Our stay here was… interesting. But I’ll start with the good. We absolutely LOVED the location and neighborhood. Convenient to the J train and there are great bodegas and coffee shops and our new favorite boutique Risk Gallery! The host was also responsive when we needed supplies and quick to get them to us which was helpful since we ran out of tp twice.
Unfortunately the place itself was rough, especially for the price. So here are the cons:
-Ceilings are SO LOW. Two of us are super tall and hit our heads multiple times coming and going from the apartment. This was not marked at all so we kept forgetting.
-The curtains in the window in the twin room were not well secured. We tried to open them to get the tiniest amount of natural light and they came out of the wall and hit my friend so hard in the head it broke skin and gave her a goose egg for a week. The host was not helpful when we told him this and basically tried to justify that his $6 Amazon curtains came highly recommended lol.
-The doorknob kept falling off when we would close the door to the apt. Had to fix it multiple times.
-It’s DARK in there. Pro for getting good sleep but con for knowing whether it’s day or night outside.
-All the beds and the pull out couch were the most uncomfortable beds I’ve ever slept on. Comforters in the twin room will NOT be enough for warmth in winter time
-we had mice, but I suppose that’s normal in New York?
-lots of glade plug ins in the outlets when we walked in and the smell was sickening. We took them all out immediately but if you’re sensitive to artificial fragrance definitely stay somewhere else. We stayed here for a week and felt so shitty the whole time, the day we left to stay with another friend in the city our moods and energy levels improved ten fold. I feel like the bad air, fragrance and zero ventilation was screwing with us.
We unfortunately are unlikely to stay here again, even though the location was prime. Hope this helps!