Our landlord, BLACKSTONE, can't handle Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village. There is a lack of enforcement of certain "rules," and no amount of notice to this alleviates the problems. We are continually being told half-truths and fabrications. And we have no viable Tenants organization, despite our TA asking for dues all the time. So far, the politicians have proven to be basically useless. A typical New York story.
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Is That 80% Floor Covering?
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We mved in about 7 months ago, lived downtown prior. Can I just say that our apartment here is constant dirt? I find myself cleaning dust, walls, windows more than ever and my prior flat was facing street. We are barely home, always at work and have no kids. Clean as clean here, no pets. where is all the dirt coming from please post if anyone has similar?
Dirt's origin: Destruction, which is euphemistically labeled, "Construction."
In addition to general neighborhood destruction, there is, of course, the 14th Street subway-related digging which throws up masses of dirt and who knows what chemicals, substances, carcinogens and the like.
There is, and has been, the destruction of both the land and vegetation and trees here, on an ongoing basis, featuring the spreading of (again): who knows what chemicals, etc.
There is, and has been, the destruction of buildings through their "renovations" (ripping apart walls, floors, appliances, etc.; drilling; hollowing out and so on, relentlessly - DESTRUCTION and also DESTABLIZATION OF THE BUILDINGS) and installing appliances that cause and produce their own polluting and ill effects.
There is no telling how much debris is spewed into the air every day thanks to the insistence of blackstone to destroy/annihilate/degrade/rip apart these already fragile old buildings.
THAT is at least a good portion of where the constant dirt comes from.
If it is any comfort at all, I've spoken to people in other cities undergoing this mass destruction, all of whom report the same filth filtering into their homes all day long. Unprecedented filth for years now.
Remember Con Ed's: "Dig We Must"? Well this is, in big cities here and elsewhere, "Destroy . . . We Do!"
Why would anybody want to enter a lottery for an apartment here? The rents are market rate and something much better can be found elsewhere. Stuyvesant Town is not worth anything much higher than the old rent stabilized rates. The place is a wreck at this point and it is getting worse all the time.
THIS IS THE ARTICLE IN "THE REAL DEAL" today about the horror Blackstone:
Blackstone ordered to run tenant communications by judge after “misleading” eviction notices: court docs
Company allegedly continued questionable practices at the center of J-51 lawsuit filed against Jack Parker Corp. last year
The Blackstone Group allegedly moved to evict two tenants from Parker Towers, a Queens residential complex subject to an ongoing lawsuit over illegal rent increases.
The private equity firm and world’s largest real estate manager will now have to screen all its future tenant communications with a state court as a result of what the tenants’ attorneys called “incorrect and deliberately misleading” eviction notices, and rent renewals that failed to mention the lawsuit could lower tenants’ rent and even win them a settlement.
Judge W. Franc Perry III signed the injunction on Wednesday, the latest procedural development in a lawsuit filed by tenants in March 2018 against the Jack Parker Corporation, which was accused of illegally deregulating apartments in the Queens apartment complex. Jack Parker sold the towers to Blackstone for $500 million in November, and Blackstone was named as a defendant after the deal closed.
“It shouldn’t require an injunction to get the largest real estate manager in the world to play by the rules,” said Aaron Carr, whose nonprofit group Housing Rights Initiative performed the initial research that led to the lawsuit.
Blackstone declined to comment.
The lawsuit claimed that the 1,327-unit rental complex in Forest Hills received tax breaks under the J-51 program, which requires that landlords keep their apartments rent stabilized. Despite this, Jack Parker still leased out apartments at market rate rents, failed to register apartments as rent stabilized with the state, and never provided tenants with rent-stabilized leases, the lawsuit alleges.
The injunction request filed Tuesday focuses on eviction notices Blackstone allegedly sent to tenants Maria Davila and Chris Haley in late February 2019 telling them that their apartments were not rent stabilized. It also notes that multiple other tenants recently received their lease renewals with a note from Blackstone that said it was “currently evaluating” how the class-action-seeking lawsuit could impact the building. This notice did not tell the tenants what their rights were under the lawsuit and did not say that the suit sought to reduce rents at the building, according to the court documents filed by a tenant attorney.
Newman Ferrara LLP, the law firm representing the tenants, described Blackstone’s eviction notices as “patently false” and said it is “fundamentally unfair” to ask tenants to make decisions about whether to move or renew their leases without letting them know that they could see sharp decreases in rent depending on how an ongoing court case is resolved.
“Indeed, once a tenant vacates, the right to a rent-stabilized lease vanishes,” Newman Ferrara said on the injunction request.
The injunction has put at least a temporary stop to the evictions of Davila and Haley, and it requires Blackstone to receive court approval for any further communications it has with Parker Towers tenants who are involved with the lawsuit.
Davila and Haley are not part of the larger lawsuit, according to a source familiar with the proceedings.
In the original lawsuit filed in March 2018, Newman Ferrara said only 642 of the 1,327 units were listed as rent-stabilized, when J-51 rules require all units to be stabilized.
Blackstone made one of the largest real estate deals in New York history when it purchased Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village with Canadian pension fund Ivanhoé Cambridge in 2015 for $5.3 billion. The companies pledged to keep 5,000 apartments in the complex affordable for 20 years, and the city pledged to provide them $220 million of financial aid.
The Stuy truck has no carpeting cause Stuy don't want us to get carpets. They prefer irritated tenants to move out. Young, old, market, no market rate. That is how they prosper from move outs, deregulation, and in the near future they will have only the land left worth billions more than present.
Blackstone likely does the same patently false eviction papers, illegal lease rent practices here in StuyTown too. It is probably worse so, here especially since the tenant association treasurer made the Blackstone deal completely throwing tenants under the bus.
These are the types of people Blackstone associates with.
This is from 2016 where Schwarzman partied into the night with his close and now infamously notorious friends - disgraced Les Moonves, disgraced Charlie Rose, celebrating disgraced Robert Kraft.
Also at this party is the seller of Boca Raton megamansion owner of DeBlasio favorite baseball team the Boston Red Sox. Coincidentally DeBlasio's Queens NY is reported as the U.S. hub and training ground for the victims in the Robert Kraft tied arrest. Coincidentally Queens NY just lost a major tenant, Amazon, that DeBlasio was falling all over himself to bribe with tax breaks and union payoffs to the tune of $3 billion and $500 million respectively.
Our landlord tenant association, and our mayor who made this real estate deal associate with some unsavory types.
Absolutely no postings about HEAT (or lack thereof) on the TA Facebook. I think all the people who complained about having no heat have either been banished or threatened. I wonder how many of them got contacted by "Management" and were warned? I believe that that is the modus operandi these days.
Either everybody is now toasty warm or they have been personally contacted and warned off by "Management."
"Management" doesn't like people who publicly complain.
I am sure Sabina Molot has been warned not to print any letters or comments about the lack of heat, let alone go so far as to write about the issue.
This is why it is very important to complain anonymously or under a pseudonym. We are not dealing with honest brokers here. This is a totalitarian autocracy!
Has anyone looked at the latest presumptuous, fatuous (inane, childish, nonsensical, asinine, witless, nonsensical) "State of the Community" glossy fold-out in our hotel/restaurant advertising stands on our mailbox shelving?
Among other laudable accomplishments: open kitchens. It's been noted many times here: this is a recipe (pun intended) for deliberate disaster. None of our old, fire-stopping doors. Open kitchen in which too many people and dogs move. Too many drunken, marijuana-impaired and otherwise drugged out people in and out of kitchens one of whose functions is to create OPEN FIRE for cooking. (Cooking what? That is another matter entirely.)
Also discussed here on the blog: the work is shoddy, breaks down frequently and easily. Is dangerous. TRANSLATION, consistent: We Want You Gone. And Suffering Before We Hound You Out of Your Home.
Another reason to celebrate living here: MORE DOGS, MORE DOGS. More noise, more dog feces and urine. More danger to these innocent beings since so few people know what the hell they are doing with the dogs they acquire.
What does everyone else thing about this fabulous new edition of the publication which praises our "community?" (Again - "community" - ha!)
I wonder too if Management is censoring the TA site, particularly heat issues. I have much more heat and I hope others do too. I certainly hope they are not censoring complaints. The site does seem different, more genteel and management oriented if that is possible. As for T& V, That rag is a joke. No renewal for them next year just as no renewal for TA dues for the past two years.
@4:09 PM: Yup, the TA fb has been well and truly neutered. Thank Hayduk for that. He's very touchy when it comes to criticism of the fiefdom he rules with a shaky hand. We all know who the TA looks out for, don't we? It sure ain't tenants! They should change their name and call themselves Management Association! Or, maybe, Friends of Blackstone. Or maybe they should just disband and go away and stop bilking people out of $50 per apartment.
No heat here, either. Have to use space heaters. I've asked many of my neighbors in my building and in other buildings about the heat in their apartments and EVERYONE of them said they are cold and using space heaters. There is absolutely no point in calling RS because they will just give you the thermometer and house visit script. I'm sure they have effectively silenced all complainers so nobody calls the anymore.
There is a total absence of any discussion of heat on the TA Facebook and I think that is by order of Management. They haven't even given a follow-up thread about the exciting tours of the heating system that some of the idiots were so enthusiastically embracing as the hot event of the year! (No pun intended)
I suspect that rather than being toasty and comfortable in their homes, the complainers have been "reached out" to by Management and are now afraid to complain or have been kicked off the TA Facebook.
"it's 50 degrees today and the heat is blasting. Sweating our XX*&**s off. But when the temperature was 5 degrees, no heat. Have at it folks."
I hope you are not questioning the efficaciousness of the fabulous SENSOR SYSTEM!!! That is considered blasphemy by Management! We are supposed to sweat when it's warm outside and freeze when it's cold outside without the inconvenience of having to leave our apartments. That is one of the amenities Management so graciously supplies.
""it's 50 degrees today and the heat is blasting. Sweating our XX*&**s off. But when the temperature was 5 degrees, no heat. Have at it folks."
Didn't you go on the wonderful tour? BTW, the only post re that tour on the TA FB page said that people on the lower floors were screwed. Wow, just wow, heat rises. Who knew?
"Management" does more than warn tenants who complain about heating problems.
They lie, or have "legal" lie when they enlist "legal" and threaten you with "legal action" in addition to forbidding you to complain about anything to Resident Services or Security (unless "emergency," although you've seen that even clogged sinks and bathtubs are mere annoyances and no kind of "emergency" anymore).
Wait until May, when the next phase of, "We're going to make your lives a living nightmare every day and night you are alive and living here" is commenced.
Cold, damp, rainy Sunday morning. Heat? Hahaha...ya' gotta be kidding! Not in my apartment. What an overpriced dump this place is becoming. PIG STUY TOWN.
They lie, or have "legal" lie when they enlist "legal" and threaten you with "legal action" in addition to forbidding you to complain about anything to Resident Services or Security (unless "emergency," although you've seen that even clogged sinks and bathtubs are mere annoyances and no kind of "emergency" anymore).
Because they long know and has been reported in the press the pipes and plumbing cannot support the property population increase of the occupants, residents, transients, hotels, hook-ups, partiers, and businesses on the property let alone the irrigation system installed during the property sale to make the grass green.
There are old articles during the property sale talking about the plumbing and infrastructure problems somewhere buried in the press. Anyone remember those or know where they are?
"Adam Rose" on the TA fb posts some very on-point posts. I wonder if Management has gone after him? If he uses a nom-de-plume, then they won't be able to locate him. He's good, though. He hits the nail right on the head in his posts. I seem to remember that the Real Estate Adam Rose, who used to be the Manager here, was a pretty decent guy. He responded to complaints and did something about them. Oh Man! Whatever happened to this place! SMFH.
Glad to see John Marsh posting something useful for a change.
I am seeing some "Neighbors from Hell" horror stories on the TA page. I wonder when the TA will be ordered to put a stop to those postings! LOL! Can't be long now!
>>They lie, or have "legal" lie when they enlist "legal" and threaten you with "legal action" in addition to forbidding you to complain about anything to Resident Services or Security<<
Can someone who has first hand experience with this please explain what is going on with legal going after you for complaining? Their trying to censor us has to be illegal.
>>STR, I was referring to Marsh posting a space heater ad. Usually, he posts about his favorite politicians.<<
Understood. But why is Marsh posting that on the TA Facebook page? I have to check my lease, but "heaters" may be a violation of one's lease, despite its necessary use. Marsh can post about using a heater, but his post is a direct link to a company selling these things.
>>Can someone who has first hand experience with this please explain what is going on with legal going after you for complaining? Their trying to censor us has to be illegal.<<
We've had two changes of upstairs neighbors over the last 6 years, and I can say from first hand experience that the 80% rule is fairly meaningless.
Here's what counts. Are there young children in the apt? If so, for many years they will run from one place to another. In all cases if the carpet is too thin, 80% coverage doesn't matter. You'll hear noise and running. If area rugs are in use, children often play on the bare floor areas to use the flat hard surfaces.You'll hear it.
Areas that are used frequently like the walkway from the bedroom across the living room into the kitchen are important. If these aren't covered, you'll heard constant noise from anyone walking with even slightly hard soles and of course you'll here young children running.
This was posted at the TA FB page. With the recent Yelp review posted at this blog, I think that the QOL is truly out of control. Blackstone/SPS is making TS/CWC look like Met Life. TA says what?
"I posted this at Stuytown Mom page, but I am also posting here. It has been one week since my post, nothing has changed. We called security 5 times tonight. Security said they sent a lease violation letter to this tenant, but they don’t seem to care.
They start to party around 8-9pm. Bring friends over (I think because it sounds like there are more than 10 people), play loud music, walking around with heels... and they go out around 11pm. And come back after 4:30am and party again. Almost every weekend. We are so afraid of every weekend we can’t sleep.
I will contact resident service Monday, but are there any other things we can do about it?
This is driving us crazy and we are wondering if lawsuit may be an option."
By complaining, it is meant: calling Resident Services and other Management personnel frequently, leaving voicemail messages, and e-mailing these personnel.
Complaining does NOT have anything to do with this blog.
Maybe there was confusion about what "complaining" meant. This will straighten it out if anyone believed that Blackstone is threatening and/or censoring anyone in connection with this blog.
Again, complaining = repeated requests, demands, complaints to those who run this place and their employees.
@7:50 PM: I never thought for one moment that the "complaining" issue was in connection with this blog. I thought it was quite clear that it refers to people who complain to Management, Resident Services AND who complain on the TA Facebook, which Management reads. Management must have complained to the TA about all the threads about lack of heat and told the TA they better crack down on those malcontents who have the nerve to want heat - at least heat at a slightly higher level than the few puffs of heat we get to keep the indoor temp hovering around 68 degrees, the legal minimum. Management thinks that the "legal minimum" means the legal maximum, too. Assholes.
It is a balmy 43 degrees outside, Monday morning, 8:45AM. Heat in my apartment? Surely you jest. As usual, pipes are ice cold. Not a word about widespread lack of heating issues on the Tenants Association Facebook page. Complainers have been "banished". Susan "Just Call Rick" Steinberg and the vile, possibly corrupt, Tenants Association Board should hang their heads in shame. FOR SHAME! FOR SHAME!
STR, I don't know if the TA has deleted posts concerning the lack of heat, but recently nobody has said anything about the lack of heat and I don't believe it's because we're all such happy campers. I think the TA has warned off people who complain - I was one of those people. They don't want any "negative" posts anymore. I'm surprised they let through the one from the lady with the unbearable upstairs neighbors.
It's ok to post about pizza joints, dry cleaners and coffee shops (and where to buy a space heater), but no complaining, please. Meanwhile, over on the the Tenants (unofficial) fb, somebody is openly asking for people interested in hosting friends who will be visiting. I'm sure this isn't meant to be a charity request, so money will be changing hands. Is that legal? Are there no hotels in the city?
I agree that the TA Board has been completely missing in action on the heat issue. But as to deleting comments, I doubt it.Any heat complaint comment I posted appeared on the Facebook page .My comments on that issue ended because my heat situation has improved
"Regarding the lack of heat and the TA deleting posts because of that, is there any proof? Please post if there is. Thanks."
The TA hasn't deleted the heat complaint posts, but they have become well and truly "buried" by numerous posts with announcements, advertisements, etc. Also, I think the heat has been a bit better of late. I am not freezing the way I was a few weeks ago, and the weather has been pretty cold up till today.
What I AM surprised at is that Adam Rose is still allowed to post on that forum because he really tells it like it is! It is to the TA Facebook moderators' credit that they allow him to post because he is a voice crying in the wilderness at this point. Whoever, wherever you are Adam, keep on keeping on! I'm surprised the Stasi hasn't silenced you!
>>I think the TA has warned off people who complain - I was one of those people.<<
If you still have their response, could you post it, without your name? I kinda figured they would want "positive" posts, but I'd like to see how far they would go.
My heat issue has improved as well. As for censor of comments, it appeared they were for a short time but not so much lately. They are a do nothing farce.
When I criticized the TA on their site they sent me a private message crying about lack of money and volunteers. They have also called benign comments inappropriate. I think they know what they are, a joke . They need to be called out for not helping when we had no heat.
"If you still have their response, could you post it, without your name? I kinda figured they would want "positive" posts, but I'd like to see how far they would go."
I deleted it. Sorry. They won't be getting $50 out of me though!
All throughout the heat crisis, the TA ignored the issue. They filled their site with irrelevant city and regional postings. They finally put something up telling residents that the individuals, not the TA were responsible for calling. They finally promoted a tour of the heating plant in order to deflect their do nothing attitude. That is their modus operati now. Anyone who pays dues to this despicable organization is crazy. Fold, fold, fold TA
It's only a matter of time before Susan Steinberg and the rest of the Tenants Association Board do the "perp walk." Very shady dealings. "Funds" received from former Councilman Danny "Little Boy" Garodnick. TA Board member now Councilman Keith Powers on TA Board. Wonder how much TA will receive as discretionary funds? Ultimate conflict of interest. Where does this money go? NO open books, zero membership info. This organization... A fraud, a scam. Susan...Susan, I can't hear you?
Elected politicians including now Keith Powers owe this community answers.
The California pension CALPERS is an investor in Rob Speyer Tishman Speyer BlackRock purchase of StuyTown from Metlife.
Is the New York City pension an investor with Tishman Speyer BlackRock now Blackstone in the 2006 and 2016 $5.4 billion purchases of Stuyvesant Town? Politician Scott Stringer owes this community that answer. Is NYC invested in these two real estate deals?
Is New York State pension invested?
It stands to reason if CALPERS is invested then other states are too? Which ones? The elected officials owe this community and the country answers to these questions that effects the homes of all us and the pensions of police, firefighters, civil servant employees and staff - any and all with city and state pensions are rooting for the demise and development of Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village.
I don't believe Keith Powers is still a member of the TA Board. I think he resigned when he ran for office. I'm not 100% sure of that, but I believe that that is the case.
Mabel get off the table, the $3 is for the waiter
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Things have gotten so bad for the Tenants Association that I saw one of the Board members leaning against a light pole and saying, "Hey, sailor, ya' got $50 for a good time...I mean membership dues."...lol
These people who complain about too much heat make it difficult for those without enough heat. For a few weeks my apartment was 78. Wonderfully warm and if it became too hot I opened the window. They are probably complaining again because today my apartment was cold. The whole line gets affected. Bozos.
We get short bursts of heat. These crappy old buildings are drafty and the walls are thin. The temperature drops like a stone as soon as the heat is turned off.. Still using space heaters.
Absolutely NOTHING about the heat problems in T&V. Are they actually aware of tenants' concerns, or is it just not their policy to cover them? They put out about 6 pages of drivel every week. I don't even bother checking the ads anymore when I'm looking for a handyman.
Another Stuy Town "amenity"? A bowling alley perhaps? My upstairs "neighbors" clearly have installed one. Thumping, crashing, ungodly noises at all hours of the night. I called Public Safety. Nothing we can do they said. I appealed to Susan Steinberg, President of the Tenants Association. What did she say? YOU GUESSED IT! "Just call Rick" Hahaha! Would be funny if it wasn't so sad!
"Oh, you live in Stuy Town? Heard that's the projects at ten times the rent". Hard to believe how many times I've heard that. The reputation of this once pristine oasis has truly plummeted. "Lots of students, airbnb'ers and students, right? Isn't it an NYU dorm?" Can't tell you the number of times I've heard that too. So sad.
Did anyone get Management's latest email blast? They are advertising for "seasonal jobs," one of which is somebody to (among other things) inspect apartments for compliance (LOL!) and they want people who will spread the word about how great a place Stuyvesant Town is and people should come and live here.
They should have mentioned that the necessary qualifications are to be a liar and full of bull!
I doubt they want to hire summer employees to inspect for compliance with the 80% carpeting. We all know they don't give a shit about that. I suspect they want somebody to "inspect apartments" to find out if any of the real RS tenants have moved to Florida and are subletting. They are DESPERATE to kick out the "old timers." Maybe I am wrong and just have a suspicious mind, but I would suggest reading that section of the email blast in its detailed entirety (follow all the links) and see what you think.
What a dump. PigStuyTown. Now they tell me...after I signed a lease at an exorbitant rent. Fool is my name. Oh, well...10 more months and I'M OUTTA HERE. I fully understand rent-stabilized folks staying here. Many have a great deal. But market-raters...myself especially...SUCKERS!
"I called Public Safety. Nothing we can do they said."
What the Hell is Public Safety there for if they can't do anything about that kind of nerve-jarring, anti-social behavior? If someone is using their apartment as a basket ball court and making that kind of noise at night (or even during the day) they are CLEARLY violating their lease and the "Good Neighbor" rules pertaining to noise. Maybe call the 13th Precinct or file a noise complaint with the City if our "Public Safety" officers are too wimpy, ballsless or under orders not to put a stop to that kind of unreasonable noise. Sheesh. Maybe I'll get out my old tap shoes, roll up my carpet and do a few turns! What kind of stupid bastards are running this nightmare of a so-called residential complex? They want to encourage people to rent here, but allow this kind of abuse?
9:15 PM - I agree with you 100%. I visited friends in a newly opened apartment building in Astoria yesterday. It was so lovely and quiet and peaceful. They had a few friends and neighbors in for drinks and munchies and as soon as the conversation turned to where I live, I got the same kinds of remarks and looks and expressions of sympathy. All had heard of The Sty and what a total hell-hole it has turned into. If I was a market renter, I would move over to their building. I don't think the apartments are as expensive as here, but they are LOVELY. Only total suckers would move into this dump at market rate.
Pot smell from bros downstairs again. They do nothing here. Called security last week, nothing for a week. Now again. Can’t stand the stench . Real pigpen
I wish y'all could see my friends apartment in Astoria. (I posted upthread). It's brand new, carpeted and rents for the price of a 1BR here. It has 2 BR and 1-1/2 bathroom. They don't have to deal with the L train. The N stops quite close to them and they can change (if necessary) at Queens Plaza to the 7, R,W (and maybe the E?) to get to pretty much anywhere in the City. My friends both work at Lennox Hill Hospital on Lexington Avenue, so they take the N to Lex and the transfer to the 6. Anything is better than the stinking L Train!
Management here has a lot of hubris to try and get people in at such high rents. There are a lot of shortcomings in this place and living in Manhattan does not have the clout and status that it used to have!
One of the biggest mistakes I ever made was moving into this dump. In 2 years I wasted almost 96k on an apartment in PCV that is constantly noisy. If it's not the braying students partying 24/7 it's management pounding away at something or other. When both of those are quiet (almost never) I have constant helicopter noise. Back to Battery Park City for me. Adios suckers!
Read the email blast they sent out and the ad for seasonal jobs. They actually say they need to compete in New York. Hard to believe that this is the same place that had a waiting list two or three years long, at minimum. It was much, much better run then and we had beautiful grounds. Now it is an overpriced shithole/dorm/NYCHA and is run by a complete idiot, they claim they have to compete. You bet they have to compete, but I think they are competing to reach bottom!
Do the market rate suckers know they are not paying for top quality housing, but are paying because the property is saddled with Tishman Speyer debt that they walked away from? PCVST has turned into the RE debacle of all time.
That is why this place is full of students and city subsidized. Nobody wants to rent here at market rates. Suits management fine as long as they collect the rents.
I’ve notice a major upswing in AIRBNB checkins over the last few days. I was disheartened when I figured out why. They are all rolling in for ST PATS in big city. Hope we all enjoy the noise and the human waste that CRACKSTONE is bringing to our homes this Hikiday weekend.
The worst part of living here is that the animals in other apartments disturb your peace and quiet in your own apartment with their partying and pot smoking. You can’t even enjoy your own apartment in this dorm sty.
There are less and less market rate suckers. Primarily students, city subsidized and transient including Airbnb. That is the so called community or sty we are living in.
Please don't call the lowlifes animals. Animals are so much better and they don't foul their dens.
This "management" is so very, very desperate for bodies to fill the apartments at rents that are laughable, they can't afford to be fussy. They allow AirBnB, take in City-subsidized and wedge in as many undergrad students as they can. The students are parentally funded and wouldn't be able to behave they way they do if they were in a real dorm. The property has gone so far down the sewer, that I don't think it can ever be brought back.
Hayduk is a disaster, but I doubt that anybody Blackstone puts in the job would be any better.
2-3 year waiting list? That was only in last years under Met Life--originally, it was much longer. One idiot in T&V recently described this as constituting "[Management] blocking," but no one else ever found any reason to complain. In those years, overall, Mg't. was not perfect, but definitely much better than at present. Guess said T&V Commenter felt his Human Rights had somehow been violated by not automatically being handed keys to an apartment. Is he one of the Cheerleaders now?
Exactly right the property is saddled with Tishman Speyer debt thanks to Metlife and their broker CBRE who got awards for the biggest deal ever in history that is nothing but a house of cards about to crumble. Then maybe the predatory equity riff raff will be run out of town along with the politicians who made the deal and someone of morality can restructure the ownership mess.
The building including my apartment smells like a pot den. This place is getting more and more disgusting. This is the worst management yet. They do nothing.
They are filling these apartments with dorms, city subsidized and Airbnb. Otherwise they cannot get people to pay these rents. Any manager for this disgusting company would be as bad as Hayduk. This has become a real pigpen. Cannot get much worse.
No heat all day. A short blast in early evening that was off by 8 pm. Damn these perfidious, money-grubbing bastards. I hope it all comes back to bite them in the ass. One way or another, it will.
What's with these dog owners walking their dogs in the fenced off garden areas? I mean, they all do that. They let their dogs shit and piss on the plantings. Self absorbed pricks.
Word to all: Management does not follow up nor care much about our noise trouble.s I work hard all week and this weekend hoping to get a few zzzssss was startled awake at 6 30 am neighbor hammering wall with furniture building. OK, No problem I'm up. Tried to get work done at home, those living above me who must think no one else is living in stuytown except them (PCV) kids running amok balling bouncing and on a beauty day. OK, NP, that night, fatigued hoped to watch a movie and chill, Nope more hammering more non stop track field overhead. Honest truth this morning 7 am i can't stay here have work but just for the record, the cleaning person must have shown up, no rugs and he to she was banging doors, vacuuming and i kid you not i am out of here by May. keep your fucking shitty rental and i can see them in court for my deposit return. (i work in family law again NP)
Temperature is in low 30s and no heat all night and this morning. I call to ask (beg) for heat and I'm told they'll set up an appointment for an engineer to come to my apartment. What kind of bullshit is that? No wonder everybody has space heaters now because these are no-heat flats. Slums.
The damned sensor system doesn't work (by design, I believe) and this withholding of heat and wanting to send an "engineer" by appointment is HARASSMENT. The only "engineer" who is coming to my apartment is someone from the City. No wonder there are literally hundreds of outstanding heat complaints for this dump on the City website. And they talk about having to compete with other places to get tenants! Other places supply heat, unless they are run by slumlords like this dump is.
TS is responsible for Hudson Yards. The FDNY is concerned about the lack of fire safety there. So typical of these blood sucking parasites to only care about money not human life.
Ever wondering what kind of a loser lives here and gets constant noise complaints from neighbor and management but will not buy rugs? Gotta be a real loser. If you cannot afford rugs, please contact Rick to provide.
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We mved in about 7 months ago, lived downtown prior. Can I just say that our apartment here is constant dirt? I find myself cleaning dust, walls, windows more than ever and my prior flat was facing street. We are barely home, always at work and have no kids. Clean as clean here, no pets. where is all the dirt coming from please post if anyone has similar?
Dirt's origin: Destruction, which is euphemistically labeled, "Construction."
In addition to general neighborhood destruction, there is, of course, the 14th Street subway-related digging which throws up masses of dirt and who knows what chemicals, substances, carcinogens and the like.
There is, and has been, the destruction of both the land and vegetation and trees here, on an ongoing basis, featuring the spreading of (again): who knows what chemicals, etc.
There is, and has been, the destruction of buildings through their "renovations" (ripping apart walls, floors, appliances, etc.; drilling; hollowing out and so on, relentlessly - DESTRUCTION and also DESTABLIZATION OF THE BUILDINGS) and installing appliances that cause and produce their own polluting and ill effects.
There is no telling how much debris is spewed into the air every day thanks to the insistence of blackstone to destroy/annihilate/degrade/rip apart these already fragile old buildings.
THAT is at least a good portion of where the constant dirt comes from.
If it is any comfort at all, I've spoken to people in other cities undergoing this mass destruction, all of whom report the same filth filtering into their homes all day long. Unprecedented filth for years now.
Remember Con Ed's: "Dig We Must"? Well this is, in big cities here and elsewhere, "Destroy . . . We Do!"
Why would anybody want to enter a lottery for an apartment here? The rents are market rate and something much better can be found elsewhere. Stuyvesant Town is not worth anything much higher than the old rent stabilized rates. The place is a wreck at this point and it is getting worse all the time.
Evil Bastards:
https://therealdeal.com/2019/03/06/blackstone-ordered-to-run-tenant-communications-by-judge-after-misleading-eviction-notices-court-docs/?utm_source=The+Real+Deal+E-Lerts&utm_campaign=45e8415aaf-New_York_Weekend_Update_11.19.2016_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e806bb87a-45e8415aaf-387113101&fbclid=IwAR2WbkbY5NsGmXHPBCokar6PfOkbxZ_1UML7NaOzHnUK_R5QmpYA4zoC8tQ
THIS IS THE ARTICLE IN "THE REAL DEAL" today about the horror Blackstone:
Blackstone ordered to run tenant communications by judge after “misleading” eviction notices: court docs
Company allegedly continued questionable practices at the center of J-51 lawsuit filed against Jack Parker Corp. last year
The Blackstone Group allegedly moved to evict two tenants from Parker Towers, a Queens residential complex subject to an ongoing lawsuit over illegal rent increases.
The private equity firm and world’s largest real estate manager will now have to screen all its future tenant communications with a state court as a result of what the tenants’ attorneys called “incorrect and deliberately misleading” eviction notices, and rent renewals that failed to mention the lawsuit could lower tenants’ rent and even win them a settlement.
Judge W. Franc Perry III signed the injunction on Wednesday, the latest procedural development in a lawsuit filed by tenants in March 2018 against the Jack Parker Corporation, which was accused of illegally deregulating apartments in the Queens apartment complex. Jack Parker sold the towers to Blackstone for $500 million in November, and Blackstone was named as a defendant after the deal closed.
“It shouldn’t require an injunction to get the largest real estate manager in the world to play by the rules,” said Aaron Carr, whose nonprofit group Housing Rights Initiative performed the initial research that led to the lawsuit.
Blackstone declined to comment.
The lawsuit claimed that the 1,327-unit rental complex in Forest Hills received tax breaks under the J-51 program, which requires that landlords keep their apartments rent stabilized. Despite this, Jack Parker still leased out apartments at market rate rents, failed to register apartments as rent stabilized with the state, and never provided tenants with rent-stabilized leases, the lawsuit alleges.
The injunction request filed Tuesday focuses on eviction notices Blackstone allegedly sent to tenants Maria Davila and Chris Haley in late February 2019 telling them that their apartments were not rent stabilized. It also notes that multiple other tenants recently received their lease renewals with a note from Blackstone that said it was “currently evaluating” how the class-action-seeking lawsuit could impact the building. This notice did not tell the tenants what their rights were under the lawsuit and did not say that the suit sought to reduce rents at the building, according to the court documents filed by a tenant attorney.
Newman Ferrara LLP, the law firm representing the tenants, described Blackstone’s eviction notices as “patently false” and said it is “fundamentally unfair” to ask tenants to make decisions about whether to move or renew their leases without letting them know that they could see sharp decreases in rent depending on how an ongoing court case is resolved.
“Indeed, once a tenant vacates, the right to a rent-stabilized lease vanishes,” Newman Ferrara said on the injunction request.
The injunction has put at least a temporary stop to the evictions of Davila and Haley, and it requires Blackstone to receive court approval for any further communications it has with Parker Towers tenants who are involved with the lawsuit.
Davila and Haley are not part of the larger lawsuit, according to a source familiar with the proceedings.
In the original lawsuit filed in March 2018, Newman Ferrara said only 642 of the 1,327 units were listed as rent-stabilized, when J-51 rules require all units to be stabilized.
Blackstone made one of the largest real estate deals in New York history when it purchased Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village with Canadian pension fund Ivanhoé Cambridge in 2015 for $5.3 billion. The companies pledged to keep 5,000 apartments in the complex affordable for 20 years, and the city pledged to provide them $220 million of financial aid.
Great post. I will be experiencing many of these issues as well..
The Stuy Town advertising trailer truck recently profiled in the NY Times has ZERO carpeting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/realestate/cruising-for-renters.html
Hi, I read your new stuff on a regular basis. Your humoristic style is witty, keep doing what you're doing!
The Stuy truck has no carpeting cause Stuy don't want us to get carpets. They prefer irritated tenants to move out. Young, old, market, no market rate. That is how they prosper from move outs, deregulation, and in the near future they will have only the land left worth billions more than present.
Does it have heat?
Great post. I am going through many of these issues as well..
Blackstone likely does the same patently false eviction papers, illegal lease rent practices here in StuyTown too. It is probably worse so, here especially since the tenant association treasurer made the Blackstone deal completely throwing tenants under the bus.
These are the types of people Blackstone associates with.
This is from 2016 where Schwarzman partied into the night with his close and now infamously notorious friends - disgraced Les Moonves, disgraced Charlie Rose, celebrating disgraced Robert Kraft.
Also at this party is the seller of Boca Raton megamansion owner of DeBlasio favorite baseball team the Boston Red Sox. Coincidentally DeBlasio's Queens NY is reported as the U.S. hub and training ground for the victims in the Robert Kraft tied arrest.
Coincidentally Queens NY just lost a major tenant, Amazon, that DeBlasio was falling all over himself to bribe with tax breaks and union payoffs to the tune of $3 billion and $500 million respectively.
Our landlord tenant association, and our mayor who made this real estate deal associate with some unsavory types.
https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/lifestyles/society/birthday-party-for-patriots-boss-bob-kraft-full-surprises/sSOs0YJXb4svQO00Kkg0XK/
https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article222907640.html
Absolutely no postings about HEAT (or lack thereof) on the TA Facebook. I think all the people who complained about having no heat have either been banished or threatened. I wonder how many of them got contacted by "Management" and were warned? I believe that that is the modus operandi these days.
Either everybody is now toasty warm or they have been personally contacted and warned off by "Management."
"Management" doesn't like people who publicly complain.
I am sure Sabina Molot has been warned not to print any letters or comments about the lack of heat, let alone go so far as to write about the issue.
This is why it is very important to complain anonymously or under a pseudonym. We are not dealing with honest brokers here. This is a totalitarian autocracy!
Has anyone looked at the latest presumptuous, fatuous (inane, childish, nonsensical, asinine, witless, nonsensical) "State of the Community" glossy fold-out in our hotel/restaurant advertising stands on our mailbox shelving?
Among other laudable accomplishments: open kitchens. It's been noted many times here: this is a recipe (pun intended) for deliberate disaster. None of our old, fire-stopping doors. Open kitchen in which too many people and dogs move. Too many drunken, marijuana-impaired and otherwise drugged out people in and out of kitchens one of whose functions is to create OPEN FIRE for cooking. (Cooking what? That is another matter entirely.)
Also discussed here on the blog: the work is shoddy, breaks down frequently and easily. Is dangerous. TRANSLATION, consistent: We Want You Gone. And Suffering Before We Hound You Out of Your Home.
Another reason to celebrate living here: MORE DOGS, MORE DOGS. More noise, more dog feces and urine. More danger to these innocent beings since so few people know what the hell they are doing with the dogs they acquire.
What does everyone else thing about this fabulous new edition of the publication which praises our "community?" (Again - "community" - ha!)
"Does it have heat?"
Good one.
I wonder too if Management is censoring the TA site, particularly heat issues. I have much more heat and I hope others do too. I certainly hope they are not censoring complaints. The site does seem different, more genteel and management oriented if that is possible. As for T& V, That rag is a joke. No renewal for them next year just as no renewal for TA dues for the past two years.
@4:09 PM: Yup, the TA fb has been well and truly neutered. Thank Hayduk for that. He's very touchy when it comes to criticism of the fiefdom he rules with a shaky hand. We all know who the TA looks out for, don't we? It sure ain't tenants! They should change their name and call themselves Management Association! Or, maybe, Friends of Blackstone. Or maybe they should just disband and go away and stop bilking people out of $50 per apartment.
NO HEAT THIS MORNING!
PIPES ARE ICE COLD!
Is anyone else not getting any heat?
It is ridiculous!
Almost four grand rent and no heat!
They need to disband and would have to if tenants would stop paying dues.
No heat here, either. Have to use space heaters. I've asked many of my neighbors in my building and in other buildings about the heat in their apartments and EVERYONE of them said they are cold and using space heaters. There is absolutely no point in calling RS because they will just give you the thermometer and house visit script. I'm sure they have effectively silenced all complainers so nobody calls the anymore.
There is a total absence of any discussion of heat on the TA Facebook and I think that is by order of Management. They haven't even given a follow-up thread about the exciting tours of the heating system that some of the idiots were so enthusiastically embracing as the hot event of the year! (No pun intended)
I suspect that rather than being toasty and comfortable in their homes, the complainers have been "reached out" to by Management and are now afraid to complain or have been kicked off the TA Facebook.
The heat went off early this morning and we won't be getting any more because it is a scorching 42 degrees outside.
it's 50 degrees today and the heat is blasting. Sweating our XX*&**s off. But when the temperature was 5 degrees, no heat. Have at it folks.
"it's 50 degrees today and the heat is blasting. Sweating our XX*&**s off. But when the temperature was 5 degrees, no heat. Have at it folks."
I hope you are not questioning the efficaciousness of the fabulous SENSOR SYSTEM!!! That is considered blasphemy by Management! We are supposed to sweat when it's warm outside and freeze when it's cold outside without the inconvenience of having to leave our apartments. That is one of the amenities Management so graciously supplies.
""it's 50 degrees today and the heat is blasting. Sweating our XX*&**s off. But when the temperature was 5 degrees, no heat. Have at it folks."
Didn't you go on the wonderful tour? BTW, the only post re that tour on the TA FB page said that people on the lower floors were screwed. Wow, just wow, heat rises. Who knew?
"Management" does more than warn tenants who complain about heating problems.
They lie, or have "legal" lie when they enlist "legal" and threaten you with "legal action" in addition to forbidding you to complain about anything to Resident Services or Security (unless "emergency," although you've seen that even clogged sinks and bathtubs are mere annoyances and no kind of "emergency" anymore).
Wait until May, when the next phase of, "We're going to make your lives a living nightmare every day and night you are alive and living here" is commenced.
Absolutely incredible. Management Marsh just put a space heater ad on the Facebook site. Is he kidding?
Cold, damp, rainy Sunday morning.
Heat?
Hahaha...ya' gotta be kidding!
Not in my apartment.
What an overpriced dump this place is becoming.
PIG STUY TOWN.
>>Absolutely incredible. Management Marsh just put a space heater ad on the Facebook site. Is he kidding?<<
I just have seen that. Yes, incredible. This is another reason that the TA should fold.
They lie, or have "legal" lie when they enlist "legal" and threaten you with "legal action" in addition to forbidding you to complain about anything to Resident Services or Security (unless "emergency," although you've seen that even clogged sinks and bathtubs are mere annoyances and no kind of "emergency" anymore).
Because they long know and has been reported in the press the pipes and plumbing cannot support the property population increase of the occupants, residents, transients, hotels, hook-ups, partiers, and businesses on the property let alone the irrigation system installed during the property sale to make the grass green.
There are old articles during the property sale talking about the plumbing and infrastructure problems somewhere buried in the press. Anyone remember those or know where they are?
"Adam Rose" on the TA fb posts some very on-point posts. I wonder if Management has gone after him? If he uses a nom-de-plume, then they won't be able to locate him. He's good, though. He hits the nail right on the head in his posts. I seem to remember that the Real Estate Adam Rose, who used to be the Manager here, was a pretty decent guy. He responded to complaints and did something about them. Oh Man! Whatever happened to this place! SMFH.
Glad to see John Marsh posting something useful for a change.
I am seeing some "Neighbors from Hell" horror stories on the TA page. I wonder when the TA will be ordered to put a stop to those postings! LOL! Can't be long now!
>>Glad to see John Marsh posting something useful for a change.<<
Where?
>>They lie, or have "legal" lie when they enlist "legal" and threaten you with "legal action" in addition to forbidding you to complain about anything to Resident Services or Security<<
Never seen this. Sorry.
STR, I was referring to Marsh posting a space heater ad. Usually, he posts about his favorite politicians.
Can someone who has first hand experience with this please explain what is going on with legal going after you for complaining? Their trying to censor us has to be illegal.
No heat? No problem. My heart is so warm from the rain ruining the last Sunday of hockey this season I need no heat from the pipes.
>>STR, I was referring to Marsh posting a space heater ad. Usually, he posts about his favorite politicians.<<
Understood. But why is Marsh posting that on the TA Facebook page? I have to check my lease, but "heaters" may be a violation of one's lease, despite its necessary use. Marsh can post about using a heater, but his post is a direct link to a company selling these things.
>>Can someone who has first hand experience with this please explain what is going on with legal going after you for complaining? Their trying to censor us has to be illegal.<<
Please see my response in the other thread.
12 19 but can't we the tenants post anyway, on our oown site or a different stuy site?
We've had two changes of upstairs neighbors over the last 6 years, and I can say from first hand experience that the 80% rule is fairly meaningless.
Here's what counts. Are there young children in the apt? If so, for many years they will run from one place to another. In all cases if the carpet is too thin, 80% coverage doesn't matter. You'll hear noise and running. If area rugs are in use, children often play on the bare floor areas to use the flat hard surfaces.You'll hear it.
Areas that are used frequently like the walkway from the bedroom across the living room into the kitchen are important. If these aren't covered, you'll heard constant noise from anyone walking with even slightly hard soles and of course you'll here young children running.
This was posted at the TA FB page. With the recent Yelp review posted at this blog, I think that the QOL is truly out of control. Blackstone/SPS is making TS/CWC look like Met Life. TA says what?
"I posted this at Stuytown Mom page, but I am also posting here.
It has been one week since my post, nothing has changed. We called security 5 times tonight. Security said they sent a lease violation letter to this tenant, but they don’t seem to care.
They start to party around 8-9pm. Bring friends over (I think because it sounds like there are more than 10 people), play loud music, walking around with heels... and they go out around 11pm. And come back after 4:30am and party again.
Almost every weekend. We are so afraid of every weekend we can’t sleep.
I will contact resident service Monday, but are there any other things we can do about it?
This is driving us crazy and we are wondering if lawsuit may be an option."
Not useful. We should not have to resort to heaters. His post came out of nowhere.
I know. It was ridiculous and in a sense defending the lack of heat by saying you can always get a good heater. And an ad!
This post took the cake. Why would you advertise an illegal space heater out of the blue?
By complaining, it is meant: calling Resident Services and other Management personnel frequently, leaving voicemail messages, and e-mailing these personnel.
Complaining does NOT have anything to do with this blog.
Maybe there was confusion about what "complaining" meant. This will straighten it out if anyone believed that Blackstone is threatening and/or censoring anyone in connection with this blog.
Again, complaining = repeated requests, demands, complaints to those who run this place and their employees.
@7:50 PM: I never thought for one moment that the "complaining" issue was in connection with this blog. I thought it was quite clear that it refers to people who complain to Management, Resident Services AND who complain on the TA Facebook, which Management reads. Management must have complained to the TA about all the threads about lack of heat and told the TA they better crack down on those malcontents who have the nerve to want heat - at least heat at a slightly higher level than the few puffs of heat we get to keep the indoor temp hovering around 68 degrees, the legal minimum. Management thinks that the "legal minimum" means the legal maximum, too. Assholes.
It is a balmy 43 degrees outside, Monday morning, 8:45AM.
Heat in my apartment?
Surely you jest.
As usual, pipes are ice cold.
Not a word about widespread lack of heating issues on the Tenants Association Facebook page.
Complainers have been "banished".
Susan "Just Call Rick" Steinberg and the vile, possibly corrupt, Tenants Association Board should hang their heads in shame.
FOR SHAME! FOR SHAME!
Regarding the lack of heat and the TA deleting posts because of that, is there any proof? Please post if there is. Thanks.
STR, I don't know if the TA has deleted posts concerning the lack of heat, but recently nobody has said anything about the lack of heat and I don't believe it's because we're all such happy campers. I think the TA has warned off people who complain - I was one of those people. They don't want any "negative" posts anymore. I'm surprised they let through the one from the lady with the unbearable upstairs neighbors.
It's ok to post about pizza joints, dry cleaners and coffee shops (and where to buy a space heater), but no complaining, please. Meanwhile, over on the the Tenants (unofficial) fb, somebody is openly asking for people interested in hosting friends who will be visiting. I'm sure this isn't meant to be a charity request, so money will be changing hands. Is that legal? Are there no hotels in the city?
I agree that the TA Board has been completely missing in action on the heat issue. But as to deleting comments, I doubt it.Any heat complaint comment I posted appeared on the Facebook page .My comments on that issue ended because my heat situation has improved
"Regarding the lack of heat and the TA deleting posts because of that, is there any proof? Please post if there is. Thanks."
The TA hasn't deleted the heat complaint posts, but they have become well and truly "buried" by numerous posts with announcements, advertisements, etc. Also, I think the heat has been a bit better of late. I am not freezing the way I was a few weeks ago, and the weather has been pretty cold up till today.
What I AM surprised at is that Adam Rose is still allowed to post on that forum because he really tells it like it is! It is to the TA Facebook moderators' credit that they allow him to post because he is a voice crying in the wilderness at this point. Whoever, wherever you are Adam, keep on keeping on! I'm surprised the Stasi hasn't silenced you!
>>I think the TA has warned off people who complain - I was one of those people.<<
If you still have their response, could you post it, without your name? I kinda figured they would want "positive" posts, but I'd like to see how far they would go.
My heat issue has improved as well. As for censor of comments, it appeared they were for a short time but not so much lately. They are a do nothing farce.
When I criticized the TA on their site they sent me a private message crying about lack of money and volunteers. They have also called benign comments inappropriate. I think they know what they are, a joke . They need to be called out for not helping when we had no heat.
The heat in my apartment has improved but through no action by the TA
Too bad this place going downhill. Another old timer is leaving for home and that's it for our floor. All MarketR now.
"If you still have their response, could you post it, without your name? I kinda figured they would want "positive" posts, but I'd like to see how far they would go."
I deleted it. Sorry. They won't be getting $50 out of me though!
All throughout the heat crisis, the TA ignored the issue. They filled their site with irrelevant city and regional postings. They finally put something up telling residents that the individuals, not the TA were responsible for calling. They finally promoted a tour of the heating plant in order to deflect their do nothing attitude. That is their modus operati now. Anyone who pays dues to this despicable organization is crazy. Fold, fold, fold TA
Wondering if permit from city required to dismantle rink? If yes - where would it be posted?
Permits? We don't need no permits....
" We don't need no permits..."
That's "stinking" permits. ):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqomZQMZQCQ
I was "banned for life" (their words) from the TA site because I called them to task.
We have been getting adequate heat the last few days. I wonder if the City warned these bottom-feeders about withholding heat?
"I was "banned for life" (their words) from the TA site because I called them to task."
Oooh! What did you say to them to earn total banishment? Must've been something good - and right on the money!
LOL. I thought I was going to be banned too because I constantly challenge them. I just get snarky remarks in response.
Yes, my heat has been better now for a month.
It's only a matter of time before Susan Steinberg and the rest of the Tenants Association Board do the "perp walk."
Very shady dealings.
"Funds" received from former Councilman Danny "Little Boy" Garodnick.
TA Board member now Councilman Keith Powers on TA Board.
Wonder how much TA will receive as discretionary funds? Ultimate conflict of interest.
Where does this money go? NO open books, zero membership info.
This organization...
A fraud, a scam.
Susan...Susan, I can't hear you?
Spoke too soon. 42 degrees outside, but no heat. Back to space heaters.
Elected politicians including now Keith Powers owe this community answers.
The California pension CALPERS is an investor in Rob Speyer Tishman Speyer BlackRock purchase of StuyTown from Metlife.
Is the New York City pension an investor with Tishman Speyer BlackRock now Blackstone in the 2006 and 2016 $5.4 billion purchases of Stuyvesant Town? Politician Scott Stringer owes this community that answer. Is NYC invested in these two real estate deals?
Is New York State pension invested?
It stands to reason if CALPERS is invested then other states are too? Which ones? The elected officials owe this community and the country answers to these questions that effects the homes of all us and the pensions of police, firefighters, civil servant employees and staff - any and all with city and state pensions are rooting for the demise and development of Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village.
Interesting... my heat was fine now I have none.
I don't believe Keith Powers is still a member of the TA Board. I think he resigned when he ran for office. I'm not 100% sure of that, but I believe that that is the case.
Much 2 hot. turn it off. i'm going to complain.
No heat today for me either. First time I’m a month.
Same here
Not only a fraud but does nothing. Who would pay them dues anymore.
Do not complain. Then others will suffer in the line. When my apartment was hot I opened the window.
Mine was scarce today too.
There had been more heat, sometimes too much.
Tonight it is 40 degrees outside. No heat at all.
Does anyone know if all of the apartments with no name plates are corporate and city-subsidized?
Got heat tonite. Alleluia!
Things have gotten so bad for the Tenants Association that I saw one of the Board members leaning against a light pole and saying, "Hey, sailor, ya' got $50 for a good time...I mean membership dues."...lol
These people who complain about too much heat make it difficult for those without enough heat. For a few weeks my apartment was 78. Wonderfully warm and if it became too hot I opened the window. They are probably complaining again because today my apartment was cold. The whole line gets affected. Bozos.
Open a window.
We get short bursts of heat. These crappy old buildings are drafty and the walls are thin. The temperature drops like a stone as soon as the heat is turned off.. Still using space heaters.
Absolutely NOTHING about the heat problems in T&V. Are they actually aware of tenants' concerns, or is it just not their policy to cover them? They put out about 6 pages of drivel every week. I don't even bother checking the ads anymore when I'm looking for a handyman.
Possibly. My next door neighbors who I know are city subsidized have no name plate.
Another Stuy Town "amenity"?
A bowling alley perhaps?
My upstairs "neighbors" clearly have installed one.
Thumping, crashing, ungodly noises at all hours of the night.
I called Public Safety.
Nothing we can do they said.
I appealed to Susan Steinberg, President of the Tenants Association.
What did she say?
YOU GUESSED IT!
"Just call Rick"
Hahaha!
Would be funny if it wasn't so sad!
They are aware. T & V is now a management tool. I refuse to renew my subscription. It is boring drivel.
would love to open a window but the dust and grime and construction below us for almost a year now has hindered this. Sorry, not sorry, get a blanket.
"Oh, you live in Stuy Town?
Heard that's the projects at ten times the rent".
Hard to believe how many times I've heard that.
The reputation of this once pristine oasis has truly plummeted.
"Lots of students, airbnb'ers and students,
right?
Isn't it an NYU dorm?"
Can't tell you the number of times I've heard that too.
So sad.
Did anyone get Management's latest email blast? They are advertising for "seasonal jobs," one of which is somebody to (among other things) inspect apartments for compliance (LOL!) and they want people who will spread the word about how great a place Stuyvesant Town is and people should come and live here.
They should have mentioned that the necessary qualifications are to be a liar and full of bull!
I doubt they want to hire summer employees to inspect for compliance with the 80% carpeting. We all know they don't give a shit about that. I suspect they want somebody to "inspect apartments" to find out if any of the real RS tenants have moved to Florida and are subletting. They are DESPERATE to kick out the "old timers." Maybe I am wrong and just have a suspicious mind, but I would suggest reading that section of the email blast in its detailed entirety (follow all the links) and see what you think.
What a dump.
PigStuyTown.
Now they tell me...after I signed a lease at an exorbitant rent.
Fool is my name.
Oh, well...10 more months and I'M OUTTA HERE.
I fully understand rent-stabilized folks staying here.
Many have a great deal.
But market-raters...myself especially...SUCKERS!
"I called Public Safety.
Nothing we can do they said."
What the Hell is Public Safety there for if they can't do anything about that kind of nerve-jarring, anti-social behavior? If someone is using their apartment as a basket ball court and making that kind of noise at night (or even during the day) they are CLEARLY violating their lease and the "Good Neighbor" rules pertaining to noise. Maybe call the 13th Precinct or file a noise complaint with the City if our "Public Safety" officers are too wimpy, ballsless or under orders not to put a stop to that kind of unreasonable noise. Sheesh. Maybe I'll get out my old tap shoes, roll up my carpet and do a few turns! What kind of stupid bastards are running this nightmare of a so-called residential complex? They want to encourage people to rent here, but allow this kind of abuse?
9:15 PM - I agree with you 100%. I visited friends in a newly opened apartment building in Astoria yesterday. It was so lovely and quiet and peaceful. They had a few friends and neighbors in for drinks and munchies and as soon as the conversation turned to where I live, I got the same kinds of remarks and looks and expressions of sympathy. All had heard of The Sty and what a total hell-hole it has turned into. If I was a market renter, I would move over to their building. I don't think the apartments are as expensive as here, but they are LOVELY. Only total suckers would move into this dump at market rate.
Read this and weep or laugh:
https://newton.newtonsoftware.com/career/JobIntroduction.action?clientId=8a29a0184a328e0a014a4f019e1209f4&id=8a7887a8688e28cf0168a6605d1e7a09&source=StuyTown%20Newsletter&code=&fromAggregate=false
It does sound strange and suspicious. Nothing surprises me with them.
The student population is exploding. My building looks to be over 70 percent dorm at this point. Despicable. This place is a sty
Pot smell from bros downstairs again. They do nothing here. Called security last week, nothing for a week. Now again. Can’t stand the stench . Real pigpen
I agree. It is disgusting. They allow pot smoking which filters into other apartments, noise, and rent to students almost exclusively.
I wish y'all could see my friends apartment in Astoria. (I posted upthread). It's brand new, carpeted and rents for the price of a 1BR here. It has 2 BR and 1-1/2 bathroom. They don't have to deal with the L train. The N stops quite close to them and they can change (if necessary) at Queens Plaza to the 7, R,W (and maybe the E?) to get to pretty much anywhere in the City. My friends both work at Lennox Hill Hospital on Lexington Avenue, so they take the N to Lex and the transfer to the 6. Anything is better than the stinking L Train!
Management here has a lot of hubris to try and get people in at such high rents. There are a lot of shortcomings in this place and living in Manhattan does not have the clout and status that it used to have!
How about some heat?
Plus astoria has all these cool restaurants and bars and we have none. Not even Vamos.
We are the only holdouts on our floor. All bros and Hoes here now.
One of the biggest mistakes I ever made was moving into this dump. In 2 years I wasted almost 96k on an apartment in PCV that is constantly noisy. If it's not the braying students partying 24/7 it's management pounding away at something or other. When both of those are quiet (almost never) I have constant helicopter noise. Back to Battery Park City for me. Adios suckers!
Read the email blast they sent out and the ad for seasonal jobs. They actually say they need to compete in New York. Hard to believe that this is the same place that had a waiting list two or three years long, at minimum. It was much, much better run then and we had beautiful grounds. Now it is an overpriced shithole/dorm/NYCHA and is run by a complete idiot, they claim they have to compete. You bet they have to compete, but I think they are competing to reach bottom!
Do the market rate suckers know they are not paying for top quality housing, but are paying because the property is saddled with Tishman Speyer debt that they walked away from? PCVST has turned into the RE debacle of all time.
They abound all around. One big stinking frat house
That is why this place is full of students and city subsidized. Nobody wants to rent here at market rates. Suits management fine as long as they collect the rents.
I’ve notice a major upswing in AIRBNB checkins over the last few days. I was disheartened when I figured out why. They are all rolling in for ST PATS in big city. Hope we all enjoy the noise and the human waste that CRACKSTONE is bringing to our homes this Hikiday weekend.
Have you seen the little piggies.....
Ever wonder what it is the tenants above you are doing? Jumprope, football, cycling, I hate this place very much.
The worst part of living here is that the animals in other apartments disturb your peace and quiet in your own apartment with their partying and pot smoking. You can’t even enjoy your own apartment in this dorm sty.
There are less and less market rate suckers. Primarily students, city subsidized and transient including Airbnb. That is the so called community or sty we are living in.
Please don't call the lowlifes animals. Animals are so much better and they don't foul their dens.
This "management" is so very, very desperate for bodies to fill the apartments at rents that are laughable, they can't afford to be fussy. They allow AirBnB, take in City-subsidized and wedge in as many undergrad students as they can. The students are parentally funded and wouldn't be able to behave they way they do if they were in a real dorm. The property has gone so far down the sewer, that I don't think it can ever be brought back.
Hayduk is a disaster, but I doubt that anybody Blackstone puts in the job would be any better.
what email blast? lmao
2-3 year waiting list? That was only in last years under Met Life--originally, it was much longer. One idiot in T&V recently described this as constituting "[Management] blocking," but no one else ever found any reason to complain. In those years, overall, Mg't. was not perfect, but definitely much better than at present. Guess said T&V Commenter felt his Human Rights had somehow been violated by not automatically being handed keys to an apartment. Is he one of the Cheerleaders now?
COLD HERE REAL COLD ASSHOLES : SEND HEAT.
Exactly right the property is saddled with Tishman Speyer debt thanks to Metlife and their broker CBRE who got awards for the biggest deal ever in history that is nothing but a house of cards about to crumble. Then maybe the predatory equity riff raff will be run out of town along with the politicians who made the deal and someone of morality can restructure the ownership mess.
The building including my apartment smells like a pot den. This place is getting more and more disgusting. This is the worst management yet. They do nothing.
They are filling these apartments with dorms, city subsidized and Airbnb. Otherwise they cannot get people to pay these rents. Any manager for this disgusting company would be as bad as Hayduk. This has become a real pigpen. Cannot get much worse.
No heat all day. A short blast in early evening that was off by 8 pm. Damn these perfidious, money-grubbing bastards. I hope it all comes back to bite them in the ass. One way or another, it will.
"Ever wonder what it is the tenants above you are doing? Jumprope, football, cycling, I hate this place very much"
Well, I just saw a discarded trampoline in our recycling area ....
What's with these dog owners walking their dogs in the fenced off garden areas? I mean, they all do that. They let their dogs shit and piss on the plantings. Self absorbed pricks.
Word to all: Management does not follow up nor care much about our noise trouble.s I work hard all week and this weekend hoping to get a few zzzssss was startled awake at 6 30 am neighbor hammering wall with furniture building. OK, No problem I'm up. Tried to get work done at home, those living above me who must think no one else is living in stuytown except them (PCV) kids running amok balling bouncing and on a beauty day. OK, NP, that night, fatigued hoped to watch a movie and chill, Nope more hammering more non stop track field overhead. Honest truth this morning 7 am i can't stay here have work but just for the record, the cleaning person must have shown up, no rugs and he to she was banging doors, vacuuming and i kid you not i am out of here by May. keep your fucking shitty rental and i can see them in court for my deposit return. (i work in family law again NP)
Temperature is in low 30s and no heat all night and this morning. I call to ask (beg) for heat and I'm told they'll set up an appointment for an engineer to come to my apartment. What kind of bullshit is that? No wonder everybody has space heaters now because these are no-heat flats. Slums.
The damned sensor system doesn't work (by design, I believe) and this withholding of heat and wanting to send an "engineer" by appointment is HARASSMENT. The only "engineer" who is coming to my apartment is someone from the City. No wonder there are literally hundreds of outstanding heat complaints for this dump on the City website. And they talk about having to compete with other places to get tenants! Other places supply heat, unless they are run by slumlords like this dump is.
TS is responsible for Hudson Yards. The FDNY is concerned about the lack of fire safety there. So typical of these blood sucking parasites to only care about money not human life.
NO HEAT THIS MORNING.
Ever wondering what kind of a loser lives here and gets constant noise complaints from neighbor and management but will not buy rugs? Gotta be a real loser. If you cannot afford rugs, please contact Rick to provide.
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