So I sat outside this morning near the Oval. All of the "decorations" are tacky and low-class. Some are very big--and tacky. Residents who have been around "in the old days" know this, but some are mercifully forgetful or they just don't care, having been beaten down by whatever management is in place. There used to be a time when the fountain area was filled with real decorations and there was nice Christmas music playing. No more. And the purpose of these decorations is not just "for the children." Children you can give a red ball to, and they will be happy. No, the purpose is ALSO for adults, who can travel in dreams that delight all.
But now the Oval area is tacky. Welcome to Stuy Town!
This morning I was also met with several large bins outside my building that were holding move-in furniture. Not a problem to me, and welcome. But.... one elevator was filled to the brim with furniture, and no one could get in. And there was no worker from the moving company around. So one elevator was out of commission because residents could not get in and had to wait for the other elevator.
There is no "service elevator" in this place, so all move-ins and move-outs have to use the residents' elevator.
Stuy Town is a disaster. With the L line shutdown, with the ferries, the new bus lanes, it will be more of a disaster. Living in New York City is not what is meant to be. Why people accept this is becoming more and more unreasonable. Many don't care any more. The message is: You live in the city, so take it all and don't bitch.
NO HEAT!
ReplyDeleteWho cares about the tacky holiday decorations.
NO HEAT!
I want heat.
I want heat.
>>Who cares about the tacky holiday decorations.<<
ReplyDeleteAs someone who walks around the Oval, and, if it is a nice day, sits at the Oval, I care. But, yeah, having no or little heat is a problem, too.
My heat has suddenly dropped off. Maybe because it is a relatively warm day. I will wait until it is cold again and then start the complaining. Had good heat all winter and all of a sudden pipes are cold. This place sucks.
ReplyDeleteOf course, we are aware (?) that Blackstone saves money when there is no heat at any time during the winter.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteDe Blasio appointed Goldman Sachs exec who handed over our long suffering, but at-that-time salvageable community and our homes to predatory Blackstone successfully executing Speyer's failed business plan raking in multiple billion dollar windfalls destroying our community is leaving office.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/nyregion/alicia-glen-resigns-city-hall-de-blasio.html
"Deputy Mayor Who Oversaw Amazon Deal and Troubled Housing Authority Is Stepping Down"
Best quote from article: “Her legacy is creating affordable housing that is not affordable”
December 20, 2018 at 8:26 AM
Good riddance to a DeBlasio appointment that when he appointed her he clearly was giving the middle finger to the middle class.
Right back at you DeBlasio and Glen. ;)
This disaster of a management has to be either deliberately destroying the place or they are just such total morons that they don't see it.
ReplyDeleteNo heat, move-ins and move-outs as a constant traffic we have to put up with. Recycling bins stuffed with dirty pizza boxes and plates and all kind of sit that doesn't belong. Our recycling doesn't go to a recycling plant, it goes straight to a landfill.
The noise, the filth, the constant turnover, propped open doors, package and mail theft - and the cherry on the cake: no heat. Anybody moving in here at this point has to be totally ignorant of what they are getting into or such total losers that they like a chaotic, dirty, cold dump to live in.
Most of them are students on bulk one year leases, air bnb and city subsidized thrown in . Also tourists here for a few months. Transients.Do not care and city subsidized happy to have apartments that go for 4 grand which they are not paying.
Deletehttps://cbs6albany.com/news/local/new-york-leads-nation-in-population-loss-census-bureau
ReplyDeleteWe cant much stand this greedy landlord but in all honesty:
ReplyDeletethey paid over 5 billion - you can blame met life you can argue but this was the price and metlife sold us out.
they need to balance the 5 billion with higher rents. They cannot with many of us still yang $1,000 a month myself included. Therefore the turnover and the high rents, cheap walls, cheap floors remains. It's a business like any other and we suffer this. If you're really upset about the changes, the prices , the property , you need to hold Met Life accountable. they sold us and for a huge sum of five billion. That a lotta money even for Blackstone.
Steve Schwarzman would never put up with anyone treating him the way he is treating his tenants.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure if there has been a change of owner ship, but Franks Trattoria refuses to deliver to select buildings Stuytown. “We cannot be sure of who we are delivering to. The orders either aren’t enough($)or go to buildings where we are unwilling to go.” So established businesses who have delivered here for years are no unwilling and afraid to deliver food here. The person I spoke to was rude and angry but who can blame her.Not worth the risk they said.
ReplyDeleteI’m sick and I’m not gonna call rick the #%^*+
I always get delivery from Frank’s which is a great restaurant run by lovely people. Perhaps they are having problems with deliveries to students and other low lifes who live here. Would not surprise me.
Deletehttps://ny.curbed.com/2018/12/20/18150073/alicia-glen-city-hall-bill-de-blasio-resignation
ReplyDeletePhoto: Alicia Glen, Dan Garodnuck, Tony Shorris
Blame the Economic development corporation sham. Wasn't Garodnuck on that commission?
More and more apartments being rented to city-subsidized tenants.
ReplyDeleteMore and more short-term leases.
Churn, baby, churn!
A Christmas Tale of Woe:
ReplyDeleteI took my daughter to Macy's to see Santa.
When her turn arrived, she sat on Santa's lap.
"Ho, ho, ho, what do you want Santa to bring you this Christmas?"
"Santa, all I want this year is some heat in my Mommy's apartment. It's so cold in my bedroom."
"Don't you want any toys this year, little girl?"
"No, Santa, all I want is to be warm and toasty in my room like the other kids."
Santa gazed at my little daughter forlornly and said, "Sweetie, all I can bring is good cheer and toys.
You want heat? There is only one thing you can do:
JUST CALL RICK! And a ho, ho, ho and a Merry Christmas to all!"
Very sad but true
DeleteWhen a pizza joint refuses to deliver to certain buildings, you know the 'hood as gone down the gutter. THAT is a sure sign. We have never had that problem in the past, even in the 70s and 80s when crime was rife in New York, but not much in Stuyvesant Town. We had a real Security Force then. Thanks DeBozo and Co. for bringing the City down at our expense and your profit.
ReplyDeleteI wonder when DeBozo is going to turn StyTown into a homeless shelter and kick the real tenants out?
@4:48 PM: WHO pays $1,000 to live here? I am a longtime RS tenant and I pay twice that! The MCIs have ensured that nobody pays such a low rent anymore.
ReplyDelete10:09 AM - that is hilarious! Very sad though. I doubt that calling Rick is ever going to resolve anything. He doesn't care and I don't think he is even around very much. What's the betting that he and his family are spending the holidays in a nice warm resort, far removed from Stytown in every way, shape and form.
ReplyDeleteBlackstone has a world-wide reputation for being an abusive landlord. They are certainly living up to that reputation.
ReplyDeletei'm not so sure folks. my friends have a 2 br and still pay less than $2,000. Many still do!
ReplyDeleteThere is already a spattering of rent subsidies. Not sure how much. Might be city.
ReplyDeleteThat TA blog allows this person to make a nasty remark about complainers and then censors my reply. They are the pits. Pathetic.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of heat complaints on the TA website. It seems that lack of heat is becoming more and more common and is getting to be a complex-wide problem. It used to be confined to certain buildings and certain lines where they had faulty boilers/sensors or whatever it is that ensures we get adequate heat.
ReplyDeleteNow, however, a lady who regularly gets no heat (and, I believe, has a serious disability) is getting no hot water in her bathroom because some asshole on her line is probably using an illegal washer. Maintenance has told her that she has to wait until after the Holidays for them to do something about it. THIS IS NYCHA BEHAVIOR, BUT WE ARE NOT PAYING NYCHA RENTS!!! I wish some television station or newspaper would do an expose on the way tenants are being treated in this place. Blackstone, Hayduk and the whole stinking bunch of them should be prosecuted. They are EVIL. Just plain EVIL.
Man leaps to death from Stuy Town building
ReplyDeleteBy Ben Feuerherd October 23, 2018 |''
Who?
They are cutting down on the heat. My apartment was very warm last winter and until this month. Now it is just passable, barely. They are despicable. The TA needs to get off its rear and file a class action suit. We complain about decorations and events, but heat and hot water are necessary. They are getting away with this. People should not have to resort to space heaters in a private housing complex.
ReplyDeleteThey are very hush hush about all the suicides here. I still want to know about sulfuric acid boy. Wasn't there a lawsuit instituted by the tenants in that building? There is no control over who they rent to and they will rent to anybody who is willing to pay the ridiculous market rent. We have gone so far down the gutter at this point that I don't think things will ever get better, just worse.
ReplyDeleteHEAT:
ReplyDeleteThis is Stand Up and Fight
and I've had no or little heat since Monday (Six days now). I have placed many, many, many calls and been talked unto death about "thermometers, set points, computers, NYC laws (55 degrees outside, etc.) I have pleaded, screamed, reasoned, cajoled.
I had a longish face to face talk with Richard Hayduk a couple of days ago. I came away thinking I'd have heat.
Several people, including Rick's assistant, have naively told me they are dealing with this problem of heat "all day long" - meaning - CALLS ALL DAY LONG ABOUT LACK OF HEAT.
Okay. Last Spring, a man who works here and had transferred/moved up in the sick and twisted organization advised me that things were getting worse here.
He also specified that HEAT WOULD BE LOWERED THIS WINTER.
I did not want to believe him.
I am asking now: is there a lawyer who knows NYC Landlord Tenant law who will meet with me, as a new client, to advise me about the advisability of several options about which I am thinking? THIS IS A REQUEST FOR A LAWYER WHOM MY HUSBAND AND I WILL PAY.
I am asking now: do any of you KNOW an lawyer whom I can retain to deal with Blackstone specifically about this heating issue? Or do any of you know anyone who knows a lawyer?
I am asking now: will ANY of you, and/or anyone you know, join with me to do the following:
Open a new savings account which is designated only for rent money, into which we pay on each appropriate rental period day or days. We write a letter, and follow-up letters, to these dear landlords explaining that they are withholding heat from us, that we have placed our rent monies into separate accounts earmarked for that sole purpose, and will be pleased to pay the rent when we have heat.
I will be pleased and delighted to accompany any and all residents to their bank of choice as a support system on the day they open such account.
I will be most appreciative if other residents will do the same for me. If several/many, or even one or two of this do this, I will be exceedingly happy to be part of that group.
As I've written before, despite Blackstone being "a worldwide company," and despite "laws" specifying next to no heat as what is allowable, I would think that if there were even 3 or 4 of us willing to do this as a group, we'd end up with some relief.
PLEASE E-MAIL ME: quietenjoymentnow@gmail.com
What is interesting about the heat issue is that the engineers give you a canned spiel about the sensors. What was even more interesting is that ten minutes before he cameup my heat went back on after being off much of the day. So of course the thermometer measured good heat. They keep saying that it has been a scattered problem for seven years but that is a lie. I have never had a heat problem until recently. Tonight my heat is on full blast. This something the TA should be taking on.
ReplyDeleteI think they are withholding heat because they hope that a lot of the older rent stabilized tenants will get sick and die. They know the students probably don't care (especially as they are packed in like sardines). I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of babies and toddlers get very sick and die as the result of no heat. Blackstone is a vile company and people who work for it have to be as vile and immoral as the company requires them to be.
ReplyDeleteThe should advertise this dump as "No Fee No Heat Apartments." I do believe that the word is getting around that it is a terrible place to live with heatless winters.
Step 1 Open the TA Books
ReplyDeleteStep 2 Expose them for who they are
Step 3 Get rid of the TA
Step 4 Get a new TA
Step 5 Get Heat
TV & or news should report the illegal charges. Here's the headline:
ReplyDeleteHow does a corporation receiving nyc tax breaks from nyc (guess who pays for that peeps) have a $1150.00 apartment go to $4300.00 a month in a matter of weeks? Thousands of units and this is allowed plus is fine with all of us and the city. Uh, really?
Yes it is unbelievable. And then to top it all, the corporation packs in three students and skimps on heat.
Delete@Stand Up and Fight
ReplyDeleteTim Collins is the TA’s — meaning our — lawyer. I would contact him, at least to start off with. His office represents Tenant Groups and Individual Tenants.
http://collinsdobkinmiller.com
(212) 587-2400
tcollins@collinsdobkinmiller.com
Minimal heat
ReplyDeleteBrown water coming out of faucets and shower
What a deal?
Only $3800/per month rent
PigStuyTown otherwise known as the "projects" on 14th Street
Oh, well, I can always drown my sorrows with an overpriced, tepid cup of coffee at the Five Turd eColi Café...another "amenity"....hahahaha
It is absolutely unfathomable to me how people pay these outrageous rents to live in this dump.
ReplyDeleteFor similar prices, one can live in a doorman building without the insulting "amenities" like no carpeting, no heat, brownish-brackish water, dormification, garbage, pot smoking galore, dog shit everywhere.
I don't get it.
NO HEAT:
ReplyDeleteOne person on this blog posts as his name. I am close to it.
If I (A) post under my own name; (B) start a Twitter thread to organize us, publicize us, and draw more people into our action:
CAN I COUNT ON ANYONE TO JOIN ME IN PUBLICLY AND LOUDLY DEMANDING HEAT? CAN I COUNT ON PEOPLE ACTING TO PROTECT THEMSELVES, THEIR ANIMALS, THEIR FAMILIES?
CAN I COUNT ON THOSE WHO ARE SUFFERING BADLY FROM LACK OF HEAT PARTICIPATING IN A RENT STRIKE, AS HAS BEEN SUGGESTED HERE?
https://nypost.com/2018/12/22/the-exodus-of-new-york-citys-endangered-middle-class/
ReplyDelete12 09 there are no doorman buildings south of 94th street that have 850 square feet or more with no fee for less than 4 grand a month. feel free to post it.
ReplyDeleteI am letting it be known throughout the Planet that this is the worst place in NYC to rent because it is run by the worst "management" that is only interested in collecting high rent for zero service. No heat, constant noise from uncouth tenants and dirty buildings and grounds that are strewn with filthy mattresses all over what used to be a beautiful bucolic oasis in NYC.
ReplyDeleteBlackstone is certainly living up to its reputation for being the most predatory landlord on the planet and nobody with any sense should rent an apartment here. Even if you are paying a low rent it is not worth it. The longtime tenants are under siege from this asshole management that doesn't want to put any effort into enforcing the many rules they institute (strictly on paper), but endeavor to rent to the most lowlife demo who will be subsidized by the City or parentally. It has become a hellhole. Hayduk should move on because he is a total failure as a manager. Could be that he is perfect for Blackstone's purposes because his style of management ensures a turnover and hastens the demise of the elderly who have RS apartments.
I am new to Stuy Town.
ReplyDeleteSomeone told me that the Tenants Association is a sham, corrupt, and "cooking" their books.
is this true? They sent me a membership application...$50???
Send I join or toss it/
Thanks,
Newbie
The TA used to be proactive here but now does nothing. We have numerous issues here including lack of heat which they do not address. Do not waste your money. They do nothing.
Delete>>12 09 there are no doorman buildings south of 94th street that have 850 square feet or more with no fee for less than 4 grand a month. feel free to post it.<<
ReplyDeleteAs far as I know, neighboring Waterside has comparably priced apartments and, for sure, they have a door man.
https://www.watersideplaza.com/
1 Bed 1 Bath $3,491
ReplyDelete1 Bed 1 Bath $3,600
1 Bed 1 Bath $3,600
1 Bed 1 Bath $3,164
1 Bed 1 Bath $3,164
1 Bed 1 Bath $3,382
2 Bed 1.5 Bath $4,700
2 Bed 2 Bath $6,595
2 Bed 2 Bath $6,895
2 Bed 1 Bath $3,927
2 Bed 2 Bath $4,909
It has been a while since I was there, but they do not seem to have signs all over the place telling residents how to behave, etc.
Pretty sure Waterside does not include electric and those charges are pretty high in all seasons. Pretty sure Waterside one bedroom ; example; is much smaller than stuy. There is no subway and a bare bus there. No shopping and one supermarket. Hardly a comparison.
ReplyDelete8:15pm
ReplyDeleteI’m sick and tired of you coming on here and saying you can not get a doorman building with 850sf and killer amenities below 96th street with no fee for under $4000.
On 5 occasions I’ve provided links from Street Easy with at least a handful of links to show that you have no clue what you’re talking about and that those things do exist. I’m not doing it again, because anyone who takes 2 minutes to go on Street Easy can find that there are no fee apartments meeting what you specify.
I’m not saying there is a plethora of apartments meeting those criteria, but there are always some, so do not come on here saying there are none.
I agree. There are better apartments for the price available. Rooms may be smaller but you don’t have to deal with no heat and dorms.
Delete>>Pretty sure Waterside does not include electric and those charges are pretty high in all seasons. Pretty sure Waterside one bedroom ; example; is much smaller than stuy. There is no subway and a bare bus there. No shopping and one supermarket. Hardly a comparison.<<
ReplyDeleteI am very familiar with Waterside, at least a few years back. The apartment I saw was much superior to a Stuy Town apartment, and, depending on the location, you can get a great view of the river and fireworks from there. I am sure that there are pluses and minuses in doing a comparison, but to say that nothing is available is not correct. If you look (and really look) and compare, chances are you will find something that is close to what a new tenant has in Stuy Town.
And the pool and health club in Waterside. No comparison. We don't even have a pool.
ReplyDeleteAgain, my statement is about the Waterside I saw a few years back, but I never saw what I see here, which is disorganization, garbage galore, a general look of "use it and don't clean up," etc. What I saw looked clean and contemporary.
ReplyDeleteAnd, face it, Stuy Town was built for the working class. "Projects" is not far off. Yes, our landlords are trying to upgrade it, at least money-wise, but it is still "the projects," and no amount of money and spin and "amenities" will change that. Until they bulldoze it down.
ReplyDeleteThese heat problems make this place even more like city housing. How can people say it is better than other places below 96th St.
DeleteThe one negative I can see in Waterside is the location. Otherwise it far excels this dump.
ReplyDeleteWhen New Yorkers could say what was on their minds, this place was known, and written about, as "the projects." I have proof, too.
ReplyDeleteAs to Waterside and its location: There is frequent bus service, but no subway. Yet, residents of Stuy Town complain about either the distance of our own subway, the "cattle-car" fullness during rush hour, and now next year's closure of the L line.
Of course, Waterside also has a "Good Neighbor" policy:
ReplyDeleteBe a Good Neighbor
by qaiax | Mar 19, 2016 | Community | 0 comments
10 Suggestions for Friendly Relations at Waterside
Remember the walls are paper thin and the floors and ceilings not much better. You can hear your neighbors and they can hear you. So keep the noise down, especially after 10pm and before 7am (later in weekends).
Loud music or TV can be annoying to others. Sometime neighbors work together doing a volume test so they know at what sound level they are disturbing their neighbors.
Take your shoes off when you come home. Your downstairs neighbors won’t hear you padding around in soft slippers but wearing those high heels indoors will drive them crazy.
Ask the kids to play ball outside rather than in the living room. If they must play indoors, make sure it’s on a carpeted floor to mitigate the noise.
Speaking of carpet: your lease requires you to cover 80% of your floor space.
Don’t let your apartment door slam shut. The whole floor will get a fright and your neighbors’ walls will shudder. There’s not much we can do about those pesky menu delivery people slamming the stairwell doors, but at least we know better, right?
What about that garbage room! Please put your garbage down the chute, not in bags on the floor. Recycled materials should be stacked neatly not just thrown anywhere. Some floors have bins for bottles and plastics so please use them.
If you smoke, consider quitting. Otherwise smoke outside or invest in an odor eater so that your neighbors don’t have to breathe secondhand smoke. An open window doesn’t always help as it can blow the smoke out under your door and in under your neighbors’ down the hall.
If you cook, make sure the vent in your kitchen is working to expel cooking smells. To paraphrase an old saying: remember that one man’s grilled meat is another man’s putrid stink!
If there’s something that your neighbors are doing that is driving you crazy, knock on their door and explain, or slip a polite note under their door. Don’t call the doorman to complain unless it’s a last resort. Often people have no idea they are upsetting their neighbors and quickly make amends once they know. Similarly, if your neighbors complain to you, don’t take offense but try to see it their way.
Waterside is a scandalous sham that is a big part of all the problems in Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village development into the epic failure of the Tenant Association condo Conversion that led to the TA hiding their accounting books
ReplyDeleteRavitch owns it. His construction company is one of histories more criminal enterprises and they know it That is why they burn the accounting books the first time they got caught and they destroyed them a second time in 2011.
Owner's family Richard Ravitch's construction company so shady they broke into their own offices to destroy evidence after the feds shut the office down after Ravitch used every office of public service he occupied for his personal gain.
Ravitch housed his own little army of predators inside different apartments in the building to harass targets, even Ravitch's targets in Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village in the way of development of this waterfront acreage from 14th up to the helipad including Waterside.
Ravitch family will make a fortune with development of Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village.
Waterside apartments housed a few of the Ravitch family White Plains / Westchester hitmen harassers (who are men and women).
Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village ground was sup[posed to break 2013 - 2016 but Garodnick, TA Board, Bloomberg failed to do that and Garodnick, TA Board with Deblasio failed their many attempts after that to fulfill Rob Speyers accusations of tenants gaming the system and Garodnick's famous litigation set up to blame the offending tenant gaming the system for the abuse from Rob Speyer of all the tenants. This NY Times article so carefully worded to protect and defend Rob Speyer's cleansing the residency and blaming one bad apple tenant for causing all of the harm to the entire community.
This NY Times article is of the same intention as the 2016 John Marsh article that shows how Rob Speyer, Garodnick, the TA Board were all working together to blame a tenant on the aggressive residency purge so the innocent tenants could sue the bad tenant for causing the problems in the community and thus justifying the aggressive tactics by Rob Speyer.
To build a big pool of money for the innocent tenants to sue the targeted bad tenant, the TA Board with property management ran sham businesses a la Eliot Spitzer's formula for taking down the mafia.
The targeted tenant by the TA, Garodnick, and property management Spitzer sham business takedown / shakedown got damaged and destroyed.
The problem is the TA, Garodnick and property management Knapp, Speyer, Hayduk did not create enough false evidence to prosecute their target because their target, a woman, was not guilty of gaming the system; they too were innocent. The woman is another in a long list of Stuyvesant Town suspicious deaths and suicides.
The truth will get out about the disgusting Tenant Association Board.
This is worth reading to understand the history of Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village and those repeating history (Starrett) demolishing the property to develop it by accusing the tenants of being society's most stupid, offensive criminal cretins - the most dangerous of mentally disturbed criminals who must be removed and put in prisons and mental health incarcerations.
ReplyDeleteUsing prison and mental health prisons against tenants is a long standing practice by old money developers and their old standing career politicians. Putting innocent people in criminally insane incarceration for rich real estate developers to get richer epitomizes how far the career politicians have fallen from positions of grace to committing actions of sociopaths.
The Tenant Association still refuses to open their books and the construction companies are still destroying their business records. The Waterside Plaza - White Plains Ravitch HRH Construction and the Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village construction goes back to 2000 with the MTA HRH fraud that was followed shortly after that with the Metlife sale of PCVST to itself in 2003. Remember October 2004 MetLife internally transfered owndership of PCVST from one Morristown NJ MetLife entity to another Morristown NJ Metlife entity all at the same address 10 Park Ave Morristown NJ
Destroying the business records to cover up crimes is a repeated occurrence by Ravitch family Construction Company, whether burning the business records or breaking into their own Fed-shut-down offices to steal and shred.
Live at Waterside at your own risk along with Ravitch pals who will be your neighbors who use the same business scams, double billing, cheating anyone and everyone any and every way possible. Then again we have a shady tenant association who refuses to open the books after years of highly publicized projects as the TA Board battle against Airbnb and the TA Board President led battle against bed bugs. A lot of press for the TA Board Treasurer Salacan sleuthing for illegal hotels and TA Board President Marsh major bed bug complex wide sleuthing. The TA Board spent lot of money in these ghost illegal hotel and bed bug shams.
Fast read on Waterside developer and owner Ravitch whose family company was a front for the real developers.
https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/the-ravitch-family-retrospective/
Downfall of New York builder HRH Construction
Bankruptcy trustee Marianne O'Toole arrived at the offices of HRH Construction in White Plains on April 15—premises she had personally secured three days earlier—to seize the company's records. She found the front door ajar.
Computers belonging to HRH's chief executive, in-house counsel and human resources manager were missing. A cabinet had been emptied and recent work files had vanished, a complaint in U.S. Bankruptcy Court alleges.
Electronic key card records revealed that cards belonging to the firm's counsel and tech guru had been used the morning after Ms. O'Toole sealed the office. Someone with the techie's card had spent 12 hours there over two days. It was the latest in a series of bizarre actions that have buried a once-storied New York builder.
Once owned by the family of former Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch, the 86-year-old firm built Citicorp's headquarters and was Donald Trump's contractor of choice.
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20110522/REAL_ESTATE/305229971/downfall-of-new-york-builder-hrh-construction
@2:18 PM: will you please cite the NYT article that backs up all you've said. Without cites, what you write sounds like paranoid drivel.
ReplyDeleteevery other weekend the apartment in 635 E. 14th st. has one of their pot smoking parties that stink uo the hallway, carrying on until after 2 Am (of course Security can't smell anything!!)
ReplyDeletedoor slamming every 10 minutes until after 3-4 calls Security finally shuts it down after 3 Am.
This is a reality show at its best. Who needs Netflix?
I remember when we were having these horrible windows foisted upon us (and which we are paying an MCI for in perpetuity) one of the "selling points" Management was touting was that they were what Donald Trump was putting in his latest apartment building. So, it's not surprising that they are substandard rubbish, not worth a penny, and are no better than the old windows that they removed - and were also substandard rubbish, but only because they had arrived at that point after about 50 years or more of wear and tear.
ReplyDelete"Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village ground was sup[posed to break 2013 - 2016 but Garodnick, TA Board, Bloomberg failed to do that and Garodnick, TA Board with Deblasio failed their many attempts after that to fulfill Rob Speyers accusations of tenants gaming the system and Garodnick's famous litigation set up to blame the offending tenant gaming the system for the abuse from Rob Speyer of all the tenants. This NY Times article so carefully worded to protect and defend Rob Speyer's cleansing the residency and blaming one bad apple tenant for causing all of the harm to the entire community."
ReplyDeleteGive dates please, so that we can look this up in the NYT and see that you aren't doing some glue-sniffing. STR, why do you allow this kind of thing to be published on your blog? It sounds like somebody is off their meds.
>>STR, why do you allow this kind of thing to be published on your blog? It sounds like somebody is off their meds.<<
ReplyDeleteIt is the people's blog!
"very other weekend the apartment in 635 E. 14th st. has one of their pot smoking parties that stink uo the hallway, carrying on until after 2 Am (of course Security can't smell anything!!)
ReplyDeletedoor slamming every 10 minutes until after 3-4 calls Security finally shuts it down after 3 Am."
Call the cops. Security has no balls by order of Rick.
Ummm, everyone knows the infamous NYTimes article and everyone knows they all used the same public relations firm.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/nyregion/27stuyvesant.html
As for the harassment lawsuit against Tishman Speyer for the aggressive tactics, well where are they? Were they filed? No tenant won a harassment case against a landlord in 20 years so we know they did not win. Were they even filed?
No. They were not filed because they were waiting for the scapegoat to be prosecuted so the tenants could sue Tishman Speyer for harassment and Tishman Speyer then sues the scapegoat for being so criminally inclined they harmed the value of the property and the lives f their neighbors.
"Today, the paper rums a massive story on Tishman Speyer's crackdown on rent-stabilized tenants at Stuy Town, and the charges of harassment made by those tenants caught in the crossfire.
Of the 800 stabilized leases denied renewal by Tishman Speyer since December 2006, about 40% of those cases were later dropped, and 30% resulted in the tenant vacating the apartment. The remaining cases have not been resolved yet.
This means that, more often than not, Tishman Speyer has tried to kick out a rent-stabilized tenant who had every right to be there. Or, they just got lazy and didn't follow up. Or, they felt bad and decided not to force the issue. Um, we'll assume it's mostly the first explanation."
https://ny.curbed.com/2008/5/27/10569736/stuy-town-follies-now-its-war+
Even the press wondered what the deal was with this set up.
The harassment cases were never filed. Why not?
"one of the "selling points" Management was touting was that they were what Donald Trump was putting in his latest apartment building."
ReplyDeleteThat is interesting. Did Donald Trump have anything to do with the selection of the franchisee contractor being awarded with the very profitable Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village window replacement?