Overall, the building delivers great service for the price of the apartments. I wouldn't put this in absolute "luxury" category, but given pricing in NYC the monthly rent doesn't fit that either. Pros are: no bugs, no rodents, can't hear your neighbors, great views, remodeled apartments, clean hallways and lobby, and generally attentive staff.

Cons:

Pros definitely outweigh cons, but the street is not my favorite and neighboring buildings do not maintain trash or sidewalks. Also, the elevators have gone down which is troublesome for a building of this size.

Advice to owner:

Invest in an elevator overhaul and figure out a way to integrate lincoln center street cleaning on 60th st. Keep up the good work with apartment maintenance and tenant communication.

Over 1 year ago

Nice building with competent staff

Former Tenant

Pros:

Staff is kind and competent.

Cons:

Multiple cockroaches sighting in the living room. Management not helping.

Over 3 years ago

The best staff

Former Tenant

Pros:

The staff is wonderful. Phil, Alan, Ysef, etc. I always have them great holiday tips because they deserved it! Convenient location.

Cons:

Kind of a dead zone in the neighborhood but near central park, whole food

Advice to owner:

no advice thanks

Over 3 years ago

Good building and staff, bad and manipulative management

Former Tenant

Pros:

Clean and well maintained apartments

Cons:

A lot of renovations are happening, so it gets noisy often. The leasing office (Brodsky) is manipulative.

Advice to owner:

For the leasing office, please be more responsive and considerate to tenants, especially those who had reside in the building for years, some 10+ and 20+ years.

Over 3 years ago

Negotiate your rent increases

Former Tenant

Pros:

Good location, responsive maintenance, decent amenities and gym for an apartment

Cons:

Lease renewal prices are aggressive and not at all competitive with the area. Not sure who these guys think they are. It Could be fine for you if you get a good initial price and don’t plan on staying more than a year.

Noisy construction and renovations frequently, and water gets shut off every week or two, so not great if you work primarily from home.

Advice to owner:

Be reasonable to good tenants when doing rent increases. We can find the same quality building and location for less

Over 3 years ago

Best hot water ever! Great for long soaks in the tub.

Former Tenant

Pros:

Professional staff, haven’t seen a roach in 10:years, good neighbors who are respectful and keep to themselves.

Cons:

Tenants are fungible to Brodsky Management. Leases are short (never more than 2 years) and when your apartment is due for renovation your only option is to move into a renovated place at significantly higher rent or move out. The tenant churn gives the building a dormitory feeling, with constant turnover.

Advice to owner:

Fix the damn elevators and give some preference to long standing, good tenants.

Over 3 years ago

Great doormen, bad management

Former Tenant

Pros:

Clean, good doormen, responsive building staff

Cons:

A lot of construction, building will mot hesitate to evict long term tenants so they can renovate their apartment, rent increases of above 20%

Advice to owner:

Care more about tenants

Over 3 years ago

Luxury prices for a dump

Former Tenant

Pros:

Great location; some apartments newly renovated.

Cons:

Constant construction noise 7 days per week from 7am to 9pm - impossible to work from home or sleep past 7am; management is incompetent and unresponsive; the water is untreated and runs black most days; roaches everywhere, which management does nothing about; the elevators are hazardous - I’ve gotten stuck once and at least one elevator is always out of order.

Advice to owner:

Stop raising rents $500+ when you can’t even manage the building properly - that sort of practice will just lead to more turnover.

Over 4 years ago

Good overall building

Former Tenant

Pros:

Clean, quick to respond

Cons:

Mold in some units, a few doormen can be a little bit short and rude at times but most are great.

Over 4 years ago

They only want your money

Former Tenant

Pros:

Not an absolutely terrible place

Cons:

They will raise the rent on you like crazy, construction noises constantly, bad water pressure, mgmt slow to respond.

Advice to owner:

Be ethical and humane.

Over 4 years ago

Good building, bad management

Former Tenant

Pros:

The building is clean and the apartments are renovated

Cons:

The landlord Increased the rent by $200 and didn’t want to negotiate, asked us to leave if we’re not happy with the rent!

Advice to owner:

You can’t just increase the rent and expect people to be ok with it!

Over 4 years ago

Standard NY greedy landlords

Former Tenant

Pros:

Close to Central Park
Very friendly staff
Recently renovated units with nice finishes

Cons:

Once a week, they turn BOTH hot and cold water off for most of the day.
They routinely close the garbage chute for a day for repairs
They raised the rent $1200. I understand the market has changed from a year ago but to raise someone’s rent 41% is cold-blooded…but also very New York. Bye, Brodsky!

Advice to owner:

Have a heart. Don’t lead with greed.

Over 4 years ago

Could be better

Former Tenant

Pros:

Gym pool and staff good location

Cons:

raising rent by 50% is absolutely insane management doesnot value people living here

Advice to owner:

Greed over people is not the best practice