Jonah Bamberger

Good location, good neighbourhood

Everything else, evil guy

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It was cheap

Absolutely infested with Mice I caught 12 in a week and the building did nothing. Consistently turned of the water heater. My floor had water damage so bad it started coming up and it wasn't safe to walk on.

Fix your building

friendly neighbors, quiet building, virtual doorman

worst management ever. the water constantly gets shut off bc something is broken. management is EXTREMELY unresponsive even when there are safety hazards. DO NOT LIVE HERE

answer emails

I mostly enjoyed living in 304 W 147th Street from 2018-2020 and found the location to be very convenient and apartment to be adequate. It was a good price for a small, one-bedroom room which is what I wanted although I came to find the layout was actually too small for me coming from more spacious Brooklyn apartments. But there were never major issues with the apartment beyond what I'll list in the Cons

During my time from 2018-2020, I found the building management to be very neglectful. Our building was the scene of a crime investigation when someone was shot and rolled up into a carpet left for dead in the nearby Starbucks garbage pile. I believe this was directly a result of the management not fixing the building's main lobby doors that were broken and open to anyone who wanted to come inside. Having an open area for laundry also made it easy for non-residents to come in. I also had many issues with my bathroom including dripping from the ceilings and when I saw my ceiling beginning to cave in from water above, management said they would send a super by a specific time since I needed to leave by then. My bathroom ceiling ultimately did collapse in, I waited for the super until the designated time and when I attempted to leave the building, the super was on the stoop chatting to friends

Listen and act promptly when your residents reach out with issues. I did not contact management unless it was emergencies such as packages being stolen or the bathroom ceiling issue

Normal noise level for the city, good neighbors, packages don’t go missing, walking distance to grocery and shopping

Rent is gone up a lot over the last 2 years, management doesn’t always respond the fastest, seems to change option to pay rent online or not on or off so unable to pay my rent still for a while

The property owner is very nice building well maintained clean prop management co just maybe a name of a person to who were able to contact not general address that takes a while to respond

Very Nice neighbors

No hot Water or heat

Location and apartment layout. Neighbors are great.

Awful management company. They follow through with nothing and are liars. The cooking gas has been off for almost 2 years! And they have continued to allow people to move into the building without informing them.

Sell the building and allow someone who cares to buy it and run it properly.

It has a fob entry

Heat and hot water never work in the winter. The landlord also is working to evict older tenants out. Roaches and mice also roam the building constantly.

Fix your building if you’re even thinking of having newer tenants in

Neighbors, my apartment, super

No gas
Roaches
No hot water
Not heat
Bad owner

Communicate, put on the gas. Leave the building

Mail is left in the lobby to signal to Airbnb folks to which units they should head. Front door usually left unlocked or rfid 4 digit code always kept the same for quick cash overnight stays, illegal yes, but hey, a great way to conceal the Apartment Warehousing.

For about 1.5 years after being attacked by repairmen posing as agents of ZPM Mgmt llc, they’d menace and stalk by darting into and out of this building (about 5 Latino men), who the nypd 32nd precinct allowed to be there as it helped drive gentrification pressures, then later we discovered that some of those “repairmen” were actual nypd officers in plainclothes. Naturally the answer was to just not file police reports the uniformed officers thought and so that deaded that. Granted as I am queer and not Latino these would have been hate crimes if the officers didn’t protect the fraternity by tossing out the rule of law.

Perhaps don’t allow the NYPD to pose as your proxy workers to covertly harass and attack your tenancy here, however, doesn’t seem like anyone wants to live here feeling like it’s casually gang violence culture infested. Gentrification business model less than ideal.

When I reported the frisky Capybara sized facade hole on the front face of the building, HPD knew precisely who I was as these ZPM Mgmt llc buildings are a full on dumpster fire. Oh pros…hmm it’s how can I put this…it’s better than living on the street but worse than living under a bridge overpass…yeah that seems about right.

These buildings use men they insist are their porters and supers who stalk you irl and take great pleasure in tormenting you like it’s 1864. For those not in the know…that wasn’t a very good year for kind acts. The lies so lazy, these dopes have zero skills with hammer or drill unless they are banging away down the hall from someone in a completely random and unproductive way trying to frustrate you to leave.

Be less Antichrist, more human than human. Also fix the stink from the trap house apt on the first floor. It’s untoward.

I liked that the building didn’t try to eat me while I slept, but seriously, there are zero redeemable qualities about living here rent stabilized. Zero.

Do you have time for a tome the size of War and Peace?!

Heavily heavily summarizing:

Agents of mgmt doing proxy repair work menaced me near my apt from down the hall so badly it made me get sick enough to need hospitalization. Upon returning 3 of these workers assaulted me on separate occasions and the nypd said they didn’t think a crime was committed. Mgmt wouldn’t tell me any details about their company who mgmt contracted.

My upstairs neighbor is a gentrification tool (a useful idiot to help squeeze folks out). Who the NYPD allows to believe he’s a sovereign Extremist. He believes he’s above the UNITED STATES LAWS…so they let him torment and stalk me (it’s been almost 9 Yrs now) and he’s made my ceiling cave in twice from willful leaks. Again the NYPD did not file police reports even when this guy also assaulted me unprompted till bloody from head blood loss. Off to the ER I went.

Mgmt refuses to provide rental receipts as per real property law 235a and e

Mgmt keeps cluster mailbox in disrepair so if you file say court papers against them, they can claim it must have gotten lost in the mail.

4 times they’ve committed tenant harassment.

Mgmt moved to a new address and didn’t tell anybody

Keeps signs required by law in the lobby regarding the supers info etc. : inaccurate or false

Ignores hpd complaints unless you keep calling code enforcement.

Built a series of decks and fences nobody uses which block the fire plan and are always locked so if there was a fire, you’d not be able to or know how to get out.

Purposely disabled my fire escape ladder so I’d feel cornered by the assaulters of which there were 5 assaults between 1/19 and 6/2019. Each assaults 32nd claimed wasn’t a crime despite them being hate crimes against me as an LGBTQIA+

Have been so awful I’ve begun a tenant organization and am sueing them criminally and civil , not an up action because they are the embodiment of Gentrification and SlumLordaldry

Quit your day job and garner a Soul at some point. I call my apt the Plantation House, and no, not the nice one in the center of the plot, the ramshackle ruddy one far on the edge of the plot across the corn…

The super and cleaning people were nice.

The neighbors, managment, and the pests were insane.

Get better management