First of all, let me say that Gordon was a very friendly host who did a lot of things to help make our stay very nice. We stayed in the room on the main floor (not the basement bedroom).The price for the room is fantastic and the location is quite nice. Not ever having used AirBnB before, there were a few details I had not thought to ask about beforehand - staying in someone's home is obviously not as simple and straightforward as staying in a hotel (although far cheaper and more interesting): - The large room has white carpet (which Gordon understandably wants to keep clean) so no shoes in the bedroom (we kept ours in the hallway). No smoking inside the apartment. The bed is very comfortable, with down (feather) pillows. There's no closet in the room, but Gordon was willing to make space for us in the closets in the hallway (which was good, since we had suits and dresses for a wedding, brunch, after-party, etc.) It got unexpectedly hot and humid while we were there, which made being indoors uncomfortable, but Gordon has since installed an AC unit in the room, so that shouldn't be a problem. - The apartment is very spacious and beautiful. Gordon is living there (which turned out to be good, as he was often around to give us needed advice), and he sometimes rents the basement room to other guests. So of course we didn't have the whole place to ourselves, or access to Gordon's private quarters (but, as advertised, the large, very nice kitchen/dining room was fair game, and we were given some space in the fridge for our food). Frankly, we were mostly out sightseeing in New York anyway, Gordon and the the other renters were plenty friendly, quiet, and scarce, and the bedroom door locks. Gordon, if he is around, may share the very nice bathroom with you (connected directly to the bedroom), although he worked around our schedule, so it wasn't a problem (and there are locks on all the bathroom doors). - Of all the people I made inquiries to on AirBnB, I think Gordon was the fastest. He was great about personally contacting us well before we came. He was a good sport about our delayed arrival into Brooklyn. He answered our texts very fast, and he gave us lots of helpful information. Our laptop was busted, so he offered to find locations for us on his computer and print them out for us. He referred a car service to us, which we used a lot and was mostly excellent. He is a very interesting guy. He took great interest in me, personally, as well. I stupidly left an art print behind when we were leaving for the airport, and Gordon was nice enough to offer to mail it back to us. The location is in a nice part of Brooklyn, relatively close to the subway lines, and very close to a beautiful park, several...