'200 years old' is ancient in the US. I live in a 100 year old brick tenement in Brooklyn, though, and hear very little of our neighbors myself— occasional cre

'200 years old' is ancient in the US. I live in a 100 year old brick tenement in Brooklyn, though, and hear very little of our neighbors myself— occasional creaking floorboards, and some sounds from the staircase near the front doors, but that's about it.