The apartment is in a lovely old and characterful building on a quiet street perfectly positioned for so much of the best of New York. Being on the top floor you get lovely views, are in the tops of the trees surrounding the apartment, and it is very quiet. The apartment has loads of room, and lots of storage … a rare thing in Manhattan. We were unlucky in that there was lots of road works and electricity network works in the middle of the night while we were there, but on other nights it was quiet for New York, and is a ‘plus’ for this apartment. The bathroom and kitchen are small and quite basic. Challenges we found with the age of the building were hot water - it took over 10 minutes to run the taps in the morning before we had any hot water; and heating - you cannot control the heating in the apartment and on a few nights we had heating on full blast, windows wide open and sleeping without any covers followed by needing to wear a coat and hat to stay warm during the day. The hosts said this had not been an issue for previous tenants.