Brooke’s place is in a wonderful neighborhood of New York! Extremely diverse, lots of culture and history. Her apartment is close to trains and such, relatively easy to get too. The apartment itself is nice, however the pictures are a little deceiving. We never actually spoke with our host once, or even saw her. Communication was done through her sister and the keys were given to us via her lovely housekeeper. It felt strange staying in someone’s apartment and hearing them in the other room laughing or watching TV, and not ever meeting them. I wish she introduced herself at least one time. Other than that, everything was fine. Her animals are precious, her dog came and visited us before we left and just made the whole trip for us.