Tenant Reviews for 105 DUANE STREET

Noise Levels are terrible

Pros: Nice apartments and amenities Cons: Extremely noisy, constant ringing and construction noises

+50% YOY Rent Increases

Pros: Swimming pool and sauna, staff is friendly and helpful Cons: Building management reduced health club (swimming pool) hours by half during the lease while charging the same monthly amount for usage. Lease increased +50% upon a 2 year renewal. Management team from Related largely unresponsive.

Sort of Luxury

Pros: Great Location. Great Staff. Cons: Bad elevators not in great repair. Advice to landlord: Better repairs. More amenities.

Nice building

Pros: Great doormen, in-building valet (dry cleaner) is very convenient Cons: This sub-area of Tribeca (around Church Street) is relatively dirty and loud Advice to landlord: Lower rent!

Great, but basic, building

Pros: - location within Tribeca - front desk Cons: - in front of fire station so some noise - basement (where the bike storage is) is not in great condition - no in unit w/d

Great place

Pros: Fully furnished apartments, really clean and modern. Good laundry on the second floor. Huge windows with a lot of natural sunlight and great views. Decent A/C. Cons: A bit noisy (next to a fire department).

Toxic mold at Tribeca Tower seriously endangered our health– including during my pregnancy– and caused us tremendous hardship. We rented a 2bed/2bath apartment on a high floor (B line). Within the first two months, management asked us to allow contractors to tear through a wall to access a pipe that has issues and was apparently affecting other apartments, and within 9 months of living there our apartment was rendered the home of a Microbial Hazard site after a major leak from that pipe took place while we were away for the holidays. Our belongings (furniture, upholstery, new tv, etc) were heavily contaminated with toxic mold species and mold colonization (per lab results). Related Rentals– the global company which manages and claims this is a luxury building– carelessly provided an unkempt and moldy studio (C line) two floors down for us to stay temporarily, despite it having visible mold growth on the bedroom wall and floor under the fan coil unit (A/C and heater unit)– next to the bed! (confirmed by lab results). Unbeknownst to us, we had been turning on that heating unit daily and nightly as it was January and February and those apartments have lots of windows with poor insulation! I was pregnant and became ill and progressively so while in there. Related refused to share their mold assessment report so my doctor recommended we hire our own mold inspections. The costly inspections in both the 2-bedroom and the studio confirmed toxic mold– two apartments in two different floors with major indoor allergen hazards (mold)! Coincidence or is this a broader issue across this building? The nice views we enjoyed for a few months were not worth the nightmare, health impacts and major financial blows we’ve endured due to the toxic mold issues in those so-called luxury residences. Tribeca Tower’s toxic mold issues due to structural pipe and maintenance flaws, its management’s abysmal capacity to address these without compromising our health or belongings and its treatment of us tenants was insulting and appalling.

Love it here

Unit PH F Pros: It’s clean, the management is responsive, the doormen are great. Apartments are quiet with lots of natural light and plenty of closet space (3 closets for a 1BR) I love it here. Cons: It’s a little pricey. I wish there was a better outdoor space. Advice to landlord: Keep it all up.

The building has been the same since we moved in. The biggest problem is the common area where the gym and laundry is. These are just filthy. The laundry room is full of mold - our clothes literally smell of mold and the management does nothing about it. The gym is very old and it also costs $50 per month. The changing room are never cleaned and I have seen roaches more thank 3 times in there. Lately the elevators have been extremely slow as well. Overall I think the apartments are good in terms of space and views but everything else is just bad quality. The hallways are dark and beige. The entrance is massive and always clean with flowers etc to make it look luxurious but once you move in you realize that all money is spent on making the building look good without actually investing in the real problem we are experiencing every day.

Great first 5 months!

Pros: Clean, beautiful, great package system Cons: Doormen sometimes are back in the package room not monitoring who’s coming in and out