First of all, David was very nice and helpful with the checkin. Having laundry facilities in the house is great.
The room is quite small, not really any space for putting a suitcase.
The internet was down, which was a pain because I had to go to Taco Bell to do my work and call my friends on New Years Eve
The following has nothing to do with the host David and is mainly due to the fact, that I am very noise sensitive and need/like to have a cool room for sleeping. The main cause is the contstruction of the building, as has no insulation to block out noise.
The appartmet is abouve the 20th floor, and so you cann heasr the surrounding noise from may blocks away. The windows are so thin and leaky, that there is a constant level of 40dB, which did not get leveled out even when using ear plugs. The problen that New Yorkers constantly use their car horn does not help either.
The 2nd problem was the heat: the apparment has a centralized heating system which cannot be turned off. Due to the small size of the room the tempature was above 25 Celsius. Opening the window was no option, as this rose the noice level to 60dB.
Again most might not see that as a problem, but if I knew that beforehand I would not have booked this room.