I really don't like to be negative but unfortunately we had a terrible stay at this apartment. The room was nothing like we thought it would be and certainly didn't look like the pictures. East Village is a very cool area but this apartment was really not up to scratch. First we arrived to a very steep set of stairs then found the room to be dirty, badly arranged and the curtains almost nonexistent. Three of us stayed here for 5 nights and got about 2 hours sleep each night due to the noise from the shared apartment upstairs and outside. The first night, a random man walked into our room and the next night the people upstairs brought their friends home at 12:00am and again at 4:00am, yelling and continuing to drink in the shared kitchen. I slept on a futon which was like concrete so had to put an air bed on it while my other friends couldn't sleep because of the noise upstairs and from the street. This apartment is on top of a bar so the noise was terrible from all areas and we had to make our way past the druggies shooting up outside the apartment to get in. The shower is tiny and the toilet became blocked in the last morning but that was the lest of our worries compared to the noise. I know NYC is a noisy busy place, but my NYC friend said that this place was not the norm. We were so disappointed in this apartment and truly felt like it ruined our stay in NYC. This experience has put me off airbnb too.