Me and my husband, both professional musicians, enjoyed staying at Philip's place for ten days during our audition trip. Everything perfectly matched our expectations: beautiful, quiet and safe neighborhood with a big variety of organic food shops and restaurants just within 1-5 minutes walk distance, 5 minutes walk to Prospect park, 7 minutes walk to subway station with variety of trains which took us downtown within 20 minutes. The room we stayed was perfectly clean like in 5 star hotel; very comfortable firm bed, quiet atmosphere in a house - all of these made us feel rested and ready for every new day of auditions. Philip was very nice and helpful host and very interesting person to have a conversation with. To me as a person who travels a lot , particularly through New York, finding Philip's place was a true gift. I would say this house was definitely the best place I have stayed in New York so far considering all the combination of factors important to me, such as safety, cleanliness, comfort, charm of the neighborhood and public transportation accessibility. I hope Philip's place will be available next time I make a stop in New York, keeping my fingers crossed.....