This is a great apartment at the northern edge of Midtown East, just on the edge of the Upper East Side. It is surrounded by high-end lighting, bath fixture, rug, and design stores; within 2-3 blocks of nearly any chain you can think of, from Hermes to Home Depot; and about five blocks from Central Park.
The apartment itself was as pictured, spacious, wonderfully clean, and stylishly designed, with a minimalist modern style. It has large windows, with A/C on both floors. The bathroom was marble and lovely. The bedroom was large and attractive, although the mattress would probably be pretty firm for most people's taste. The kitchen was the only underwhelming room, being in the back of the apartment, away from the windows, and a little cramped.
Gordon was a delight: easy to communicate with, and very helpful with package delivery and other logistical concerns.
Outside the apartment, the stairwell looked pretty drab and worn, and the central hallways, like most of Midtown Manhattan, sometimes smelled faintly of garbage. There is laundry in the basement. The machines are good, but the laundry card system is cumbersome (often involving extra trip up and down as many as six flights of stairs to look up numbers on the laundry card machine, on your computer, etc.) and the drain below the laundry room often exuded, again like much of Midtown Manhattan, a faint putrid odor.
All in all, a large and attractive space and a good value in a convenient area, depending on your reasons for being in the city, of New York. And with a wonderful host.