The location is excellent! However, the wonderful floor-to-ceiling windows/balcony doors are very old and do not block any sound. At all. When any person walked by on the street having a conversation, it sounded like they were inside the apartment. We brought a white noise machine and wore earplugs, but we were still startled awake many times thinking that someone was in the apartment. Our neighbors across the street decided to set up a dumpster outside our window and dump wheelbarrows full of bricks into it for a couple of hours early one morning. We also found that the bathroom sink and/or tub vented sewer gas into the apartment in the evening; it was really gross.