Worst trash management I've seen in Bed-Stuy
Pros
Decent use of space; several units incorporate en-suite bathrooms within private bedrooms. Tall ceilings as well, despite being a pre-war building. On most floors, there is a mudroom/entryway shared between the two units that split the floor.
Cons
The front door of the building lies at the end of an alley rather than facing parallel to the street, and the entire building's trash receptacles (plastic bins) line the side of the alley, such that entering *and* exiting the building requires having to cross an already narrow walkway often steeped in putrid smells and/or mazes of litter. If there is ANY mismanagement or day-to-day accidents that occur when tenants (or pedestrians) dispose of garbage here -- such that trash misses the opening of the cans, overflows onto the ground, or is sifted through by folks typically unhoused, to name just a few common hazards -- the only path in/out of the building becomes the sanitary & aesthetic equivalent of a toxic waste-dump site. Even at its most orderly, it was typical to come home from work or leave the building at any given time and encounter surprises as cumbersome as large, furniture items dropped without coordinating pick-up & mildewing for weeks at a time, or as grotesque as literal feces. The bins have loose lids and are very prone to spillage as well. There is no local Super or hyper-attentive maintenance staff who attends to this situation with the consistency or expediency that it very obviously demands, despite repeated violations/notices posted by the city sanitation department seen on the front door of the building. Tenants are also known to have been chastised for suggesting that this is not a sustainable or functional waste disposal arrangement, on one occasion told to "not expect to be serviced like [management is running] a hotel." I'm sure 311 was called multiple times, and the problem fixed to comply with local regulations shortly thereafter, but invariably the same problems would reoccur down the line. Simply put, it's just not a sustainable arrangement. Additionally, hot water is known to be slow and unreliable throughout, thus also contributing to the building's shared washer/dryer set-up being rendered wholly ineffective. I doubt that makes it any easier to sanitize the alley/entryway with requisite hot water when the situation calls for it.
Advice to the owners
Invest in quality trash receptacles that are 1) not located between the street and the only entrance to/from the building, and 2) not so easily able to be ransacked by the local homeless community. And please listen to your residents when they tell you that your in-building washer/dryer situation is pitiful and that maintenance repairs shouldn't have to occur as frequently or take so long to address as they typically do.