We were VERY DISAPPOINTED with our stay in this apartment!! This apartment is not at all worth the fee for which we were charged. We expected a much nicer, cleaner building and apartment than what we experienced. We visit New York often, and usually stay in hotels. For the price we paid for this listing, we have stayed in very nice, comfortable national brand and local hotels.
We were greeted at the apartment unit door by Maurice; we never met the listed host (Julia Grygori). The building is in very bad condition: cracked, loose steps (dangerous!) that lead to the upper floors; soiled walls, doors, and floors, and trash cans adjacent to the outer entry door.
The red sofa shown in the photo is very low to the ground and extremely uncomfortable. The bed (double sized) is very noisy. Simply rolling over causes creaking, crunching types of sounds. The linens are old and the mattress pad (seen when we changed bed linens) was soiled. Four old, thin, mismatched towels were the only bath linens provided.
As can happen in New York City at any time, the temperature outside dropped 30 degrees within 12 hours one day during our stay. There was no way for us to turn on the heat, which made for a very uncomfortable, cold night.
We were awakened, beginning at 2AM on two of our ten nights, by extremely loud, vibrating music from outside the building. The first time we contacted Maurice his response was that he could do nothing if it existed outside the building, and he assured us that no previous guests had mentioned noise to him before. The second night the loud music occurred, Maurice was more responsive, offering to call the police if he could locate the source of the noise.
To sum up, we had to shorten our stay because we were so uncomfortable in this apartment. For less than what we were paying Maurice per night we were able to stay in a spacious, sanitary, beautiful, comfortable hotel near Central Park-with maid service, doormen, and other amenities.