want to be able to go up steps, but that wasn't a problem for us. It is close to most everything you'd want to do ---walk to more restaurants, stores and coffee places in than you can count, take the subway within Brooklyn or Manhattan, or the ferry to Manhattan or elsewhere in Brooklyn. We had some great meals (and coffee) in Williamsburg and having Lou's apartment made for a great landing pad for our family visit.
Lou is a very responsive host -- we got there and the cleaning people had forgotten to put out towels, and Lou apologized, told us where in the apartment to find them, then immediately had two orders of multiple towels sent to the apartment overnight to make sure we had enough. We asked him for restaurant reccs and he was back to us pronto ( they were great!), and when I wanted to have my daughter pick up the keys on our arrival day because her flight was arriving earlier than ours, he included her in the directions (she said the close by key pick up/drop off was convenient and easy) . Impressive host!