Tony very much earns his superhost status - gracious, thorough, and always available when you need him, while his home is exactly as advertised - gorgeous, affordable, and conveniently located on the subway line. It has a few quirks that are to be expected of old homes, but these are more than outweighed by the benefits of staying in a lovely 19th-century apartment with a shared kitchen. The bathroom was shared with one other guest, and there was a bathroom on the ground floor available for our use as well. One other warning - there are a LOT of stairs, which I’m not normally good with, but while they took me by surprise they wouldn’t have dissuaded me from staying there either.
The neighbourhood is a plus too, an easy 30-minute ride downtown on the A, C, B, or D lines - on two of the nights during my visit I returned “home” for dinner before going back downtown for Broadway shows - with two markets, a Dunkin’ Donuts, a Checkers, the platonic ideal of a New York pizza parlour, a cozy cafe, and some of the best and most affordable Chinese takeout I’ve eaten within a five-minute walking distance.