My husband, my sister with her partner and me spent 7 nights in Sophie´s apartment.
The place is exactly as described and shown on the pictures and is very clean.
Sophie contacted me regularly to check if everything is ok and offered help and advice, what was very much appreciated. We felt that she made a lot of effort, especially on the communication part.

The neighborhood is not necessary very lively, but there is a supermarket and take-aways around the corner. But as it is very good connected, you can get on a train that brings you to Manhattan within 25-30 min or further into Crown Heights where you find lots of Cafe´s for Breakfast and some nice restaurants.
After spending our days in Manhattan or other mostly gentrified and hip parts of the town, we personally found it nice to come back to a maybe slightly poorer, but rather `real´ area and it´s inhabitants.

All in all we had a great time in New York and can definitely recommend Sophie´s apartment. We would come again!