Third floor location...close to the posh restaurants, the Soho, Nolita, Washington Square park, and tons of good stuff. Great place for backpackers or if you want to crash with your 6 other high school friends, who don't mind just passing out anywhere.
If the place looks cheaper (price-wise) there is a good reason: it is put together cheaply (dumpster-diving someone?). No piece of furniture in this place matches another single item.
YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.
The first impression is the access: steep, dirty looking stairwell, with a three doors and a single lock separating your (rock-hard) bed from the concrete jungle. Oh, and the second night we woke up to that single lockable door, open by one of our careless neighbors upstairs.
Trash bags outside the door? check.
As you walk in, the interior of the space matches your first impression: One big non working refrigerator with paint cans stacked above it, that reeks when you mistakenly open it (no worries, there is another -working- fridge). A micro-toilet closet apt only for tiny people that doesn't mind using the toilet sideways. A clothes washer that leaks (as per the note displayed on it). A very interesting shower under the stairwell , with walls above head that eerily resemble cracked lead paint: however the water pressure was great and the hot water abundant.
The "kitchen" is shared with the other two apartments in the fourth floor, and your toilet and shower open to this common space...no direct access from your "Guest studio" (look for duct-taped signs on doors).
In our visit (2018 Christmas) the inside temperature must have been near the 80 degrees inside, and the only way control it was to open the shrink-plastic covered windows. A call to the landlord went unanswered.
The space is clean, the linens and towels were as well. Light bulbs were missing and the table lamps were not operating. The remote control batteries had exploded long time ago inside the remote.
We have stayed in at least 3 different Aribnb's over the years, multiple other rentals and many hotel rooms in NY and other cities...and every place had some charm, no matter how simple. This place was not HORRENDOUS but bad, with no saving grace.
We give it 2 stars because the place was very inexpensive, so we came bracing for what we were going to find.... again: you pay cheap, you get cheap.