New Here, Have Some Questions.

[nyartguy]

Hello all;
I've been looking for an affordable luxury apartment in the Hoboken/Jersey City area for a while and found Newport during a websearch. The building and area look great, but I have some questions for current residents about the living experience.

Do you like living there? What is it like? Are the floors and walls solid enough where you have privacy, or do you hear your neighbors walking around? I lived in a building where I could hear my neighbors conversations so clear through the wall that it sounded like they were in my apartment.

How is the commute? The neighborhood? Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[nyartguy]

I've been reading posts throughout and noticed a common thread. There seems to be an issue with noise due to thin walls. Is this true for most of you or just a problem in SOME buildings? Any info would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Cheers.

[@@di]

I have lived in the Lincoln and Southampton..and have found that noise was never really an issue. If you have lived in apts all your life [as i have] you should be used to the noise.
In fact when I lived in the burbs the walls in my apt there were thinner or it could just be that my neighbors were really really noisy!!

[wishiwas]

As for noise, it depends on your neighbors.

I live in a corner and I only have 1 set of neighbors that I can *sometimes* hear having sex, listening to music, etc.

I don't hear anything from above or below...

[ejm]

All is well here in the John Adams. But i do live between two couples. I might be the loudest person on the floor! HA!

[neetzer]

As someone said, it all depends on the neighbors. The walls are paper thin, no doubt about it so if your neighbors are loud at all, you hear it. My neighbor plays loud music sometimes (luckily not at night or mornings) and I hear it loud and clear.

[nyartguy]

As someone said, it all depends on the neighbors. The walls are paper thin, no doubt about it so if your neighbors are loud at all, you hear it. My neighbor plays loud music sometimes (luckily not at night or mornings) and I hear it loud and clear.

It's too bad you just don't know what neighbors you'll get until it's too late. I've asked realtors in the past about neighbors as I'm viewing places and they either can't or wont tell.

[neetzer]

When I was looking at places in Newport, I asked the rental agent showing me the place if you are able to hear your neighbors. She said once you shut the door, you hear nothing. Obviously that was an outright lie. It is hard to figure out until you actually move in.

[nyartguy]

When I was looking at places in Newport, I asked the rental agent showing me the place if you are able to hear your neighbors. She said once you shut the door, you hear nothing. Obviously that was an outright lie. It is hard to figure out until you actually move in.

I hate that. My last apartment (in Forest Hills, Queens) was great except for the noise. I went to view in in the early afternoon, when no one is home...so no noise. After moving in, I can hear conversations through the walls as though they were talking in the room I'm in!

The older folks by my bedroom were hard of hearing and would have the Tonight Show at full blast. I could hear all phone conversations, messges from the answering machine, etc.

I went to the Toll Bros. sales office and asked about the Hudson Tea building, where the main selling point was the thick concrete floor. What they didn't know that I knew was that their walls were incredibly thin too. I had read posts on the tenants assoc. website where they complained about thin walls. I asked the sales rep about the walls and was told "they're built to code". Well, seems like the city code ****s, just as there are "acceptable levels" of toxins in our food allowed by the FDA.

[neetzer]

I hear you. Oddly enough I never had neighbor noise problems with my apts when I lived in Manhattan. It seemed like the walls were thicker there. Maybe because I lived in older apts that maybe(?) were built with thicker walls...

To answer your other questions, commute from Newport is great if you work in the WFC/downtown. The PATH train commute is very manageable (not nearly as crowded/crazy as MTA). Neighborhood is okay. I feel pretty safe walking from the PATH home at night. But not happy with the accessibility of grocery stores/restaurants. Definitely miss manhattan where everything was a block or less away.

[Lenin]

Walls are impossibly thin between the rental apartments, just 2 sheets of sheetrock. You can hear talking if you listen hard enough and a good stereo is shared by the neighbors, even to the point of pulsating walls. Though the floors are concrete, since they are uncovered by carpeting they easily transmit any percussive noise...like the clack-clack-clack of high heels!

Only masonry walled building is the JAMES MONROE (condo.)

Newport is the noisiest building project I've ever been in.

[Matt]

I'm in East Hampton and have no noise problems at all. There is the occasional loud thud as someone drops a bowling ball or something up above, but that is rare.

In my bedroom, when it is totally quiet, I can just barely hear a few sounds from my neighbors. I can barely hear their alarm clock in the morning if I'm already awake and just lying in bed. It certainly isn't even close to loud enough to wake me up - just something that I can barely make out. There has been a few times when I can hear a dull repetitive thud of music too, but again that is so quiet that I only really barely hear it if lying in bed and the AC isn't running or anything else that might drown it out.

However, there is little sound insulation between the hall and the living room. The crack under the door that lets air in also lets all the sound in. Barking dogs, talking, etc, are all easy to hear in the living room. But at night when I'm in my bedroom there isn't much of this going on, and if it does I'm pretty well insulated from it by the door between the bedroom and living room...

I've certainly never been able to hear people talking in another apartment. The only noises I hear are dull bass sounds from the occasional loud stereo, and even that is just barely audible.