While it looks cool, I am from Brooklyn, so I know a little about the terrain. The light in the background has got to be a distraction. Also, sound travels up. I do know what it is like to live in a high rise and hear the street below. Can't imagine at times it is going to be all that great. Kennedy airport is probably close enough that you'll get some noise. Not to mention helicopter traffic too. The plane and helicopter that collided not that long ago are an example of low flying aircraft that are not that far away.
Where i live now, I am up on a small hill where my my property has trees and beyond the trees is common ground that backs to a road. I just got new windows (for energy savings and the energy tax credit too) and it cuts down the noise a bit which is a very small fraction of what those people get (below is a picture looking through the windows in the top half of the grand room from the loft and then from the same location looking down at the main system). I can't imagine it being a good sound experience. I also also about a dozen miles or a drop more from Dulles Airport. Sitting in my chair in the grand room I can see aircraft up very high through those windows but I can't hear them (I did on 9/11 as they had military jets flying) from inside and probably outside I could perhaps hear them a very small drop.
It's probably more due to the fact that they have a small apartment and can't really get a big screen experience. Small condos in downtown Brooklyn where you are easy commuting distance to Manhattan can go for a couple of million dollars or sometimes even more. It's not a cheap place to live.