My friend and I had an awesome time in Skip's house and we loved having the large bedroom upstairs as our base while exploring New York. Skip is a great host and we had a very good communication with him even before we arrived to NY as well as during our stay. He gave us some great advices and was a really nice person to talk to about plenty of different things. He made sure we are taken care of and have everything even though he couldn't move a lot because of his injured foot. The neighbourhood is really nice and safe with plenty of shops and restaurants, and there is a subway station just a half a minute walk away with 2 local and one express train getting you to Manhattan in 15 minutes. Everything was as shown in the pictures and explained in the description. I would recommend staying here to everyone, unless you are allergic to cats, because there are 2 big beauties in the house.