This place is warm, newly renovated, clean and has lots of beds. Check in was a breeze. This was good value for what was available at the time we booked which was 1 month in advance. I intitally thought this was a bogus listing because there was nothing else comparable as far as quality of space. I was pleased to see that it was legit. He even lowered his priced on some days after and I was quite suprized it was not taken when I last looked prior to our trip.
Within a block radius to list a few...you have a Organic Grocery store, metro station, two pharmacys ( one with Amazon Locker!), bagel place and thai resturant. It takes about 30 - 40 mins to get to Manhatten from Metro.
I have notifed the host that he should include basic items such as:
Salt, pepper and sugar
Kitchen scissors
Non stick frying pan
Baking sheet
Microwave cover
Broom and dust pan
Extra towels
HDMI Cable or Google Chromecast for the TV
Things to be aware of is the people living upstairs have kids and they do run around sometimes later into the night. We have two small kids and we did politely asked them to keep it down one evening and they responded well to our request. Maybe noise is a NYC standard but we were not use to the footsteps.
It was a bit tricky to find the right balance of room temperature between the buildings radiators and indivdual room conditioners.
All in all, it was very happy that we picked this reservation when I did. Rosario's communication is superb and really hope he considers adding the items above to make future stays more comfortable. I would book here again if me makes these adjustments.