This review is not meant for people visiting NYC for a couple days and spending most of their time outdoors. I think Genae's place might suit the purpose for such people. However, I had intended it as a place to work from home and ran into multiple issues:
1. The neighborhood is loud and rowdy. People will be blasting music as early as 9 a.m and as late as 2 p.m. It's impossible to conduct meetings or even sleep peacefully most nights without putting on headphones. They even light firecrackers and every so often, I would find people gathered right outside, smoking and drinking. It did not feel like a very safe neighborhood to me.
2. The WiFi is unstable. Not suited at all if you really on a reasonably fast internet connection for your work.
3. The room has no private door - just a sliding door. And as such, noise from the kitchen/common space easily gets in. One of the housemates was insensitive enough to play the TV really loud in spite of requesting to lower the volume, and similarly, if you talk loud enough, it is bound to get out.
Genae tried to be quite accommodating, and was always reachable. She's surely a very kind host. However, I feel it would have been better if she could inform me about these things prior to my booking.