We can highly recommend Anna's place, especially to people who want to get a glimpse of real life in NYC.
It's no fancy hotel type style and we haven't seen any other tourists.
The people were all very nice and friendly.
If you are Spanish speaking and not fluent in English, thinks your place.
Area: Dominican South American neighborhood with nice people, nice music, good food, tons of grocery shops around. Real life and no tourist traps, we loved it there.
Even coming home late by subway was no problem.
Commute to town:
From Washington heights is easy to go downtown there are even express Subways round 2 block. One is going straight to South ferry (statue of liberty) in an hour.
House: it's a typical 5story town house with no elevator. You have to go up to the 4th floor. Neighbors are very nice and even talk to you.
The apartment has all you need and is very clean. Perfect.
Ana waited for us to check in and showed us around. She even had cold drinks ready for us.
As we love Italian coffee we were happy to see she had an Italian expresso maker.
All in all we would be happy to stay there again.