Gary's apartment is exactly as described and has everything you could possibly need for a stay in NYC. The location was excellent and we could walk absolutely everywhere with so many restaurants, brunch places and shops on the doorstep. The West Village is really the place to stay. Communication was great and Gary always replied very quickly to our messages, we picked the keys up at a nearby building which was very easy. He also let us check out late on our day of departure which really was so helpful and much appreciated. We did underestimate the noise level from the very busy 7th avenue/subway/general street noise. We didn't sleep at all the first night but soon bought ear plugs which definitely helped, we could not have slept without them. The building works next door probably didn't help with the noise level either. What I must say though is that it is after all NYC and noise is and was expected, it certainly didn't put a dampener on our weekend and after a few nights we did get used to it!