I had a wonderful experience in Sonia's place. The apartment was clean, cozy, and well-supplied. The location is fabulous - steps from Prospect Park, which is the Central Park of Brooklyn, steps from the subway, and in an amazingly vibrant neighborhood that has everything, but has not been poisoned by excess gentrification, and with Manhattan a short subway ride. As an expatriate from Brooklyn, Sonia's apartment turned out to be the ideal base for a return to my roots.