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Anonymous
4 years ago
Pros: Great location, classic pre-war city building, concrete walls so barely hear neighbors and they don’t hear me. Cons: Terrible owners who don’t maintain the building, currently in current lawsuit as owner was overcharging rent stabilized apartments and major class action lawsuit that they lost. Consequently, they hike up the rent price every year in tenants like me who are in rent stabilized apartment. Owners care more about short term renters rather than long-term renters. Advice to landlord: Why do you let such a nice building become dilapidated and neglected? You seem to care more about making quick money than providing decent housing for people at a reasonable rates Without outrageously hyping up rent prices every year.
Anonymous
4 years ago
Unit 12K Pros: The doorman are always nice and friendly. The elevator is always working, trash is always managed. Cons: The super is lazy and unresponsive. He does a sloppy job at fixing things and has no sense of urgency. Some things are outdated
Anonymous
4 years ago
Pros: Doormen nice but have lost packages they signed for. Cons: Be aware you are sharing with many rent stabilized tenants. Some like the person whose apt opens onto a communal roof, openly violate rules like smoking on the roof and leaving personal furniture there making you feel like an intruder for using communal property. They will raise your rent 50 or 75% if they believe they can get it they have zero concerns about tenant retention and won’t negotiate. Advice to landlord: The smoking tenant on roof needs to move his personal furniture off roof and stop intimidating other tenants. Management should consider quality if tenants instead of bilkimg them for every last buck by raising rents in run down building. That money clearly doesn’t go to hard working porters who are only paid minimum wage.
Anonymous
4 years ago
Pros: Good space in apts Cons: Super greedy landlord raised rent 50 percent after one year. Maintenance never comes to fix things. Despite their greed, staff is paid minimum wage. Creepy tenant lives on communal roof acts like it’s his personal space (he’s allowed to keep his furniture on communal roof that no one can use). Always has slider open spying on anyone who uses roof. Advice to landlord: Roof tenant should not keep personal furniture on communal roof. No smoking on roof. If you keep jacking up rent 50 percent you are only going to get disloyal tenants
Anonymous
4 years ago
Pros: Doormen are nice, there is an elevator Cons: The smell of the hallway, the apartment was left filthy and was not informed that there was mold
Anonymous
5 years ago
Pros: Good location, fairly spacious apartments, has elevator and doorman, friendly staff Cons: Owner is unreasonable, maintenance requests get ignored, elevators consistently break, doormen are often missing late at night or under the influence, everything is dated/old in common areas. Ownership is not accommodative of requests or reasonable. Advice to landlord: There’s a reason tenants have a class action lawsuit against the owner of the building… the building could be nice if he cared, but he’s more interested in lining his pockets than putting any updates into the building.
Anonymous
5 years ago
Pros: Good building for post college. Lived here for 2 years 1 year in a 2 bedroom and 1 in 4 bedroom. The apartments and appliances are dated but it was good enough for a bunch of guys recently out of college. Doormen are amazing and the roof is nice for small gatherings. Cons: The landlord is a little sketchy and apparently has pending litigation. Our original rent was normal but then he tried to raise it 15% on renewal and wouldn’t budge. There was no reason for the raise either, just greed. If you sign a lease, don’t expect to be able to afford the renewal. Advice to landlord: If you’re going to raise rents by 15% year over year, at least show some improvements in the condition of the building. The lobby, elevators, hallways and apartments look like they’re out of the 60s. This could be any amazing building to live in with some TLC.