My wife and I spent 7 nights staying with Livia and it was a wonderful time. Livia is as generous as they come: she supplied cereals, juice, toast, coffee/tea- one morning she made us fruit waffles and one lunch she bought us Romanian stuffed cabbage. Livia is an intelligent presence, full of consideration, and a very good listener as we told her, at night, after she returned from work, about our NYC adventures looking for apartments. Her bedroom is large and has a very good queen bed; it has a TV in the room and the apartment is WIFI. The shower was always hot and had strong pressure. Her apartment is well decorated and very cozy. She lives maybe 5 minutes from the M subway stop, with lots of stores, deli's, restaurants ( the Polish one was our favorite! and MIke and Maria's deli was super also) around. Her street is quiet and the neighborhood is very safe. Our taxi from LGA was overpriced, so make sure you have good directions to her house. Livia informed us of a car service she uses and we took that back to LGA early in the morning-- it was $21 plus tip; an excellent value.
We would not hestitate to stay with Aliva again if we are back in NYC!!!