Joise does a great job of making guests feel welcome and positively encourages them to treat her home as theirs. Lots of extra little touches like buying and leaving thing things you like for breakfast etc make that easy to do!

The apartment, particularly the main bedroom and the living area are lovely with real personality. It is also really well located to explore numerous areas of Manhattan on foot - from the 9/11 memorial through Tribeca, Soho, Chinatown and Chelsea all the way up to Central Park (a good 90 minute walk will see you all the way up to Columbus Circle)

Locally, you can menader through some great shopping areas around Mercer Street, Prince Street etc. Also, some good restaurants - particularly enjoyed the atmosphere in "The Antique Garage" in Mercer Street with live jazz playing.

We visited for 4 days over the 2014 marathon weekend and had a great time - thoroughly recommended.

One point to note - New York is a busy city and the apartment is centrally located in Tribeca so it can be quite busy out on the street early in the morning at times. If you live in the country, you might find it noisy then but you soon get used to it!