This is a very comfortable, spacious, and quiet place to stay. The rooms are big, the bathroom is probably the nicest i've ever seen in NYC, and I love the skylight in the master bedroom. The neighborhood is quiet and comfortable. There are great restaurants and bars a half a block away, and its about a 10min walk to the subway.
BUT we had some issues with the lock on the front door that were pretty inconvenient. The front door of the airbnb has a deadbolt and also a knob lock below it. To enter the airbnb, the instructions were to open a lockbox to get the key for the deadbolt, and then unlock the deadbolt. When I first checked in, I was able to get into the lockbox and get the key for the deadbolt and unlock the deadbolt, but the knob lock below it was locked and so I couldnt get in. I texted the host Barbara and rang the door bell, and Barbara opened the door and said that the door already *was* unlocked and open. I tried to explain that the deadbolt unlocked properly, but that the knob lock below it was also locked and there was no key for this. She didn't understand this because she was able to pull the door open (by the knob with the knob lock, because twisting it unlocks the knob lock). I decided not to push it. For the next 2 days of my stay the knob lock was unlocked, and I was able to come and go with the key to the deadlock.
But on Saturday night 11/12 / Sunday morning 11/13 we came back to the airbnb at 2am to find that the knob lock was accidentally locked again, and we were locked out. This was scary to be locked out in NYC in the middle of the night. I banged on the door, texted and called. Eventually after banging on the door for 20min Barbara woke up and came to the door and let us in. She was understandably distraught, and yelled at us for scaring her and waking her up. But what else were we going to do, being locked out? Barbara accused us of not knowing how to use the deadbolt. We explained that the knob lock was accidentally locked again, and tried to show her how even with the deadbolt unlocked, the knob lock prevented entry from the outside, but she refused to listen and kept yelling at us. We went to bed, very shaken, and left the next morning.
For the safety of future guests, the host should either include a key to the knob lock as well as the deadlock, or take care to NOT accidentally lock the knob lock on the door handle again.