Rebekah is a wonderful host - very friendly and enthusiastic. She prepared a lot of information about the area and even lent us a basketball to play in the local courts. The apartment is just as described with the most comfortable beds ever, very clean and with everything you need. You can hear the trains going past but they are not very frequent and we rather liked the sound. The area is a bit fringe and more run-down than we expected, (especially in the rain!) but you can see it is on the move and it looks better in the sunshine. Very easy to get to the local subway but the subways give no information about how long you have to wait and we did have to wait a while watching the fast trains go by. Definitely worth walking a bit further to the A train station. Fairly easy to get to Manhattan.