Good cheap place
Pros
It is cheap and close to the park and B/C trains
Cons
Noise, neighbors, cleanliness of building. People smoke indoors
The worst place I lived in Manhattan
Pros
Close to the park
Cons
Everything. I was in a brand new fully renovated ground floor apt in 2014. The night I moved in, a completely new renovated place- I saw 7 mice scurry from behind our dish washer. We lived with this family of mice the entire time we lived there because no matter how many times we complained and the super came to caulk up what they ate through they never went away. The super just recommended using sticky traps (we paid for and had the joy of cleaning up after). The third floor flooded and it rained into my entire apt through the light fixtures. It was a Friday night and when I called to tell the super he yelled at me and hung up. When I finally got him to come over and check it out there was a full waterfall coming through the lights and he ran to shut off the water (about 20 minutes after the first call and with three inches of water in my apt). When he returned to tell me he shut the water off I asked what to do now (re. The 3” water and damage) and told me “go buy a mop” and left. I have it all documented. It was truly the most hellish place I’ve ever lived and we paid $3000/mo! The heat is electric and there’s no insulation in the building so your electric bill will be super high and you’ll watch the heat just shoot out the window. The washer/dryer in unit is cheap cheap and doesnt really work. Everything looks nice but falls apart. I lived downstaiurs from a man who was using his apartment as a brothel. He called them models but they slept 4 to a room and he was the only one allowed to speak for them? This place is a nightmare I swear to god.
Advice to the owners
Get a super that doesn’t assault your tenants- that Eastern European monster grabbed my arm and went to hit me before my boyfriend intervened. We called the cops.
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