I feel sorry to write a negative review for this place because Lilley is quite nice and I know it’s hard to find good places to stay in New York. However, I had a difficult time enjoying my stay at Laura and Lilley’s place. The positives are that the host is nice and the location is great. However, I found the apartment really quite dirty and cluttered and also very hot. There is air conditioning in the bedroom which is a plus, but the rest of the apartment is not air conditioned and the window in the kitchen doesn’t open, which makes you bake when you cook. The kitchen is really really cluttered, to the point that it’s difficult to find counter space to work on. The apartment smells quite badly of cat and the cat litter is crammed into the bathroom in a way that makes it so that you can’t even really stand at the sink to brush your teeth. The rest of the apartment is just kind of dusty and dirty and crowded with a lot of the host’s things - it’s hard to feel like there’s any space for you to move around or do anything. The stairs up to the apartment are extremely extremely dirty, which matters when you have to haul your suitcase up four flights of stairs. If this place were half the price, and I hadn’t been there for work, I might not have complained so much. But for over $100CAD per night, it should have been much cleaner and kept more orderly for guests to feel welcome. I would unfortunately not recommend a stay here, especially not in the summer.