“I stayed with two colleagues in January 2009 for four weeks at 12 Sylvan Terrace while attending a teaching course at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Campus” Steffen

I stayed with two col­leagues in Jan­u­ary 2009 for four weeks at 12 Syl­van Ter­race while attend­ing a teach­ing course at Colum­bia Pres­by­ter­ian Med­ical Cam­pus. Found­ing the spot through the web­pages of sublet.com, we pri­mar­ily choose it because of its close prox­im­ity to Colum­bia (which is a 5 min walk). When arriv­ing, we were stunned about the beau­ti­ful set­ting of this lovely town house. It is located in a his­toric street (If you do not believe, look it up in the guide book). It is also a quiet loca­tion while hav­ing all ameni­ties like super­mar­ket, sub­way sta­tion and laun­dry nearly lit­er­ally in front of the doorsteps. Not to miss that we also felt safe in this area. The sub­way to Mid­town (Colum­bia Cir­cle) takes about 20–30 min and a yel­low cab drive costs about 20 US-Dollars. What we even more appre­ci­ated, was the extra­or­di­nary inside of the house with state of the art fit­tings. Com­pli­men­tary high-speed inter­net access, two plasma screens with satel­lite TV, fully equipped kitchen with stove and induc­tion, dish­washer and large ice-box (all of num­ber one brands).The rental was clean and the elec­tronic heat­ing sys­tem, adjustable in every room, ensured a warm sur­round­ing. Unfor­tu­nately, we could not really appre­ci­ate the large bal­cony with the BBQ (as we stayed there dur­ing icy win­ter). Notably, com­par­ing 12 Syl­van Ter­race with other places from friends we visit, I would def­i­nitely rec­om­mend this spot when you are tem­porar­ily work­ing at Colum­bia Med­ical Cam­pus. I did short term hous­ing sev­eral times in the past. In addi­tion to a quiet, nice and clean apart­ment, what you really appre­ci­ate (and which has noth­ing to do with the amount of money you spend) is hav­ing a friendly and reli­able land­lord. Here, we really could count on Julio. Con­tact to him was eas­ily estab­lished from Ger­many via e-mail and phone (he called me sev­eral time on his expenses before sign­ing the con­tract). I do not want to miss that we did have one of these small has­sles you always have with short term hous­ing in a for­eign envi­ron­ment. We encoun­tered a small con­ges­tion with the toi­let – one hour later Julio was there and fixed it. Last but not least (that I also must put on my list of “the per­fect land­lord”) was the fact that Julio always respected our pri­vacy. In sum­mary, we had a won­der­ful, unfor­get­table time at Syl­van Ter­race. The spot really ensured that we had a great stay in NYC and we would love to be here there again anytime.