The place was what we expected based on the reviews and the description: very clean, nicely decorated and close to a subway, shops and restaurants. All in all, it had all the things we needed and even a few extras! It took about an hour to get to Manhattan but that we knew by looking at the map already when making the reservation. We had noticed the comments about noise upstairs and can confirm that as well after staying for several nights. It was basically just sounds of normal living (walking, some furniture moving maybe etc.) but pretty late at night well after 10 pm. As the soundproofing was not that good you heard this well - but it could be that this is just normal for old houses like this one. It did not bother us much after the first night and we never made a complaint about this as whoever was upstairs has the right to walk from one room to another. But for light sleepers this could be a more of a problem.