These three Upper West Siders live next door to a hellish construction project. Here's what it's like

… near a construction project it can be a completely different neverending hellish experience Brick Underground … to fight Im stuck here because of economicsmy apartment is rent stabilized I cant imagine why anyone who could leave … be horrible for her Lots of people in my building have big apartments and can escape to other rooms when the noise gets …

By Marjorie Cohen |January 8, 2020 - 1:00PM
The 10 quietest neighborhoods in Brooklyn

… quiet in Brooklyn The apartment listings and analytics site RentHop recently updated a study originally published in … New York City and their relationship to median onebedroom rents They found only a slight negative correlation between … June 2019 … We are presenting it again here as part of our  Best of Brick  week  Well look at Brooklyn here If youre one …

By Phillip Pantuso |December 26, 2019 - 10:00AM
Are postwar buildings from the 1950s and '60s constructed better than ones built later?

… … There is truth to this idea  our experts  say but there are other factors … that it is very well insulated and built more along the lines of prewar than some successive 1970s buildings says … method of testing whether an apartment is wellinsulated he adds is to gently hit any part of the wall with your palm If …

By Alanna Schubach |November 11, 2019 - 10:00AM
How to find a quiet apartment in noisy Manhattan

Manhattan can be loudat all hours of the day and night For … a listing mentions CitiQuiet or soundproof windows I once rented out an entire building right outside the subway in … train they made the noise bearable to a point where I could rent out every apartment in the building … What parts of a …

By Leah Hochbaum Rosner |June 12, 2019 - 12:00PM