This is a great apartment to use as a base for exploring all that the city of New York has to offer. Just around the corner from a J train station and only a few blocks from an L train station, my wife and I were easily able to navigate around the city using one of these stations as our starting point, depending on our destination. It's only a short ride in to the Lower East Side, Midtown or Williamsburg, and there are plenty of stations along the route where you can transfer to other lines as well.

The apartment itself is incredibly spacious, spotlessly clean, and benefits from a great deal of natural light. Well appointed throughout - including some groceries that Carmia and Joe had got in preparation for our arrival - it had everything we needed. As I am quite a light sleeper, we chose to minimise any potential noise from the nearby subway line by sleeping on the pull-out bed in the basement media room and this was incredibly comfortable (and peaceful!)

We didn't spend much time in the neighbourhood itself - save for walking to and from the subway - but the areas we did walk through all felt perfectly safe and were easy to navigate. Upon our arrival, Joe gave us a tour of the apartment and then for the remainder of our stay both he and Carmia were always on hand to help with any queries; being particularly accommodating in letting us store our bags on our final morning, so that we didn't have to drag them around the city before heading to the airport. Thank you again for that!

Overall, we would have no hesitation in recommending this apartment to other people who were looking for a comfortable, welcoming base from which to explore Brooklyn, Manhattan, or any other area of this wonderful city.