This apartment was well located for our visit to our son living nearby. It is about a ten minute walk to Fresh Pond Road and Myrtle Avenue, each with lots of shops and places to eat. Valentino's is a good food store nearby, and for urgent supplies there is Europa, right on the corner outside the apartment.
The apartment was clean, with plenty of towels. We were welcomed by Senka, an engaging lively person, with lots of information about the area. There are steps to the front door of the building, and the apartment is one flight up, and there is a circular metal staircase inside the apartment to the mezzanine where the large, comfortable bed is found. You have to go up and down the circular staircase slowly, and watch your head on the sloped mezzanine if you are tall.
Downstairs there is a foldable couch, that our adult daughter slept on one night, but it is not really made for an adult. There is also a kitchen table with three chairs (some wobbly), an open kitchen with an electric range, an oven (no racks, so can't be used for cooking), a coffee maker (we bought and left filters), a large fridge, and a microwave. So it's easy to make breakfast, but we didn't eat any other meals in the apartment. The bathroom has a large walk in shower, and fancy see-thru sink.
The Forest Ave. elevated subway station is nearby, and it seems loud at first as it rumbles by, but you quickly adapt to the sound, and it didn't prevent us from sleeping. We were there end of December, and the apartment was warm enough. There is a heater on the first floor., and a mobile plus-in heater, too. After the first day, the front wall outlets didn't work (maybe a fuse?) and Stefan proposed sending someone over to fix it, but it was Christmas day, and we really didn't need the heater in the clement weather.
The best thing about the apartment are its location, and the upstairs bed and bedding (though the undersheet was a bit crinkly), and the shower. Stefan and Senka were very good hosts.