Poor - get some soundproofing!
I'm not the most seasoned traveller, but I've managed to stay in quite a wide spectrum of places, from Youth Hostels in the Australian Outback, through ex-Soviet apartment blocks in Ukraine, through to £350 per night Cotswold Hotels in the UK, and I can safely say that the Empire Hotel has given me the worse two nights sleep in my entire history of travelling.
My room was on the first floor, and fronted the busy Columbus Avenue. The window might as well not have been there - I heard everything, to people shouting, to bins being emptied, to cars accelerating from the junctions. No peace was found when the outside noise stopped for a few seconds, as the walls in the hotel are so thin one would assume rubbing a hummingbird feather on one side of a wall would be audible on the other. in addition, every few seconds a large click was heard from somewhere inside the wall - like a poorly configured grandfather clock's pendulum. I tried to turn off the 'vintage' air conditioner to see if that was the root cause, but no luck. Still click, click, click, like some kind of Chinese dripping-tea torture when you're trying to nod off.
And to add insult to injury, I noticed that yesterday all the pillowcases had brown or black smudges on them. Lovely!
As a business traveller, I simply cannot recommend this hotel to anyone who's planning to spend the day after doing something productive; I write this review bleary-eyed in my office with about 8 hours of sleep in total over the past couple of nights.
Good points? The burger from room service was pretty damn good, and the front-of-house staff were reasonably polite.