I do not recommend this place especially if you are traveling with kids. I have booked Airbnb's before specifically because traveling with a 2 year old it is easier to have a kitchen, bathtub and room in NYC. But this experience was awful . First off, after booking and paying all up front (risk you take with no refund policy- just hoping people are good), we never received the address for the location of the apartment til we had landed in NYC. This was difficult because I needed to book a car service for us to take us there with a car seat.
Once we arrived (after being passed off to two different "friends" to try and check us in and meet us, we waited in the cold, rain at night for 10 minutes on the street.
You then walk into the trash room upon entering the building and then climbing 3 flights of stairs that look like they are about to come crashing down to enter into the apartment. The apartment is as pictured, but what was not pictured is there was no heat turned on and the windows were broken open in January. It felt chilly but it was late when we arrived on Saturday. Sunday, we tried to close the windows to make it better, but then discovered that evening that the radiator (one for the whole place as it is actually a studio with a wall that they put up to make it a "one" bedroom) - wasn't working. I also discovered that the bathtub did not hold water and so was of no use to us to be able to give our daughter a bath. I got a response late morning that she would have the superintendent stop by to take a look at the radiator. When he arrived...he discovered that the radiator was broken. (one of the previous reviews had mentioned this but I figured it would have been fixed by now). There was a rug covering up water damage from what looked like a leaky radiator. We were trying to get our kid down for a nap while they were doing this work on the place and I had to make the call as it was 11 degrees outside to move us to a hotel that night. Christine obviously does not live in NYC. Not quite sure the arrangement of this apartment or who has leasing rights of it, but it also seems to be a fire hazard as there are only 3 outlets in the apartment in which everything is strung together and plugged into. If you are thinkng of charging anything, you might want to bring your own power strip to do so, not to mention it seems incredibly dangerous.
The location is great but the building and the conditions of this apartment are not worth it. To not have a radiator turned on in January in NYC is unacceptable to me, not to mention all the other small things that added up to one of my worst experiences staying in NYC. Having lived there previously, I understand the conditions of most of these places, but this, they are clearly trying to stretch the abilities of the apartment to charge you more for what is a studio. If you were to stay there in the summer, your interior bedroom would not have access to any air conditioning units.
I do not recommend this place, especially for families.