540 East 22 Street,

Brooklyn, NY 11226

Good things about this building are:
1) There is a trash disposal on each floor
2) There is a laundry room in the building
3) Some of the neighbors are decent human beings and care about each other and the surroundings
4) It is a rent stabilized apartment.

Things NOT good about the building
1) Poorly managed - there is a rodent infestation inside the walls and ceilings. Tenants have complaint for years but all they do is send an exterminator to go into your apartment when the issues are in the structural frame of the building.
1B) There are constant leaks all the time. Multiple Tenants on the top floor (it’s a 4th floor walkup building) constantly have their ceilings leaking in bedrooms, living room, kitchen, and other areas whenever it rains or snows. Landlord only does patchwork and it’s a constant recurring problem
1C) The pipes are rotting away. When tenants above run their shower or kitchen faucet, the pipes leak INSIDE OF THE WALLS down into the apartment below. This has been multiple apartments dealing with this issue. The landlord just sends contractor to patch up your ceiling but it is a recurring issue of water damage coming down from one apartment to another
2) Heating Sucks. In prior years the heating was good until the Landlord installed some kind of device that would monitor the heat and raise it if the temperature falls or lowers it if it is high. LOOK UP 311 report for this building and you will find CONSTANT HEATING AND HOT WATER COMPLAINTS. The device they installed was a total fraud. Many of us tenants put the device inside our refrigerators to see what temperature it would read and see if it would work to raise the heat. When we did this and called in, we were told that the thermometer was reading 70 degrees and they would not turn up the heat. This was laughable. At least 8 tenants did this experiment together and kept the devices frozen in our freezer to them be told that the devices were reading at a comfortable heating level. We all asked to have them removed from our apartment. When we called the company who run this device feature, it seems they provide reports based on Wi-Fi data about the heating the building is producing when in fact it is not producing heat, so that the landlord can get away if ever brought to court for poor heating. Same thing with hot water.
3) Management office has poor customer service skills, and responds poorly to request to fixes. You notify them of an issue and you have to keep calling back multiple times and follOW up or YOU WILL NEVER GET YOUR ISSUE FIXED. I had ceiling leaks in my bedroom - have to move into the living room to sleep. Notified the office, was told contractor would call me to come repair. A month later called to follow up. It took over 5 months for them to fix the issue. Other tenants receive even worst treatments and timeline. But then again, this is a rent stabilized building so I guess you get what you pay for.
4) Laundry machines - only 2 washers and 2 dryers in the small laundry room. 70% of the time one of them is broken and out of service. There was someone peeing on the floors in the laundry room.
5) Some tenants don’t care about the cleanliness of the building and contribute to the garbage/trash and unsightliness of the environment . They throw their trash on the floor out the window, sweep dirt and trash from their apartment into the hallway and leave the dirt there for the super to pick up. Because the building hired only a PT SUPER who functions more like a porter, he does not go around cleaning up the floors on both sides of the buildings everyday so sometimes you just keep walking past trash for weeks until it is cleaned up. It is an eye soar on your way in and out of the building.
6) NOISE - the building management/ landlord claims that if there is a tenant disrupting others with noise they will deal with it- but they don’t. There are some tenants who have been (at some point or another) extreme nuisance to disturbing the peace of others - some playing loud music till way hours in the early morning, others drilling, banging, building shish and reconstruction in the late hours of the night on a WEEKDAY when people are trying to sleep so they can go to work the next day.

Advice to the property owner: When tenants file a complaint on another tenant who is disruptive, do not write the disruptive tenant with the name and apartment number of the tenants that filed complaints against them. This should be anonymous. You literally give the disruptive tenants ammunition to retaliate against those that complain about them and start fights within the building. You instigate wars among people rather than address the issue

Having a roof over my head.

Disruptive neighbors, constant noise and arguments, very unresponsive landlord and super. Trash and recycling is frequently seen piled up throughout the building and the super is slow to do his job. Complaints OFTEN go without response and nothing is ever addressed by the office. The only thing they want is your rent and nothing else matters.

DO SOMETHING TO HELP YOUR TENANTS! Get off your seat and assist those who are requesting help. We are paying our rent to live here and we are not getting back anything. Remove these bothersome tenants!