Tenant Reviews for 10 BARCLAY STREET

We moved into this luxury building several months ago. Although the building interior is lovely, right next door is a catholic church the bells of which ring extremely loudly every hour on the hour -- say it's noon, the church bells ring 12 times; at 9am, they ring 9 times! When we first moved in, the church bells rang every hour from 7am to 10pm including on the weekends (yes, 7 times very loudly at 7:00am both Saturday and Sunday morning). Now they start at 9:00am. Tenants have called the police (311) on the church and spoken to management, all with no effect. The bells continue. There is no quiet enjoyment of your apartment in this building. The management finally agreed to install city silent windows in some bedrooms (which still do not block out the bells for the most part given how loud they are, but just make them slightly fainter) -- but no living rooms, such that you may forget enjoying quiet, peaceful time in your living or dining room without the sound of extremely loud, pounding churchbells every hour. On the upper floors, tenants complain of loud noise from ground zero construction sometimes late into the night. The management can't do too much about the construction, but they could certainly help with the noise from the church bells (and ultimately the construction) at the very least by installing city silent windows throughout all the apartments (in all the windows in the apartment including the living rooms) and effectively having negotiated with the church given the recent construction of a luxury residence right next door (this should have been done PRIOR even to construction). Note, although we suspected construction noise when we moved in given the proximity of the building to ground zero (and strategically chose an apartment on a lower floor facing away from the construction), no one told us about the horrendous sound from the church bells. We did not find out until we moved in. The leasing office deceived us with respect to the noise from the bells (we saw the apartment three times but apparently not exactly on the hour when the bells routinely ring) -- and manangement has not done much to try to alleviate the noise to the maximum extent possible. It is not worth moving into this building and paying the high rent to be bothered by the extreme noise pollution from the church bells -- and depending where you are in the building, the construction. Despite the luxurious nature of the building, I very seriously DO NOT recommend it.