Unfortunately, I felt very unwelcome during my stay. As one reviewer pointed out, Zach and Orlando frequently play music and talk throughout the night. I should've called it quits within the first hour I checked in as Orlando was blasting The Pussycat Dolls and Madonna for hours on end (so loud you could actually hear it from outside the building) while I was trying to sleep. Thankfully I am
a deep sleeper, but who wants to hear garbage music and cackling at all times of the day? Not me. (P.S. Some people in the reviews have complained that the neighborhood is loud. Literally everywhere in New York is loud; in fact in comparison to prior experiences in NYC, this is one of the quietest neighborhoods I've been in... But saying the street is loud is an invalid complaint. You'd have the same issues, if not more, if you stayed at The Plaza. If you really need a quiet neighborhood and want a similar value, I recommend you look at Staten Island instead).
I also saw way too much of these guys' bodies... Orlando especially walks around near naked often and I really don't think that's appropriate. :-)
As of July 2019, the photos are inaccurate: instead of a mirrored fireplace and a lounge chair, there's an office desk, a plant, and a foldout chair. In fact, there are no usable mirrors in the apartment so if you need to check out your outfit, you'll have to take photos of yourself. (Literally the main reason I booked this place was because unlike many other listings, it showed that it had a mirror).
Other things of note: they never refilled their hand soap in the main bathroom during the week I was there that I just ended up buying my own.
Extremely impersonable, isolating experience and I constantly felt some passive aggressiveness and hostility throughout my stay. I wanted to vibe with them, but they were completely closed off and disinterested. I felt as if I had to walk on eggshells as there was this vibe that I was intruding whenever they were in the apartment. In short, I never felt like I could fully relax or be at home.
The only redeeming qualities about this trip were that the bed was comfortable and that they had cute dogs (but I will point out that the bed is short; I fit fine because I'm 4'11", but from the tippy-top of the bed, there's only about 5 more inches of space before your ankles are hanging off).
This obviously wasn't an Airbnb nightmare, but a lot of things were off and it was an added amount of stress staying here. Moral of the story is that it seemed like a good deal at time of booking, but honestly, it wasn't worth it. I wouldn't come back and if any of things I mentioned above irk you, I wouldn't recommend that you stay either.