The apartment has one good aspect, its location. It's 7 minutes walking from a subway station that leaves you in Manhattan in around 30 min. Rupanjot is a good host but I think this apartment would be much more valuable with more care from his part.
The ad says it has bathroom equipment but the shampoo and conditioner were clearly from previous guests (4 bottles of different conditioners are clearly not necessary), they wanted to give us two towels for three people and 8 days at first, so we had to ask for the third one. I think that towels and blankets should have been already in the apartment ready for us to use.
There is no central heating, only two electric ones, which in one room was not enough to keep it warm. We've been in Christmas and it wasn't excessively cold but with the real NY cold I'm not sure how warm the rooms would be with just that.
There are no windows (it's the basement of the house, and in fact they had access from their house directly from a door). The furniture is old and kind of shabby. The kitchen equipment was dirty and there were some plastic forks and knives instead of metal ones (shabby again).
To sum up, although the overall experience hasn't been terrible, if I had to come back to NY I would look for another apartment, even paying 200$ more for staying in a much more welcoming and comfy place.