William is a fantastic host and I could not recommend him or his place highly enough. 9 girls slept in the place comfortably and it is well set up for large groups, the kitchen has everything you could ever possibly need. The beds are large and comfortable and the place is quite modern and incredibly spacious for New York. The neighbourhood isn't bad at all. I wouldn't recommend walking alone late at night, but that goes for all of NYC, we had no issues at all, it was about a 10min walk to central park and most of our group walked to all the attractions we went to, the subway is literally 5 minutes around the corner and took no more than 5-10minutes to get into times square the centre of NYC, it also runs straight through to Brooklyn if you're interested. The place was clean and bright and modern, there was heaps of Linen and William was the perfect host!