We stayed with Ayodele's apartment for 11 nights. Simone, his girlfriend, greeted us at the house - she was very welcoming and gave us helpful info about the closest station/supermarkets etc. She also warned us that it can feel unsafe for women especially to walk alone around the area at night, but I was with my boyfriend so it wouldn't be so bad. Ayodele was away on business for the first four days. He was nice, friendly and mostly stayed in his work room in the house. We felt comfortable in the house. Overall we really liked the apartment - it was clean, well kept, with good facilities like washing, drying, good kitchen and air conditioning, and is just as it was shown in the pictures. Also the room is sound proofed quite well - so even when the tv was on, we were never disturbed. A few negatives are: it's about 50 mins - 1h to get to central places like times square and central park, which got quite tiring to do everyday. The neighbourhood, Crown heights, is a little run down - and at night times it felt unsafe to us to walk to the apartment from the station. On a couple of occasions at night, a few strangers talked at us, (whom we ignored) and it felt quite intimidating. Also the neighbourhood can be loud - there were many people playing music out loud on the streets at night - but if you sleep with ear plugs, thus shouldn't be a problem. Overall we had a good stay here, but if I were to go to New York again, I'd choose to stay somewhere closer to central Manhattan and in a better area.