My mother and I stayed for 10 days in Natasha's place in Brooklyn in April. Both of us are experienced travellers and have travelled extensively in India, have used Airbnb several times before and don't have high cleaning requirements.
Therefore, staying with Natasha was a reasonably good experience. The accomodation is fairly cheap. The neighborhood is community-based and has not yet been gentrificated, so both of us found the area interesting. The subway and busses are very close by, we got a bus map for Brooklyn from the local library around the corner. The lady taking care of the place was very helpful providing extra blankets, heating in the room, food for breakfast and also offering us the one bike that was available.
Had it been my place, I would probably have chosen to focus on keeping the place cleaner instead. For example fixing the plumbing in the shower, as the water was running constantly during our stay. Another thing is the mice. Had it been my place having as many as theirs, I would also make a bigger effort to get rid of them. Our room had a distinct smell of mice from our arrival, but it wasn't till after 5-6 days that we actually saw a mouse in our room and till we left that we saw the mice poo in the drawer. Even though the caretaker had suggested us to have breakfast in our room, we did not and didn't keep food there either. We are from the countryside and are used to occasionally having mice. This place has a lot, has had them for a long time and will not get rid of them till the house is being thoroughly cleaned, traps are put up consistently and holes in walls etc. have been fixed.
Also, do remember to ask for clean sheets, we found old chewing gum in ours, but got a clean set of sheets when we asked for it . Finally, I would recommend Natasha to make cleaning utensils available. As it is clear from the listing - and the level of cleaning - that it is the guests own responsibility to clean the place, it would be nice to have access to a vacuum cleaner, proper soap and fresh towels for the kitchen.