Our experience at Mike's was great! The apartment is an excellent value for a 2 bedroom 2 bathroom apartment so easily accessible to the central tourist area of NYC.

The building, itself, is attractive, and the apartment is spacious, chock-full of extras (like towels, linen, blankets, velvet hangers, comforters, cleaning and laundry supplies, paper towels, etc) in case we needed them, well-decorated and generally clean. The bedding was super comfortable and the central air was a definite plus for being in the city.

While the apartment is in need of a paint job (you could tell that someone had lived there before and had scuffed the walls and the stairs inside the apartment) and could use some dusting here and there, it was generally clean (keep in mind that it's a large apartment, so there's a lot of space to cover) and the bathrooms were immaculately clean.

The location is definitely in an area of Harlem that is in socio-economic transition, but knowing that we were coming to an area like that, we were totally comfortable with what we found there. There were people of all ethnic and cultural backgrounds walking in the area, and the local police precinct is literally two or three doors down from the building with police officers are constantly visible around the clock. The building is gated and locked, so with all of that, we had no worries whatsoever about our safety or security.

Mike's assistant, Kaye was available to answer any question we had, sent us an email detailing all of the essential information, and arranged for Mike's friend Luke to meet us. Luke was extremely welcoming, friendly and helpful. He helped us with our bags (4th floor walk-up), and gave us great tips for what to do and eat in the area. The personal touch of meeting up with such a genuinely nice guy was definitely the the cherry on top our excellent experience.

I would stay there again without a doubt. I loved the place!