Jeff is a very kind, helpful, and well communicated host. The flat is in a reasonable location with close walking access to the metro. However, I cannot simply ignore the fact that there were multiple cockroaches in the kitchen. Maybe this is acceptable for some people, but we were made very uncomfortable by it. Especially when traveling with a one year old child I was disappointed that this topic was not made known to us in advance. Perhaps this is considered a normal part of life in some older buildings in NYC.. but we had no idea and were really disturbed by it.