Not Worth The Price
Pros
Nice neighborhood. Nice aesthetic. Pretty apartments. Large windows for great natural light.
Cons
Cheap, flat paint inside apartment except for kitchen and bathroom. Building needs extensive and seriously overdue repairs. Water damage from outside bricks cause walls to have corroding, bubbles and/or warping. A lot of chipping paint, I sincerely hope there’s no lead. No cameras on each floor, only in the lobby. 1 camera in the lobby is blocked by a beam on the ceiling, leaving the camera practically useless. Very poor staircase lighting. Rust on staircase steps. Garbage CONSTANTLY found in staircase. No security cameras in staircase for safety. When you first move in the apartment is perfect, after a few months, whatever they tried to cover up (plastering walls, water leakage inside the wall etc.) will come to light, it’s happened here in my apartment, it’s happened in my parents Parkchester apartment, my brothers PC apt and my cousins PC apartment. I doubt it’s just a coincidence by now. Very thin walls, you can practically hear everything from your neighbors apartment. Incinerator closets are filthy because some tenants will leave their trash on the floor instead of throwing it down the chute (which is really small to begin with) but maybe a camera in the closet will catch repeat offenders of this particular disgusting practice. No laundry on premises, you have to go to a local laundromat; even though they’re fairly close it’s still not worth how much you pay in rent. No washing machine or dryers allowed inside your apartment.
Advice to the owners
Parkchester paints over a million coats of old paint from previous renters. This will result in paint chipping randomly off your windowsill, or wall. When a tenant moves out, instead of just painting over the previous paint, maybe assess the amount of coats already there and decide if you should scrape or sand it down and THEN paint over it, instead of having hundreds of years worth of paint coats on new tenants walls. -Add more security cameras to every floor. -Add security cameras in SMART places i.e. not behind a beam on the ceiling. -Have more lighting in staircases ESPECIALLY when elevator repairs knock out elevators for 12 weeks or more. Tenants can get robbed in staircases!!! -Have better lighting outside between buildings/walkways, people can get robbed or worse in those dark areas!
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