Sunday, March 31, 2019

The Fix is In?


Beer and wine will be sold at the failing Five Stuy Cafe. At least that is my prediction. When and if it gets official, I will repost a link to my previous main page post on "Let the Beer Flow." Because that is where we have heading.

The current Management will pull a fast one by having a "Town Hall" meeting (of course, at the small Community Center) on April 3rd. Residents will hear the reasons for the application from Five Stuy Cafe. Already posted online is the FAQ, which state that Stuyvesant Property Services (basically Manager Rick Hayduk, with Blackstone behind him) are for Five Stuy Cafe to sell beer and wine.

Of course, Stuy Town has been known as a family community for decades, and even is trying to sell that notion to prospective residents. But people know the truth. Money and more money is vastly important to the landlord (Blackstone now), and Rick Hayduk was chosen, for a variety of reasons, to make the huge pill go down.

This is what I see at Five Star Cafe. It has never followed the rule of "For Resident and their Guests," though now they were assuredly do. Five Star Cafe been a commercial space open to all, which is against zoning regulations.... Five Star Cafe may even purposefully wait for this meeting, and then thank us for bringing up the subject, all the while internally smiling that they have given in to residents. This is a ploy. Nothing more.

There are over 21 thousands residents of Stuy Town. Officially. How many go to the cafe? If you look at the number, not many. But FAQ states that cafe is popular and used by residents. BS.

We are told that the staff at Five Stuy Cafe will be trained for this new beer and wine use. Yes, trained enough to spot fake age IDs.

Five Stuy Cafe needs the money. Most people like to sit, buy something and smooch. The college set like to take out their laptops and work. They will buy something, but is it enough to keep the cafe going?

There are other rules that the cafe will try to explain way. How about the 500 foot rule that disallows the selling of beer and wine so close to certain establishments? Are playgrounds with children part of this? How about the potential of increasing noise from the cafe?

And please don't rely on Public Safety. We know their success at enforcing the troublesome rules that get continually mentioned by Management.

Wednesday, April 3th, starting at 6:30 PM. A meeting with Five Stuy Cafe. Management might be there, too.

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Anonymous said...

Parker towers Queens same same

Anonymous said...

Happy Passover or Easter, STR. Don't know which one applies, but have a beautiful Holiday!

Anonymous said...

Enjoy this holiday Passover/Easter weekend while you can. Very quiet, mostly families and long term tenants around. The Bro/Broette transient crowd has all gone home to see their financial backers aka their parents.

Stuy Town Reporter said...

>>Happy Passover or Easter, STR. Don't know which one applies, but have a beautiful Holiday!<<

Thank you, and Happy Holiday to one and all!

Anonymous said...

Stop slamming the fucking doors tenants

Anonymous said...

Yes it is great. It appears the downstairs bros have left for the holiday.

Anonymous said...

About the peace and quiet here tonight (Saturday night, the second Passover Seder and the night before Easter):

I just wrote this to a friend:

Almost unable to sit up straight due to exhaustion, I went into the bedroom some time back to prepare for sleep.

I'd thought I had heard hammering hours earlier. It now seemed to me I was hearing banging music and shrieking, screaming jackasses. I walked out into the hallway of my apartment - definitely a "party" somewhere in the building.

Reluctantly, but infuriated, I dressed and left the apartment a bit before midnight and walked, quietly, from the 6th floor to the 9th floor, hearing the noise but unable to locate it.

I came back downstairs and walked to the 5th floor. 5H, right beneath my home. The noise was coming from the very back of the apartment. Female asshole pieces of garbage screaming, yelling, braying like donkeys, loud music muted only because it came from the back of the apartment.

I rang the bell repeatedly. I banged hard and loud. No response. I walked to the wall facing the elevators and called Security. Twice. A voice informs me they will record the call. AND THEN MUSIC. JUST MUSIC. ONLY MUSIC. No one answered. NO SECURITY ANSWERED. ONLY MUSIC.

CALL SECURITY AND GET MURDERED, MUGGED, RAPED, STABBED. CALL SECURITY AND WE WILL NOT ANSWER YOU.

I took the elevator down to the Main Level, walked out the inner front door and rang the security bill on the intercom. I explained the situation to the male voice; he didn't seem to understand where I was. Thankfully, one of the guards I know well, who is a good guy, was just leaving the building.

He came back in with me, went to 5H, listened, and confirmed the shit going on, and rang and banged and called out "Public Safety" repeatedly TO BE IGNORED.

He then gave me some new facts of life:

--- This new phone system (2 weeks or so) for SECURITY is based on the CUSTOMER SERVICE MODEL. If one of the two men in Security is on another call, NO ONE WILL ANSWER. ONLY MUSIC. Of course, Security people themselves hate it. It is dangerous in addition to stupid. Who the hell do you think installed it??? The bastards in "management" to have us now deliberately, literally physically harmed.

The Security Guards themselves have no way of getting in touch with the Office if someone they are with is sick, having a heart attack, dying of a drug overdose, in need of immediate help and so forth. The Guards themselves have to listen to music and wait and wait.

--- We are going to soon be seeing "5G" devices all around - "5G" internet shit. It IS exactly that: SHIT. THEY GATHER INFORMATION. THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE THERE FOR. ALL OVER THE CITY. SURVEILLANCE.

We are not even in the toilet bowl. We are already living in the sewer system.

Anonymous said...

Certainly the ceiling is going to collapse on me in my flat. Lots of hard shit above going on night n day, and since we hear their almost entire convo, must be paper thin.

Anonymous said...

Same problem here with the slamming doors. What the hell is wrong with these people? One guess is that they were raised poorly. Another is the general lack of civility in the world.

Anonymous said...

12:41 AM, I have believed for a long time that Rick Hayduk has totally cut the balls off of Security to the point that we really don't have any Security (and they have lost their balls!). If you say that publicly and he knows who you are, he will get very indignant. We are NOT safe here. Security has been cut to the bone and it's getting worse. I feel very sorry for the Security officers because they are good guys, but their hands are tied by this terrible Manager, who no doubt is doing the bidding of Blackstone.

I was woken up several times last night and Friday night by drunk hoes and bros screeching their way home. There were a couple of nasty altercations; I heard one female screaming frantically and there was also a fight between two dogs. I didn't even look out the window because I don't want to see the goons and I don't care if they kill each other (except I worried a bit about the fighting dogs). I think it's time to start to carry mace again as we did several years ago. Didn't ever have to use it because there were always plenty of security guys and normal people used to walk through the property and you didn't get the affrays and very seldom did you hear drunks bellowing their way home. Not to be racist, but when there was a drunken affray, it usually was on Avenue A and sometimes spilled into Stuyvesant Town. Security would soon remove them. In summertime it was a party on Avenue A every night, but Security made sure it didn't cross over to Stuyvesant Town.

We should NOT be stuck with immature undergrads dorming here. They are a nuisance because a lot of them do not know how to behave and they attract trouble. They come stumbling home from the clubs (where they use fake ID) and they too young to drink responsibly and they are harming themselves and disturbing the peace of people who are not living that lifestyle.

Maybe if we had some NYPD presence (which we used to have) there would be less of this behavior.
Hayduk will give you spin and a smile.

Anonymous said...

"Certainly the ceiling is going to collapse on me in my flat. Lots of hard shit above going on night n day, and since we hear their almost entire convo, must be paper thin."

When I am sitting at my dining table, I can hear the phone ringing next door AND I hear the answering machine kick in AND I hear the message left on the answering machine. The walls are, indeed, paper thin! I think the interior structure of these buildings is made of ticky tacky.

Anonymous said...

4:27 PM:

About the young college kids here: I understood quite some time back that some of the previous "owners" of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village had brought in prey populations. By that I mean young girls who, clueless, venture out in herds on weekend nights, dressed and made up as if they are working girls of the lower rungs. Sometimes they've already begun drinking and/or drugging before they tromp into bars.

Security told me maybe two years ago that at least once each week, some young girl comes in to complain, tearfully, that she has been robbed by the strange guy she brought home the night before. (My observation, and I am a woman: she (they) was lucky she was only robbed!)

On a related note, and maybe already posted at an earlier date: some of Security folks were privy to the fact that Security was a thorn in the side of blackheart. I never got the report untangled: either blackheart wanted to totally eliminate Security here, or eliminate those people who were working here and bring in some outside contractor to be "security."

I discussed the present situation with two people today, one of whom suggested that because blackstone has now baldly and openly put every single person at risk and into possible physical danger by installing a phone system that denies us immediate and possibly any access to Security, they are doing so illegally and need to be shopped to various news outlets.

My observation is that the vile (good word, to all of you who have lately used it) bastards "owning" and "running" this place have moved in carefully thought-out stages to hurt us. Yes, their actions constitute constructive eviction.

It is SO dangerous now in so many ways that I believe it is not simply (!) about money and greed. It is clearly, to me, a will to hurt people quite badly. The fires, suicides, wheeled vehicles and illegal, escalating imposition of NOISE; the encouragement and invitation of strangers of all stripes to roam our walkways and apartment buildings; the emasculation of Security and now outright DENIAL of immediate assistance in life-threatening and other emergencies says volumes.

Will this finally see us denying them their freedom to hurt us?

Anonymous said...

This dorm situation is indeed intolerable. Pretty soon this place will be 70 percent student dorms and transients. It is terrible what this community has become. Actually it no longer can be called a community. I am fortunate that thee are still several old timers on my floor, but the downstairs apartment has been a frat house for years.

Anonymous said...

WHT IS BEING DONE ABOUT TENANTS WHO ARE ABUSING TENANTS WHO HAVE REPORTED NOISE COMPLAINTS? VERY BAD GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO HARASS TENANTS WHO HAVE REPORTED THEM TO PS AND STUY PC . YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND YOU ARE A REAL LOWLIFE.

Anonymous said...

I don't understand this new telephone thing with "Security." Does this mean that we now always have to call 911 for any kind of emergency that previously we would have called "Security" for? Example: an old lady fell in my building; a smell of gas from an apartment; a domestic dispute that might be escalating to violence. All these are situations where I've called Security/PS and they have responded immediately and positively.

I've been told that Hayduk is very touchy about criticism of the level of security here. Maybe he should be. This place has certainly gone to hell in the proverbial hand basket on his watch.

Anonymous said...

@7:31 PM. How do you know about a new 'phone system for PS? If it is as you describe, I think it certainly should be publicized in the media. Of course, there will be nothing said about it in T&V!

Anonymous said...

Anyone have info on the body under a sheet at the 14th street loop this morning? Alot of cops and detectives. 7am.

Anonymous said...

no sleep no rest no sleep makes people crazy and crazy people can be real fucked up.

Anonymous said...

@4;31 if the walls are such it is extremely dangerous.

Anonymous said...

There are quite a few comments on the TA Facebook about "constructive eviction" by way of noise harassment. Does anybody know or have a contact with the Press or Media? I think Blackstone and their puppet manager deserve to be outed on this issue. The people in SPS are such barefaced liars I just don't know how they can live with themselves. I guess in this age of Trump being able to lie and ruin lives and get away with it is the way we are trending.

I have never despised a landlord as much as this one. They are totally lacking in even the slightest shred of human decency.

Anonymous said...

ANOTHER SUICIDE!! If they don't succeed in driving you out, they will drive you to jump out the window!

Stuy Town Reporter said...

Yes, another suicide. 14th near Ave C, I believe.

Stuy Town Reporter said...

Perhaps it is my attention on these things, but I have never seen as many suicides in Stuy Town as I have recently.

Anonymous said...

"Yes, another suicide. 14th near Ave C, I believe."


https://town-village.com/2019/04/22/man-dead-stuy-town/?fbclid=IwAR3vXfX0L21Fj0RKSWYb_FTb6eG_0QBMHk489dDhugFo6jY3rS8U7HUGlqs

Anonymous said...

When people are constantly under siege from unbearable noise from INSIDE the building and management doesn't give a fuck, they are likely to suffer from serious mental and emotional disturbance. This can drive people to drink, drugs and even suicide. The noise from outside is not right in your living space (at least most of the time) and annoying as it is, it is not so much of a health risk as is the bombardment of noise from asshole neighbors and then being told by asshole management that you have to live with it or move. It is not that easy to move. It's expensive to the point of being beyond some people's means, and if you've lived here for many years this is your home. Your home is supposed to be your sanctuary, but if you have selfish, rotten, antisocial neighbors (whether they be students or just non-student assholes) it gives a person a sense of helplessness. A feeling of helplessness is the main ingredient in severe depression. A feeling of helplessness and hopeless is what drives people to SUICIDE. I'm sure there will be more suicides here unless this uncaring, smug, smarmy Hayduk gets a conscience and a sense of decency and starts doing his job the way he's supposed to do it. If he is doing such a lousy job because Blackstone is instructing him to make sure everybody is miserable, then he should be man enough to be honest about that and then pursue a career where he won't have to be so compromised.

I have friends who live in housing complexes all over New York City and there is nowhere near the unhappiness among tenants and the astounding number of suicides. In most such housing complexes suicide is a rare occurrence. Here, it is becoming very commonplace. I wouldn't be surprised if there are many more that we don't hear about because management manages to hush them up. There's no way of knowing how many people have been hospitalized with serious health problems brought on by the stress of living in such a noisy and poorly-managed place.

Anonymous said...

1. Regarding the new phone system: I used it last Friday afternoon. I used it twice on Saturday night. I spoke with 3 different Security Guards about it.

2. Suicides, noise: they are causing our deaths. The posts regarding serious harassment by noisy rotten neighbors who've been reported for causing unbearable living conditions . . . we are truly living in an ugly, ugly human world these days. I am sorry to hear about trouble of this kind.

Many years ago, I read a good deal of true crime books. One of the common threads was the behavior of violent psychopaths with regard to response to pleas, complaints, crying, begging for mercy. If you were imprisoned and tied up and being physically tortured, and you cried, begged for it to stop - the psycho GOT ANGRY AND HURT YOU MUCH WORSE 'CAUSE YOU WERE UPSETTING HIM.

THIS, in some ways, is what those "neighbors" are doing: "We will hurt you as much as we want and if you dare complain, then we'll REALLY hurt you."

3. Inducing suicides; noise; filth, destruction of trees and other lives, commercialization, and a whole host of other devices of the devil: they are the same psychopathic behaviors practiced by blackstone (and loads of other "landlords"). When we had little or NO HEAT most of the winter, including during 4 degree wind chills, and some of us COMPLAINED OFTEN AS WE SUFFERED, we were THREATENED BY blackheart. This is the SAME psychopathic tactic: "We're gonna hurt you real bad, and if you bother us or complain, we're gonna hurt you way worse."

None of this is unusual. It is simply worsening daily; it is simply looked upon as normal. As people have already commented, we are living in a society where the most selfish, inconsiderate, callous, callow actions and behaviors are celebrated.

Anonymous said...

Such tragic news. May the poor guy Rest in Peace. It is so sad to know that someone could feel so much despair. We never know what some people are going through. Depression is one of the most painful of illnesses and so many people suffer without reaching out for help.

Anonymous said...

Has the Death Squad entered this unfortunate victim's apartment yet? Did NYPD facilitate their visit ASAP?

Anonymous said...

@10:00 PM. You sound a bit dramatic, but I have to admit that what you say is true. We are living under a very oppressive, pathologically greedy and nihilistic management. Our lives have been shattered in so many ways by the noise, commercialization, destruction of the beauty the property was always known for. Add to that the fact that we are surrounded by people who are, for the most part, just passing through and have no manners or sense of what it means to live in a multi-unit residential property, and life truly can be hell on earth. We have a puppet manager who is totally uncaring even though he smiles benignly as he pretty much tells you to go to hell.

I dread to think what will be coming down the pike in the future. We have nobody in our corner. Nobody. The TA and "community" newspaper are totally under the control of management and our politicians are all whores who bend over for REBNY. Just getting by one day at a time and try not to be too despondent is all that those of us who cannot or don't want to move out can do.

Stuy Town Reporter said...

>>Has the Death Squad entered this unfortunate victim's apartment yet?<<

If not today, by the end of this week, work will start.

Anonymous said...

:Has the Death Squad entered this unfortunate victim's apartment yet? Did NYPD facilitate their visit ASAP?"

If he was a long term tenant they are popping champaign corks in the management office. I hope they deal with his family with respect.

Anonymous said...

I hope they show sensitivity and respect for the poor guy’s family. They will be bereft and shocked.

Anonymous said...

It was so loud in the 14th St Oval loop this morning that there was no way you could sleep past 8AM. Some fencing truck was making an incredible amount of noise. It is getting as noisy inside here as it is on the street. I can only imagine what those residents near the construction are going through.

Anonymous said...

Luxury Oasis

I was told today by a long term resident in 645 E 14th that there is a gas leak in the building. They will be without gas for cooking or the dryers for two months. She said that there would be many visits into their home to cap the gas. Con Ed has been jackhammering endlessly on 14th to find the many various leaks.

We are living in a dangerous slum. Gas leaks, suicides, and predatory landlords. If we don’t jump or leave, they will take other avenues to get us to give up our homes.

Stuy Town Reporter said...

I read this. Up to 60 days maybe! I find this incredible. Do we know that the subway work on 14th is not responsible for this? Or should this be filed under STUY TOWN IS FALLING APART?

Stuy Town Reporter said...

Of course, these type of circumstances will be useful for a landlord to "tear down these old buildings"....

Edmund Dunn said...

As per PS at the TA FB page:

"Five addresses (two structures) are affected: 245 Avenue C, 635 E 14th Street, and 645 E 14th Street, and 610 E 20th Street and 620 E 20th Street."

IMO not L train 14th Street construction related. Possible post Sandy infrastructure gas line issues? All of these addresses were impacted by Sandy in a major way. More addresses to come?

Anonymous said...

This place is literally falling apart. I dread to think what is coming in the future. Management doesn't want to spend any money. They just want to make money and our lives and homes are in jeopardy because of their bloodsucking greed.

Anonymous said...

Got to see firsthand the work of our former councilman, and his east midtown rezoning. Coming into the city from Queens, the Chrysler building is completely overshadowed by Garodnicks One Vanderbilt.

I hope when Dan drives into the city one day soon, that he sees this absolute tragedy, and says to himself, “Shit, I completely ruined the historic NYC skyline.”

My guess is not, because REBNY’s money was well worth it.

Edmund Dunn said...

To be fair, this gas line issue is most likely a Con Ed issue, not SPS. I just wish Con Ed and SPS would be more forthright on the cause of this issue.

Anonymous said...

Garodnick was an absolute curse on this city. Loathsome little man.

Anonymous said...

Everyone needs to go take a look at the announcement/bulletin board in their lobbies. In the management bulletin board you will find an announcement of upcoming TA board elections (like we needed any further clarification that the TA is in bed with management).

The best part is that the 2 names nominated are none other than Al Doyle and Susan Steinberg. I can only laugh at these morons (and even more at the people who pay them dues).

Anonymous said...

I hope that if the people affected by the gas shut-off will get through this latest facet of luxury living in The Sty. I also hope that if any of them have pet birds they should remember that some electric cooking gadgets (air fryers, etc.) are coated with nonstick and the odorless fumes from those things are deadly to the birds (and possibly other small pets). Harmless to us (supposedly), but cause painful death in birds.

Anonymous said...

Might be easy to break my lease now.....adios

Anonymous said...

Mr. Dunn there is zero transparency with mega corporations like these. There is certainly something wrong with the plant and the gas lines. Over 100 buildings have suffered this fate in the East Village since Sandy. And yes, SPS knew this was coming. And no, it wasn’t during a random inspection. Our lives have been in jeopardy with potential explosions all the while coned is jackhammering all the side walks to death. They can’t find the leaks.

The TA is doing zero to help people.....useless clowns siding with the landlord

Anonymous said...

I know a family in one of these affected buildings, and they are paying $5k/month (ridiculous, I know!). They have hired counsel to go after both ConEd and SPS. It is a joke that SPS is only offering $45/day to these poor people, as it will most likely cost a family of 4 more than $45 to order in dinner (forget about breakfast and lunch).

I would imagine that there will be a lot of lawyers getting a lot of market rate tenants out of their leases in the affected buildings, but rest assured SPS will fill them, probably with lottery tenants who won’t have a choice other than to take something in an affected building.

Anonymous said...

Garodnick was largely responsible for this Blackstone deal. He did nothing for us in the last couple of years of his term.

Anonymous said...

Thank you for posting about the threat of odorless (or odor-full!) substances in the air killing birds.

Household cleaners, hairspray, laundering-clothes products, AIR FRESHENERS, incense and so many other products we take for granted can badly hurt and kill these innocent life forms.

Please be considerate of your neighbors, as well. One of mine too often has some air fragrance whatever going right next to her door and it can come into my home beneath the door and around it and silently kill my avian. She's been warned about it at least once and either "forgets" or doesn't give a goddamn.

And for you smokers you have dogs in your tiny, cramped, city apartment homes: STOP SMOKING. You are badly hurting your dog with hundreds of chemicals and smoke which kills slowly every living creature.

Anonymous said...

Watch how Susan Steinberg rolls over and gets in bed with Management with her "principled" abstention on the beer and wine license vote.
She is a lap dog for Blackstone.
The Tenants Association is a sham.
What a phony!
A truly unprincipled individual.

Anonymous said...

ez to break lease and whY/? want to break ours too please inform me how to go about this.

Anonymous said...

stuy reporter you are spot on they are waiting to tear the buildings down

Anonymous said...

They can easily fill them with students, tourists and city subsidized. Although certain posters deny it, my neighbors are not paying 3600 for their apartment. Only tenants who have been there over a year. No jobs, public assistance visit. Been there three years .

Anonymous said...

Don’t know if plan is to tear down buildings, but in a few years this place will be a true city/NYU project. It will deteriorate to the point of being worse than city housing.

Anonymous said...

About tearing the buildings down:

That October day in 2015 I accidentally walked into a press conference on the 20th Street loop in which some familiar and unfamiliar faces/mouths announced a new landlord, it hit me immediately: they are going to literally raze the buildings. And, when I learned of the wondrous plans to commercialize and turn our homes into cells in which to suffer noise, pollution, building breakdown, mold (I didn't know about the lack of heat until last spring), I did wonder:

WHY THE HELL DON'T THEY JUST MAKE MORE DEALS WITH THEIR POLITICAN/HUMAN GARBAGE FRIENDS AND HAVE ALL OF THE BUILDINGS CONDEMMNED SO THEY CAN FINISH US OFF QUICKLY INSTEAD OF THE DEATHS BY A THOUAND KNIVES YEARS OF TORTURE???

Later on, I read about the ruination of the East River and the Hudson River by billionaire asses and their cronies, and about how the 14th Street corridor, river to river, was being strangled and suffocated. THAT one sounded a bit preposterous to me until I watched and listened and experienced what I did all over Manhattan, as well as here in Stuyvesant Town.

So we are currently infested by thoroughgoing cretins who have too much money and not one idea in their heads about how to lead decent lives as they whoop it up, neglect their children or live off their equally stupid parents' money. College kids, "families," it don't matter a bit, it's clear.

And we're not alone in this. This degradation, and obliteration of so much life and goodness is a worldwide human phenomenon. Eventually, the tornadoes and floods and avalanches and earthquakes and hurricanes and fires that are killing the wrong people will overcome everyone. Patience.

If I sound cynical, apologies. It's become more than a bit too much for a native New Yorker who lives with ruin and destruction daily.

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Anonymous said...

And you smokers of pot and cigarettes in the apartments are hurting your neighbors. You have nerve sending second hand smoke into other apartments.

Anonymous said...

Civil Disobedience

There is a movement in my building to not allow access for the cabinet removal/gas capping invasion. We are not satisfied with the paltry stipend and the laundry accommodation. Even Westminster(Kushner) gave residents hotplates during a similar incident. YOU CAN PREVENT ENTRY TO YOUR HOME.

I really am enjoying the TA response to this mess. Nothing... are they helping us with anything??? Oh there is a bus to Albany.

Stuy Town Reporter said...

I believe there is an offer of hot plates for the apartments affected by the lack of gas, but as of now, you have to ask for it.

Anonymous said...

The people affected should consider themselves very lucky to get $45/day. Rick could have given them vouchers for the 5 Stuy Café, instead....

Anonymous said...

Don’t expect any help from the TA or whatever they call themselves.

Anonymous said...

April 25 at the 10:44 pm you hit the nail on the head!!!

Anonymous said...

What about a food truck 24/7 to 'help' those tenants without gas (sarcasm)?

Anonymous said...

The Bloodsucking Filth who are running this place into the ground are going to add an MCI to our rent because of the gas leaks. If the property had been maintained in a professional way in the past, this would not be happening today. And they are giving $45 a day to the tenants who are affected. Whoopdie Doo! It should be $100 per day, at least.

An acquaintance who is looking to move out of her walk-up on the UWS was asking me about Sty apartments. I told her "NO! DON'T EVEN THINK OF IT! YOU WILL BE MOVING INTO A SLUM WITH A BLOODSUCKING VERMINOUS LANDLORD AND MANAGEMENT! LOOK ESEWHERE!"

This lady has money and can afford a high rent, but I totally dissuaded her from even THINKING of moving into this SHITHOLE!

I hope I did some good for once in my life!

Anonymous said...

The poor people in the effected buildings don't realize that no matter what Blackstone reimburses them, our ghoulish landlord will recoup it more and more and FOREVER with the MCI for the project. The key word is FOREVER. The residents will get hit with a HUGE MCI for the project. Even if Blackstone gives $100 or more per day they still win. Tenants lose!
Susan Steinberg and the vile, worthless, corrupt Tenants Association, where are you hiding?
Oh, waiting for another photo op?
What vile, venal parasites, the landlord, of course, and the Tenants Association.

Anonymous said...

Of course, no mention (yet) of the gas emergency in our beloved(?) "community newspaper." And has Puppet Powers expressed any "concern"?

Anonymous said...


The peace and quiet that descend after the bi-weekly "dog event" in the PCV basketball court is over, is almost palpable. I have just endured another Saturday morning of listening, windows closed, to a mass of dogs in our basketball court-turned dog run. Unlike at other dog runs, there is no attempt whatsoever to control the excessive, incessant barking that goes on for two solid hours. This is a big reason why I am against anything that this management proposes "for the enjoyment of tenants and their guests", because nothing is ever done correctly and with consideration for the neighbors. In a survey recently, management asked for my opinion to have alcohol served at the Oval Cafe - my answer was a resounding "no" because I know, based on what I observe on a daily basis, that no matter how much management assures us that there will be rules, there will be no enforcement of any rules, never was and never will be.

Stuy Town Reporter said...

Damn helicopters! Another new problem. Everyday, many times....

Anonymous said...

Please, provide details:

MCI for WHAT GAS? For REPAIRS of the affected five buildings?

OR for the goddamned, unnecessary, undoubtedly dangerous (and most likely illegal if the leeches who are politicians had NOT and do NOT accept HUGE monetary bribes) new POWER PLANT these sick, sick assholes are building IN STUYVESANT TOWN???

Stand Up and Fight said...

Are we there yet?

I read that SOME people are organizing AGAINST blackheart (those living with NO GAS). Good for all of you for finally STANDING UP TO FIGHT.

ANYONE ELSE YET WHO WANTS TO SAY "NO!" TO THE MONSTERS DOING WORSE AND MORE TO US WITH EACH PASSING DAY?

quietenjoymentnow@gmail.com

Anonymous said...

I’d rather have dog days every weekend instead of the Bros that yell and swear in that Basketball Court. Hate having my windows open when all you hear is “Fu*k dude! You suck!” for hours on end.

Stand Up and Fight said...

"Dog Days" AND Cursing "Bros" yelling "Fu*k dude! You suck!":

NO. NO. NO. To ALL of this offensive, detrimental, sick, ugly, SELFISH behavior and, to my way of thinking, EVIDENCE OF STUPIDITY WHICH STRAINS CREDULITY.

Why doesn't anyone get outside and let the morons have it?

There have been, and still are, people on this poor tortured planet who confront assholes and STOP THEM.

Humans control and restrain each other EVERY DAY OF EVERY WEEK ALL OVER THE WORLD.

Why the hell do we sit quietly while we are being abused AND PAYING ROYALLY FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO ABUSE US????

Stuy Town Reporter said...

Once again, buses to Albany!

This is the worst TA we have had. It is basically useless. Maybe once upon a time, it had clout, but no more. What a travesty!

Anonymous said...

This TA should be ashamed to call itself an organization. It is a useless joke. An arm of management. It sat idly by when residents suffered from no heat and offered tours of the heating plant. All it does is present local events and organize bus rides. Who possibly pays dues to this bogus organization. What a travesty.

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