Residents who have been in Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village longer than the current landlord, Tishman Speyer, will remember how lovely the Oval area looked when Easter came along, with new flowerings in abundance and everything nice and manicured and neat. Granted this spring has been colder than normal, but the Oval area and surrounding regions have never looked worse during this time--under the administration of Tishman Speyer. It really is pathetic how terrible this complex looks now. If I didn't identify the photos below as being from Stuy Town, you might think they were taken in a ghetto complex.
The following pictures were all taken today, Easter Sunday.
Below: The large reflecting areas are mud.
Below: North side building in the Oval, with its "landscaping."
South of the Oval areas:
Near 14th Street and still in Stuyvesant Town. Looks like a dump.
And putting Tishman Speyer to shame, here are a couple of photos taken today of Tomkins Square Park. The difference is striking. Did you ever think Tomkins Square Park would look substantially better than the grounds here in Stuyvesant? Well, thanks to Rob and Jerry Speyer it has happened!
Very sad. What they did is criminal and should be actionable. Everything Tishman Speyer touched and everything they did destroyed what really once was beautiful and a great place to live with a strong feeling of community. Doesn't everyone miss the spring flowers? Grass? Trees? Long-time neighbors? No transients? It can probably never be restored. Tompkins Sq Park is superior to Stuy Town and that includes the playgrounds.
ReplyDeleteTishman Speyer is a destructive and incompetent company of unscrupulous, bloodsucking morons. They remind me of strip miners who rape the earth to get what they want and then leave it destroyed and ugly.
ReplyDeleteHate to say it, but given the fact that a sizeable chunk of the montly rental income is going into escrow starting this month, the situation is only going to get worse.
ReplyDeleteEssentially, right now Tishman's paying debt service on $5.4 billion, but collecting RS rents on the entire property. Something's gotta give...
They can only cut essential services so much before tenants will demand (and get) a rent decrease, so what's gonna go? My guess is groundskeeping will be all but eliminated.
On the plus side, seems VERY unlikely that there will be any concerts or movies on the Oval this summer.
Maybe if there is no more groundskeeping and moronic "gardeners" planting, digging up, replanting, digging up and then replanting again, the grounds will begin to revive. Even if there are only weeds growing, it will look better than it looks now after being raped by Tishman Speyer's "landscapers." Let's hope that the concerts, movies and that wretched, overpriced, understocked green market will go by the board this year.
ReplyDeleteIs the property owned by Speyer and Son or Sanford and Son?
ReplyDeleteNot even any spinach this year! Tightwads!
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