Staying at Dawn's apartment was a pleasure from start to finish. It is really nicely appointed throughout and was even better than I was expecting. Dawn was brilliant from the beginning and a pleasure to meet. Having her dad living in the apartment below was also reassuring and he was great too. Nothing was too much trouble for Dawn and she'd also made sure we had some basics in the fridge and some bottles of water etc. The apartment is a little way from Manhattan but the B17 bus (every 15 mins) took us to the metro each morning and we were in central NYC within about 45 minutes no trouble at all. Around $10 to get home from metro late at night via über. This was a really great find.