Our landlord, BLACKSTONE, can't handle Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village. There is a lack of enforcement of certain "rules," and no amount of notice to this alleviates the problems. We are continually being told half-truths and fabrications. And we have no viable Tenants organization, despite our TA asking for dues all the time. So far, the politicians have proven to be basically useless. A typical New York story.
Friday, August 10, 2018
While Rome Burns... and the TA Found!
Now, as Rome burned and we had the Thursday "meeting" at the Oval with some of our higher ups, I took a photo of this:
And the TA was found! Here is proof:
And!!!
Later that day. Near the Management Office, of course:
This place is run by a bunch of Philistines for a bunch of Philistines. It's a slum and it's falling apart and it has Rick Hayduck's name all over it. I don't think he will resign because I don't think anybody would want to hire him after his job performance here. He would have to go into a totally different line of work.
It is official: they are continuing the "entertainment" atrocities next summer.
This is from the horse's mouth: the CEO of our peaceful, clean, well maintained, stable COMMUNITY.
Who knows? Mother Earth is a constantly shifting ruling entity. She is THE ruling entity. Maybe she'll step in here, along with her many weather friends (devastating hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, killing and sudden temperature changes, flooding) or insect plagues. Maybe Mama Nature will eliminate our miseries here.
I can’t understand why posters keep blaming Hayduk. Any other manager would be doing the same thing. BLACKSTONE dictates to him and am sure they are thrilled with how he is managing this slum. He is a corporate PR man.
I can’t understand why posters keep blaming Hayduk. Any other manager would be doing the same thing. BLACKSTONE dictates to him and am sure they are thrilled with how he is managing this slum. He is a corporate PR man.
We blame Hayduk because he is the shill who took the job. He wasn’t forced into work by Blackstone. He could have said NO. It takes a certain type of person to come in and do what Rick does, and he goes along with it. He still has his free will the last time I checked.
The worst part about Rick is that he makes it seem like he cares, and then when we turn our backs he shoves the knife right in. That is not on Blackstone, that is on Rick. I would respect him more if he was a pompous prick and did what he’s doing to the community, because then at least we’d know his true colors.
You will need the closest building number. You will also need Rick's contact info, which is on our main site. A bit confusing, but it can be done. I will try to have a more permanent presence on this soon.
Do not know howbT&V can call itself a local paper. That rag simply repeats stories told in the city papers and ignores ST and PC especially negative aspects. What a waste.
I know many of you won't want to hear this, but while I realize those concerts must be an annoyance to many, I do happen to know some people who live on the property who have rather restricting physical disabilities and going out to concerts and shows is hard and above their affordability level. They go to the Oval events and enjoy them. It's not all year round and not every night. Having said that, I have to admit I can't hear them from my apartment (I hear the L train construction noise instead, lucky me), but I don't think they are really worth getting bent out of shape about.
It depends. I was "chased" out of the Oval with some of these concerts. Of course, that was up to me, as I could have chosen to stay there or go someplace else, without any complaint. And these events are almost daily. It's not just a once in a while thing, but the Oval is now considered "a resource" and that is not just for rest and sitting around. Something has to be "happening," but it was like this other recent years, too. (Except when it was a real oasis.)
The R7 designation is of interest, but the politicians still haven't gotten around to it, even though proof has been offered from not that long ago. It's a stall game, from the looks of it, and so far there are no surprises that is has taken this amount of time and counting.
They can be truly unbearable, and inescapable, for hours. The noises themselves, and the waves of (PHYSICAL) sound assaulting the body and mind can make normal activities or thoughts literally impossible.
Babies, ill people, during school - children doing homework - can be hurt pretty badly.
Not sure why posters on the TA site are blaming Fed Ex and UPS for lost packages here. There are so many illegal tenants and turnovers here that being a delivery person must be a nightmare. My neighbors who I believe are under some sort of subsidy have been here two years with no name on the door. Impossible to keep track of who lives here.
Anonymous Anonymous said... We blame Hayduk because he is the shill who took the job. He wasn’t forced into work by Blackstone. He could have said NO. It takes a certain type of person to come in and do what Rick does, and he goes along with it. He still has his free will the last time I checked.
The worst part about Rick is that he makes it seem like he cares, and then when we turn our backs he shoves the knife right in. That is not on Blackstone, that is on Rick. I would respect him more if he was a pompous prick and did what he’s doing to the community, because then at least we’d know his true colors.
So sick up this garbage dumping. The area in front of my building is heaped with mattresses and other crap. It will be there all night. What a slum this is becoming
>>At the hearing’s conclusion, all his fellow committee members chose the S.B.J.S.A. as the best solution to stop closings and save small businesses. Thirty-two councilmembers sponsored the bill, demonstrating effective democracy at work.
Next, however, the powerful real estate lobby — the Real Estate Board of New York, or REBNY — in collusion with then-Speaker Quinn’s Office, cooked up a bogus roadblock, claiming the bill’s “legal issues” would not stand up to a court challenge. Without an iota of evidence to substantiate this false claim, a vote was stopped on the S.B.J.S.A., which had been certain to pass easily and end the crisis. The process of repeatedly “rigging the system” to stop the S.B.J.S.A. began. Sadly, had democracy worked at City Hall, and the bill been allowed to pass into law, your favorite businesses would still be open today.<<
>>To answer these questions, I asked our local councilmembers, Speaker Johnson, Margaret Chin and Carlina Rivera, eight basic questions, including, “What do you see as the goal of the S.B.J.S.A.?” and “As a present or past proud sponsor of the S.B.J.S.A., what factor or factors of the bill convinced you to give it your full support and made you proud to sponsor it?”
Considering how important this bill is to the future of small business owners and our community — quality of life! — I was surprised, after extending my deadline three times, that still no lawmaker responded. For this talking point, I narrowed it down to only one question: “Do you believe all the legal challenges to the S.B.J.S.A. should be resolved prior to a hearing on the bill? Yes or no?”
With the legal challenges controlling the S.B.J.S.A.’s fate for the past eight years, it is of utmost importance to resolve the central question hanging over the bill. Once again, I was disappointed to receive no response from our three Downtown councilmembers.<<
I don't think we have any honest politicians in New York State or City. I was leaning toward voting for Cynthia Nixon, but now I hear she has a "hot line" to De Blasio's wife and uses it to get what she wants. It is all Pay-for-Play and the constituents are worth nothing to those people except at election time. The only person I will be voting for is Zephyr Teachout. So far, havening heard of any corruption tainting her.
Rick is real good at 'hello, how can i help you, i will help you" then passes you to his rude and unhelpful and mean assistant who does nothing for you or any other tenant here. Oldest play in the book. You be old and cliche Rick. Get a new tactic.
I think the "concerts" and movies are a form of harassment. A very calculated and deliberate form of harassment. A handful of people attend them while thousands of people are disturbed by them. This is all part of the plan to keep the apartments churning and to kill off the seniors. Cold, calculated and contemptible. Blackstone is very evil and Rick is part of that evil. Sounds overblown and paranoid? Just stop and think about it and observe how the slumification of the property and the tormenting of tenants (particularly seniors and long time tenants) has a corrosive affect on the bodies and minds of those it is aimed to hurt.
Yes, Blackstone is evil and so are its paid enforcers of that evil.
Same garbage piled in front of 2 Oval since Yesterday with an additional pile in front of 3 Oval. How slummy and disgusting can this place get. They ought to be ashamed of themselves charging such high rents in this dump.
“Rob Speyer’s a multi-billionaire developer and he’s meeting the person in charge of development in New York City — they talked about real estate and how to make Rob Speyer richer,” said Westin, whose group launched a #ByeAlicia effort to boot the deputy mayor last year because they believe she pushes policies that fuel gentrification"
The article goes on to point out the opaque and secrecy of the meetings between Glen and Speyer.
Just calling it like it is with the DeBlasio Glen administration. It is all about how to make the Speyers Rudins Blackstone Schwarzmans richer while replacing me and you with occupants in higher renting housing units.
StuyTown is the epitome of the DeBlasio Glen priorities. Blackstone is getting richer, Tishman Speyer got richer, Fortress Hedge Fund got richer, employees of Tishman Speyer Fortress Hedge Fund now Blackstone Property Management got richer eg Fred Knapp (thanks to all the tireless work by the tenant association!). We tenants got poorer in the wallet and a poorer quality of life.
I heartily agree with you that the concerts and movies are a form of harassment.
In fact, I believe that some of my research turned up this kind of noise as a legally recognized form of harassment.
I like "slumification;" it is similar to my "garbagification," and easier to pronounce.
It is good to read people using words such as "tormenting" because that is PRECISELY what they are doing; corrosive is a particularly apt word - and yes, it is all DELIBERATE.
Thank you for your astute analysis.
Please consider contacting me at the private e-mail I've been posting about for some months now: quietenjoymentnow@gmail.com
This is how the TA describes itself on its Facebook page:
"Members, Volunteers, Supporters of the Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association. An association that promotes affordable housing, a stable and safe community in which people of moderate means can live and raise families for generations to come."
"Do you think that filth and noise, and people's disgusting, stained mattresses, in herds, decorated his neighborhood???"
I wonder how clean that resort in Florida was when he ran it? After his performance here I don't think he would get a job as a janitor. The filth and squalor that now pervades the property is definitely a reflection on Heyduk. The idiots signing leases in the Leasing Office on First Avenue should be given a tour of the Loops and the recycling rooms before they sign on the dotted line.
It is not a reflection on Hayduk. It is a reflection on his bosses Blackstone. They permit and encourage it. It is largely the result of dorm and transients moving in and out. Blackstone caters to this demo and looks the other way.. Hayduk may be in it for his salary and he is indeed phony, but he isn’t the culprit. If his bosses wanted a clean community, they would have it, Hayduk or no Hayduk.
I agree that the filth is not due to Rick's initiative. I agree that, to some degree, the transients, including students, are a reason for the mess and filth here.
Yet I believe, strongly, that the ongoing and escalating conditions here are PURPOSEFUL, DELIBERATE, PLANNED.
Research Blackstone and their plentiful ilk. Seizure of people's homes followed by ruination, degradation, destruction, neglect . . this is, pardon my French, please: THE REAL ESTATE BUSINESS MODEL.
Management is well aware of the filth and garbage here. Unfortunately many who reside here do not blame them, they blame the tenants. They do not connect the dots that management is not only responsible for the crap that lives here but they are also responsible for cleaning it up. I keep hearing excuses for Hayduk and management, these from long term residents. Nothing can be done here in light of these attitudes.
The democrats are pouring millions into the upcoming races. Here is a better way to keep your job. Just do a really good job for your constituents. simple as that. Do a good job and we will keep voting you in and even advance you. That is how any job promotion works, so to in politics. So instead of pouring in millions. Just change your ways and start working for those you represent, your constituents. If you fail at your job, then we will fail to promote you or even keep you in your job a la Joe Crowley. As it stands the noise, garbage, hotel strangers on our floor, and dorm in the corner apartment are the reason we are not voting for any incumbent. Not one.
I found this interesting in a confirmation sort of way. Over at the other tenants Facebook, not the official TA one. The specific problem is not important to the response:
>>Elected officials, city officials and STPCV management all have expressed concern, but nothing has been done.<<
And speaking of the TA, I find it amusing the the number one discussion at this moment is a store that will open up on 3rd Avenue and 9 Street, hardly Stuy Town and hardly meant for seniors and the handicapped to walk over. May as well have posts about the Barnes & Noble store at Union Square.
The TA never addresses any of the quality of life issues here. The facebook page is full of crap that is totally unrelated to PCVST. There was a time when the TA stood up to Management and protested against anything that was bad for tnants. We never had the kind of problems that we have now, but it seems the TA has just completely given up. I don't know why it continues to exist. I really and truly have no idea what its mission or purpose is these days and I let my membership slide after more than 30 years of being a member. It really is a non-entity now. Apart from running a facebook page, what else do they do? We haven't had an MCI stopped or reversed in years.
It seems to me that the TA is silent on everything except when it comes to promoting certain politicians, none of which I vote for.
When was the last TA meeting where general membership was invited? They meet with politicians, but not with the membership.
Rick sent out an important email about an important issue weighing on the community (it is even being discussed heavily on social media he says!). Please take the time to respond to his important survey.
If you need help filling out the survey (no this is not a link to the survey) the following may be of assistance:
This guy has absolutely no idea of what really weighs on the community. He is picking on the squirrels because he is blind, deaf and mute on all of the issues that really matter, i.e., the filth, noise, transients, sparsely attended illegal concerts and movies that annoy thousands, safety, etc. The man is a total moron and we can expect nothing better from him. I received the stupid survey and just deleted it. Not worth my time. If he sent out a survey about filth and noise ... well, he wouldn't dare! He wouldn't have the guts to tackle those issues.
>>Rick sent out an important email about an important issue weighing on the community (it is even being discussed heavily on social media he says!).<<
I still didn't get this survey, this after saying twice to Management that it appears I am not on their list and them taking down my contact info.
As for signs and squirrels--the signs clearly state not to feed squirrels within 50 feet of a playground. Which means (and there is no other way to take it) that feeding squirrels is okay beyond 50 feet. So if you want no one to feed squirrels period, just say that on the signs!
Do not understand this comment. We can’t support you. That is what the TA is for and unfortunately we have a terrible, ineffective one. You chose to live here. I am sorry because it is not worth the rent they charge but there is nothing we can do.
The survey was sent out because a child was bitten. Blackstone always gets nervous about a lawsuit when an event like that occurs. Hayduk’s surveys are meaningless
Man Jumps From Stuyvesant Town Building, NYPD Says The man was taken to an area hospital in critical condition. By Brendan Krisel, Patch National Staff | Jan 22, 2018 6:23 pm ET
A resident who jumped from the roof of his building last Monday evening has died from his injuries. Police said Doan Hoffman, 47, initially survived the impact and was taken to Beth Israel in critical condition. However, he couldn’t be saved. Hoffman resided at 625 East 14th Street, between Avenues B and C, on the eighth floor.
Rick Hayduk, general manager of Stuyvesant Town, said, “This is a tragic event; our thoughts continue to be with his family and friends.”
Open the books so all can see what is really going on behind all the lies, deceptions, mutual law firms and PR firms you share in your tireless work with the landlord.
As an aside, did Hayduk acknowledge the family and loved ones of the two latter suicides or just the first one, Doan?
Not supporting any of you until you support those of us who are overpaying.
If you’re unhappy about overpaying then I suggest that you let those in charge know how you feel by telling THEM and, if they aren’t willing to work with you, by MOVING OUT OF HERE.
Those who are not overpaying, have no control over what greedy Blackstone charges you.
The only thing Blackstone/SPS cares about is money. That is it! If we can’t win battles over minimal things like oval events, there is absolutely no way to get them to compromise on rental rates.
TO: "Not supporting any of you until you support those of us who are overpaying."
A. You have not supported any of us ever B. You signed a market rate lease with the promise that we would be eradicated - tossed out of pour homes - for your condo conversion C. You invested in our evictions, hoping you would get rich by us losing our homes D. With friends like you who needs enemies. E. All of the Above are just some of the reasons you will never have our support in your market rate Investment.
Are Rick and Management INSANE? Who gives a rat's ass about squirrels? I guess Susan Steinberg and the corrupt Tenants Association stay up at night worrying about this. Of course they couldn't care less about the filth throughout the complex, mattresses strewn about, the dog shit and piss on the sidewalks, the stairwells, the elevators, the carpetless apartments, the blaring concerts, the braying bros. Yep, all we have to worry about are squirrels. This place has become a dump.
I do not understand the "overpaying" argument. Why, in the name of anything reasonable and rational, would anyone move in here at the extortionate rents which have been charged for some time now?
Any tour of this horror show starkly reveals how unappetizing it is.
I AM NOT trying to be facetious or judgmental. I simply do not understand a desire to live here under any circumstances since the destruction has reached such levels.
They have started drilling into the contaminated soil in Peter Cooper--the manufactured gas plant byproducts. It's near the FDR drive, around 530 E 23rd I believe. two drilling rigs that I saw.
The way to check for the presence of coal tar from the MGP plant is the smell of mothballs. It smells strongly of mothballs around these two drilling rigs.
I just reported this to the city. they cant start drilling in these contaminated (superfund, JMO) areas without special precautions. They haven't notified residents they're spreading coal tar gas in the air.
PLEASE REPORT THEM VIA 311. I HAVE JUST DONE SO. IF YOU REPORT THEM, THE CITY HAS TO INVESTIGATE AND THEY HAVE TO STOP, at least temporarily.
I do believe Market R renters have expressed hundreds of times their disapproval of the rent bill. Then they move since management wants their departure. Then you get students. Simply 2+2=4
What we are seeing here is classic Blackstone business model. They buy distressed property and turn it into a slum. They want everybody out. MR and RS. They want the property, as in the land it is built on. They want to empty out the property, raze it and build on it. They are notorious/infamous internationally and nationally for doing this. The property is worth more to them without the buildings. Rick H knows this and he is complicit and is deliberately doing what he is told to do. Blackstone is a notorious slumlord/predator.
I'm pretty sure the TA is aware of this and is complicit. Maybe they will get a payday when the property is finally demolished.
Just live day to day and hang in as long as you can. They want a slum and we can't do anything about it. They have their longterm goal and it involves getting rid of all of the tenants on the property so they can raze it. The TA and all of our "elected representatives" are in on it and are looking forward to their payday when Blackstone's vision is realized.
The justice system is a for profit center for hedge funds and loan sharks like Blackstone and Lawcash. The NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman used his office in at least two arrangements with Paul Weiss where the power of the State AG office combined with the power of Paul Weiss is used with loan shark Lawcash scheme, the NFL scheme with Paul Weiss lawyer Karp and the Airbnb scheme with Paul Weiss lawyers Kane and Kaplan.
Since STR blog asks for links, we will follow with that shortly but this is all on the internet and easily googled by anyone.
I do have to wonder about the structural integrity of the buildings as the construction continues.
Walls are being ripped down all over the property in order to create these new dorm apartments. How many wall removals can these buildings take? I don’t ever see a DOB employee here checking, and at the rate things are going they should have an office here.
Bricks are being removed by the boatload for the below window AC’s. There are anywhere from 10-15 bricks per AC and there are already dozens of AC’s in each building, meaning hundreds of bricks have been removed from each building and replaced with a metal AC that is not meant to support anywhere near what the bricks did.
Elevators should scare everyone. They were not meant to move as much as they do with the current population increases (elevators need downtime too!) and the bigger problems are the moves. Buildings now have service elevators that are not supposed to be ridden by people (not usually followed, but people aren’t supposed to ride them) because of the stress put on them. Our “service” elevators are the same elevators we all ride each and every day.
Solar Panels and antennas are being added to the roofs of the buildings. How much do these things weigh and can these buildings truly support them.
These are the things that truly scare me about this place. Sure there are inconveniences like oval events and dog shit, and mattresses, but these are the things we should truly be demanding answers to from management and politicians.
Where are official architect and DOB reports showing these buildings can truly handle all the added stresses??
8:02 AM, they are renovating an apartment FOUR floors up from me and I can hear the footsteps of the workers as if they were one floor up. The floors are getting thinner and thinner. When they first started I thought they were renovating a unit one floor up, but no, it is FOUR floors up. I wonder how much longer it will be until there is a catastrophic incident caused by the constant tearing up of the guts of the property. It is terrifying. They have already destroyed the grounds and now they are destroying the buildings.
Blackstone is the main feature along with Fortress. Blackstone is mentioned in the body defending the practice and Blackstone is the big photo at the top of the article.
Here is the quote from the Blackstone employee who works at Blackstone's own "settlement advances" aka loan shark subsidiary company DRB Capital:
"Settlement advances help individuals “meet pressing financial needs and have the financial wherewithal to pursue cases against often-powerful interests,” said Jim Terlizzi, chief executive of DRB Capital, a company that offers such advances and that is owned by Blackstone Group, the private-equity firm."
Are we all looking at the same article with the big photo of Blackstone at the top?
I see the photo but DRB Capital is not Blackstone, despite being a subsidiary. What is your point? Seriously, I spent some time going over this twice and still don't see the connection to US, here at Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village. What are you saying? And perhaps, it is best you post this stuff and more on your own upcoming blog, and not here.
August 16, 2018 at 8:32 PM yes that building over Hane is listed as a dorm owned by Ben Shaoul and Wilbur Ross as has been posted in the comments on this blog long ago with links to the property ownership papers.
What they are doing to US has everything to do with how DRB operates. Financing litigation. Anyone of US who has been taken to housing court by the landlord knows how they operate and they are well financed.
Do you see it now? Every tenant benefits to know about this.
Okay, if I see and recognize it from the same "voice," it will not pass. Leave me and my blog alone. There are easy steps to set up your own blog. Good luck.
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This place is run by a bunch of Philistines for a bunch of Philistines. It's a slum and it's falling apart and it has Rick Hayduck's name all over it. I don't think he will resign because I don't think anybody would want to hire him after his job performance here. He would have to go into a totally different line of work.
ReplyDeleteIt is official: they are continuing the "entertainment" atrocities next summer.
ReplyDeleteThis is from the horse's mouth: the CEO of our peaceful, clean, well maintained, stable COMMUNITY.
Who knows? Mother Earth is a constantly shifting ruling entity. She is THE ruling entity. Maybe she'll step in here, along with her many weather friends (devastating hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, killing and sudden temperature changes, flooding) or insect plagues. Maybe Mama Nature will eliminate our miseries here.
. . . It isn't likely . . . but it could happen!
If that is the case and if the dumping of garbage here doesn’t stop I will not be voting for the incumbent local politicians next election.
DeleteI can’t understand why posters keep blaming Hayduk. Any other manager would be doing the same thing. BLACKSTONE dictates to him and am sure they are thrilled with how he is managing this slum. He is a corporate PR man.
ReplyDeleteI can’t understand why posters keep blaming Hayduk. Any other manager would be doing the same thing. BLACKSTONE dictates to him and am sure they are thrilled with how he is managing this slum. He is a corporate PR man.
ReplyDeleteWe blame Hayduk because he is the shill who took the job. He wasn’t forced into work by Blackstone. He could have said NO. It takes a certain type of person to come in and do what Rick does, and he goes along with it. He still has his free will the last time I checked.
ReplyDeleteThe worst part about Rick is that he makes it seem like he cares, and then when we turn our backs he shoves the knife right in. That is not on Blackstone, that is on Rick. I would respect him more if he was a pompous prick and did what he’s doing to the community, because then at least we’d know his true colors.
True that he puts on a pleasant facade which is phony but any manager under this company would travel the same course.
DeleteHere you go:
ReplyDeletehttps://www1.nyc.gov/apps/311universalintake/form.htm?serviceName=DSNY+Mattress+Disposed+Improperly
You will need the closest building number. You will also need Rick's contact info, which is on our main site. A bit confusing, but it can be done. I will try to have a more permanent presence on this soon.
Do not know howbT&V can call itself a local paper. That rag simply repeats stories told in the city papers and ignores ST and PC especially negative aspects. What a waste.
ReplyDeleteI know many of you won't want to hear this, but while I realize those concerts must be an annoyance to many, I do happen to know some people who live on the property who have rather restricting physical disabilities and going out to concerts and shows is hard and above their affordability level. They go to the Oval events and enjoy them. It's not all year round and not every night. Having said that, I have to admit I can't hear them from my apartment (I hear the L train construction noise instead, lucky me), but I don't think they are really worth getting bent out of shape about.
ReplyDeleteOK. Start firing the canon balls at me.
It depends. I was "chased" out of the Oval with some of these concerts. Of course, that was up to me, as I could have chosen to stay there or go someplace else, without any complaint. And these events are almost daily. It's not just a once in a while thing, but the Oval is now considered "a resource" and that is not just for rest and sitting around. Something has to be "happening," but it was like this other recent years, too. (Except when it was a real oasis.)
ReplyDeleteThe R7 designation is of interest, but the politicians still haven't gotten around to it, even though proof has been offered from not that long ago. It's a stall game, from the looks of it, and so far there are no surprises that is has taken this amount of time and counting.
As to Rick's "let it bleed" attitude. Well, it is what it is. That doesn't mean we give up.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the noise from the concerts:
ReplyDeleteThey can be truly unbearable, and inescapable, for hours. The noises themselves, and the waves of (PHYSICAL) sound assaulting the body and mind can make normal activities or thoughts literally impossible.
Babies, ill people, during school - children doing homework - can be hurt pretty badly.
Not sure why posters on the TA site are blaming Fed Ex and UPS for lost packages here. There are so many illegal tenants and turnovers here that being a delivery person must be a nightmare. My neighbors who I believe are under some sort of subsidy have been here two years with no name on the door. Impossible to keep track of who lives here.
ReplyDeleteIf we are speaking of the same, the address is clearly different, though I understand about names not appearing in the apartment building.
ReplyDelete>>Regarding the noise from the concerts:<<
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't think the "concerts,' which tend to be loud and screaming, are enjoyed by seniors who would prefer something a little less noisy.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteWe blame Hayduk because he is the shill who took the job. He wasn’t forced into work by Blackstone. He could have said NO. It takes a certain type of person to come in and do what Rick does, and he goes along with it. He still has his free will the last time I checked.
The worst part about Rick is that he makes it seem like he cares, and then when we turn our backs he shoves the knife right in. That is not on Blackstone, that is on Rick. I would respect him more if he was a pompous prick and did what he’s doing to the community, because then at least we’d know his true colors.
August 10, 2018 at 3:24 PM
This is 100% accurate. 100% ACCURATE!
So sick up this garbage dumping. The area in front of my building is heaped with mattresses and other crap. It will be there all night. What a slum this is becoming
ReplyDeleteBECOMING?????????????
DeleteImportant to read:
ReplyDeletehttp://thevillager.com/2018/08/09/on-the-s-b-j-s-a-this-time-lets-get-it-right/
Hat tip: TM over at the TA Facebook.
No surprise, but great disappointment, as usual.
>>At the hearing’s conclusion, all his fellow committee members chose the S.B.J.S.A. as the best solution to stop closings and save small businesses. Thirty-two councilmembers sponsored the bill, demonstrating effective democracy at work.
Next, however, the powerful real estate lobby — the Real Estate Board of New York, or REBNY — in collusion with then-Speaker Quinn’s Office, cooked up a bogus roadblock, claiming the bill’s “legal issues” would not stand up to a court challenge. Without an iota of evidence to substantiate this false claim, a vote was stopped on the S.B.J.S.A., which had been certain to pass easily and end the crisis. The process of repeatedly “rigging the system” to stop the S.B.J.S.A. began. Sadly, had democracy worked at City Hall, and the bill been allowed to pass into law, your favorite businesses would still be open today.<<
>>To answer these questions, I asked our local councilmembers, Speaker Johnson, Margaret Chin and Carlina Rivera, eight basic questions, including, “What do you see as the goal of the S.B.J.S.A.?” and “As a present or past proud sponsor of the S.B.J.S.A., what factor or factors of the bill convinced you to give it your full support and made you proud to sponsor it?”
Considering how important this bill is to the future of small business owners and our community — quality of life! — I was surprised, after extending my deadline three times, that still no lawmaker responded. For this talking point, I narrowed it down to only one question: “Do you believe all the legal challenges to the S.B.J.S.A. should be resolved prior to a hearing on the bill? Yes or no?”
With the legal challenges controlling the S.B.J.S.A.’s fate for the past eight years, it is of utmost importance to resolve the central question hanging over the bill. Once again, I was disappointed to receive no response from our three Downtown councilmembers.<<
It is 11 AM and the heap of dirty mattresses and move out garbage is still on the loop in front of my building. I would call this a slum.
ReplyDeleteI don't think we have any honest politicians in New York State or City. I was leaning toward voting for Cynthia Nixon, but now I hear she has a "hot line" to De Blasio's wife and uses it to get what she wants. It is all Pay-for-Play and the constituents are worth nothing to those people except at election time. The only person I will be voting for is Zephyr Teachout. So far, havening heard of any corruption tainting her.
ReplyDeleteRick is real good at 'hello, how can i help you, i will help you" then passes you to his rude and unhelpful and mean assistant who does nothing for you or any other tenant here.
ReplyDeleteOldest play in the book. You be old and cliche Rick. Get a new tactic.
I think the "concerts" and movies are a form of harassment. A very calculated and deliberate form of harassment. A handful of people attend them while thousands of people are disturbed by them. This is all part of the plan to keep the apartments churning and to kill off the seniors. Cold, calculated and contemptible. Blackstone is very evil and Rick is part of that evil. Sounds overblown and paranoid? Just stop and think about it and observe how the slumification of the property and the tormenting of tenants (particularly seniors and long time tenants) has a corrosive affect on the bodies and minds of those it is aimed to hurt.
ReplyDeleteYes, Blackstone is evil and so are its paid enforcers of that evil.
Same garbage piled in front of 2 Oval since Yesterday with an additional pile in front of 3 Oval. How slummy and disgusting can this place get. They ought to be ashamed of themselves charging such high rents in this dump.
ReplyDeleteBill DeBlasio and his deputy mayor for housing and economic development Alicia Glen meet with developers and corporate lobbyists a lot. A LOT
ReplyDeleteThe number of times they meet with constituents: NADA NYET NOT ONCE
https://nypost.com/2018/08/11/city-halls-top-brass-took-136-lobbyist-meetings-in-3-months/
“Rob Speyer’s a multi-billionaire developer and he’s meeting the person in charge of development in New York City — they talked about real estate and how to make Rob Speyer richer,” said Westin, whose group launched a #ByeAlicia effort to boot the deputy mayor last year because they believe she pushes policies that fuel gentrification"
ReplyDeleteThe article goes on to point out the opaque and secrecy of the meetings between Glen and Speyer.
Just calling it like it is with the DeBlasio Glen administration. It is all about how to make the Speyers Rudins Blackstone Schwarzmans richer while replacing me and you with occupants in higher renting housing units.
StuyTown is the epitome of the DeBlasio Glen priorities. Blackstone is getting richer, Tishman Speyer got richer, Fortress Hedge Fund got richer, employees of Tishman Speyer Fortress Hedge Fund now Blackstone Property Management got richer eg Fred Knapp (thanks to all the tireless work by the tenant association!). We tenants got poorer in the wallet and a poorer quality of life.
https://nypost.com/2018/08/11/city-halls-top-brass-took-136-lobbyist-meetings-in-3-months/
3:50 P.M.:
ReplyDeleteI heartily agree with you that the concerts and movies are a form of harassment.
In fact, I believe that some of my research turned up this kind of noise as a legally recognized form of harassment.
I like "slumification;" it is similar to my "garbagification," and easier to pronounce.
It is good to read people using words such as "tormenting" because that is PRECISELY what they are doing; corrosive is a particularly apt word - and yes, it is all DELIBERATE.
Thank you for your astute analysis.
Please consider contacting me at the private e-mail I've been posting about for some months now: quietenjoymentnow@gmail.com
Let’s file a development-wide landlord harassment complaint with the DHCR....what are we waiting for?
DeleteLooks like a rural Appalachia trailer park. Maybe I am being unfair to rural Appalachian folk. Where was Rick raised, I wonder?
ReplyDeleteRural Appalachia? Spotless comparatively. Stuy reminds me of the famous NYC garbage strikes.
DeleteThis is how the TA describes itself on its Facebook page:
ReplyDelete"Members, Volunteers, Supporters of the Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association. An association that promotes affordable housing, a stable and safe community in which people of moderate means can live and raise families for generations to come."
What a fucking joke!
I think that Richard Hayduk was raised in Westchester.
ReplyDeleteDo you think that filth and noise, and people's disgusting, stained mattresses, in herds, decorated his neighborhood???
(Apologies to all animals who live in herds)
"Do you think that filth and noise, and people's disgusting, stained mattresses, in herds, decorated his neighborhood???"
ReplyDeleteI wonder how clean that resort in Florida was when he ran it? After his performance here I don't think he would get a job as a janitor. The filth and squalor that now pervades the property is definitely a reflection on Heyduk. The idiots signing leases in the Leasing Office on First Avenue should be given a tour of the Loops and the recycling rooms before they sign on the dotted line.
It is not a reflection on Hayduk. It is a reflection on his bosses Blackstone. They permit and encourage it. It is largely the result of dorm and transients moving in and out. Blackstone caters to this demo and looks the other way.. Hayduk may be in it for his salary and he is indeed phony, but he isn’t the culprit. If his bosses wanted a clean community, they would have it, Hayduk or no Hayduk.
DeleteI agree that the filth is not due to Rick's initiative. I agree that, to some degree, the transients, including students, are a reason for the mess and filth here.
ReplyDeleteYet I believe, strongly, that the ongoing and escalating conditions here are PURPOSEFUL, DELIBERATE, PLANNED.
Research Blackstone and their plentiful ilk. Seizure of people's homes followed by ruination, degradation, destruction, neglect . . this is, pardon my French, please: THE REAL ESTATE BUSINESS MODEL.
It is really bad here. The photos tell it as it is.
ReplyDeleteDog sh*t in the elevator this morning.
ReplyDeleteREAL CLASSY!
I also saw some condoms in the stairwell.
REAL CLASSY AS WELL!
10:32 AM, you should have taken photographs and sent them Heyduk. Or maybe a local newspaper (not T&V).
ReplyDeleteHayduk could care less. He walks by the garbage dumps every day. Not an option.
DeleteManagement is well aware of the filth and garbage here. Unfortunately many who reside here do not blame them, they blame the tenants. They do not connect the dots that management is not only responsible for the crap that lives here but they are also responsible for cleaning it up. I keep hearing excuses for Hayduk and management, these from long term residents. Nothing can be done here in light of these attitudes.
ReplyDeleteThe democrats are pouring millions into the upcoming races. Here is a better way to keep your job. Just do a really good job for your constituents. simple as that. Do a good job and we will keep voting you in and even advance you. That is how any job promotion works, so to in politics. So instead of pouring in millions. Just change your ways and start working for those you represent, your constituents. If you fail at your job, then we will fail to promote you or even keep you in your job a la Joe Crowley. As it stands the noise, garbage, hotel strangers on our floor, and dorm in the corner apartment are the reason we are not voting for any incumbent. Not one.
ReplyDeleteI found this interesting in a confirmation sort of way. Over at the other tenants Facebook, not the official TA one. The specific problem is not important to the response:
ReplyDelete>>Elected officials, city officials and STPCV management all have expressed concern, but nothing has been done.<<
And speaking of the TA, I find it amusing the the number one discussion at this moment is a store that will open up on 3rd Avenue and 9 Street, hardly Stuy Town and hardly meant for seniors and the handicapped to walk over. May as well have posts about the Barnes & Noble store at Union Square.
ReplyDelete@Aug 13, 11:23 PM: Amen to that! I am not going to vote for any of the incumbents because they do not work for us.
ReplyDeleteThe TA never addresses any of the quality of life issues here. The facebook page is full of crap that is totally unrelated to PCVST. There was a time when the TA stood up to Management and protested against anything that was bad for tnants. We never had the kind of problems that we have now, but it seems the TA has just completely given up. I don't know why it continues to exist. I really and truly have no idea what its mission or purpose is these days and I let my membership slide after more than 30 years of being a member. It really is a non-entity now. Apart from running a facebook page, what else do they do? We haven't had an MCI stopped or reversed in years.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that the TA is silent on everything except when it comes to promoting certain politicians, none of which I vote for.
When was the last TA meeting where general membership was invited? They meet with politicians, but not with the membership.
STOP THE PRESSES
ReplyDeleteRick sent out an important email about an important issue weighing on the community (it is even being discussed heavily on social media he says!). Please take the time to respond to his important survey.
If you need help filling out the survey (no this is not a link to the survey) the following may be of assistance:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwieidmdme3cAhVNnFkKHeQnAMIQwqsBMAB6BAgGEAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dg39zAMX68r8&usg=AOvVaw1d_RJRJnz2_lkVl96J7ZUr
His surveys mean nothing. I have filled out two and nothing changes. The fact that a child was hurt may have some berating. They don’t want lawsuits.
ReplyDeleteThis guy has absolutely no idea of what really weighs on the community. He is picking on the squirrels because he is blind, deaf and mute on all of the issues that really matter, i.e., the filth, noise, transients, sparsely attended illegal concerts and movies that annoy thousands, safety, etc. The man is a total moron and we can expect nothing better from him. I received the stupid survey and just deleted it. Not worth my time. If he sent out a survey about filth and noise ... well, he wouldn't dare! He wouldn't have the guts to tackle those issues.
ReplyDelete>>Rick sent out an important email about an important issue weighing on the community (it is even being discussed heavily on social media he says!).<<
ReplyDeleteI still didn't get this survey, this after saying twice to Management that it appears I am not on their list and them taking down my contact info.
As for signs and squirrels--the signs clearly state not to feed squirrels within 50 feet of a playground. Which means (and there is no other way to take it) that feeding squirrels is okay beyond 50 feet. So if you want no one to feed squirrels period, just say that on the signs!
Not supporting any of you until you support those of us who are overpaying.
ReplyDeleteDo not understand this comment. We can’t support you. That is what the TA is for and unfortunately we have a terrible, ineffective one. You chose to live here. I am sorry because it is not worth the rent they charge but there is nothing we can do.
DeleteThe survey was sent out because a child was bitten. Blackstone always gets nervous about a lawsuit when an event like that occurs. Hayduk’s surveys are meaningless
ReplyDeleteThe End
ReplyDeleteFortress CW makes $600 million fee off StuyTown
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stuyvesant-town-how-one-firm-is-reaping-a-windfall-where-investors-lost-billions-1446546780
Fortress buys $4 million portfolio from LawCash
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/business/hedge-funds-find-returns-in-making-small-loans.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=9103E81590ABEFE7F21372C610E90037&gwt=pay
LawCash co-founder overdose death
https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2018/08/13/litigation-funding-pioneer-found-dead-at-51/?slreturn=20180715055427
March 12, 2018
Two deaths, believed to be suicides, in one day in ST/PCV
https://town-village.com/2018/03/12/stuy-town-peter-cooper-suicides/
Man Jumps From Stuyvesant Town Building, NYPD Says
The man was taken to an area hospital in critical condition.
By Brendan Krisel, Patch National Staff | Jan 22, 2018 6:23 pm ET
https://patch.com/new-york/east-village/man-jumps-stuyvesant-town-building-nypd-says
January 29, 2018
Man who jumped from Stuy Town roof has died
https://town-village.com/2018/01/29/man-jumps-from-stuy-town-building/
A resident who jumped from the roof of his building last Monday evening has died from his injuries. Police said Doan Hoffman, 47, initially survived the impact and was taken to Beth Israel in critical condition. However, he couldn’t be saved. Hoffman resided at 625 East 14th Street, between Avenues B and C, on the eighth floor.
Rick Hayduk, general manager of Stuyvesant Town, said, “This is a tragic event; our thoughts continue to be with his family and friends.”
https://town-village.com/2018/03/12/stuy-town-peter-cooper-suicides/
Ponzi scam bankrupt Zeckendorf Union Square "suicide"
https://nypost.com/2018/07/14/estranged-hubby-of-woman-in-fatal-fall-went-bankrupt-amid-ponzi-claims/
Open the books so all can see what is really going on behind all the lies, deceptions, mutual law firms and PR firms you share in your tireless work with the landlord.
As an aside, did Hayduk acknowledge the family and loved ones of the two latter suicides or just the first one, Doan?
Not supporting any of you until you support those of us who are overpaying.
ReplyDeleteIf you’re unhappy about overpaying then I suggest that you let those in charge know how you feel by telling THEM and, if they aren’t willing to work with you, by MOVING OUT OF HERE.
Those who are not overpaying, have no control over what greedy Blackstone charges you.
I agree 7:56.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing Blackstone/SPS cares about is money. That is it! If we can’t win battles over minimal things like oval events, there is absolutely no way to get them to compromise on rental rates.
TO: "Not supporting any of you until you support those of us who are overpaying."
ReplyDeleteA. You have not supported any of us ever
B. You signed a market rate lease with the promise that we would be eradicated - tossed out of pour homes - for your condo conversion
C. You invested in our evictions, hoping you would get rich by us losing our homes
D. With friends like you who needs enemies.
E. All of the Above are just some of the reasons you will never have our support in your market rate Investment.
Are Rick and Management INSANE?
ReplyDeleteWho gives a rat's ass about squirrels?
I guess Susan Steinberg and the corrupt Tenants Association stay up at night worrying about this.
Of course they couldn't care less about the filth throughout the complex, mattresses strewn about, the dog shit and piss on the sidewalks, the stairwells, the elevators, the carpetless apartments, the blaring concerts, the braying bros.
Yep, all we have to worry about are squirrels.
This place has become a dump.
Hello -
ReplyDeleteI do not understand the "overpaying" argument. Why, in the name of anything reasonable and rational, would anyone move in here at the extortionate rents which have been charged for some time now?
Any tour of this horror show starkly reveals how unappetizing it is.
I AM NOT trying to be facetious or judgmental. I simply do not understand a desire to live here under any circumstances since the destruction has reached such levels.
Thank you.
They have started drilling into the contaminated soil in Peter Cooper--the manufactured gas plant byproducts.
ReplyDeleteIt's near the FDR drive, around 530 E 23rd I believe. two drilling rigs that I saw.
The way to check for the presence of coal tar from the MGP plant is the smell of mothballs.
It smells strongly of mothballs around these two drilling rigs.
I just reported this to the city. they cant start drilling in these contaminated (superfund, JMO) areas without special precautions. They haven't notified residents they're spreading coal tar gas in the air.
PLEASE REPORT THEM VIA 311. I HAVE JUST DONE SO. IF YOU REPORT THEM, THE CITY HAS TO INVESTIGATE AND THEY HAVE TO STOP, at least temporarily.
I do believe Market R renters have expressed hundreds of times their disapproval of the rent bill. Then they move since management wants their departure. Then you get students. Simply 2+2=4
ReplyDeleteTO: August 15, 2018 at 1:01 PM
ReplyDeleteMarket rate tenants signing a lease here does not lead to non-market rate tenants being evicted. This is simply untrue.
It’s nutty statements like yours that help to negatively affect the credibility of this blog.
What we are seeing here is classic Blackstone business model. They buy distressed property and turn it into a slum. They want everybody out. MR and RS. They want the property, as in the land it is built on. They want to empty out the property, raze it and build on it. They are notorious/infamous internationally and nationally for doing this. The property is worth more to them without the buildings. Rick H knows this and he is complicit and is deliberately doing what he is told to do. Blackstone is a notorious slumlord/predator.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure the TA is aware of this and is complicit. Maybe they will get a payday when the property is finally demolished.
Just live day to day and hang in as long as you can. They want a slum and we can't do anything about it. They have their longterm goal and it involves getting rid of all of the tenants on the property so they can raze it.
The TA and all of our "elected representatives" are in on it and are looking forward to their payday when Blackstone's vision is realized.
5:15 pm where would you like the 7500 of them to live?
ReplyDelete>>What we are seeing here is classic Blackstone business model.<<
ReplyDeleteI would like to see some links on this, not charges. Links to distressed properties that were razed to the ground by Blackstone. Thank you.
The justice system is a for profit center for hedge funds and loan sharks like Blackstone and Lawcash. The NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman used his office in at least two arrangements with Paul Weiss where the power of the State AG office combined with the power of Paul Weiss is used with loan shark Lawcash scheme, the NFL scheme with Paul Weiss lawyer Karp and the Airbnb scheme with Paul Weiss lawyers Kane and Kaplan.
ReplyDeleteSince STR blog asks for links, we will follow with that shortly but this is all on the internet and easily googled by anyone.
https://www.newsstandhub.com/en-us/the-new-york-times/hedge-funds-look-to-profit-from-personal-injury-suits
And where is Blackstone mentioned in this link?
ReplyDeleteI do have to wonder about the structural integrity of the buildings as the construction continues.
ReplyDeleteWalls are being ripped down all over the property in order to create these new dorm apartments. How many wall removals can these buildings take? I don’t ever see a DOB employee here checking, and at the rate things are going they should have an office here.
Bricks are being removed by the boatload for the below window AC’s. There are anywhere from 10-15 bricks per AC and there are already dozens of AC’s in each building, meaning hundreds of bricks have been removed from each building and replaced with a metal AC that is not meant to support anywhere near what the bricks did.
Elevators should scare everyone. They were not meant to move as much as they do with the current population increases (elevators need downtime too!) and the bigger problems are the moves. Buildings now have service elevators that are not supposed to be ridden by people (not usually followed, but people aren’t supposed to ride them) because of the stress put on them. Our “service” elevators are the same elevators we all ride each and every day.
Solar Panels and antennas are being added to the roofs of the buildings. How much do these things weigh and can these buildings truly support them.
These are the things that truly scare me about this place. Sure there are inconveniences like oval events and dog shit, and mattresses, but these are the things we should truly be demanding answers to from management and politicians.
Where are official architect and DOB reports showing these buildings can truly handle all the added stresses??
8:02 AM, they are renovating an apartment FOUR floors up from me and I can hear the footsteps of the workers as if they were one floor up. The floors are getting thinner and thinner. When they first started I thought they were renovating a unit one floor up, but no, it is FOUR floors up. I wonder how much longer it will be until there is a catastrophic incident caused by the constant tearing up of the guts of the property. It is terrifying. They have already destroyed the grounds and now they are destroying the buildings.
ReplyDeleteCan you see the photo STR?
ReplyDeleteBlackstone is the main feature along with Fortress. Blackstone is mentioned in the body defending the practice and Blackstone is the big photo at the top of the article.
Here is the quote from the Blackstone employee who works at Blackstone's own "settlement advances" aka loan shark subsidiary company DRB Capital:
"Settlement advances help individuals “meet pressing financial needs and have the financial wherewithal to pursue cases against often-powerful interests,” said Jim Terlizzi, chief executive of DRB Capital, a company that offers such advances and that is owned by Blackstone Group, the private-equity firm."
Are we all looking at the same article with the big photo of Blackstone at the top?
Blackstone is the featured headlining photo under the headline in the article posted by August 16, 2018 at 6:56 AM
ReplyDeleteWe live in the building over Hane. A bloody hell of a dorm now 85%+. Thank you management.
ReplyDeleteI see the photo but DRB Capital is not Blackstone, despite being a subsidiary. What is your point? Seriously, I spent some time going over this twice and still don't see the connection to US, here at Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village. What are you saying? And perhaps, it is best you post this stuff and more on your own upcoming blog, and not here.
ReplyDeleteAugust 16, 2018 at 8:32 PM yes that building over Hane is listed as a dorm owned by Ben Shaoul and Wilbur Ross as has been posted in the comments on this blog long ago with links to the property ownership papers.
ReplyDeleteSTR,
ReplyDeleteDelray Beach = Boca Raton
What they are doing to US has everything to do with how DRB operates. Financing litigation. Anyone of US who has been taken to housing court by the landlord knows how they operate and they are well financed.
Do you see it now? Every tenant benefits to know about this.
Okay, if I see and recognize it from the same "voice," it will not pass. Leave me and my blog alone. There are easy steps to set up your own blog. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteOk. See you around the Oval and at Associated and we can still be cordial.
ReplyDelete