Monday, April 27, 2009

Priorities Set

Tishman Speyer's priorities in regard to Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village have been set for a while. Priority number one is to sell apartments, of course, which includes lying about what's to be found in this complex, both in and out of doors. Priority number two is to spruce up areas which can be used to promote, and sell, living in Stuy Town/PCV. Somewhere down the list of priorities is providing commendable service to members of the community. I mean, once you got the suckers in, who cares if you don't meet their expectations.

If you want to see relatively (for ST/PCV) lovely flowers and landscaping and nicely pruned lawns, your best bet is to head to the back of the rental office that's on First Avenue and check out what prospective market raters will see as they are shown Stuyvesant Town on their tour of the place.

This is the first thing that will meet your eyes:



Lovely, indeed! Gee, I want to live here! Sign me up right now!

For some reason, the Oval Essentials are still a top priority at Tishman Speyer. Just last week, a bunch of workers were fixing up the area in front of Oval Lounge and Oval Study, at the expense of doing any work on the awful looking Oval Lawn, which remains ugly and pathetic and a breeding ground for the mosquitoes coming soon. And today, workers were out early in the morning trying to upscale Oval Kids, with the addition of a row of bushes:



I've a feeling that the Essentials are the pet project of one of the biggies at Tishman Speyer. So money will be thrown at these even more this year. Expect a few open houses. Hey, free food and drinks, and I'm there!

Now in case you don't get out of Stuy Town/PCV much these days, you should know that other parts of the city, the city that's going through economic bad times, are actually looking quite nice in certain neighborhoods. I've already shown how the gardening at Tomkins Square Park has put the gardening in Stuy Town to shame. Yesterday, on a walking tour of the West Village, I came across this:



Now, ask yourselves, as you walk about Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, why can't we have something like this here?
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 28, 2009 at 11:54 AM

    What these incompetent goons have done to Stuyvesant Town is unforgiveable. Tishman Speyer will forever be remember by a lot of people as the bloodsucking "pirates" who pillaged and destroyed a once-beautiful community. That will be their legacy. Totally moronic, moneygrubbing lowlifes.

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  2. AnonymousApril 28, 2009 at 4:12 PM

    The new bushes around Oval Kids are replacements for bushes that didn't survive the winter. I'm betting the new ones don't last the summer. Notice the tanker in the background emptying the porta-johns on the playground?

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  3. AnonymousApril 29, 2009 at 11:09 AM

    They have portajohns on the playground????!!!! Why?

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  4. AnonymousApril 29, 2009 at 11:43 AM

    I haven't figured out why. I originally thought they were for the large landscaping crew doing all the new planting last year but they are gone and the porta-pottys remain. They are not the single cabins. It's a sort of white trailer. I think it has eight individual toilets. I live right by it so I guess I should be grateful they pump it out regularly.

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  5. AnonymousApril 29, 2009 at 7:30 PM

    I think Oval Pee was left there because they eliminated all the bathrooms when they built the amenities. Now, they have an excuse to not let you use the new bathrooms that are located in the Oval Amenities.

    Somebody really needs to step up and challenge TS at DHCR. They took over what were formally common areas and turned them into a commercial enterprise run by an outside contractor. Everyone deserves a rent reduction because of this.

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