215 Butler Street,

Brooklyn, NY 11217

Apartment layout was nice, bedrooms separated by living room, provided privacy. Furnishes not bad. Washer dryer in unit.

Ugh where do I start
- LOTS of BUGS. Outside of the standard mosquitoes, fruit flies, cockroaches... there was a flea infestation that bit up our knees like crazy. Ant invasions creeping through every hole that we had to patch ourselves
- COLD. Prepare to spend a ton on heating bills. I was always cold in the winter, and unreasonably warm in the summer. There's only an electric AC unit to provide heat and it cost an arm and a leg to run
- THEFTS. my packages were always stolen and a pretty expensive bike was taken from the apartment. the neighborhood is a little shifty.
- NOISY. public records next door opened up an outdoor space that shook our walls and made it impossible to be home on sundays when they had outdoor parties. one time a clubber pooped in the garbage area and mgmt never took care of it. the poop just stayed there for months on end.
- worst of all MANAGEMENT and LANDLORD were so negligent. they never responded to any inquiries, much less any service requests. the # for management was a voicemail service. the super did his best, but the landlord would rarely approve any work. they ripped up our patio and never repaired for half the year.

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The appliances were nice and all well-functioning- washer and dryer in unit, full refrigerator, 2 ovens, new microwave. Big windows with great natural light. Plenty of closet space. Bedrooms on separate sides of the apartment. Good water pressure. Back patio space. Pet friendly. Nice neighbors. Convenient location.

Landlord is a nightmare to get a hold of for any issues and 9 times out of 10 will promise to send someone who never came. When I first moved in, the 1st level had fleas that spread to my level. The landlord took several days to send an "exterminator" which was just his handyman with a single bottle of bug spray. I had to fumigate the apartment myself for several weeks and seal up the cracks behind the bathroom mirrors where the fleas were crawling up from. 6 months into my lease, some men appeared without prior notice to take apart the back patio to "fix a water leakage", then never reattached the patio back to the way it was. Contacted the landlord about this many times to no avail. The building garbage area was extremely poorly maintained to the point of being unhygienic: there was stagnant water from rain, loose litter strewn everywhere outside of the bins, and feces. Also contacted the landlord about this for several months before it was finally cleaned. In the wintertime the apartment is extremely poorly insulated. The combo heating/AC units on the walls do not work well at all and suck up a lot of electricity which made our electricity bills extremely high (around $150 per person at the highest). At move-out, a vague list of repair costs were finally given to us 20 days after our move-out date. Landlord withheld security deposit more than 14 days past move-out date.

Especially in the summertime, there is a perpetual sewage smell coming from the Gowanus canal across the street. Noise from Public Records bleeds into the apartment especially when they have music programming on Sundays from 12pm to 10pm in the summertime. There is also perpetual construction down the block at the EPA supersite at the head of the Gowanus canal.