Our stay at Dan’s Irving Place apartment was a tremendous disappointment. After years of using AirBnB to travel the globe with friends, this is the first time we've had to relocate to a hotel because the apartment was beyond inadequate. First, the PROs: the location is spectacular. One block north of Union Square and convenient to anything you could possibly want to do in NYC. The space has tremendous historical charm and a serious cool factor (great sitting area, grand piano, nice jazz collection on the Apple TV, etc). Dan has provided decent amenities (travel size bottles of shampoo, etc), and the bed (while uneven with a sagging spot) is relatively comfortable with great pillows. Unfortunately, the CONS greatly outweighed the pros and forced us to leave early after enduring one miserable, sleepless night in the space. The CONS: To start with, at check-in, we were disturbed to find that the front door to the building only has the illusion of locking. You can easily push the front doors open with a gentle nudge, no need for a key. Once inside, you are directly in front of the apartment door which is riddled with holes and cracks around the edges. Any one who wanted a peek inside the apartment (and a view of the bed which is directly ahead) need only squint through one of the many old deadbolt holes. Once we got inside, we realized immediately that the tiny, ancient air conditioner is FAR from sufficient to cool such a large space. We had asked Dan ahead of time if a small window unit could handle the heat and humidity of extreme NYC summer days, and he assured us that it would keep the apartment "comfortably cool, around "70 degrees", so long as we never opened windows, always kept the blinds closed, kept the bathroom door shut, etc. We were willing to accommodate the list, but found that even following all of the rules, the air conditioner was too old and too small to handle the heat. Starting at 9am on day 1, the air conditioner was already struggling to keep the space below 80, and it just got worse as the day went on. The apartment was VERY HOT. To add to the misery, there was no cold water while we were there. Dan only told us about the problem right before we checked in, and while he insisted it was a recent development, there was significant evidence (including his long list of tricks to work around NOT HAVING ANY COLD WATER) that this was an ongoing issue. His "easy workaround" was to run the kitchen and bath faucets ALONG WITH the shower to keep the water from being scalding hot any time you needed to wash your hands, brush your teeth, etc. But even wasting all of that water, the temp never lowered beyond HOT. Not event to lukewarm. To which Dan would say "you have to let it all run more than 5 minutes." Um... if...