Centennial Property NY

There is a target across the street

Management will never answer you. I’ve had 6 superintendents within my one year of living here. The walls are paper-thin and the Jamaican place next door is SO loud — you will think you moved into a nightclub. 80% of the time you exit the building there will be a homeless person sleeping on the step or someone selling drugs

Do better

Generally clean and butterfly mx

Owner unresponsive about hazards and building violations. Multiple people called 311. High resident turnover.

Fix up property

- Clean
- nice apartments
- good garbage collection method
- no pests
- close to lots of grocery stores, restaurants, etc

- expensive for size and location
- had issues with water pressure and getting heat
- management was slow to fix certain issues
- loud street

Quiet street and building, good location.

Packages are usually stolen within hours (thief neighbor possibly?). Management / super are both unresponsive to issues unless you press them hard and it'll still take a while. Building is literally falling apart: walls, floors, and ceilings often break/disintegrate. Apartment came dirty with broken fixtures and appliances.

Get a camera for the lobby so packages aren't stolen. Respond to maintenance requests.

decent looking building. washer/dryer and dishwasher.

thin thin thin walls - can hear everything. roaches and rats. Big and small roaches. Rats galore in the backyard and sometimes they venture inside. They are all over in the basement. Mice in some units too.

management is non responsive and generally just downright crook. They will never fix anything.

Management will also try to raise your rent an unreasonable amount upon lease expiration. We are talking $1100 additional on a glorified studio apartment.

sell to a real landlord.

Cheap rent and genuinely forgot to charge rent for several months

The owner is/was in prison for criminal harassment of residents in portfolio, including having his agents impersonate NYPD.

Stop harassing your residents Mr Croman.

Good location but too expensive

It can get noisy if facing 28th

Apartment is updated and nice.

Landlord is entirely unresponsive and is in open violation of my lease agreement.

Absolutely nothing. It was a nightmare

Everything. Garbage are never taken out on time, all the cans are full. Management never answer calls and takes a long time to get in touch with emails. Even when you get on the phone with them, they all have a nasty attitude. The Super for the building is beyond lazy and rude! Never wanna do any work, when he said he will come at this time, shows up 2 hours later... so you will be wasting your time waiting. As if you guys are inconvenience to them. Also these apps are absolutely not sound proof. You can hear your upstairs using the bathroom. Don’t think you can ever get a good night sleep. The owner of this company is Steven Corman who ended up at Rikers island two years ago for being shady to all his tenants. So if you really wanna rent here good luck.

Get better building managers

The location is close to work.

The super had not fixed a single problem in the apartment since we moved in, and has ignored most phone calls and texts. He doesn’t complete service requests. I overheard the super say “The people in this building complain too much.” Well, we wouldn’t complain if you actually did your job.

The building manager ignores phone calls and emails and never follows through. They have complete disregard for their tenants, and I would not recommend this management company to anyone.

The superintendent is great and very responsive, building is clean. My unit is renovated and I do like the details.

Management is not who you want to be in business with. Steve Croman is the building owner and in 2017 he was sentenced to a year in jail and fined $5million for his eviction practices of displacing rent stabilized tenants to destabilize rent stabilized buildings. Steve Croman also settled a class action lawsuit for $8 million in restitution to the tenants he harassed/displaced.

We formerly had Cathy Burton as our property manager; she was very rude in all of my interactions and this Spring I saw her visit the building to cuss out/verbally berate a tenant but I didn’t get the backstory on why this occurred.

Management routinely claims checks arrive late so they can collect late fees; other tenants posting on www.Cromantenants.org appear to have similar issues. As part of the Croman settlement, the building was required to go under new management so they created a new legal entity but are the same management company from what I can tell.

Additionally, I have never had such high utility bills at any other apartment. My apartment is very small but my electric and gas bills are between $150-$200 a month, even in months I have not been here.

Get out of the landlord business.

Location, clean hallways and stairwells, crown molding in all rooms of apartment, laundry, very responsive and helpful super

There is rotting garbage in the lightwell between 52 and 54 Barrow. Management refused to do anything about it, claiming it was the responsibility of 54 Barrow

Clean up the garbage in the lightwell, or work with 54 Barrow or the city to get it cleaned up