We stayed a week in early June. Loved the place! My only regret is I never cooked in the kitchen!
The subway is 6 blocks away, buses run from just around the corner, but schedules can be limiting. We caught a ride home from Flatbush on the bus a couple of times and just had to walk 1.5 blocks. Coney island and Manhattan are each a longer commute. My daughter near Prospect Park was 30 minutes or so. Highly recommend an unlimited use metro pass. We noticed the use of bikes & bike rental in the neighborhood seemed much higher than in daughter's.
Coffee shops, bodegas and restaurants abound. The neighborhood is clean and lively. The grocery store by the Kinsgston Throop station was great.
Giovanni let us drop off luggage and check in early, gave us lots of recommendations and asked us to contact him for anything, and Briana from downstairs was very kind and offered help if we needed anything.
Turns out we didn't- it was a magic apartment! Anything we wanted we immediately found - including the extremely appreciated cream for my coffee that was in the fridge our first morning!!