Joe made me feel extremely welcome, and the place was perfectly clean and well prepared. He gave me good suggestions for coffee shops and grocery stores in the neighborhood, which was very helpful. He was also extremely knowledgable about contemporary art and gave me some good advice on what to see in NY. It was really nice talking with him. The neighborhood was also really great, very accessible to the rest of Manhattan, and close to the places I needed to do research. It was very quiet, but also seemed to have a lot going on.