Raquel's place was good value for our first time to Brooklyn/ New York. It was an easy 10 min walk to the M line to get into Manhattan, depending where you get off it would take between 30-45 mins from door to destination.
The entire place was well heated during our stay (Nov/Dec). Our only set back was on the night of our check in (Wednesday) and again a week later, there was a band practicing down stairs until about 10:30pm. The noise travels quite easily through the floorboards and it can be a bit of a noisey neighbourhood but aside from that it was a good stay.