Pros: The room is as how it’s described. It is clean. Not a huge room but enough space for s single traveler. The bed is comfortable. The bathroom is also very clean. Although it’s shared, but since I came back late and leave early in the morning, I had never run into any issue.
Check-in was easy. I ran into traffic so I checked in around 7:15pm (passed the check-in deadline at 7pm). Brígida was accommodating and let her brother? nephew? Helped me check in.
Location was about 30 min subway to midtown, but for the price it was decent.
Cons: the portable AC in the room was more like a fan instead of AC, so during hot days it might be not that powerful. I ran into two days that reached 96F/36C and 90F/32C, and the room wasn’t ideally cool.
Another issue was not Brígida’s fault at all, so I didn’t deduct any stars based on that, but I think I will put it here for single female travelers to consider. The neighborhood was a bit… not so nice I’d say, although Brígida told me it was safe. During my check-in day around 7:15pm, there were a bunch of people smoking marijuana right in from the building door. I literally had to go across in the middle of them to get in the building. Three out of four nights when I came back, there were a bunch of people smoking, drinking, in front of the building door. I got worried after the first day of check-in, so eventually I called Uber/Lyft back everyday afterwards and asked the driver to watch me getting into the building. It wasn’t a neighborhood I felt safe to walk alone at night for sure, even though the subway station was just 5min walking distance. I guess if you are not a single female traveler, it would not be a problem.