Jason Glick

Renovated unit, spacious unit, friendly neighbors, clean and nice mail area

Management takes a long time to respond and tends to use the super who does mostly a janky job

Window in bathroom
Has everything you need: dishwasher, 2 rooms, counter space, full-sized fridge
Nice brick wall
Not too loud surrounding area

Rooms were a little small
Only had window in the rooms
Stairs in building could have been cleaner
Stairway could have brighter lighting
No elevator
Rooftop space was undeveloped
No laundry in building

safe mail/package area
nice, fairly quiet neighbor
rent stabilized unit
exposed brick in unit
gas stove heats up quick
hot water is VERY hot and cold water is VERY cold
radiators aren't too noisy
no hx of bed bugs, rodents

*NO laundry in building!*
needs better hallway lighting (fluorescents are 1 ugly and 2 flicker a lot)
more natural light in apartment

Updated appliances and fixtures, exposed brick (on top floor) and roof access. High ceilings, cozy during fall months. Huge shower.

Horrible radiators, noisy and so hot. Poor pest control, no natural light, narrow living space.

Lower the price for what these units offer

There really isn’t any.

The super has a wild ego and I’ve seen him get into screaming matches with multiple tenants.

Get control of the situation

Trash was usually quickly picked up, never too smelly or gross.

Cockroaches on the steps and in hallways. Managed to get through the pipes into apartments no matter how clean you kept the place.

More frequent exterminations

There is nothing to like about this building, the super, and the management company (GPG Management). The only redeeming qualities are the building location because the neighborhood is cute.

- GPG management company is awful and unresponsive. They have fully ignored our phone calls, voicemails, and emails and have done this for every tenant in all of their buildings (online reviews are horrible and sometimes dangerous, unlivable conditions that the company still ignores).
- Our super, Denis Sujak, is just as bad and is not only rude and unprofessional, but ignores all of our texts and calls for maintenance issues. We have not had hot water in two weeks and he has not responded to us. He only came to our apartment when my boyfriend told him he was going to file a complaint.
- No hot water
- Building is extremely dirty
- Trash is constantly overflowing and there’s nowhere to put anything, especially if you are moving in or out.
- The management company lied and told us Denis is a live-in super (completely false).
- There has been no upkeep to the building, no COVID-19 cleaning measures, nothing done when maintenance is needed. This is a pretty bare-bones property for NYC, as there is no elevator, laundry, rooftop, amenities, doorman, or anything, so the fact that the management company and super cannot do the bare minimum and keep the building clean and fix important issues is astounding.

Hire new people who actually do their job and care about the property and are interested in fixing issues and not just collecting a check. Update your building and fix issues and maybe care about the hundreds of horrible reviews GPG management has online.

The building is clean, the neighbourhood is safe and nice

The property management team could respond quicker

Modernise kitchens keep rent levels the same

Super is very responsive! The building is also renovated and has a cute interior layout. The laundry room is also pretty clean, as is the common garbage area. The building has video intercoms and a key fob system.

The walls and floors are VERY thin. You can hear every single step of your neighbors above you, when they close cabinet doors, etc. The floor in my unit also shakes sometimes from my one of my neighbors on the same floor, but in the neighboring building. Crazy.

Also, they don’t penalize for smoking cigarettes in units, even though it’s against the lease terms / building rules. There is a cigarette smoker who often times will make the building smell like cigarette smoke and it seeps into the other units. Said tenant also smokes outside which makes it impossible to open windows. It’s not livable if you’re on the first few floors.

Elevator also breaks down often.

Only one washer, one dryer for the entire building.

Please hold people accountable to their lease terms and don’t allow people who smoke cigarette to live in the buildings, and also please do some kind of noise cancellation on the floors!

Elevator. Laundry in building. Lots of light. Most units are duplexes. No issue with heat or hot water. Neighbors are great. Location is good. The new construction they’ve been doing in the empty units look really nice.

Right next to an two abandoned buildings and an empty lot. Rats are EVERYWHERE when you leave the building.

Management company is not communicative on repairs. For example, we’ve had a significant water leak for years, and now a new one developed that leaks onto our couch. No repairs have been made. We’ve documented and sent to 311.

The super is nice, but it sounds like his hands are tied for most things outside of simple things.

This is your standard absent NYC landlord that paints over every problem regardless of how bad it is. Rent the unit. Then the tenants leave and they paint over it again.

There are tenant out there that want to work together with you to maintain the unit and stay in the building long term. It’s a win win scenario. Work with them and they will keep giving you their business.

If you care about yourself, please don't utilize this management's services.

I lived in one of the apartments that they manage on the Upper East Side for a year and my experience has been nothing short of a NY housing nightmare story. Problems that I have dealt with during the entirety of my one-year lease:

- rat infestation (the superintendent never filled up the hole behind the dishwasher that was acting as a gate for the rats to come in and out despite numerous pleadings and complaints over phone and email to resolve this -- we resorted to setting up mouse traps and catching them on our own)
- a heavy marble-bathroom tile falling off the wall -- this could have caused significant brain damage or worse to one of us if any of us had decided to take a shower that night. As a way to "fix" this, the superintendent came by to tape the tile back onto the wall (duct tape). For the rest of the year, we showered in fear of a tile falling on our head and getting a concussion
- bathroom ceiling paint coming off due to moisture/ventilation problem -- the bathroom is small and has no ventilation. As a result, the wall paint was coming off everywhere especially in the shower. The paint had balled up into a water bubble, and we would have to pop it to let the water out.
- the bathroom door falling off -- we waited 6 months to get this fixed by the superintendent even though it only took him 10 minutes to drill it back in.

Perhaps, the biggest problem is the management company. We addressed all of our issues multiple times on various medium (email, phone) and never got a response from the management -- complete silence except when it was about rent. The superintendent is lazy, unresponsive, unprofessional, horrifying, and undeserving of a job. They have completely failed us in all occasions and risked our health and well-being. We sincerely hope that we will be able to receive our deposits in due time (it has been over a month and no-response).

You are a Slumlord

Decent area, good super

Door is always broken and unlocked, bed bugs, roof door is always open and birds get in the building, rats & roaches all in trash area

Notify residents via email/call/text of building issues. I.e. hot water being out, near by construction, when someone is coming to the apt

Water bugs and mice

Poor management black mold holes in ceiling unleveled floors poor plumbing rusty pipes

Do the work that’s needed to be done

Responsive and friendly super, updated units, good value

Pest problem on lower floors and in hallways (rats, roaches, bed bugs, even pigeons in the hallway). Can be very loud at times from outside noise.

Figure out the pest problem

My unit has recently been renovated, so it looks nice and updated. Appliances are decent and the bathroom is especially nice.

My apartment gets very little sunlight except for in the bedroom, unfortunately. The building itself is on the dingy side, and the street below (Amsterdam) can get pretty noisy at night. There’s also nowhere to store your bike.

I suggest making sure the newly renovated units are not done as cheaply as possible; that will cause you even more problems down the line.