I stayed in the apartment for four nights with my girlfriend. The apartment was very nice, clean and cozy. It is located close to the Steinway subway station such that one can reach Manhatten relatively quickly.
However, we had a bad experience relating security. On our last day someone broke into the apartment during we’ve been downtown for sightseeing. Fortunately we didn’t have that much valuables in the room. However, this was a really bad experience and we were concerned about security from that point of time on. The apartment is on the ground floor and there was hardly security, so it was very easy for that person to break in. The area seems to be safe in general, however, there are a lot of people hanging around… someone probably watched us leaving the room every day in the morning and then used the opportunity .
As we had a second booking for the same apartment two weeks later (we were on a roundtrip) we did not feel very comfortable about staying there again but the owner promised to improve security.
When we arrived after two weeks security was improved indeed, but it was still not possible to lock the window. One could easily open it from the outside without damaging anything. So we asked the owner to improve this situation, he then installed some bars in front of the window.
It is now not that easy to get into the apartment for a stranger as it has been before. However I would not leave any valuables there, as the bars are really weak and easy to remove.
Apart from that experience we had a nice stay there, the room itself is very nice.