This is a really comfortable apartment and Simone is a gracious and helpful host. You can walk to Alexanderplatz in about 20 minutes, but U-bahn is at end of the block. The 142 bus stops just up or down the street, and while there are a few places in the neighborhood, if you wanted to go to Prenzlauer Berg at night, just take the bus and it’s an easy walk up from Torstrasse, also easy to get to Friedrichshain a bit to the east. We were ver happy with our stay!