All 21 tenant reviews.

“Unit 3D Pros: Affordable, convenient, clean Cons: Smaller bedrooms than around the neighbourhood”

“Unit 9A Pros: Staff is great and works really hard with what they have to keep the place as nice as possible. Large floor plans especially for studios. Very dog friendly. Cons: No response when you submit work orders. Trash compactor keeps breaking leading to trash management issues. Laundry is $8/load. Heat is inconsistent.”

“Pros: Nice location, good neighborhood Cons: Owner is bad, super is unresponsive,”

“Pros: Clean building, wonderful doormen Cons: Had some issues with neighbors”

“Pros: The neighbors are great and so is the location. Cons: The landlord is one of the cruelest and litigious con men in NY. Building is in foreclosure, landlord claimed bankruptcy multiple times, is suing his own mother and being sued by many other people. The gaslighting is endless and he gets away with breaking laws andruining lives. Stay away Advice to landlord: Try speaking one true sentence. Just once.”

“Pros: Good location, close to train. Cons: I lived here for a year and could not get the radiator to heat my bedroom. The super came to take a look at it multiple times and nothing was ever wrong with it, however the room was always freezing. The neighbors are psychotic and also creepy. The apartment was infested with multiple mice and the exterminators were not successful in getting rid of them. If you’re willing to live along side with mice, this is the spot for you. The laundry machine washed my white linen with dirty brown water and everything turned yellow. Management didn’t take responsibility and the laundry machine company Hercules didn’t take responsibility. Machines consistently are my money. Don’t do your laundry in the building. They raised the prices $1400 in a year and the listing agent told us we had to pay the broker free to stay here. The doormen don’t open doors except for 1 or 2. The super is so rude. The turnover of supers in this building is wild though. Advice to landlord: Pay your handymen and staff correctly. Maybe they’ll become more friendly, helpful and actually do their jobs.”

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

“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”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“Horrible. Landlord is a real pig. Mean, dirty law breaker. do not move here if you want pea e in your life. Dirty, unsafe and litigious. Carefully research landlord before moving and you will stay far away!”

“Security problems, rotating crew of new doormen (not knowing who lives here & who doesn t One resident reported that a man was given a key to an apartment without her permission. see post) Koppell has allowed the garbage inside & outside of the building to pile up to the point of attracting rats, mice & maggots (yes, maggots. see post here & here). There has been one confirmed & 2 additional complaints of bedbugs in building which Koepell has failed to disclose to unsuspecting new tenants which is required by law. Bill Koepell has spent many hours trying to publicly humiliate the striking workers (see examples here). In August, tenants held a press conference with several elected officials, including State Senator Liz Krueger and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio & Assemblyman Dan Quart, calling for an end to the deteriorating conditions. With the assistance of these public officials and the law firm of Himmelstein, McConnell, Gribben, Donoghue & Joseph, tenant Kirk Swanson uncovered that William Koeppel has been breaking the law by illegally destabilizing apartments while receiving tax abatements. A class action suit has been filed by tenants of the building. The influx of new employees included a new building super who was introduced by Koeppel in a letter dated July 25th which was distributed to tenants as well as taped to a column wall in the lobby and in the elevator hallway. The new super s name is Tom and he resides in apartment #2D at 350 East 52nd Street. see http://350e52ndstreet.wordpress.com/ for more!”

“live inthe park before you rent from this crazy person”

“Everthing you want to know about 350 East 52nd Street, Whitehouse Estates and the horrible landlord can b read at www.east52ndstreet.com Do not move there!”