Yesterday, I saw a woman with a baby almost trip over the make-shift "padding" on the main entrance of my building. I called in what she almost tripped over, and the loosened tape and padding was fixed eventually. But the padding is still there, and it's a shit job. (Sorry, there is no other way to describe it.) It's always a shit job.
This morning, before 10 am, I took photos of what I see. And here they are:
The silver tape covers the loosened other tape that was there yesterday. As you will notice, the "padding" used is cheap with several areas of "hills."
The last photo is the inside of one of the elevators. As you will see, it is dirty (in the morning!), but also there is cheap tape sticking out in the front.
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Updated 8/31: I just received a comment from someone who wants this blog shut down and doesn't like our photos. The person complained about the cheap plastic covering and called it the "industry standard." I've seen a woman with a baby carriage nearly trip over this "industry standard." Here are more photos, taken today, of this "industry standard."
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Read it and weep. Or gnash your teeth.
https://www.boweryboogie.com/2018/08/mta-debris-removal-for-damaged-canarsie-subway-tunnel-will-happen-on-congested-14th-street/
***1975 NYC GARBAGE STRIKE***
Abestos is a extremely dangerous carcinogen!! The results to our neighborhood and especially our seniors will be catastrophic. Our air is already dangerous so let’s add 1000 diesel buses to a terrible situation. OUR AIR IS MAKING US SICK AND GETTING WORSE. I have asked for the particulate reports from coned and Stuy for the emissions from the plant. Nothing but that doesn’t surprise me
PIG STUY TOWN
But I ain't leavin'...
Want to see how fake Rick and crew are????
Go look at their Instagram post of the first ferry ride from Stuy Cove.
Rick:
Is Stuy Cove part of Stuy Town??
What are your plans for the tens of thousands of people that are ready to start walking through the property once the L shuts down??????
Did you take mattresses on the ferry with you? You know, incase you needed a nap??
I used to give Rick credit for the work he did with his daughter, but now that is done. Rick has destroyed the lives of many with problems much worse than her. Doomsday is coming on this property, I feel it. Rick will feel it once the lawsuits start getting taped on his door.
>>What are your plans for the tens of thousands of people that are ready to start walking through the property once the L shuts down?????<<
Management and Blackstone love it. So many people from outside seeing the property. Get those benches ready (meaning make a seat) and let more events fly! And pack them into Five Stuy Cafe! What is to complain about all those potential residents going through Stuyvesant Town?
Mark my words: We have not seen much yet of the selling of apartments here.
Everything is a shit job here because we have a shit management. When somebody gets hurt and sues the bastards, maybe they will sit up and take notice. Go away, Rick. You are a terrible manager and a total loser. Your inadequacy is reflected in so many ways on this property.
">>What are your plans for the tens of thousands of people that are ready to start walking through the property once the L shuts down?????<<"
Just don't forget to sign your loyalty pledge and send in your fifty bucks (plus a little more if you can afford it) to our wonderful, caring, proactive Tenants Association. We know they work their little tushies off dealing with Management and fighting for our rights to a clean, decent, safe place to live. NOT!
selling apartments here? what is you saying, they're rentals.
Well, yeah, rentals.
I think it is high time to "kick it up a notch." Meaning that the complaints do not go to Management, PS or even Blackstone. The complaints now go the Media. Nothing is being done here. Rather, excuses, excuses, and more excuses. Maybe a smiley face or more talk. But no action.
Again, I saw and took photos of my loop road and the uncovered mattresses there.
"I think it is high time to "kick it up a notch." Meaning that the complaints do not go to Management, PS or even Blackstone. The complaints now go the Media. Nothing is being done here. Rather, excuses, excuses, and more excuses. Maybe a smiley face or more talk. But no action."
Yes, STR! This disgusting apology for a "management" should be exposed to the Media. Is there any Media that Blacksoul won't pay off, though?
Still nothing will be done
Cannot believe those morons sitting in 90 degree heat watching those crappy movies tonight.
"Cannot believe those morons sitting in 90 degree heat watching those crappy movies tonight."
You mean people are actually out there??!! It's so hot and muggy and the mosquitos will have a feast! You can't tell what you're sitting on when you sit on the Oval lawn - could be a big mound of dog shit! These folk really are morons. Pretty pathetic really.
Mice in the carriage room.
Love those "amenities!"
You know when you live somewhere, and you’re totally not wanted by everyone else in the community? That is kind of how Rick Susan and Powers should be feeling at this point.
The clock is ticking on all of them, and I will be curious what the order of leaving will be. Here are my guesses:
1) Rick - late spring 2019
2) Powers - 2021 election
3) Steinberg - never! I’m convinced we will never rid ourselves of this evil corrupt woman.
Even if Hayduk leaves, he will be replaced by someone equally bad. Blackstone pulls the strings. The manager does what they want. As for Powers, he might still get in despite inaction on our QOL issues.
Just a matter of time until we see Susan Steinberg, and the rest of the Tenants Association Board doing the "perp walk".
When they are ultimately forced to open the books then the sh*t will really hit the fan.
Just a matter of time.
Mark my words.
Doubt that any of this will happen.
I’m now on the TA board lookout.... Hamptons here I come!
That is standard protection of a floor done throughout the construction industry across the five boroughs from residential apartments (such as this) to class A buildings in rockefeller center. You will literally complain about anything. Whose fault is it for instructing the workers to comply with industry standards ?
Are there mosquitos on the oval lawn? My 3 kids are full of bites all over and were playing there only for 20 minutes.
>>That is standard protection of a floor done throughout the construction industry across the five boroughs from residential apartments (such as this) to class A buildings in rockefeller center. You will literally complain about anything. Whose fault is it for instructing the workers to comply with industry standards ?<<
Cheap shit that people trip over? Interesting, but I expected something better and less likely to tear upon impact. BTW, I have never seen this type of covering for a floor, but I don't go around to construction sites to check.
"Are there mosquitos on the oval lawn? My 3 kids are full of bites all over and were playing there only for 20 minutes."
The Oval lawn is infested with mosquitos and flies. I think the dog shit and all the human leavings (toddler piss and shit) and discarded food is a major attraction to flies and rats and the human presence is a banquet for the mosquitos.
BTW, I doubt that what I am seeing and calling in is the "industry standard." This is some cheap "plastic" (very tear-able) that is taped over a floor padding. Please provide a link of this "industry standard."
Labor Day weekens and the Airbnb’s abound. One on every corner and in front of every building.
Gross moi out. Don't hang out at the oval avec mosquitos! WWWWWWWW
New photos taken today of the "industry standard." See blog front page.
This fucking shithole needs to be condemned and tenants rehoused. it's worse than NYCHA.
Stuy Town Instagram page has a dog prancing around in the chess table benches, so I guess this is the newest thing that’s allowed?!?!
Taking my dog there now. Will let him shit and piss on the table.
Rick, you are a moron.
And the answer remains. The place is a pig Stuy, but there is nothing we can do about it as long as we have no TA, the politicians look the other way, and many residents still like Hayduk and this management. It will o ly get worse.
I know it’s hard for you to fathom but that’s how its done. Talk to other people in the industry. There is no “link to supply.” It’s brown paper, taped down with blue 3M painters tape and plastic on top so it’s easy to mop and or sweep clean at the end of the day. I’m not sure how long it has been left down but it will need periodic maintenance to check for ripping, damage or tripping factors.
End of month, so usual fleet of moving vans all over the property. I'm never surprised that people move out, but I AM surprised when I see people move in. Poor fools.
Yes i too will bring my pup and have him climb all over the tables and chairs here! Free4all. yeah!
>>I know it’s hard for you to fathom but that’s how its done. Talk to other people in the industry. There is no “link to supply.” It’s brown paper, taped down with blue 3M painters tape and plastic on top so it’s easy to mop and or sweep clean at the end of the day. I’m not sure how long it has been left down but it will need periodic maintenance to check for ripping, damage or tripping factors.<<
Have you seen the photos I posted? This is "industry standard"?! If so, God help us!
Most of them are students and transients who get a decent deal living with two or three others. They are here for six months or a year. No sweat. Probably over 50 percent fall into this category now.
At this point, I think August 31, 2018 at 4:39 PM is from Management or that TA blog.
As part of Management, I also include PS. ;-)
Hoping others can chime in here. I need to get out of the lease signed. It's become a financial hardship since my wife lost her job. I am not able to pay months of penalty. What are my options? Our rent is around 3525 each month. How badly will my credit be hit?
Nope. Just a father of two young kids living in ST with my wife. I happen to work as a construction manager and find your hip shooting on this matter excessive.
Okay, but you haven't answered my question: Have you taken a look at the photos I posted? These photos are NOT from an apartment that is being painted or renovated. These photos are from downstairs, right by the elevator, where there is a LOT of traffic, in and out all day. The photos show (you an enlarge them, too) that the plastic on top has come off here and there, and presents a danger to residents. I myself have seen a woman with a baby stroller nearly trip over this "industry standard." Is this the way you do your work??? So, where there is heavy traffic, this is the "industry standard." Your words, by the way. I find this particular work crappy and not maintained the way it should be. Thoughts?
It is incredible what dump this place has become.
Unbelievable.
With all the construction and garbage and noise, the quality of life here has plummeted.
Only a fool would pay these exorbitant rents.
The Management only cares about squeezing every last dime out and the Tenants Association is worthless and probably corrupt.
STR, the construction industry is not geared to protecting human lives, either on or off the job. The construction industry is geared to tearing down and throwing up buildings as fast and cheaply as possible. Remember that REBNY controls the construction industry because they are the entity that sends them the work and pays them! Human life means absolutely jackshit to the construction industry (and its managers). Why do you think they hire so many unqualified and undocumented folk? Why do you think there are so many fatal accidents, whether it's their fucking cranes falling over or workers falling off scaffolds? Why do you think the DOB is so crooked and criminal and looks the other way at potentially fatal infractions?
Industry standard means as cheap as possible. Not as safe as possible.
I also wonder if Rockefeller Center (mentioned by the industry standard manager) does NOT have a service elevator for any construction work being done in one of their rooms. Next time I am there, I will check the main lobby floors to see if they have this cheap padding. And what is used on the top of the padding? Baggies?
BTW, the workers here are non-union.
"BTW, the workers here are non-union."
Of course the workers here are non-union. If they were union, they would have to do things very differently. They would have to wear protective clothing and they would be trained and licensed to do the jobs they do and do them correctly. Because Management is paying non-union wages to these guys, they can get away with exposing them to danger - just as they expose the tenants to danger. Life is cheap and expendable to the likes of Blackstone. I wonder how Rick would feel about his family being exposed to all the shit the rest of us are exposed to?
Anybody who pays good money to live in this place is a fucking idiot, but as they don't stay long, they probably don't get that much exposure to all the poisons that permeate the property. Most of the people moving in nowadays are temporary and young. I was in the Management Office recently and I a guy stopped in to inquire if it was ok to sublet his place to his college kid nephew for a few months. The response was "No problem. People do that all the time here."
Who are the clods who leave bags full of garbage outside the carriage room door???
What's up with that?
Are they too lazy to open the door and dispose of their crap the right way like civilized human beings?
I don't get it.
Pig Stuy Town....yuch!
Stop calling the market raters idiots. Tell us where should they live?
A person (and his/her family) can choose where to live, given money. Fact is that the "market rate" people are paying more for their apartments than others who have been here a while. Shouldn't be that way, but it is, unfortunately.
Like it or not, if you move into an apartment that was formerly rent stabilized, you are part of the equation that’s resulted in the destruction of affordable housing in NYC. It takes two to tango, a lessor and a lessee, each deserving of blame and shame...
If I had the money, I would live ina brand new building with a doorman, gym, pool, and roof deck, with close proximity to a park. You can get all of those things for the same price or cheaper than what you are paying to live here. There is an absolute 0.00% chance I would be living here if my rent was over $3k/month.
STOP SLAMMING YOUR APARTMENT DOOR
You can get rentals in more upscale buildings than what people are paying here at market rate. Some of these one bedrooms are over 3500 a month. The apartments may be smaller but you wouldn’t be living in a transient dump.
"If I had the money, I would live ina brand new building with a doorman, gym, pool, and roof deck, with close proximity to a park. You can get all of those things for the same price or cheaper than what you are paying to live here. There is an absolute 0.00% chance I would be living here if my rent was over $3k/month."
Damn right! And you wouldn't have to put up with brown water, paper-thin walls and floors! When it comes to market-rate rents, this dump is the biggest rip-off going.
dear mr anonymous there is no doorman pool gym roof near the park for the same price as stuy even though it's a pig stuy
Every cloud has its silver lining!
They have the same brown paper all along the floor of my building too.
Has been there for weeks.
This morning there was a freshly laid pile of dog shit on the paper.
Pungent odor as well...like a rose...NOT.
How convenient for the dog owner.
How joyful the building porter must be!
Another "amenity" I guess.
Most people cannot DO smaller. I have a low rent but my dd cannot find a one bedroom for better price with this size. Reminder: no one lives alone. Shares in the one bedrooms all over city 2 to 4 people.
Maybe not near the park but you can get smaller apartments at least with a doorman in other nice areas of the city for 3600 a month.
I know of no other place that rents so actively to student groups. Other buildings may charge the same market rate rents but you get more bang for your buck and a higher end clientele. It is obvious here that these apartments are not worth 3600 plus. Thus the dorms and transients.
A Security guard reached out and stopped me as I was walking through the greenmarket yesterday morning.
My first thought was “wtf??”, but then he pointed at the ground and I saw the huge puddle of doggie diarrhea I was about to step in...
Thanks.
They bring their dogs right up to the fruit stands. It is really gross. At one time They tried to restrict dogs behind a line away from the fruit, but like all other attempts at regulation here, they stopped it. A Stuy is a sty.
i beg you to show us all affordable 800 square feet apartments in manhattan less than 3500.00 a month with amenities.
***1975 NYC GARBAGE STRIKE***
Dog waste cause no fewer than these illnesses.
Whipworms.
Hookworms.
Roundworms.
Tapeworms.
Parvo.
Corona.
Giardiasis.
Salmonellosis.
Why is it allow that a dog can drop the feces anywhere on the property?? Even if(albeit infrequently) if the waste is picked up by an owner, the RESIDUES CONTAIN DISEASE.
Welcome to the filthy perti dish of pig Stuy.
Still waiting on toxicity reports from Stuy and NYC on our property.
Cesspool!
Was just in the laundry room and it stunk of pot which was coming from the dorm apartment above the laundry room. I called Security and they said they would send an officer. It's bad enough that the hallways stink of weed all of the time and it also comes in the windows from apartments where they blow it out the windows, but the laundry room is the last straw. I don't want my laundry stinking of that shit.
This place has been turned into a filthy, stinking shithole. I won't call it Pig Sty because pigs don't stink as bad as these fucking assholes who live here. Not that they are all students. There is a young "professional" couple on my floor who stink up the hall every night with their weed. It is such a loathsome smell that it makes be almost vomit. I think it's worse than cigarettes - it's more on par with cigars and pipes. Come to think of it, I never met a cigar or pipe smoker who stunk like a skunk and these people really do stink like skunks. The stench clings to their clothes.
I said close proximity to A park, not the park (which I assume you think is Central Park). You absolutely can have all of those things close to a park, even THE park.
I don't shop at the Farmers Market because of all the dogs and their shit. This place is filthy and disgusting and gets worse all the time.
I've had it with this shithole. Am going to break my lease regardless of penalties if I can't find a person to take it over as a sublet. Sick of the noise, the dogshit, the students and the totally uncaring dickheads who call themselves "managers." In fact, after inquiring around, I find out that this shithole is notorious far and wide. Nobody but students want to live here now. Maybe management (lol!) should re-certify it from being a residential apartment complex to being a registered student dorm. That's all it is. A dorm. Badly run and dangerous.
That idiot they call a Manager (Rick?) should resign. He is a total idiot and all-round loser. Or maybe he is just sleazy. Don't know. Don't care. I just want out and the remainder of my lease can be used by whomever is willing to take it on. I think Donald Trump runs this place because it is so sleazy and nasty it is about his level of business practices.
3:49
Did you even bother to look yourself? This is the very first link on Street Easy. There are many, many, many more just like this....
https://streeteasy.com/building/355-south-end-avenue-new_york/4l
My bad 3:49. You said affordable housing for an 800sf with those amenities for less than $3500.
Here’s one for slightly less than $3500.
https://streeteasy.com/building/355-south-end-avenue-new_york/1m?featured=1
Although as a rent stabilized tenant, I don’t consider anything on this property being worth more than $2500. I would pay $3300 for one of these Battery Park Coty high rise, amenity filled apartments in a heartbeat before paying a dollar over $2500 to live here. And I could walk to work down there! Thankfully I pay nowhere near $2500...
For all the people on here bitching and complaining that you can not find apartments the size of Stuy Town for price, that is pure garbage. You can find apartments at a very similar price point, with many more amenities, you just need to look. The people making these comments probably "read it in some article a few years ago," and didn't even bother to look.
Unless you live in a true RS apartment, living here is not the best deal in town. It isn't even close.
Riverside Drive $3200 (24-hour white-gloved doorman, concierge, beautiful lobby, state of the art fitness center, locker rooms with showers, steam room, sauna, children's playroom, 50 ft lap pool, bike room, valet, and parking garage) - https://streeteasy.com/building/200-riverside-boulevard-new_york/4e
Wall Street $3450 ( 24-hour doorman and concierge, elevator, laundry, state-of-the-art fitness center, rooftop deck, exclusive lounge featuring screening room and billiard room and pets are welcome. Storage and bicycle storage are available) - https://streeteasy.com/building/37-wall-street-new_york/25d?featured=1
Upper East $3200 (24 hour doorman building with smartboard pkg alerts, gym and roof-deck.Live-in super and neighboring garage) - https://streeteasy.com/building/401-east-65-street-new_york/15e
I can continue for quite some time, but I think you get the picture.
>I know it’s hard for you to fathom but that’s how its done. Talk to other people in the industry. There is no “link to supply.” It’s brown paper, taped down with blue 3M painters tape and plastic on top so it’s easy to mop and or sweep clean at the end of the day. I’m not sure how long it has been left down but it will need periodic maintenance to check for ripping, damage or tripping factors.<<
Not true. It may be how it's done in housing projects or at NYCHA but it is not standard in most privately owned buildings in NYC. At least they should use homasote which is much more commonly used in the industry. Clearly the crap Beam Living is using is because they don't care.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
i beg you to show us all affordable 800 square feet apartments in manhattan less than 3500.00 a month with amenities.
September 3, 2018 at 3:49 PM
"amenities"...hahaha..are you delusional?
Unless, of course, you consider dog shit, piss, braying bros at 2:00AM, clomping carpetless neighbors, garbage all over, pot smoke, screaming, yelling,, noise polluting "concerts" by third-rate "bands"...yep, we are sure lucky to have theses "amenities".
PIG STUY TOWN
Those three words say it all!
The TA or whatever they are, just announced a meeting for late September. They list issues to be discussed and of course none of them are QOL here. Of course the politicians will be there. Another farce. Would not attend if they paid me to hear that BS
What is being lost in the discussion is the important protection of Rent Stabilization. All these apartments you're listing aren't rent stabilized. That means the landlord can arbitrarily decide to raise your rent at renewal time to what ever number pleases them. And that's exactly what we saw here during Tishman and beyond where market rate tenants were handed $500 a month increases or more. People want stability and security, not financial uncertainty and not an environment that's as stable as a clown car, which it seems that ST has become.
More large and/or aggressive breed dogs are paraded around with impunity in our formerly pristine PCVST community.
Yesterday morning a dirty spaced-out dude (boots, American flag shorts, shredded t-shirt, top hat) wandered around PCV with what appeared to be a dirty mangy giant St. Bernard dog. After dumping and leaving a huge pile of dogshit on a tiny patch of dead grass, the goofy looking pair slowly drifted out of this now degraded dormitory complex toward 23rd Street.
They didn't look like "residents" - more likely "and their guests" taking a safe convenient shit.
BLACK$TONE $UCK$
i want out of my lease. post if you have done this, penalty is ? hate this dump.
8:58, there are a lot of “what if’s” in your post. Sure you may move into one of those apartments (at prices better than PCVST) and after a year they could jack it up. But what if the market doesn’t bear that monstrous increase? Yes, your rent could go down. In the free market those are things you can negotiate.
And speaking of what if’s and the protections of rent stabilization for those paying market rate in RS apartments here, their doomsday is coming very soon (2020).
True rent stabilization on this property only exists in the 5,000 or so apartments where the rents are truly affordable. I love when “Peter Stuyvesant” says this whole property is RS as they enjoy the benefits of affordable rents under RS protection, meanwhile the other RS tenants are paying $5000 for the same crappy apartments.
Now I ask you, is that really rent stabilization? Literally all it does is protect against a monster increase and they can’t get kicked out of their homes for no reason.
East 14th Street is a NIGHTMARE for the residents.
And all Rick Hydick is worried about is squirrels??
Unbelievable.
I saw a GIANT behemouth walking around the Oval. It was a HUGE canine. A Great Dane perhaps? A Bull Mastiff? 50-pound limit? haha..more like 150-pounds. Anyway, the beast took a massive dump right in front of the Security Booth. A Public Safety Officer witnessed this. Naturally the owner pranced away without picking up the droppings. No blue identification lanyard of course. The Security Officer did nothing. What's up with that???
I would like to know if the dog droppings are considered an "amenity"?
I eagerly await your reply, Rick Hyduk and Susan Steinberg?
Thank you.
I seriously love Peter Stuyvesant telling people that they have to use their real first and last name if they want to join the TA Facebook page. This is coming from a group of people who hide behind an alias and are the biggest offenders of their own rule of using a real first and last name. They are taking a page from the book of SPS rule enforcement - do as I say, not as I do.
I will be scoping out the upcoming TA meeting to see who is in attendance, and maybe even chatting with some of the people to ask how they really feel about the TA’s inaction.
"Yesterday morning a dirty spaced-out dude (boots, American flag shorts, shredded t-shirt, top hat) wandered around PCV with what appeared to be a dirty mangy giant St. Bernard dog. After dumping and leaving a huge pile of dogshit on a tiny patch of dead grass, the goofy looking pair slowly drifted out of this now degraded dormitory complex toward 23rd Street.
They didn't look like "residents" - more likely "and their guests" taking a safe convenient shit. "
AND THIS WAS NO DOUBT CAUGHT ON THE VIDEO CAMERAS BY OUR FUCKING USELESS, NO GOOD, PUBLIC SAFETY CLOWNS. WE ARE PAYING A HUGE MCI FOREVER AND A DAY FOR UPGRADED SECURITY THAT IS ABSOLUTELY USELESS BECAUSE THE FUCKING MORONS WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO WATCH THE CAMERAS ARE EITHER NOT PRESENT OR DON'T CARE WHAT GOES ON.
WHY ARE WE PAYING THAT ENORMOUS MCI FOR SECURITY WE DON'T HAVE? WHY DOESN'T THE "TA" TAKE THIS UP WITH MANAGEMENT?
This place sucks and we are being ripped off and abused all the time by this sucking "management."
"I saw a GIANT behemouth walking around the Oval. It was a HUGE canine. A Great Dane perhaps? A Bull Mastiff? 50-pound limit? haha..more like 150-pounds. Anyway, the beast took a massive dump right in front of the Security Booth. A Public Safety Officer witnessed this. Naturally the owner pranced away without picking up the droppings. No blue identification lanyard of course. The Security Officer did nothing. What's up with that???
I would like to know if the dog droppings are considered an "amenity"?
I eagerly await your reply, Rick Hyduk and Susan Steinberg?
Thank you."
That Security Officer should be fired. Too bad you didn't take a photo or video of the event and send it to Management and put it on the TA facebook. What the hell are these "Security Officers" paid for? Are they paid or are they volunteers? If it's the latter, then not much can be expected of them (though the Auxiliary Police are often better than the paid ones), but if they're being paid, then they are obviously not doing the job they are being paid to do. Another thing, why do we pay for Security here when Security Officers do NOTHING. We pay for it in our rent and in various and sundry extra MCI charges on the rent.
Peter Stuyvesant once again referring to a Q&A with Rick on the TA meeting thread. I’m so f’ing fed up with this group. The woman was asking what the TA plans to do to combat these issues, not Rick’s scripted BS.
I’ve determined that I will be at the TA meeting, and I am not going to be silent anymore. The entire board needs to resign and the tenants need to see the TA’s books.
"Yesterday morning a dirty spaced-out dude (boots, American flag shorts, shredded t-shirt, top hat) wandered around PCV with what appeared to be a dirty mangy giant St. Bernard dog. After dumping and leaving a huge pile of dogshit on a tiny patch of dead grass, the goofy looking pair slowly drifted out of this now degraded dormitory complex toward 23rd Street.
They didn't look like "residents" - more likely "and their guests" taking a safe convenient shit. "
AND THIS WAS NO DOUBT CAUGHT ON THE VIDEO CAMERAS ..."
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Dirty spaced-out dude and dirty mangy giant St Bernard were walking around PCV Rd in front of 440 & 510 E 23rd St between 9AM-10AM. So, yes it's captured on video.
Before Speyer, a person walking a dog into PCVST would be surrounded by security responding from all directions within 2-3 minutes and quickly escorted off the property. Repeat offenders were detained and charged with trespass.
Today, and it's not the fault of hardworking building workers, multiple permanent trails of dogshit stains ruin hallway carpeting inside PCV dormitory housing, most particularly outside elevator doors.
Permanent dogshit carpet stains are an integral feature of everyday life experience here in Blackstone branded Transient Gypsy Village Student Town - TGVST formerly known as PCVST.
BLACKSTONE SUCKS
Why bother. I hate these phony meetings.
SECURITY GUARDS HERE ARE BEING PAID TO DO NOTHING. I'VE POSTED ABOUT THIS MANY, MANY TIMES. BLACKSTONE DOES NOT EVEN WANT SECURITY HERE ANYMORE, OTHER THAN TO ACT AS FRIENDLY PEOPLE WITH WHOM TO CHAT.
MOST OF THEM WILL EITHER IGNORE OR INSULT YOU IF YOU INSIST THEY DEAL WITH INFRACTIONS. SOME WILL THREATEN YOU BY INSISTING THAT YOU ARE HARASSING THEM.
EVEN THE ONES I KNOW LONGEST AND BEST ARE CONFESSING THAT THEY CANNOT ENFORCE ANY RULES IF THEY WANT TO KEEP WORKING.
LAST YEAR I WAS INFORMED BY ONE OF THEM THAT BLACKSTONE DID NOT WANT THEM TO PHYSICALLY RESEMBLE NEW YORK CITY POLICE PERSONNEL. SO . . . LOOK AT THE NEW PATHETIC AND UGLY "UNIFORMS." THESE ARE NOT THE GARMENTS OF SECURITY PERSONNEL.
THIS IS ALL DELIBERATE. THIS IS BLACKSTONE. LIKE MOST PREDATORY, PSYCHOPATHIC, AVARICIOUS EMPLOYERS, THEY DEMAND COMPLETE OBEDIENCE OR THEY WILL "TERMINATE" YOU.
@September 5, 2018 at 9:21 AM
So you're willing to live like a gypsy and pack up with all your belongings to move to a new apartment every year or 2 when the landlord (who just raised your rent to $500 above market) tells you to pound sand when you call to negotiate ?
Gonna hire that moving truck every few years ?
My point is that rent stabilization allows people to live with security and stability. Yes, the base rents have been jacked up, but I see signs of our elected officials moving to close some of the egregious REBNY loopholes that are creating windfall profits for some landlords.
Or, you could do the smart thing and make the equity investment, and tell all the landlords to shove it.
Did everyone get an email from "Rick from Stuyvesant Town" our friendly cruise director/trailer park manager? Seems the maintenance jobs software is not working properly, so response time will be slower than usual. Hire more people, you idiot and spend less time on bullshit and more time on doing the job you are paid to do. We don't want you to be our friend, Ricky, we want you to do your fucking job and run the property as it should be run. Do something about the squalor, overcrowding, dogs and noise. You can't deal with that? Go back to running your amusement park in Boca and let them send in a real urban property manager.
9:07
People here are moving in droves every year. I would say 30-40% of all tenants are here no longer than 1-2 years. So again, tell me how that whole rent stabilization thing is working for those people.
Oh that’s right, it’s not. These are groups of people (students, young professionals) that are going to move after a year or two anyways. The enticement to live in a rent stabilization apartment at a jacked up rent is obviously not driving stable, long-term minded tenants to this place.
So again, I truly do not see how rent stabilization is helping anyone but those people paying affordable rents.
Susan Steinberg, your time is up. I’m
Coming to your silly little political sideshow meeting, and I will have the legal backing of attorneys and the necessary court orders to demand you release your books/documents.
This stuff is already in process, and I’ve been assured that I will have everything I need by the meeting.
Resigning now will only make this easier on you.
At the Tenants Association meeting, will Susan Steinberg agree to open up the books?
How simple is that?
Can that question even be asked or is the whole farce already scripted?
September 5, 2018 at 9:07 PM
"Or, you could do the smart thing and make the equity investment, and tell all the landlords to shove it."
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On behalf of REBNY/Wall Street predators bankrolling him, our corrupt NYC Councilman Dan Garodnick hijacked our disgraced PCVST TA Board to strip that equity investment opportunity away from us.
Working together, Garodnick/TA Board secretly without informing us conspired to divert their PCVST neighbors' exclusive access to $2.7 BILLION Fannie Mae purchase funding away from us (corrupt PCVST TA Board's sole constituency) and attempted to deliver it instead to the incredibly conflicted PCVST TA Board's new business partner Brookfield, a major REBNY predator investing $25 million supporting and cheer-leading Speyer's failed predatory take no prisoners war to boot us all out of our PCVST homes.
"Honest Services Fraud"
Ask Dan Garodnick about it. He's the expert.
9:11 am: are you serious? If you are, I'll go to the meeting just for the pleasure of seeing that. Don't make me waste my time though.
Can’t stomach his ridiculous e-mails. But if he were to leave the replacement would be equally bad . The manager here has to represent Blackstone interests which is to run down this property and turn it into a student/transient dump.
Their meetings are always scripted and a waste of time.
Where are all the people that claimed you can’t find cheaper apartments for better prices at equal sizes? Someone showed, with actual links, that they were wrong. Probably off thinking about reasons to justify why they pay through the roof to live in this dump.
I will never call a market rater “stupid,” at least not anonymously - I will do it to their faces, and have, as I have a number of MR friends. I just don’t see how they continue to pay to live in such squalor. One friend paid $78k to live here last year.... $78,000 for this, and nothing to show for it in terms of actual ownership. I asked him how this is not stupid. He agrees, and they are eventually moving, but not before giving Blackstone $78,000!
Oh, I’m serious. I’m just not so certain how serious the courts are to issue a warrant for the TA to open their books on the date of the meeting. My lawyer (pro bono- he hates what’s going on here) assures it will happen and the books will be forced open, it’s just a matter of when. The more pressure the better!
I do worry that the criminals, and yes there are criminals, on the TA board have the incriminating documents so far gone. Can you imagine the trail it would probably lead to!
Garodnick
Powers
Maloney
Kavanaugh
DeBlasio
Glen
11:30 AM: I will go to the meeting just to see that happen and video it! I hope this isn't a hoax because I've got better things to do than to waste my time on their bulshit meetings.
Please tell me when the TA meeting is.
I want to attend and see the fireworks.
P.S. STR, you are a true blessing!
Let us see an actual apartment below 89th street same size no broker fee. Link this please with laundry rooms bike storage and elevator. Link this please. You should move.
There will be no fireworks. I can guarantee they will stick to an agenda. Some of the people on this blog are all talk.
The biggest fireworks at the TA meeting will be the attendance. Will there be 20 people??? My guess is it will be the TA board, the politicians, and 10 or so MR tenants who are new and don’t know any better. Then they will have their 10 long term senior citizens, who have no idea what damage the TA has done for this property.
I wish the TA would just show up at this meeting and declare they were closing up shop. I seriously have to wonder what they talk about at their internal meetings that they personally think they are doing any good for the property and taking themselves seriously.
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