we love the location. very close to the station, restaurants, and safe! We flew to LaGuardia and the Uber was only $17. The station to N and W train was a 2 min walk.
We didn't cook because we were always out, but you could. it has several kitchen items including oil, salt, pepper....bring yoir own shampoo, soap, etc because that is not provided. There was toilet paper and hand soap.
I would recommend it and we'd be back if we were to travel to NY again.
We never met the owner, but her father was very nice.