Nice apartment with the great location (but not very nice experience).
This is really a kind of a review I would be thankful to read before the stay - unfortunately, there were no with sufficient description at that time.
The apartment is exact on the photos, which is great and without any surprises. If you like bright interior - you’re welcome, personally for me was a bit pressing and hard to feel cozy inside.
The location is fabulous, close to the Central Park (15 min walking), 6 and Q train, located right on the second avenue, 2nd floor walk up by stairs with no elevator.
Equipped with all the appliances, washer and dryer in unit (which is great), dishwasher, please note - no hair dryer (do not understand why, frankly speaking).
Very nice manger and a landlord when facing them at the office - but not when you are trying to call. As a visitor, you do not always have a local phone number, so I suppose there has to be a way to call the landlord / management by any other means. I didn’t succeed when there was an emergency situation and that was awful experience.
The heating turns on when it’s getting colder outside and one day at 3 am in the night the radiator started leaking with steam and water. I wake up because it was in the bedroom and impossible to sleep, it was so loud that even heard outside of the apartment. I tried to call the emergency number for 9 times but was not able to succeed. The noise and leaking was so awful that I had to sleep at the coach and close the door to the bedroom, put my AirPods with sound proof. It continued for almost 12 hours.
Later the day, the management told that it’s ok when the radiator makes noise (and that’s true but not SO loud with steam coming from it), but sent a men to fix this. I hoped it would be better, but every next night when it was cold outside, I was experiencing the same situation again and again (thanks god it was really warm October). The leaking was not so bad, but the noise was unbearable. Can’t imagine staying there in the winter.
And there was one more unpleasant situation (I hope though this will not happen again, but have to write this for the complete review).
A mouse was running in the apartment. In the evening, it ran into the bedroom from the kitchen when I was reading on the bed and then ran back to the kitchen. I was really shocked.
I contacted the host via AirBnb the next day (remembering it’s useless to try calling them at night), they sent a men and fixed the hole that was behind the dishwasher (why isn’t that possible to check for such big holes before check-in????).
I understand this happens, but my experience was not perfect at all..
Overall, I would recommend Afi and their apartments (I am sure they have a lot) maybe It was me who was not so lucky for the things to go smoothly.