We loved our stay at Brooklyn's place in East Harlem. She is a terrific host and we would love to stay at her place again. The main strengths of the listings are: definitely the host, Brooklyn. She is a very welcoming, understanding and expressive person. We never had any problem communicating with her during our six week stay. She often went out of her way to help us out. The location was another big draw for us given its diversity and closeness to metro stations (2/3 trains). We completely enjoyed our stay. There is really no con for the place except may be the fact that the apartment is on first floor facing the street, which is often noisy in the afternoon. Also know that the 2/3 trains often do not run during the weeknights and weekends. The neighborhood also is not particularly a very clean one but that was not a problem because the pros outweighed the cons for us.