570 Nostrand Avenue,

Brooklyn, NY 11216

There’s an elevator and trash room each floor
Washer and dryer and dishwasher in unit
Mail room
Virtual doorman

Hallways always smell awful and get dirty so quickly after cleaning
Neighbors are loud and smoke all day. No good sound insulation so you hear EVERYTHING
Laundry machine is a washer/dryer combo which means it takes 5 hours to do your laundry and it breaks fairly often
Management company will not help with stolen packages

Building:
- Trash chutes on every floor
- Spacious elevator
- Virtual doorman
- Had 2 interactions with the super. He was effective and came in within hours of calling him

Apartment:
- Bathrooms with nice finishes
- High ceilings
- Washer/dryer
- Central A/C+Heat, quiet and effective
- Good amount of light
- It was rent stabilized but only for the first tenant (= destabilized after we moved out)

- Noise: biggest con was how noisy the apartment was and it made it unlivable for me even though the apartment itself was pretty good: 1) constant car traffic on Nostrand and many cars playing very loud music with their windows down even at night (+ vibrations from loud bass), 2) there is a night club right next to the building, people would often go out and talk outside, play music from their parked cars etc. I didn't count but I woke up on probably 50% of the nights I spent there and I noticed I got very irritated/nervous because of this
- Drug dealer hanging out on the other side of Herkimer Pl (at least when I was resident, you can easily spot him dealing from your window if you care)
- Some units are low-income with questionable neighbors (loud arguments, police was called a few times)
- Very basic gym (but it was enough to get some body weight training done)
- Neighbors allowed kids to hang out in the gym and leave trash
- Stairs and gym not cleaned often enough
- Heat and hot water not included, everything is electric and you have your own hot water boiler = $150-200 per month to Coned
- My ceiling leaked twice after heavy rain even though I was on 3rd floor out of 6 = poor construction