Location, location, location. The location is great. Just as one example, we ate our last three meals within 50 feet of the front door: lunch at Blue Haven (remarkably good food for a university sports bar), dinner at Arturo’s, and breakfast at the bakery (Francois Payard or some similar name). The apartment is not super close to any one subway, but it’s a plausible walk to all of them: the 1-2-3, the 4-5-6, and the alphabet lines. Washington Square Park, the West Village, and the stores on Prince Street and Broadway are easy walks.
The host was extremely attentive, texting us several times during our first few days to see if we needed anything. The two small questions we had she answered almost instantly.
It's not the Ritz. If you are looking for a luxury suite, look elsewhere. It's a typical older, largely unimproved NY apartment.