This was a wonderful apartment with a great host! Deborah responded to our messages very quickly and was accommodating of our late afternoon flight by letting us store our bags in the apartment while we spent the morning out and about. The apartment looks exactly how it is pictured, with the exception of an additional couch in the dining room for extra sleeping space. There were five of us on our trip and we were never too crowded in Deborah's space. The apartment was a bit of a trek from the L train (a little over 10 minutes with luggage), but there is a bus stop up the block that will take you to the subway. Our only complaint was that we didn't have enough time to explore everything Alphabet City had to offer! We spent the majority of our trip in the Midtown area for Christmas displays, but you could easily spend your trip in the East Village and never run out of places to visit!