well, I chose the Daniel loft based on the reviews left by travellers.
First time in New York before booking I exchanged with this one in order to avoid any inconvenience during my stay. Communication was good.
But the problem arose when I arrived.
After a flight of more than 7:30 a.m.
I just wanted to sleep, to rest well the first morning so that I could enjoy the rest of my stay and be in good shape.
I received the day before a message from Daniel telling me that he would not be at the loft when I arrived and that we would see each other in the morning,
I told him that I had a long trip and that I intended to rest this first morning and that we would see each other when I woke up.
I arrived quite late in the evening I had warned him there is no problem for late arrivals knowing.

At 8 am Daniel arrived at the apartment with his dogs, and did not respect the fact that I was sleeping and made a lot of noise, coffee machine, blender etc... (kitchen facing the door « partition room »
he received the call from his girlfriend who had a car problem, he put her on speakerphone!!!
And spoke with her for several minutes.
The real bedroom is a partition, it's not a wall, it's planks, a rapid construction of what he calls a bedroom.
No isolation and no privacy you can hear everything.
So I couldn't rest (4 hours of sleep) so I got up.
Ithought to myself he looks cool I'm not here to have any problems let it pass.
We got to know each other a little, the communication went well.
After spending the day outside I come home tired I go to bed but impossible to sleep because the upstairs neighbor was making a lot of noise from 1 a.m. until 3:30 a.m.,
you can hear when he sings when he whistles, when he walks when he goes to the toilet in short we live with the neighbour. I send a message to Daniel asking him if the upstairs neighbor is aware that there is someone currently in his loft (because Daniel has another apartment where he lives there with his girlfriend next to this one) specifying that if I can't sleep in the morning and also in the evening it's going to be complicated.
I saw him in the morning, we don't discuss it, he tells me that it's New York, that's how the person upstairs used to live from his loft, etc. OK ! I don't want to epilogue let's move on.
2nd day I spend my day outside it snowed in it is very cold so happy to come back to be able to take a hot shower, and there Surprise !!!
the hot water only ran for two minutes,
I waited for it to come back of course still no hot water I turned off the water, I still turned on no hot water!!! The water was freezing, I had to rinse with.
I send a message to this one unfortunately it was a little late around 11 p.m. but I had no choice. He answers me by telling me that he had no problem with the water.
I dont think that Is it normal when it's over -5 degrees outside to take a cold shower ! So Too much for me, I send a message to Airbnb because for me it was too much trouble.
I could have overlooked a lot of things but not this.
Airbnb decides to inform him and there I discovered another personality of Daniel, he knocked very hard on the door spoke to me in an aggressive tone, and told me that I had one hour to leave the apartment (rather his place of work ),
I did not intend to leave an opinion but following his change of personality I thought that people might need this feedback to know that:
Daniel is a person who will be cool with you, which is completely normal, it is thanks to us that he can pay his 2nd rent!
and yes it's not an artists loft it's his place of work he's not just a painter he works on computer and machine he starts very early so if you've been on a long trip and you need of your first morning of rest in order to start your stay in shape you can forget!
you should also know that the cleaning leaves something to be desired, the room was full of dusted, I found the remains of chips on the floor, dust on the pillow (supporting evidence I took photos)
Note also that dog come inside « the private room partition » when you open it.
Know that this is the first negative opinion that I leave since I am registered on Airbnb (almost 9years)
I have traveled all over the world and it is one of my 1st bad experience in a country so far from mine.
I'm really amazed to see so many good feedbacks on Daniel I spent three really unpleasant days, I asked for a refund for the last 4 days that I will not spend in his apartment, which is totally legit, I could have ask for the full refund given the aggressive manner and the threatening tone of this one.
Know that I found in the heart of Manhattan a 4star hotel with all the comfort and cleanliness desired with the subway and restaurants right in front of this one, all for about the same price as "his freezing loft" where it saves water heating and cleaning…
Don't get me wrong to think it's good value for money, in short I didn't come on holiday for that kind of thing.
I do not recommend Daniel's loft either for couples or for single travelers but rather for workers or students.
Daniel will only be nice to you if you don't