It was overall a great experience to stay at Hannah’s place! The apartment was very convenient and nice to stay at. There is a balcony in the apartment, and it has a nice view of the nearby buildings and the East River. The kitchen is pretty spacious, and there’s also a window in the kitchen space (which is not very common and really appreciated). The apartment itself is also very spacious. Big living room, three bedrooms with 4 beds in total.
There are many facilities in the apartment building, including rooftop garden, office space, resident lounge, and laundry. There is also a gym with adequate amount of equipments located in the building, available for free. We would often go to the gym to exercise around night time, and there’s usually quite a few people there too.
The apartment is located right by East River. It is nice to go out for a walk by the river, and there’s also a nice view of the river right from the apartment’s balcony. There is a few bus lines nearby, such as M34/M34A park (3 mins walk from the apartment) that mostly goes along 34th Street and M15 which can reach Chinatown easily. Subway stations are further away; you’ll need to get to around Grand Central or so (which is about 15-20 mins walk) for a station.
There’s a small convenient store, Bread & Butter, right downstairs the apartment, so it’s nice to get some simple necessities and food over there. For supermarket, we usually went to Fairway which is about a 5-10 mins walk from the apartment. H Mart at Korea town is also convenient to go, since M34/M34A can get us really close to there.
A downside for this apartment would be the noise level. It is located very close to a highway, so there’s a lot of traffic. On top of that, there’s a helicopter landing field really close by too. It gets really noisy when helicopters take off and land (which is surprisingly quite often), so it’s hard to keep the windows opened.