Great value and solid place to land for a visit to NYC. I think Chris and Zach do a good job of prefacing what a visit to the NYC may be like for someone who is unfamiliar with urban environments.
I'll add my perspective as well, as someone who lives in San Francisco but grew up in the midwest. Spaces may be smaller than you are used to. People may be different than you are used to. Infrastructure may work differently than you are used to. But if you come with an open mind to see things for what they are, for the most part, people are people, life is life, and there are new valuable experiences to be had.
As an example of how things can work differently, sometimes unexpected loud things can happen at night in big cities. For example, my first night staying here, a homeless man loudly turned on a radio and started ranting as he laid in someone's yard. Having lived and visited many urban environments with similar sleeping hazards, I had earplugs at the ready to deal with this. If I hadn't, he would have kept me awake all night. It was the only night this happened and he never came back to the neighborhood again. I'm sure it was an unpleasant situation for everyone in the neighborhood and Chris and Zach would have had no way of predicting that this event would happen on my first night. But that is the nature of cities.
I've had similar experiences in village in Cuba where there were roosters crowing in the morning or a condo in Mexico City where there was a bar open on the bottom floor until 3am playing loud music and in San Francisco at my own apartment with every kind of strange situation occasionally occurring outside my window. You just have to prepare.
Like I said, after preparing mentally and logistically for the realities of an urban environment, there are great experiences to be had. This was a fantastic stay for the value in a small but perfectly adequate room in an interesting house very close to a quick subway ride to Manhattan where I had many fascinating experiences.
One note that on the weekend the nearby subway station was closed so I had to take Lyft to the nearest open one to avoid a 40 minute bus ride. I would check Google maps routing and do the same.