For comfort, a great location, fastidious cleanliness, and warm hospitality --all at a most congenial price-- Penny may offer the best accommodation in all of Manhattan! I've traveled to New York many times (in fact, was born and raised there), and am not much given to exaggeration: My four-day stay at Penny's proved nothing short of splendid, outstanding.
After a frustrating search through hotel listings for something affordable in midtown (an ordeal that got harder and harder each time), I found Penny's listing on airbnb. It was the first time I'd been aware of the site. Talk about serendipity! The day I arrived, my plane was four hours late; yet Penny handled the delay as smoothly and as congenially as I could possibly have hoped for. That great service was matched by the comfort that ensued.
Consider me now a rapturous convert. Midtown hotels could lower their rates by 50% --hell, by much more than that!-- and I will go instead to Penny Davidson's, if it's available. Once word gets around, though, that availability may become more and more difficult. I won't delay in booking.