We chose this listing for three reasons:
Location
They take dogs
There is a table in the apartment

First, the table. We happen to live at table- read, eat, plan, email, stash our stuff, talk and drink, fight, make up- it all happens at the table. Having rented several apartments on VRBO, I happen to know that not that many places in cities, here and abroad, have a table.

This one has a table, and I mean a TABLE. Huge, beautiful, luminescent and made by Sarah's fiance, Jason. (If you want a table, just try looking at all the listed apartments and see if anyone in NYC eats off anything but a couch in front of a tv set.)

Second, the location. Right smack between East and West Village, it's a five minute walk to Washington Square Park or Babbo's, fifteen minutes to McSorley's, and maybe twenty minutes to the White Horse Tavern or the High Line/Whitney. The metro is just around the corner and on a major line, so you can go almost anywhere without transferring. Up the street, Citronella grocery. Down the street, CVS. In between, wine stores. All over, restaurants, coffee shops and cafes. The ones with outdoor tables take dogs. Aseana Thai Restaurant lets you take dogs into their back patio.

The dog. They have a dog. There is a water bowl and dog treats. The apartment has painted concrete floors with no rugs, so easy to vacuum/sweep that hair when you're leaving. Best of all, the place is built like a bunker, with the most solid walls and floors you can imagine. Good for us, because the little guy yips like crazy for about five minutes when we leave him. The place is practically sound proof. You will never hear anyone knocking against a wall, playing the tv or music, walking above you. It's as blissfully quiet as a tomb. Even the street noise is as quiet as it ever gets in NYC- just the garbage trucks. Otherwise, no traffic, no horns, no rowdy drunks spilling out from bars in the early hours.

Sarah and Jason are incredibly gracious and available without being the slightest bit intrusive. Totally accommodating with check in (we changed the time about twenty times, including up to the last minute) and check out, no cleaning fees (another rarity for AirBnB.) You are welcome to use their computer. Well furnished kitchen and full size gas stove for such a small galley. TV in both bedrooms. Great bed, lots of wonderful pillows. The place is immaculately clean, airy, arty, and mercifully free of clutter. There are roses on the table and in the bedroom when you come.

We are so hoping this place will be available whenever we want to come back again and again and again, because we don't need to look for anything else.