Very dirty. Ended up having to fumigate our apartment for the bedbugs that we brought home with us.

Very run down property. Terrible breakfast. Not family friendly. Great location and nice neighborhood. Rooms are warm and water is hot. Beds squeak awful. Cannot find innkeeper. Stay here only if you are out of options!

As a first-time English visitor to NYC, I was happy to be away from the crippling prices of Manhattan, yet within easy reach of the sights (as long as you're happy with stairs and subway travel, which I was). I was also grateful to be in a place with real people, not some bland impersonal corporate. This B&B certainly wasn't bland. OK it was dark and a little oppressive in style, certainly in my downstairs room, but the brownstone neighbourhood was quaint and preferable to me over city center streets. Also the owner was friendly and interesting to talk to(although in a four-night stay I didn't see much of her) and I found the breakfast fine - a real folksy help-yourself affair, cluttered, perhaps but edible, varied and chatty. Whose fridge is perfect, anyway?
I can see why many folk wouldn't like it though. Apart from the Gothic ground floor decor , the bathroom facilities are sparse and the minuscule downstairs WC had no hand basin (which I did not approve of at all). Also it was considerably more expensive than a comparable English B&B would have been - not as far from downtown prices as I would have expected. In other words a curate's egg - charm and individuality, but don't go there if you're used to slick service and smooth, light, airy en suite accommodation.

Have read the existing reviews I decided to post one of my own. My sister and I stayed in this B & B for five nights.
First, the location is excellent. Several restaurants and cafes are easily within walking distance. There are also small grocery stores, a drugstore and internet cafe. The brownstones in this area are amazing to see.
The room itself was clean and so was the bathroom.
Now the deficits. The breakfast was nothing to speak of.
A few rolls and bad coffee gives new meaning to the phrase, "continental breakfast." We just skipped it and went to a nearby bagel cafe.
There is no phone in the room. The house is quite old so the wood floors creak and so did the bed. If you stay here I suggest ear plugs.
Mainly, sharing a bathroom with two other rooms grew tiresome. Of course this is nothing the owner can remedy but beware. It may not sound hard but it really is. There are three bedrooms on each floor. Each floor only has one bathroom. Believe me, sharing such a bathroom is no small feat for two middle aged women.