The apartment is located in the North End which is a very nice neighborhood. Little Italy is right at the corner with lots of nice italian restaurants and pastries. It is a very safe and generally quiet environment. The apartment is clean, warm and pretty cozy. Although it is true that you can sometimes hear neighbors speaking they usually are not noisy and didn't disturb me during the night or anything! For me it was a close-to-perfect-stay! Thank you Jose and Jason!