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:
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 329 of 329I have been saying on this blog for the longest time that Blackstone has a terrible reputation globally and nationally for being a slumlord. Not surprised that Goldman Sachs is also in the slum business. These are evil people and they need to be contained.
Notwithstanding the long threads and complaints on the TA Facebook about the lack of heat (and even a mention in the NYT), I see that T&V has made no mention of the issue at all. It is a matter that is affecting almost every tenant in the project (at least in Stuy) and people are really suffering.
Clearly, we are on our own. We have no tenants association and the local rag writes about anything everything EXCEPT the woes of the tenants here. Blackstone's dirty hands control our local press and what used to be a tenants association. New World Order?
I accidentally deleted a request to post the Times article/comment that was referenced. I don't get the Times, but someone who does, the request stands.
STR, if you go to the informal tenants fb page (though I think it is on the official ta fb page too) someone posted a link to an article in the NYT about noisy neighbors and AirbnB. There is mention of Stuyvesant Town in the comments section.
Those wheelies and luggage carts roll in hour by hour, day by day, in my building.
It is not possible that Management is unaware of Airbnb activity in this building.
Kindly explain.
The NY Times article was not about Stuyvesant Town specifically, but someone living here posted some very negative comments on the article -
Proud New Yorker
New York City Jan. 6
Anyone who doesn't want to live in an apartment where 80% carpeting rules are not enforced and noisy neighbors abound (as well as many, many illegal AirBnBs) should avoid Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village! It is probably the worst place for such lax enforcement in the City!
Theo
New Jersey Jan. 6
Yikes! I just looked at a two bedroom unit in Peter Cooper Village. Although I am insisting on a top floor unit (I had upstairs stompers who forced me to sell a condo last year) - I certainly don’t want to live in a transient building. I was assured by the agent that Sty Town disallowed any short term Airbnb type rentals and enforced all building complex policies. I am going to proceed with caution now!
Ecollins8
New York, NY Jan. 6
@Theo we lived in PCV and ST for 7 years and LOVED it. Noise complaints in the apt are usually due to post-college students, so ask the leasing agent about that. Otherwise the surrounding property is quiet, safe, and filled with amenities. We miss it.
Proud New Yorker
New York City Jan. 7
@Ecollins8
PCVST used to be quiet, peaceful and safe, but there have some radical changes over the last few years, sad to say.
OC
New York, N.Y.Jan. 7
@Proud New Yorker too bad you didn’ live there when it was owned by Met Life. But in this city good things come to an end as greed sets in.
Proud New Yorker
New York City Jan. 7
@OC True. Very greedy landlord and incompetent/uncaring manager. Nobody stays long anymore (except for the rent stabilized tenants, who management would love to drive out). The apartments are large, but cold and absolutely no rules are enforced anymore. It's a shame. Can't wait for our lease to be up! Would never recommend anybody rent here. Been here 10 years and last few years have been horrible. Always hoped it would improve with every management change, but it has only gotten worse.
B.
Brooklyn Jan. 7
Those radical changes might be a kind of grunting unconcern for anyone but self. Your right to listen to music ends where my ears begin, and your right to smoke a noxious weed ends at my nose. Consideration? For old-fashioned elites, evidently; and not even then.
Proud New Yorker
New York CityJan. 9
@B. I totally agree. The smell of pot permeates the halls and elevators in Stuyvesant Town. The latest misery that current management has inflicted on us is to cut back the heat in an effort to keep the indoor living temperature at the City's 68 degree minimum (though they claim that they aim at a "generous" 72 degrees. Usually no heat overnight and the heat goes on and off during the day. Long periods of absolutely no heat and then a short blast of heat to bring the temperature up. We would break our lease to get out of here fast, but there is an early termination penalty which I think is 3 months rent. That would be almost $15k for us, so we will suffer along for another few months. It is an absolutely horrible place with a horrible management
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/realestate/are-those-noisy-houseguests-upstairs-or-an-airbnb.html?fbclid=IwAR0A2VwtKDa0wWF05PY_rka7Ls42YT6HJDkset5BxqqX_OwXh1EWv14WvsM
Thank you!
There is little or no heat.
What a joke!
Send up some fu*kin' heat!
Again, it appears I deleted a comment accidentally. (Wake up! to myself.)
Anyway, this was about something poetic appearing the recent T & V about how beautiful our holiday decorations are. It was posted tongue-in-cheek.
Here's the letter, available online at T&V:
Dear Editor,
As we end another year under the tutelage and management of Rick Hayduk, it deserves mention what a spectacular job he and, under his direction, his staff decorated Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town this holiday season, rivaling Rockefeller Center, if not bettering it!
I have heard comments repeated to me of millennials saying, “These decorations are so dope! I can’t believe I live here!”
This year especially, our community is outstandingly aglow and awesome with its lights and decorations. During a sometime dismal political climate, it is so uplifting to live in a community that thinks to please its tenants. This policy has been radically improved since the management of Rick Hayduk and the obvious staff philosophy of efficiency and responsiveness to tenants.
I have experienced this myself under very difficult circumstances I’ve had this year where he and the staff have been remarkably kind in helping me through some very dark times. Finally, Florida’s loss is our gain.
Manager Rick Hayduk and the entire PCVST staff deserve mention and appreciation for jobs so well done and markedly improving our quality of life. To quote a neighbor, it sure is “dope” living here! Happy New Year!
Sincerely,
Dr. Bel-Michele DeMille, ST
Is this Dr DeMille serious? That is such a ludicrous letter.
Wishing the dark times are over. That said, I have never seen this place look so bad (the topic on the front page), as I have seen it. Your letter sounds pure hyperbole and public thanks for your own reason. Understandable, but not the truth.
No one says "dope" anymore, as an exclamation. But I could be wrong on this.
No, there’s a 0% chance that a millennial called the decorations dope. That statement alone makes me think it’s a fake.
Sounds like she's doing a favor for heartless, heartless Hayduk. She should live in a cold apartment with dorm neighbor's.
T&V must have heard about the lack of heat that seems to be affecting all (or most) tenants in the complex, yet they make no mention of it and print this ludicrous claptrap instead!
Took the stairs down this early morning.
Overcome by fumes of weed.
Puddle of dog piss.
Dog shit at two different levels.
Nice, real nice.
As of the graffiti update, still there as of this Friday, what's the delay, it looks horrendous. I imagine the new touring proposed tenants would love to see an actual snapshot of managements commitment to quality of life. As professed downtowns answer to Central Park, .......circa 1970's
I think that lady needs to consult a therapist, not be one.
Heartless, heatless Hayduk loves people like her because they are as phoney as he is.
I think the millennial said, "Look at these horrible decorations...What a bunch of dopes run this place".
What kind of a "Dr." is she, if she exists at all? Maybe has a PhD in some obscure field from a mail-order 'University'...? Pompous ass.
She is a psychologist and one of the cheerleaders. Again, I wish her personal problems are lessened or solved, but the state of this community is not what she wrote.
>>As of the graffiti update, still there as of this Friday, what's the delay, it looks horrendous.<<
I've already taken photos and will post, probably tomorrow. I was assured by PS that she would clean up the mess. I guess not.
"Took the stairs down this early morning.
Overcome by fumes of weed.
Puddle of dog piss.
Dog shit at two different levels.
Nice, real nice."
you should take photographs and send them to Heartless, Heatless Rick.
"What kind of a "Dr." is she, if she exists at all? Maybe has a PhD in some obscure field from a mail-order 'University'...? Pompous ass."
She has a PhD in Bullshit. There are a lot of folk out there with such diplomas.
There was an email from Hayduk today re: Safety. I don't know whether another assault occurred recently, or if he is referring to the ones we already know about. I don't see anything in T&V (online version) about a recent assault. However, T&V only reports crimes committed off the property and shows not much interest in what goes on here. I notice that still no mention has been made of the heat (or lack thereof) problems we have all experienced this winter.
Email from Rick, posted on the ST Peter Cooper Tenants blog:
Dear Residents,
Sadly, it’s not uncommon over the holidays and at this time of the year, but Public Safety has addressed one too many incidents of late. Resident safety is of the utmost importance to StuyTown Property Services, but despite over 60 officers on patrol 24/7, an investment of $2M in upgrading the camera system, and an extremely productive relationship with the 13th Precinct and its Neighborhood Policing team, we need every resident’s help.
Package thefts continue. Perpetrators are finding their way into buildings because residents are allowing non-residents to “piggy-back” in to the buildings.
An assault occurred. Again, the perpetrator piggy-backed in and grabbed a resident’s aide in the hallway (a neighboring resident came to her rescue; the perpetrator was apprehended). In another situation, a teenage resident was asked for his phone in the vestibule by two other boys and a physical confrontation ensued.
A resident’s apartment was entered. The perpetrator piggy-backed in, found his way to a floor and started checking for open doors. One was found. He entered the vacant apartment and began to take the resident’s belongings. The teenage son walked in as the perpetrator was walking out. The young man was not harmed; the perpetrator remains at large although the NYPD has images from Public Safety.
Statistically, we’re one of the safest areas in the 5 boroughs. But one incident is one too many.
We’re asking residents to help keep everyone and everyone’s belongings safe by doing two things:
1. Never, never, never let anyone that you don’t know piggy-back into a lobby. We all want to be Good Neighbors, but do not hesitate to say, “I’m sorry, I don’t know you and cannot let you in.” If that person pushes, let them pass and hit the SECURITY intercom button as soon as you enter the lobby. I too feel uncomfortable saying the above, but when I think of what could happen, it gets easier.
2. See something, say something. If you see someone you don’t recognize loitering in a lobby, on the floors or outside, call Public Safety. We can typically monitor movements on one of the cameras and dispatch an officer.
The Public Safety department is here to deter crime and ensure the quality of life guidelines (dogs, noise, bikes, smoking, etc.) are enforced. The officers are outside in the cold, snow, heat and rain vigilantly standing watch to keep us all safe. But we need every resident’s help.
Please make sure you have the Public Safety number in your phone: 212.598.5233.
This not is not meant to alarm you; I only do so because we all share the desire of no incidents, zero. This is a polite reminder that we all play a role in keeping our community, especially the 28,000 humans we call our neighbors, safe.
Rick Hayduk
CEO | General Manager
>>... over 60 officers on patrol 24/7, an investment of $2M in upgrading the camera system, and an extremely productive relationship with the 13th Precinct and its Neighborhood Policing team...<<
Do I really need to comment on this?
Two near robberies happened within the little PS booth at the Oval. No one was inside. The perps ran away.
Received this email today from Rick Hayduk about more package thefts, attempted robberies and assaults on the property. To which I say, do you think tenants are stupid and blind, Rick? I see VERY FEW Public Safety officers patrolling this property and, when I do, most of them are patrolling the Oval. And too many of them don’t do a damn thing about the infractions of the rules taking place RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR FACES.
Wake up, Rick! Outsiders now know this is an easy place to commit crimes. It’s up to you to prevent that from happening. We never had problems like this before to the extent that we have them now. And you, Rick, and your cheap, greedy, despicable boss, Blackstone, are to blame. How many more of these kinds of incidents will you be reporting to tenants before you accept that you need to have more - way more - Public Safety officers patrolling the entire property? What are you waiting for? Someone to be murdered?
Dear Residents,
Sadly, it’s not uncommon over the holidays and at this time of the year, but Public Safety has addressed one too many incidents of late. Resident safety is of the utmost importance to StuyTown Property Services, but despite over 60 officers on patrol 24/7, an investment of $2M in upgrading the camera system, and an extremely productive relationship with the 13th Precinct and its Neighborhood Policing team, we need every resident’s help.
Package thefts continue. Perpetrators are finding their way into buildings because residents are allowing non-residents to “piggy-back” in to the buildings.
An assault occurred. Again, the perpetrator piggy-backed in and grabbed a resident’s aide in the hallway (a neighboring resident came to her rescue; the perpetrator was apprehended). In another situation, a teenage resident was asked for his phone in the vestibule by two other boys and a physical confrontation ensued.
A resident’s apartment was entered. The perpetrator piggy-backed in, found his way to a floor and started checking for open doors. One was found. He entered the vacant apartment and began to take the resident’s belongings. The teenage son walked in as the perpetrator was walking out. The young man was not harmed; the perpetrator remains at large although the NYPD has images from Public Safety.
Statistically, we’re one of the safest areas in the 5 boroughs. But one incident is one too many.
We’re asking residents to help keep everyone and everyone’s belongings safe by doing two things:
Never, never, never let anyone that you don’t know piggy-back into a lobby. We all want to be Good Neighbors, but do not hesitate to say, “I’m sorry, I don’t know you and cannot let you in.” If that person pushes, let them pass and hit the SECURITY intercom button as soon as you enter the lobby. I too feel uncomfortable saying the above, but when I think of what could happen, it gets easier.
See something, say something. If you see someone you don’t recognize loitering in a lobby, on the floors or outside, call Public Safety. We can typically monitor movements on one of the cameras and dispatch an officer.
The Public Safety department is here to deter crime and ensure the quality of life guidelines (dogs, noise, bikes, smoking, etc.) are enforced. The officers are outside in the cold, snow, heat and rain vigilantly standing watch to keep us all safe. But we need every resident’s help.
Please make sure you have the Public Safety number in your phone: 212.598.5233.
This not is not meant to alarm you; I only do so because we all share the desire of no incidents, zero. This is a polite reminder that we all play a role in keeping our community, especially the 28,000 humans we call our neighbors, safe.
Rick Hayduk
CEO | General Manager
I myself have seen just two PS officers monitor those cameras. I'm sure there is one more officer at times, but monitoring the entire community, all the buildings, the nooks and crannies???
>>Perpetrators are finding their way into buildings because residents are allowing non-residents to “piggy-back” in to the buildings.<<
Will always happen. A person is going out, someone comes in...
And some of these cameras inside buildings are NOT working, and residents have been told that by PS!
And I just laugh at the claim of "over 60 officers"... Where? When?
Residents have also been told the building door sends an alarm to PS if it is open for more than the allotted time. This "rule" has been broken so many times, the claim is laughable again.
This place is run with some rules that are ignored and other occurrences that are AGAINST THE LAW BUT "APPROVED" BY MANAGEMENT. If you doubt me, take me up on the photo evidence... and without the typical BS that is presented by you or Resident Services.
To repeat:
>>Wake up, Rick! Outsiders now know this is an easy place to commit crimes. It’s up to you to prevent that from happening. We never had problems like this before to the extent that we have them now. And you, Rick, and your cheap, greedy, despicable boss, Blackstone, are to blame. How many more of these kinds of incidents will you be reporting to tenants before you accept that you need to have more - way more - Public Safety officers patrolling the entire property? What are you waiting for? Someone to be murdered?<<
On coldest night of the year my pipes are cold and using my thermometer, the temperature is 18 degrees Celsius. For those who don’t remember how to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, that is 64.4 degrees. the legal requirement is a minimum of 68 degrees until 10pm 🤬
Even if every single resident stopped allowing people to piggy-back, there are dozens of deliveries to every building every day, and those people don’t give a damn about letting others into the building.
There are not even close to 60 guards TOTAL, nevermind 60 on duty at all times 24/7. It’s statements like this that make me think that everything he says is a complete lie.
Rick is a joke of a Manager. Unfortunately, not a funny joke. A sick joke. He probably can do no more than his overlords allow him to, but for goodness sake, does the man have no self-respect?
What do you mean "I've never seen Stuy Town look so bad". What are you talking about? This is precisely what you wanted STR. Did you think we going to get a benevolent entity purchasing the property if the tenants didn't? You were against tenant ownership, the TA betrayed us, and you got your wish. I agree, it didn't work out too well.
I think tenant ownership would have two sides (the victors and the spoils) fighting each other big time. But... the property would probably look much better. I agree.
Though it is way too late (years-wise) to talk about tenant ownership, the tenants who would own their property here would have much more respect and pride for this property than is currently shown. They would not allow even what is seen this past week with the "spray painting" of this property. (See the main page.)
Here is my guess of guards on duty at any given time:
2-3 in the main security office, “manning” the monitors
3-4 walking the property
1-2 riding around in the car or
1 in PCV booth
If there were 60 guards on duty, the numbers would look something like this:
10 manning the monitors
20-30 walking the property
5-10 in PCV booth and all the booths around the perimeter
5-10 in cars, on bikes and segways
If there were numbers like this, we would all feel significantly safer and we would notice a true security presence.
I also can’t help but laugh at Rick’s comment about the 13th precinct community policing. There is 0 NYPD presence on this property, and that’s also something else that criminals know. They know there’s no NYPD presence and a do-nothing rent-a-cop crew.
So the bottom line is that there’s no truth to anything in Rick’s email. All it is there for us to cover them from potential lawsuits. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it takes a sick individual to blatantly lie to 30,000 people the way Rick and his team do. He should feel ashamed for what he’s done to this place.
It doesn't take that much manpower to make sure the community is really safe, but it takes money. Money that Blackstone would have to spend.
Let's take those guard houses around the perimeter, the big ones that are hardly maned, and almost never. Why? Money. Those guard houses would be manned 24/7. Even the small guard house at the Oval is not manned 24/7. Why? Money?
The letter from Rick is avoidance BS, as always.
And why I am saying this? Why am I taking photos and photos?
The TA should be doing all this. They are not.
Ricks family has moved and gone and our guess he will be moving away soon also.
It is 8:45AM, Saturday morning.
It is 23 degrees OUTSIDE.
It is 63.8 degrees INSIDE on the cheap, crappy thermometer Resident Services gave me.
It is freezing in here.
The pipes are ice cold.
Send up some heat!
Rick is a major-league liar and bullshit artist. He is the face of Blackstone. I don't think anything is going to improve. In fact, I think it will get worse.
Ya people Ya kinda get what you pay for.
"t is 8:45AM, Saturday morning.
It is 23 degrees OUTSIDE.
It is 63.8 degrees INSIDE on the cheap, crappy thermometer Resident Services gave me.
It is freezing in here.
The pipes are ice cold.
Send up some heat!"
TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE THERMOMETER AND FILE A REPORT WITH THE CITY - AND KEEP AFTER THEM. THIS WITHHOLDING OF HEAT IS DANGEROUS AND ILLEGAL AND INEXCUSABLE.
"Ya people Ya kinda get what you pay for."
Not true. Whether you are paying $2k or $6k per month you are not paying NYCHA rent and shouldn't be living in NYCHA conditions. In fact, the unfortunate people who live in NYCHA shouldn't have to live in such squalid conditions that many of them do live in. We are all human beings who are entitled to live in livable conditions which include heat, hot water, safety and a reasonable amount of peace and quiet. We got all of that before BlackStone came on the scene, courtesy of the crooked TA and DeBlasio.
We all know very well it's the trash they are renting to creating this new environment and crime. This blame rests on the loser mother who even allowed and throught it was okay for her kid to do this. LOSERS. No common sense.
Just so you know, this place used to be really safe and clean. Instead, the building entry door on the M level next to my apartment is constantly hooked open at all hours, morning into the evening, for no reason other than to let people in freely. Even at 3am. Where is security? What alarm alert? The security camera is RIGHT THERE and they can see whoever is doing this but yet there is no security dispatch to close the door. This jeopardizes my immediate safety, such as simply throwing out the garbage, and all the tenants in the building. Gee, wonder why packages are getting stolen, apartments are being robbed and attempted rapes? In addition, the fenced off green space outside my window is constantly illegally being used as a noisy dog park and cesspool shitting pissing ground for dogs. Yes, there is also a security camera right there, but guess what, it too is useless. What a joke. I hate what has become of this place. You can blame the ignorant new tenants for this but it is because management sucks. MetLife was fantastic because they didn't take any BS once you signed that lease. Guess where the budget for a real security force went?: signs. "improvements" that are really downgrades, hiring more people to clean up dog shit, installing free doggie bags, ugly holiday decorations, bad music concerts, bad incompetent landscaping, marketing, ads, crappy holiday functions nobody wants, etc...list goes on.
College bros standing in hallway smoking weed.
I don't have a problem with marijuana but, please, show a little class and do it in the privacy of your own apartment.
It is very disrespectful of your neighbors.
Did a random piggyback test in 5 buildings throughout the property this afternoon - was in all 5 buildings within 3 minutes. 4 of the 5 that let me in were delivery men and one was a young man.
In my own building, I was on M for 10 minutes waiting for someone, and 8 deliveries came in those 10 minutes.
Ricks got a major problem on his hands, and that email tells me he doesn’t know how to combat the problem.
If we had a TA (a real TA) they would be fighting to get the MCI for the security cameras removed and refunded and they would fighting Management about the constant infractions against our safety. Building doors should not be left open and PS should respond to calls about such infractions, which they don't.
Rick Hayduk is probably the worst "manager" we've ever had. I hope they get rid of him soon and replace him with someone who knows what they are doing and CARES about the tenants. I'm sick of hearing "he's doing what they want him to do" mantra. If that is the case, and he is deliberately useless, I apologize to him. I don't think that is the case though and if it is, then his self-respect should make him resign. Could be he just doesn't have any self-respect. I am sick of reading his mealy-mouthed claptrap. Just do your job, Rick, or get the hell out of here.
Most of the new tenants don't cook and have pizza and other food delivered all the time. I keep my intercom turned off (unless I am expecting a visitor) because I am sick of the delivery guys mistakenly ringing my intercom. I often wonder when I see those delivery guys with the huge backpacks waiting to be let in, if they really are delivering food or just have those backpacks so they can roam around and steal anything they can get their hands on.
We are NOT safe and the PS Dept. and the cameras are totally useless. Not blaming the PS officers, though most of them seem to have a total lack of interest in anything that is reported to them.
Hayduk is useless. I don't know what he actually does, but he doesn't run the place in a competent and professional manner.
An airbnb couple with two big suitcases and wheelies came up to the Main floor door and started to gesture to me to open it.
I said do you live here?
They said what is it to you?
I was stunned at their disrespect and nasty attitude.
I ignored them.
The guy banged on the door.
I said, "take a hike or I'll call Security"
Not that doing that would make a difference sadly.
Anyway they staked off. I am sure if they came back in 5 minutes someone else would have let them in.
No doubt management knows about airbnb and illegal sublets but they don't care.
What a dump this place has become.
Pig Stuy Town.
My thermometer says room temp is 69 degrees, but when I take my own temperature my body temp is 96.3. It is usually 98.4. I am cold all the time and I am over 70. I think they are trying to kill us older folk!
AirBnB thrives here. I think one of my neighbors is an AirBnB host. Never see him, but lots of people with rolling luggage (mostly can't speak English) in and out of his apartment. If these people are so apparent to tenants, they must be apparent to Management.
I guess that chalk/paint spray doesn't offend Rick. He really should be managing a slum.
"The Public Safety department is here to deter crime and ensure the quality of life guidelines (dogs, noise, bikes, smoking, etc.) are enforced."
Incredible how bullshitting Just Call Rick can publish false statements like this pretending anyone will agree with him.
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"a teenage resident was asked for his phone in the vestibule by two other boys and a physical confrontation ensued"
Note how bullshitting Just Call Rick downgrades Attempted Robbery/Assault to a teenage boy dispute over a request for a cellphone.
Likewise, bullshitting Just Call Rick attempted to publicly downgrade a recent Attempted Robbery in the Oval (reported to security by victim) to a mere request for money that was refused.
In addition to creeps and bad guys from the outside coming onto the property to steal packages, commit robberies and assault people, now we have creeps and bad guys who live here committing crimes on the property. According to the article, this couple spied on their nanny as she showered and changed clothes. A lawyer quoted in the article says, “Parents have a right to install and use hidden surveillance cameras—with some exceptions. No employer has the right to install nanny cams in the bathroom used by the nanny or in the nanny’s private room if it is a live-in employment situation.”
I hope the idiots in management throw this couple out of here.
https://nypost.com/2019/01/12/couple-used-spy-camera-to-watch-nanny-shower-get-changed-suit/
Carriage room OVERFLOWING with garbage.
Crap strewn all over the floor.
Beer cans and empties galore.
You can't blame management for this.
Many tenants are SLOBS.
Pity the hardworking porters.
Show them a little respect and clean up after yourself.
It's called being an adult.
About those comments in the NYT (column about noise and airbnb) a couple of people have added MORE forthright comments! One commenter suggested prospective tenants should check this blog and the TA Facebook. Seems like tenants here (at least some) have just about had it with this lousy management and are getting the word out.
NativeNY'er
New York11h ago
@Proud New Yorker
I own real estate in NYC. I set my apartment temperature to 70 degrees. It is comfortable with a sweater on during the day and very comfortable for sleeping. Renters often tend to like much higher apartment temperatures when don't pay heating bills.
72 degrees seems generous to me. If the heating is off and below the agreed temperature that is a concern but it is also very challenging to keep the temperature consistent throughout a large complex. Higher floors may be infernal and lower floors may be glacial or vice versa depending on the heating system. Speak to your neighbors on different floors. You may hear very different experiences.
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Fed-up long time Stuyvesant Town tenant commented 6 hours ago
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Fed-up long time Stuyvesant Town tenant
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@Proud New Yorker
I agee with you. The management IS incompetent and uncaring. The guy in charge is in way over his head, but, apparently, to keep his job, is willing to torture tenants — noise, insufficient heat, pot smoking, noisy entertainment events — to do the bidding of his boss, our greedy landlord, Blackstone.
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Fed-up long time Stuyvesant Town tenant commented 6 hours ago
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@Ecollins8
The leasing agents will NOT tell you the truth about all the noise problems here. They’re trying to lease apartments, not chase people away and, if they told the truth, that is exactly what would happen. The number one complaint about living in PCVST is NOISE. There are a huge number of students living here now and, since they arrived, the noise complaints have multiplied exponentially. If you want to know about noise and the other problems you may encounter living here, you should visit the following two Stuyvesant Town & Peter Cooper Village websites:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/stpcvta/
http://stuytownreport.blogspot.com
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Fed-up long time Stuyvesant Town tenant commented 6 hours ago
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@Theo
There is ZERO guarantee that you will get a top floor apartment. There have been a number of reported bait and switch complaints from new renters that they didn’t get the apartment they thought they were getting. BEWARE. If I were you, I would think twice before signing a lease in Peter Cooper Village or Stuyvesant Town, especially since EVERY building here is filled with transients, many of whom are immature, noisy students; the walls and floors are thin and there is little to no enforcement of the 80% floor covering provision contained in every lease and the number one complaint on the Tenants Association facebook page is NOISE.
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NOISE. New people move in next door to me. Kid cries and screams every single day. Every day. I don't want to is his favourite thing to scream. Runs non stop stomping like elephants for hours. All this sounds like right in my apartment. Seriously, kid so loud shrieking and my floor vibrating from stomping. I can't even read book in peace. Jesus. Idiot parenting. This what wrong with people now. I guess this better than stupid frat boy bros who party until 4am and yell whoooo all the time. Upstairs, they seem to drop bowling balls every day in every room. Even kitchen. They must have many many bowling balls. Sigh.
Wow! People are really pissed off! I wouldn't wish harm on Rick and his family. Surprised you let that one through, STR. I just wish Rick would do his job the way he's supposed to do it,
Rick’s language in that email is very similar to a recent NBC story, which called an armed robber/intruder an “unwanted house visitor.” This country has a major problem with labeling people for what they are - criminals. And apparently Rick is no different.
Karma will come back and haunt Rick, I have no doubt about that. I would have resigned from this position a long time ago, if they had me doing to 30,000 people what he’s doing. Obviously the paycheck means more to Rick.
>>Wow! People are really pissed off! I wouldn't wish harm on Rick and his family.<<
What post are you referring to? Unless I missed it, I don't allow anyone's family to be mentioned.
I believe I found the post and deleted it. Thanks.
Again, mentioning anyone's family here and the person who is its paternal head by name will get your post removed, if shown at all. I've not passed several such posts for that reason.
8:55AM
Where is the heat???
Pipes ice cold.
Reading is 64 degrees on both bedroom and living room thermometers.
All for almost 4 grand per month.
What a lucky gal I am! NOT!
I just went to the NY Times article with all the comments about Stuyvesant Town and PCV. The comments are spot on! I hope they save some people the pain and expense of moving in here because it is really is a lousy place to live at this point. The poster must be paying $5k per month, going by the comment about the penalty for breaking the lease) and is probably in one of the platinum apartments. "Platinum" LOL! Platinum must have been downgraded in value to the same level as plastic!
The kind of treatment tenants' are getting is, unfortunately, typical of Blackstone's treatment of tenants in all its properties. Schwartzman must be of the same ilk as his pal, DJT, the noted bottom-feeding grifter and current U.S. President (hopefully, not for too much longer). Blackstone is noted for being a bottom-feeding entity and we have to get stuck with the bastards. Thank you DB and TA. And f**k you all.
There is a lawyer who has had dealings with this "management" and is willing to represent us if we care to make a case against them regarding heat/no heat.
I might have heard the figure $500.00 for a retainer for each of us.
Anyone interested?
If so, please e-mail quietenjoymentnow@gmail.com
I wonder if Management has read those comments on the NY Times? They seem to have been expanded on since the first comment went up! Another angry tenant has chimed in.
It is impossible to stop people from piggy-backing. I was dithering around the mailboxes yesterday, waiting to go out, because there was a guy in the vestibule who was just reading his cell phone. I wasn't going to let him in. Two residents came in and, of course, he followed them. I went after him and asked him if he lived here and he replied "No, but my friend is here" and then got on the elevator. Nothing I could do about it. I am a small female and I can't hold back a big guy who enters the building without a key card or being buzzed in.
Everything harmful happening here is either directly CAUSED by Blackstone, INVITED by Blackstone, ENCOURAGED by Blackstone, or UTILIZED by Blackstone to both hurt us and devalue Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village.
As I've written before, their tactics are classic.
The harassment, psychological warfare (including doublespeak: "Be a Good Neighbor," "Be Kind" are the EXACT OPPOSITE of their actions and intentions) are classic.
I can never figure out which employee, be they "management" level or otherwise, truly believes the lies and fabrications and twisting of reality.
Today I've learned that all sorts of technology/electronic crap which we are not told about is in place, and much more is coming.
I would guess that some of it will find its way into MCI's.
I think what I always think: people are sick in the head and heart and soul to behave thus.
I also think that people are de-natured, rendered incapable of defending themselves by societal conditioning because people in this country do not want to unite to collectively defend our collective selves. We used to do that for/with one another. Maybe some day . . .
Oh, and yes, they are screwing with the heat and I am nearly positive SOMEONE/S is aware it could cause illness and even death for some of us more vulnerable folk.
COULD SOMEONE ON THE FACEBOOK TA PAGE PLEASE WRITE TO THEM THAT THE LACK OF HEAT/REDUCTION OF HEAT IS MOST DEFINITELY:
DELIBERATE.
Some of the writers there question whether it is incompetence.
It is NOT INCOMPETENCE. IT IS PLANNED AND PURPOSEFUL. They know exactly what they are doing. And HOW to do it.
IT IS BLACKSTONE AND IT IS A SIMILAR TACTIC TO HURT PEOPLE AS THE ICE RINK, ALL OF THE "EVENTS" AND "CONCERTS," THE COMPLETE DISMANTLING, SHAKING UP, AND NEUTRALIZATION OF "SECURITY," DESTRUCTION OF TREES AND LAND, DESTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS.
“I might have heard the figure $500.00 for a retainer for each of us.”
What do you mean by “might”? Is that the fee or isn’t it?
Aso, are you a member of the TA FB page? If so, you should also be posting this info there, too.
Better yet, you should contact the TA directly and ask them to pay for this lawyer out of their funds. https://www.stpcvta.org/contact_us
Love the banging of the hockey pucks on the ice skating rink walls.
Certainly makes living nearby a wonderful experience.
What a low class honkey tonk dump this place has become.
worried about airbnb: Hint - get on board mate! make lots of cash! Duh!!!!!!
6:58 PM:
"Might have heard the figure" is a polite way of writing that the attorney quoted me $1,500 for me, alone, and $500.00 each if several of us pursued action together.
No, I'm not on the Facebook page. I would appreciate it if someone who IS a TA Facebook member posts it.
As for the TA itself - I am the person who spoke with Tim Collins, their lawyer, and received NO HELP.
@10:21 PM You have the hockey pucks and we have the nighttime MTA work out on 14th Street. How the fuck can anyone call this an "Oasis" anymore? It really is as bas as, if not worse, than a NYCHA project. No disrespect to the folks living in NYCHA because they deserve better. At least they pay a low rent, though.
"Today I've learned that all sorts of technology/electronic crap which we are not told about is in place, and much more is coming."
What kind of stuff are you talking about? Give us clue, please!
@ Stand Up and Fight
Since you say you spoke with Tim Collins, why did he say he couldn’t help?
Even if Tim Collins wasn’t able to help, if you have a legitimate lawyer who is willing to take on Blackstone over the lack of heating issue, the TA should be willing to foot the bill, especially since it’s a matter affecting so many tenants living here. You should at least approach the TA about this. If they aren’t willing to pay the legal costs and can’t offer a good reason why they won’t, I imagine there are lots of heat deprived tenants who would probably like to know this.
"Technology/electronic crap" -
Was it here or on the TA Facebook page that someone expressed concern about the large cameras mounted on at least one roof?
Infrared (heat sensing) camera/s. "Where is a building losing heat?" That is the accepted explanation regarding landlords and buildings, generally. I did a quick Net search and came up with nothing ominous. I am not particularly trusting, though. Please reach your own conclusions about WHY heat sensing cameras are needed.
The much lauded and wonderfully effective crime-PREVENTION cameras here are to be replaced, spending who knows how much money for spiffy new digital cameras which will make us SO very much safer.
MCI, anyone? Don't know, but again: ain't trusting.
The new, improved cameras will, I am sure, eliminate all transients, robbers, rapists, thieves and criminals of all types. Rest easy, all of us living on "property."
Are you kidding. The TA won’t even use their own lawyer. They are not going to foot any bill.
We already know why the TA will not foot the bill for heat deprived tenants. They are a sham.
That is a joke
The answer is no. The TA did not show up officially at tonight's 13th Precinct neighborhood meeting. There were no questions about "cozy" relationship between the 13th and our PS.
This, after the following was stated on the Facebook TA page:
>>"Peter Stuyvesant": Show up in person and tell the NYPD (and any members of management who are present) what you think and what you demand. Disrupt the coziness you see between the NYPD and PS. More people doing the same will make a greater impact.
>>Adam Rose: Peter Stuyvesant - I think it would have even greater impact if the TA Board of Directors showed up to the 13th Precinct meeting and represented PCVST tenants, which is, after all, what the Board was elected to do. Since so many PCVST tenants agree that there is an insufficient Public Safety presence on the property, this issue would be an easy one for the Board to take on.<<
I've never seen Susan Steinberg there, though I have attended in the past and I was at today's meeting. Rick was there, btw.
To repeat what I said earlier:
“You (Stand Up and Fight) should at least approach the TA about this. If they aren’t willing to pay the legal costs (for a lawyer to take on Blackstone over the complex wide lack of heat) and can’t offer a good reason why they won’t, I imagine there are lots of heat deprived tenants who would probably like to know this.”
I am one of the heat deprived tenants who would like to see what happens if Stand Up and Fight goes to the TA with a request for financial assistance. If the TA won’t help and they don’t have a damn good reason why, every shivering tenant, of which there are MANY, deserves to know that.
The anti-STY comments on the NYT article about AirBnB are expanding.
After all the recent, reported crimes here, it’s unbelievable and unacceptable that no one from the TA board showed up at the 13th Precinct meeting tonight to make the case that we need an increased police presence because Public Safety isn’t handling the job adequately and Rick Hayduk is mischaracterizing the nature of the crimes here. Adam Rose is right that the TA board was elected to represent tenants. It would be nice if they started doing that on important issues like crime. Not showing up at the precinct meeting tonight was a disappointing failure on their part.
STR, you say Hayduk was at the 13th Pct meeting. Did anyone say anything to him about the fact that our apartments are as cold as Christian Charity (something, I believe, he espouses from a blurb I saw about him on the internet)?
>>STR, you say Hayduk was at the 13th Pct meeting. Did anyone say anything to him about the fact that our apartments are as cold as Christian Charity (something, I believe, he espouses from a blurb I saw about him on the internet)?<<
I see Hayduk there all the time or most of it. The TA officially? Never have I seen this, though maybe it happened when I wasn't there. Unless something was said to Rick privately, nothing was openly discussed about the heat here.
I was there for two reasons: 1) I addressed a problem that concerned me and some of my fellow residents, and 2) to see if the TA would show up. I am assuming that some people there were TA members, but otherwise, the TA, in their official capacity, was absent.
BTW, it is not "easy" for me to show up for a variety of reasons. I also saw a person in a wheelchair. And there may have been two wheelchair-persons, one in the very back! So, it is embarrassing and disappointing that the TA chose to be absent from this meeting, particularly after all that online prodding.
It is only a matter of time before Tenants Association board members may be indicted for misappropriation of funds.
Until they open their books, this organization will be suspect.
Can the "perp" walk by far way?
Susan in chains...haha...not so funny.
I assume that the TA is getting funds from our local politicians. The TA is on my "bucket-list".... In the future....
Stand Up and Fight - I don’t think that we tenants actually have a legal case. I think that most of us are getting the LEGAL, 68 degree minimum requirement for heat, which, as we all know, isn’t enough to feel warm. However, it is the LEGAL, minimum heat requirement. So, I would like to know why your lawyer thinks he can win a legal action when no law has been broken? Unless he’s willing to take on the City, I can’t see how we have a case here.
LOL. Aside from seeing the usual infractions of the rules, city or otherwise, I saw in front of my building a horde (six or seven) of young Asian females and a slightly older Asian man who was holding a cellphone. Now, I am not certain, but my mind kept revolving that these Asian females were waiting to see an apartment here and the company of an Asian broker. Perfect for AirBnb!
There are a number of "working girls" here in Stuy Town.
Very discreet. All on the QT.
Is this another "amenity"?...haha
Will we get an MCI for this?
Rick? Susan?
>>There are a number of "working girls" here in Stuy Town.<<
Email me the info if you know it. I am investigating this. I will be discreet.
I wish we could get the press to investigate what goes on here. Nobody in their right mind should move into this hell hole. People just don't know what they are letting themselves in for.
A lot of us are NOT herring the minimum amount of heat. Many are getting far less.
We just have to face the fact that we don't have a Tenants Association anymore and we have a slumlord for a landlord and a stooge for a "manager." I don't think it will get better.
I agree that it’s time to go to the press about all the indignities we’re suffering here. Anyone have any press contacts?
Still no mention of our heat problems in T&V. Pretty sure Sabina was told by Management to ignore the issue. They report on anything and everything that happens OUTSIDE ST, but very little about the problems we have here.
This is not new, and I wish it was. But, once again, I am seeing Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village in dire straights. There are so many things wrong, including "our" TA. I am planning, once again, to address this issue on the main page. And, no, that "paint spray" has not been cleaned up. Two weeks and counting?
Not freezing in our flat, in fact, sweating.
This is Stand Up and Fight -
Regarding requests that I contact the TA to request or demand that they pay for a private lawyer to help us compel Blackstone to supply sufficient heat: I am only one person. I am the person who attempted to organize residents last June in order to visit Powers and others so-called representatives. Only two other people joined me.
Another person or people, preferably many, need to involve themselves. And, among other things, contact the TA regarding this issue. I would join them. Again, e-mail me at: quietenjoymentnow@gmail.com
Regarding Tim Collins, the TA lawyer: I had one brief conversation with the man on the phone. Period. He stated that he knew of "no one" else complaining about lack of heat except me. So, that, if nothing else, was a non-starter regarding his involvement in fighting for us.
Of course, the "you are the only one complaining," or "you're crazy" arguments as are as old as the hills, lies, and a prime tactic used by anyone who wants to mess with your life, health, head, etc. It is a method to marginalize you, keep harming you, completely detach the perpetrator/predator from their own actions, drive you nuts, and lots of other rotten things.
Regarding "legal action won't help." I am not certain about that. My own feeling is that this has not been explored thoroughly and utilizing enough avenues, at least one of which I wrote about some time back.
I repeatedly wrote, months ago, that there are many actions which we can take. Please notice the pronoun: WE.
Much as I might thoroughly enjoy being the KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR, I ain't.
We need WE. So . . . some of WE might e-mail me about all of the goodies Blackstone sends our way: quietenjoymentnow@gmail.com
There has to be a reason (involving money) as to why they are letting the place run down to the level of a slum. There's bound to be method to their madness. They con people into renting here, but it will come back to bite them in the ass, eventually. Unfortunately, I think that the real rent stabilized tenants are going to suffer the most because they want them out soooo badly. Blackstone is basically no better than Kushner, someone our "beloved" bozo of Mayor and our City Council rep (former TA board member) are in with up to the hilt.
>>Not freezing in our flat, in fact, sweating.<<
Are you British by any chance?
>>Regarding Tim Collins, the TA lawyer: I had one brief conversation with the man on the phone. Period. He stated that he knew of "no one" else complaining about lack of heat except me.<<
That is a major problem. "No one" else complaining means he does not read the TA's own Facebook.
"Regarding Tim Collins, the TA lawyer: I had one brief conversation with the man on the phone. Period. He stated that he knew of "no one" else complaining about lack of heat except me. So, that, if nothing else, was a non-starter regarding his involvement in fighting for us."
If that is what the TA lawyer said, then it's no wonder the TA never wins a round in the MCI battles! He sounds like one nasty, arrogant SOB. And I'm being very restrained and polite here.
"That is a major problem. "No one" else complaining means he does not read the TA's own Facebook."
No, STR, it means that he is in bed with Management, just as the so-called TA is. That organization needs to be investigated and exposed for what it is: a SHAM.
"Still no mention of our heat problems in T&V. Pretty sure Sabina was told by Management to ignore the issue. They report on anything and everything that happens OUTSIDE ST, but very little about the problems we have here."
Don't hold your breath waiting for T&V to write anything about the lack of heat we are experiencing. T&V only prints what it is allowed (by Management) to print and that is the way it has always been. It does NOT exist for the benefit of tenants! I really can't understand why anybody would buy that inferior little rag. It panders to Management and politicians and prints very little, if anything, that is of interest to tenants.
“Regarding Tim Collins, the TA lawyer: I had one brief conversation with the man on the phone. Period. He stated that he knew of "no one" else complaining about lack of heat except me. So, that, if nothing else, was a non-starter regarding his involvement in fighting for us.”
No, that wasn’t a non-starter. It was an opportunity for you to educate him about what’s going on here. Sounds to me more like you wrote him off too quickly and not like he was accusing you of being “the only one” or “crazy”.
1. Why didn’t you direct him to the TA’s FB page, where he would easily have seen that you weren’t the only one complaining about a lack of heat?
2. Why didn’t you ask him to speak with the TA, who would easily have verified the problem?
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@ STR - As for him not reading the TA’s FB page, he’s not under any obligation to be reading that page. He knows that when the TA needs him, they will contact him. WHICH IS EXACTLY WHY STAND UP AND FIGHT SHOULD HAVE DIRECTED HIM TO THAT PAGE AND WHY SHE COULD HAVE ASKED HIM TO SPEAK WITH THE TA. The problem with the TA Board is that they’re not aggressive enough on this issue. THEY should have been talking to Tim Collins about this problem. It shouldn’t have been up to an individual tenant to call him, but, since the TA is not being more aggressive, we need to light a fire under their ass.
>>@ STR - As for him not reading the TA’s FB page, he’s not under any obligation to be reading that page.<<
Not the way I work. Yes, he is under no obligation to check the TA page, but, as a lawyer for the TA, he should. My way of thinking. If someone, whether representing the TA or Management, decides (free will), not to be aware of what important members of his or her community (like residents), think--then this person's non-response is of concern. To me, and I wasn't there, the person, whomever it is, is not doing the job as I see it. Could be my hang-up, but that is the way I view things.
6:35AM, Thursday morning - a puff of heat, a wisp of warmth, and then GONE.
Pipes ice cold.
" Anonymous Anonymous said...
@10:21 PM You have the hockey pucks and we have the nighttime MTA work out on 14th Street. How the fuck can anyone call this an "Oasis" anymore? It really is as bas as, if not worse, than a NYCHA project. No disrespect to the folks living in NYCHA because they deserve better. At least they pay a low rent, though."
One has hockey pucks, one has MTA, we have all day long helicopter landings and takeoffs and flyovers here in PCV. I can't believe some people are still bitching that they didn't get to buy here. More like thank God we dodged that bullet. No one wants to buy with an active heliport blocks away. First trip this morning was at 6:30 a.m. NYU just opened a children's wing not 100 yards from the helipad. You cant make this stuff up.
The slamming of those hockey pucks is unwarranted. What community, in its middle, has that "amenity"?
STR - Yes, it is your hang-up. Collins is a busy man. He has many other clients besides the TA. He only needs - and probably only has the time and energy - to be aware of issues when they are brought to him by the TA. His monitoring the TA FB page on an ongoing basis and outside of any legal issue he is working on for the TA is not in his job description and is unlikely to happen and your expectation that it would is an unreasonable one.
>>STR - Yes, it is your hang-up. Collins is a busy man. He has many other clients besides the TA.<<
Then... he shouldn't be working for the TA if his attitude is hands off unless he is forced to look at the issue. My take. Sorry.
BTW, to look at the TA Facebook page takes me no more than a minute, many times less than that.
Why haven't the TA Board members told Collins about what we are enduring here regarding the lack of heat? Probably for the same reason none of them showed for the 13th Pct meeting - they simply don't give a flying fuck.
“Then... he shouldn't be working for the TA if his attitude is hands off unless he is forced to look at the issue. My take. Sorry.”
He looks into an issue when he is asked by the TA to look into it. If you expect him to stay up on every issue that we have here, whether he is asked to provide legal assistance on the matter or not, your expectation is unreasonable. I doubt that most busy lawyers would do that. Generally, lawyers get involved and bring themselves up to speed as needed.
Your view, and I have mine. Sorry.
This is the most incompetent property management company that has ever been here and I have been here for 45 years and my family before me. They don't know the word respect and they think who the hell they are. The rest of them jump ship and left the job to another incompetent moron and her minions. They will be taught a lesson
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