THIS IS NOT IN LONG ISLAND CITY.

The listing is incredibly inaccurately marked on AirBNB’s rendered map, and what is generally considered Long Island City by New Yorkers. Her apartment is actually closer to the below address. This was very frustrating for us and we didn’t have time to arrange alternate arrangements. Regardless of Atlanta saying it says Long Island City - or some maps showing such, it’s not considered by locals or AirBNB’s rendered map to be anywhere near Long Island City. It’s actually in deep Astoria.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Broadway+%26+36th+St,+Astoria,+NY+11106/@40.7601058,-73.9214068,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c25f3a34e5bf11:0xa5605ef3f5add334
Broadway & 36th St, Astoria, New York 11106

It is not good value for it’s location, which is also misleading, as the location AirBNB’s website renders it as, it seems cheaper that it’s competitors - and that’s precisely because it’s Astoria, not LIC.

That being said, Atlanta seemed genuinely nice and friendly, and her apartment was sunny and warm.

However, I had many other issues with the apartment:

- There is a pipe in the bathroom that gets very hot, that runs floor to ceiling, and my GF burnt her arm on it. We should have been warned about it.
- The hot water in the shower isn’t very hot and the temperature fluctuates while you’re showering.
- The photos in the listing /are not the room she gave us/. She gave us her room, and had a room mate in the other room. Again, misleading advert.
- The bed in her room has some killer metal brackets sticking out of the foot of the bed, on which my GF and I both knocked our shins against several times. They jut - out quite far. There is some attempt to put light cushioning over them, but it’s totally inadequate. Again, we should have at least been warned about it.
- During the night, something keeps beeping. It may have been the metal in the heaters moving, or some peruser valve. It sounded to me like a phone line. It was very - annoying.
- The bathroom looks like it’s rotting in several places.
- I’m 6’1” / 210 lbs - the toilet is packed tightly between the wall and the bathtub, it was a squeeze for someone my size.
- The Internet was very slow.
- There is no plug for the sink in the bathroom.
- The sink and the bath doesn’t drain well at all.
- There is religious insignia all around the apartment, which you can’t see very well in the photos.
- Our arrival was quite awkward as I’d just carried a heavy suitcase up 2 flights of stairs, and she tried to get me to take my heavy boots off before putting my suit - case down somewhere.
- The hall way is completely lined and cluttered with shoes.

I would def not stay here again. Although Astoria seemed kinda nice. It’s much father away from the city than the real Long Island City is.