This was a good value. The South Bronx isn't on everyone's list of ten best places in NYC, but it worked out well for me with a bicycle in the summer. The rides home in the warm evening were delicious experiences. The host was intent on seeing to it that I had my needs met, but it was a challenge to understand where she was coming from. I asked for a bowl and spoon and she provided a plastic take-out container for the former and handed me the latter dramatically, as if she was making a sacrifice. Then at the end she called me demanding, I assume because of that special request. But, in fact she did a good job of hosting. Another puzzling thing was that at the outset she assured me that her boyfriend would be staying at his own place (it didn't matter to me where he stayed), but then it turned out he was present every night of the stay. The room was clean, quiet and relatively private.