The place is lovely and pretty much as shown in the pictures. However, you could tell it’s a old house and we did encounter some small issues. The venting tube of the AC unit fell off once. We had a short power outage when I used the hair dryer in the bedroom (the outlets in the bedroom seemed to be all connected to the same power source so it probably got overloaded with the AC). The smoke alarm kept beeping for the whole night since there were some issues with the batteries. Anyway, I'm not saying I don't recommend living here I'm just saying it's an old house and be prepared there might be some issues like these. That said, Carmela & Miguel were pretty prompt in their reply and willing to help solve those issues. Carmela even got us an extra fan when we realized there's no AC in the living room. The neighborhood, though, felt a little scary and honestly we didn't feel quite safe, but it helped that the house is 2 mins away from the subway station so nothing bad really happened. Location-wise, it takes about half an hour to get to downtown Manhattan, but if you're going midtown or uptown it takes some extra time. Overall, this place is of great value especially considering its price. The house is nicely decorated, and the hosts were really nice too!