A really nice apartment located at the 3rd floor, fully equipped and - best of all - very, very clean. The furniture is nice. The bedroom is to the quiet rear of the house towards the backyards.
Sadly the WiFi did not work properly at all, connection was interrupted every few moments, obviously the router was damaged. For me it was annoyingly, for that I had to do some work with my notebook. Simon promised to fix this quickly.
Staircase is small and steep, but normally this should be not a problem. There is no elevator.
Communication was okay, while Simon was out of the City during our visit.
The apartment is located in a well refurbished house in a gentrified residential area right in Harlem. Population is mainly black, and - as in many parts of NYC - there are very poor as well as prosperous residents on the streets. The area itself is safe and we always felt secure, except when we went a few blocks more to the north… Seems not to be an area to go to, especially for white people. But there is no real need to go there.
We did most of the shopping at the Whole Food Market which is really modern, best equipped and has a broad varied sortiment, especially we liked its sortiment of different local beers, we found just here. Also good is its bakery.
The Pioneer market is less expensive and not stylish at all, but also good sorted. Staff is quite unkindly.
We had dinner at the Red Rooster, at Silvia's and at Social Corner.
All of these were really good and different, each worth a visit! In my opinion food was best at Sylvia's, but best bar and live music was at the Red Rooster .
Anyway, I would always suggest to reserve a table for dinner in advance, otherwise you might wait up to an hour or more.
All in all - an apartment to recommend.