This lovely and unique home is operated by a warm and charming couple with the cutest, sweetest, chillest dog you will ever meet. The neighborhood is vibrant, the location superb - with great coffee and public transportation just around the block. This really deserves a chapter in a travel guide, and not a short online review. I am trying to figure out a succinct way to describe the feeling of the place, as YMMV depending on your tastes. Maybe this:
The morning after I arrived, I went out for coffee, walking past the neighborhood garden that the hosts helped start. On the corner, near a Bodega, a group of people were standing around, with one man playing the maracas in time with salsa music coming from the house. A few blocks away, I passed numerous Hasidic families out walking - on one corner there was a church, across the street was a kosher market. People were speaking Spanish, English and Yiddish. I sat at the coffee shop and drank a good single-origin coffee, ate the best breakfast burrito I have ever had, and read the Sunday New York Times. It was perfect.
My only regret is that I did not have more time to spend getting to know David and Janet - and, of course, their dog Mormon.