Althea is a really great host and responded to our messages in a very timely manner, and was super kind to us and introducing us to the place. The place is as what it seems on the AirBnB, but unfortunately during our stay we saw four cockroaches. We notified Althea and she was able to kindly kill them for us, but there were a few times where we had to kill them ourselves. She did order an exterminator, but unfortunately there were still roaches afterwards in our month's stay. I would say that maybe because it was summer time the roaches were out and about more, but we did do our best to not leave crumbs out and yet they still came in the bathroom and in the bedrooms.
The Wi-Fi is okay, it's pretty stable in the isolated queen room but a little tougher going to the other rooms - the small bedroom's connectivity was basically nonexistent. The other queen bedroom is spotty. It's completely usable if you're here for vacation, but if you're working from home you might want to request better wifi.
The location was really nice, with the 3 train just one block away, and it was nice to take that to and back from Manhattan. The area was generally safe and has lots of families living on the street, but the only thing is that two blocks away someone was shot during our stay in front of the Trinidad restaurant. I don't know if that's really indicative of the entire area, but it did freak us out a bit. Overall though I never had any trouble going back home at night.
It's a nice place to stay with a convenient location to local foods around, and Althea is really kind, but the roaches is really the biggest reason I can't give this place a five star review because we had to unfortunately live in anxiety about when they would come out. I think other reviews were at a time where there were no cockroaches, and if that were the case I'd give it 5 stars.