This was one of my favorite Airbnb home stays. Bertha & Napo have the Latin American spirit of sharing that makes for a fun, happy home. If you are lucky enough to be here at Christmastime, you will find their house a decorated masterpiece of lights and ornaments, and I assume the same thing happens at all the other holidays throughout the year. My bed was extremely comfortable, there are expansive views from the windows, and all the amenities work well. I love this very real feeling Spanish-speaking neighborhood and apartment building. For wonderful coffee and outstanding breakfasts I recommend your visiting The Floridita under the elevated tracks at the end of the street, and the Domenican and Ecuadorian diners around the corner below the 207th St. metro station.
This location is also the perfect base camp from which to explore The Cloisters, New York Botanical Gardens, The Bronx, and The Bronx Zoo, all of which are well worth seeing. When you need your nature fix, a 10-minute walk takes you into the most beautiful, (quite) hilly and forested Inwood Hill Park. On the waterfront side of this park, you can find Shorakkopoch Rock (it's on Google Maps) with a metal plaque marking the spot where Manhattan Island was, according to legend, sold to the Indians living here in 1626 for about 60 gilders worth of trinkets and beads. I never knew if this notorious real estate transaction was historic fact or urban myth, and well, now I know as well as anybody what really happened.