Ricardo is a great host - super friendly, always ready to help and answer all your questions. He values your space as well as we did but we had great small talks when meeting occasionally.
His apartment is the same as listed - not that modern but equipped with different modern devices - awesome huge TV, Alexa, Sonos, Dyson Heater/Cooler. These perks made our staying!
His kitchen contains everything for cooking (but we just used the fridge) and was always clean and tidy. Coffee and tea were available at all times.
It takes approximately 50 min to get to Manhattan - several min walk to the bus, 10 min on the bus to the subway. The buses and subway were available all the time so that wasn’t a problem at all.
The area didn’t feel very safe to me but we returned home late several times and no accidents were faced during the whole staying - all people seemed friendly and calm.
Good value for money.