434 West 38 Street,

Manhattan, NY 10018

Great Location in NYC. Host was helpful

Vey dirty and doors did not shut or lock safely.

There are no pros, don't move into this building, don't rent here.

1FW - Rent Stabilized - Tenant lives here
1FE - Rent Stabilized - Tenant lives here
1RW - Market Rate Unit (Rented as vacation rentals)
1RE - Rent Stabilized - Tenant lives here
2A - Rent Stabilized - Tenant lives here
2B - Rent Stabilized - Tenant lives here
3A - Rent Stabilized - Tenant lives here
3B - Market Rate Unit
4A - Market Rate Unit
4B - Rent Stabilized - This one is rented on AirBNB and I believe Blackwater a brokerage
firm rents it short term as well. The legal rent is around $2,000. It has been rented for
up to $4,500.00 or more with short terms rentals. This is illegal. If you have rented this
apartment for more than the legal rent, you can contact DHCR and file a rent
overcharge. You could be awarded up to 3 times what you overpaid. The last registered
stabilized tenant was Timothy Brown. This is the airbnb listing:

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1093637322687475492?source_impression_id=p3_1748118796_P3D5qUXrH37Bo8Cd

5A - Rent Stabilized - This one is rented on AirBNB and I believe Blackwater a brokerage firm
rents it short term as well. The legal rent is around $1,000. It has been rented for up to
$6,200.00 or more on short terms rentals. This is illegal. If you have rented this
apartment for more than the legal rent, you can contact DHCR and file a rent
overcharge. You could be awarded up to 3 times what you overpaid. The last registered
stabilized tenant was William Clearly.

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1135604236237112577?source_impression_id=p3_1748118796_P3FZSRpif-H9hXz0

5B - Market Rate Unit
This building is next to a firehouse, you will hear sirens often.

There is an e-bike repair shop in the property next door, so the sidewalk is often crowded with e-bike messengers. There have been murders and robberies in the street.

There is a man who comes in to the building to masturbate in a blind-spot on the ground floor at times, in front of the 1RW AirBNB. Packages have been stolen. Apt 1FW often has a really bad smell that stinks up the entire ground floor, it smells like raw sewage.

The landlord put up a wall in some of the 2 bedroom apartments to convert them into a "3" bedroom apartments. You can see pictures of the apartments on Streeteasy if you look through the old listing histories.

I believe the property has structural issues. After DOB came to inspect, the landlord was forced to install reinforcements of the facade, but the building likely needs foundational reinforcement and work on the rear facade as well, I hear crumbling debris in the rear wall sometimes, the stairs and floors are lopsided. Someone from the property behind the building reported that the building looks like it's sagging in the center.

The rear courtyard is overgrown with weeds and even poisonous plants. They don't treat it so I have to buy a lot of products to keep the ants and other bugs out of my apartment. Every spring I get a ton of spotted lantern baby bugs in my apartment. There is also an empty lot next door that is often overgrown and contributes to the amount of insects in the property.

The slumlord is cheap and kept the heat at the bare minimum all winter, it was freezing.

Their maintenance people come in to fix one thing and do the job very poorly and often cause more issues.

Stop being a slumlord, you're going to end up with criminal charges one day.