Esme's third floor brownstone walkup was the perfect place to stay during my daughter's graduation from Columbia. The location is a very short walk from the Columbia campus and the subway is two blocks away.
Esme was very responsive when we had little water pressure she had it fixed within an hour. She also had the air conditioners installed since it was warm the first evening.
The one thing the place could use are darker curtains. The light came into the apartment pretty early in the morning.