We were group of 5 people who came to visit New York and stayed in Elise place for 8 days.
Host
Elise is great.
She has meet us despite our plane had delay 4 hours, showed us the apartment and explained the rules and things. Communication was handled through the e mails and mobiler phone. Fast and precise answers.
Location
Next to nice Park Slope in Brooklyn. We have spent most of our time wandering through Manhattan, and connection was great. Just a 5 min walk to 4 Avenue there is direct Metro line R uptown which will take you directly to Manhattan. It takes 30 to 45 min, depending where you want to go (per person ride costs 2.75$ in 1 direction) .
To get from JFK airport to Elise apartment it takes 45 - 60 min cab drive (around 70$ for the 5 people.
Apartment is nice and cosy. Kitchen well equipped. Sleeping rooms, bathroom were ok. Internet was functioned well. No TV, but who needs it :-).
Neighbourhood
In general nice and safe. 20m to apartment there is local grocerry store. Well equipped but little pricy.
In total we would say this is great value for the location.
The only remark goes to noise from the Union street, but if you are tired from the site seeing you will not notice.
One more time, Thank you very much Elise.