This apartment is centrally located and in a nice building, close to many convenient locations. The doormen are very nice. And those are about the only good things about this place.
First of all, the mattress was extremely old and had broken springs. Matt did offer to replace the mattress, but it took 2 weeks, and I had to resort to sleeping on the couch. The pillows and sheets were old and raggedy. The couch was piling, the curtains were very cheap and kept falling off of the curtain holders. Most of the drawers on the dresser were broken and were unusable. The leather chairs were completely torn up. I worked from home during this period, and I had to sit on them daily. Not so comfortable. Matt replaced the chairs with bar stools (!) so I couldn’t use them either because they were too high for the table. The apt itself was quite dirty— every time I had a spill or mopped the floor, I found that I was picking up loads of dirt (much more than I could have created in my short stay). Lastly, construction woke me up daily around 6:30am and continued throughout the day until about 4PM, even on weekends.
For the price of this apartment, I felt that all of these things were unacceptable. I initially booked this place because of the glowing reviews, but there was a huge disconnect between the price and the quality. 3 stars for great location and nice doormen.