The area for the Airbnb guests is a section of the house that is walled off from where Yves lives, which surprised me--I thought my group and I would have the house, but it was more of an apartment. Despite this, the five of us did fine for the six or so days we stayed at the cottage. We were able to go to the Target a subway stop over for groceries, and the house is just a two minute walk from the subway station and several bus stops.
We were in Brooklyn during the super intense snowstorm, and when it was over, Yves woke up even earlier than we did and shoveled a path for us so that we could easily travel to commute to work, instead of trek through the snow, which was super kind and thoughtful.