We stayed at Hind's place for a week and it was great. The space was clean and comfortable, in a quiet area, and it has everything you need and more (lots of snacks). Hind was very hospitable and helped us with everything we needed, including letting us borrow umbrellas, giving us some Neosporin and bandaids, and printing a few pages for us. She was always very quick to respond and really nice. We couldn't have asked for a better host.
The place is a 15-20ish minute walk to the train station, and the train goes straight to Manhattan (it takes around 45 minutes). Hind always offered to give us rides to the station, but we decided to walk most of the time.