Irina's place was as described. The shopping centre a few 100 metres to the east was a good one and it included Aldi, Target, Old Navy etc. Buying food from Aldi and bringing it back to heat in the oven or microwave was a good option to have. A smaller, closer but very chilly supermarket was located to the west. It was fantastic being about a km jog from Central Park. The subway station was an easy walk away for an easy trip downtown or to one of the airports. The location of the apartment could be considered to be a little confronting to some, being almost entirely populated by apparently poorer Hispanic and black communities, with seemingly little support for the troubled folk within the community. The streets were not kept clean and the odour coming from the community building a few doors to the west of the apartment was particularly hard to tolerate, although could not be smelt from within the apartment. The area was fairly noisy, with sirens often and regularly noisy pedestrians but unless you're a very light sleeper this would not normally be an issue.