By now, residents should all have gotten under their door what has been called the "brochure." It measures about over 12 inches wide, and it's height is 8 1/2 inches. It comes as a foldout, 3 pages but 6 pages double-sided if you count that way. It is of cardboard-like material. In color. The printing and distribution of this brochure cost much, but probably not as much as the glossy brochures of our soon-departed councilman, Dan Garodnick, who promised to have all his brochures "green." Not their color, but their printing. Unfortunately these glossy brochures don't look like "green" to me or penny-wise. And thank you, Dan, for another business tower, the disruption to New Yorkers, and your promotion of this tower using tax dollars....
The Stuy Town brochure is titled "State of the Community." The last word is in a heavier font, just so you get the full meaning. I will not mention, aside from this, that the brochure is taken up in part with rather goofy shots of some people who work here, including dear Rick Hayduk, our General Manager and CEO of Blackstone, which now owns this property along with Ivanhoe.
Most of the brochure is taken up with a timeline. I thank the powers that be for this timeline. You can tell what time period and what is wrong with this place by this timeline. Obviously, this is not the intent.
That timeline:
We are informed that the "Good Neighbor" policy has started when Blackstone moved in here. On the timeline it states that this policy started at the beginning of 2016. Problem is, while the "Good Neighbor" policy is written all over the place in Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, its enforcement and residents following the "Good Neighbor" policy are not exactly what was intended. A good number of residents make fun of and/or ignore this policy. That is a fact.
Also mentioned, as early 2016, are "new laundry carts" and "battery-powered leaf blowers." Okay, if Management reads the blogs (and someone does), Management should know that there can be a problem with these laundry carts. A number of them can be missing and used by some residents to easily move in and out of their apartments, or just to fill up with clothes and taken to the apartment. There have been times, when the laundry room is lacking most of these carts. Managements response after new carts and new signs on these carts were not working: "We can't so anything about it, so we will replace the carts when they are gone."
As to "battery-powered leaf blowers," I can't state how many times I have been driven away by these blowers. Other residents, too. The blowers kick up dust and debris into the air, and frequently their workers are wearing masks to stop this dust and debris from entering their mouths and lungs. I have seen, against the morning light, this dust and debris flying in the air while these "leaf blowers" are doing their business. Plus the oversized blowers with diesel-running carts are very noisy at the Oval grass and can drive anyone out who may want to sit at the Fountain area or do Yoga or Tai Chi there.
We are also informed that "dog registration lanyards" were introduced in 2016.
Update 12/10/2017:
The dog registration lanyards promotion has to be the cruelest joke in this brochure. Blue lanyards were introduced over a year ago, and Rick had to twice repeat the same message, a year apart. Why? Because outsiders ignore this rule. I see a lot that goes on here, or doesn't go on, and I have yet to see an outsider escorted out of this complex because his or her dog does not have an official lanyard, which is part of this rule.
What I do see is that outsiders with their dogs can head into this complex, no questions asked. They can even go by the large booth at 1st Avenue, and they will not be stopped. I have seen this many times, and recently, too. The fact was also brought up that PS inside that booth has been told not to bother outsiders. Who told them this?
It seems the undisclosed policy is to not to confront any outsider. Again, and again, I have seen this with my eyes. I can verify that this "rule" is BS.
Now that does not mean that there is zero effort by PS, but it is random, very random,and limited to an extra presence and maybe a word or two about the lanyard rule. But even this, something that is so minimal, has no "teeth" at all, so much so that the rule might not as well exist.
Update 12/12/2017:
That brochure again. Continuing... Something about a "laundry technician." I guess the laundry rooms should be fine now, as this technician was introduced in 2016. Then we have dogs, what else? Dog days, and dog friendly areas. No, not the entire complex, wise guy!... Okay, also in 2016 we have the introduction of something called "Noise Reducing Gifts." Did everyone get those? Cause I can't hear a thing. Oh, I forgot "Oval Office." You know, where a resident can voice his or her problems to a representative of Management. Don't laugh, it's not becoming.... Then there's 5 Stuy Cafe, the place that was closed by the Health Department and that has dog urine is all over the stone wall in front. What's that I smell? A particular brand of pizza? No, it's dog piss! But aren't the dogs cute?
(To be continued!)
A newer meaning to churn & burn. One & done lease holders still are the norm here. I feel entitled to possibly living down the hall from Christian Bale/American Physcho. Funny no mention of the institution of "bigger" no bicycling signs. I would encourage a contrary time-line of this complexes mis-fortunes, i.e. 5 Stuy Cafe failed health inspection, crimes listed as Gramercy Park, etc.
ReplyDeleteI will get to that cafe. It's on the timeline, of course.
ReplyDeleteThe new NO BICYCLING signs will surely do the trick.
ReplyDeleteThat brochure lauding their accomplishments was an insult. They still continue to dupe people though. A neighbor of mine was praising them for a wonderful luncheon they gave at the skating rink. They really know how to play the game.
ReplyDelete"That" brochure neglected to mention the fine artisanal cuisine at the 5-Turd Café.
ReplyDeleteNothing like a case of e-coli to make your top o' the morn.
Oh, they forgot to mention the shut down order by the Board of Health!
What about the dog sh*t in the stairwells and the urine in the elevators? The Blue Tag Lanyard program certainly cured that issue!
No carpeting, loud, raucous partying, marijuana smoke permeating the halls, garbage left outside the door of the carriage room, bicyclists whizzing by, unmitigated construction...the list goes on and on.
Way to go. Rick!
That slick promo sure does fool a lot of people, Rick!
NOT!
Something prompted Blackstone to launch a public relations campaign defending themselves as good stewards of the property or good efforts keeping up their end of the RE deal or ? what are they up to with the launch of this big, glossy PR campaign? Reminds of another big glossy PR campaign by our city councilman not long ago.
ReplyDeleteWhere’s the attempted rape/murder in front of security cameras on the timeline? How about the hockey stick attack? Squirrel biting kids? Out of control bikers on electric bikes?
ReplyDeleteHeat complaints galore on the TA site. How do they get away with it? Although they did not put in this system they are responsible for fixing or revamping it,
ReplyDeleteAs I posted on the TA FB page:
ReplyDelete"Instead of spending big bucks and a lot of manpower to deliver this self-promotion brochure to every tenant's door, Blackstone could and should have used that money and manpower to improve the quality of life In PCVST. It's "New Resident Noise-Reducing Gifts Introduced" mention is particularly offensive. For the most part, these "gifts" go UNUSED by new residents. Better to spend money on making sure that new residents' floors are properly 80% carpeted with thick enough rugs and padding so they don't drive their neighbors crazy from their clicking high heels and their scraping of furniture on their bare floors."
And then there are the MANY complaints being posted on that page by tenants who have NO HEAT. Every year, it's the same DISGRACEFUL and ILLEGAL problem here. Of course, no mention of this either in Blackstone's puff piece, PR brochure.
There is the hockey stick attack, sure that is still a big cover up.
ReplyDeleteThe ten minute rape on security cameras, which too, is still not addressed.
The FBI agent tips on active shooter preparation presentation at the STPCV TA meeting July 18, 2017 that the Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association hosted was just a few weeks before the August 26, 2017 murder-suicide by Steven Dym. He was the property manager of 275 First Avenue (Just across the street from the office management bunker at 276 First avenue) when he shoots his wife, his daughter and himself right after the Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association and the FBI host an active shooter preparation presentation. No explanations, no outcry, no nothing from the Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association on violent crimes.
https://town-village.com/2017/08/01/what-to-do-in-an-active-shooter-situation/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/westchester-dad-murder-suicide-entangled-legal-troubles-article-1.3450062
https://nypost.com/2017/08/26/grisly-details-of-real-estate-execs-double-murder-suicide/
I stepped in dog shit TWICE during my 10 minute morning walk to the subway. TWICE. Big fresh fucking stinky shit. On my shoes. Going to WORK this week. When I first moved here no dogs were allowed and you NEVER HAD TO WORRY ABOUT STEPPING ON DOG SHIT. Clean up after your pets people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThere are some really obnoxious posters on the TA fb page who just denigrate and mock anybody who dares utter a word of criticism about this brochure and who has anything negative to say about the property. Of course, they consider themselves fully entitled (which they are) to sing the praises of Management and the amenities, playgrounds, etc. But DO NOT dare to disagree with them! There is one guy who trolls the page in order to stir up negative comments from posters just so that he can make fun of them. That page is a must to avoid, especially if you are not a cheerleader.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure the cheerleaders are in bed in some way with Management. Does anyone remember when composting was first introduced and some people on the TA fb were expressing misgivings about it because of the stink, etc.? Some Little Mary Sunshine kept chasing these people and extolling the virtues of composting and urging them to participate in the program. A little search of her on Google came up with her association with RE. I think she is some kind of advisor. Once the chatter over composting died down, she was never heard from again. Clearly, she was a paid troll. Or incentivized troll. I suspect the same applies to some of the people who are excoriating the "complainers" on the TA fb right now.
Afriad to complain cause we all get an mci for heat and rugs and intercoms.
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ReplyDeleteAnnnnnnd it comes back full circle. They all use the same tricks. This time it is using glossy brochures. The same people who brought us the predatory deal in the first place CBRE CB Richard Ellis' Darcy Stacom who sold this place to Jerry Speyer Tishman Speyer did a now infamous glossy brochure. Councilman Garodnick is photographed having a grand ole time sitting right smack next to the CEO of CBRE CB Richard Ellis Mary Ann Tighe at the REBNY party and shortly after does a big ole glossy number for SL Green One Vanderbilt. Now the same trick, another big ole glossy brochure. It is unbelievable.
ReplyDeleteYou can't make this stuff up. The politician shouts and yells in the newspapers about predatory lenders making noise but not much else to stop the predatory lenders and then we see him sitting right there smack in the photograph laughing all the glossy paved way to the bank with CBRE predatory lender rainmaker. Seriously who are the people in this Blackstone Limited Partnership? How about printing up a glossy brochure on that and see whose names come out of the woodwork!
What about the overcharges Rick?
ReplyDeleteI wish the cheerleaders would come here.
ReplyDeleteAn all time favorite post
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I didm't hear about this. A tragedy.
ReplyDeletehttp://people.com/crime/father-new-york-murder-suicide-faced-lawsuits-steven-dym/
Here is an LOL ! These reviews posted on job websites cannot be real. The one supposedly written by a former porter sounds like it was written by a PR professional and not any of the porters or anyone normal for that fact. Nobody talks like that.
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Resident Compliance Coordinator (Current Employee) – New York, NY – May 7, 2017
The workplace culture that our CEO promotes is one of community. He doesn't want employees to feel or be here just to do their job. He wants employees to also be part of the property's community and among their fellow employees.
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Porter (Former Employee) – 1st Ave loop – January 25, 2017
Loved the experience and the tenants were as lovely as the staff.Nothing but hard working and focused individuals who maintained the uptmost respect in handling day to day activities and keeping things tidy and organized
Management has the audacity to put up signs saying that ConEd provides heat, call them if you have problems. This one huge mistake could be the nail in Rick’s coffin. Does he not think this is going to piss off and sour the relationship between Stuy Town and ConEd, and that in response the ConEd bosses aren’t going to go above Rick’s head to the Blackstone higher ups? Something like this has NEVER been said to tenants before, and shows that this management team does not want to be bothered to do their job. They are the management company, they contact ConEd when something is up, not tenants.
ReplyDeleteSorry Rick, but this is pathetic. And I truly believe that this is a mistake that will come back and bite you in the ass.
Excellent point. Rick is a total waste.
DeleteConEd provides the heat, but management oversees the sensors that provide the heat. We don’t know if it’s a building wide issue or just the sensors not doing their job, and ConEd is gonna be pissed if they start receiving heat calls when it’s really a management controlled sensor issue.
ReplyDeleteThis was not well thought out on managements part.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4824868/Man-shoots-wife-daughter-murder-suicide.html
ReplyDeleteThere family has a history of violence. The family is close friends with new REBNY head Bill Rudin and very close friend of Cuomo family. Hundreds went to the funeral. This is a big deal. He was always lurking around. Gun violence is a serious matter as it is. When the shooter has the mental state to kill his daughter, wife then himself that is a gun owner with serious mental health issues and problems more serious then petty financial crimes. Silence from Stuytown Property and TA.
would never let my college kids rent here due to safety no doormen.
ReplyDeleteWhy dont we as tenants start a campaign for rugs and each other. Facebook page, couponing for carpets, where to get wall to wall, how much to cover of the floor be a good neighbor ya douchebags who are too cheap to buy a rug.
ReplyDeleteI have a question for the management cheerleaders:
ReplyDeleteWhy is it that you’re quick to defend management over trivial matters like the pamphlet and fitness playground, but you are non-existent when critical matters like managements lack of heat are at the forefront?
If you can praise management, you should also be able to criticize management when serious management matters come to light. If you can’t, it just makes you look more and more like management shills.
That heat posting is disgusting.
Maybe the higher rent cheerleaders and the legacy longtimers can find agreement on areas in need of improvement, I bet it would be interior noise, and lobby Mgmt together to invest in better soundproofing in floors and walls as part of the renovation process?
ReplyDeleteThose SPS employee reviews are so fake that it's pathetically funny!!
ReplyDelete"The tenants were as lovely as the staff." This is the statement that makes it as fake as fake can be.
1:34
ReplyDeleteThe old-timers complain about issues at hand, and the cheerleaders tell them to move because this is NYC and things are great here. I have seen plenty of ideas floated around, and the cheerleaders just tell people to stop complaining. You see the old-timers admitting recently that things are in fact pretty good here, but you don't see the cheerleaders agreeing that there are issues with noise or heat. They just say it's par the course for NYC, so deal with it.
Everyone needs to go on the official Stuy Town Facebook page (not the TA), and take a look at the solar panel pictures. Why in the hell is the president of our TA involved in that photo-op?
ReplyDeleteThere are 1000 other things she should be doing for tenants, but instead she is chummy with management and attending their photo events. Susan Steinberg, you are a joke of a TA leader, and I have no doubt that karma is going to come back and bite your corrupt ass at some point in the very near future.
can't see the Facebook cheerleaders. If it's true they are MR tenant, they are roberts and roberts are begging for their lives here as they are about to lose the roberts price. LOL The will be screwed soon like all of us.
ReplyDeleteI must have said this a hundred times, Rick did not put that sign up on his own. He was told by higher ups. Any general manager has to tow the Blackstone line. He is not a separate entity, he takes orders from his bosses. It will not be the nail in his coffin because he did what they told him to do. This sign about contacting Con Ed Is despicable. Yes, where are the cheerleaders and where us Peter Stuyvesant!
ReplyDeleteConEd bosses should but do not care about tenant heat. ConEd workers with Dan Garondick blessing already did the work to check the property line utilities as a condition for the developers. ConEd former head is now REBNY head. ConEd and REBNY want us out. If the property manager said to call ConEd that is a first in the history of the property and a pretty shitty first at that.
ReplyDeleteTrust me, I'm very much aware that some residents think that the problems here are a joke. I'm very aware of that. Unfortunately, those who think it is all a joke have nothing to say--except jokes.
ReplyDeleteAgain, I welcome conversation. Jokes can be funny (depending on the comedian), but otherwise they are kinda boring and certainly not to the point. But, perhaps, that is their intent. ;-)
ReplyDeleteRick is incompetent. He seems oblivious to what really is needed to run a place like this. He may be a nice guy on the surface, but he is totally incompetent and contemptuous of the people whose lives he is destroying by his arrogant ineptness.
ReplyDeleteThat ConEd notice is really the last straw. It's a stupid insult and it will backfire on him.
The property managers are nasty and incompetent too. I don't know what they actually do, but they do not interact well with tenants.
Anybody remember when Bill Potter ran this place with just a good staff of hardworking employees and the place ran like clockwork AND turned a profit?
ReplyDelete"December 10, 2017 at 2:39 PM
There are 1000 other things she should be doing for tenants, but instead she is chummy with management and attending their photo events. Susan Steinberg, you are a joke of a TA leader, and I have no doubt that karma is going to come back and bite your corrupt ass at some point in the very near future."
Because when she and Garodnick partnered with Brookfield Asset Management they partnered with the investors in developing the luxury hotel with Chinese financing.
http://www.thayerlodging.com/
Most of the cheerleaders are female and I can think of only one word to describe them. BITCHES!!!! Especially the one who posted a not-so-funny GIF that looks remarkably like herself in a black wig.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the compliment!
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ReplyDeleteWhile I agree that Rick is just doing what Blackstone tells him, I highly doubt it goes as far as what is being posted in the buildings. Blackstone doesn’t care unless it deals with their bottom line, and this doesn’t have anything to do with that. The higher ups at Blackstone don’t want to be bothered with what’s posted in buildings.
Got my reminder from the TA yesterday. They think I'm going to give them fifty of my hard-earned dollars? They are off the wall! I wouldn't give them fifty cents! Useless, conniving parasites. They are totally an arm of Management. They don't give a fuck about tenants.
ReplyDelete>>Most of the cheerleaders are female and I can think of only one word to describe them. BITCHES!!!! Especially the one who posted a not-so-funny GIF that looks remarkably like herself in a black wig.<<
ReplyDeleteI let this go through, even though there is a word we shouldn't be using. ;-)
One reason is that I'm outraged, if I think about it, that the "jokes" come in response to some serious feedback, one of which tells that there are a couple of 90 year old residents on a floor who have not gotten heat.
I hope Management is satisfied with these clowns, as they represent the party line.
Wow, nice.as the bitch in question, I think it's rather hypocritical you'd let that comment go through.
Delete"One reason is that I'm outraged, if I think about it, that the "jokes" come in response to some serious feedback, one of which tells that there are a couple of 90 year old residents on a floor who have not gotten heat."
ReplyDeleteThese are cold, shallow, heartless individuals who have no empathy for others. Do you think they care if 90 year old tenants are huddled under blankets in cold apartments? Of course not. They probably think those people should hurry up and die so that their apartments can be converted to high rent units to accommodate the likes of them.
Some of the cold-hearted "cheerleaders" won't be here for the long term. Either they will lose their jobs in the next downturn (especially those working in the financial sector) or they'll move on when they find the rent here not worthwhile because there most certainly IS better out there. Most of them have tenuous situations here because they have to rely on room mates always being reliable with their share of the rent and their employment not being subjected to lay-offs and downsizing. They have not made their homes here and never will, but they nothing but derision and contempt for the tenants who have made their homes here and have lived here long enough to remember when the property was a well-managed and non-gimicky simply decent place to live.
The one with the GIF is probably the nastiest piece of work of the whole bunch! She must be an absolute horror to have around at home and at work!
I'm actually a joy to be around. I have lovely relationships with all of my neighbors and bake them cookies every year around this time for the holidays. I've also lived here 5 years and plan to stay as long as possible. Thank you very much, anonymous.
DeleteThey say Fidelity is the powerhouse behind Blackstone and that Blackstone is nowhere without Fidelity. Is it true
ReplyDeleteYou forgot to mention that Garodnick's glossy brochure for SL Green is a Tara Stacom project, Darcy Stacom's sister. Garodnick, Mary Ann Tighe, and the Stacom family, what a trio.
ReplyDeleteIt's really nice to see the moderator allowing this abuse to take place, surely my responses will not be approved and posted.
ReplyDeleteSTR, looks like the cheerleaders are gonna start infiltration of your site with their Disney happy BS!
ReplyDeleteHey ladies, I dare you to take a few hours and read through all of STR’s posts, which have lengthy posts with photographic evidence of the injustices and corruption that take place here. Then I dare you to continue with your management praises.
Oh, and I would call you out on Facebook, but I got banned for calling people like you out on your BS.
>>Wow, nice.as the bitch in question, I think it's rather hypocritical you'd let that comment go through.<<
ReplyDeleteI gave my reason, this time around. Now that I have your attention, please provide evidence (other than baking a cake) that I am lying.
And please address how you and a limited amount of others can joke when someone in the community has no heat and they are over 90 years old.
ReplyDeleteWell for starters, I don't go around on the internet harassing people...so...
ReplyDeleteI never said I don't have sympathy for people without heat. I agree that is a major issue that management overlooks, I just don't think this brochure is the WORST thing to happen.
I'm a good neighbor and far from a bitch and for you to continually repeat that is completely and utterly out of line. You do not know me on a personal level in any capacity, as I don't know you. Please do not make personal attacks. Our opinions differ, and you know what, that's allowed. It doesn't make me a bitch.
"And please address how you and a limited amount of others can joke when someone in the community has no heat and they are over 90 years old."
ReplyDeleteThey don't joke in a humorous way; they joke in a cruel, sadistic way.
Definitely Management Shills, as someone said. Or, as someone else said, they are really pissed that they pay market rate and others don't and it is the latter who are mostly being deprived of heat (I think).
STR, they can’t. No person with a conscience can. They just remain silent when it comes to calling out management for despicable acts like not fixing heat issues in 90 year old tenants apartments, but have no problem praising the amenities and the fact that Rick emails them back.
ReplyDeleteSTR, I could be wrong, but that comment did not seem to be about one specific person, but rather a whole group of cheerleaders.
ReplyDeleteAnd for what it's worth, I'm not generally a cheerleader, I just think this brochure is a non-issue that has been turned into a big issue.
ReplyDeleteRadiators colder than a witch's tit.
ReplyDeleteCalled Resident Services.
They said "engineer" would come check it out.
Arrived 4 hours later.
Waved some gadget around middle of room.
Said "temp was over 68. There is no problem."
I said "stand closer to window or feel radiator."
He said "temp meets legal requirement."
"Have a nice day."
Hey, Susan Steinberg and the Tenants Association.
Where are you??
I wouldn't give you 50 cents much less 50 dollars.
Stay warm peeps.
It's space heater time.
And all for $3,850 per month. Lucky me!
JUST a newbie to Facebook and stuy, id not know or see these people who are cheerleading. I agree they should stop but cannot see it or them. are they blocking themselves
ReplyDeleteThe brochure does suck, because their wasting time on PR BS is taking time away from actually improving on the things that are horribly awry onthis property.
ReplyDeleteThat’s their problem, they do plenty of things well and continue to harp on those things instead of finding solutions to the long-term ongoing issues like heat and noise and the continuing dormification of the property. Stop spending time and money on signs and useless crap like pamphlets, and get to work on serious problems.
"And for what it's worth, I'm not generally a cheerleader,"
ReplyDeleteSorry, 99% of your posts are pro Management or show you being snarky incredulous when posters criticize Management. To STR viewers, use the TA FB page internal search engine and you will see what I mean. Facts matter. I am not of the school that everything sucks re SPS but there were some major BS talking points in that brochure that makes its most important to call out SPS on it. If nothing else, kudos to you to come on this blog with your real name.
>>Well for starters, I don't go around on the internet harassing people...so...
ReplyDeleteI never said I don't have sympathy for people without heat. I agree that is a major issue that management overlooks, I just don't think this brochure is the WORST thing to happen.
I'm a good neighbor and far from a bitch and for you to continually repeat that is completely and utterly out of line. You do not know me on a personal level in any capacity, as I don't know you. Please do not make personal attacks. Our opinions differ, and you know what, that's allowed. It doesn't make me a bitch.<<
I think I allowed one "bitch" comment, and I explained why. I have withheld numerous posts because something in them (even if I agree with the general comment) uses language that I'm not comfortable with, despite occasionally using such language online myself when I am too angry or tired. So, one comment "repeatedly"? Unless you are referring to something else.
You seem to be here a short time, so there are far more explicit terms than "bitch" to use. New York-style.
I'm sure you are a "good neighbor," but that is not the issue. I don't think this place is terrible, but I think Management doesn't do enough to make it better. I can list things, but my photos, my posts, and some of what is said on the TA page are accurate. I think there is an effort, which you may represent, to look at "the bright side" and not voice too much, if at all, the negative side. While that is fine, it is not my purpose to be positive and nothing else. When I state that I have been driven out because of the noise made by the leaf-blowers or their pollution, I am serious. When I mention that the new "gym" playground is not being used frequently by a good number of residents, I am serious. When the noise from "refurbishing" apartments continues and will continue, I am serious. I could look just at the bright side, but that is not what I see every time I go out. (BTW, have you used the new gym, like today?) When I see continual what I consider, violations of the law ("golf" carts going outside their perimeter), I am serious.... Etc, etc....
You don't know me and I don't know you. For sure, we will probably smile at each other in the elevator and say something nice. I will hold the door for you, if
I'm ahead. I'm not a "meanie," but I take certain things seriously.
I think that this Management brochure was a red flag to some, including myself. It does not accurately describe what goes on here. It is nothing more than a sales pitch.
These cheerleaders can sure give it out themselves. They have told me to move countless numbers of times when I have posted a valid criticism of management. In the past, they have been so nasty that I once left the group.
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ReplyDeleteThey are great at bullying others, but can’t handle it when the roles are reversed. The cheerleaders are first class bullies, nothing more.
@12:05 PM: AMEN to that! You got it right!
ReplyDeleteJust saw that Con Ed sign. Is it serious or a joke?
ReplyDeleteThere are three oddities by three of the main parties to the deal
ReplyDeleteThe Mayors Office is giving out gift cards for Dunkin Donuts to criminals in court in return for filling out surveys on Judges and the system The City Councilman is in the press on predatory equity yet again after achieving nothing the last go around and the landlord is giving out brochures on how great they are
What this all means who knows. These three are up to something. They all use the same PR firm. This is a coordinated effort. But it is strange one at that.
Well it would be best if management told us (who pay their salaries, their bills and more) how much they spent on the pretty and oH so large pamphlet? Might that tidy sum be better used on the tenants and living problems and conditions?
ReplyDeleteHow much was spent on wasteful items designated by Rick?
>>How much was spent on wasteful items designated by Rick?<<
ReplyDeleteI would say a lot. The brochure can be given (and I'm sure is) to the leasing department to sell rooms here. It should not be given to residents who know (or should know, unless they refuse to see or are part of an agenda) that a lot of information inside is pure BS. Of course, even given to prospective residents, it is a form of trickery....
Having lived here my entire life and am a babysitter i babysit a lot. A real lot. I can say with 100% certainty the one bedrooms are in serious problematic from all 100% tenants living above any and all one bedrooms. Two bedrooms less so. Again i am 100% sure of this I have been and stayed in multiple apartments over the years for weeks at a time. You could not pay me to live in any one bedroom in Stuyvesant Twn nor Peter Cooper Village.
ReplyDelete@5:27 PM: The one-bedrooms are mostly converted to 2 bedrooms by way of a flex wall and louvered doors. It is impossible to get real carpets to fit the "rooms" in these tenement-style units. The best they can do is put down a few rugs and hope not to fall over them because they the cubicles don't accommodate any rug that is of any substantial weight and thickness. The louvered doors close very noisily. Add to that, they usually put the undergrads, the noisiest and most immature people who move in. These are kids who will often have friends visit and stay and with the bare floors, slamming doors (including the louvered doors) they make life hell for anybody who is living downstairs AND upstairs from them.
ReplyDeleteI think this Hayduk guy is so incompetent to the point of when you wonder if he is deliberately giving us the finger (such as that notice about ConEd supplying the heat) or is he just too stupid to do otherwise. I think we should get up a petition to Blackstone and ask them to withdraw him and send us somebody who knows how to run a property this size. It is clearly not something is able to or willing to handle. He needs to go. He is destroying lives here. With competent management, this could be a desirable and pleasant place to live. He is ruining it. Most of the managerial staff here are left-overs from Compass Rock and they all need to be replaced. There are lots of competent professionals out there who could and should be hired to replace the dead wood here.
>>Yea, fine. But being called a bitch AND the moderator mocking and allowing it (and me) is crossing a line.<<
ReplyDeleteYes, I certainly passed the message through. I also mentioned that it went beyond what I consider acceptable and gave my reason for passing it.
Well, I figured she's be at work, so gave her time. No dice yet.... Oh, and I would dispute "mocking"...
Meanwhile, Rick is doing what Blackstone wants. I assume....
I should mention, if I haven't already, that I cc'd the President of Blackstone, and others, including Rick, at first. As I figured, the message was finally dealt with by Rick. I never heard back from the higher people I wrote to.
ReplyDeleteHaving worked in similar organizations, I can state that the higher ups generally don't want to deal with these kind of "local" problems. To their discredit, but that is the way it is. I will keep trying, however.
Beginning to agree abut Rick he needs to go.
ReplyDeleteRick is not the problem. His bosses at Blackstone tell him what to do, Remove him and you just get another lackey. For the hundredth time , Rick does not set policy here nor is he responsible for renting to the crap demo.
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ReplyDeleteThere is some truth to your statement, but your analysis of Rick isn’t completely true. As a former Senior Executive for a property management company, I was in a similar situation to Rick. In my role I worked for investment firms that are bigger and greedier than Blackstone. My bosses at those companies did not give a damn what I was doing, as long as the property was meeting it’s profit forecasts.
We would meet once a quarter to go over the numbers, and if things were lagging, they would become a little more involved. With my experience (these are not assumptions), I can guarantee that Blackstone execs are hands-off with Stuy Town because I’m almost sure that this place is turning a profit. What you also need to realize is that this property is just a very small piece of the overall Blackstone portfolio, and the execs have more important things to worry about than the day-to-day of Stuy Town.
So, yes, Rick answers to Blackstone and has to run big decisions by them, but by no means does he have to run everything he does by them. That’s ridiculous to even think that he does.
You know it just dawned on me after reading the no doormen complaint. Management views PS as nothing more than doormen, imagine a doorman telling a resident to do anything without getting a look of disgust & entitlement.
ReplyDeleteRick is excellent at PR. Some of my friends love him because he e-mails them back and chats with them.
ReplyDeleteNot sure what you would expect to change with a new GM. The rental policies to this nasty student /hotel demo are at the core of the QOL issues. The heat issue is a company problem.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your statement. I have just returned from my walk to Gracefully. Even before the Oval desk from Abigail was opened (8am is their starting time on the weekdays), a big Zamboni was making the rounds around the Oval, picking up leaves with its vacuum. It was very noisy. And, obviously, the exhaust was smelly. I also saw several dog crap residues on the paths I walked. And residents from outside with their dogs whom no one was stopping to check for an official lanyard. Later on, I took a quick tour of the complete Oval and noted that the new signs about bike riding (currently only in one place) say "Please...." So even speeding bikes around the Oval are not a no-no with enforcement. Just a message that starts with "Please."
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought of Rick, and that brochure. and things like the announced closure of loops for the wonderful solar paneling which is replacing all that new work of painting the roofs and that no one is questioning these panels; and I thought of the message a building received about asbestos. I thought of the MCI increases that most residents will have to pay at holiday time. I also thought of the TA, which seems to be absent on these issues except for the "complainers" who are laughed at by certain residents.
I have to tell you that I became despondent, because we have so much working against us. But what do we do? I can't stop and simply ignore it all. I can't.
As I said, Rick and Blackstone know what the deal is. Rick is in charge, and he bares the responsibility. Now, I would be embarrassed, knowing what the deal is and BS-ing people to sell this place and its apartments. I would be embarrassed by that brochure. But Rick is not, nor are the people underneath him. They get their paycheck from Blackstone, and they are satisfied as long as the money is coming in. Yes, they will BS. Perhaps concern will be artfully etched on their faces. But they are successful.
I posted at 8:04am, and from my experience I can confirm that Rick is to blame for a lot of what’s going on here. Rick is not merely a puppet for Blackstone, and he has the power to make decisions without consulting with Blackstone. There are plenty of good property managers out there, and Rick is not one of them. PR and good communication are just a small part of what makes a great property manager, and while he is very good at that, he lacks in many other areas. He thinks PR and good communication will let him get away with crappy management elsewhere, and that is suffice for many here, which is why he is such a darling to many.
ReplyDeleteAgain, as an insider I recommend people do some research on corrupt property managers in this city. It runs rampant in this business, and as someone who is able to view what’s going on here as a tenant with an insider mindset, corruption seems to be commonplace here. Whether it’s the hush-hush with crime, non-permit work, asbestos work silence, etc.
Rick has all of to believers wrapped around his fingers, and you fail to see what’s really happening here on a daily basis to make life hell for a lot of people. To those who believe his BS, you’re idiots, wake up.
December 11, 2017 at 10:40 PM " higher ups generally don't want to deal with these kind of "local" problems. " and they want to isolate liability shielding the parent company from responsibility and accountability from the policies they set in the first place.
ReplyDeleteIt is (partially)as December 12, 2017 at 6:39 AM says about the property CEO manager job. The property CEO manager does as the parent corporation orders and sets in policy but the property manager CEO is as willing and as guilty as the parent corporation for carrying out the policies and orders and in this case rather happily carrying out those orders of the parent company.
The higher ups absolutely want to deal with the local problems. They want to create them, control them, manipulate them and profit from the local problems while shielding themselves from liability accountability responsibility of their actions and policies. With cowardliness the higher ups hide behind shell companies and middle managers operating the property while the higher ups stuff their offshore bank accounts with proceeds and profits from this "local" place that is filled with the problems they created.
They want to deal with the local problems all right, they want to get rich from them.
Once again we see the idiocy of Rick and staff. Seriously, who approved those bicycle signs?? Don’t they have people who research that the edges of these signs are not up to code?
ReplyDeleteRick, are you really this dumb? But hey, you answer emails, so you’re alright in the eyes of some. Rick approved these signs, not higher ups at Blackstone, so this is on you Rick.
"Rick, are you really this dumb?"
ReplyDeleteObviously, YES!!!!
12:38
ReplyDeleteYou are wrong. The Blackstone bosses do not need to be involved directly in the day-to-day operations of Stuy Town to push their corrupt local agenda. That is done with their power and influence over our mayor and city council. The REBNY powers dictate the changes they want through city hall.
All you need to do to see this is to look at the very close and well publicized relationships between our old corrupt owner (Speyer) and city hall. Speyer did not need to be involved directly in Stuy Town because of his influence on city hall, and Blackstone is no different.
@6:52 PM
ReplyDeleteHave you ever bought a carpet ? They can make them ANY size you want, and out of any quality carpet that you're willing to buy. Don't pull facts out of thin air. Go walk over to ABC Carpet and see for yourself. Jeez....
December 12, 2017 at 5:36 PM True. The Mayor is corrupt.
ReplyDeleteUmmmm..
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2017/12/13/nycha-lead-paint-scandal-puts-focus-on-mold-crisis-apartments-health-nyc
The other scandal at NYCHA: How it handles mold in apartments
By Courtney Gross | December 12, 2017 @7:34 PM
Check for black mold people. It is very toxic cancer causing and it is here.
ReplyDeleteIn some slippery moves the Mayor is turning homeless housing into "affordable housing" or it always was one in the same and he is pulling a charade to make it look like a transition. 5000 "affordable housing" or homeless housing right here in ST PCV. The Mayor's deal divided the community into 5000 NYCHA apartments and 7000 condo/coop apartments. There is something slippery slimy going on.
ReplyDeleteWhy is the Tenants Association not doing anything about the lack of heat around here? Nothing.......nata.
ReplyDeleteThere really is not a true TA here anymore. It is a parasitic arm of the owners and has been since they bought the place. Thus do not expect anything to be done regarding QOL issues.
ReplyDelete@10:28 AM, the Tenants Association does nothing except run a face book page. There are a lot of very egregious violations committed by management, including lack of heat, asbestos abatement without sufficient protection for tenants and workers, Building Code violations, golf carts and other vehicles being driven on the sidewalks. The latest violation is the placing of signs, mounted on poles, asking cyclists to please walk their bicycles round the Oval. The signs are in violation of the City codes as they are inappropriately placed (where they can injure a visually-impaired person and they are square (or oblong) shaped with sharp corners. Just perfect for a child to smack into and rip his/her face off. They should be round and mounted at a level where nobody could be harmed by them.
ReplyDeleteThere is no intelligence in Management and no integrity in the TA. I wish they (TA and management) would go away, and be replaced by persons who are intelligent and have integrity, but I doubt that will happen. So long as the money rolls in, that's all they care about.
Tenants Association, that's good one.
ReplyDeleteWhy is bicycling permitted on these sidewalks & not the city
ReplyDeleteno lack of heat here we are melting but ya know our bank account is suffering more daily high rent continuous mci the rent is too high going to do airbnb if it don't go lower
ReplyDeleteThank goodness everyone is toasty warm inside their apartments!
ReplyDeleteYa want to form a new better TA?
ReplyDeletePosters on the TA site are all thrilled about the new receptacles for junk mail. Well whoopde do. Big deal. Another stupid amenity.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing worse than the management cheerleaders are the TA/Dan cheerleaders. At least we know what management is here for, and what their goal is - to make money for shareholders. I truly believe that the management cheerleaders are just trying to find a silver lining to justify the astronomical rents they are paying.
ReplyDeleteThe TA and Dan cheerleaders on the other are just idiots. This is a politician and group that should be serving their constituents and tenants, and they haven’t done that in a decade. Anyone who says differently needs to do some research. Did Dan and the TA champion this sale to Blackstone, and then virtually disappear when Blackstone continued to turn this place to a dorm? Did Dan not team with equity vulture Brookfield to try and buy this place? Has the TA not won an MCI challenge in the last decade? Does the TA not address noise, dog issues, golf carts, bikes, dorms, crime, construction, etc?
Cheerleaders for Dan and the TA are doing nothing but supporting corruption against the very people they should be serving.
Yes! the one bedrooms are really fucked as Noise goes. 1 you are surrounded on many sides by disgusting neighbors and can hear their farts and more. 2. hallways have become playgrounds and the one bedrooms line the hallways. I pity anyone who suffers with one.
ReplyDeleteDrum roll...............Let the flood gates open. Time to clean out the City Council by filing reports to the Committee on Standards and Ethics while there is a focus on accountability for bad acts. The list of infractions is a long one.
ReplyDeleteThe Rules (albeit very weak rules loosely written)
http://council.nyc.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2016-02-23-Council-Rules.pdf
The News
City council to investigate alleged misconduct by a lawmaker
http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2017/12/14/nyc-council-to-investigate-alleged-misconduct-by-lawmaker
From STR blog "please sir can I have another" to this iteration of "cake crumbs" while Albany fat cats eat cake. STR said it firs and now the movement is growing!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/protesting-gov-cuomo-fundraiser-article-1.3695806
>>Ya want to form a new better TA?<<
ReplyDeleteOnce in a blue moon I think of that.
>>Posters on the TA site are all thrilled about the new receptacles for junk mail. Well whoopde do. Big deal. Another stupid amenity.<<
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw this "receptacle," I didn't know what it was. Now I know, but it still seems kinda silly to me. Oh, well, another thing for Management's "timeline." Meanwhile, pay up those growing MCI bills...
The problem with a new TA is that people are not vested in the community. A TA of any form will struggle no matter what going forward based on the demographics.
ReplyDeleteDo you think a college student, who is here 1-2 years tops, will have any interest in joining a TA? Nope.
As for everyone else, I believe that people have to work their asses off just to live here, and that doesn’t afford them the time to be a part of an alternative TA. People will say that’s their problem and if they really care, they will make it work. Those are the same people that don’t work 80-100 hours a week and try and squeeze in time with family, just to get by.
A new TA is a great idea, but I just don’t see it gaining traction. Instead we have to deal with our current TA, which is known for:
1) Not opening their books to show where they spend their money. Especially the large sum gifted to them with the Roberts settlement.
2) A group with a very cushy relationship with management. Just look at Susan with her photo-ops with management solar panel unveiling. Says it all. Oh, and contact management if you have any issues, the TA can’t be bothered with issues like noise, heat, bikes, etc.
3) Having a shady foundation, which our councilman funnels money into from city taxpayer funds. This needs to be investigated.
4) Having our soon-to-be councilman and lobbyist as a TA board member. This is so wrong on all accounts.
5) Not winning any significant MCI challenges in 10+ years, which happens to coincide with the time our councilman took over control of the TA.
Yes Sir, may I have another?
ReplyDeleteDecember 14, 2017 at 11:08 AM and having a TA board member Newmark working in the deBlasio administration! Doubling down on all you listed especially the money funneled to the TA from the Councilman Garodnick to spend on? pet projects or other discreet stuff.
ReplyDelete@7:54AM: You said it. You said it very well!
ReplyDeleteFirst they painted all the roofs white. With the following explanation....
ReplyDeleteDuring a typical summer day, flat, black asphalt rooftops can reach temperatures of 190°F. A roof treated with a specialized white coating can reduce internal building temperatures by up to 30% due to the sun's rays reflecting off the roof instead of being absorbed. As an added benefit, this lessens the power needed to run a/c units resulting in less greenhouse gas emissions. Every 2,500 square feet of roof coated with the reflective paint can reduce the city's carbon footprint by 1 ton of CO2. The program aims to coat 1 million square feet of rooftop annually.
Now all the white roofs will be covered in solar panels that ABSORB light/heat.
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THE LOGIC IN THIS SEEMINGLY ILLOGICAL PROJECT??? The whole point if painting the roofs white was to reflect light/heat.
Somebody on the inside must have gotten a BIG BUCKS contract for this upcoming fiasco.
Wish WE HAD KNOWN ABOUT THIS BLOG AND THE INSANE AMOUNT OF NOISE HERE. WON'T BE RENEWING LEASE AND WAS JUST INFORMED LANDLORD DONT WANT RENEWAL TENANTS. WHAT THE HELL TYPE OF LANDLORD IS THIS?
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ReplyDeletethe city council failed new yorkers. the city council housing & building commission failed new yorkers. now the head of that commission is running for governor. albany is failing new yorkers so that fits the job description.
Nothing to be proud of here. Another disgrace. It comes as no surprise another public officials uses his time in public service to serve the private interests then lands himself a big cushy job enriching himself at the private sector company he used his public service job to benefit in the first place. The firm responsible for a lot of the Fortress CW Compass Rock construction damage is STV. The former head of the NYC Transit Authority MTA is now working there. No shock. Just another pathetic example of why the public is disgusted by the city and state administrations.
ReplyDeleteCuomo placed him
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-nominates-mta-chairman-and-ceo
Cuomo and Schumer got billion dollar boondoggle Brookfield Hudson Yards subway for their developer pals, Brookfield former World Trade Center Subway spectacle and of course the little one-borough upper east side to wall street Second Avenue Subway.
At the same time he - in all his cyber expertise and law enforcement expertise worked with NYPD Bratton and FBI George Venizelos on the sort lived, ill-fated, dubious newly formed task force that all the three leaders abandoned after wreaking havoc on the innocent, catch no criminals, and build construction projects for wealthy developers.
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/newyork/news/press-releases/fbi-new-york-announces-newly-formed-cyber-task-force-with-nypd-and-mta
Then he went to work for STV who brought us the dorms, the amenities that replaced the trees, the bunker.
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/resources/executive-moves/details/3/3447334
Of course he then gets an award for his work by ABNY Rudin real estate dynasty
ABNY Foundation (Association for a Better New York) recently named STV’s Thomas F. Prendergast, executive vice president and chief strategic officer, winner of its Lew Rudin Founder’s Award. Prendergast, who joined STV in 2017 after serving as chairman and chief executive officer of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York (MTA), was honored for his distinguished career in public service and the success of the MTA’s Second Avenue Subway, which opened in January 2017.
Just read Garodnick ‘s exit interview which was posted. Nauseating, especially where he cites preserving 500 units of ST as affordable housing. Yeah, and he let them create a college campus pig sty. Glad to see him go.
ReplyDeleteNational Lampoon's Animal House!!
ReplyDeleteYes Sir, may I have another?
perhaps the baby-sitters and nannies should be told of the rules. door slam, sitter dont give a shit, kid screaming , she dont care.
ReplyDeleteYou can call the office and complain about things they will ultimately tell you they cannot help you. LMFAO
ReplyDeleteIMPORTANT:
ReplyDeletebslocal.com/2017/12/14/california-cellphone-radiation-guidelines/
What about those wonderful towers being built atop us.... No one cares. (Certainly not the big boys or the cheerleaders.)
>>Wish WE HAD KNOWN ABOUT THIS BLOG AND THE INSANE AMOUNT OF NOISE HERE. WON'T BE RENEWING LEASE AND WAS JUST INFORMED LANDLORD DONT WANT RENEWAL TENANTS. WHAT THE HELL TYPE OF LANDLORD IS THIS?<<
ReplyDeleteOh, they want renewals of the people who are paying top dollar and are willing to pay more. As for the others....
The Garodnick exit interview is posted on the TA fb page. I was tempted to post "Good Riddance" or "Don't Let the Door Hit You in the Ass," but I am sure I would have to go into the Federal Witness Protection Program then.
ReplyDeleteWE ARE PYAING TOP DOLLAR.
ReplyDeleteI was also tempted to comment but thought better of it. He has been invisible for the past year. No interest in bettering this community, only in cozying up to our landlord.
ReplyDeleteDid just call Rick say Blackstone changed policy about no longer chopping up apartments?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.stuytown.com/blog/make-the-most-of-your-apartment-space
"Experiment with Room Dividers - Many apartment dwellers embrace the open floor plan look, but you can also make the most of a small space by dividing that open space up a bit. Room dividers can help you create designated space for a home office or dining room, and they’re great for storing books and knickknacks too. If your landlord is okay with it, another option is to put up a temporary wall to create extra space between you and your roommate."
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Did just call Rick say Blackstone changed pet regulations?
http://collegestudentapartments.com/college/new-york-university-new-york-new-york/apartments/?page=9
College Student Apartments
Apartments Near NYU
StuyTown Apartments
Pet Policy
Cats allowed
Small dogs allowed
Large dogs allowed
LARGE DOGS ALLOWED!!! LARGE DOGS ALLOWED!!! LARGE DOGS ALLOWED!!!
This is not a change. Large dogs up to 60 lbs are allowed since day one.
DeleteI see Garodnick around all the time, you probably do, too. Ever notice that he never makes eye contact, or stops to chat with anyone?
ReplyDeleteHe knows he’s delivered the community (or what’s left of it, considering more than half the residents are 1-2 yr transients) right into the hands of Big Real Estate.
Hey, a pol’s gotta do whatever it takes to climb up the ladder...
Rick is plainly and simply A LIAR.
ReplyDeleteYou got a problem with that?
Peter Stuyvesant is now promoting apartment expansion deals on its website. And they call themselves a tenant association. What a laugh.
ReplyDeleteCorrection: 50 pounds is the pet limit. Still a large dog.
ReplyDeleteWhy is the TA encouraging posters to upgrade their apartments on their site? Shows that they are in bed with management. Despicable.
ReplyDeleteI didn't get a brochure??
ReplyDeleteCorrupt TA at it again... promoting managements apartment upgrade.
ReplyDeleteWhat is objectionable about the TA letting people know about this? Existing residents who upgrade when their family grows promotes more stability, less churn.
DeleteBecause they don’t do a damn thing to actually improve QOL here. They can take time to spread a message for management, but they can’t address noise, heat, construction, dorms, bikes, crime, dogs. If they were addressing these things I wouldn’t have a problem with them being advertisers for management, but they aren’t, so I have a problem with it.
DeleteThe Rose Family - three generations with cousins, nieces, nephews in government and real estate.
ReplyDeleteA reminder courtesy of the NY Times as to who is responsible for the luxury condo hotel towers in New York City and is a "longtime opponent of rent control" that MetLife then Tishman Speyer then CW Compass Rock hired to clear out this community and oversee construction of commercial amenities and dorms between 2004 through August 2012. The Rose family's reputation of being a "longtime opponent of rent control" was reported in the New York Times in 1999 and not a peep or word of protest out out the Tenant Association or councilman Garodnick against Rose during the reign of terror inflicted on us by MetLife, Tishman Speyer, BlackRock, CW, Compass Rock, and now Ivanhoe and Blackstone but the City Councilman did oblige the Rose rezoning with more rezoning for towers and the Central park south billionaire row and One Vanderbilt monster.
The Rose family is the root of the towers problem in NYC and the removal of permanent residents for construction of dorms in StuyTown. Anyone who still believes this 1999 report is false needs to only look around at all the dorms and the skyscrapers. The Rose family did a disservice to this property and community.
They may have smiled and been nice to your face while behind the scenes they destroyed us, but aren't all property managers that way as a job requirement?
If the tenant association and City Councilman Garodnick were anti-predatory equity then they would have been vocal during the 2004 - 2012 reign of terror against the property manager instead of their reported "gratitude" in the Town & Village.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/16/nyregion/frederick-p-rose-2d-generation-builder-and-a-major-philanthropist-is-dead-at-75.html
"A longtime opponent of rent control, Mr. Rose converted more than 3,000 apartments in Manhattan during the early 1990's to condominiums and co-ops. Many people in the industry thought it was a risky move, given the recession."
"Mr. Rose was still building tall buildings while his nephew, Joseph B. Rose, current chairman of the New York City Planning Commission, labored to change the zoning laws to bar oversized towers in Manhattan."
>>The Rose Family - three generations with cousins, nieces, nephews in government and real estate.<<
ReplyDeleteI don't know, but I do know that Adam Rose (the other one, not the one on Facebook) could be seen more in Stuy Town than some others....
>>Not that anyone, on the record, disagrees with Mr. Rose’s diagnosis of the problem: that the current zoning code, drafted in 1961, is aesthetically outdated, mind-boggling in its complexity and vulnerable to “Talmudic massaging” by a cadre of zoning lawyers. Mr. Rose wants to overhaul the urban renewal-era regulations that encourage developers to build tall, skinny towers in the middle of windswept concrete plazas, and close loopholes that allow buildings like the infamous Trump World Tower, next door to the United Nations, to rise to enormously incongruous heights. In their place, he’d like to see ironclad height restrictions in residential areas, and a push to construct buildings whose lower stories are flush with the sidewalk, forming a so-called “streetwall.”<<
ReplyDeletehttp://observer.com/2000/04/mighty-joe-rose-third-generation-builder-battles-skyscraper-elite/
nope for us adam rose was fair, honest and helped with a great big assinine problem of a neighbor who was using it as a hotel.
ReplyDeletehttp://dailycaller.com/2017/12/16/wealthy-nyc-elites-prepare-to-flee-the-city-under-de-blasios-tax-burden/
ReplyDeleteThe wealthy will leave if they have to pay their fair share in taxes. Finally maybe New York city can return to a society of integrity and a peaceful, civilized existence with small businesses, hard working middle class families being the majority of the population and not this frivolous resort playground for the very wealthy to keep investment (money laundering) properties that sit empty. It will take a lot of work to erase their stains on society and on the skyline but hard work never scared the middle class like it frightens the 1%ers.
BUH BYE AND GOOD RIDDANCE TO SOME OF THE GREEDIEST LEECHES ON SOCIETY WHO MASQUERADE AS PHILANTHROPISTS. THEY WOULDN'T KNOW PHILANTHROPY OR BETTERMENT OF SOCIETY OR PROGRESS IF IT BIT THEM ON THE REAR END.
BUH BYE DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU ON THE WAY OUT.
People need to stop praising management for this apartment upgrade, and the TA for publicizing it. Here’s why:
ReplyDeleteThis is once again geared towards students, NOT FAMILIES. Kids at NYU always have friends looking for a place to rent, and this gives them a $1000 incentive to add more students in a bigger apartment. What college kid couldn’t use a $1000?? Families are already struggling with rents for 1 bedrooms, so what makes you think that they will all of a sudden be able to afford a 2 bedroom? I know I can’t.
This all comes from one gentleman talking about it on Facebook, and he will be one of the few actual families that take advantage of it. This is just a ploy to get more students in, and people need to wake up if they think otherwise.
This will just increase the student churn, which the TA should be fighting, not promoting.
December 17, 2017 at 5:10 PM that is questionable because the hotel problems in our building were really bad on top of as we all now know there were a hundred advertised on airbnb.com that were allowed to operate under Rose Associates.
ReplyDeleteI think everyone needs to take a close look at the fire in the platinum apartment on Avenue C. How many more of these can we expect with the complete change to the wiring of these new apartments? As people are pointing out, these once fireproof apartments are now far from it, and people should be worried. They are removing the very thing that kept these apartments fireproof for 70 years - the doors. I had an apartment next door that was recently renovated, and they removed all the fireproof doors and replaced them with doors that will go up in flames in a heartbeat. I can only ask... why?
ReplyDeleteI liked Adam Rose. I had an awful neighbor who was driving me crazy. Donalda was, of course, useless, and I appealed directly to Adam Rose and he addressed the problem and it was resolved. I used to see him walking around Stuyvesant Town and he was not all folksy and chummy like Rick, but he was pleasant and approachable. I never approached him, but he didn't look like he'd bite. I wish he would come back as the property manager. I don't care about what anybody else in his family has done, Adam Rose is a nice guy and a very decent one, too.
ReplyDelete@1:18 PM: You are right. It is better that families upgrade to larger apartments and raise kids there (even if those families are a more wealthier group than the original PCVST tenants, having money doesn't hurt!). If families don't upgrade to the larger apartments, then those apartments will get filled up with students or transients. More power to the people who can afford the upgrades, I say.
ReplyDelete6:07 PM, who are you talking about? Why are the 1% going to leave New York? I wish they would, but what makes you think they will?
ReplyDeleteI believe Adam Rose was the only property manager who answered my questions on the blog directly.
ReplyDeleteI second that about Adam Rose he was very nice and took our calls and rectified when possible.
ReplyDeleteWhy, oh why, did management place a Goodwill donation clothing bin at the entrance to PCV???? Classy!!! Nice impression as you enter PCV. WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS???? As I entered PCV , I saw 2 mice right next to the bin. Unsightly & unnecessary since the Goodwill store is 2+ blocks away. Management tries to present this place as an upscale community , and this does not give people an upscale impression. Management, please reconsider .
ReplyDeleteI can see why you feel that! You might want to try your luck and send this note through to feedback@stuytown.com. I have had several of my suggestions implemented. Happy Holidays!
DeleteOne thing I remember about Adam Rose, I never got the feeling that he was BS-ing us, and with a nice smile at that. Sure, he had an "agenda," and some of the things he was responsible for could be debated, but there was none of this smiley face with false concern that is currently in evidence.
ReplyDelete>>I think everyone needs to take a close look at the fire in the platinum apartment on Avenue C.<<
ReplyDeleteSilence from the big boys? You had a fire. Don't you think residents should know about this?
BTW, I saw firetrucks heading there....
I wonder if T&V will report on the fire? Depends on whether Management permits them to, I guess.
ReplyDeleteWonder if the fire was in a dorm apartment. Maybe that is the reason for the silence. It is a laugh that management tries to present this place as upscale. It is such a dump.
ReplyDeletecan someone link to an article about the apartments here becoming NYCHA housing???
ReplyDeleteI find this surprising. Crime is crazy high in NYCHA. I cant imagine paying 3-5 k per month to live within a NYCHA project, even if you have special ebony floors.
I hate the trash bins. Just leave the damn mail on the shelves--people are now using the trash bins for all trash, and my lobby smells like garbage. how is this luxury housing???
I am going to call Sabina at T AND V!
ReplyDeleteFYI, there was not one, but two fires in buildings on Avenue C in the last two weeks.
ReplyDeleteLike the TA, T&V is in bed with management. They put in the paper what management allows them too, and follow-up on things that are printed is nearly nonexistent.
ReplyDeleteIf they were truly unbiased there would be articles every day blasting management for the many issues that take place on this property, but they don’t. We get the truth from STR, not T&V.
If the fire was in a dorm apartment they will keep it hushed up. As if people didn’t know that the Sty is one big hotel/ dorm which creates sanitary and safety issues.
ReplyDeleteIf T&V doesn't give any information about the fire, is there any way of getting it as a matter of public record?
ReplyDeleteIt was a candle in a new platinum apt and it don't spread, didn't blow through the door. Take the theories elswhere.
ReplyDeleteA security guard saved a dog from the apt. Firefighters said 30more seconds and it would have been gone.
A stupid candle
Concerning the fire in Stuyvesant Town: T&V posted an article about it. Seems it was a candle that caused the blaze. In those open-plan units, fire spreads very fast. Also, someone on the TA fb page said there has been two fires in that building in the last couple of weeks. I'm sure a lot goes on that we never hear about because we would be horrified!
ReplyDeleteIt was reported as a fire started by a candle. T&V cited a family living there but who knows what constitutes a family in this joint and if it was students they probably would not say the truth anyway. As for the paper bins,,what a waste. I am not going to stand down there in the WInter and sort mail. These people on the TA site call it an amenity. A real joke.
ReplyDeleteThe families here are no better than the students. many are worse. There's a family of a$$holes living above me who stomp around their uncarpeted apartment all day and night, like 3:30 am last night, drop things in the middle of the night in the back bedrooms, run up and down hallway--you get the idea. They refused to get carpets. Management refuses to do anything about it.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing great about these families. All the students that have lived near me have been way better than the families. These people think they're at the center of the universe and there's no need to get carpets if they don't feel like it. That attitude in a pair of middle aged selfish sh1ts is much worse than the students.
How do you get to fifty and still that entitled.
"Fire destroys Stuy Town apartment
ReplyDeleteFire at 287 Avenue C (Photo by Sugi Tabero)
By Sabina Mollot
A fire ripped through an apartment in Stuyvesant Town on Thursday afternoon, destroying it, although fortunately no one was hurt. Additionally, public safety officers were able to rescue the affected family’s Boston terrier.
A spokesperson for the FDNY said the fire at 287 Avenue C was caused by a candle in the fourth-floor apartment. After getting the call about the fire at 12:45 p.m., firefighters were at the scene in under four minutes and got the fire under control in about 35 minutes.
A resident in the building, Sugi Tabero, said that management later put fans in the hallway to deal with the lingering smoke smell and had workers start to clean up the apartment. A public safety officer was also stationed in the building so no one could enter while there was a risk of glass falling.
“We have a lot to be thankful for living in Stuyvesant Town even when there’s a tragedy,” Tabero said.
Meanwhile, the family has already been moved to another apartment, according to a spokesperson for StuyTown Property Services.
https://town-village.com/2017/12/19/fire-destroys-stuy-town-apartment/
I have been saying for a while that the City is subsidizing apartments here. Not too many yet but that number will be increasing as rents become beyond affordable. Between the firms, hotels, and city, Blackstone is doing great.
ReplyDeleteA fire ripped through an apartment in Stuyvesant Town on Thursday afternoon, destroying it, although fortunately no one was hurt. Additionally, public safety officers were able to rescue the affected family’s Boston terrier.
ReplyDeleteA spokesperson for the FDNY said the fire at 287 Avenue C was caused by a candle in the fourth-floor apartment. After getting the call about the fire at 12:45 p.m., firefighters were at the scene in under four minutes and got the fire under control in about 35 minutes.
A resident in the building, Sugi Tabero, said that management later put fans in the hallway to deal with the lingering smoke smell and had workers start to clean up the apartment. A public safety officer was also stationed in the building so no one could enter while there was a risk of glass falling.
So T&V says it was a family that lived in the apartment, and that the fire started by a candle. With the short history of this management company, I’m not sure I believe either things.
ReplyDeleteIs there anyone in that building who can confirm that it was a family living in that apartment??? I don’t think we will ever get the truth about what actually started it, especially since it was in one of their prized platinum apartments, so getting information about the occupants of the apartment is probably the only thing we will find out.
I don’t expect a follow up from T&V, as they don’t like to ruffle feathers with management.
The heat problems continue. If you look at the TA fb page and the independent Tenants fb page you will see numerous posts about the heat. Some have none and some have too much. It seems that the response from management is the same as always: stonewall. We're moving out after two years in this dump and just can't wait. Noise, no heat (in our case) and a discovery that management is the most unresponsive we've ever encountered. We are certainly planning to post our experiences and opinions on Yelp and will warn anybody and everybody about this poorly-run project masquerading as "upscale" housing! The apartments are nice and roomy, but the walls and floors are paper-thin and the heat is unreliable. The appliances that come with the apartment are not good quality. I think they may be "seconds" that are purchased on the cheap from some bulk supplier of quality control rejects. Just my opinion, but it sure seems that way.
ReplyDeleteUh oh, looks like some of Rick’s cheerleaders are now former cheerleaders... I see a thread about noise with names that used to praise him that have turned against almighty Rick now that their circumstances have changed.
ReplyDeleteThe people who praise Rick and management with such fervor really need to take a look at what’s really going on here, and realize it’s only a matter of time before they are bombarded with noise or pot smoke. When that time comes (and it will) they will get the typical Rick response- there’s really nothing we can do.
Simply astonishing how every post every comment is a person living here who complains about the noise the thin walls lack of rugs, thin floors. Yetl Rick- Blackstone and management do absolutely nothing. I repeat absolutely nothing.
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ReplyDeleteThe doors are not the same fireproof doors that were in place for 70 years, so it is only a matter of time before a fire does get through these shoddy doors. This time was lucky, but next time? Maybe not...
12/21 at 6:06
But Rick answers emails, so he’s great at what he does according to some. Everyone will eventually come around (as some now are) and see Rick’s true colors.
How can there be no advocacy for tenants in this project? It's freezing in my apt. and when I call management they send someone who tells me I should buy space heaters. It's inconceivable to me that we have no representation. Maybe we, as tenants, should consider starting some kind of tenants association to address issues such as this. In past years I used to have to keep my windows open in the winter because I received so much heat, now you can hang sides of beef in my apartment. What a disaster this dump has turned into.
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ReplyDeleteParanoia runs deep within you, my man.
When management refuses to do anything about the noise from uncarpeted apartments and selfish, entitled tenants, I think the only thing we can do is get an attorney. That costs money and management has all the money in the world to fight back. The only way to get this lazy, stupid, incompetent management to sit up and take notice is to give them bad publicity. How about a fund to take out a full-page ad in a newspaper about the sit that goes on here? Or chip-in together to get a lawyer and file a class action. The latter suggestion is something that the TA and its lawyers should be doing. Instead, they are always on the scrounge for dues and donations so that their idiot lawyers can file PARs of the MCIs and then the best they can ever do is get us a dollar or two reduction.
ReplyDeleteWe desperately need a Tenants Association. A REAL Tenants Association, not this bunch of useless, politician-fawning hacks that do absolutely NOTHING for us. They are so utterly useless and [probably] corrupt that they should just be ignored. The TA counts for nothing at this point. They suck up to management and kiss the Almighty USELESS Rick's ass and promote their in-crowd politicians and that's about the sum of their activities.
Seeing as the PCVST StuyTown Tenant Association Board Member lobbied for this and now that lobbyist is the next Councilman for StuyTown this short but telling article is most certainly relevant to this community as far as knowing who is being represented and for what.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/trump-soho-signs-newly-christened-dominick-hotel-article-1.3712668
Seeing as the PCVST StuyTown Tenant Association Board Member lobbied for this and now that lobbyist is the next Councilman for StuyTown this short but telling article is most certainly relevant to this community as far as knowing who is being represented and for what.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/trump-soho-signs-newly-christened-dominick-hotel-article-1.3712668
@2:13 PM, are you saying that Keith Powers lobbied on behalf of the Trumps? Please say it ain't so!
ReplyDelete12:18, I have had various "families" living in the apartment next to me over the past year. 8 to be exact. I say "families," because I have brought this up to management on a number of occasions and I get the same textbook response each time - "Oh no, there is just one family living there." These groups were not families, but more like packs of degenerates that could in no way afford the rent of a renovated apartment. If I had to guess, it was an apartment for people in drug rehabilitation (halfway house).
ReplyDeleteHaving a family of my own, I did not feel comfortable with the influx of different people coming and going from that apartment, so I started videotaping for proof. Since management was useless and in complete denial of any wrongdoing, the videos are with my attorney who is in contact with Blackstone's attorney (not SPS).
This is why I'm paranoid and have a hard time believing what management says. I have firm video proof of their deceit. Oh, and I am not a man.
If you have no heat or some other issue that is not being resolved then you should file a complaint at: http://www1.nyc.gov/311/index.page or dial 311.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how management 'nickel and dimes' tenants these days. Raising the cost of washing/drying, charging for replacing light bulbs, charging 'locked out' fees, etc.
I'm an old rent-stabilized tenant but if I were paying current 'market rates' for rent I would be pissed!
I hope the "family" responsible for the fire in the Platinum apartment are made to make good financially for any damage to neighboring units.
ReplyDeleteSuch a joke those e-mails Rick Gayduk sends out each week. Video on squirrel relations and holiday noise no-no’s. Is he kidding! Residents have no heat and students are overrunning this place and he is advertising this crap
ReplyDelete"I'm an old rent-stabilized tenant but if I were paying current 'market rates' for rent I would be pissed!"
ReplyDeleteI'm an old RS tenant too except that unlike you I AM pissed at paying the rent I pay.
December 21, 2017 at 4:06 PM stay strong. They are hiding behind leasing apartments to families when they know the occupants are otherwise. There is something deceptive about the leasing to family foundations then the apartment is used as a hotel that was reported to the DOB in one of the hotel complaints the comments section a few weeks ago. You lawyer might want to know the leases and business records do not match the use of the apartments.
ReplyDeleteThe Town & Village article reads like a press release. It has no coverage or language usually found it reporting a fire. It lists all the things a landlord press release would write like response time of security, placement of family in new apartment,
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like a precursor of things to come. The landlord will use things like "candles" as an excuse for upcoming apartment fires and the FDNY will go along because the FDNY approved the windowless rooms, the rooms so small that placing furniture like a sofa or table blocks egress, and approved the removal of the fireproof doors.
The BS detector on this one is sky high. Watch for more candle caused fires from this landlord....we will see....
Lately my elevator sometimes stinks of weed. They are getting so bold as to smoke in the elevators. Disgusting dorm dump.
ReplyDeleteDecember 21, 2017 at 7:14 PM fat chance. The landlord blamed the dog and a candle. Two things that can't speak for themselves. That is the worst cover up story ever. It is along the lines of the dog ate my homework.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the fact that reporting of the fire was controlled by the landlord. I do not even know if s family really lived in the apartment, it might have been a dorm apartment or unrelated people. Blackstone controls the local press as well as the T A.
ReplyDeleteIf yesterday's 4:06 post about "degenerate" neighbors is truly on the level, she should be aware in advance that her attorney will have to deal with somewhat different degenerates at Blackstone--ones with nearly unlimited money and power.
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ReplyDeleteSpot on!
will also be retaining legal counsel on the problems that perpetuate here for us, to us for years. Fucking done with this.
ReplyDeleteProbably there will be space heater-caused fires. I hope not, but considering how incompetent they are at providing heat ..... Incompetence is what they do best, though. That, the do very, very indeed.
ReplyDeleteHAPPY HOLIDAYS, STR. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO FOR US. WHAT YOU DO IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE YOU TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THE QUALITY OF LIFE HERE .. THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY.
ReplyDeleteI WISH OUR TENANTS ASSOCIATION (REMEMBER THAT ORGANIZATION THAT USED TO LOBBY FOR US?) WAS AS CARING AND HONEST AS YOU ARE.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HOLIDAY AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20171221/POLITICS/171229979/real-estate-execs-made-63000-investment-in-new-city-council-speaker
ReplyDelete>>Several high-powered real estate firms invested heavily in the political fortunes of Greenwich Village Democrat Corey Johnson, who emerged Wednesday as the apparent next speaker of the City Council.
Officials of the Related Cos., DDG Partners, the Property Markets Group and others gave generously to Johnson's campaign. (Corporate entities cannot contribute directly to candidates.) Johnson secured the support of the majority of his peers by courting the Democratic Party bosses of Queens and the Bronx, and by winning the endorsement of the powerful Hotel Trades Council. The city's legislature wields vast influence over zoning and land-use decisions, and the speaker controls the body's affairs.<<
STR, I think the entire City Council are a bunch of sleazy bastards and DeB is the King of Corruption.
ReplyDeleteYa'll should be pissed if you're paying a low rent or a high rent. You've been had. And ftr, how the fuck do they get past Dhcr with constant repeated renovating and massive increases each year? Granite counters and new stove not needed annually this is first class bullshit and they know it. Watch for class action.
ReplyDeleteNo shock there that the new city council speaker is a REBNY RE guy just like the old speakers Viverito and Quinn. That explains the decimation of Greenwich Village, all the small businesses now gone, all the permanent residents now gone, the universities take over all the housing in shady deals for student housing and for university administrators housing. The city council is nothing more than a big con and has been an outrageous con on the public for a long time.
ReplyDeleteAll cut from the same cloth, the predecessors, successors, and current. All responsible for the control-freakish third term debacles that the Public voted NO to several times but they selfishly gave themselves so they can carry out the RE REBNY enriching themselves schemes while they push the Public out of house and home by hook and by crook.
The city council in it's current form has attracted a bunch of scam artists. It is past time to clean house at the city council of all who have been deceitful to the public and have failed the public each and every day of this century. They should have been fired long ago if only the public could fire the public servants who work for us but act like nobility enriching themselves at the public expense.
This photo of these three is everything. All three of these, the former Mayor, the former city council speaker and the CBRE C B Richard Ellis brokerage firm that sold the real estate valued $1.8 billion property for $5.4 billion with promises of a hotel condo tower after clearing out all the rent stabilized middle class by hook and by crook with the blessing and enabling of corrupt weakened laws.
These three:
House Party: Scenes from the REBNY Gala
By Tom Acitelli • 01/24/11 10:52pm
http://observer.com/2011/01/house-party-scenes-from-the-rebny-gala/
The Speaker's audacity against the wishes and votes by the Public:
Term-limits positions
In 2008, Quinn backed Mayor Bloomberg on a bill that overturned a public vote from 1993, which had imposed a two-term limit for elected officials, and another vote in 1996 that maintained the two term limit, although Quinn had previously stated she would not support undermining term limits.[12] The Council voted to change term limits and allow the mayor, City Council members, and borough presidents to run for third terms, reversing the results of the two previous public referenda.[13] Bloomberg and Quinn both subsequently ran successfully for third terms.[14]
The Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, among others, denounced this move. The following year, in June 2009, the City Council approved a 40% cut in the budget of the Public Advocate's Office. Gotbaum declared herself a victim of "political payback" because of her opposition to the changes in the term limits law,[15] a notion Quinn claimed was "ridiculous". All five candidates for Public Advocate showed up at city hall in June to protest the move,[16] and in 2010 New Yorkers again voted overwhelmingly to limit politicians to two consecutive terms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Quinn
ReplyDeletehttps://nypost.com/2017/11/25/councilman-behind-anti-tobacco-laws-allegedly-smokes/
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and whatever you celebrate... or even if you are alone and don't want to or can't celebrate.
ReplyDeleteSame to you and yours. And to all a good night.
DeleteI feel quite sure that Keith Powers will be as bad (or worse) than Viverito and Quinn. The aggressive campaign he ran bordered on harassment and had a distinct air of ruthlessness about it. He is not going to look out for the best interests of his constituents; he is bought and paid for by the developers and will act only in their interests. We need a total purge of City Hall and a choice of candidates that includes no lobbyists, pikers, whores (of any kind) and that includes the biggest whore of them all - DeBlasio.
ReplyDeleteSTR, on this Christmas Eve, I send you my warmest wishes and thank you for all you do for the Stuyvesant Town community! Good health, peace of mind! God Bless!
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