I stayed with Kim for more than three months and had a really hard time. Most of the time the kitchen was really dirty, many times I had no possibility to use it. Kim is a really loud roommate, sometimes she sings and listen to music loud. Other times she comes home in the middle of the night, really loud, and starts to talk to the cat or the persons she brought home. And she often has friends over, most of the times they came after 11 p.m. and stayed until 3 or 4 a.m., what was really annoying. I always had to text her or talk to her, if they could be more quiet. Sometimes it worked, many times not. A few comments below she wrote something about a "zero noise tolerance after ten p.m.", that sounds to me like a bad joke. She and her friends were loud after midnight, the whole week. Not even from Monday to Thursday she tried to respect her own rules. Even in my final-exam week I asked her at 1 am if she and her friend could be more quiet - they did not.
The Bathroom was really dirty as well, sometimes the cat peed and shitted into the bathroom. The dirt of Kim and her friends was there for weeks, I don't know how "often" she cleaned the room while my 14 weeks stay.
After one discussion about the circumstances in the kitchen and the bathroom she wanted me to move out. She ignored me for a few days and texted me that she wants me to move out. I knocked on her door a few times and than she said "I'm sleeping!". It is not possible to discuss with her. For staying in the apartment she wanted more money from me, I was so afraid of being in New York without an apartment that I started thinking about it. It was the second time she asked me for more money, without informing Airbnb about it.
I also know, that she was in my room without asking me for permission. She took something out of my closet. I don't know how often she went into my room, but that is not ok.
In front of the building are sitting a few young guys, while summer I appreciate the fact, that they took care who walks into the house. But while autumn the guys started to smoke inside (in front of the doors to the apartments) and downstairs in the garbage room.
All in all is the apartment really sweet and Harlem is a nice place to stay, but I can not recommend to stay with Kim. She does not respect her guests and is really moody.