Silly me, though. Just now, I went to Associated. This is what I saw:
I was not going to post the photos I took the other day, figuring that the new mattresses had finally been covered, so what the hell? But, since I was wrong, these are the photos from the other day:
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You know STR, just an observation, in the days when moving out of ST was a notable event, the "move out' trash was kept in the carriage rooms and brought outside for bulk pickup. NOW, there is just so much turnover, it seems that they are just overwhelmed with the volume of it, BUT... since they built the garbage collection garage on Avenue C, I don't see why Blackstone can't run a bulk collection truck continuously around the loops and pick the stuff up when it appears. There should be a crew dedicated to this task all day, every day.
This garbage disposal gets worse and worse. As long as management permits it on several locations on the loop, the pigs here will continue to dump, even on the sidewalk. Instead of having a TA meeting on Manhattan issues, the TA needs to hold a town meeting to hold Hayduk And Blackstone accountable for the filth. Let us confront them on the conditions here.
***1975 NYC GARBAGE STRIKE***
How and why is this permissible? See below the list of things that are on old mattresses. Beware, this is a partial list. I will post more heinous/harmful pathogens on improperly discarded furnishings shortly.
IT IS A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE SOMEONE WILL BECOME GRAVELY ILL!! THIS ALSO NEED ATTENTION FROM OUR REPRESENTATIVES
Allergens: Dust mites; cat, dog, and cockroach dander
Fungal spores: Penicillium, Cladosporium, Alternaria, and Aspergillus
Bacteria: Skin, oral, intestinal/fecal, genital, including Staphylococcus, Lactobacillus, and Streptococcus
Skin cells
Chemicals: Plasticisers, flame retardants, isocyanates
Food
Cosmetics
Sweat: Up to 26 gallons per year
Expensive sewer living herE at the STUY
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I wonder why nobody gets fined for dumping these uncovered mattresses, which are clearly FILTHY?
Rick must have a deal going with the City. Can't be any other reason.
The usual suspects.
The recycling room in my building is choc-a-bloc full of broken up boxes and huge garbage bags. It's not even possible to get near the recycling bins (which are overflowing with all kinds of dreck, anyway). I think this place has reached crisis point.
Rick, please resign. Go back to the trailer park you used to manage. I don't believe you ran a resort. You don't have the brains or imagination to hold that kind of responsibility. And you definitely do not have what it takes to run this place.
Just go away quietly and let's hope they replace you with somebody who knows how to run a hugh residential complex in the City of New York. You are out of your depth and you are dragging us all down with you.
What's the rule for lease breaking, subletting? This is why folks turn to airbnb
One of those "new" uncovered mattresses has very visible stains on it. Piss? An exciting time? An amenity?
9:45, I don’t think there are “usual suspects,” at least not anymore. People who may have been clean and considerate when moving out have seen that it is literally a free-for-all, and that anything goes when moving out, and they follow suit.
Why am I going to spend time wrapping a mattress that I am disposing of, when thousands of other before and after me didn’t!?!?! Why should I not toss my crap everywhere when leaving, just like everyone else?!?!
FYI - I’m not moving from here until I’m dead, so this is more from the perspective of anyone and everyone that does move.
Once again, it is not Hayduk. It is Blackstone. Hayduk follows their directives. If you think another manager would be better, you are not being realistic. This is the way Blackstone wants it. Hayduk just carries it through.
Not sure why 10:14 keeps telling Hayduk to resign. He does not run things. He takes orders and his bosses are very happy with him because he ingratiates tenants with his accessibility. I know that, because I have friends who like him. This poster needs to realize that any replacement would be status quo.
9:16
We had a nasty manager with CW that didn’t BS us with niceties, as CW destroyed the property. He was carrying out CW’s orders, and I know they didn’t tell him to be a PR nightmare in the process, it’s just who he was.
Rick is two-faced, and that is not on Blackstone. Do you really think the Blackstone bosses would lose sleep if there was a nasty general manager here who wasn’t responding to every email??? The answer is NO.
Please stop giving Rick credit, you either sound like an SPS employee, or Rick himself.
Best Photo: U-Haul Truck (illegally parked?) in background behind midnight furniture dump says it all.
Last night a gypsy abandoned a tiny cubbyhole crammed into a former PCVST residential apartment transformed by Blackstone into chopped up dormitory housing. Today a replacement gypsy will temporarily occupy the same tiny cubbyhole. It's doubtful Blackstone has any clue about their identity or location. In fact, Blackstone not wanting to know about them pretends they don't exist.
There are hundreds, possibly thousands, of unidentified transients illegally occupying chopped up dormitory housing and illegal hotels here in PCVST and Blackstone wants to talk about dangerous squirrels.
Blackstone does not give a flying f#ck about the real safety of legal PCVST residents.
Nobody is giving Hayduk credit. He is doing what he is told to do. Any replacement would be doing the same thing FYI.
PR us Blackstone’s thing and Hayduk fulfills what PR they want. Sure he is phony, but that is what his bosses want.
You are incorrect in assuming that Blackstone doesn’t want Hayduk to answe e-mails and put them out. Good PR 10:22.
Disposable, short term tenants, cheap, disposable furnishings that get dumped curbside with every move. Whaddaya expect?
Along with the slum look that graces this place every day, seems like we have the crime to follow suit:
As per Citizen app:
Man displaying knife at 315 Avenue C (yesterday)
Residential burglary at 655 E14 on August 17
Man threatening Starbucks staff on 17th and First on August 17
Police investigating assault on 18th and First on August 28 (may not be on the property)
With a completely defanged public safety team (extremely disappointed in Fran Martin), all Public safety is here for is to act as resident services and greeters. They want to ignore crime altogether and just hope nothing truly bad happens. I’m guessing that poor girl in the lobby got a seven figure settlement from Blackstone and is now living comfortably (although I’m sure with a lot of therapy).
Are they still having those execrably bad "concerts" on the Oval? I'm away for a few peaceful weeks and am not looking forward to coming home to the Sty, much as I love my apartment. What a shit hole Stuvesant Town has become. That Dope from Park Slope and the slimey TA did us no favors when they cut a deal with Blackstone. It was a deal with the Devil.
Rick never ran an upscale resort in Florida. He ran a downscale trailer park.
I think they are over now. I agree That Garodnick, the TA, and the mayor cut a deal with the devil. I sensed that from the beginning.
Is there any way of finding out what happened with the sulfuric acid incident? I feel very uncomfortable living in a place that has that type of tenant. This place should NOT be used as a dorm. No wonder they are always begging tenants to bring in a friend to rent and are advertising so aggressively. Nobody who knows anything about this place want to come and rent here. It is a nasty, dirty, dangerous dump.
What a dump this is. They move in and out after midnight. This management has no idea who is living in these apartment dorms.
I am a new tenant ( I know, fool that I am ). What a deal, $3,800 for a one-bedroom in this dump. Hahaha she says through her tears.
But I was desperate for a place for my one-year job assignment in New York. So I got suckered by the slick rental agents in their 1st Avenue office.
My bad.
Anyway what's done is done. After one year I'm out of here.
Nonetheless, money is tight.
I need to furnish my apartment.
Specifically I need a mattress for my bed.
Sleepy's? Mattress Firm?
Nah, said one of my new neighbors, somewhat tongue in cheek.
Simply head on over to one of the loops and grab one of the filthy, uncovered mattresses strewn all over the sidewalk.
They're free.
AND THE BEDBUGS are included as an "amenity".
What a mistake moving here.
At least I have my sense of humor.
By the way, don't people believe in rugs?
I believe my upstairs neighborhood are running a bowling alley up there....at three in the morning.
What's up with that?
Going to be a long year.
What bout the overcharges?
This property is fantastic. We can never watch a movie - kids above us run and scream every fucking night. We can not study - same. We cannot have any peace. It has been 7 months since we are here and pure hell. Haven't paid the last might and leaving. bye all.
The garbage is from the dorms
The Mt Sinai dorms are in
Stuyvesant Town:
4, 6, 10, 11, 12 & 17 Stuyvesant Oval
274, 276, 278 & 310 First Avenue
281& 285 Avenue C
453, 455, 615 & 653 E. 14th Street
430, 448, 450 & 531 E. 20th Street
New York, NY 10009
212-614-5820
Liaison: Carlos Perez and Elizabeth Scimeca
Leasing Property Manager: Fredalyn Vargas
E-mail: Fredalyn.Vargas@mountsinai.org
This diverse community is located on 80 beautifully landscaped
acres in Manhattan and is in walking distance from the hospital.
A limited number of renovated one- and two- bedroom, 1-bath
apartments leased by Mount Sinai Beth Israel are available in
various buildings located throughout the complex bordered on
the south by 14th Street, on the west by First Avenue, east by
Avenue C and north by 20th Street.
https://icahn.mssm.edu/files/ISMMS/Assets/Education/Student%20Life%20and%20Resources/Stuytown_Building%20Information.pdf
They cannot rent these overpriced apartments. That is why this will continue to be a dorm/hotel pigstuy. Increasingly so as older tenants leave.
Dorms are in all buildings. And you are right. Most of the trash is from the dorms. All they have are mattresses and chairs.
Most of the vile cheerleaders are off the TA site. Maybe they were priced out of this Garden of Eden dump.
@ September 8, 2018 at 4:12 PM
"The garbage is from the dorms
The Mt Sinai dorms are in
Stuyvesant Town:
4, 6, 10, 11, 12 & 17 Stuyvesant Oval
274, 276, 278 & 310 First Avenue
281& 285 Avenue C
453, 455, 615 & 653 E. 14th Street
430, 448, 450 & 531 E. 20th Street ..."
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When it comes to destroying this historic PCVST residential community, Blackstone doesn't discriminate.
The personal safety and overall QOL of Peter Cooper Village residents is also compromised and degraded by gypsy transients dumping furniture in the middle of the night as they vacate cubbyholes crammed into former PCVST residential apartments converted by Blackstone into dormitory housing and illegal hotels.
Don't get distracted. It's not about dangerous squirrels threatening us.
Blackstone Sucks!
dorms are in pcv also
Rat observed scurrying from garbage can in front of entrance to 5 Stuy Town Café.
Bon apetit, suckers.
Another "amenity", eh Rick?
Can we just agree that, going forward, this place be referred to as....
STUYCHA
The TA (via Peter Stuyvesant) has all but conceded that there is nothing they can or will do to fight management on noise issues regarding loud neighbors.
Along with our mayor and Dan Garodnick, the TA pushed this deal as the greatest thing that could have possibly happened to us aside from tenant ownership.
I believe a retraction of those statements is warranted, although I won’t hold my breath. Marsh and the TA will never admit they were duped by their pals DeBlasio and Garodnick.
Scores of empty beer cans left outside the carriage room door.
The usual dog shit and piss in the halls, elevators and on the walkways..
You can't totally blame Management.
They are vile.
But the tenants bear responsibility to act like human beings.
I understand there are college students, transients, short-term rentals, dormification.
Many of the new residents have no connection with the community.
They see it as crash pad for a year or two.
We can thank Garodnick, the politicians, our totally CORRUPT Tenants Association for this mess.
Just my humble opinion...
On the TA site, Peter Stuyvesant is actually saying that dorm noise is bad here. But what are they doing to combat it? They are a joke.
7.09 AM;
"5 Stuy Town Café"
Rats, it's for "residents and their guests only".
ANYBODY WHO PAYS MARKET RATE RENT TO LIVE HERE IS A BLOODY FOOL. BLOODY FOOLS GET WHAT THEY DESERVE. THEY CAN'T GET TOO MANY BLOODY FOOLS THESE DAYS, SO THEY HAVE TO RENT TO STUDENTS, CITY-SUBSIDIZED AND TRANSIENTS.
Good luck anyone with our accounting department. They have lots of problems COUNTING and are dumb as bricks. Peace out, moving UWS.Done with this crap.
6 peter cooper road === a Dorm==== buyer beware!
***1975 NYC GARBAGE STRIKE***
As we all know, rats and mice carry diseases. Only around 100 million people died of Bubonic plague AKA Black Death. Improper disposable of waste leads to vermin...FACT! I saw a dead mouse in front of my building for TWO days. Yea, that’s healthy.
People do not properly use recycle bins. It’s really not to hard, is it??? The bins are clearly labeled. So you go to a “high class” university but can figure out the f*^^#in recycling?????
I have been taking the unbroken down cardboard boxes back to the dorms listed on the shipping labels. I ask the tenant to please break down their boxes.THE PORTERS ARENT YOUR MOMMY OR MAIDS. THE RECYCLE CANS ARENT FOR HOUSEHOLD GARBAGE!!!!
I got an idea. Let’s put photos of the porters up on the wall above the garbage area so people connect a person with the mess they are leaving behind. Effective and a great HR tactic you clowns!!!
Filthy porcine metriculators
Yay! They installed more Punching Stations!
All rodents--including squirrels--carry diseases. So do pigeons...and dogs.
Am certain that after Rick 'reviews' his Squirrel Survey, he will do absolutely nothing. After all, that's his specialty (with everything).
At least in the Good Old Days, no rodents of any kind were INSIDE the buildings here. No rats/mice were ever seen outside, either.
Anybody experiencing Spectrum outage? Does this happen with RCN?
Exactly right. Nobody is going to pay market rate to live in this dump. An endless pool of students, Airbnb and city subsidized
When they allowed people to eat on the Oval and around the property, that assured that rodents and vermin would increase. All of the garbage strewn about doesn’t help either.
Everyone has a role to play, and something to protect.
Rick is in place to protect Blackstone’s investment and make as much money as possible from the place.
The TA and Powers are in place to protect themselves and the other politicians that got us into this mess. Don’t forget, Powers was a lobbyist and TA board member before coming a councilman.
Tenants have to protect their homes. For many of us, this is the only home we’ve ever known. The stability that we once had is long gone, and people are scared. I love when people say there are long-term tenants that “love” Rick. Long-term tenants FEAR Rick, and FEAR losing the only home they’ve ever known. This is why they pretend to like Rick and give him false praises.
Any long-term tenant (lifer) who tells you they love Rick and all these cheesy amenities is lying to your face, and they don’t trust you. They think you are a management mole. I have at least 20 lifers who feel and act this way, and that is more than the TA membership!
"I got an idea. Let’s put photos of the porters up on the wall above the garbage area so people connect a person with the mess they are leaving behind. Effective and a great HR tactic you clowns!!!"
Are you being sarcastic? They already put their photos up in my building and, yes, right over the garbage cans. Doesn't make a difference though. The bins are overflowing with all kinds of non-recyclable dreck and not too many of the boxes are broken down.
I put everything but glass down the chute these days. It's a waste of my time, and just more work for the porters, to put it in the recycling bins. None of it gets recycled because it is too polluted.
"Yay! They installed more Punching Stations!"
What are you talking about?
I'd like to know, too!
What's a punching station?
You are wrong 10:24. I have a couple of friends who genuinely like corresponding with Hayduk by e-mail and chatting with him. I think he makes them feel important.
Monday morning..UNBELIEVABLE garbage overflowing from the recycling bins.
Crap strewn all over the place.
Wet garbage all over the floor.
What a disgrace! So disrespectful of the building porter.
Hey, people, show a little class.
No wonder some have reported mice and...yuch...rats.
>>What's a punching station?<<
Must be some amenity.
As for Rick, I do think, and even know, that there are some residents who love his emails and his presence. You know that monthly brochure that arrives with the rent statement? Well, just the other day, I heard someone gloating over it.... So, yeah, there are those for whom things here work quite well.
I think the senile old fossils love Rick because they have lost their powers of reason and they don't fear being thrown out because they are on SCRIE. However, most of the more astute and still in possession of most of their brain cells, think Rick is a useless, uncaring bullshit artist who works solely for the benefit of Blackstone and doesn't give a flying fuck about the tenants. When he is beaming at the senile cotton-tops, he is silently evaluating how much longer they will be around and calculating the gut renovations that will take place before their bodies are stiff and cold and the subsequent Kaching!! for his Ma$ter$.
By “couple,” do you mean 2? You have two friends who like chatting with Ricks secretary by email? They must be lonely.
FYI, he answers residents immediately and personally. I see him as a PR puppet but there are some that do not.
>>senile old fossils<<
I have great admiration for these "fossils."
day after day i am subjected to the girls above me jumping about as if it is a playground. do these asinine parents and sitters not know we have 11 playgrounds to do this. what rude lowlives live here?
We are subject to a lot of nasty things here: no noise enforcement, partying dorms, mattresses and garbage strewn all over the property, intrusive movies and concerts, low life transients living here all in the name of making money on ridiculous rents charged for an old housing development with zero amenities.
"not know we have 11 playgrounds"
Actually it’s 15 playgrounds in total, 12 in ST, and 3 in PCV. Playground 10 in ST becomes an ice rink in the winter so we lose that and playground 1 is still (?) under a revamp construction, playground 7, the “Fitness Playground” has an age restriction policy.
There was a major electric fire in one of the retail basements along 1st Ave and between 18th and 19th Streets. Stuy Town side. I don't want to say more about the elective fire until further information is forthcoming. A lot, and I mean, a LOT of fire trucks and other fire equipment around. I don't know how cars can get through, maybe they can't.
Things like the electrical fire will start becoming the norm in this place at the rate SPS is going. Who cares about infrastructure issues, we have concerts on the oval!
Electrical
Plumbing
Elevators
Floors and Walls
Brick Removal
These are things we should be worried about. Can’t wait to hear the crickets from the TA on this one.
Another reason not to trust what the cheerleaders have to say. Was on the TA Facebook page, and two people are on their defending the ineffectiveness of one of our infamous managers, who has been here quite some time.
Both of these people are known former employees of PCVST, who were colleagues of said manager, and one even has a picture of the two of them together.
Of course she’s effective in the eyes of people she knows. What a joke!
Actually the cheerleaders have been pretty quiet until today. I thought that they were gone, priced out by Blackstone.
I agree with 6:24. It’s pretty easy to spot the “who knows who” people on the TA page. Reality is that many long-timers were also employed by the property at some point.
There is nothing wrong with that, but don’t go on a website telling people that your friend/colleague is effective, when 25,000 other people feel differently. Of course you’re going to get preferential treatment from said person.
6:24 AM: which thread was that on? I missed that one.
The thread about the dogs living next door. A new comment has been posted defending said manager. It is none other than her own daughter.
That’s where we are folks. Children of PCVST managers on the TA page defending their parent.
And we wonder why people are afraid to speak out, it’s bullshit.
“Adam Rose I find it interesting that you always have the inside scoop on what ‘many tenants’ are thinking or how they feel. Kathleen has been nothing but cooperative and considerate. If you’ve felt otherwise, speak on behalf of yourself and not others.”
Here is the quote from the daughter of one of our managers. As the saying goes, if you can’t take the heat get your ass out of the kitchen.
Or maybe do your job.
6:24 AM, are you talking about the references to Kathleen Kehoe? She is totally useless from my experience. Another Donalda. She and and the Sabatino woman are dead wood.
Kathleen and Debbie Sabatino are The Best!!!. Always helpful. Always willing to get to your problem and correct it.
I have personally found Kehoe very pleasant, just not good at what she does. Communication is not her strong point. Sabatino on the other hand is the worst. Nasty and vindictive.
"I have personally found Kehoe very pleasant, just not good at what she does. Communication is not her strong point. Sabatino on the other hand is the worst. Nasty and vindictive."
I have had the same experiences. Sabatino is a horror. Very nasty and vindictive. Add to that incompetent.
"Kathleen and Debbie Sabatino are The Best!!!. Always helpful. Always willing to get to your problem and correct it."
It helps if one of them is your Momma, or your BFF!
I'm getting uncomfortable about the talk that is getting to certain people here. Not really to the point in an objective way, though some folks can differ. Please no more.
Message to Debbie:
You always have been very helpful and were the only person to get anything done when no one else could.
Much appreciated.
If you work for met life you can sublet your place, live in Florida and do it illegally but it's ok. IF you work for Metlife. You can also pay rent late or not pay at all. Blackstone should look into this. Illegal submitters unite.
I am actually surprised that Rick still has a number of people from the old regime around, especially the ones who don’t follow his communication heavy management style.
The one and only thing Rick does well is communication, so keeping people around that don’t ever respond to emails or phone calls seems to go against everything Rick stands for and seemingly the only thing he can pride himself on at this time.
Rick is a bullshit artist and the dead wood from the old regime fit the bill perfectly for him. The people who have been negatively mentioned on this thread were here as far back as when Rose ran the place and they were useless (and in the case of one of them) nasty then. Blackstone should have had a complete purge of all of the dead wood, but it seems they only got rid of the one person people complained about the most because she was the one they always had to deal with. I speak of the Deadly Donalda! Instead of throwing out the garbage, Blackstone got rid of some of the best of the so-called Public Safety department and installed puppets who are not permitted to do anything more than wear a uniform and smile.
Yes, Hayduk is great at communicating. That is why he has some tenants snowed under.
What do you know. The T&V Management rag has finally published a lukewarm letter to the editor critical to management. First one in two years.
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