Check in was easy and communication was prompt. Please be aware that despite the listing not mentioning this, the apartment has many other rooms rented on AirBnb and other permanent residents than Amaya’s brother (who is quite nice by the way) so you will be bumping into a lot of people during your stay (there are five or six bedrooms in the apartment). The room was nice and the mattress was very comfortable. But one thing that was annoying was that the door to the bedroom is 80% glass instead of a solid wood door. It has curtains, but they don’t do an amazing job of blocking out light. As the bedroom is right next to the kitchen, there is a lot of light leak which kept us up when some of the permanent residents were up cooking onto the early hours of the morning. When this wasn’t happening though it was a comfortable room with a handy desk. The backyard was basically unusable as it was in quite a messy state.
The location is indeed only minutes walk from the train station which was great and it was a pretty quick trip into Manhattan. Our only concern was that it felt a little unsafe walking from the station at night due to the government housing flats across the road from the apartment. I know it’s New York so you have to expect that but we also stayed in some neighbourhoods further out on the same line that felt much safer to be in at night, so just putting it out there in case safety is a major concern for anyone. It was worth it for the convenience of the train station being that close though.
All in all this listing was fine but I wouldn’t recommend it for the price we paid.