We had a rough start to our stay at Karen and Josh's. We arrived at their house at 10:30pm after a full day of traveling (it was at that point 4:30am where we woke up). When we arrived we buzzed and called both Karen and Josh and banged on the door, but it ended up being an hour before we heard back from them and were let in. Karen was at work which we knew, but it turns out Josh was inside sleeping and didn't hear our repetitive knocks or his phone going off.
After we finally got settled everything was fine. Karen seems nice, didn't interact with Josh as much. The apartment is just a block from the 2 and 5 trains which go right into Manhattan in 20-30 minutes. Not a great neighborhood but we didn't plan on spending time there anyway. The apartment had everything we needed. The feature of the bed pulling out to a queen is nice and convenient, though there's not much more space in the room when it is out. There was a bit of just cosmetic mold in the shower.
For the price the stay was worth it. And I would hope that our arrival was just a mishap, but after such a long day and much communication, the additional delay was hard to get past.