Maria’s place was a great stay in Astoria within close walking distance to stores and restaurants with friendly neighbors and a nice coffee shop two doors down. The furnishings are quite basic, but you have everything you need and the two bedrooms in NYC were perfect for our trip. As others have noted, you are on the same street as the train, so it is quite a prominent noise in the house. During our summer stay we also had the AC on overnight so for me that was enough to drown out the train noise.