Krys’s place is cosy, filled with oldskool antique toys and an amazing comfy bed. At first glance we were a bit uncomfortable with the fact that there no windows (it’s a basement apartment), but that doesnt matter much: New York is a place to go out, not stay in peering out through a window ;)
The location is in a friendly and safe neighborhood, also around the corner from the trainstation, stores and (good mexican!) restaurants. Its a bit far from popular parts of Queens, but the M-line takes you straight to Williamsburg and Manhattan (30 mins). The M-line does stop after 22:30, but we quickly learnt that Uber is a very fast and relatively cheap way to be able to commute in NYC.
Unfortunately we did have some issues during our stay. It’s hard to summarize all that happened and frankly I just dont want to get upset all over again. But we were (upset) and it shaded our experience in NYC.
In short (cutting out most details of the situation) our main problem is that we felt stranded the second day -while being with a kid, without luggage and having problems with the US mobile network. There were sewage probs in the apartment (went over the floor of the apt) and at about 20:00 we heard the prob wasnt fixed yet. I know Krys was working hard on fixing the prob (in the end she did but it was too late for us) but nevertheless we had to find other costly (!!!!) last minute accommodations by ourselves while having a sleeping kid on the shoulder (again: while being without luggage). I really missed some help there. A host helping with a back up plan for her guests.
On the other hand I made a mistake with the booking on our last day and Im glad we were able to stay another night after a nice chat with Krys’s mother. So thank you for that.
Its a pity we didnt speak after all of this. I asked (via text) to say ‘hi’ face to face cause i felt it would clear up the air from both sides. its a pity Krys never reacted to this.