We had a great stay at Steph’s place in the East Village :) The area is great: lots of restaurants & bars nearby, close to a park, and easy walk to the subway if you want to leave the area. Steph left us a bottle of wine and plenty of recommendations for what to do and was very quick to reply if we reached out with a question. The only bad thing about the apartment was the bed - we nearly went out to buy a mattress pad because you can feel every spring in it.