It's really about the apartment's location: walking distance to everything you need, including the R/F/G trains, and right in front of a B63 stop.
If you imbibe, we live above Skylark Bar, where the employees are nice, chill, and helpful. Noise has only been an issue one with the large crowds outside for special occasions or holidays (think Halloween or St. Patrick's).
Plenty of grocery stores, laundromats, street-serving restaurants, pharmacies, bagel shops, etc. to choose from, and you're four (avenue-length) blocks from the Prospect Park Bandshell entrance. Here's some other basic neighborhood stuff.
Shahana Hanif
456 5th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718) 499-1090
Kevin S. Parker
3021 Tilden Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11226
(718) 629-6401
Jo Anne Simon
341 Smith Street Brooklyn, NY 11231
(718) 246-4889
Nydia M. Velazquez
16 Court St. Suite 1006 Brooklyn, NY 11241
(202) 225-2361
780 Third Avenue, Suite 2301
New York, NY 10017
(212) 486-4430
780 Third Avenue, Suite 2601
New York, New York 10017
(212) 688-6262