It was a fine stay and I had one of the best rooms in the building (corner unit with lots of windows). I did poke my head into another unit down the hall when that person checked out and it was very small and very dark. You don’t get a choice of rooms so if you’re going to be there a lot just know that going in.
If all you want is a place to park your stuff and be in a great location for a good value, this is your spot. 10 minutes from the park, 10 minutes from the Hudson, and 5 minutes from an express train. Lots of great bars, restaurants, pizza joints, etc. All of that is great, and you get it for much less than the price of rent. Incredible value in that regard.
But to use AirBnB in NY you have to stay there over a month and there were some issues I experienced that were aggravating as someone who stayed there for 2.5 months. So some reasons I knocked off some stars:
-My first or second day there I put in a request to fix some issues around the apartment. They did give me the tea kettle I asked for but I had an issue with the WiFi (it was very spotty in my corner room) and the issue was not resolved even though in the email they told me they had taken care of everything. So I had to buy an extender. And the closet door I told them about remained broken. I had to repair it as best I could but it was janky.
-Their system for receiving mail/packages is ad hoc and confusing. At first I was told to have mail and packages sent to the main office, which is pretty dang far away, south of Murray Hill. Then I was told, actually you can have mail sent directly to the apartment. But then they put a sign on the door (with no warning) asking all couriers/vendors not to deliver to the apartment and to habe it sent to the main office. I had a package delivered to the main office (that all my co-workers received) but I never did. The one time another package was delivered to the main office they never alerted me to its arrival.
-On that same note, I successfully had dry cleaning delivered to the apartment a few times. I had been told by someone in the office to give the delivery person the access code, which worked at first. But then it didn’t, the delivery person was forced to wait outside until someone exited. I sent several emails asking for instructions on how to handle such deliveries and no one answered me.
So I think three stars is a fair review. I was not home much during my stay so some of these things might have been more aggregating if I had been there more. That said, some of those annoyances are balanced out by the great location and value pricing.