My favourite room in the apartment is the bedroom. It is spacious both in dimension and non clutter. The room is filled with light and the outlook is a snapshot of a thousand movies. The windows are lovely and it was beautiful to watch the snow fall outside from the refuge of the bed.
The Living Room is similar in a kind of IKEA way, comfortable to be in and watch TV if too much choice is your penchant. 150 television shows is a lot to wade through if 149 are rubbish.
My least favourite room in the house is the kitchen. It's obviously not a cook's kitchen and is dark and dirty and smells of gas. It doesn't matter what causes the smell, it's not nice. We didn't spend much time there.
The apartment hadn't been prepared for a reasonable length stay. Given that we had put our money down for a three and a half weeks sojourn, it would have been welcoming to clean out perhaps a chest of drawers and closet so we had somewhere to hang our clothes and hide our underwear. We got 2 empty drawers. The closet in the hallway was full of clothes. It had so much stuff on the bottom that my shirts couldn't actually hang properly. And rather than tell us we couldn't use the left over food, it might have been nice to pack it up and hide it, or perhaps go out and shop for new groceries to welcome us. This wasn't an overnighter.
It was refreshing to find a place that didn't have adjoining walls with other apartments. The location is great. Close to the subway with a few shops around. Last year we stayed further up Manhattan in the Dominican Republic enclave. Sugar Hill is a lot more salubrious but it's amazing how much more fun the poor people have.
The hot water is good and the internet is reliable and fast. The heating needs a lot of maintenance. Only one fin in the living room worked and the heating in the bedroom hissed steam into the room. We turned it off. It was snowing outside. Someone hadn't done their job properly.
One last thing, on arriving the welcome message set out a few rules mainly about what we were not allowed to do, and one request was to lie to anyone who asked why we were there. I'm not used to this sort of behaviour. I know the president lies every day and marketing in USA appears to consist of lies and nothing but lies, but it's not our standard. I'm sorry America, lift your game.