Victor is a great host! Very friendly and accommodating. He stays in one of the rooms in the apartment so he is always available if you need anything.
The room is much bigger than I was expecting. There’s a coffee maker, an electric kettle, coffee, sugar and sweetener in the room. There is a nice desk with a lamp for studying. The bed is a queen size and very comfortable. The room has a nice flatscreen smart TV that’s equipped with Netflix and Hulu (and a few others I never used).
Location-wise, it’s two doors down from a laundromat which is convenient for long stays (as was mine. I was there for one month). There’s a grocery store along the same building off on Kingsbridge and at the corner of the block, there’s a great pizza place called Emilio’s. The apartment is directly across from a VA hospital so there will be a lot of flashing lights/sirens (but it’s NYC; that’s expected). The curtains in the room do a great job of blocking the light if you get them to sit right. The area is pretty safe for the most part. I didn’t wander out at night alone anyway; as soon as the sun started setting, I would get home ASAP.
Great place! Would definitely stay here again.