Dear Brooklyn-bound airbnb customer,
I can fully recommend this lovely private room in Borwnstone. It is excatly like to picture shows you - lovely, little bit of rusty, but with a lot of character. The neighbourhood is diverse and gives a real Booklyn experience. The nice ground floor vintage stores are just around the corner. It is only few train stops from BAM where you can see excellent Brooklyn shows (off-off Broadway) with quarter of the cost.
When coming from the JFK I would recommend to ask Ryan and Ellen the number of car service. That is how they call taxis in Brooklyn. The JFK (New York Yellow Cabs) do not necessary know Brooklyn that well and when you are tired after a continental flight you might not pay attention if the street number was 10 or 100. Streets tend to be quite long in Booklyn so it makes easily 20-30 USD more if you start looking for your address from the wrong end of the long road. It takes only 30 min to the JFK - if straight driven.
The room itself was very private. You have your own entry and shared bathroom with another person staying in that floor. It worked very well - the toilet was never occupied when I needed it. It was maybe not an American style bathroom, but more like a bigger version of Parisian showers and toilets, however, there was warm water all the time (which would not be tha case in Paris).
I used trains 4/5 everyday. It brings you to the City in 30min. The Lexington Express train is fast and does not stop on every stop which makes it very fast. Also I walked home from the train station around 11pm and there were two police patrols patrolling the road from the train station to the house. So that can increase or decrease the feel of security, but it is always an option to take a cab from the City if arriving later. The trains seem to run throughout the night, but I would maybe not take a train to Franklin after midnight.
It is a real Booklyn experience and I can highly recommend. Please, make sure to walk around Park Slopes, too.