Just returned from a great 5 night stay at Shane's place. I booked the place having read the reviews of course - these would be our thoughts: great location, literally 1 minute from subway station and on a smaller road (not on 2nd avenue itself). Easy walk to lots of good places including only 10 minutes walk to Greenwich village (great evening at Lantern Comedy club). Days out elsewhere then evenings around the apartment worked really well. The bed I was concerned about as it was a sofa bed but found it comfy and the flat nice and warm. There is some street noise but this is New York - the noise was just general street noise which would affect any of the apartments in the area (there were noisier roads I'm sure) and we didn't hear anything from the neighbouring apartments. The apartment wasn't as bright and clean as the pictures show but it was cosy and served us well. Overall compared to a more costly, sterile cheap hotel I'm glad we stayed here