Unfortunately, I can’t recommend this apartment. The apartment was clean and adequate. Prospective renters should be aware that the property is near the projects and city sanitation truck storage. I would certainly advise any single females to consider another option. There were sometimes issues with loud music and noise, most of the time during the day but sometimes at night. Certainly plenty of police sirens.
Those things are foreseeable, and didn’t cause me too much bother. But there were a number of hassles that ruined my stay. On arrival, the smoke detector was chirping every thirty seconds. The owner has various staff members that field her calls. Multiple individuals called themselves Michelle, so who knows who was actually on the phone. Ultimately, I changed the smoke alarm battery myself and was able to get the chirping to stop. The refrigerator was also broken, but the host had installed a mini-fridge, assuring me the fridge and freezer would have a missing part installed during the first week of my stay. It was not fixed until the end of the fourth week. So I made do with the tiny fridge and went to the grocery store several days each week.
The bed is also a fold-up bed with an uncomfortable mattress. I troubleshot this issue by buying a mattress pad, which helped.
Also during the first week, the in-unit AC started to malfunction, causing further beeping. That was another issue I had to troubleshoot. The owner sent a repairman who devised a temporary fix that caused it to stop beeping. He said that it likely needed servicing, which one of the Michelles noted and did nothing about. The issue was recurring during the month of my stay.
Ultimately, the quick fix the repairman told me to use stopped blocking the chirping noise so sleep was no longer possible unless i shut off the breaker that powered the AC, not ideal in July in NYC! I ultimately decided to vacate for my final week to stay with a gracious friend who offered her couch, glorious AC and even some fridge and freezer space! Although I informed the owner of all of these difficulties and the fact that i was compelled to move out five days early, I got plenty of “sorry about it!” but no compensation or partial refund was ever offered. Obviously a disappointing experience.