Jonathan Bakhash

Great natural lighting for all units and excellent neighbors. Good kitchen appliances and washer/dryer in most units.

Superintendent and management are not responsive/proactive to fixing issues.

good location - that’s it

Had a terrible mouse problem and had to threaten legal action before management would do anything useful about it. Packages would get stolen sometimes or dropped at an unsecured fed ex checkpoint

Hire a different/better pest management company

Great location in the neighborhood, easy access to trains, friendly landlord & neighbors

Landlord can be late in responding to maintenance issues, issues with mold in the bathroom, bathroom tiny

Cleaning comes once a month
AC in each room

No communication, staff will argue with you, nobody seems to know what is urgent and what is not, you will be out of hot water 25 days out of the year. Mold in bathrooms, leaks, and unresponsive teams.

To talk to the company running the property they have made this experience absolutely horrible

The building itself is beautiful and has lots of potential.

Balcony not up to regulation, fire escape not up to regulation, rampant issues of multifloor ceiling and bathroom mold and multifloor leaks that have lasted over three years. Property management company is unresponsive road provides poor customer service and Band-Aids issues rather than actually solving them. The mold in bathrooms on multiple floors was painted over and covered up highlighting the improper remediation of toxic black mold. There is also mildew and mold in the washing machines. This is a violation of the warranty of habitability under New York State real property law section 235-B.

Come by and meet the tenants, we all love the property and take great care of it and would love to see it flourish and to live in a safe environment. Mold and air quality tests should be done prior to this being taken to housing court.

The doormen, handymen and super are really sweet and unfortunately, probably very underpaid. The apartments themselves have “character” and aren’t cookie cutter. Real hardwood floors. Fairly convenient location and access to the subway.

1. Filthy building. I don’t see much, if any cleaning going on of any area other than the lobby. Stairways, laundry room, hallways, garbage rooms, etc. are disgusting. I am obsessively clean and have had a mice infestation where I had to kill 7 or 8 mice on my own. I have to leave sticky traps out to catch all of the cockroaches, spiders, and black carpet beetle larvae. You’ll be amazed the amount of dirt and dust that accumulates in your apartment. Much of it will come from the street through the thin windows, which the building never cleans from the outside to the point that they are black. You will need to buy air purifiers for each room and vacuum with HEPA filters. Everything is old. Layers and layers of paint on the walls will eventually crack and break off or leave powdery dust behind. Cabinet baseboards are rotted from frequent leaks. The paint bleeds a brownish orange color that will require washing.
2. Leasing agency is unreasonable. No leniency during COVID period even for tenants who didn’t live in their apartment during 2020! Rent hikes are a given each year without anything in return - no basic maintenance of apartment for renewing tenants.
3. Plumbing issues galore. Old pipes mean that the water quality is terrible. Bath water will randomly run brown and leave sediment behind. Must install your own shower head with a water filter. Can’t drink or cook with tap water. Frequent boiler issues mean no hot water quite often. I have averaged one flood a year (not originating from my apartment). Sewer line burst. Leaking ceilings and falling ceiling plaster. Rocks fall from the hot water pipe in my bathroom. The fire department has had to come mitigate. I’ve had to clean up this mess on my own more than once. Bathroom is gross. The finish on the tub is paint and will eventually peel off. The floor and tile grout has mold and mildew.
4. High Utilities - Building is old and hasn’t been well kept. The official Energy Efficiency rating for the building is a D. Expect expensive utilities bills even when you aren’t living in the apartment. Old school could radiators are filthy and make a loud banging noise regardless of if you turn them on in your unit. No central air means window units are a must in each room. Windows are thin and allow cool air and/or warm air to escape quickly. Kitchen appliances are junk. My fridge doesn’t have a light and half of the contents ice over while the other half spoil.
5. No sunlight. When I first moved in, there was a lot of natural light. My apartment faces south (50th Street). I would expect low light for the apartments that face the interior brick walls, but with 7 good sized windows, I still need to turn all of my lights on in my apartment to see. It’s very depressing. Blinds aren’t included in the units so you will need to install something for privacy.
6. Safety has been a concern. The building and the police have allowed for platform scaffolding, construction worker protests, homeless and migrant workers to live and riot outside of the building. The door to the basement is often left wide open. The doormen are part time. The chain lock they provide for your apartment is so flimsy that mine kept breaking. I finally went out and purchased and installed my own quality chain lock.
7. There is no package / delivery system. Packages are often left in the main lobby. The doormen sign for them when they can and lock them in a package room. You have to know that you have a package or ask if you have a package. Sending outgoing mail and packages is also difficult, but there’s a post office a few blocks away.
8. Laundry room is a ripoff and machines will ruin your clothing. Very expensive to use the handful of commercial washers and dryers. They don’t fit much and I only use them for my bedding and towels, which still manage to come out discolored, fried, or still soaking wet. Limited laundry room hours mean peak times are crazy and people will take out your laundry if you aren’t there when your machine times out.
9. Elevator takes forever and is sometimes broken. It doesn’t automatically return to the first floor, so you will always be waiting. I once was unable to get off of it and rode up and down 10 floors until it finally opened at the top of the building leaving me to walk down every flight.
10. Lots of noise. The endless construction seems to have finally stopped. It started with the demolition of a parking garage across the street and the construction of a high rise residential building. There was the tear-down of the sushi restaurant below that was converted to a coffee shop. The bodega in the middle of the apartment building was turned into a barber shop. The hotels and restaurants are constantly turning over and there are a lot of tourists when the city is up and running and a lot of jet setting business people and local workers whose offices are in the area. The police and fire station are a block or 2 away. A lot of sirens all the time.

Act like business people or service industry / hospitality professionals! Give tenants a reason to want to renew their lease and if they do renew, make them feel appreciated and take care of any issues, upgrades or maintenance work at that time. When tenants move out, don’t just slap a coat of paint on the walls, install a new toilet seat and call it a day. These apartments need major renovations to be worth the price. You can get a lot more for your money, newer construction, and more amenities in Midtown East and throughout the city. Chill out with your annual rate hikes and reward your longstanding tenants with the same upgrades other apartments receive and/or with fair rent prices. Don’t make them haggle with you every year. Wash the building’s windows at least once a year! Fix the plumbing issues for good, insulate the windows, improve the heating system and upgrade bathroom and kitchen fixtures. Set up a modern day package delivery system. Pay to have a doorman available throughout at least working and rush hours.

Vanderbilt is a nice block

Everything about this building is falling apart

Albert is the most incredible super I will ever have - he helped me put together my furniture and genuinely cares about tenants

Cockroaches! There are a fair amount in the summer

The building is generally clean and neighbors a respectful.

There are stolen packages from time to time and management doesn’t seem to care. They also have ignored a repair request for broken bathroom tiles and missing tile grout for 6 months.

Fix things in a timely manner.

Location was nice, but the building is not worth the rental prices.

The hot water goes out at least once a week, and because the super does not live nearby (which is illegal) it takes forever for it to be resolved. My apartment always had mice no matter what I did, and pest control was useless. The building is so old there are just mouse holes everywhere that are impossible to fill. Super noisy if you face the street. They also just recently started using crazy AI/staged photos for their listings that look NOTHING like the actual unit! So misleading

Get a super who actually lives nearby and stop faking listing photos.

Large apartment, high ceilings, convenient location

Low water pressure in shower, super is unresponsive, does poor quality repairs when he shows up

Great location; amazing doorman staff

Subpar laundry facilities; issues with pet hair in laundry facilities

Good location
Small building, so few neighbors, easy to know everyone

Why does the super respond to 1 in every 15 messages and only after a few months have passed???
Management doesn't take any complaints seriously

Listen to your tenants

-Living one block above Central Park is nice, having access to green space is always a plus.
-Oversized, pre-war features i.e. large windows, walk-in pantry, and high ceilings
- Equidistant to multiple subway lines, close to multiple bus stops, very convenient for commuting
- Close to a grocery store, laundromat, multiple cafes and restaurants

- Up until 2024 management was a nightmare to work with. Very unresponsive unless they were asking for money. They have been more responsive recently but it's still hit or miss if we can get maintenance issues resolved sooner than a month.
- The entire block has had significant rodent issues, it took a full year of back and forth with management and multiple exterminator visits to finally get to the bottom of rodent issues in our unit so we wouldn't have mice in our apartment.
- Consistent hot water is also an issue
- The super is sketchy in that he has threatened to come into our apartment while we are not home and told us to leave the city if we don't like the building.
- Our block is a hot spot for drug usage, people who are under the influence on some level frequently sit on the stoop, go through trash, and have even gotten in the building and squatted in the stairwell. Have had to call the police on a few occasions because the people in question were actively threatening us.

It wouldn't take much to clean up the stairwell, provide additional security to the from entryway, and in general contribute to the building feeling cleaner and safer.

Location, space, size of bedrooms, central AC, updated appliances

Rats. In multiple units. Front door constantly broken, which led to unwanted visitors. Management unresponsive re these issues. No in-unit washer and dryer.

Get your act together

Big apartments for nyc

Pests in units and common areas, poor at fixing problems, hot water is unreliable, laundry machines regularly out of service, elevator door sticks regularly and it isn't uncommon for the elevator to not be working at all.

To give credit where credit is due, and rarely ever given, the owner of the building is very fair and stepped in when the management company was falling short. The building staff is great as well. All very friendly and very responsive. If looking at this building, check out individual units, cause layouts vary widely. I absolutely love living here, any negatives are far outweighed by the positives for me personally.

The elevator is slow and the laundry machines are pretty unimpressive.

Nothing but respect for the owner.

The location was convenient.

Everything was awful here. It’s mice infested and management is not responsive.

Clean up the building

Bedroom, living room & kitchen space

Size of the bathroom

The Superintendent is very responsive everyone who works in the building is amazing and they are all sweeties. The building has an old 1920s vibe if you’re into that sort of thing. There is a lot of storage and closet space within the units.

The whole building hums about every 30 minutes!!!Inside the units there is the classic landlord special, the very not cute white paint over everything. It’s basically imposiple to get in touch with the owners or the management company.

New management company or something. More communication.