I was a nyc resident for years. This place is a very typical brooklyn apt. It is old, floors slants, long stairs up are a bit unsteady. For most this will look like a run down apt. This has nothing to do with the host - its how old ny apts are. That being said the street it is on is exceptionally noisy with early morning trucks driving by and blaring horns. The radiators would clank and hiss at night waking me up. Again, nothing a host can control. Just warning this is a place to manage expectations on. It is super close to the atlantic terminal stations and a few express stops into downtown manhattan