If you need a short stay in central Harlem this place will probably be fine, but if you need to live there for a long stay, here’s what you need to know. 1) It’s loud. Not a little loud, but a lot loud a lot of the time. My first night at 2am on a Tuesday, someone pulled up in front of the building and blasted a car stereo for hours. That happened frequently. I had to find another place to stay during a holiday weekend, the block was so off the chain. If you’re remote working, you need noise canceling headphones if you plan to also run the air conditioner. It’s so loud, you can’t hear on a Zoom without headphones no matter where you are in the apartment. 2) The neighbor smokes cigarettes. If you are allergic, you won’t be able to breathe here. There are no windows to the outside in the bathroom or the kitchen where the secondhand smoke pools. 3) When I was there, the hot water was infrequent. I took five days of cold showers and had to wash up at the stove when I couldn’t take it anymore. When I reached out to Brooklyn about hot water, she said, “I can’t say this isn’t a norm” and promised to follow up but didn’t. Same with the noise. She said hadn’t experienced regular noise in the wee hours of the morning. I have no idea how ‘cause it seemed like the norm. The place is clean and there’s a decent amount of space. The location is great, but if you need quiet to work and sleep, clean air to breathe, and hot water to wash with then you shouldn’t stay here.