Hkal 34th Street Limited Partnership

Well kept building. The super is a very friendly, respectful, attentive, and diligent guy who goes above and beyond to keep the building tidy and look out for the tenants.

Minor issue overall, but the paint on parts of walls doesn't last as long as you'd expect (chips off)

Nice apartments with in-unit controllable A/C and heat, spacious layouts, attentive staff, great amenities (gym, pool)

There can be a lot of noise from people blasting music and management does little about it besides calling them and asking them to quiet down, even after multiple issues. Rent is getting pricey. The pool is not open to guests on the weekends during the summer.

Very nice building itself with amazing door men and staff! Beautiful rooftop. Any maintenance issues we had were dealt with very quickly too.

-Could be loud, at the time there was a bunch of construction on the 2nd floor of the building, and so hardcore drilling during the day that was very annoying. Also with ambulances due to nearby hospital which I eventually drowned out.
-Ended up becoming very expensive: had to pay over $500 per tenant to be able to access the pool of the building that we paid to live in? Thought that was ridiculous, and had someone sit and ask for IDs at the door too during the summer season. Considering the rent was being raised with no further updates to the units, that was ridiculous and whenever I would share that with friends/family they were appalled.
-I want to preface that we had moved in mid-pandemic, but our rent was raised over $2k per month over 2 years. Keep in mind no updates or changes to our unit. Even though that was sort of common at the time, still feel like that is not ethical business practice. And again, when sharing that with friends/family, again appalled.

Beautiful rooftop pool, large apartments, pet friendly, management is responsive to service requests

- the pool rules are very restrictive, not allowing guests on weekends or holidays and requiring additional payment for guests in addition the ~500 we already pay for pool access, if you don’t pay for a pool pass, the rooftop is closed to you from 10-7pm everyday of the summer/pool season even as a resident.

- we had multiple issues of our ceiling paint peeling in the bathroom. Management fixed it but it kept happening

- really good unit layout (probably unit dependent) and was able to flex the apartment while having windows in every room + living room
- fixed issues pretty promptly

- ceiling paint peeled whenever there was a lot of rain. not a big deal just a little annoying
- 1 of the 3 non service elevators is occasionally wonky or out of service. Generally not disruptive in day to day life
- I’m a sensitive sleeper and street noise pretty audible even in the top floors. Ear plugs at night generally do the job

Friendly staff, well maintained building. Extremely clean.

Better instructions for different processes, how to get packages etc

Good job overall

clean and pretty

heating bill was too high

Great staff, updated common spaces

Interior of apartment could use some updating

building staff are great, apartment appliances are nice, never had issues w pests/bugs

construction noises at night, elevators often not working

The building management is very responsive and overall things are well maintained

It's VERY noisy. Since it's near the hospitals, there are often ambulances and there's a looot of street traffic and noise. I had to train myself to sleep through the noise

Location, price, layout

Noise, traffic and no double pane windows

Staff keeps the building in great condition. Never saw a pest. Relatively quiet and respectful neighbors

Walls are thin and you can hear neighbors normal conversations through the vents

Doormen, Laundry, Gym, transportation, elevators

Noise from Moynihan train hall construction. I’m sure it’s better now.

Soundproofing the windows!

Staff was very nice, everything was well maintained, maintenance requests were responded to quickly, we saw no pests in our year there, apartment was spacious with big closets

Heat was a bit too high for a bit too long, sometimes maintenance projects took too long

Clean and nice area

Sometimes rude doormen

Great management, responsive staff, excellent gym/facilities

Lots of noise on street bc busy area

Doormen, large apartments, pool, renovated spaces, responsiveness

Cockroaches a few times but usually dead

Good gym rooftop pool

Very young rent keeps raising

Building is in a solid location, well-maintained and clean, apartments are spacious and the maintenance staff is hardworking and friendly.

There are far too many noisy and irresponsible fresh out of college kids who treat it like a dorm and have no respect or consideration for neighbors. Parties and noise happen all week long with little courtesy.

The staff was always very nice. It was a pre-war building so I didn't really hear my upstairs or next door neighbors. Pet friendly. Allowed for a full wall so I was able to split the rent with a roommate

The elevators broke down from time to time but there were 3 working elevators.
There was some construction noise from the building next to ours.