78/79 York Associates LLC

I always felt super safe in this building. The management office was incredibly responsive and if anything needed fixing they’d have someone put there usually within 1 day. The building is quiet and the walls have incredible soundproofing. I didn’t ever hear my neighbors.

The hallways/stairs could use a bit more attention in terms of keeping them clean.

Keep up the great work!

Owners are responsive and quick to fix things

Had pests sometimes in the summer

Better pest control for bugs

Loved living here for two years. Maintenance come whenever you call. Right beside the water and park.

Far from subways.

clean, responsive management and leasing office. rent stabilized

Laundry room has crowded, lots of broken machines

Management will come super quickly if you have an issue.

No matter how many times we have management spray. We get like 4 live huge cockroaches a month.

Solve the root problem rather than just spraying.

feels very safe and management is responsive

laundry can be a trek; sometimes the package delivery system gets messy

Safe
Clean
Quite
Accessible
Friendly staff
Clean maintenance
Good price for the unit

Ants, don’t know where they are coming from. Sometimes packages get sent to the mall office instead of unit.

Update: have been harassed by a tenant in 4f for a year, she films me, constantly walks by my windows, never leashes her dog, filmed me in a shirt that was see through. Management has done nothing. If you move here avoid 535 or you’ll get harassed

Delegate when your tenants are being harassed

Landlord responded to complaints

Mice. ALL THE TIME.

SW Management owns the whole 78 and 79 street blocks. It's always clean and well maintained. Lots of staff and feels very safe.

Front desk manager is not very kind. Packages sometimes get stolen from vestibules (I think this is a common thing anymore). If you want to break a lease be prepared to pay. They are zero flexibility on this.

The management company is very responsive and helpful when it comes to noise complaints.
There are also some nice neighbors that keeps its friendly and enjoyable.

The building walls and ceilings/floors are very thin, and therefore there is a lot of noise easily heard from other apartments.
It is also over a 15 minute walk to the nearest subway stops.
Also, maintenance handles the trash from 5:30am most days in the courtyard available to most apartments, it is incredibly noisy and disruptive.

The rent should be adjusted to reflect the location and improve insulation for reduced noise.

- Calm, quiet area
- Responsive and organized management team
- Rent-controlled
- Friendly maintenance team

- Roaches... At first, if was a once a month thing. When they finally sealed holes in the kitchen that were most likely where they were coming in through, they still kept coming in, but through my bathroom sink... It was disgusting and had to keep my sink covered/shut at all times whenever I wasn't using it to brush my teeth or to wash my hands or face.
- At first they would cover basic maintenance services, but then they started randomly charging for things, like $10 to replace a lightbulb in the bathroom.

Clean common areas
Easy to work with
Good neighbors

Lack of dishwasher in units

Actively organized and cleaning

Mail gets robbed at times.

Fix your cameras

Appreciate how quickly management comes to fix issues

Far from subway and good restaurants

Management was quick and responsive

It units can be loud at times depending on who lives above you

Responsive management / maintenance
Daily recycling removal
Garbage chute
Quiet

No elevator
People leaving messes in common areas

Rent Stabilized. Beautiful Apartment. Utilities included. Picturesque landmark street. Waterfront access on street.

Never one rodent or insect issue.

Extremely helpful leasing office! Everyone on the team.

buildings have video intercoms to address visitors in lieu of doorman.

Responsive maintenance team
Repairs may not get done immediately, but typically within two business days. (this, depending on the scale of urgency and labor needed to solve your particular issue.)

Building public areas and sidewalks are cleaned just about every business day.
Pet friendly.

Chile…

Literally, no warnings to façade construction. Not one printed piece of paper anywhere.
Waking up to someone on your fire escape Hammering* not scraping paint off of metal or casually standing in your window will occasionally happen. Work from home? Someone with post-traumatic stress disorder?

Doing your laundry on weekends can be risky after 5pm. As card machine and W/D can malfunction so no one will be there to reimburse your loss. machines only accept 10 and $20 bills to refill card.

Shared walls are thin and so are the floors and ceiling. (Typical Pre-war) You will be able to guess what your neighbor is watching if they’re the above average volume type. I can tell that my neighbors below are Marvel fans. Pick your apartment placement and shared walls wisely.

There is no immediate due process or consequence in place if a neighbor harasses you short of physical attack be it verbally, violent intimidation or through ill conduct.

Building cleaning staff consistently leaves entry doorways open for whatever reason. Contributing to packages stolen, entire mailboxes being broken into or stumbling across a random person camped out in a dark corner of the stairwell or right in front of your apt door be it a homeless person seeking shelter or the drunk and disorderly guest of a neighbor will be a given considering there are no cameras.

Rent receipts are left on the door knobs of tenants. This is for everyone to see. Including marked envelopes of tenants who are late on their rent… one such cleaning attendant once handed me mine with a lit joint on his hand. After having carried all of the tenant documents to the roof to smoke, said joint. This person was given that responsibility.

No need to mention the management office as these are all issues that are handled poorly by the management office. Who, depending on your reason for communicating, can often be a little too familiar or just flat out dismissive and smarmy.

Rent stabilized, only additional fee is for my window AC unit which is like maybe $30(?), Handyman are usually at my apt quick / fix the issue

My upstairs neighbor (I’m assuming) is the loudest walker and always at 1-2 am like (a) how can you walk that much in your apartment and (b) why are your footsteps so loud

Overall super satisfied

Rent stabilized, Verizon fios, good management, no pests, all utilities included (minus slight extra charge for a window AC installation)

Old building, far from subway, weird floorplans

Affordable, quiet neighborhood, very clean

Neighbors can be loud & some try to smoke. Rent stabilized building so you get a mix of people

better vetting of tenants