"Yes, it was a no-brainer when we at Blackagain looked at it," stated GM Rick Duckalways. "This way, our residents will feel safer, and even those we hit (watch out, seniors!) will laugh about it when they wake up in the hospital."
First, though, a tool attachment on the back will have to be placed on the "Little Tikes."
"It is tough dealing with the population explosion here and all the AirBnb apartments. But where there is a will, there is a way," assured Duckalways.
The new Little Tikes vehicles will begin appearing in February, 2018.
Demo video:
Are you being serious, STR?
ReplyDeleteObviously satire 2:44.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the LOL!
ReplyDeleteIs there black mold in these apartments I ask as we are all (4) constantly now sick and moved here in March.
ReplyDeleteI think there is all kinds of mold. Have it tested, if you can.
ReplyDeleteWait, you mean the Leasing Office didn’t mention the black mold?? Shocker.
ReplyDeleteYes, there is black mold in the walls of these buildings. Many, but not all, apartments are affected. Get it tested and then when it inevitably is positive, Blackstone will have to do something to remedy.
WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE PARKING SPOTS?
ReplyDeleteIt is a nightmare finding a spot now.
You would think the pols would have the DOT make some accommodation for the elderly and handicapped who need their vehicles.
Any thoughts, STR?
I don't have a car, but my guess is that parking is at a premium and the pols want it so, whether they say it or not.
ReplyDeleteHow do you go about getting your apartment tested for black mold and is it expensive?
ReplyDeleteI have no idea. Ask one of the hardware stores.
ReplyDeletePeter Stuyvesant is on the FB page defending him/herself against the questions about MCI challenges. As a tenant who was here in pre-2006 through today, and as a former management employee during the years that Peter Stuyvesant mentions, I can tell you that the comment is a complete lie. It should be noted that the TA attorney's had nothing to do with the retroactive charges not going through, and it was a fortunate (for us)/unfortunate (for them) situation.
ReplyDeleteI won't go into the details, but there is a lot more to this story than Peter Stuyvesant is telling (lying). It's also a damn shame that they bring something up from pre-2006, because it really is a matter of "what have you done for me lately?" The answer to that question is NOTHING. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
Once again, I go outside and see violations. Seen just in the space of a minute, two dogs from outside being walked casually inside ST, and no one is "escorting" them and their owners out. No one.
ReplyDeleteHey, Management! I'm tired of sending you messages! Or is that the idea? Get tired and don't send us messages anymore. Ergo, everything is perfect now.
Reminder:
ReplyDeleteAs per the notice that was plastered all over the buildings last week, tomorrow security will be teaming with the NYPD to combat the e-bikes on the property.
Seen today - two delivery men reading the sign together and laughing. Guess what they were riding... e-bikes!
Seriously, how stupid can they be for publicizing that? (It would have been a great idea otherwise)
anotehr mci. This is outrageous.
ReplyDeleteReminder:
ReplyDeleteAs per the notice that was plastered all over the buildings last week, tomorrow security will be teaming with the NYPD to combat the e-bikes on the property.
Seen today - two delivery men reading the sign together and laughing. Guess what they were riding... e-bikes!
Seriously, how stupid can they be for publicizing that? (It would have been a great idea otherwise)
November 15, 2017 at 9:18 PM
The relationship between private firm security and public service (supposedly) 13th precinct NYPD is questionable.
Famous for weakening rent stabilization programs and laws Cuomo has come out into the open with his self serving motives and ways boasting his give away of $420 million to a roomful of Hollywood executives ...who then kicked it back...
ReplyDeleteSeriously, years of giving away hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to billionaire friends who run billion dollar corporations so they kick back hundreds of thousands even millions to give an appearance they back him,the person, as a candidate. Their emails show they do not back the person or candidate, they back the policy that gives them hundreds of millions in taxpayer money. Cuomo and these Hollywood executives are robbing New Yorkers in what appears to include kickbacks and money laundering aspects where tax credits go to the studios in return contributions go into the coffer to advance his career to the Presidency where at this point there can be no doubting he will hammer the final nail into the coffin of the American Middle Class.
"The two-term governor is also making sure to remind Tinseltown’s deep-pocketed donors tonight like Disney’s Bob Iger that New York provides them with $420 million in tax credits annually. That’s almost $100 million more than what California hands out and the most of any state."
http://deadline.com/2017/11/andrew-cuomo-hollywood-fundraiser-bob-iger-jeff-shell-les-moonves-2020-1202208117/
Email confessions
Emails between Sony executives and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s campaign staff leaked as part of the Sony Pictures hack and published in full by WikiLeaks Thursday appear to show Sony executives believed donating to Cuomo was a good idea because he is a “strong protector” of New York’s film tax credit.
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2015/04/hacked-sony-emails-reveal-cuomo-fund-raising-details-000000
The questions and comments at the official ST site.... Well, the comments have started to appear, but, no surprise, the comments are VERY selective, and even nice comments that just take a different view than Management's have not been passed thus far.
ReplyDeleteSo it looks like this questions/comments is more BS. Ah, well....
FAIL
ReplyDeleteNo surprise there that the deBlasio Glen "affordable housing" lottery calculations are a failure so what gives with those units in StuyTown? Dorms?
https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20171102/prospect-heights/vacant-affordable-units-pacific-park-atlantic-yards
Let's face it, we are on our own. We have corrupt government and corrupt landlords who control our so-called representatives. We have a White House that is filled with generals, family members and cronies of the most loathsome parody of a president and caricature of a man that has ever occupied that office and residence. I don't know that leaving Stuyvesant Town or New York is the answer. I don't know how much worse things are going to get. Very, very depressing. Things just get worse every day.
ReplyDelete"The questions and comments at the official ST site.... Well, the comments have started to appear, but, no surprise, the comments are VERY selective, and even nice comments that just take a different view than Management's have not been passed thus far."
ReplyDeleteAre you referring to the TA FB page? If so, what thread are you referring to? You also say that the "STPCV Official Facebook Page" on your banner page is the TA FB page. The "STPCV Official Facebook Page" in not the TA FB page. The official (SPS) URL location is this FB page, the "StuyTown" FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/StuyTown/
You also say on your banner page that the "STPCV Official Website" is the TA webpage. That is also not correct. The "STPCV Official Website" is the SPS webpage (not TA) and this is that URL address location:
https://www.stuytown.com/
Both of your "Official" text tags on your banner page should be changed to "TA".
https://www.stuytown.com/questions
ReplyDelete4.03 PM here.
ReplyDelete"https://www.stuytown.com/questions"
Thanks for the SPS comment link. Some topics have zero comments. One topic (dispose and re-cycle) has 3 comments, 10 thumbs up and 5 thumbs down. so the topic responses are all over the place. The top topic view # is 418 (proper way to re-cycle). SPS responses to tenants who have a question or a suggestion are responded privately back to the person via text or email which limits the usefulness of the link for those who just want to view a SPS response.
For sure, I made a comment, if not two. But the one comment I made has no response, and it does't even say a comment was made. So... Either that webmaster is behind in his work or has been told to ignore certain issues. My comment was not abrasive in least, btw.
ReplyDeleteAs with a few other things, this new feature is not working as it should.
I tried to submit a comment, but I think I failed the verification process. It's hard to see what's in those little boxes you have to click on (road signs, cars, etc.) if you are a bit older and can't see small stuff on the screen!
ReplyDelete@ November 16, 2017 at 9:03 AM
ReplyDelete"Email confessions - Emails between Sony executives and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s campaign staff leaked as part of the Sony Pictures hack and published in full by WikiLeaks Thursday appear to show Sony executives believed donating to Cuomo was a good idea because he is a “strong protector” of New York’s film tax credit."
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2015/04/hacked-sony-emails-reveal-cuomo-fund-raising-details-000000
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Same goes for REBNY/Wall Street predators bankrolling Cuomo, de Blasio and Cuomo's protégé-errand boy Garodnick, who dutifully hijacked and bankrolled the once effective now disgraced, incredibly conflicted PCVST TA Board.
After trying and failing to rake in multiple billion dollar windfalls pushing a historic, world renowned, middle class community out of PCVST, greedy REBNY predator Speyer formed and deposited $1 Million graft money into a nonprofit political slush fund bankrolling Cuomo. REBNY/Wall Street predators also deposited $$$,$$$ graft money into nonprofit political slush funds bankrolling De Blasio and Garodnick, who dutifully deposited graft money into a nonprofit political slush bankrolling the disgraced, incredibly conflicted TA Board he hijacked. To protect themselves and the predators, corrupt politicians passed laws allowing predators to deposit huge amounts of graft money into nonprofit political slush funds controlled by graft taking politicians they bankroll and own. It's called Legal Bribery.
The graft paying predators and graft taking elected officials, including the disgraced, incredibly conflicted PCVST TA Board, retained and shared the same P.R. Lobbyists coordinating schemes, moving money, manipulating media, crafting and maintaining a false narrative pretending graft taking elected officials were working 24/7/365 protecting middle class PCVST residents against greedy, salivating REBNY/Wall Street predators circling their endangered homes - the exact opposite of what actually took place.
Working separately and together, graft taking NYS/NYC politicians and the disgraced, incredibly conflicted TA Board, all elected to protect us against REBNY/Wall Street predators Speyer, Moelis, Brookfield, Fortress and Blackstone, betrayed and disenfranchised all of their 25,000 middle class PCVST constituents (neighbors to backstabbing Garodnick-TA Board) by needlessly tossing the entire PCVST complex, including our 11,230 middle class homes, right back into the teeth of the same REBNY/Wall Street predators bankrolling them. Worst of all, they ensured greedy Wall Street predator Blackstone will succeed where greedy REBNY predator Speyer failed. The graft taking elected officials virtually guaranteed in-writing Blackstone will successfully rake in multiple billion dollar windfalls executing Speyer's business plan pushing the historic, world renowned, middle class community out of PCVST. The graft paying predators, graft taking elected officials and their P.R. Lobbyists are all falsely proclaiming the destruction of our historic, middle class PCVST community is somehow a "historic middle class victory" and the "mother of all preservation deals" --- VOMIT NOW!
The only quality of life that counts is theirs 1
ReplyDeleteThe demise-of-SuyTown puppetmasters who pull the strings of the REBNY, Silicon Valley, Hospital /Insurance Industry who in turn are the puppetmasters who bully and pull the strings of Albany and City Hall and as we all saw even Washington DC when MetLife's Benmosche went to AIG to justify the Bush taxpayer bailout that also handed hundreds of millions to AIG heads are in this photo, The Benmosches, Finks, Langones. They, with their extended social clique, are behind every infraction from quality of life to legal infractions:
https://manhattan.smugmug.com/keyword/fink;denise/
When AIG executives in the social clique pillaged, stole, defrauded hoarded from millions of victims, Benmosche was brought out of MetLife retirement to make AIG workers feel good about itself by raising morale, something he did by firing half the employees to cut costs. He defends AIG crimes citing how dangerous it is for executive families whose homes are under seige by the victimized angry public while Benmosche put our homes and us in the very same position. It OK to attack the middle class homes but not OK for executives to endure the same treatment from the victims they robbed.
STR was and is correct in that Benmosche put the wheels in motion that destroyed this community in a diabolical plan. A ruthless, cunning, deceitful plan.
He bullied Politicians and robbed the People in the cover up of the AIG crimes even using a vulgar anatomy boast.
The only quality of life that counts is theirs 2
ReplyDeleteWho pays the price for the 1% lifestyle whose fortunes are made not by business prowess but by nefarious means?
Two weeks after being hired pay back the George W taxpayer bailout, Benmosche vacationed at his palace built in 1934 for the treasurer to the king of Yugoslavia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex1yzBN6prM
"The Obama administration was horrified by the headlines about the “tone deaf” vacationing CEO as well as the interview Benmosche subsequently gave to Reuters, in which he showed off Villa Splendid’s twelve bathrooms (“Women go wild when they walk in here”). And they were livid the following Monday, when Bloomberg began publishing a series of articles about the town-hall meeting he’d given in Houston, during which he blamed federal regulators for the financial crisis and spelled out what he’d say if he ever got in a room with Andrew Cuomo, who’d threatened to subpoena the names of Financial Products employees receiving bonuses.
(“I will tell you, there won’t be a nice word.”) Or if the “crazies” in Washington talked to him like they did Liddy. (“You can stick it where the sun don’t shine.”)
Millstein called Benmosche in Croatia. “You’ve got to stop,” he said wildly.
“I have stopped,” Benmosche said serenely. Millstein could hear the cicadas chirping in the background. Benmosche explained that the reporter had gotten hold of a tape of the town hall and was publishing one quote at a time.
Millstein stopped breathing. “There’s more?”
There was just one more thing, about a meeting that weekend where Benmosche had boasted that “a part of his anatomy was bigger than the government’s.”
The only quality of life that counts is theirs 3
ReplyDeleteThere is a fundamental societal structure flaw in democracy when insurance industry heads are billionaires living in castles built for royalty and those with insurance policies are denied hospitals, medical care; denied treatment as a standard insurance industry practice and policy to keep costs down while hospitals are closing like Brooklyn’s Long Island College Hospital and ST Vincents. Two hospital-for-empty-luxury-condo closings deblasio protested while Public Advocate he then as Mayor closed for Rudin and Levey.
Obama may have been bullied but deblasio was calculating and cunning to benefit from the Benmosches Clique.
As angry as we are being bullied out of our homes, this Clique bullies everyone, even politicians.
As misguided as Obama's Treasury guy Milstein was for being angry at "appearances" the public is angrier at not just appearances but the clique's actions whose consequences we repeatedly suffer as evident in the last election.
The only way to win back the Public is with ACTIONS. Not words, not advertising cheap cheesy slogans, not promises of hope, not messages, but real ACTIONS garnering real RESULTS against bullies.
The actions that cost all middle class homes all across the country that are now owned by the photographed trios social clique and now part of the next crisis, the rental market crash that the government will again use taxpayer dollars to bailout.
MetLife, Benmosche, Speyer their whole little clique is why quality of life is what it is for us under ownership by Schwarzman while theirs gets better and better.
How, in America, with American Rights, have millions lost right to health care and right to a home / shelter?
Maybe it as is Benmosche blurted "“I’ll tell you exactly what I said,” says Benmosche. “I said, ‘They may have big balls, but my balls are bigger.’ ”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-insurance-aig/exclusive-aig-ceo-defends-holiday-slams-lynch-mob-attacks-idUSTRE57Q24J20090827
http://nymag.com/nymag/features/bob-benmosche-aig-2012-10/index3.html
WE ALL AGREE ON ONE THING; THAT IS WHO THE BIG DICK IS.
How long is the construciton at the VA going to continue? Seriously offensive noise from trucks 7 days a week. Where is the TA on this, where is management?
ReplyDeleteHow long is the construciton at the VA going to continue? Seriously offensive noise from trucks 7 days a week. Where is the TA on this, where is management?
ReplyDeleteCheck out the TA Facebook page... there’s a link to a Brick Underground article that names Stuy Town Management as the top in the city. The author of that article needs to read Yelp, and maybe live here for a week, than they will have a completely different opinion.
ReplyDeleteSTR - maybe you should send the author some facts of SPS.
Sickening. No wonder Management is showcasing this.
ReplyDeleteAnd, yes, they are partitioning. Every day I see workers hauling these partitions to another apartment.
ReplyDeleteAnd where is the TA on this? STR can do his thing, and others can, too, but to hear a voice that represents tenants, as supposedly does the TA... Absent again!
ReplyDelete"Brick Underground article that names Stuy Town Management as the top in the city "
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Fake News - This is what Blackstone pays P.R. Lobbyists for - crafting phony narratives supported by manipulating a passive, compliant media accepting numerous false statements as facts from P.R. Lobbyists buying them lunch.
That is a very revealing article, what a bully and manipulator with anger management mental health issues.
ReplyDeleteHis morals are not at all surprising, with his Boca Raton "various female companions" lifestyle.
His low opinion of women rivals his low opinion of the American government where he uses the Indiana Jones film comparison saying he sees himself as Indiana Jones with a gun and the American government as idiots with swords. He then goes on to brag about going to AIG to help the poor AIG executives get their big bonuses.
"Benmosche was so notoriously frugal that soon after they got married, his wife Denise granted him a divorce just to avoid unfavorable tax laws. “We were in the hotel in Santo Domingo, and I said, ‘Oh, look, honey, we can get a divorce for $400,’ ” she says. “I knew if we didn’t go through with it, he would be so angry come April 15.” Benmosche pulls a sitcom-husband face.
They remarried the following year, although for the past ten they’ve had what he calls an “off-and-on relationship” that seems, at least in Croatia, to be mostly on. Still, Denise lives in Manhattan, while Benmosche, who has various “female companions,” lives mainly in tax-friendly Boca Raton.
I’m wondering how rude it would be to ask if finances had anything to do with their not getting a second divorce ..."
I don't think the TA posted that link. A tenant did. The TA approves non-offensive posts, but when they post something it is always from "Peter Stuyvesant."
ReplyDelete11:55, nobody said the TA posted it, just that it was posted on their page. We all know very well that Peter Stuyvesant is their official moniker.
ReplyDeleteThis article was 100% paid for by Blackstone.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous Anonymous said...
Peter Stuyvesant is on the FB page defending him/herself against the questions about MCI challenges. As a tenant who was here in pre-2006 through today, and as a former management employee during the years that Peter Stuyvesant mentions, I can tell you that the comment is a complete lie. It should be noted that the TA attorney's had nothing to do with the retroactive charges not going through, and it was a fortunate (for us)/unfortunate (for them) situation.
I won't go into the details, but there is a lot more to this story than Peter Stuyvesant is telling (lying). It's also a damn shame that they bring something up from pre-2006, because it really is a matter of "what have you done for me lately?" The answer to that question is NOTHING. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
November 14, 2017 at 10:18 PM
Thank you for telling this community the truth! Peter Stuyvesant lying and lying about work by lawyers is most disturbing. Too many lies by this TA, they reuse to open their books, they refuse to operate with transparency, they have never won an MCI challenge, and now this taking credit for work they never did to deceive us into believing they won an MCI challenge. You just can't trust them.
I saw, in the space of a couple of minutes, four motorized bikes, power on, being driven in ST during my walk inside this complex. Not stopped at all.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.mingtiandi.com/real-estate/outbound-investment/wanda-said-selling-5b-in-us-uk-and-aussie-projects-after-credit-downgrade/
ReplyDeleteThis epitomizes the lack of stability in the deals being made by greedy developers with no regard given to the consequences these deals have on others, again. We dodged a bullet on that one but still we are bleeding from the Tishman Speyer BlackRock wrecking ball that hit this community and the bottom feeders that followed.
Looking for a younger successor for when the old guys retire, the Hilton deal is still a coveted prize putting a possible successor in the running, the one who "made" the StuyTown deal
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26/all-eyes-turn-to-blackstone-as-peers-lay-out-succession-plans
That is unless the Anbang Hilton deals and the Dalian Wanda deals are held to account.
Wu Xiaohui, founder of Anbang Insurance, is facing personal as well as corporate scrutiny. Known for his high-flying lifestyle and audacious takeover bids, Mr Wu was detained by authorities earlier this month, write Gabriel Wildau and Henny Sender.
https://www.ft.com/content/ba7fc7b4-575e-11e7-9fed-c19e2700005f
2nd straight month of an MCI letter under my door, with retroactive charges approved. Happy Holidays from Blackstone and SPS!!
ReplyDeleteOh, and yet another failure by our TA. Susan Steinberg, and the entire board, need to resign ASAP. They are utterly ineffective and corrupt.
Susan, if you are reading this, RESIGN!
In trying to understand the increase in StuyTown of crimes against women during and since the Fortress Investment Group CW Capital Compass Rock era, it is appallingly unsurprising that Fortress Investment Group tried to loan Weinstein Company money to stay open and operating. When notoriously low level bottom feeders at Goldman Sachs exists marking its equity stake down to zero and Fortress Investment Group wants in, then you know how low Fortress Investment Group is....lower then most notorious predator Goldman Sachs.
ReplyDelete"Investment firm Fortress Investment Group LLC (FIG.N) was considering lending to the film and TV studio, but those talks ended without a deal earlier this month."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-weinsteincompany-m-a-contrerassweet/former-obama-administration-official-in-bid-for-the-weinstein-co-idUSKBN1DK07O
Anonymous said...
ReplyDelete2nd straight month of an MCI letter under my door, with retroactive charges approved. Happy Holidays from Blackstone and SPS!!
Oh, and yet another failure by our TA. Susan Steinberg, and the entire board, need to resign ASAP. They are utterly ineffective and corrupt.
Susan, if you are reading this, RESIGN!
November 20, 2017 at 8:07 AM
Ditto
yep, more coming down the pike. Keep the Mci coming you dickhead management.
ReplyDeleteNovember 14 @ 10:18 PM: I don't follow your drift. I think Peter Stuyvesant was referring to the horrendous MCI charges that CWC wanted to put on the tenants and CWC was here after TS walked away in 2010. I am not questioning your veracity, but do remember a Battle Royal between the TA and CWC over MCI charges. I seem to remember that CWC warned us not to sign anything and the TA did the same. It was quite a stand-off!
ReplyDeleteCan the Tenants Association do anything to stop the MCIs? I don't think so. Maybe they can fight them, but they can't stop them from coming at us with them! Btw, I am not a member of the TA. I don't see the point to joining the organization, but at the same time I don't think they are responsible for the insatiable greed that Management constantly inflicts upon us.
ReplyDeleteThe MCI’s will continue as long as we an incompetent TA with questionable lawyers. I’m guessing their lawyers have some ties to real estate. We know Dan has ties to real estate, and he is the de facto head of the TA. Things will never get done when politicians oversee a tenant TA.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, anyone here at the meeting yesterday?? Any news from it?? I’m guessing it was just a political sideshow...
I think we all know that the TA has no say over the MCI’s that management puts through, but the TA does claim to be the champion fighter against MCI’s when that claim is nothing more than a joke. If the TA were effective, maybe we would see less in terms of MCI letters coming under our doors.
ReplyDeleteIs Brookfield still a TA Board business partner?
ReplyDeleteI have a good rent but here for a long time. I cannot imagine how the Market Rate feel about the high price tag then a lot of MCI. This is bogus bullcrap. We should all revolt but Market raters should be appalled.
ReplyDeleteWhat did the incredibly conflicted PCVST TA Board do with all the legal graft money deposited into their nonprofit slush fund by corrupt NYC politicians?
ReplyDelete"questionable lawyers"
ReplyDeleteThat is putting it mildly.