I stayed at Anita's with my husband for 1 wk, which felt less like a vacation because there's nothing for tourist in the immediate area and we felt like we were living with people despite having our own space. In general her place is fairly clean and we'll set up with necessary amenities of an efficiency. Anita was reachable and as a hostess provided subway/ bus maps, and local take out menus, but had little knowledge about tourist atttactions or activities. My husband and I had to basically wing everything but we were able to get around with the subway ( which was either a 9 min walk and about 20min bus ride to or a 10 min walk...depending where we're going and which subway we had to catch) to manhattan and about Brooklyn, and we also rented a car for local activities.
The walls are paper thin and the porch where other tenants sat and smoked was right outside our window which was disruptive and disturbing. However Anita did get them to relocate one night when the smoke was really bothering us, which I appreciated. Lastly, the heater was not as useful because it comes on when the temperature is really low, as we were told, but it came on when it wasn't as cold then it made the place hot but when it was in the 30's the heater would not come on. Luckily, she has a portable fireplace that can be used which came in handy. In summary the place is like you see in the pic...pretty cozy but we think it would be better in a better tourist-ready area. But at the price...you basically get what you pay for. This was a poor choice on my behalf for a first trip to new city because of location and an average host. However the set up and amenities were good.