So these two handsome stewards jacuzzi together? Not that there's anything wrong with that, I mean...

I had a one-lead-footed neighbor too a few years ago. I liked to imagine that he was a pirate with a peg leg, walking around on the hardwood floors. He (She?) would drop what sounded like jewelry (pieces of eight?) all over the floor from time to time.

Our current upstairs neighbor has a thumpy treadmill, and she plays some hip-hop remix of the Numa Numa song at least once a day, every day, so loud the whole building can hear it through the walls.

jacuzzi? I thought you swedes sauna'd?

It was in new york jon, down on Bank Street right by the water. Those jacuzzi tubs were ossom. :)

I think that despite nearness of locations, we actually live/lived in two different New Yorks.

Mrs. Hankey used to shriek at me when I took out my trash. Better down the stairs than in the elevator, sweetness!

I was once the noisy upstairs neighbor. Like many noisy upstairs neighbors I had no clue I was inadvertently driving the guy downstairs insane. About 3 months after he moved in, we bumped into each other at the carport, had a nice chat and then he asked "Hey, I've been meaning to ask: every evening around 8 pm, it sounds like you are rolling a bowling ball back and forth across the living room floor. What the heck is that?" I was seriously embarrassed but he asked in such a light-hearted way that was disarming so it took the sting out.

I couldn't think of what I was doing every night that sounded like bowling until that evening, when I plopped down on the sofa and my 18# cat dropped his toy into my lap, waiting for me to toss it so we could play our nightly game of fetch. Doh.

My upstairs neighbor is pretty quiet (like me, she wears slippers when she's home, so I don't even hear regular footsteps), but there's one mystery noise that sounds kind of like a pin dropping on a tile floor that happens a lot, and I can't figure it out. I know (at least I'm pretty sure) that I wouldn't be able to hear a real pin dropping up there, but this makes a little ping! sound that seems exactly like that.

Also, when she loud with the pots and pans, it means she's fighting with her boyfriend, and when she starts moving furniture around, she's really, really mad at her boyfriend.

I feel a bit sorry for anyone who moves downstairs from us, because my husband has a habit of falling asleep on the couch in front of the tv and dropping the remote. If/when we get a new neighbor, I might have to put a rug or something just in front of the couch.

I've been the noisy one too.
I had a neighbor leave me a note once, where he ranted for a while about my NOISE and could I PLEASE shut off the TV at night because he woke up
when the programs went off the air from a "Loud beeping noise in the early hours of the morning". It was in fact, my alarm clock that woke him, that thing didn't even wake me. I suggested he move to a building where you didn't hear your neighbors clear their throats through the air holes in the ceilings and floors. (He was a Dutch celeb as seen on daytime TV soaps, I figured he could afford a decent apartment).

I never mind the occasional remote control drop or things like that, what gets me is that my upstairs neighbor has racing fights through the apartment - I think they play or something - so there's loud running, banging and jumping on and off furniture as if they had a house full of kids that weight as much as large adults every evening and it can go on for hours. With music on top. Usually begins right when my girl needs to go to bed so she refuses to sleep in her room, where it's louder since some idiot thought that tiled floors would be a good idea in a kitchen.