This place is in a great location! We could walk to the majority of restaurants and locations we wanted to visit, and when we needed to take the metro it is steps from the front door. As other reviewers have said, the rooms and place are TINY. The walls/floors have minimal sound proofing so you hear everything in other rooms and floors. It’s a 4th floor walk up so be prepared to tackle some stairs. It also seemed like other residents must chain smoke right outside the back so the staircase almost always smelled strongly of smoke. It is what it is, but if that bothers you, good to be aware. That being said, this is very typical for the lower east side. When describing our accommodations to our friends from NYC, they just said, “well yeah, you’re staying on the LES... Welcome to Manhattan.”
In summary, the price was good, area was super close to everything, and seemed relatively safe, so we had a great time on our trip and Gulcin was a great host who answered all our questions very quickly and made our trip as easy and fun as possible. It’s a great option if you’re ok with the stairs and cramped (by non-NY standards) accommodation.