Fantastic room, professional host. Note there are 3 other bedrooms, and you're sharing one bedroom and one kitchen with those tenants. Satisfactory and clean apartment, tolerable neighborhood.
- Room: Really enjoyed staying in this room for about 90 days. Lots of natural light through the two streetside windows. Comfy bed. The pictures are slightly inaccurate: between the windows there's a lower stand and a nice wall-mounted TV, and there is a single-size couch to the side. The TV was especially nice to use. Would be perfect if the AC filter wasn't old and the ceiling fan had so much dust stuck to it.
- Host: Very professional. Vanessa was off traveling abroad, but she returned messages mostly at reasonable times. When I requested to host a personal guest for a couple nights, she charged the appropriate amount and was professional about it.
- Apt: modern apartment, with a hired cleaner sometimes coming by to clean the common areas. Kitchen has decent utensils and equipment. Bathroom is clean and nice. Since you share these with 3 other people, you need to plan ahead and be tactful.
- Building and neighborhood: building is a bit old but standard for NYC. The elevator and the basement laundry room do their job. Grocery store, a park, and the 1 line station are within couple blocks, very convenient. The neighborhood itself can be loud and less fancy. People like to hang around outside with speakers blasting music. Also didn't quite like it when it's the trash takeout day the trash bags are all piled up along the street, but maybe that's normal for the city.
- overall: very high value. This is probably the best room out of 4 in this apartment. As long as you can handle sharing a kitchen and bathroom like this, and if the neighborhood isn't a deal breaker, I would highly recommend.