As predicted, the paint was impossible to scrub out, and this morning, a little after 9am, the "paintings" are still there.
This post is not just about the paintings, it is about Stuy Town. There have been a couple of improvements, true. But I see every day, and many times in that day, violations of "the rules." Not my rules, but either Stuy Town rules or the city rules. I have never seen this place looks so bad, so cheap, as I do now.
I pay a true stabilized rent, and even that seems too much. I pity those who pay much more; I also pity those that do not get proper heat, or that live at 14th Street and hear the noise there and take in the dirt and fumes. I pity those that live around the "Ice" playground and have to listen to the staccato, loud noise of hockey pucks hitting a barrier.
Meanwhile, our TA is silent, our local politicians, too.
Welcome.
Update 1/6.2019:
Yesterday it rained all day. Let's look at the "paint spray." Should be gone by now with all this rain. Let's see:
329 comments:
1 – 200 of 329 Newer› Newest»Hey, it's freedom of expression. That kid is a 'budding artist!' When he gets older he'll be 'tagging' subway cars. That makes me pine for the graffiti-scarred subway cars from years back!
I actually feel bad for the kid having such a clueless parent. Not surprised considering how many clueless parents are around these days.
Good parenting!
My bedroom is down to legal minimum of 68. It will inevitably slide below in an hour or so. I will log and photograph. When I have a pattern of this I will contact the city. If all tenants did this maybe we could get somewhere.
I predict that Stuy Town will "prove" that they are following the city's requirements for heat. The excuses for a particular apartment will be there by them. It will be, ultimately, the tenant's fault of "mistaken impression"....
But, the more people, the better....
It looks bad EVERY day!
Photographs do not lie.
This place has really and truly deteriorated into a slum on Hayduk's watch. He is the worst manager we have ever had. He's probably Blackstone's idea of perfect, but that's not a high bar. I can't understand why they put a clueless jerk like him in charge of a property like this. Behind the phony smile, he's not really a very nice man. He is totally uncaring of how we suffer from lack of heat, noise from unruly tenants and the total dangerous mess of speeding bikes, dogs and lack of law enforcement on the property. I wish he would just go away.
And it's gunna get worse!
Never goes below 68 and never above 71. Always feels like it's freezing in here.
Hopefully, the clueless parents are paying for the clean up.
Bring back Bill Potter.
When I'd lived near Playground 12 (admittedly, a very long time ago), it was not permitted to draw on the ground with chalk INSIDE, much less outside, the playground.
Oh well, Blackstone should just evict the offending family without delay for vandalism of the property.
They can then get a higher rent from the succeeding suckers, and that's what really matters (to them).
Yeah, I don't remember kids using chalk on the sidewalks outside or inside, too. But now it's a different thing. Kids are allowed to draw anywhere.... But this incident was with paint, not chalk. With chalk, the rain will take it away, with paint, forget it.
Spray paint, no heat, dirty uncovered mattresses all over the place. Yup, this is officially a slum.
I was a 70’s-80’s kid that grew up here, and there have always been kids using chalk here, both in and out of the playgrounds. Spray paint not so much, but always chalk. My kids used it here in the 00’s.
I think the spray paint is horrible, but let’s not get back into the chalk silliness. It has ALWAYS been going on here.
My experience is that chalk on sidewalks was not used in this community. I've been here about 30 years, and when I saw chalk all over the Oval Fountain area, it surprised me. Your experience is different. Not saying you are lying at all, but I never saw this.
But the post is not about chalk but paint. The only time I saw paint was vandals who tagged along the perimeter.
The family should be fined & made to pay for the repairs. What kind of a parent is this woman??? Poor kid. Yes, this place is a slum.
This blog published the link to the METLIFE and CBRE CB Richard Ellis brokers 73 page selling booklet for StuyTown that promised new owners impossible return on investment that could only be achieved by kicking out current tenants for new, higher rent-paying tenants. MetLife and CBRE CB Richard Ellis are responsible for everything all the new owners and special servicers have done to us and the property. Metlife tried to do the condoconversion themselves and failed. Metlife and Metlife foundation remains involved with StuyTown tenants today. There really is not much difference between Metlife and Blackstone except for better PR from Snoopy ads. CBRE Richard Ellis wrote the book and the politicians carried out their plan. This blog also covered MetLife's broker CBRE Richard Ellis most famous executive laughing all the way through the REBNY gala with the StuyTown Citycouncilman Garodnick.
Metlife, CBRE Richard Ellis and City Councilman Garodnick wrote the book that destroyed this community.
http://www.cbre.us/people-and-offices/mary-ann-tighe
I am curious: have other residents actually been told they are not cold, or it isn't cold? Have they been told that they cannot truly be cold because the thermometer says different?
I too have noticed the severe drop in heat since about 3 weeks ago.
Have any people to whom they have complained become nasty, insulting, and downright threatening? Or is Mismanagement just condescending?
A link to the info below appeared in today’s email from SPS. SPS’s “Every resident should be comfortable during the winter months; if there’s an issue, we want to make it right.” statement is meaningless because the problem can’t be made right as long as our flawed sensor system determines when residents get heat. The sensor system is an abject failure and needs to be abandoned.
“The Heating System: How It Works & How To Report Issues
While New York City has guidelines for cold-weather heat requirements, StuyTown Property Services (SPS) operates by more stringent rules (warmer apartments).
SPS engineers aim to maintain apartment temperature set points at 72° during the day and 68° at night (both are above NYC-mandated temps) when the outside air temperature is below 55 degrees. Please note that there will be times that the steam pipe is cold to the touch; this does not mean the heat is off. Similar to a traditional thermostat, PCVST’s heating system (3 sensors per building, per stack, send apartment temperatures to the building management system) will periodically turn itself off when setpoint temperatures are exceeded. Steam will flow again when the sensors tell the heating system the setpoint temperatures are approaching.
If a resident believes their apartment to be cold, the engineers are greatly assisted with a thermometer reading. SPS will provide you with a complimentary thermometer. If the ambient air in your apartment drops below the two setpoints (day 72/night 68), call Resident Services at 212.420.5000, option #1. The engineers will figure it out but again, knowing the temperature of the apartment helps with the diagnosis.
Every resident should be comfortable during the winter months; if there’s an issue, we want to make it right.”
https://www.stuytown.com/importantinfo/community-information
Cuomo announced today that the L TRAIN IS NOT SHUTTING DOWN, as has been threatened and hyped for so many months.
If it true, what does this mean for us? Not only having to do with 14th Street, but the ferry, the relentless destruction of businesses and residences along the 14th Street corridor - the neighborhoods being destroyed by "gentrification" and the billionaires' race to take over the Hudson, the East River, the waterfronts . . .
Will Blackstone ease back on its destruction of this place, or speed it up, or continue at the same pace?
What kind of idiot mother lets her child spray paint property that doesn’t belong to them?? I hope they fine her a lot of money for the clean-up that management will have to do now.
I've seen chalk here for years. But none at the Oval until the last coupla years.
"It has ALWAYS been going on here."
25 years here and I will call a lying troll a lying troll.
>>Cuomo announced today that the L TRAIN IS NOT SHUTTING DOWN, as has been threatened and hyped for so many months.<<
I have no idea what it means in actuality, but, if true, then a lot that not only has been planned but put into effect is useless.
Once again, the city makes expensive plans, then (apparently) does away with them. But the people can pay is the thinking, so....
So does this mean they are not going to repair the tunnel or that the tunnel never needed repairing in the first place? Of course, if it DOES need repairs and they aren't made and the tunnel caves in and the East River goes gushing down to the subway tunnel, it will eliminate a whole train (or two) of Hipsters and ease the burden on the rental markets in Williamsburg and lower Manhattan. Have to look on the bright side.
9:25
Then I will call an ignorant non-observant fool an ignorant non-observant fool. Kids here have always used chalk, although I will admit it was usually contained to the playgrounds until recently.
I have pictures from my childhood here (long before you moved here 25 years ago) with groups of kids in the playgrounds coloring with chalk. We also used chalk to draw bases when playing baseball in playground 10 and 3.
Again, I’m not here to get into the semantics on chalk. If kids want to color with chalk, let them color with chalk. It will wash away in the rain, and it’s better than youngsters being glued to an iPad. Spray paint is a completely different story, and that family would have been thrown out of the property back in the day.
Re: the L train. This is either going down as "Cuomo's Folly" or "Cuomo the Savior." Way too early to tell.
8:06, In response to my heat issues they have been pleasant but they still exist. They are only giving adequate heat from 4 to 9. My thermometers have slipped below 68 on a couple of occasions. Some reps are nicer than others. One rep even told the engineers to pump up my heat at 2:30. They have fixed my windows and want me to have the engineers come up again if there is no improvement. They also said that nobody else in my line has complained. My response was that they are probably students and don’t care. If you are working from 9 to 5 you would not feel the miserable cold from 11 to 3. My experience has been that they can pump up the heat when they want to and there has been a definite cut. You really can’t blame the reps as they are told what to say.
Chalk has always been used here. I grew up here and even then it was used.
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We, Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village aka Blackstone and Ivanhoe Cambridge's newly name StuyTown, have serious issues going on from slumlord quality of life, heath threatening lack of heat, increase of violent crimes against women, increase of suicides, etc.
Serious problems enabled and even caused by corrupt politicians with their staffs of miscreants.
How is it possible a parent allows a child to spray paint another person's rightful property? How ignorant or deliberately malicious is that parent?
How is it possible violent crimes against women increases during years of city, state and federal law enforcement presence on the property supposedly catching 100 illegal hotels that are spread out across the property, across multiple buildings thus law enforcement supposedly having presence across the property and buildings? One answer lies in the current Manhattan District Attorney and his staff of "investigators" views and treatment of women. Treatment of women that is so heinous even the NYPD SVU had to hide a victim from the Manhattan DA's investigators so they would not harass her as they went about smearing her to cover up crimes by the Manhattan DA Vance's friends who gave him money to cover up their crimes. Anyone who needs links on the Manhattan DA Vance's investigators smearing and harassing women to cover up crimes by wealthy men can get the many articles in the press coverage on Cy Vance, Harvey Weinstein, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump jr, and the cover up by Vance on their frauds and crimes.
Everyone from the tenant association to the Brookfield partnership condo conversion tenants who worked with the city investigators smearing, harassing, or even enabling the ten minute rape of Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village women is as guilty as Vance and his corrupt investigators. That includes those who wrote gushing gratitude to property management who aggressively assaulted this community with harassing golub notices during the same years.
The Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village StuyTown crimes against women, slander, harassment, rape under the watchful eyes of city, state, federal investigators and private investigators hired by Steve Schwarzman's Blackstone on the Ivanhoe Cambridge and Blackstone Corporate owned Blackstone Partnership "BPP St Owner" Stuyvesant Town Property Management payroll led by StuyTown CEO and General Manager are also committed by the city, state, federal investigators and private investigators hired by Blackstone on the Blackstone payroll.
All links have been provided in earlier blogs. Manhattan DA Vance corruption and crimes against women with his investigators smearing and harassing women for the wealthy men abusing them is well documented in the press of recent years.
StuyTown is a disgrace because a bunch of morally bankrupt investors from Metlife through Blackstone, Dinkins through deBlasio, set out to portray the tenants as morally bankrupt fraudsters "gaming the system"
The Politicians are worse. City State and Federal law officers are present and running operations they claim is property wide across "100 illegal hotels" in StuyTown during increase in violent crimes against women from harassment to rapes. Politicians from city councilman Garodnick through city hall deBlasio at the very same time pass laws to make it look like they are protecting tenants while in StuyTown we are under attack. The Garodnick and deBlasio cover up of the violent crimes, suicides and police force on campus is a bad joke with a big loop hole that only when accompanied by a buyout offer is it harassment.
At onset of Blackstone purchase:
Mayor de Blasio Signs Three New Laws Protecting Tenants From Harassment
September 3, 2015
https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/590-15/mayor-de-blasio-signs-three-new-laws-protecting-tenants-harassment
At onset of admission by in-house Blackstone private investigator (same Tishman Speyer law firms and investigators eg Fred Knapp) publishing on the internet her work with NYPD, NYS police, NYAG investigators, NYC DA investigators, and Federal FBI:
Mayor de Blasio Announces Implementation Of New Law To Combat Speculators And Tenant Displacement
January 3, 2018
https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/009-18/mayor-de-blasio-implementation-new-law-combat-speculators-tenant-displacement
Then there is this gem from city councilman Garodnick in 2008 also conveniently timed and passing laws that protect landlords more then tenants - with only slap on the wrist fines for ruining a tenant's home, peace of mind, safety, sanctity, and rights.
https://council.nyc.gov/press/2008/03/13/1323/
Garodnick, Bloomberg, Viverito, Quinn, deBlasio, Vance, Schneiderman, Diego Rodriguez, Bharara, Schumer, Maloney, Hoylman are protecting the landords. And even worse in StuyTown, they are working with the landlord Blackstone and Ivanhoe Cambridge using their respective law enforcement arms to harass tenants for the landlords. Worse yet, they are targeting women. But as we all are learning women are not the prostituting whores that some of these men have been exposed as:
The I'd Do Her Mayor Mike
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/09/mike-bloomberg-comments-women-metoo/570448/
Gross Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman's morally bankrupt bullying best friend also Rob Speyer's hired ad agency head Martin Sorrell:
Sir Martin Cavorting With Prostitutes?
by Richard Whitman , Columnist, June 10, 2018
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/320495/sir-martin-cavorting-with-prostitutes.html
Sir Martin Sorrell was ousted by WPP over prostitution claim
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sorrell-was-ousted-over-prostitution-claim-7ncf9kfrq
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The allegations against WPP's former chief, Martin Sorrell, pile up
Amid talk of sex workers, a culture of fear and bullying, Sorrell sticks to denials
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jun/12/the-allegations-against-wpps-former-chief-martin-sorrell-pile-up
They can pass all the laws they want to make themselves look like they are protecting tenants or protecting women.
The truth will come out they are the ones attacking tenants and smearing, attacking women.
Spray paint is kept in locked cabinets in stores, it has been for years since the City tried to cut down on graffiti. One must be 18 years old to buy spray paint. So this wonder child's parent bought it and allowed it. Maybe I should check the Stuytown Mom's page. I am sure they will be complaining about how mean PS was to this poor misunderstood child.
NO FU*KIN' HEAT!
62 degrees in the bedroom.
Pipes ICE COLD.
No response from my email to the Tenants Association except:
drumroll please...
you guessed it...
JUST CALL RICK!
Ivanhoe Cambridge and Blackstone's StuyTown (including Metlife, CBRE, St Owner and all of its aka's, Fortress, Tishman Speyer, BlackRock, and all of the corporations invested in Jerry and Rob Speyer's shell companies that bought StuyTown from MetLife and all the corporations invested in Ivanhoe Cambridge & Blackstone's BPP St Owner, the Metlife foundation, the PCVST Tenant Association Foundation, the PCVST Tenant Association and all its Brookfield partners and investors, I'd Do Her Mike, I'll Smear Her Vance, etc) are demonstrative of wealth / class discriminating, gender discriminating, cultures of sexual harassment against women. StuyTown record of crimes, reported, covered up by Property Services, and yet to be reported, are demonstrative of sexually harassing cultures.
StuyTown suffered for 12 years under a Mayor so morally bankrupt running a corporate culture so biased against women it is no wonder crimes against women are rampant under his watch that escalated to unprecedented heights under new ownership of his best friend Steve Schwarzman and while their third best friend Martin Sorrell ran the advertising / mail order campaigns.
After leading a culture so heinously biased against women now he wants to be the next President. Mike Bloomberg is named in the lawsuits along with his corporation.
Bloomberg saleswoman sues over rape, rampant drug culture
By Kevin Dugan
https://nypost.com/2017/02/24/bloomberg-saleswoman-sues-over-rape-rampant-drug-culture/
https://nypost.com/2018/08/23/suit-claims-bloomberg-lp-ousted-top-exec-who-witnessed-sex-harassment/
This NY Times article on the Mayor Mike Bloomberg deposition tells the truth as does his little book, on how Mike Bloomberg feels about families, women, pregnant women having kids who he tells to "Kill" the kid rather then take maternity leave and women who chose to stay home with the kid after maternity leave are thieves who should be "arrested"
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/nyregion/a-testy-bloomberg-emerges-in-discrimination-case.html
No amount of PR or tv shows by Dick Wolf glorifying Law & Order, police or FBI will cover up the atrocities in StuyTown against women under the Bloomberg / de Blasio City Hall - Tishman Speyer Jerry and Rob / Blackstone Schwarzman and ad agency/bff Sorrell - Cy Vance era.
Your ERA is over Mr Vance, Mr Bloomberg, Sorrell, Schwarzman, Speyers etc
We see you, we see who and how you really are, how you really feel about and treat women
Try PR'ing the way out of the Berlin Rosen, we see you too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/nyregion/a-testy-bloomberg-emerges-in-discrimination-case.html
OK, so the sensor system is flawed, but that does not explain why many residents stopped getting adequate heat three weeks ago. For them the sensors worked fine for many years.
>>Everyone from the tenant association to the Brookfield partnership condo conversion tenants who worked with the city investigators smearing, harassing, or even enabling the ten minute rape of Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village women is as guilty as Vance and his corrupt investigators.<<
I need authoritative links to this. Otherwise, it is just venting and trying to spread "fake news."
>>The Politicians are worse. City State and Federal law officers are present and running operations they claim is property wide across "100 illegal hotels" in StuyTown during increase in violent crimes against women from harassment to rapes.<<
Again, serious links, please.
>>Chalk has always been used here. I grew up here and even then it was used.<<
Chalk again? I lived here for about 30 years, and I have never seen chalk marking on the sidewalks allowed all over the place. I'm not talking about "bases" for baseball, I'm talking about chalk doodling in areas like the Fountain area, etc. Please provide photos from decades past about this in Stuy Town.
BTW, the painting outside of Playground 12 is still there. Of course.
It is true that Steve Schwarzman and Mike Bloomberg are best friends
It is true we have no heat
It is true that is a problem plaguing NYCHA
Obviously corruption when the new owner (Steve Schwarzman) of the to-be-developed waterfront crown jewel Manhattan NYC land is the best friend of the Mayor (Michael Bloomberg). Nice going Bill De Blasio. You could have saved the community as you promised but instead you sold out 30,000 constituents now without heat just like your De Blasio NYCHA failures. We are living in a graffiti, heatless slum thanks to Mayors Bloomberg and De Blasio. You broke a lot of campaign promises.
Obviously, we didn’t take photos in the 60’s but I do remember using chalk.
If your temperature is that low, you should be calling Management, not e-mailing the TA. You know that the TA will not do anything. I do have some heat this morning.
Thereis nothing fake about NYPD SVU having to hide a victim from Cy Vance's investigators smear tactics
The NYPD protected the victim.
The NYPD protected the victim from the Manhattan DA
The 13th precinct is under orders from the Manhattan DA as to what they can and cannot do to help victims of crimes.
Any woman smeared and accused of being a gold digger knows how these people operate.
To Catch a Predator
The NYPD’s top sex-crimes investigator tried to bust Harvey Weinstein three years ago. Then the DA stepped in.
By Kathy Dobie
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/03/michael-osgood-special-victims-commander-harvey-weinstein.html?gtm=top>m=top
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-hid-harvey-weinstein-sex-assault-case-model-da-article-1.3879611
NYPD reportedly hid Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault of model Ambra Battilana from Manhattan DA Cy Vance
By JANON FISHER
Mar 17, 2018 | 12:43 AM
The NYPD hid an Italian model who accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault from prosecutors because detectives believed Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr.'s sex crimes unit was trying to derail the case, according to a bombshell report in New York magazine.
In 2015, 22-year-old model Ambra Battilana became one of the first women to come forward charging the disgraced movie mogul with a sex attack, claiming he grabbed her breasts, put his hand on her thigh and tried to kiss her. But the case was swiftly dismissed and she was discredited by anonymous sources in the press as a gold digger.
The case became a sore point between the Police Department and the DA's office after Vance's people blamed police for botching the case.
Back to chalk. The chalk markings outside, like at the Oval Fountain area, should not be allowed for the simple reason that the Oval Fountain area is for the enjoyment of others, including grownups. Most people will not say a word, but I and a few others will. Children, being children, will do anything unless there is adult supervision. Sorry, to say, but some parents do little and allow their kids most anything. The other day, I saw a kid repeatedly hit (and I mean "hit") a mom who couldn't discipline the kid at all. Probably too late anyway.
Of course, the authority here is Rick and PS, and not a word of protest from either on these chalk markings.
>>NYPD reportedly hid Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault of model Ambra Battilana from Manhattan DA Cy Vance<<
For this blog, I'm not interested in Harvey Weinstein. Sorry.
Here is a serious link to the New York Times, a serious article on how these people, the DA office from Vance to Fairstein protectors and worshipers of Weinstein, operate. Vance and Fairstein were both Assistant District Attorneys at the same time, under Robert Morganthau. Trained and running operations together.
This NY Times reporting by Megan Twohey, James C. McKinley Jr., Al Baker and William K. Rashbaum gives truth and insight into the Manhattan DA culture
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-new-york-sex-assault-investigation.html
>>Obviously, we didn’t take photos in the 60’s but I do remember using chalk.<<
Do you remember using chalk all over the place?
It is not about Harvey Weinstein.
It is about the Manhattan DA, the NYPD, NYC Mayor and the operations by Blackstone private investigator Karen Zeilingold and what they did to my neighbor.
The Manhattan DA prosecuted ZERO Airbnb cases. Blackstone Private investigator is claiming she worked with the NYPD, State and Federal Authorities on 100 criminal cases in StuyTown. The Airbnb tourists and hotels continue to operate here everyday.
And, as far as I know, baseball playing in Playground 12 was not allowed.
The "paint" by playground 12 is most likely Spray Chalk. It's made by Testors, and judging by the videos I've watched, will wash off, but not very easily, and probably requires some soap and a power washer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFsOtzzBvlY
It is not about Weinstein.
It IS about Vance and what he is having the NYPD do in StuyTown. Former ADA current DA Vance with former ADA Fairstein.
Sorry for any confusion.
We used to use chalk everywhere. When the playgrounds were closed, we needed to be able to play hop scotch, jump the brook, and steal the bacon since the property was safe and we were allowed to play outside at night as kids.
If you need to ask what any of those three games are, you obviously did not grow up here. I’m a lifelong tenant here, but if there are actually people on here saying that chalk on sidewalks is something new here, then you had your head up your rear end for a long long time. The real reason you are noticing it now is that it is compounded with all the other things going on here and everyone is a social justice warrior with the online ability and voice to yap about things they don’t like.
Let’s fight the real battles going on here, not freaking chalk.
Ask a 13th precinct detective to help you and the honest ones will tell you that the DA's office will not let them help StuyTown tenants.
ALL the rules that once WAS? Is no longer. What a complete turnaround. Remember walking in the grass 3 times and you were outta here? Just think of all the rules that were once were.The quality of life was soo much better. BOY I took that for granted.
Cy Vance
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/manhattan-da-cy-vance-record-on-prosecuting-the-poor.html
StuyTown is a community of what Vance deems and treats as he does the "poor"
We are unworthy of Manhattan waterfront living let alone protection by the local precinct. Cy Vance and Mike Bloomberg want Manhattan filled with wealthy, rich, foreign or domestic oligarchs, no matter as long as they have money. The rights of StuyTown tenants to equal protection are being denied every time the NYPD align with the private security of Blackstone. All the complaints about quality of life and crime are because we are seen and treated as Vance treats the "poor"
Link is provided. More can be.
I almost wonder if these ridiculous non-property related posts are being done by management to make people question the validity of this blog, and to flush out the true issues and have them hidden amongst these long diatribes. They are getting ridiculous.
No, baseball was not played in 12. Usually 10, 3, 1, and 6. The recreation staff took their jobs seriously, so you played various sports where they were supposed to be played.
We have no heat but the TA claims the property management keep us warm.
We have no heat but the TA President is grateful that " Kathleen K. and Tom F. who keep us warm and our homes and buildings functional"
Years later we still have no heat and it is worse. A lot worse.
Add to that, illegal Airbnb hotels do not get the attention of the FBI under normal or any circumstances. Guess that being a billionaire is different. The FBI did work with billionaire Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone's StuyTown private investigator Karen Zeilingold.
The TA owes this community answers on what exactly, everything and all they worked on with those the former President John Marsh is so grateful towards and to open their books on the money spent doing it!
"I am grateful that we have finally achieved some real stability in Blackstone as our still-newish owner and for their important choice to have key staff living among us, sharing our quality of life. I am grateful for management’s clear voice and steady hand thus far. Grateful for their choice to keep long-serving staff like Bill M. and Fred K., who keep us safe and to Kathleen K. and Tom F. who keep us warm and our homes and buildings functional. For Rick H. and the new members of his team who are making real efforts to care for our community.
I am grateful for a strong and wary tenants association, which is practical and pragmatic in its efforts to protect our rights and our quality of life. (And let’s not forget that it was the TA whose years-long work with top legal and financial advisers led to the Blackstone takeover.) Grateful, too, for its outstanding leaders and volunteers who deserve much but get too little recognition.
John Marsh, PCV"
https://town-village.com/2016/12/01/letters-to-the-editor-dec-1-2/
25 years? 30 years? Seventies-Eighties? LOL.
You are all relative "newcomers" to some other residents/former residents.
Hard to believe, but true.
Back to the present day:
This particular miscreant not only painted on the sidewalk--he also defaced benches and iron fencing, as seen in the pictures posted.
Definitely inside playground 12 and maybe outside too
I think that many residents who had gotten adequate heat with the sensor system in the past stopped getting adequate heat starting a few weeks ago because misManagement made adjustments to the sensor system so that it now delivers less heat to everyone.
I grew up in ST and can factually state that I used chalk regularly on the stoops, sidewalks, benches, made strike zones on the playground walls for stick ball games, drew foul lines for wiffleball, end zone lines for football, etc,. There was the inevitable so and so loves so and so or a full fledged K I S S I N G poem involving local youth done in chalk on the sidewalks too. So, respectfully I disagree with those who say it wasn't done.
And you always had to keep a shirt on.
Remember, folks, dog owners claim that rain washes away what they leave behind, too.
Hence, no need for anyone (themselves or others) to clean up!
First a correction. I asked my son, who is not little anymore, about the playgrounds, and yes, chalk was used. I've never seen chalk outside of playgrounds, however.
>>Cy Vance<<
How is this related to Stuy Town? Directly.
>>It is about the Manhattan DA, the NYPD, NYC Mayor and the operations by Blackstone private investigator Karen Zeilingold and what they did to my neighbor.<<
Well, I know a couple of neighbors--and they shouldn't be considered reputable. Sorry.
>>The "paint" by playground 12 is most likely Spray Chalk.<<
Well, the kid was on his hands and knees and had a liquid in his hand. Nothing came off.
"If it is not temporary, it might do more harm than good for your cause. One citizen, tired of looking at someone's message on a sidewalk, tried washing the spray chalk off and could only partially remove it. ... Spray chalk is chalk in a spray can. It is supposed to wash off in the rain, but some brands don't."
The mother said the paint (or spray chalk) would come off and took responsibility. So far, it is still there.
Maybe people are okay with it. Spray away! I'm going to buy some spray chalk and beautify Stuy Town.
I wonder if the reduction/denial of heat is affecting the AirBnB industry on the property. Tourists tend to like warmth and comfort after a day of sightseeing.
I would like to buy some spray PAINT and write all over the walls of STYCHA "NO HEAT IN THESE APARTMENTS. DON'T RENT HERE."
This post by Marsh was a joke. The TA does nothing.
That is a likely explanation. After complaining a lot I had a little more heat this morning, more than I have had in a few weeks. Windows were addressed but no real change with that. When the pipes are hot the apartment warms up.
Agree with you
Agreed.
If people do not pay dues maybe the useless TA will disappear. I just noted a poster on the TA site who paid dues. Why in the world would any tenant pay dues. They ignore our issues and snarkingly tell us to stop trashing them because they fight MCIs . They are full of it. please DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY
Cracking up over the rules that the TA has set for its blog. I have a rule.”Do not ignore us when we ask for accountibility on issues, particularly heat.
Well, I know a couple of neighbors--and they shouldn't be considered reputable. Sorry.
January 4, 2019 at 3:52 PM
Ditto,
Neighbors here are not reputable at all.
How is this related to Stuy Town? Directly.
January 4, 2019 at 3:50 PM
Cy Vance will not let the 13th help the tenants. But the 13th will help property management and they don't even live in the precinct. The precinct is not serving this community. The Detective said the Manhattan DA won't let them.
Facts
The property is spray pained with childish graffiti
The 13th will not respond to StuyTown Tenants but they will take orders from the landlord
The apartments have no heat to barely any at all
The Airbnb tourist transients are coming in again this weekend
The TA will not respond to StuyTown tenants and will not represent tenants to the landlord but instead tells them to call the landlord themselves
The TA lawyers on the board and hired outside counsel have won ZERO MCI challenges in over 15 maybe even 20 years
The TA outside counsel negotiated for the rent stabilized tenants to pay a higher rate on The MCI charges then the market rate apartments that are rented out in bulk to corporations, foundations and NYC government.
Tenants are getting screwed out of Rights.
I understand the people in Management read the TA facebook page. Shows how busy they are if they have time to do that!
>>Cy Vance will not let the 13th help the tenants.<<
Proof? Links?
Pipes are lukewarm at best.
It is 6:50AM, Saturday.
Temperature in bedroom and living room is 64 degrees on Stuy Town thermometer.
What a joke!
I have never had problems with heat in the decades I’ve lived here. It’s usually been unbearably hot actually. This is the first year I’ve been freezing more than I’ve been warm, and there is only one thing I can think of (other than them being vindictive) - they cut up two apartments in my row to make these new layout apartments. They were both completed over the summer, and since then I have had both plumbing and heating issues.
They are playing with fire with the total destruction and reconfiguration of apartments, and unfortunately we are the ones getting burned.
The years of tenants comments on this blog about the NYPD referring them to the security on campus is a lot of proof of individual instances of the lack of public service afforded to this community. However, links are being gathered and once they are received we will post them.
Proof? Links?
January 5, 2019 at 5:43 AM
Where is the heat?
My apartment is COLD.
Others complain that their apartment is too hot.
Whenever I call Resident Services I get the runaround or "We'll get back to you."
Meanwhile I'm still freezing.
PigStuy Town is also PigStuy Slum Town.
"The TA outside counsel negotiated for the rent stabilized tenants to pay a higher rate on The MCI charges then the market rate apartments that are rented out in bulk to corporations, foundations and NYC government.
Tenants are getting screwed out of Rights."
WHAAAAT?????? Is that true? If so, then those MFers on the TA Board should refund everybody's dues for the last 20 years! They abandoned the rent stabilized tenants as soon as Garodnick floated the idea of condo conversion. That was all they cared about and completely lost their original mission to represent tenants. They thought they could pander to the market rate tenants because they would have the money to buy into the nefarious plans of Garodnick and his shitty allies in the legal and financial world. Despicable bunch of people.
Why are the market rate tenants getting a new stove and a dishwasher? I want one I've been living here for 20 odd years paying $1250 a month
We now have two separate apartments which are now Section 8 on our floor.
This TA does not represent tenants anymore. They do absolutely nothing. That is why tenant should not pay dues. They have not lifted a finger on one issue. I would rather deal with management, not a great alternative but you may get further than with this sham TA
truly some odd flipping noise problems in these peter cooper buildings. we can hear our neighbors cough, sneeze, burp it's gross.
I rented a market rating apartment here those above us are here since 30 years ago. they have no carpets they run and slam themselves onto the floor and the ceiling shakes. my nerves are shot. rick doesn't do shit Ps called three times management said they have carpets which they openly admitted they do not and we saw they do not. they showed up. CAn't believe Rick dont give a shit.
I have one next door
They will not give us rent stabilized anything new.
Rain all morning and still two adults hitting pucks into sides of rink with loud booms at 9am. Can’t the two guys just let people sleep since not even full team to play with? Overly Self indulgent and wildly inconsiderate. Last few hours tiny kids skating in cold rain. Parents really think it’s safe or just would rather not parent?
Rick is a company man . He follows the Blackstone agenda. His main job here is PR which he does well. If you are lucky you may get a good, proactive PS officer. There are a few. Otherwise you are on your own.
Rick and his team are liars. They are the lowest of the low. They say the inspect apartments for carpets, but they obviously don't. If they do, then why aren't the offending tenants made to get carpets. Don't ever believe a word Rick Hayduk tells you. I wish they'd get rid of him and get a real manager who knows how to manage.
"Temperature in bedroom and living room is 64 degrees on Stuy Town thermometer."
Take a photograph of it and attach it to a 311 complaint.
The Tenants Association is a DISGRACE.
They do NOTHING for the residents.
Anyone who sends these crooks a $50 "membership" is a FOOL.
"Stuytown Moms?"
Sick, stupid, harmful pigs who are engaging in behavior which defies description:
This morning, around 10, in rain and cold weather, I chanced to be near to the "Security" office. This was the scene:
Young woman around 30ish, dressed in a long green winter coat. She had with her a dog, a green carriage which could accommodate two children.
Two little girls (maybe 2-4 years old), dear little blonde children in hats, SHORT winter coats, no tights or pants and only shoes and tiny probably cotton socks. Again: raining, cold.
ONE OF THE LITTLE GIRLS WAS SEATED UPON A TRAINING POTTY ON THE GROUND. SHE WAS EITHER URINATING OR DEFECATING, AND I'D BET DEFECATING. IN THE RAIN AND COLD, BARE BOTTOM AND PELVIS AND LEGS FROM THIGH TO TINY SOCKS.
She arose, pulled up her panties.
HER MOTHER BENT DOWN, PICKED UP THE WHITE PLASTIC BAG TUCKED AROUND THE INSIDE OF THE POTTY'S SEAT. IT APPEARED, FROM THE BULGE IN IT, THE LITTLE GIRL HAD DEFECATED IN IT. "MOM" CLOSED IT, HELD UP THE TRAINING POTTY ITSELF AND WIPED IT OFF.
I literally had difficulty catching my breath I was so flabbergasted and nonplussed.
Perhaps I am assuming something untrue, but it sure as hell appeared this woman has plenty of money and I'd also guess she was well "educated." What the hell kind of behavior is this???
I went into Security, which had seen some of this. There were, as often only TWO (2) human beings manning the phones, all of the cameras, the counter.
I will refrain from repeating the conversation I had with a Security Officer whom I know well. It is much too disturbing.
THIS IS WHERE WE LIVE.
I'VE HAD EITHER NO HEAT OR TOTALLY INSUFFICIENT HEAT FOR 18 DAYS NOW, AS DECEMBER 16, 2019 WAS THE LAST DAY OF HEAT.
I'VE BEEN LIED TO AND THEN SOME BY THOSE TO WHOM I'VE COMPLAINED AND BEGGED FOR HEAT.
I know that many, many of us are being treated the same way.
To add to the mix are these genius PARENTS, most notably "MOMS" who behave like . . . well, I cannot think of the accurate and adequate description.
Dog feces and urine on pathways, hallway carpets, stairwells. Human feces and urine in stairwells. The occasional used condom. Human vomit on walkways. Little boys taken to Oval trees to use as a latrine. Now "Moms" taking their daughters outside with their dogs, putting pots down on the ground for the tiny little girls to shit into. (In front of Security, and not far from the bathrooms near the "Stuytown Ice.")
Hallways reeking of marijuana; screaming, shrieking, drunken parties and sex many, many nights in many, many apartments. Drunken, screaming students, other young people weekend nights throughout the night. Drugs, attempted rapes and robberies, numerous suicides, possible meth labs, whore houses, all sorts of illegal activities, transients, herds of tarted up NYU girls going out to get drunk, bringing home strangers and then complaining to "Security" that "he stole my . . ." on Sunday morning. Many of you have also described City-subsidized people, churches housed here. Drunks and mentally ill folks using benches and the new super fun "egg chairs" at the much needed "Oval Study."
Rotting infrastructure, wheeled vehicles (some with engines) day and night to terrify you, run you over. Some have reported unresolved black mold.
Dishwashers which deprive everyone else in the line of hot water in their sinks periodically.
Growing numbers of commercial enterprises which long ago nullified our leases/contracts because they rip into tiny shreds the warrant of habitability.
Elevators overburdened which others have warned will fail.
The list is partial. Fill in more blanks.
Is this, or is this not "Your Oasis in the City?"
P.S.: YOU CAN'T HAVE HEAT ANYMORE. IF YOU COMPLAIN, WE'LL REFUTE IT AND THEN SOME. Enjoy your lovely, comfortable refuge, your peaceful home.
Blackstone, the company, is the culprit. What makes you think they would hire a decent manager?
My heat situation has become marginally and I say “marginally “ better in the last couple of days. I am getting perhaps six hours rather than three of adequate heat. Still not acceptable. Tenants need to keep calling and recording. Although my thermometer has read 70 or 71 of late it is still chilly at times. Any word from the TA besides rules on their blog? No, and don’t expect any.
7:45 a.m. Sunday and some Jambroni operating the zambonie.....a little too early!!!!!
Those training potties are pretty common and have been around for quite some time, and I’ve seen kids using them around here for years. The only issue I see with this is the weather being as crappy as it was, but if the girl had to go, she had to go. It’s not like she went all over the sidewalk!!
Oh, and if you raised your children here and one of them was a boy, I can guarantee with almost 100% certainty that your little boy peed on a tree here at some point. We all did. Little boys pee on trees, it’s a pretty natural thing that happens pretty much everywhere there are trees, and please don’t waste your time typing a rebuttal stating otherwise, because you are wrong.
And this isn’t coming from a snooty Stuy Mom. This is coming from a Stuy Dad who has lived here his entire life and who’s parents were original tenants.
A win for the public. Or half of a win. Crooked Bill de Blasio donor found guilty. Hidden emails in cover up by Bill de Blasio are in violation of court order but got exposed during the corruption trial.
Photo tells it all. The corruption rot stinks from the head.
https://nypost.com/2019/01/02/crooked-donors-trial-was-another-win-for-public-corruption/
“Dishwashers which deprive everyone else in the line of hot water in their sinks periodically.”
So, that’s what’s going on. That’s what I guessed. It’s happening to me more and more and I am increasingly pIssed off about not having hot water in my kitchen when I need it. Lousy managment and contractors who either don’t know what they’re doing or don’t care or both. This place was not built to accommodate dishwashers.
Private vendettas against certain individuals or companies are not allowed here. Sorry. If you have a vendetta, start your own blog. It's free. Good luck.
"Private vendettas against certain individuals or companies are not allowed here. Sorry. If you have a vendetta, start your own blog. It's free. Good luck."
Which post were you referring to, STR?
Letting a little girl be half naked in this weather is nothing short of child abuse. Do the training potty thing at home. When the kid is outside, make sure she is wearing a good diaper and put some leggings or pants on those little legs and bottom. Can't believe how clueless and ridiculous some of these "mothers" are. Not dressing a child adequately for this type of weather and letting her be as exposed as the poster describes is child abuse, pure and simple. I think I would have called the cops.
Kinda certain since it is 2019 dishwashers are here too stay.
Lovely folk here. Teach your children to crap and pee in public.
I have NEVER, in more than three decades here observed a child crapping outside into a pot.
>>Which post were you referring to, STR?<<
The person knows or should know. I haven't allowed these posts to pass. Yes, there were two of them.
>>Lovely folk here. Teach your children to crap and pee in public.<<
I may have seen peeing against a tree from the little ones once in a blue moon, but never crapping. That should be done at home or in the rest rooms at the Oval.
I don’t think anyone on here is in any situation to judge others for their parenting styles. I have a grown son who I taught to do things differently than he is now teaching his son (my grandson) to do. Do they have one those training potties? Yes. Do I think it’s weird? Yes, but it’s a generational thing. As long as my grandson grows up as a respectable young boy/man, I could care less how they decide to potty train him. I don’t see how the abuse of our generation (usually a belt to the ass or soap in the mouth) would be considered any different than what you just called abuse (a girl peeing on a portable potty in the cold). I guess if her family enjoyed camping and she peed outside while camping, that would be abuse???
Again, there are so so so many things here that are wrong. Why people waste their times with a little girl peeing in a portable potty is beyond me.
Let’s talk about the following:
- Heat
- Crime
- Filth
- Noise
- Commercialization
- MCI’s
- Move in’s and move outs
- Stress on buildings (plumbing, apartment reconfigurations, electrical, elevators)
- Lack of assistance from a TA and politicians
I’d say these are more than enough topics for us to band together and try and make a change regarding, without personally going after people’s parenting choices and what your personal opinions are regarding those choices.
No heat. Pipes are ice cold. I call and email Resident Services. NOTHING!
Condom seen on the floor in the stairwell in my building.
Nice! Really classy, huh?
It is really course and disgusting
That is why it is called the Sty.Pigs live here now.
"That is why it is called the Sty.Pigs live here now."
Excuse me, but I had relatives who owned and ran a pig farm. Pigs are actually very clean animals. It is when they are not looked after properly and fed garbage that they become smelly. To equate [some] of the people who live here with pigs is very insulting to pigs.
>>I don’t think anyone on here is in any situation to judge others for their parenting styles.<<
Yes, and no. If someone is the parent of a misbehaving child (not just a temper tantrum, but misbehaving continually), a person can comment. Why not? Of course, the child could have an emotional or mental problem. Something to take into account. But lousy parents? Years ago, I saw (and not just once) a parent taking their young one to a horror film that was a strong R. Lots of blood, brutality. So, it depends on the circumstance. As for crapping publicly, unless it is an accident, why would the visual sight of a youngster taking a crap as I walk the Oval be okay with me? Again, depends on the circumstance.
2:55. I disagree with you on public defecation. The child is not an animal and that is really disgusting. Not acceptable. Unfortunately, that is the trashy demo we are getting here now. I agree that there are other issues but this should be prohibited
I personally think crime should start becoming a more prevalent topic of conversation. Crime is now a real concern, and I do not feel comfortable walking around this property at night anymore.
And speaking of crime, I know people have said that they believe Rick has all but taken the power to enforce rules away from the public safety officers, but I wonder if there’s more to it. I can’t help but wonder if these new public safety officers are being paid minimum wage, thus making this job not worthy of their sweat and hard work? When we had a good security force, they were paid a liveable salary, and many lived here, making them more willing to protect their homes and family/friends. Now that theyve forced that whole crew out, we have aln entire safety staff with no ties to the community whatsoever.
Why would these people go out of their way and potentially get hurt for $15/hour? Wouldn’t surprise me if there’s also a clause in their contracts that if they get injured performing their duties that they are Shit outta luck!
hold up isn't there a bathroom 100 feet from there if not in the security office? OMFH gross out.
I place much of the blame on the deterioration of quality of life in Stuyvesant Town on the weak, ineffectual, most probably corrupt Tenants Association.
What say you, TA President Susan Steinberg?
Your silence is deafening.
Instead of acting like a cheerleader for our "wonderful" owners, how about addressing issues such as lack of heat, no carpeting, noise, Airbnb, dormification, dog droppings, garbage, etc.
What we get is pathetic panderings for $50 memberships in an impotent TA.
Shameful, Susan, truly shameful.
Back to calling the Moms here names. Fabulous! It always comes back to that. I’ve lived here forever and have seen kids pee and poop everywhere. Including, in the drains of the water playgrounds. That kid had a Dad watching the little tyke. But I’m sure you can spin it. There has to be Mom somewhere you can rail against.
How about Rick giving absolutely no follow-up regarding the attempted robberies in the oval?!?! That should be what we are concerned with, because as far as I know, the suspects were never apprehended. That means we are all still at risk.
What about the kid at 510 e23??? Is that suspect still out there?
If criminals are coming here and committing crimes and not getting caught, more and more will come back. Rick’s lack of action on this makes management liable if something bad happens, so he better start doing something before people start getting hurt.
">>I don’t think anyone on here is in any situation to judge others for their parenting styles.<<"
To live in a civilized society there should be certain 'norms' that are followed and respected otherwise you have chaos. People that say we shouldn't judge other people is nonsense. People judge others' behavior all the time. Whether they do something about it is another issue.
When I was growing up in the Bronx in the 60's and 70's if I did something wrong either my parents 'handled' it or somebody else would let my parents know what happened. In any case my misbehavior had consequences.
I'm not saying that the kid and parent in this situation should be 'tarred and feathered' but you lead by example. Spray painting private/public grounds is not setting a good example for the kid.
I do not really feel unsafe here though I do believe that more officers should be on foot patrol after dark. I think that the overriding issue here is heat, inconsistent heating. It is terrible being cold in the winter and many residents are now encountering heat problems. I am tired of the heat going on and off. Resident services tell me that they aim for 72 but my thermometers show 70 much of the time. My heat is marginally better than it was three weeks ago when the problem began, but I am still chilled at times when I am at home. You definitely notice the difference when you walk into other residential buildings, restaurants and stores. They need to admit there is an issue if indeed I’d not related to a cut which it may be and tell us what they are going to do to fix it. As for the TA , it is a useless sham.
The TA complains about lack of money but it doesn’t take money to organize tenants without heat. They made a feeble attempt to list apartments of those with heat issues over a month ago and NEVER FOLLOWED UP. And they will not answer us as to exactly WHAT THEY ARE DOING. It is not enough to simply say that you are taking it up with management. So are we. Pathetic.
Crime is the biggest problem here. This is no longer a safe property let alone the safest in Manhattan as it once was. This is not a personal vendetta. This is a property wide problem. Crimes against women are at an all time high in StuyTown and there is no outrage from the female TA President or any TA Board member. The increase in crime is so they can justify demolition just like they did when MetLife first built this place calling it a crime ridden neighborhood that needed to be eradicated. First they bring the crime in then they push us all out. This is a property wide community wide problem. Not just one person but everyone of us.
The TA really doesn't exist anymore except in name. Why anyone would pay dues to that organization is beyond me. They say they need the money to pay for lawyers to fight MCIs, etc., but then turn round and say that the MCI's cannot be overturned because of DHCR. I don't think they depend on members' dues because (from what I've read on this blog) they get monies from elsewhere. If they would open their books and show what they have, where it came from and what they do with it, it might go a long way toward renewing the faith of tenants in the integrity of that organization. Or it might not and I wonder if that is what they are afraid of.
Sounds like the mother of that half-naked little girl being forced to take a poo in the cold was quite warmly dressed. Did the mother clean the little girl's bottom or did she have to sit in the residue? What vile parenting!
What vendettas? Crimes are being committed against innocent tenants. Tenants are trying to stand up for themselves against the criminals.
The person with whom you are disputing "parenting" is ONE OF THE ONLY persons who has actually been fighting, ATTEMPTING TO ORGANIZE US, DOING, TAKING ACTION against noise, filth, dormification, filthification, commercialization, noise, lack of heat, crumbling infrastructure, abuse of employees, rendering Public Safety/Security helpless, corruption and all of the rest of it.
It is instructive that nearly no one at all (with a few splendid and laudable exceptions) has mustered the courage to DO anything to stop the misery and yet the few who actually oppose the landlord's increasing oppression of us are highhandedly taken to task by what could be characterized as whiners with no backbone.
'Sorry to be so blunt, but if the shoe fits . . . and by the by, it is COULDN'T CARE LESS. Think about it.
Shame on you. Better that you, that ALL OF US come together to halt the tide of misery which is rising higher each day.
"I personally think crime should start becoming a more prevalent topic of conversation. Crime is now a real concern, and I do not feel comfortable walking around this property at night anymore."
I agree. Years back, I never thought twice about even walking from the subway station at 1 in the morning. Now? Although I'd rather not admit it even to myself, I do feel nervous and jittery when I am out late at night.
There are no more Security Guards walking the beat, as it were. And we need at least 3 times as many, and out in force throughout Stuyvesant and Cooper all night long. And they need job security, good pay and ties to the people here, as you wrote. And longstanding ties to one another. Several of them went on to "higher positions" in "Beam Living" and are no longer Security Guards. I think the Chief and Deputy Chief both live here and have for many years. But they do not walk the complexes. And I don't think regular "verticals" are conducted every night anymore (a Security Guard walking up and down the staircases, top to bottom).
My vendettas comment has nothing to do with Stuy Town.
>>Back to calling the Moms here names. Fabulous! It always comes back to that. I’ve lived here forever and have seen kids pee and poop everywhere. Including, in the drains of the water playgrounds. That kid had a Dad watching the little tyke. But I’m sure you can spin it. There has to be Mom somewhere you can rail against.<<
Dads, Moms, caregivers.... Whatever. Someone is not saying to this kid, "No."
I've lived here for close to 30 years, and I have never seen poop from kids "everywhere."
5:41, nobody is calling moms in general names. That public display of defecation was disgusting and shameful. That mother should have taken the child to a bathroom. You are misinterpreting the whole issue.
I do not feel any more jittery walking from the subway than I did ten years ago. There are actually more people around at night. It is not as desolate. I agree that PS officers should be more apparent on the property at night, but we have always had incidents of crime. Particularly when you do not have doormen, risk is involved.
Who cares where a little kid pees?
Big deal.
Let's worry about diminution of services, i.e., lack of heat.
I WANT HEAT.
STR, when a little needs to poo, you cannot say no. They do not have the muscle control to hold it in. The mother should have taken the babe to a restroom or made sure not to take her out without a diaper that could take the brunt. Tots usually get pott-trained in the house, not outside in the open!
When the Stuyvesant Supermarket was open (the one that got burned down) it was open 24/7 and was very brightly lit. Members of Security used to go there a lot for their food very late at night. There was always several of them inside and outside the store and standing around chatting on the island where the eastbound bus stop was and on the corners leading into the 14th street loop.
That part of the project was the safest area in town!
WE NEED HEAT, BASTARDS, WE NEED HEAT! NOT JUSY IN SPURTS EVERY FEW HOURS, BUT CONSISTENT HEAT!
We are repeating the same things over and over again for 9 years now. All talk no action and pretense of secret actions that have us in the same predicament of lw quality of life in Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town.
For avoidance of doubt here is a link from the reputable Daily News on Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town with quotes from Tenant Association President Al Doyle on the middle class community becoming Animal House with students, noise, drunkenness, harassing residency challenges the TA lawyer Jack Lester claims to have settled 100 cases in 2009.
We are going on 9 years of saying the same things and achieving nothing.
Any of those who beat them with settlements and the TA lawyer or rulings in the courts would be helpful to know about for tenants suffering from no heat, noise, harassment still.
It is 2019 and we are repeating ourselves. The complaining is getting us as far as the relying on the TA and politicians, nowhere.
The time for action was in 2009 or anytime during the past 9 years. We are past a point of complaining.
Jack Lester claims in the Daily News to have settled 100 cases with Tishman Speyer yet there is no news anywhere on these cases or information from the TA on the claimed victories or their settlements.
Just like there is no news or press on the 100 cases that Blackstone claims to have won since they bought the property.
We are being conned, duped, lied to, by the landlord and the TA all while our quality of life is as all the comments above say and the headline:
"I've Never Seen Stuy Town Look So Bad".
Call it pig-Stuy town! Older tenants say Stuyvesant Town turning into 'Animal House'
By ROBERT JOHNSON and DOUGLAS FEIDEN
| DAILY NEWS WRITERS |
OCT 24, 2009 | 5:28 PM
Stuyvesant Town - The middle-class oasis in the pricey heart of Manhattan - is starting to look like the raunchy set of "Animal House," longtime residents say.
Desperate to survive the collapsed housing market, the complex's new owners have wrought a sea change by jamming in hundreds of young tenants alongside Stuy Town veterans.
The arrival of students, singles and hipsters with wild parties and frat-house antics has rocked the world of older tenants.
"They've been partying loudly at ungodly hours, relieving themselves in hallways, kicking over the garbage cans and waking up whole buildings at 4 a.m.," complained Al Doyle, head of the tenants association and a resident since 1952.
A.J. Miller, a small-business owner who has lived in the complex for 30 years, said young people "are puking and dogs are pooping in stairwells and elevators, and it's suddenly become a family-unfriendly place to live."
For more than 60 years, Stuy Town provided affordable homes for nurses, teachers and firefighters, while Peter Cooper Village, its slightly more upscale sister, offered a haven for judges and accountants.
Jack Lester, a lawyer who has represented Stuy Town tenants since 1990, said he's defended 100 tenants accused of nonresidency since 2006 and prevailed in or settled all but two cases.
Tishman insists it has only moved to evict residents where evidence showed they own a second home "with some other indication that the second home is actually their primary residence."
https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/call-pig-stuy-town-older-tenants-stuyvesant-town-turning-animal-house-article-1.382884
2009!
@1:20 AM: I remember that lively corner! It's too bad they put that subpar Target in that spot. A lively 24/7 sandwich shop/deli with a few basic groceries and household items (like the business that burned down) would be great and would be a big plus for the neighborhood. Unfortunately, I suspect the rent for that space now would be too high for such a business. Add to that the fools who moved into the co-op or condo that is where that space is located would probably complain about a 24/7 business. A useless apology for a Target store is much more "upscale" to their way of thinking.
That appears to be the heat pattern. A few hours then off. I am getting it for slightly longer periods of time but not consistently.
I agree... I’m in an apartment where I’ve always had too much heat, and this is the first time in 50 years where I am cold. If they can not get everyone to a comfortable level, than they shouldn’t be in property management.
Is Powers family getting sufficient heat? What about our TA President? Do we need to get the Proud Boys involved in order to get Powers to speak up??
>>It is 2019 and we are repeating ourselves. The complaining is getting us as far as the relying on the TA and politicians, nowhere.<<
This can be your view, but complaining does get one thing done: there are complainers. Take away this blog and the "bitchers" on the other blogs, and one gives free reign to the landlord. There is no contrary view point. Everything is perfect.
Only the complainers need to not just complain on blogs, but call Powers, and management. I will not even include the TA. They are nothing. I was told when I called management the third time that nobody in my line complained. For everyone ‘s info, Powers ‘ office did not respond to my e-mail regarding heat.
The landlord still appears to have free rein. Nothing is being done
The TA does not exist!
I called Powers' office several times. So far, except for the runaround, nothing was done. I will also have a post on this at the main page.
But...if no one does anything, then nothing can even be reported. Trust me, at least there is information that nothing, or little, gets done. That is something.
Rent strike?
In the old days, they would just crank up the heat. Now we get the legal, bare minimum.
SLUMLORD!!
OMGGGGG the kid teen below us must be playing video games 24 -7 and is screaming like he's being murdered. This goes on daily when he arrives home from school around 3 to 4 pm. Get a life people. Hours on end.
I am glad to hear that you make the calls too. Just griping on the blog is not enough.
Today it was on and off, on and off. Too many cold periods.
Something IS being done. It is hard to know how many, but I would bet at least two, and maybe a good many more, residents have made contact with attorneys regarding the deprivation/reduction of heat.
I would respectfully disagree with whomever believes that living conditions were as deplorable here under other "management." Even when the present senior legal counsel, Fred Knapp, did his utmost to evict thousands of us, the methods of misery-inducement were as nothing compared to what Blackstone is doing. I was among the many, many residents threatened with loss of my longtime home during that wonderful period. That was pleasant compared to what we are suffering now.
Too many employees in all sorts of positions have advised me to "get space heaters."
Beginning on Saturday evening, January 5, 2019, we were no longer able to reach a Resident Services representative on a weekend to report lack of heat. THIS was brand new to me. "If you're calling for a maintenance emergency, please press 1. All other calls that are non-emergency, please call back ON THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY AT 8:30 A.M."
Which means it is unlikely you can even simply report/record/register a lack of heat on the weekend. You'll get poor understaffed, overworked and probably badly harassed "Security" to pick up and offer to contact the dispatcher to send up an "engineer" to assess your situation.
This morning, when it was 27 degrees outdoors and there was NO HEAT, I was treated to the same nonsense by one of the Resident Services representatives who knows me. When I PLEADED with her to simply ask the "engineers" to GIVE ME HEAT (rather than all of the "we'll send someone up between 8 and 12" routine), she hung up the phone.
It seems clear to me that they are becoming increasingly injurious (deliberately???) now that they have determined to deny us heat or give us so little it is of no use and could well become threatening to health and life.
I don't know why since I don't think this is saving them money.
The person who wrote about turning this into a crime-infested slum in order to destroy it was on the right track.
For those of us here for the long haul until they haul us out this is a reminder of the good ole days when a "jewelry designer?" could afford to live here among powerful union bosses, a federal judge, teachers, hospital workers, real working people middle class all the way and going strong.
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/06/garden/stuyvesant-town-still-going-strong.html
Powers isn't going to help. He is on the payroll of REBNY. Don't ever think that he works for us! He's just another Garodnick.
Why the Tenant Association is doing NOTHING for us today and frankly has not done anything for tenants for years, has not achieved any results for tenants for years, has not won a single MCI challenge is a BIG problem effecting us all for years. Out of respect for STR a vacate, even though it is not a StuyTown matter, Chicago Mayors race has it right with demands for cleaning up and clearing out after a politician is caught red handed. Back to StuyTown, when Shelly Silver got convicted all he endorsed should have gotten the Chicago treatment, cleared out and cleaned up.
Our problems are rooted in Shelly Silver's lower east side real estate deals and his number two guy in the Assembly who was and is still head of the TA set bad priorities and precedent for the Tenant Association. That is why they will not open the books and that is why they do not serve the tenants and have not for years. The incestuous board has to go.
The silence of the "just call Rick" TA is deafening. As they say, if the silence is not indictable surely it is disqualifying"...
Open the books and clean house so we can get heat, peace and quiet enjoyment of home, and maybe just maybe some new lawyers who actually win MCI challenges.
The Chicago Treatment
“We shouldn’t be surprised by anything when we’ve had dozens of Chicago aldermen, two city clerks, a city treasurer and four Illinois governors convicted of crimes,” Vallas said in a City Hall news conference. In accepting help from Burke, his three rivals adhered to the political code of silence, Vallas said. “If this silence is not indictable, it surely is disqualifying from leading this city out of crisis.”
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/burke-fallout-spreads
>>Rent strike?<<
Why not set up a site like Blogger, which is free, and pursue a rent strike, or some of the important issues that face residents? One issue per blog. The site would have to be serious and present things in a realistic manner. Phone calls, letters, would have to be monitored, etc. Things would have to written down so that the "evidence" can be presented later. It's going to take several months just to get things together.
Rent strike not a viable option. Would lead to evictions from this company. Organized complaints through a lawyer maybe but rent strike, no.
I have been calling for a rent strike for quite some time now.
Are you FINALLY COLD ENOUGH to unite and provide them with rent payments equal to heat???
I agree that a rent strike would go nowhere. They have the means and legal team necessary to boot people who withhold rent, and I’m sure they know the judges they would need to go in front if agree with them. It’s been discussed a lot on here - the only rule they care about is paying rent, nothing else.
I believe the best way to get them to act is through the press. If things are well documented that this place is turning into high rent NYCHA counterpart in terms of heat, crime, filth, Blackstone will be more likely to do something.
A full blown press story about what’s really going on would shatter their PR campaigns, and make people question their self-proclaimed A+ top management company in the city status.
NO HEAT AGAIN this morning!
Ho hum, what else is new?
HEAT, HEAT...I WANT HEAT!
Calls to Resident Services worthless.
TA worthless.
JUST CALLED RICK...also worthless!
Space heater time in both living room and bedroom.
Just like the NYCHA "projects".
Wait..this IS the "projects".
You do not have the numbers for a successful rent strike. A rent strike is more feasible in a single building or very small complex. Would not make a dent in Blackstone’s pockets.
How come when I send specific list of complaints to Tenants Association with respect to lack of heat, no carpeting in apartments above me, etc., I got ZERO response.
And yet they try to get me to sign up for $50.
Are they KIDDING?
Is this some sort of sham "organization"?
This denial of heat is harassment, pure and simple. Heartless Hayduk is not the Saint that some of the old ladies think he is. He is a monster!
I would go for a rent strike if it was organized through a legal team. Otherwise, it would be just an excuse for management to evict. It can take up to a year to get evicted, but if you don't want to actually leave this dump (because some of us would find it hard to find another rental after eviction for non-payment) a rent strike needs to be done the legal way.
We certainly wouldn't get any help from the so-called Tenants Association because they are just an arm of Management and not on the side of the tenants in any way, shape or form. Add to that the fact that they sound like a bunch of crooks!
I agree that a rent strike has to be done through a legal team. As to the Press.... Well, take a look at The Times. Seems very friendly to Stuy Town with puff pieces on how great it is being here. The comment section can be devastating, but Management still doesn't care. That ad truck is still around.
I question the TA on the following, and maybe the woman who ran for the board to help change things can chime in:
1) Did the TA negotiate for MCI rates to be different amongst tenants? I’m referring to RS v. MR.
2) Do management and the TA update the MCI room count every time they break down an apartment and add more rooms?
Powers is a lobbyist as was Sanders.
Powers lobbied for developers at Queens based lobbyists, Vallone.
Powers is a lobbyist for real estate developers.
Powers is a lobbyist for real estate developers under federal investigations even though NYC dropped their investigations into those developers.
Unless you are a real estate developer condo conversion Brookfield member, you would have to be crazy to vote for Powers and expect that he would do anything for the under-market value rent stabilized tenants.
If it is possible, Powers is worse then his predecessor whose name is too hard to even utter without disgust.
There is a general heat cut across the board. It is affecting apartments on different lines and in different buildings. They cannot tell us that it is windows and sensors in various lines. It appears to be purposeful and they appear to be able to control it. On a 40 plus day such as today they withhold. Yesterday wasn’t too bad except it was off and on a lot. As for the TA they are a sham, a joke.
Brown-brackish water coming out of faucets.
Love this luxury living!
Chilly apartment.
Noisy upstairs neighbors.
Two packages stolen.
All for four grand a month.
Lucky me!
I am outta here when my lease is up.
Do not waste your time sending the TA anything. They do nothing to assist tenants. Do not pay dues or even bother with them.
Just a note on the NYE party for seniors.
The guy who seems to be in charge of the Community Canter - Vasquez - did a pathetic job in putting together this event. Compared to the great NYE party in 2017 I'd rate this a 2 out of 10.
First, the food was so bad I wouldn't feed it to my dog. Fried, salty, soggy appetizers from Lenz. They should be ashamed.Served by some harried, frantic woman and Vasquez who kept on yelling at anyone who came up to the table "Sit down. This is not a buffet. Wait until you're served." Bad food bad attitude.
Nothing to drink wity this salty mess until after everyone was eating so we could mke a toast. Hey Vasquez - if you're serving this salty mess at lease provide some liquid.
No dessert.
Then Bingo!! Vasquez seems to think this is appropriate entertainment for NYE. Couldn't hear the music - The woman in charge of this was probably told to keep it nice and low.
Sad, sorry event/
I think Vasquez should be given other area to "manage,." From the get-go when he stripped the walls of the art work in the Community Center he showed poor judgement and unfamiliarity with Senior needs. Why is he even in charge of the Community Center. This NYE fiasco proved he in in very unfamilar water.
I left after 1/2 hour.
You would not believe how many bikes are all over the place in my carriage room that are not chained up. You cant even get passed some of them. I give up on calling because nothing ever gets done. It is soo out of control in this place.
That Vasquez guy doesn’t impress me either. Kind of patronizing.
Warning: I am not letting through certain posts. Again, let me state: Any post that mentions someone's family is not going through; any post that mentions acceptable matters to later, slyly, insert something which as zero links to serious charges, will not be posted. Start another blog, it is free.
Also, I am getting tired of giving warnings. So this post is the last one. Next, I won't say anything and just move on, after I deleted your post.
Hurray!
Another Stuyvesant Town "amenity."
They opened up a bowling alley in the apartment above me.
Hours of operation are all hours of the night...1, 2, 3, 4 in the morning.
Does it really matter?
Rick Hyduk and Susan Steinberg will bowl the inaugural game together.
You will get NO answers
Rent strikes only work in smaller buildings. Would not put a dent in a big complex like this. The ten or so tenants if you even got that many would face eviction.
He follows orders and follows them well
1 30 pm as are we. No packages stolen but the noise level and tissue walls are the worst we've had in a decade. We travel and have rented 4 places in the city this is the shittiest. Warning to those who are contemplating renting here. Don't do it .
Heat just came on at 6 PM. Unbelievable.
The treatment of the seniors at the NYE "gathering" totally reflects Management's contempt, disdain and loathing of the senior demo here. This so-called "Management" is about as vile as they come. I hope Rick Hayduk and his entire crew depart very soon. They should all be blackballed in the residential and hospitality industries. They reflect the very worst of people in those fields and are no way representative of most of people in those fields. They disgust me.
Heat went off as quickly as it went on. One of the worst days. It has to be under 30 degrees for us to get decent heat.
STR, you say you have never seen Stuy Town look so bad. Many of us feel that way and it is a direct reflection on the management "skills" of Rick Hayduk and his team. Maybe this is the standard of Blackstone, in which case they are doing what is normal for them. It is waaay below the standards of many of us who are paying serious bucks to live here. No wonder they have to rent to students, City-subsidized, etc. Blackstone/Hayduk have trashed this property to the extent that it bears totally no resemblance to what it was before they arrived on the scene. Even Tishman Speyer were not this lazy, incompetent and destructive.
It is the company. They are very happy with Hayduk. He is merely their PR man. He does not control the heat or demo(rents) here. Some of you attribute too much power to him.
Tears on my pillow
pain in my heart
caused by you
Turd on the terrace
smells so true
Just ask Rick
he always knew
Noise, garbage, no heat
that's true
If we could start anew, I wouldn't hesitate
Tishman-Speyer, it's true
I'd gladly take you back, and tempt the hands of fate
Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart, caused by you, you...
With apologies to Little Anthony and the Imperials, circa 1959
I think most of us on here agree that Rick is a complete failure. He lies through his teeth and his rules area joke. However, there are those who love Rick, and his personable personality. I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again, here is the property breakdown:
10% - Love Rick and all his glorious amenities
10% - Hate Rick and see through what he’s doing
20% - Too scared to do anything, so they praise Rick
60% - Do not give a damn, because they will be gone in 1-2 years
I expect the 60% to grow, and everything else to shrink as time goes by.
About the heat: Every room (I'm including the kitchen) has either a radiator or a pipe. As I said, I am not "toasty warm," and many times the pipe is cold and then, later, it warms up and gets hot. Then, the pipe becomes cold again. This on and off is continual.
As we know, the rooms can be large here (Stuy Town even advertises so, lol), so what heat is gotten needs to be maintained, as it is frequently lost quickly. This on and off situation is ridiculous considering the rooms here.
Something is not "according to Hoyle" here, and Management knows this.
The heat deprivation and insufficiency are a new low and part of their harassment.
As someone wrote not long back, at least one employee stated that this was slated - PLANNED by Stuytown/Beam/Blackstone, whatever the hell they call themselves.
AND that the "engineers" have no control over it. Someone else, though, told me something very different.
Again, please READ UP ON BLACKSTONE. These are slumlord tactics and widely employed as a matter of course. For instance, how'd you like to be down South where there are tarantula spiders and have so many in your house that they are found in your child's toy chest? And Blackstone/Invitation Homes does NOTHING?
I read it somewhere on the Net, along with lots of other goodies.
Yes, Serenading Sarah - Tishman-Speyer was a delightful picnic compared to this predator.
For the life of me, though, I cannot imagine what benefit this illegal, immoral and malicious torment they've concocted now is netting them. Just about "PROFIT?"
Somebody wrote about the noise and lack of heat in this dump in the NYT. I noticed it it this morning in the online version.
" It is waaay below the standards of many of us who are paying serious bucks to live here. "
Excuse me, but it is waaay below the standards of the many of us who are rent stabilized and pay less serious bucks than you do, but they are still our bucks and the reason why we stay. Believe me, if we rent stabilized tenants could afford to move out of this place now that it has become the cold, dirty, noisy, unstable dorm/transient place that it has become, we would be out in a heartbeat. If I had serious bucks to spend on rent, I would not be here!
This is an article describing precisely who is refusing you heat this winter of 2018-2019:
SPIDERS, SEWAGE, AND A FLURRY OF FEES: THE OTHER SIDE OF RENTING A HOUSE FROM WALL STREET
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-housing-invitation/
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