1915 Beverley Road,

Brooklyn, NY 11226

It is rent stabilized, although it is redundant because you are basically paying Park Avenue prices to live in a building that is managed worse than NYCHA. Most tenants either break their lease, or move out after it is up, so re-newing is not relevant.

An exterminator comes around once a month to spray, although tentants are not given the heads up as to when. So if you aren't home, then you will have to wait until next month.

There are only three units per floor, so you don't have too much noise from neighbors. The studios and one-bedroom only share one wall.
The two-bedrooms do not share a wall with any neighbors.

Please note that the building was completed in 2022, so I was the first tenant for my unit. I was also one of the superintendents for a while. This is why I know about a lot of the issues that each apartment experienced, as well as the growing pains that us original tenants had to deal with.
The original owner sold the building after just over a year after it opened, since he was too incompetent to deal with all of the problems that he created. The new owner is inexperienced, and therefore doesn't understand how to manage a building with a lot of issues. Because of this, the building has had the Department of Buildings inspectors come; there have been numerous violations; and our inidividual apartments had to be inspected about once a month. It pissed all of the tenants off, with all of the lack of privacy.

I will provide all of my knowledge and experiences that I had dealt with for the two years that I lived there:

The Property's Exterior:
The lackluster outward appearance is a direct representation of the way that the building is managed.
The building is the only one the block with no tree, as it died after 1 1/2 years, and the city eventually removed it.
The weeds were so overgrown, that litter kept getting caught in them, and there were loads of dog shit that was not being cleaned up.
The windowsill has dead plants that have been sitting there for over a year, because the current superintendent can't be bothered to change them.
The intercom and glass doors have smudges from dirty fingerprints.
More dog shit is regularly in front of the building, since the current super never cleans that up either, and the neighborhood is full of trash people.

Building Management:
The original owner was very cheap about everything: the building materials; hiring professionals for repairs; etc. This is why the building has been falling apart since day one.
The original owner put together a WhatsApp group for all of the tenants, so that we can communicate amongst one another. The new owner had no interest in continuing this.
The new owner is not responsive to maintenance requests/complaints/concerns. She is also not personable, nor approachable.
The new owner does not accept Bilt payments for rent.
The current superintendent is very lazy. He does not clean, nor respond to repair requests.
The building went almost two years without any pests. But once the new superintendent was hired, there was garbage building up in the trash rooms, and in front of the building. This lead to roaches in apartments, as well as flies in the trash room (from the compost that the current superintendent never takes out), which then fly into other trash rooms and apartments.
The new owner lacks respect for your privacy. As soon as you don't renew your lease, she is asking realtors to show your apartment, and to conduct open houses while you are still living there, and your boxes of packed items are piling up everywhere.
The new owner is a bit of a scam artist. When I moved out, she charged me $450 out of my security deposit to have the walls repainted (something that is considered normal wear and tear, and thus the landlord is responsible for these costs). She also never provided any official invoice or receipt. She just wrote $450 on a blank piece of paper. She did this in retaliation because when she bought the building, she assumed that I would continue my same duties as the superintendent, but she wanted to cut my salary in half. So I declined her offer, and she found a new superintendent (he was not the best, but did an okay job), but he quit after 3 months. He told me "she was crazy, and not worth the money!". Hence why the only person willing to work for her meager wage is lazy.

Neighborhood:
This isn't Prospect Park South; this is Flatbush. The building is the only new building in the area, and thus is a target for the many homeless people that live in one of the several shelters on the other side of Flatbush Ave, or the crackheads that live on all of the surrounding streets.
If you are a female, you will be catcalled every time you walk anywhere.
A car right in front of the building had its front window smashed and items grabbed.
Music is blasted loudly at all hours of the night.
Amongst one of the crazies living in the area is a man that dances for hours in the middle of the intersection of Ocean Ave and Beverley. It causes a lot of traffic.
The local police precinct is so busy with all of the shootings,stabbings,muggings, car jackings, etc. that they are not responsive to the lower level crimes, such as all of the packages that get stolen from this building.
There are cars honking non-stop all throughout the day and well into the evening.
There are a few ATMs around, but nothing super close.
Avoid Flatbush Ave, unless you want to get harassed by all of the bums. It also becomes quite dangerous at night.
The more south you go, the better the neighborhood becomes (just don't cross over Ocean Ave). Cortelyou Rd has some restaurants, cafes, and supermarket. Not much for shopping, though.

Transportation:
You can't win no matter what form of transportation you use.
Beverley Rd is one of the main exits off of Ocean Parkway, so the street is constantly busy with cars and trucks.
There are always traffic jams, as Ocean Ave and E 19th are a haven for double parkers. Traveling out of the area will take out about a half hour to get to any expressway, since you are right in the center of Brooklyn, and will get stuck at many traffic lights.
You also will not be able to park anywhere near the building on weekday evenings.
Biking is okay, since the roads are flat. Although, Ocean Ave is the only road with a bicycle lane, and again, there are always cars blocking the lane.
Public transportation is atrocious. Even during peak times, the Q and B trains do not run very frequently. The B doesn't run at all over the weekends, which leaves you stuck to take the Q, or walk 15 minutes to the 2 or F (which also have their share of problems on the weekends).
Also for most weekends, the Q also doesn't run into Manhattan, or at all, and you will have to take a shuttle bus instead.

The Building's Interior:
I have lived in buildings in NYC that were over 100 years old, and they did not have nearly as many problems as this building does.
From the beginning, the elevator broke down every day. When use first round of tenants moved in, we and/or movers had to carry everything up the narrow stairwell, which has no windows or AC. My movers ended up charging me much extra due to it the move taking many more hours, and for the 6 flight walk-up (since I had originally told them the building had an elevator).
The Verizon guy almost refused to install my internet, as he can legally refuse to walk up the 6 flights of stairs.
Even today, the elevator continues to break down several times a month. One tenant got stuck in it on Easter, and had to wait over an hour for an emergency repair technician to come open the doors.
There are no AC/heating systems and windows on any of the floors other than the first. Therefore, the hallways (as well as the apartments) gets very cold in the winter, and very hot and muggy in the summer.
The building has been broken into many times, partly because the original owner cut a lot of corners in order to get the building built as cheaply as possible, and therefore, forewent any type of security measures.
There were also other instances of homeless people sleeping in the basement, stairwell, and front foyer. One of them was smoking crack in the first floor hallway.
Other tenants have brought their friends in to smoke weed in the stairwell, which then gets into the apartments via the bathroom vent.
The first floor and basement are the only floors that have cameras, but not that it matters anyway. As I mentioned, the police do nothing with the footage.
The intercom consistently breaks down. Also, the code has never been changed, despite many tenants asking both landlords to change it (since some of the stolen packages were from people who already knew the building code).
Also, there is no way to transfer the intercom calls to your phone. Many other buildings allow this technology, which allows delivery people into the building if you are not home.
The current owner never bothers to turn on the AC unit in the lobby. In the height of summer, it would be cooler outside than it would be in the building.
Again, as the super never cleans, the walls and doors are all scuffed, and the floors are always dirty. The elevator is never sanitized, even after tenants allow their dogs to pee in it.
Hopefull you will never have an encounter with a homeless person in the elevator like I did, because the security camera is purely decorative.

The "Bicycle Room":
This is nothing more than an open space in the basement.
The original owner initially ignored tenants' requests to put a lock on the door, and a rack to lock bicycles to. Then one bicycle was stolen after a break-in, which prompted the owner to put a cheap lock on the door. A few months later, another criminal jimmied the front door with a screwdriver, and easily busted open the bike room door with his foot, and stole another bicycle. The new owner still refuses to put a better lock on the door, and a rack.
This room also had a homeless lady living in it for a little while, who was stealing packages, and drinking water out of the sink in the laundry room.

The Laundry Room:
There are two washers and two dryers for a building with over 30 residents.
The original owner even thought it was a good idea to have his tenants from the massive building on the corner (that he also owns) to use these machines whenever they felt like it. Without asking for our input, he gave them the front door code, and let them come and go as they please. When numerous tenants voiced their dismay at this, siting all of the thefts and security issues we had, he said that it shouldn't be a problem. When we then asked for more machines, he ignored those requests.
The machines are beyond cheap. A dryer broke after one year, and a washing machine broke after less than two years. The company that owns these machines are slow, and do not provide good service. When I was the super, they were very difficult to work with, which resulted in machines taking weeks to get repaired.
The costs to doing laundry is pretty expensive, at $3 per washing machine for 29 minutes, and $1 for every twenty minutes of drying.
The only method of payment is via a laundry card (which also breaks after one year), and you can only load value on it via a cash machine. You cannot use any Apple/Android pay, app, or credit/debit card.
The laundry card machine does not have take singles or $100 bills. This machine also does not get emptied regularly. So if the machine is full, then you are SOL for a long while, as management has to call the laundry company, and then that company has to send out a technician to empty the machine.
There is no app that shows you which machines are available. Twenty years ago, I had lived in a building that had this type of technology (and my current one does too).

The Roof:
It is not a "rooftop deck" as described in real estate listings. There aren't any chairs or anything enjoyable there. It is just a roof area, that is accessible 24/7.
Mostly, teenagers smoke weed up there.

The Apartments:
They are all shoddily built. Each one of them has had some sort of issue, which would have easily been avoided if more care and quality work went into putting the building together.
The only overhead lights are by the front door; in the kitchen; and in the bathroom. You will need a lot of lamps in order to light the bedroom(s) and living room.
The front door is also hollow, which means that you can hear everything that goes on in the hallway. Being that the studios and one-bedrooms are right next to the elevator, you will constantly hear elevator noises (for those rare moments when it is operating).
The front door is ill-fitted, so there is a big gap under the door, and along the side. This not only allows for more noise, but lets a very cold draft in from the hallways. And people from the hallway can also hear you loud and clear.
Both landlords have never changed the locks after the tenants have moved out. So anyone with a spare key can enter the apartments (if the latch is not on), since they will also know the intercom code.
The entire apartment floor is made of cement; this is extremely unforgiving when you drop anything fragile. Any glass/pyrex/ceramic, etc. will shatter into a million pieces, if you drop it.

The Kitchen:
For the one-bedrooms, the kitchen is on the opposite side of the unit. The window doesn't open, which not only does not allow for a cross breeze, but also doesn't give you the opportunity to air out smoke and cooking smells.
For the one-bedrooms, the sink is too small to actually do dishes in, and if you prefer to fill the basin with water, it falls down into the cupboard below.
There is no dishwasher in the one-bedroom units. Ironically, the studios and two-bedrooms have a dishwasher, and a larger sink.
The fridge is also cheap, as items fall out from the door shelves, and again, smash into pieces onto the hard floors.
The range is electric, which takes forever to heat up, and runs up the electric bill.
The cabinet over the fridge has no back to it, so there have been many times where items have fallen behind the fridge.

The Living Room:
For the one-bedrooms, it is basically a corridor. It is too narrow to have a proper couch and coffee table.
For the two-bedrooms, it is a decent size to move around. But it would still be tight to entertain guests.
The AC unit is on the floor, which takes up space in an already tiny area. This is very impractical, as you cannot put any furniture against the back wall, or else the air will be blocked.
There is no insulation/thick walls to absorb sounds. You will be able to hear everything from outside, even with the windows closed. And the apartment gets just as hot and humid in summer, and cold in the winter, as the rest of the building.

The Bedroom:
For the one-bedrooms, there are two closets. But one is essentially useless, because the gigantic water tank is in one of them. The other closet has two cheap shelves and a bar to hang clothes. As you start storing items on the shelves, they start buckling.
The two-bedrooms have a small closet in each room.
The AC unit is also on the floor.
There is a part of the wall that juts out for no reason whatsoever, as it is not structural. This gives you even less space, and limited room to walk around your bed. It also blocks some of the light from your one window.
The handles that open and close the windows are junk. Several units have had them fall off.
I had frequently heard the TV from he bedroom below me. Also, smells of cigarette and weed smoke came in through the water tank closet, from tenants that smoked in their apartments.
My AC unit (which was supposedly brand new) was broken from the get-go, and needed to be replaced.
Some of the units did not have their windows installed properly, which resulted in the enter glass panel falling out of the window frame.

The Balcony:
All of the units on upper floors have balconies, although the one for the two-bedrooms is extremely narrow. You cannot fit any table on it. It also faces Beverley Rd, which is very busy.
The studios and one-bedrooms face the back of the building, but also have a lot of street noise from Ocean Ave.
102 and 103, which are on the ground floor, have their own backyard space. Although for 102, the ground was not paved evenly; so when it rains, the water pools up by the back door. In times of heavy rain, it spills into the living room.

The Bathroom:
Again, the one-bedrooms got shafted. There is no towel rack/hook, nor toilet paper holder, nor place to store soap in the shower. The studios and two-bedrooms all have these.
The showers do not have good water pressure, and it takes forever to get warm.
The toilet seats are also cheap. One of the tenants had their seat break on them.
There is only one outlet (two sockets), which has made it difficult to use.
None of the bathrooms have windows, but they do have fans. Although, several units have had issues with their bathroom fans working, even though they were all (again, supposedly) brand new.
Immediately upon moving in, my bathroom needed to have the lights rewired, the bathtub regrouted, the walls repainted, and holes patched closed. This could have been avoided if the work was just done properly the first time.

The Closets:
The studios have a decent-ish size closet when you first walk in, although the water tank is in there. There is also a small closet next to the bathroom with a short bar to hang coats.
They have shelves, although they are not nailed down, and tend to fall off when you put something on them.
The two-bedrooms have a longer closet with the water tank in it, across from the bathroom. The one-bedrooms have a small closet in the kitchen. You will not be able to fit much other than a vacuum and broom. Mine had the coat bar already broken.


Lastly, since rent stabilized buildings are exempt from that NYC law where landlords must return your security deposit within two weeks of the lease termination, the current landlord takes her time with her inspection, then scams everyone out of a portion of their deposit back. She says things like "floor is stained" (even though it is cement), or "the walls are scuffed" (even though she is just going to paint over any markings), and takes a portion out of your deposit to for "cleaning".

My advice to you is to choose somewhere else to live. Brooklyn has so many better kept buildings, with larger apartments that are more practical for living, in safer and better neighborhoods. This is not it.

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Management has been non existent since take over in the middle of lease
Maintenance of building is lacking. Pile of packages in the front door, no mailbox lock setup, chipped walls and HVAC units create drafts.

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