My family of 5 adults had a comfortable 9 nights stay at Julien's place in early May. The place is spacious, especially the 2 bedrooms at the back with ample space for luggages. Check-in & check-out was easy and we appreciate Julien allowing us to store our luggages in the hallway after we had checked out at 9 am on the last day & coming back in the late afternoon to collect our stuff before we left for the airport.
The apartment is about 10 mins walk to Broadway station & there's 2 big supermarkets along the route so it's easy to buy food & drinks. Plus many eateries around the area leading to Broadway station with easy access to downtown Manhattan. Do note that on weekends, there's only 1 yellow line train service N instead of the usual 2 yellow line train services N & W so be prepared for waiting interval of 10-11 mins between trains.
Julien is very responsive to our messages. On 2nd day, he came to adjust the thermostat after we found temperature very cold on 1st night and another day, we informed him around 11 pm that we couldn't access the wifi connection. He helped to reboot the router all the way to 12 midnite to make sure we could get the internet connection.
We had a rental car for 3 days and it was not easy to find free street parking at night. We had to drive up and down a few streets before finding an empty lot. One tip - park beside the school that's across MacDonald's but you have to vacate space by 7am as it's meant for school staff. You can then try to find street parking outside the house when neighbours have driven off to work.
Just a note - provide your own shampoo, hair conditioner, body soap, hand soap, dishwashing soap, laundry detergent, toilet rolls. When we checked in, there were 2 toilet rolls and some leftover supplies from previous guests. However, it's easy to buy these items from City Fresh supermarket near the apartment.
We look forward to staying here again if we visit New York as it's not easy to find a clean, spacious place at this price range.