Ali is a great host and although she was traveling, check in and check out worked perfect. The apartment is very well located in the west village (nice coffeeshops, west village restaurants and shopping). A crosstown, uptown and downtown bus just at our doorstep which for us (with a stroller) worked very well and surprisingly fast to navigate around lower Manhattan (metro is also close). We enjoyed the amount of windows in the apartment with views onto 10th street and a beautiful backyard. The apartment itself is perfectly furnished (very soft bed which I liked, nice sheets, many small lamps, books, hot shower, 2 nice chairs and table, couch a bit firm) and you can tell that someone really loves the place and makes sure other people enjoy it as well. We definitely recommend to stay in this super charming west village apartment.