The best apartment building I ever lived in in NYC was built in the 1920s and was built "naturally fireproof", where there were thick masonry walls between each unit to prevent the spread of fire. I literally never heard a single neighbor, anywhere, ever. Not my same-floor neighbors, nor the people above or below me.

Compare that with newer buildings I lived in, where I would be woken up at 3AM by my upstairs neighbor's cat running around.