Pros:
The apartment is located around the corner from a subway station and is walkable to Central Park and museums (or you can take the subway if you don’t want to walk that far). There are a ton of restaurants in the near vicinity, a grocery store across the street, and a 7/11 on the corner. The windows face a courtyard with a doggy daycare/boarding, which provided amusement for us.
Cons:
The host was difficult to get in touch with and was very slow to reply. I didn’t know where I was supposed to pick up the keys until approx. an hour before I was supposed to check in. I sent a request regarding check in on 2/5 and still hadn’t heard anything back by 2/13 for my check in on 2/14. I honestly wasn’t sure we had a place to stay until the day I arrived. I also sent a message on Saturday evening (2/15 - while staying there) and still hadn’t heard back by Monday (2/17) evening. There was one roll of toilet paper in the apartment for the entire weekend – we were lucky the 7/11 was right down the street. There was also only one roll of paper towels and seemingly no trash bags. We weren’t told where to take the trash out or how to clean up the apartment. The bedding didn’t seem like it was particularly clean (especially the fitted sheet on the bed). For the price, I expected more.