Well, the next time I am in New York I will be sure to book early so I can stay in Elisa's place again! Her checkin and checkout instruction were super straight forward and in a very cool area, right next to the metro on 103rd St (which I used every day that I went downtown to the conference I attended) In that area there were lots of restaurants, bars, cafes etc and when I went downtown it only took about 20 minutes each trip to reach my 23rd St location. Thanks so much Elisa :-)