This was a delightful apartment and the best Airbnb experience I've had. Anna wasn't in town but Ximena gave us the friendliest welcome - she's an Airbnb professional who knows her city and knows how to make people feel at home. The Bed Stuy location is ideal - it managed to feel well connected to Manhattan, as well as a quiet, leafy retreat from the city; it was full of nice corners to eat and have coffee (Ximena can recommend), yet gentrification hasn't laid waste to the area, and it feels like there's a solid sense of community. The apartment itself was cool even in the midsummer heat. It's clean and uncluttered, decorated with interesting splashes of colour, art, hangings, and shelves full of architecture and history books, Walter Benjamin and Australian novels. A perfect base camp for our New York adventures. And honestly - the most interesting and generous hosts you could imagine.