We stayed at Renee's place for 10 nights and we really enjoyed our stay there. There is heaps of room, especially for New York and the air conditioning was amazing as it was quite warm when we were there. The little kitchen means you can cook meals yourself if you are sick of American food! The king bed is super comfy as was the single bed, just note that to get to the second bedroom you need to go through the main bedroom which we didn't realise until we got there. Also don't rely on using the fold out bed as it is broken, luckily we didn't need it.
There are good little bars, cafés and restaurants around, even a coffee place that gets close to Melbourne coffee! The only thing that didn't work for us was we wanted to spend most our time in Williamsburg as it's the cool place to be and Bed-Stuy is a bit more of a hike than we thought and the G line is a bit unreliable. Bed-Stuy maybe for the more adventurous like we were, we came across a block party that Dave Chapelle was at!
Overall Renee's place is a safe and comfortable place to stay in an upcoming part of Brooklyn.