The stay is cheap, and I suppose we should have understood “you get what you pay for”.
The neighbourhood was our biggest concern with this stay, while I’m sure there are worse neighbourhoods, I certainly wouldn’t describe this one as safe, especially after dark.
There are many gang colours in the area, and we were told by several local business owners that I shouldn’t walk around with any shopping bags/my jewelry on or anything that would make me look like a tourist (which when you’re a tourist is kinda hard), and to not walk around at night (which again is hard when you spend the day in the city).
Travelling to and from the city is easy and the stations are relatively close by. One is 5 minutes away, the other is about 10 minutes away, but takes a good chunk out of your day, it’s 45 mins to an hour to Manhattan. So you definitely have to plan your day a little bit more than if you were in the city.
The other issue I had, was that parking wasn’t included, it’s street parking that has to be flipped every day from alternating sides of the street. The street was so full when we arrived that had we moved to car to drive anywhere, we likely wouldn’t have found parking again until the weekday. This should have been mentioned in the add rather than told to us at check in.
As for the unit itself, the whole place was just generally dirtier and less pristine than the photos. The walls were all scuffed and generally dirty looking, the shower curtain was ripped and rusted. The bedroom itself came with no side table. So we had to store keys, drinks, etc on the floor.
Basically, this unit would be the wish version of the photos that were posted.
We were there during a heat wave and the bedroom was unbelievably hot at night. We couldn’t sleep at all, kept waking up throughout the night. We would adjust the thermostat and it would heat right back up.
All in all, it’s a cheap stay, and so if that’s all your concerned with and not with anything else (like safety), it’ll serve it’s purpose. But as a tourist, I wouldn’t stay in this neighbourhood.