Great spot for being central and in the heart of the city and close to East Village / LES, and transport to everywhere else. ----- ------ There is a bar/beer-garden out back-- typical city/bar noise but they close it at a civilized hour. (If you are trying to sleep at 9:30pm in the middle of Manhattan then maybe consider a vacation to Montana instead?) If you get lucky there might be a (later) dance club downstairs on a Saturday night. Go dance, the DJ was awesome------ ------ "Vegetarian apartment -- no bringing or cooking meat" was a house rule we noticed only AFTER we achieved the reservation. I guess IF it was really important, it would be in the pre-booking description (Is it? We did not notice it til after). ----- ----- FYI YOU WILL BE STAYING IN SOMEONE'S HOME... their stuff IS in it (but they did a good job of putting it away). All in all it was a worthwhile deal.