This is a spacious 2 double bed apartment in Jamaica, Queens with all the facilities that you need for your trip, great value for money and with an excellent host.
The apartment is one of three in the same building sharing access but it is secure with key code entries on the communal door from the street and on your own front door. It has been recently refurbished and my mother and I appreciated the home from home touches on our recent trip to New York.
The area itself is a busy residential area with shops but lacking deli’s and restaurants for example. It’s not somewhere I’d feel very safe walking around on my own at night (but very few places are these days to be fair) although the local residents were very friendly and chatty when we saw them during the day. End to end it takes around one hour to get into Manhattan. You have a number of options in which to do that as the bus stop is practically outside the door or you can take a quick Uber (about 10 minutes) to the local subway which we did instead. I realise this can be off putting to some people but this is reflected very fairly in the price as you will struggle to find anything of this size and comfort for anywhere near the same cost closer to Manhattan so please bear that in mind.
The stand out positive was the hosts who were very accommodating and bent over backwards to help. Communication was excellent and you couldn’t and wouldn’t want to fault them.
Thank you so much for your consideration and the great care you took of us during our stay.