NINETY FOURTH STREET, LLC · avg 3.0 ★★★★★ · New York City
“Pros: good neighbourhood, good super Cons: If you value your peace of mind, stay far away from this building and its management. Nothing about this property is right. From massive rat infestations inside apartments, recurring leaks every time it rains, mold issues, pest problems, filthy hallways, and broken, unsafe staircases — it’s an endless list of neglect. Packages are stolen constantly, and you’re lucky if anything you order actually reaches you. The water quality is horrendous, with murky, discolored tap water that’s a health hazard in itself. But none of these problems come close to the disaster that is their property management team. They’ll demand full market-rate rent on time like clockwork, but when it comes to fulfilling their actual responsibilities — like fixing a collapsed ceiling caused by their own construction negligence — they will vanish. Emails will be ignored, phone calls passed around, and no one will ever be accountable. In this building, the burden of every problem will be pushed onto you, no matter how serious or hazardous. It doesn’t matter if it’s a rat crawling across your bedroom, a flooded ceiling, or structural safety hazards — they will find a way to make it your responsibility to fix, while they continue collecting rent. Living here is a constant fight just to have basic livable conditions. Peace of mind? Forget it. You’re on your own. Advice to landlord: give up this business”
— 698 AMSTERDAM AVENUE · Manhattan“Pros: We had regular supply of heat and hot water during winters. And the neighbors are pretty cool. Cons: Management would take weeks to respond to any issue.”
— 698 AMSTERDAM AVENUE · Manhattan“Pros: proximity to the subway, live-in super seemed to be a nice person who wanted to make the building better — but was slowed down by landlord's slow responsiveness and failure to regularly reimburse him for supplies Cons: huge roaches, landlord special thick paint, scaffolding blocking windows for years. ConEd required them to shut off our cooking gas due to unsafe pipes they hadn't repaired, and it stayed off for 8+ months before we vacated because they didn't make the fixes. They gave us a hot plate instead of being able to use our stove and oven”
“Pros: Lots of light, huge living room, close to subway, nice super, big kitchen Cons: Completely ghosted by management when asked to fix stuff. We had mice the entire time. Also had bed bugs and had to pay for part of treatment ourselves. Gas was out for 6 months and then we moved so who knows it could even still be out. They gave us hot plates as a replacement and then did electricity repairs so we couldn’t even use them a few days. The trash is around the corner and a pain to get to. Just absolutely terrible management.”
— 698 AMSTERDAM AVENUE · Manhattan“Unit 2N Pros: Good area, great bodega downstairs, good super. Cozy apartment for being old. Cons: Scaffolding has been up for years, there was no gas in the building when I moved out, and it seemed like they were lying to new tenants about electric stoves being installed. We cooked on hot plates all through the pandemic, and they wouldn't give us (longtime renters!) any discount. Owner wasn’t responsive at all and didn’t treat the super well, who was trying to help tenants and maintain the building. Advice to landlord: Pay for repairs or cut rent deals with tenants!”
— 698 AMSTERDAM AVENUE · Manhattan“Pros: Good sized apartment Cons: Multiple building code violations unaddressed for months, mice problems, perpetual scaffolding for year+, no stove or oven, hot water problems. Landlord does not even have curtesy to respond to emails fix above points. Advice to landlord: Pick up your phone and answer emails, also fix the building and you won’t have a revolving door of turnover when people move in and immediately break their leases for mold and pests.”
— 698 AMSTERDAM AVENUE · Manhattan