I will start as positive as possible and say the neighborhood is awesome. The east Village has lots of great restauraunts. The apartment was clean, the bathrooms were nicely fitted. However, we had trouble making it up all 50 very narrow stairs to the apartment and were dismayed to realize we had to cut through the kitchen of another tenant to get to the top two floors. The Bosch appliance in the kitchen did not work, there was a small two ring camping stove set on top of it, it barely boiled water. The bedrooms were extremely basic. One of them had very little privacy as the blinds were broken. There was no covers on some windows and the door to the front veranda was broken and would not lock. The plug sockets were faulty, sparks flew when appliances were unplugged. The absolute worst thing was that there was no hot water and no heat!!! There were four of us and nobody could shower!! The restauraunt on the lower floor loaned us a space heater but that's not much good for heating two floors.!!! Bottom line is we found a nice hotel and left. I would not recommend this place to anybody until the host fixes the problems. By the way the host was totally non responsive to my emails, phone calls and texts. Airbnb refunded my money so I was happy with that. But with this apartment , not so much. I was very, very disappointed such a rotten start to our NY getaway.