I had a really nice stay!
Pros:
- The room is very well done and feels homey. There's even a view of a tree through the window and a surprising amount of light.
- Dan was super responsive and friendly.
- Dan, who lives in the apartment was very quiet. I stayed for a week and never saw him outside of check-in, so you really feel like you have the place to yourself sometimes.
- Super easy walk to the subway (like 4 min) and a really easy walk to a lot of the activity in Williamsburg.
Cons:
- the Airbnb is on the edge of a Hasidic Jewish (IIUC) neighborhood. The women dress conservatively. Walking around the neighborhood and even just out of the Airbnb in leggings and a crop top, I felt disrespectful and hence a little uncomfortable wearing clothes that I wanted to try on.
- This might just be me being a solo naive girl traveling to NYC for the first time, but I didn't love the walk back from the nightlife in Williamsburg to the Airbnb. One route went through the hasidic Jewish (IIUC) neighborhood, which felt disrespectful walking through, and the other route took me to a small strip with some somewhat uncomfortable things (angry screaming homeless man, someone with a full face mask on but not in a costume way), but there were always people around when I went through that area, which helped, and the crime rates for the nieghborhood are actually quite low, so probs just me.
- I saw what I think were two very small cockroaches, but I mean, it is NYC soooooo