Photo taken this morning, around 9am, 20 Street loop.
And later that day, on another loop....
No doubt the directly above is for Blackstone personnel if they just have to go...
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The next day: the dumping continues. On the loop, bookended by the Management office:
It's considerate of Management to have another toilet seat on the other side of the loop. Also please be aware that there is glass and other sharp objects in this dumping.
41 comments:
Looking good.
Great job Rick.
What good does putting these photos out do? I have stopped taking them and sending them to the local politicians. Blackstone doesn’t care and it will just continue it’s disgusting progression.
OMG! Well, it's good to know there is a toilet handy for emergencies. I think that toilet should be the new mascot for Stytown. Nice going, rick. You have finally found the perfect symbol for your style of management.
Positive public relations spin Blackstone generates for itself promoting solar roof panels far outweighs degraded QOL for PCVST residents forced daily to confront toilets, mattresses, debris, etc. dumped overnight by unidentified transients vacating former PCVST residential apartments chopped into transient dormitory housing and illegal hotels.
>>What good does putting these photos out do?<<
It does good. Some people in Blackstone know. More people will know, too.
As long as this blog is here and as long as there is a mess on the loops (those uncovered mattresses are also illegal), then the photos will continue.
Best advice: Clean this mess up and make things legal.
I agree. The positive PR spin for green endeavors and other crap blurs the awful filth and slum like conditions here. They have the right PR and Hayduk is good at that.
Many people know including Blackstone and long term residents know and see it. They could care less. I really do not think it is doing any good. There have been no changes or attempts to clean it up. Actually getting worse. I for one, will not waste my time photographing the filth anymore.
With window closed and AC on in living room, I don’t hear the concert. On the other hand, it is disgustingly loud in the bedroom with the window open. What fools sitting there in the heat and humidity listening to that crap.
Those aren’t toilets, they’re whimsically designed collection boxes for dog poo, for the small handful of dog owners that do bother to pick up.
I have Windows closed, air conditioner on and am getting a headache from the "concert" and I use the term loosely! "Entertainment" is getting worse by each week. Wonder what they plan for their " grand finale swan song"?
From Bloomberg:
"Background
Mr. Richard Hayduk has been General Manager of PCVST at The Blackstone Group L.P. since January 1, 2016. Mr. Hayduk served as the President at Boca Raton Resort & Club Inc. from January 28, 2013 to December 2015. Mr. Hayduk was responsible for the day-to-day operations of one of the country’s premier resort destinations and private club facilities. A hospitality leader with extensive operational and management capabilities, Mr. Hayduk joined the Boca Raton Resort & Club with more than 25 years of international luxury resort, hotel and country club management experience. He joined the Boca Raton Resort from Captiva, Florida, where he served as regional managing director overseeing LXR Resorts and Hotels' South Seas Island Resort, The Inns of Sanibel and the Dunes Golf and Tennis Club located on the islands of Sanibel and Captiva. His hospitality management experience includes The Cliffs Communities, Inc. in Traveler's Rest, South Carolina where he served as vice president of Hospitality, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Grand Caribbean Resorts, Ltd. located in Great Exuma, Bahamas. He spent a 16-year period at The Breakers Palm Beach and similar positions at Hotel d'Angleterre in Copenhagen, Denmark and Grand Hotel Continental in Munich, Germany. With a strong commitment to the local community, Mr. Hayduk served as president of the Captiva Community Panel and worked with several other local community organizations including the facilitation of local initiatives for the National Down Syndrome Society."
It is clear that this guy has hotel and resort experience, but not the experience and know-how required to run an enormous RESIDENTIAL property in New York City. I think Blackstone made a poor choice for this property. Rick is out of his element and overwhelmed by the job. He thinks like a resort manager and acts like a resort manager. He can't get his head around the fact that we want to live in a pleasant and clean and safe RESIDENTIAL community. His tacky gimmicks and [now] very defensive reaction to criticism make it clear that he is totally out of his depth. He needs to be replaced by someone who is up to the job.
Maybe he was posted here by Blackstone because they wanted him to turn it into a resort, but if that is the case then it is a shame and it's backfiring. This is neither a well-run resort (and should not be regarded as a resort) and is not a well-run residential property. I don't blame Rick, I blame his employers who have totally misused and abused this man.
Having just returned from Associated, and close to 9pm, the work on the subway extension is still going on and still loud and glaring with lights. Let me be careful of what I say, but I will say this: Unless Blackstone (and I include Management here) have a way of making up for the excessive noise at this time of night, unless they are making it up to the residents that are affected by this, they are pigs, pure and simple. And shame for our TA not to speak about this. Again, unless. I don't live in that area, but this is no way to treat residents. No way. Just human decency demands something. Unless.
Once again, If Hayduk wasn’t manager, someone else would be running the property the same way. Blackstone calls the shots and his PR maneuvers are just what they want.
Although I despise Blackstone, they are not responsible for the construction. It is the city and the MTA. The local politicians should be doing something. They had the same issues with the second avenue subway
Oh, I'm not saying that Blackstone is responsible for the noise at all, but I am saying that they should have something for tenants (a rent reduction?) that would make some of this noise less grievous. To do nothing... Well, that is not being a "good neighbor."
>>>>they are pigs, pure and simple.
STR, please do not be so insulting. Pigs are fine animals and you are maligning them by likening them to the shit that runs this place and comprises the TA Board.
"Once again, If Hayduk wasn’t manager, someone else would be running the property the same way. Blackstone calls the shots and his PR maneuvers are just what they want."
Probably, but I think Hayduk could do better in many ways.
C’mon STR. There’s construction all over the city all of the time. While I feel very badly for what the people on 14th St. are enduring, Blackstone doesn’t owe them anything and it doesn’t mean that they’re not a “good neighbor”. They are not a “good neighbor” in many ways to their tenants, but the 14th subway St. construction is not one of them. On the other hand, the noise on the Oval, which they are directly responsible for, is. The concerts are a shameful, torturous abomination.
COME RENT HERE IF YA WANT TO PARTY ALL NIGHT THE HALLWAYS OPEN FOR PARTIES
"When you gotta go..."
>>C’mon STR. There’s construction all over the city all of the time. While I feel very badly for what the people on 14th St. are enduring, Blackstone doesn’t owe them anything and it doesn’t mean that they’re not a “good neighbor”.<<
Yes, I realize that part of the party line is that we live in the city so we should expect noise. However, while I agree that Blackstone is not responsible for this subway extension (although they will reap the benefits once it gets done, and they know it) they, as "good neighbors," should do something, anything, to alleviate some of the suffering of their "neighbors." The way I see it, they are responsible, not for the noise, but for ignoring their own residents. Again, if that is so. Not living in that area, I do not know if Blackstone and Management have already made private arrangements with the people who live nearby. One just can't walk away when human decency demands something is said or done. My take.
" One just can't walk away when human decency demands something is said or done. My take."
STR, human decency is something that Blackstone will have nothing whatsoever to do with. I doubt they even know what it is. It is simply not in their dna or code of ethics or code of management.
STR, just wondering if you have sent any of the photos showing the garbage dumping to Hayduk and what his response has been.
I don’t agree that Blackstone owes the tenants on 14th Street anything and I doubt that any building owner would feel obligated to do something for tenants similarly situated. That’s just remarkably. unrealistic, wishful thinking. However, the City does owe the poor folk on 14th Street. They did not disclose that the nightmare that is going on there now would be taking place years in advance of the actual L train shutdown. They also did not adequately disclose that they would be shutting down all the subway stations in Manhattan for 15 weekends before the actual shutdown in April. Both of these are major failures on the MTA’s part.
>>STR, just wondering if you have sent any of the photos showing the garbage dumping to Hayduk and what his response has been.<<
I spoke to Rick a couple of weeks ago, and basically the response was that there was nothing Management could do. Obviously, there is something they can do, but as of now they are not interested. I've have gone to other parties with the some of the photos, and I will report back, but I am not hopeful. Blackstone has its own rules about this place, and no one from outside (including the police) seems to be challenging them. For now. And you can forget about our TA.
Basically, what I said a long time ago is true. Each individual is own his or her own. Sad, but that is what our "community" has come to.
His response is despicable but not unexpected. As bad as previous owners were, we never saw this. It also appears that our local politicians will do nothing.
Regarding Blackstone and the MTA in the matter of the L train and Hurricane Sandy:
Unfortunately, it is entirely conceivable that there is collusion to our detriment. As I've urged readers of the blog previously: Please read Namomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine."
(1) That six (6) years went by with no repair work to severely damaged subway tunnels between Brooklyn and Manhattan is a matter for concern, and distrust and cynicism. (2) That we are looking at "6 - 10 years" of massive disruption, instability, invasion (the water taxis, bicycles, more buses) because of "repair" work (3) at EXACTLY THE SAME TIME BLACKSTONE HAS BOUGHT THIS COMPLEX AND IS EXPANDING, AGGRESSIVELY, THEIR COMMERCIAL ATTACK HERE, while (4) ALL OF THE STREETS AND NEIGHBORHOODS ALONG THIS 14TH STREET CORRIDOR, RIVER TO RIVER, are under siege, "gentrified," as people are made homeless, and while (5) BOTH MAJOR RIVERS BORDERING MANHATTAN (the Hudson River and the East River) are being commandeered by billionaires . . .
just please think about it. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT SHOCK DOCTRINE IS: Use a natural disaster, or a war, or a terrorist attack to "achieve control by imposing economic shock therapy." Read the book, think about how Hurricane Katrina was used to expropriate the land on which thousands of people lived in order for "developers" to build resorts and condominiums; how Hurricane Katrina was used to wipe out public school and replace it with for-huge-profit charter schools. Hell, look at Puerto Rico today.
Heyduk is despicable. He should be fired. As a property manager, he is a complete and total failure.
As for out local politicians, they are as corrupt and bent as Heyduk!
If Hayduk were to be fired, they would replace him with someone equally unappealing. How many times do I have to say it. Blackstone calls the shits, not Hayduk.
If Hayduk were to be fired, they would replace him with someone equally unappealing. How many times do I have to say it. Blackstone calls the shits, not Hayduk.
I agree with the above. It it were not Hayduk, it would be somebody else, but still being a good Blackstone soldier.
Why are there dog feces and urine in the elevators and stairwells?
Aren't there cameras?
Can't the culprits be identified?
C'mon, people, this isn't a slum yet, is it?
Well, so long as Heyduk realizes that as far as he tenants are concerned, every piece of garbage, dirty mattress, toilet bowl and other debris has his name on it. Same goes for the loathsome, excruciatingly loud "concerts" and dumb movies on the Oval.
"Heyduk Houses." Worse than ANY NYCHA project in the five boroughs. The Projects are 100% cleaner than this dump. This used to be a lovely, pristine property and now it is a vile SHIT HOLE. Thank you Rick.
"C'mon, people, this isn't a slum yet, is it?"
Yes, it is. Sad, but true.
Obviously they don’t care about culprits. The low life culprits are filling their overpriced apartments. Not to worry as long as the rents are paid in this dump.
I can actually hear my neighbors farts. How fucking gross.
That T&V rag gets worse and worse. Irrelevant and management friendly articles. A real piece of garbage. I am sure that Blackstone controls what the editors put in. Not a drop in QOL issues here.
There are dollops of shit right by the john in the top photograph! Can't believe this filthy, vile slum! Hayduk should be fired and exposed in the media. He is the most useless manager and, I believe, is deliberately turning this place into a fetid slum. I can't imagine why, but he must have an agenda.
The agenda is Blackstone’s. Hatful just works for them
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