We spent 7 consecutive nights in August 2017 in the appartment on the top floor of the house (the one with the « bouddha » picture). Positive: - Less than 5 min walk to the subway, then 30min max to reach most manhattan key locations. great ! - very calm neighborhood. In 5 to 10 min walk, you have access to the restaurant ,bars,food Shops etc. - From our experience : the neighborhood/environment around the appartment is safe. No feeling of insecurity, including when you walk in the streets at night. - good WIFI. - Viviana is very reactive. some e-mails echanged during the week. Negative: - Of course, they clean the floors, the bathroom fixtures and kitchen sink etc. but the cleanliness is far from being irreproachable. Fridge was dirty. The inside of kitchen cupboard is not clean. The extractor hood is dirty (and not from the week before..). The kitchen double glazed windows are so old that you will have a "grey veiled view » on the outside (dust/humidity between the double glazing). - no thermal insulation. This is understandable, no problem with that (the house is from 1890 if i well remember). But the consequence is that the inside temperature = the outside temperature. And in summer time, you are forced to maintain the AC working continously. And this AC is particularly noisy ! Spend one week with continuous noise inside, this is long !, especially at night. Don't forget ear plugs ! - The tap of the kitchen moves on its base and leaks (it's dead) - Bathroom has a bathtube but no possibility to take a bath ( !). The drainage system is not adapted to drain a bathtube when full filled with water (house manual). Shower is OK. - kitchen equipement very poor. ther's no pan big enough to cook 500grams of spaghetti in one time. And anyway if you could, there's no strainer. Ther’s a big and old kitchen stove with burners. Does it work ? we’ll never know. They put a wood panel on the burners, and place a rudimentary kitchen electric plate on this panel (The same as you used when you were a student. The one that takes 20 minutes to boil a liter of water. you remember ?!!). No microwawe oven. If the possibility to cook a diner is an important criteria for you, forget Viviana appartment. - adhesive tape is used to join the floor between the kitchen and the adjacent room. More globally, Adhesive tape is used to maintain some electric cables, or electrical outlets that no longer fit on the wall. You don’t have to be a construction professional to realize that the electrical installation is obsolete. - In the house manual (that you will receive once you have booked/paid), Viviana wrote « don’t leave dirty dishes on the table or on the sink after you are done cooking or eating as this could bring on critters and nobody wants that ». Yes, I agree !...