I’m very surprised to see so many good reviews and NO ONE mention the amount of drug dealers and questionable looking people sitting right outside the apartment on the neighboring steps... as soon as I got out of my Uber I was approached by gentlemen asking if I wanted to “buy smoke and poppies”... if that wasn’t bad enough, it took an hour for Simon to respond as I was having a little trouble finding the spot due to my late flight... The loud music played all night along with their loud talking by the neighbors, and the smell of marijuana was coming so strong through our windows that we had to close them... we arrived to a hot apartment so we wanted fresh air but had to result to the ACs to avoid noise and the smell. and if that wasn’t bad enough, I woke up to Pop Smoke blasting at 8am...
Due to the price point I wasn’t completely shocked at the location being in the hood or even the obnoxious loud noises outside my steps but I was still willing to get through this very quick weekend work trip and still give it the benefit of the doubt...
To end it off, Simon then accused me and my husband of smoking in his apartment as if there wasn’t a group of people right next door outside all day smoking... he then kicked us out of the apartment in less than 24 hours, at 9pm at night. Frustrated, I was able to find accommodations by the grace of God, to find the next morning that Simon conveniently had our booking still listed as current and hadn’t notified Air bnb of the “smoking cancellation”. Ironic right? He kept it up until Sunday, when we were supposed to check out...
All in all, it is walking distance to shops and the subway, it is NOT in Manhattan or anywhere relatively close, the water gets super hot which is great, he had more than enough utensils, towels, toiletries and the rest.
the WiFi sucks.
Please DO NOT get sucked into this man’s finesse unless you absolutely have to...