DO NOT MOVE HERE
Pros
Near a Trader Joes
Cons
1. They did not inform me a mentally ill man was living in the building. He is very disturbed and screams in the hallways throughout the night and threatens you if you see him. The building makes empty promises about giving us help while they did not do literally anything the year I was there. The man is trashing the building and needs serious help and no one is helping him. 2. The apartment is disgusting and falling apart. It smells horrific in there, most apartments have roaches or rodents, and the building is structurally falling apart, a few residents had their apartments flood. 3. The building has no heat. My electric bills were insane in the winter as I was forced to choose freezing or having a space heater on. 4. Management is incompetent and rude. They treated us like animals even though we were paying way too much to live there. Not only that, they tried to raise rent on tenants who couldn't afford to move elsewhere. They are predatory and evil.
Advice to the owners
Sell the building or hire a new a management team. You are going to get into serious legal problems which you likely deserve.
Just avoid it. There are other places out there.
Pros
Beautiful pre war brick walls, hardwood floors, relatively new light fixtures, high ceilings.
Cons
The building infrastructure is old. The brick walls are charming until they start crumbling spontaneously. Heating/cooling units usually don't work so you're on your own for that (which jacks up your ConEd bill). The hot water heaters are in each unit so your hot water is tied to your electricity bill. Which means you get about 7 minutes of hot water if you're lucky. There was no heat in my unit. At all. I had to depend on space heaters during the winter. My fridge broke and it took the management company over 6 months to replace it--and only after my original contact at the management company had left. Not that the new guy was any better--any reasonable request I ever had (not many in the four years I lived there) was met with hostility and intimidation. It was always, always an unpleasant interaction. Essentially, they know they have people by the balls because it's Manhattan-relatively reasonable rent in a desirable neighborhood, so they don't really care about keeping tenants happy. The biggest joke was that the owner makes each potential tenant meet with him before the lease signing--in his enormous Upper East Side apartment overlooking Central Park. I thought about that guy a lot when I was shivering in the winter because I didn't want to turn on my space heaters yet again. That guy could care less about his tenants. Overall, I was really happy to leave this place when I could. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
Advice to the owners
Have a modicum of human decency. I know that's not required in this city, but it sure does go a long way.
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