The apartment is kept very clean and has beautiful wood floors and exposed brick and the room was much larger than it looks like in the picture. A nice surprise is the kitchen is large with lots of spices and condiments left from previous tenants which was a nice added bonus. There is a lot of storage in the room and in the bathroom too.
The family taking care of the place are the nicest, friendliest people they really made me feel welcome.
My only issue was the area. I was generally fine in the day. At night I would always take a cab home and every taxi driver warned me about the area.
It was generally quiet except the LIRR train is very loud honking all hours of the day and night and the projects that were next door and behind the building had a few parties that were very loud and ended by 11 pm, so it could have been worse, and there were some crazy loud fighting that was just generally terrible to hear.
It's a fourth floor walk up and it was nice when I arrived that one of the caretakers carried my bag up to the apartment.