Not recommended
We stayed in this apt for Christmas and New Years in 2021/2022 for 10 days.
The location is excellent, but there are several things we complained about and you should know before booking this apt.
The apt wasn't cleaned when we arrived. The owner, who was on vacation herself, blamed the (cleaning) girl that was there when we arrived, she should have cleaned it better. Dirty dishes, dirty floor. We had to clean this ourselves.
The owner later stated that the cleaning girl lost her job because she had to wait longer in the apt because we were delayed. She could have done some more cleaning in the meantime... The rest of the apt is old, rusty, dusty and greasy.
After a few days, we found cockroaches in the bathroom. After complaining, the owner claimed that NY is famous for them and then stated she had never seen one in her bathroom before. But, we found several, so that seems hard to believe. We bought bug spray ourselves and fumed the place and after that we didn't see them again. But still, the idea was just disgusting.
The owner advised us to take out the garbage every day, which we already did.
There are people in the building heavily smoking pot. The smell lingers in the hallway and sometimes even penetrates into the apt. Not exactly the smell we like. The owner claimed that it's legal in NY now and it is normal to smell it everywhere. Maybe normal to her, not to us.
When we arrived, there were signs of drugs substance production or use in the stair case; pills, chalk powder, razor blades, a broken phone, just weird stuff. Maybe this was caused by the fact that the front door of the building is just always open and everyone can walk in and out. Not really a safe feeling.
After complaining, the owner contacted the building cleaning lady and everything was cleaned up. We did not see any of this again.
Also, there was (and is currently and probably will be for a while) a construction site right across the street from the apt. This means every day at 7 am you will be awake from the drilling, hammering, metal grinding, and all the other building noises. Not really something the owner can do anything about, but she had to have known about this (she mentioned this could have caused the dust in the apt) and didn't give us a heads up; we probably would have stayed somewhere else if we had known this in advance.
All together, we did complain and asked for a partly refund for this apt, for which we paid a lot of money, but the owner denied this and said it was a fair price and claimed she did everything to impove our stay.
We did have a great vacation in NY, and again, the location is great, but had we known these issues beforehand, we would have picked a different apt.
Your choice.