Here is my experience of a 3 days stay:
1. Location: as this is the first in everyone’s mind. Its literally 5min walk to one subway station and 9 min walk to another. One station (yankee station) links to ABC etc trains and the other station (grand concourse) to faster /express 2, 3, 4 trains. Once u figure out the google instructions for train journey to various destinations it would be a breeze to reach anywhere in 20-30 mins.
2. Room is comfortable and air conditioning worked well.
3. TV is available with cable if u have a bad weather day.
4. Host keeps the house ‘very’ clean and there are no restrictions whatsoever in timings to get in/out.
5. Family: we visited with a 4 yr old and kitchen was helpful in cooking small meals.
6. Locality: never felt anything odd while going out/coming in at any time. Literally 5 mins to lot of small eating joints/market.
Overall the Ms Edna goes out of her way to help.