Europeans beware!!
This apartment is in a unsafe spot in Brooklyn. More on that further down.
Melissa was nice to communicate with over the app and was always quick to respond, but (unfortunately )we never saw her around. The check-in was easy. There were no instructions for the check-out though. The room has plenty of space for New York standards and the apartment was very! clean when we arrived. We had enough room to open both of our big suitcases and still move around. The aircondition-unit worked fine. It would have been great to have a small reading lamp next to the bed. The bed was very short although we both are only just around 1,76 m and the mattress was very soft. But it really just depends how you like it. So the apartment and room are nice and are good value for the money.BUT!
Unsafe neighbourhood.:
First of all Melissa is not to blame for the neighbourhood, but it still needs to be said!: There was a man SHOT and murdered a couple of houses down in the same street just 3 weeks before our stay there! (We saw the candles and googled what happened) And on the third night we stayed there two men tried to steal the tires of a car right in front of the house. They had the car jacked up and were ready to steal when we walked by. Also the neighbours seemed not bothered by it too much.
The Metrostation (Ralph Ave) stinks of urine and the streets around the apartment are very dirty.
During the day the area is alright and seems safe enough, but at night its a different story. There are the „projects“ as well...social housing blocks..where we saw police cars every night. As a european (and as a person that has never been to the „hood“) you have no idea what kind of neighbourhood you are entering. Since you cannot read the social cues if a situation is safe or not...people are safe or not...we would not recommend this neighbourhood and will not be coming back.