First, the positives: It's a couple blocks from the 36th Ave station and a couple blocks from Broadway -- you can pretty much explore Astoria on foot, and it's a cool neighborhood. And the laundromat is ~50 yards from the door.
Negatives: it's a small room with no windows and the walls are super-thin so you'll hear everything happening in the rooms on either side of you. You're sharing a bathroom with 3 or more people, depending on if the other 3 rooms have guests. I think, even for NY, it was overpriced at $1350/month. (I stayed one month.)