To get you into the mood, I am posting two photos I took just yesterday. Uncovered mattresses. Two different locations. As you see, Management doesn't care.
Friday, September 28, 2018
Tenants Meet on 2-4, Saturday, September 29th - NEW LOCATION!
This is to notify tenants of Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village that there will be a meeting this Saturday, the 29th of September, from 2pm to 4pm, at a new location: the MSBI Bernstein Pavilion, Podell Auditorium, 10 Nathan D. Perlman Pl. between 15 and 16th Streets. The location is one block west of 1st Avenue. Though it will be hosted by the TA and have as many politicians as possible (bring good cheer and a working BS meter), I will try to be there. Since it is a new location, chances are that a number of tenants will not go there (Perlman Place?), but this may be the only chance to "meet" some of the representatives of you, the residents of this community.
To get you into the mood, I am posting two photos I took just yesterday. Uncovered mattresses. Two different locations. As you see, Management doesn't care.
To get you into the mood, I am posting two photos I took just yesterday. Uncovered mattresses. Two different locations. As you see, Management doesn't care.
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I for one will not bother to go to that charade of a TA meeting. No desire to see the politicians up there ignoring the QOL here. I can read about the L train problems in the newspaper. This TA should be disbanded. We need a town meeting which confronts Hayduk and company with the nasty things going on here, not another political pep rally.
Just got that stupid e-mail from Hayduk on dogs and residents coexisting. What a joke. And the nerve of him to say that they care about the QOL here. They can put out all this crap but do not enforce anything.
Will anyone have the balls to ask Susan "Just Ask Rick" Steinberg to open up the books for the clearly corrupt and dishonest phony Tenants Association?
>>another political pep rally.<<
I fully expect that. After all, Maloney will be there and that is all she talks about.
>>Will anyone have the balls to ask Susan "Just Ask Rick" Steinberg to open up the books for the clearly corrupt and dishonest phony Tenants Association?<<
One never knows.
The Property should be fined for every unwrapped mattress that is dumped outside. It is a violation of Public Health laws.
Rick should stick with resort and entertainment management; he is not qualified to manage a residential property, no matter how nice a guy he is. We need somebody who will run the property as it should be run.
I won't be going to the meeting because it is just more smoke and mirrors and I certainly do not want to endure a speech from Carolyn Maloney!
As long as Blackstone owns this property, we will not have a decent manager. This is what they want. A transient community with no attention to who they rent to or the QOL of the property. Hayduk is indeed a phony but any manager that they put in would be the same.
Rick could, if he wanted to, clean up the loops, but he doesn't want to--or rather, it is not cost efficient for him to do so. The fines the city imposes can easily be paid by Blackstone, but the city also has to "catch" these uncovered mattresses. Things will not change unless a good number of tenants will not only complain, but be visible about their complaint. Few care.
When they announced that you could dump anywhere on the loop, this caused the increase in dirty mattresses and garbage. It was the worst thing they could have done. As a result the dumping is out of control. They could care less as could some residents as was stated earlier.
The transients and students here couldn't care. Why should they? This is not their home, only a temporary place to lay one's head.
The new letter from Rick is a joke. More regulations, none of which are enforced or enforced very spottily. "But, STR, we really, really mean it this time!"
Sure.
I noticed that feeding the squirrels and birds is going to be outlawed come next Spring. Well, considering how well they enforce the rules here, I would say the critters and birds have nothing to worry about whatsoever!
Midnight furniture dumpings are just a symptom of the problem.
Blackstone actively markets former PCVST residential apartments converted into chopped up dormitory quarters lodging the exploding number of transients temporarily cramming themselves into cubbyholes hacked into what used to be PCVST living rooms.
The furniture dump locations are provided by Blackstone as a convenience to accommodate the gypsy lifestyle. Otherwise, PCVST residents would be constantly tripping over furniture dumped randomly everywhere - hallways, stairwells, lobbies, elevators, etc.
Don't blame Just Call Rick doing his job.
BLACKSTONE SUCKS
How much longer do we have to endure loud music from 5 turd cafe? Till the first snowflake falls? Getting louder every Friday! Enough already!
>>I noticed that feeding the squirrels and birds is going to be outlawed come next Spring.<<
Ridiculous.
I'd like to see them enforce that. Enforcement is currently and conveniently left out.
>>How much longer do we have to endure loud music from 5 turd cafe?<<
Till Five Stuy Cafe starts making money...or they sell beer.
I’ve seen it all now. A group of local Stuytown kids were playing around the oval this evening. One of the overly aggressive delivery drivers almost hits not one but two children. A parent of one of the kids playing loses his mind. ( I really think modern parents are annoying and a bit overprotective but in this case, they were right.) The driver became aggressive with the parents and was led to security. When I asked one of the parents what had happened, he said the guy admitted to riding his bike and almost hitting the kids. Apparently there was no ticket or warning given!!! The guard actually threw it back at the families/residents. The dad was protecting the kids and the guard did ZERO. How can a guard that is paid thru our rent not protect our residents especially our small ones?!, i am very disturbed by this and not sure what the point is anymore to having a security team when they can’t/won’t/don’t enforce anything. Yes, I will write an email to the management but I see by reading this blog, It won’t matter. Thanks for letting me speak my mind. In all the years I’ve lived here, I’ve never felt this unhappy about where I live.
STR are there any rules that you see currently enforced? I see nothing enforced on any level. Does anyone see anything being addressed? Slum
Speyer won.
STPCV residents still don't have honest representation.
The corrupt Incredibly conflicted STPCV Board is still bankrolled by corrupt politicians bankrolled by REBNY/Wall Street predators.
The secretive, phony " Nation's Largest Tenants Association" still cannot claim significant dues paying membership.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/citycouncil/html/budget/expense_funding.shtml
2019
$30,000 Powers
2018
$10,555 Manhattan Delegation
$20,000 Garodnick
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STR Friday, May 12, 2017
http://stuytownreport.blogspot.com/2017/05/off-my-chest.html
"Dating back to at least 2010, the STPCV TA Board betrayed (and is still betraying) all (100%) of its constituents on behalf of just one very high dues paying constituent. His name is Garodnick.
STPCV TA Foundation's slush fund received the following $$$$ from:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/citycouncil/html/budget/expense_funding.shtml
2017
$10,500 Manhattan Delegation
$15,000 Garodnick
2016
$10,500 Manhattan Delegation
$15,000 Garodnick
2015
$12,000 Garodnick
2014
$3,500 Manhattan Delegation
$5,000 Garodnick"
>>The guard actually threw it back at the families/residents. The dad was protecting the kids and the guard did ZERO.<<
Sad to say, but a lot of PS "officers" are not trained expertly nor given instructions on the "rules" and what to do with those rules, unless it is to downplay.
>>STR are there any rules that you see currently enforced? I see nothing enforced on any level. Does anyone see anything being addressed? Slum<<
Occasionally, I see something enforced, but almost all the time it has to do with a pedaling bike around that Oval that is very near a PS officer. Once in a blue moon, I see a PS officer (a new one, of course) talking to a dog owner without an official lanyard. Otherwise, nothing.
I think we should all join together in a lawsuit against Management for not letting "Public Safety" do their job. We may just as well have no "Public Safety" and have the charges taken off our rent. Management is so terrified of lawsuits being initiated by people who are taken to task by "Public Safety" on the rare occasion when they actually do their job. Maybe we should turn the tables and force Management to provide the protection we are paying for. Of course, if we had a tenants association (isn't that a novel idea?) we would have a unified voice to speak on our behalf. We would pay dues with confidence that the tenant association would do what a tenants association is supposed to do. Sadly, we don't have a tenants association. Shame.
8 25 wow you are right. how can this be? what guard? what location? who was riding bike? id like to make a huge deal out of this too as it comes close to hurting someone too often here. We are quite sick of this dangerous place that we pay 2 much to live in.
Get rid of Blackstone . They are worse than TS Wait for more horror from this awful corporation.
The Security Officers: I've written it before and here goes:
BLACKSTONE'S REPRESENTATIVES HERE ("MANAGEMENT," LAWYERS, et al.) HAVE SPECIFICALLY INSTRUCTED SECURITY TO DO NOTHING.
Whether or not you were a fan of our former Security Chief, Bill McClellan, it is a fact that he was harassed, marginalized and abused by Blackstone and was ordered and rendered UNABLE TO DO THE JOB OF A SECURITY FORCE CHIEF. THAT is the reason he isn't here.
It has become so much worse since then.
WITHIN THIS LAST WEEK, I WAS ONCE MORE EXPLICITLY TOLD BY A PERSON VERY HIGH IN THE CHAIN OF COMMAND:
WE CANNOT DO ANYTHING.
Do the people reading this UNDERSTAND SIMPLE ENGLISH???
BLACKSTONE'S BASTARDS HERE HAVE ORDERED SECURITY TO IGNORE EVERY INFRACTION, DANGER, ETC.
I came back from the TA meeting at that new location. The inside was much smaller and not all the seats were taken. The meeting consisted mostly (2-3:40) of politicians doing there thing. 3 couldn't help but "mention" the hearings in Washington. A bit of the info that was given was valuable. From Management, Rick and Fred were there, and maybe someone else (the head of PS?). They were sitting together and off to the side.
The Q and A? Some good, some bitching (mostly about the L line).
A general waste of time, but I knew it beforehand.
Oh, and the buses to Albany were mentioned. Many times.
Did any questioners bring up the noisy events or garbage dumping? I reckon not. Knew it would not be productive
If we had a TA, they would challenge the MCI we pay for the "upgraded" Security. We have no Security. We are paying for something we are not getting. Blackstone is definitely worse than TS.
">>The guard actually threw it back at the families/residents. The dad was protecting the kids and the guard did ZERO.<<"
The dad should have called the NYPD. We have the right to be protected by the REAL police. I think the dad should also file a formal complaint about the Security Officer because Blackstone pays those guys to protect us. If somebody gets hurt because of the lack of action by a Security Officer, Blackstone should be sued. We pay for that protection. It is incorporated in our rent and we are paying for some so-called "state of the art" security. Bullshit!
>>The dad should have called the NYPD. We have the right to be protected by the REAL police. I think the dad should also file a formal complaint about the Security Officer because Blackstone pays those guys to protect us. If somebody gets hurt because of the lack of action by a Security Officer, Blackstone should be sued. We pay for that protection. It is incorporated in our rent and we are paying for some so-called "state of the art" security. Bullshit!<<
I hate to tell you this, but there was a police rep from the 13th at the TA meeting, and he remarked twice about the positive relationship he has with PS. If you are looking for a REAL police force here, forget about it. (Though he did mention that the 13th will be covering all neighborhoods more in the old-fashioned way, but it was unclear just how they would do it with PS.)
>>Did any questioners bring up the noisy events or garbage dumping?<<
General noise was brought up, but not the events. There was mention of the garbage dumping, but it appears that nothing was positively stated by the politicians or the TA on this issue. The TA, in particular, seemed to want to avoid the issue and just be friends with Management. Our dear TA leader, Susan, even glowingly mentioned how she had been a witness to two outsiders with dogs escorted out of our community. Escorted. Which is far different than being told by PS that the dogs can't be here. If she doens't run away from me when I see her, I will ask her about "escorting."
Wait until those same fucking politicians are up for re-election. They will not get my vote and if I have to vote Repug, then I will. We couldn't be less protected than we are with these do-nothing sleazy Dems. Keith Powers is a prime example. A former member of the TA Board and up the asses of REBNY as far as he can get. Garodnick was a total liar, fraud and con man and the Powers weisel is cut from the same cloth.
I did not go to the dog and pony show this afternoon because there would have been some very real, tangible trouble had I listened to even five minutes of bullshit.
When I was working for one of NYC's largest Departments, the Board of Education, while Michael Bloomberg and his hundreds of sycophants (including dozens and perhaps hundreds of lawyers he put on payroll) were systematically destroying it, and people commented often that he was HURTING people (e.g., teachers, students, neighborhoods, other school employees, EDUCATION itself), I began asking my colleagues and others: WHAT IS THE OBJECTIVE?
Hint: The objective was NOT to educate, inform, guide, help children. It was to DESTROY EDUCATION, ELIMINATE KNOWLEDGE, TURN OUT PEOPLE UNABLE TO READ, WRITE, THINK, ORGANIZE, PROTEST, RESIST THE EFFORTS OF THEIR "LEADERS" TO IMPOVERISH THEM AND ENSLAVE THEM.
It was to hand over lives to "entrepreneurs" in order to economically enrich the rich, cede all control of life to a tiny group of incredibly sick, morally bankrupt predators.
SAME THING WITH "REAL ESTATE:" BLACKSTONE IS A COLLECTION OF PROBABLY TERMINALLY DISEASED HUMANS, WHO, IN COMMON WITH MANY OTHERS OF THE SAME ILK, IS INTENT ON MAKING LOTS OF MONEY, EXERTING MALIGNANT CONTROL OVER THOUSANDS OF OTHER PEOPLE AND OTHER CREATURES.
Therefore, among many, many other logical conclusions: BLACKSTONE DID NOT HIRE PEOPLE TO PERFORM THE TASKS OF SECURITY AGENT. BLACKSTONE RELUCTANTLY HIRED THEM TO DUPE PEOPLE, CAJOLE PEOPLE, CAUSE MORE HELL HERE BY IGNORING THE LEGITIMATE NEEDS OF RESIDENTS. BLACKSTONE HIRED THESE HAPLESS FOLKS TO LORD OVER THEIR EMPLOYEES AND TERRORIZE THEM, TOO.
I am truly sorry if anyone reading this finds it a bit extreme. It is the truth. This writer has been through it with too many institutions such as Blackstone to misunderstand precisely what is happening. I have personally experienced and witnessed the extreme damage humans such as Blackstone's company people have deliberately and sometimes gleefully inflicted upon their fellow humans.
I've been exhorting residents and others, and pleading with them, for some time now, "Open your eyes, your ears, your mind and accept reality." And then,
STAND UP AND FIGHT and if you wish to do so, please e-mail me at: quietenjoymentnow@gmail.com
I will not vote for any of them either if nothing is done to improve QOL here. They will likely get in anyway. I didn’t vote for Kavanagh and Hoyle last time and they were re-elected by a wide margin .
"From Management, Rick and Fred were there, and maybe someone else (the head of PS?). They were sitting together and off to the side."
They are afraid that someone will bring up the illegal rent frauds.
>>The objective was NOT to educate, inform, guide, help children. It was to DESTROY EDUCATION, ELIMINATE KNOWLEDGE, TURN OUT PEOPLE UNABLE TO READ, WRITE, THINK, ORGANIZE, PROTEST, RESIST THE EFFORTS OF THEIR "LEADERS" TO IMPOVERISH THEM AND ENSLAVE THEM.<<
At times I am reminded of Patrick McGoohan's show.
"Have a Great Day."
At least The Village was organized.
Of course, there was no mention of the failure of the TA in holding a protest at the leasing office and urging tenants to put up that yellow "Community" sign on the tenants' window. But there was a lot of congratulations and hand clapping for the TA. What? And no one noticed that the room was much smaller and that not all of the seats were filled?
Who was the third person from Blackstone?
Was it a tallish, slender woman? Fran Martin, the current Chief of “Security?”
I believe so, but I can't be certain, as I was off on the other side.
Just to make this clear. Rick and Company were sitting off the side. They were sitting together. Only once did Rick come to the microphone and speak. This was in response to the electrical fire that started and the question of how secure we are in our buildings. Yeah, there was note taking, but aside from this brief and only episode there was no other response that I could see from Rick and Company. As far as note taking, there is a lot of that on display. Even at those Oval Office meetings. But so what? It is action I am interested in, and not BS talk, which at this point only angers and insults me.
Did they say anything about the MCI charges? I saw that on the agenda there was an item "Push Back Against MCIs"
On the MCIs, yes. But same old, same old.
I also must correct an impression that is left on the TA blog. While I never heard a word from CW that I know of, I did hear from Adam Rose (not the TA blog Rose). Not only did he respond to emails but he actually had a Q and A here, on this blog. The real difference I see, aside from beach chairs and a new fence around the Oval, is more loops occupied by thrown-out furniture, more dog crap, and a PS force that is just meant for show--and our manager living in Peter Cooper.
Sign says oval playground closes at dusk. It is dark out and people still lounging on blankets. Surely security can see it is past dusk and do something. Bad enough the rink construction noise going to start soon and go all day and as usual illegally past dark...and then the rink ruins life for all that live around it all over again.
There has been a big difference in garbage on the loop. Never saw it on such a large scale. Yesterday the Oval was empty of people and revelers. Not sure why, but it looked wonderful without the picnickers and sunbathers. So clean and pristine.
"and our manager living in Peter Cooper."
We have a manager? Who knew! He/she sure doesn't manage much, apart from managing to let this place go to hell.
Received an email from StyLiving recently. They are going to ban feeding squirrels and birds. When they stop dumping shitty mattresses and other dreck all over the place, I'll stop feeding the squirrels and birds. They never focus on the real issues! It's all distraction and wrong priorities. They never enforce rules, but keep on coming up with more and more rules, none of which is ever enforced. I've had it with taking any notice of the edicts of this poor apology of a management. They should just collect the rent and shut up. They don't manage anything, they just use bread and circus tactics to try and distract us from what a shitshow the property is.
wE had a few problems when Adam rose was here. He called us back and handled it himself. Reasonable and hard working. This dude rick passes every complaint and issue on to someone else. Total hack. Move back to Florida Rick. Please.
>>Surely security can see<<
They don't even need those monitors that we will pay for till our death. The infractions, and not just outside on the Oval grass, can be right outside their door. They don't see. Yeah.
>>They never focus on the real issues! It's all distraction and wrong priorities.<<
Yup.
The backlash on the TA meeting has been good. There are also people talking on the Tenants (not TA) page about “Peter Stuyvesant” blocking posts from going through. People on the TA page are talking about the politicization of the meeting, and how it has no place at a meeting regarding the well-being of tenants on this property.
This is no longer a tenants association. Unfortunately it’s become a left-wing political group using the guise of being advocates for tenants(and I’m a Democrat). If you look at the things they post and talk about, EVERYTHING has a political undertone to it.
Why can’t they post on noise? Cleanliness? Bedbugs? Crime?
I’m sick and tired of this group being nothing more than political tools used by Democrats (my party) to praise themselves to try and get votes. That is not what you are here for.
And to those of you own the board who read this blog and do nothing - shame on you. You are the problem, and you should be ashamed to show your face on this property. Maybe we should start heckling you when we see you around the property or at establishments around the property? Oh wait, it’s only Republicans that can have that done to them...
@8:59 AM - I totally agree. The TA meetings are nothing short of political rallies. I'm a Dem, but I have no fondness for the current bunch of opportunists who are supposed to be representing us. Wouldn't give them the time of day, never mind a vote. Nonetheless, the TA has become a glee club for those pols and the issues facing tenants who live in this dump seem to totally elude the TA. We need a new TA or none at all because the current one is just NOT a TA any longer.
Precisely why I did not join last year or attend meetings anymore.
Susan "Just Call Rick" Steinberg, our Tenants Association President, strutting at Saturday's meeting like a primping peacock.
Hey, Susan, when are you going to open the books?
What about those overcharges?
Nothing.
I do not understand why people just do not attend meetings or pay dues. Maybe then they would have to disband.
Who cares about overcharges??? We want more of Powers, Maloney, and crew telling us that Republicans are bad and they are good for 90+ minutes at a meeting that’s “supposed” to be about problems on this property.
Daily Defecation Report:
Turd throughout the Oval and surrounding paths.
Of course, the obligatory piss in the elevators and dog doodoo on the floors (looks real nice when it is ground into the cheap carpeting)
And, of course, ZERO enforcement of Blue Lanyard requirement for canines.
I've been trying to get "the Revolution" started since 2000.
When people around me were being hunted, tormented, caused to be physically ill, lose income and health insurance and homes and families, I pleaded with them to stand up and fight. (I speak about thousands and thousands of teachers here, but I could be speaking about plenty of other needlessly suffering people.)
Nada. Nothing. No fight, no resistance.
There is some essential quality in humans these days which has rendered us passive, even while we are being grievously and sometimes lethally injured by other people.
WHY DO MOST OF US SIT QUIETLY IN MEETINGS SUCH AS THE LAST MEETING WITH THE THIEVES AND PREDATORS? IF MORE OF US HAD GONE AND LITERALLY STOOD UP AND DEMANDED THAT THE SH*T STOP, and
IF WE TOOK ACTION, TOGETHER, UNITED, ON A REGULAR BASIS . . .
THINGS WOULD CHANGE.
STAND UP AND FIGHT!
This is all reported in the press. This is why our quality of life is crap. The only way to get them to pay for destroying us to to get them to pay for their cheating and stealing from us in the rent practices that are illegal.
Money is the only thing they care about. That is why they lie, cheat, steal and hoard. Let's get our money back.
What is happening in Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village is happening at all yacht destinations for the new Louis Vuitton Bernard Arnault, Mike Bloomberg, Larry Ellison yacht race route.
To understand what is happening in the East and West Village of NYC you need only see this:
St Tropez and Bernard Arnault
'LVMH city': St Tropez residents fear town is being turned into giant boutique
France's "king of luxury", the world's 10th wealthiest individual, with a net worth of $29 billion (£18.6 billion), according to Forbes, has spent two decades swallowing grand, family-owned brands.
"Bernard Arnault started by buying a small building where he set up a Dior boutique. And ever since, he buys everything that moves," David Belity, a local shopkeeper, told Le Parisien. "It's going to turn into a little Monaco, a showcase for his luxury development."
The tycoon has gradually fanned out, installing Vuitton and Bulgari stores in the Garonne square. He recently acquired a local restaurant, turning it into a Sephora cosmetics store.
In the Place des Lices, a favourite spot of local boules players, he spent 22 million euros (£19 million) on a hotel, transforming it into the four-star Hotel White 1921 with suites at 990 euros per night. The establishment is right next to his Fendi and Celine fashion and leather stores.
With the billionaire reportedly having even grander designs on a string of luxury properties, graffiti artists last year replaced St Tropez with "LVMH City" on one town sign last year.
Police quickly took the sign down, but the sign reflected a malaise among some who argue he is killing St Tropez's bohemian side and turning it into a giant designer store with the blessing of the mayor, Jean-Pierre Tuvéri.
"Bernard Arnault's group is taking advantage of the current mayor's policy of giving property developers and private investors free reign," complained Dominique Bonnet, president of the St-Tropez Our Village association.
deBlasio wants higher offices so he is selling out NYC. Bloomberg wants a yacht race route for his yachty pals Larry Ellison and Louis Vuitton Bernard Arnault.
This is the real reason for the dock here and for the historically high level of corruption at the 12 years of Bloomberg administration followed by even more corruption at the going on 5 years of the deBlasio administration. The corruption and destruction of small businesses and locals by Mayors in New York is the same as all the destinations on the Larry Ellison Mike Bloomberg Bernard Arnault Louis Vuitton New Yacht Race.
deBlasio gives property developers and private investors free reign just like mayors at the other yachty ports even St Tropez. deBlasio's corruption is at historic levels with his lobbyist pals at Hilltop and Capalino making millions. The City council is fed up with a mayor who has over 150 secretive meetings with lobbyists. deBlasio took Bloomberg's destruction even farther, and come thing deBlasio took it too far. There is no more corrupt mayor in the world or in history then the Bloomberg - deBlasio terms.
In New York and especially the East and West Village, Mike Bloomberg and Bill deBlasio are pushing out the small businesses and locals for the billionaires and for deBlasio's millionaire lobbyist clients who are creating a second "world class" yacht race route. They are buying up all of the waterfront from St Tropez to New York and pushing out all of the locals and small businesses.
Yachty Bernard Arnault is turning St Tropez into a Louis Vuitton Strip Mall just like Mike Bloomberg is ridding of all the small businesses and locals in New York and turning it into a playground for billionaires and their chain stores. Bernard Arnault tried to do to New York's West Village what he is doing to St Tropez but Marc Jacobs failed brilliantly and shut all but one of the storefronts. Marc Jacobs was destroying Greenwich Village for billionaires Bernard Arnault Louis Vuitton, Mike Bloomberg, Barry Diller and their little yachty clique.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10262719/LVMH-city-St-Tropez-residents-fear-town-is-being-turned-into-giant-boutique.html
Peter Cooper Village Stuyvesant Town has a dock for the billionaire's yacht races courtesy of the city council and mayor. I
In 2013 during Mike Bloomberg's illegal third term he bought for himself so he can complete his pal's plans for their yacht races which includes a New York City race. Louis Vuitton, owner Bernard Arnault and Larry Ellison rule the America's Cup and are creating a second "World Class" version of the race.
They will lie, cheat, steal to make their yacht race route happen. Larry Ellison even got caught cheating at racing.
Louis Vuitton's Bernard Arnault is ruining St Tropez, clearing out small businesses and locals replacing them with his chain stores. Just like Mike Bloomberg rid New York of small businesses and those who owned, shopped there, the locals. Mike Bloomberg pushes us out of just like his yachty pal Bernard Arnault pushes out small businesses and locals in St Tropez.
They lie. They cheat. They steal.
"Team Oracle has had a chequered past with the America's Cup – in 2013 the team admitted illegal modifications had been made to its 45-foot AC45 catamarans."
You can yacht be serious: Larry might be planning his own version of America’s Cup
Positioning it as 'World Series' of yachting
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/98003060/oracle-owner-poised-to-announce-world-series-of-sailing-to-rival-americas-cup
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-yacht-club-has-sights-set-on-the-americas-cup-1534344696
https://nypost.com/2018/08/12/opacity-masquerading-as-transparency-councilman-slams-lobbyist-meetings/
We have had a washer that has been broken in our laundry room for over 2 years. Same one. I've spoken to management, the company that maintains the washers and even went to the stuy town booth set up in the oval to give feedback. What more can I do?
Its beyond frustrating as the maintenance guy for the washing company will be in the laundry room and plug it in then leave. It looks like its working but it won't, it needs to be replaced. I'm tired of trying to explain this to him.
Does anyone have any advice to get help with this? There are 2 other machines not working now. I know Stuy Town doesn't care but am I out of patience and options.
Thank you
8 09 right o. WHY ARE WE PUTTING UP WITH THIS? DISGRACEFUL
Lost my job recently and quite frankly having trouble with bills. Politely called over to our offices of management and leases and explained situation which is pretty dire, and have been told it is a three month penalty to end my lease. I am still in shock and in trouble. If I dont find a job by next month. ? Those who are looking at renting here be wary. This landlord company is ruthless.
I hope that things will work out for you somehow. You never know.
>>There is some essential quality in humans these days which has rendered us passive, even while we are being grievously and sometimes lethally injured by other people.<<
I certainly don't disagree and have seen this inaction many, many times. Blackstone has found a good PR person in Rick, but, frankly, the BS from everyone at the top (and I include the higher-ups at PS) continues. The name of the game is "cover you ass" and "continue with the BS."
I agree with the posters who are frustrated with life here, but without a viable TA which of course we do not have, there is little that we can really do to change things. Our politicians appear not to be proactive and most tenants here are transient or complacent. There are no numbers either. Hate to be pessimistic, but it is what it is here and there is little we can do about it.
Leaving for work this morning and once again, urine in the stairwell. Happens at least once a week I would say.
The owners of these barking dogs on my floor need to be more considerate of who is living around them. YOU ARE NOT ALONE HERE!
https://www.wral.com/suicides-get-taxi-drivers-talking-i-m-going-to-be-one-of-them-/17887852/
THIS IS STAND UP AND FIGHT:
There is plenty we can do.
Civil disobedience. Publicity.
Rent strikes, pickets, letters, e-mails, bombarding all media outlets.
It is even worse than we know or think.
There are MILLIONS of miserable, exhausted, terrified/terrorized people courtesy of the type of common MONSTERS Blackstone assholes personify.
Strike that! There are BILLIONS of us on this poor plundered planet.
BILLIONS MORE OF US THAN THE SICK INDIVIDUALS WHO HURT US AND EVERYTHING THAT LIVES.
HAS ANYONE HERE EVER HEARD OF THE ACCURATE EXPRESSION: "IN UNITY THERE IS STRENGTH?"
WE CAN DAMN DO WELL PLENTY.
STAND UP AND FIGHT:
quietenjoymentnow@gmail.com
Write to me/us. We'll organize.
dog owner are not home. They dont give a rats arse about you & me and my crying baby who can't take a nap here. Get out while you can. This place rotting away.
3 months? No - can't be.
To: 10/2 Barking Dogs
Please state your building and floor for a response and report this to PS and they'll come over and if verified issue a lease violation. I did this to my very inconsiderate neighbor who got 3 lease violations and decided to move!!
The unbelievable part is that the owners are home and letting them bark beyond imagine.
These people around me are selfish.
The TA's last gasp was to try a protest, 1) outside the leasing office 2) having residents put that yellow placard at their window.
Both failed. Very, very low numbers.
And that is the story. Few care. That is the harsh and ugly but very true analysis. And Management knows this.
My attempt is just to show, though photos, what is happening here. A few others have photos, videos, etc. It is something and ultimately goes against the "sell" that Management is only focused on. Our TA should be against these infractions, but they are doing little, except those buses to Albany.
Lease violation? LOLLLLL in what form? We've lived with wild animals (human kind) for years. PS did shit, Rick did shit, Stuy did shit. There's no lease violation.
I just saw this in the NYPost (online). Very, very tragic. It's very possible that he was a resident here. What is it with these NYU kids that they are so desperate that they end their lives? I realize that mental illness is on the rise among young people, but I can't help wondering why? At 18 your life is ahead of you. I hope that there will be more outreach to these kids who suffer from suicidal depression. I hope and pray that this doesn't happen again.
https://nypost.com/2018/10/02/nyu-student-commits-suicide-on-subway-tracks/
https://nypost.com/2018/10/02/nyu-student-commits-suicide-on-subway-tracks/
I remember that protest outside the leasing office. Wasn’t it deemed illegal and broken up?
Oh! This explains why Fortress Compass Rock padded the market rate apartment renovations!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html
Here it is. Chances are the statute of limitations has not run out on us yet
As an owner of rent-stabilized buildings in New York, Fred Trump needed state approval to raise rents beyond the annual increases set by a government board. One way to justify a rent increase was to make a major capital improvement. It did not take much to get approval; an invoice or canceled check would do if the expense seemed reasonable.
The Trumps used the padded All County invoices to justify higher rent increases in Fred Trump’s rent-regulated buildings. Fred Trump, according to Mr. Walter, saw All County as a way to have his cake and eat it, too. If he used his “expert negotiating ability” to buy a $350 refrigerator for $200, he could raise the rent based only on that $200, not on the $350 sticker price “a normal person” would pay, Mr. Walter explained. All County was the way around this problem. “You have to understand the thinking that went behind this,” he said.
As Robert Trump acknowledged in his deposition, “The higher the markup would be, the higher the rent that might be charged.”
State records show that after All County’s creation, the Trumps got approval to raise rents on thousands of apartments by claiming more than $30 million in major capital improvements. Tenants repeatedly protested the increases, almost always to no avail, the records show.
One of the improvements most often cited by the Trumps: new boilers.
“All of this smells like a crime,” said Adam S. Kaufmann, a former chief of investigations for the Manhattan district attorney’s office who is now a partner at the law firm Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss. While the statute of limitations has long since lapsed, Mr. Kaufmann said the Trumps’ use of All County would have warranted investigation for defrauding tenants, tax fraud and filing false documents.
I think that Blackstone is deliberately letting the property deteriorate. I have no idea why. I think that Hayduk is inept and uninterested in his job here. He really gives me the impression of a guy who couldn't care less. What the motive behind all this, who knows? I just know that the attitude of "Management" is contagious. At this point, I couldn't care less about anything that happens here. Maybe it all reflects the general state of the "leadership" of the country: a president who is an over-the-top Archie Bunker on Steroids; an attitude from the top down of disdain and disrespect of women and anybody not in the oligarch class; a disrespect for all persons who have disabilities; disadvantages and who are not cookie-cutter examples of what these "superior breed" deems acceptable. I think that, notwithstanding the enormous strides and achievements in science and technology, our country is on a downward spiral to hell. It's ok if a Supreme Court Judge is a lisensious drunk (or, in the case of "Justice" Thomas, likes pornographic material that involves animals) or the Leader of the Senate is as sinister and evil as anyone could be and that basically Putin is our so-called president's idea of a wet dream.
I rest my case. Just live for today because tomorrow may be worse. No wonder 18-year olds are killing themselves.
>>I remember that protest outside the leasing office. Wasn’t it deemed illegal and broken up?<<
First I heard that it was illegal. The problem was if you got too close to the leasing door.
https://nypost.com/2018/10/02/nyu-student-commits-suicide-on-subway-tracks/
A tragedy. If he was a resident, we should know about it, instead of the usual from Management.
Ah, please refrain from posts that are at heart about what is happening outside of this community or the city in reference to what is happening here. Trust me, I know when people would want to talk about the White House, but there are other places were you can vent or debate. Not here.
I disagree with the statement that Rick Hayduk is inept. He is just what Blackstone wants, a good PR man who schmoozes tenants. The company wants him to neglect the property. It is not his imitative or his negligence. It is a manager carrying through what his superiors want. It is not purposeful neglect but incidental neglect through renting to a low life demo and then letting it slide and deteriorate.
The issue here is simple cause and effect. You can’t rent the ever increasing market rate apartments, so you fill them with crap such as students, transients, city subsidized and Airbnb. You lose control over the property and just proceed. The property continues to deteriorate as you lose track of leases and renters.
This morning seen out my window. A dog off the leash. Saw one yesterday leaving my building. Sick of the barking.
Alas the apathy of the tenents is so saddening.
Blackstone, the Tenants Association and Susan Steinberg win by default.
How very sad!
"I disagree with the statement that Rick Hayduk is inept. He is just what Blackstone wants, a good PR man who schmoozes tenants. The company wants him to neglect the property. It is not his imitative or his negligence. It is a manager carrying through what his superiors want. It is not purposeful neglect but incidental neglect through renting to a low life demo and then letting it slide and deteriorate."
Perhaps this is true. However, if the guy was smarter he would realize he is sealing his fate should he ever need another job down the road. Everyone in the property management business knows how bad he is and wouldn't ever hire him. Same goes for the bulk of the people at Beam Living. My company has received resumes from some of his staff and we immediately throw them out.
Bags of garbage and empty beer cans left in front of the carriage room door.
Real classy, huh?
Concerning that tenement building that burned down last night, injuring many tenants and firefighters and leaving hundreds of people homeless: Does anybody know who owned it and what developer might have his greedy eyes on the site? There have been several tenement buildings burned down or blown up (accidently, of course!) over the past few years. All here in Manhattan, and in places where developers are just itching like a crotch full of crabs to get their fangs into in order to evict tenants and build luxury condos. Makes me wonder. I'd like to know who those landlords and developers are and which politicians are owned by them.
I have photos taken yesterday. As far as I know, one couldn't travel up 1st Avenue near the site by car (or bus?). As to the question above, I am waiting to see what we will get over there.... If it's a massive condo, we know the deal....
Rick may never find another job after this one. Terrible way to run a biz. Just pushes people to other people who do not , refuse to help any tenants with problems they have.
Heavens !!! is the cancel fee three months or was that false? Hardy seems legal.
Daily Defecation Diary:
Piss on elevator floor.
Mound of doggie doodoo on 3rd floor stairwell landing.
Enough already people.
Management and Ownership are vile.
We can't totally place the blame on them for the deterioration of Pig Stuy Town.
Surely we can all behave as adults and members of a community.
C'mon, peeps, BEHAVE.
I would like to know what started the fire. Developers, tenement owners (who are sometimes the developers themselves) have been known to burn their buildings down to get low-rent tenants out, free up the site and, of course, collect insurance. People have burned to death, been horribly injured, lost every last thing they own (including pets) and it has been as the result of arson committed by the vile thugs known as developers and landlords. Never forget that the politicians who are owned by this satanic scum are just as guilty.
I don't think Rick is very interested in a long-term career with Blackstone. I think he has other fish to fry and will soon be back in the cruise-director business! He acts like somebody who is simply biding his time.
These dogs have got to go, but that won't happen. Its ALL THE OWNERS FAULT!
The news said the fire started in a Japanese restaurant.
If accurate, this Japanese restaurant may be next to a Thai place that just opened up, replacing half of Neptune, the Polish restaurant.
Long gone are the days when the family-oriented property was so highly desirable there was a ten year wait list to get in. Now they are desperate to fill the corporate housing. Corporate housing is a commercial business and we are a residential community. Is this legal?
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It is 8:30PM Friday night and that horrible "concert" is still going on at the Five Turd Pig Stuy eColi Café.
Enough already!
You are disturbing the residents of the surrounding buildings.
Plus you have NO TALENT.
Shut the f**k up already!
I find it appalling that my sons apartment went from 3800 to 4100 at renewal. Stuytown and Rick fully know that similar if not better units renting for 3700 or less. Shame on these assholes.
Blackstone waits. When the first lease is over (catching the unsuspected new renter), Blackstone can charge up to the legal rent, which in a lot of these apartments is not "affordable." The "law" allows them to charge up to the base rent, not the preferential rent. Only old-timers have true rent stabilization.
That is the problem here. For the rents they charge, people can live in nicer buildings with real amenities. They have to and want to fill the apartments with students, transients, and city subsidies. That way they can get any rents they want. As a result, we live in a transient, filthy community.
Vile bloodsuckers!
ST reporter. yes we know this, we know this. Yet they knowingly charge him more than same aparmtent better building better floor and new. OK? Not ok.
Is it true there are numerous sites called stuytown sucks and instagram too. Rick O better get that taken care of. Maybe he 'll 'fix ' that.
I don't know why Rick Hayduk works for Blackstone because he seems like a very decent man. He really does belong in the hospitality industry, not the residential property industry. The residential property industry is the absolute worst when it comes to corruption, bribery and using and abusing people and resources and Blackstone is the worst of the worse. (Don't know if that is strictly grammatical, but there ya go.)
Yes but ? this is not the case for us sir. 9 56. We know this------we are discusssing that's it's wrong to charge current good standing tenant more , much more, than similar apartments which are actually new and better. Have good day sir.
Idiot bros on my floor keep their door open. Think they live in a dorm. Also have loud barking dog which upon leaving and entering apartment makes unbelievably loud noise. Good thing they are not next door to me or on my wall.
No it is wrong.
Family above us does the door open thing as well slams then opens then slams then in out in out.
This is a shithole dorm no matter how they spin it!
YOU CANNOT LEGALLY BE CHARGED 3 MONTHS RENT FOR LEASE PENALTY BREAK. NO EFFIN WAY.
Barf in elevator from last night's revelry by the college bros.
Nice going, Rick.
You sure rent to "high" class tenants.
Need I mention the pot smells permeating throughout the halls.
Dog shit, piss, garbage, mattresses strewn about, no carpeting, shrieks and noise at all hours of the night.
Nice going, Susan "Just call Rick" Steinberg.
You and the phony Tenants Association are a disgrace.
Are you without shame?
I wonder if Rick ran the resorts this badly?
Leave the door openers alone. We are allowed to keep our doors open anytime we want. Public safety said we could! hahahahahahahahaha
I am sick of being woken up in the early hours by these braying, bellowing drunken bros and their screechy hos. Sick of the vomit, piss, dog shit (sometimes wonder if it is all dog shit when it is in diarrea form).
We certainly don't get the best of the NYU student body. Drunk assholes (future Supreme Court justices?
This place has gone from bad to worse under this cruise director apology for a "Manager." I honestly don't think he cares about what a shit-show this place has become. It's easy to blame prior shitty managers, but this guy has done zippo to improve things. In fact, it has gotten worse on his watch.
As for the drunken, barfing, braying students, if we had a Tenants Association, they would be actively taking up the matter with the schools AND management. Bunch of useless posers.
"Nice going, Susan "Just call Rick" Steinberg.
You and the phony Tenants Association are a disgrace.
Are you without shame?"
They are totally without shame, decency or character. They are worthless.
Seen today, a homeless man sifting through garbage thrown on the loop. Not a nice look. PS officer right across road
AC installed by management for the 'renovated' will most definitely cause illness to your family. I watched 3 kids get sick almost monthly due to the mold in there. Stuytown refused to clean it.
FAMILIAR SQUALOR
Photo and 1st paragraph physical description of "dirtiest block in San Francisco" bear uncanny resemblance to overall degraded QOL in formerly PCVST now Gypsy Village Transient Town.
"Life on the Dirtiest Block in San Francisco"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/san-francisco-dirtiest-street-london-breed.html
BLACKSTONE SUCKS
Our esteemed landlord is moving NYC homeless welfare into less desirable buildings along East 14th Street. Anything to maximize profit and make a buck.
I found about this from someone who works in the Management Office.
Real classy, huh?
I would like to hear denial by Tenants Association or Rick Hyduk.
Thank you.
FLASH! Woman Attacked in Stuyvesant Town, East 20th Street and Avenue C.
Spectrum News on One, October 8th, Story and pictures of assailant entering building and following woman and attacking her.
How sad we cannot feel safe in our homes.
ZERO chance we will hear anything about this from Management or a story in the Town & Village.
VERY clear pic of the perpetrator.
Let's hope this vile thug is apprehended quickly.
https://nypost.com/2018/10/08/man-wanted-for-groping-woman-after-following-her-into-elevator/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=pasteboard_app
Rick??? SUSAN????
Have been trying to open the website for Spectrum News, but it doesn't work. Spectrum did to Time Warner's NY1 what Tishman Speyer did to PCVST. Totally destroyed it.
Does not surprise me.I am positive that my neighbors have some kind of city subsidy. They don’t appear to be able to afford 3500 a month and have been there 3 years, longer than any other neighbor. They moved in with some sort of church.
We live above Hane. The building is a dorm. Revolving door of students and frat and losers. Can't sleep, crap neighbors, parties nightly. Dump. a total dump.
https://nypost.com/2018/10/08/man-wanted-for-groping-woman-after-following-her-into-elevator/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=pasteboard_app
We have all those PS around and monitors. Well, as usual, a crime or its potential has not been stopped by what we are paying for, but now that he is on camera, the game is up for him.
>>We live above Hane.<<
Now that you mention it, what about the noise in the restaurant? Hane isn't bad, but that Mexican place across the street? Constant loud noise when the drinking and partying starts.
Most of the buildings are dorms.
The PS is not around at night after dark.
We have some very obviously City subsidized in my building (on 14th). Drunken people, loud music and totally no couth. I know it could be any and every frat boy hole, but they are not frat boys. They are a clearly dysfunctional family with extended family coming and going and all pretty much of the same type.
EAST VILLAGE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Police are searching for the suspect who followed a woman into an elevator and attacked in Manhattan.
The sexual assault happened in an elevator Monday at 8 a.m. in a building in Stuyvesant Town near East 20th and Avenue C. 315 AVE C.
Police released surveillance video showing the man they are trying to find.
It shows him walking into an apartment building.
You need a card to gain access to the lobby, but they say he "piggy backed" on a resident and walked in after someone else unlocked the door.
Now there is sign warning neighbors about what happened.
The man, believed to be in his 30s, followed a woman into the elevator where he groped and kissed her.
She tried to get away.
She says he tried to pull her into the stairwell, where he got on top of her and choked her.
When she screamed, she says he ran off.
The victim suffered scratches to her neck and was treated at Bellevue Hospital.
This complex has a lot of security, but that hasn't stopped a couple of similar incidents from happening in recent years.
Residents are being warned to be on alert and remember the cardinal rule: never hold the door open for anyone you don't know.
"You got to watch out who you let in, you know?" neighbor Mark Lekocaj told Eyewitness News. "You never know who's behind you. So I always try to explain that to people, and I always watch my surroundings as well."
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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D U M P !!!
"The complex has a lot of security ...." Who knew? Lot of cameras, but not much manpower. There are more cameras than there are security officers, so it's not possible to man all of those cameras (even if several are watched by one person) and have enough boots on the ground. When word gets around about how UNSAFE this dump is maybe idiots will stop paying top dollar to live in a bottom-level dump.
The above incident further shows why doormen are a true amenity, not these crappy movies and concerts they pass on as amenities.
What buildings exactly on 14th St.?. Please get specific when you talking about crappy buildings with excessive noise, etc. Are these the buildings closest to 1st Ave? These seem like a horror.
Busted!
"Update: Police have arrested a man who was staying at the Armory Men’s Shelter on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn. Melvin Collins, 36, was arrested Tuesday afternoon and charged with burglary, sexual abuse, criminal obstruction of breathing, forcible touching and assault."
https://town-village.com/2018/10/09/man-chokes-sexually-assaults-woman-in-stuy-town-elevator/
It was just a matter of (quick) time.
Many of the buildings all over the property have a crappy demo. It is not just on 14th St. There are dorms, Airbnb, city subsidized, tourists, etc all over the place including my Oval building. Maybe Peter Cooper is better than the Sty. Today I saw a group of about 6 just off the plane with wrapped wheelers entering the property calling their hosts.
Low life demo all over the property
400 E20th is a tough building with a lot of problem. We lived there and it was getting slummy. Bad spot with terrible construction noise jackhammering constant. I dont know how any sane person can live there.
I had my first experience (lucky me, so far) with left over doggie pee and do-do in an elevator. It was small, but I can still smell it, even though I didn't step into it. Thank you, Rick and Blackstone. Let's not forget Robbie, too.
My name is Peter W, and I am here to call all of you guys liars. There was not an attack on the property yesterday. Our esteemed CEO Rick met with the woman that made these accusations, and it was determined that it was her fault for not following the “Good Neighbor” policy and closing the door behind her.
As a matter of fact, anytime anything goes wrong here it is your fault, not ours!! Don’t believe me, just check out my Yelp reviews. Oh, and just so we sound sympathetic, “our thoughts and prayers are with the ‘victim’.”
Believe it or not (where have I heard that), some people will think it is true, but there should be a wink or a LOL, to make sure it is a joke.
“our thoughts and prayers are with the ‘victim’.” and this time we have no civil liability.
Anony 9.21 PM
That Peter W. at Yelp, he's quite the kick, isn’t he?................Of course I’m being facetious.
Rick’s email from last night tells me all I need to know - “Public Safety officers will continue to patrol with heightened presence over the coming days.”
DAYS??? DAYS!!!
Rick, if you think all will be swell and fine after a few days, you are dumber than I though, and it shows your true colors. And that is that you don’t give a shit, cause if you did you’d be looking for a permanent long-term solution to this problems.
Oh, and I have not noticed this heightened presence. Maybe you just meant that day, Monday.
They are always around days but not nights.
Everybody knows dangerous squirrels are the #1 crime problem here.
Who is peter W? Mr. Peter if you read this, you reply on Yelp but continue to treat residents like shit here. You think we don't know you only post if for yelp You think we're stupid. You dont do jack shit to help anyone who complains on yelp.
The guy was from Brooklyn but came here to this specific area and this specific building to assault a woman. Says it all, really, doesn't it? This has become a magnet for human scum and criminals. They know there's no police presence in this area, and obviously "security" is a bbunch of mallcops.
this will increase as word gets around. Also, no doubt the public defender will paint him as an unfortunate misunderstood soul who just never got a good start in life
This area is also a target for sex assaulters and criminals due to the large population of young college students.
The POS who tried to rape and murder the young woman who fought for her life for ten minutes right under the "SECURITY" camera lived in some kind of facility in New Jersey. Yes, that area is seen as a place of opportunity by sexual predators.
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