Spacious but a little dated. Private backyard in a great neighborhood.

Not to small, but certainly not spacious; the bedrooms share a wall, so unless you're uniquely close with your roommate, keep your nighttime liaisons on the quiet side. The building heat is powerful and you'll never be cold in the winter; indeed, our thermostat is on the fritz and I've been keeping my windows open when it's in the single-digits Fahrenheit outside to compensate for the overheating apartment. The appliances are a bit on the old side, but functional. Big windows in the bedrooms, which get a lot of direct sunlight starting shortly after sunrise and throughout a good chunk of the morning, to make up for the fact that the kitchen/living area (which, together, are about 2/3 the size of one bedroom) have none.

The landlord disabled the buzz-in feature, so you have to go downstairs to let anyone in or pick up food, which is ostensibly to deter tenants from throwing parties but mostly just severely impedes with my plans to order Seamless and avoid wearing real pants in the evening. The stairwell and hallways are quite narrow, to the point where there's not really space for two people to pass each out and someone has to wait by the stairs to let the other go by. It's a general pain to track management down to pay rent, and they don't really make it easy for you at all, but if you make a good faith effort to pay it on time and the logistics of handing the payment off to someone doesn't work out, they're good about allowing grace periods and not giving you hard time about paying "late".

The area is safe, but not terribly quiet-- there are obnoxious horn-honking cars and delivery trucks idling right outside consistently throughout the night, and the Warsaw, which is across the street, has concerts that it is definitely not equipped for re: sound management on the regular. It's a short walk to the G, and a little over a half mile to the L at Bedford; the L is normally preferable to the G's general failure at existence, but not when it's a) abysmally hot, or b) it's snowed and the entire stretch of Driggs along the park nearby is covered in snow and ice and no one clears it because, hey, it's Brooklyn. There are lots of food and drinks options all around, a more or less sufficient laundromat on the corner with dropoff service, and a 24 hour store on the corner for late night beer and/or cookie runs, or when you run out of toothpaste or something.

All told, for the price and location, it's definitely a good deal. Just make sure you're ready to have on the AC pretty much all year around, and invest in some good headphones or earplugs if you don't already have them.