Some residents may find this process all to familiar, but I will report it. I have several issues that Management is not pursuing, but is either ignoring or telling me that they are dealing with it. The result of my queries is--nothing is done. There are two issues that I brought up recently with Public Safety.
I have continually seen motorized bikes going into Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, with motors running (a crucial point), and there is no PS around to stop these motored bikes or issue any kind of warning. I have seen with my own eyes motorized bikes go right past the large PS booth on 1st Ave, below Starbucks, and nothing is said to them. I have also seen outside dogs walked into Peter Cooper, and, again, against "the rules" (one of which is that outside dogs with their owners will be "escorted" out). The only time I have seen anything positive is when a PS officer was inside PCV and went outside to monitor a homeless person that had been lying on a PCV bench at the entry. An outside dog, with a pretty owner, was walking right by him, and he said something to her and had her walk away. The only time. Otherwise, nothing.
This lack of enforcement also includes the screen monitors at the PS office which should tell their officers where the violations are. The monitors will even show the bike, if its running, etc. Nothing.
On May 9th, I upped the ante. I went to the PS office and asked an officer about the motorized bikes. Though he claimed that the bikes had been stopped, I was not satisfied. Whom could I contact with actual figures? I asked. He gave me an email of Stuy Town Legal Services. Good. So I emailed Legal Services. I mentioned the motorized bikes, but also mentioned the frequent Club Cars that cross 20th Street, this way and that way (and, yes, on occasion even if the light is against them, as I have seen). These club cars have no license plate and are not allowed on the city (20th Street is part of the city's watch), but Blackstone and Rick allow them inside Blackstone property.
On May 9th, I sent an email to Legal Services. On May 24, having heard nothing, I sent another email. And another on May 30. Thinking that maybe the email was wrong, I called Resident Services and got a confirmation of my email address, but later I got another address. I used that one on June 10. So far, as of the 16th of June, I have received NO email.
I want something in writing, otherwise the spoken word can be "misspoken" when the need arises. As I said, I'm upping the ante. Stay tuned. We are in for a "bumpy night."
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Can anyone explain the new rent laws to me, please? Does this mean that when a rent stabilized tenant moves out they cannot go in and turn it into a dorm or "luxury" apartment and charge a million dollars for $50 worth of tarting up? Will units stay rent stabilized when they turn over? I know market rate apartments are too late to the party and they are stuck with being market rate, but I would really like to know what happens to the lower rent RS units when they are vacated.
I was hoping the TA would explain all this, and maybe they will, eventually. I wonder if there will be a new waiting list for rent stabilized units IF they are allowed to stay rent stabilized. Now that they can't jack up the rent with the vacancy decontrol bonus and whatever else they were getting - ah, maybe I have just answered my own question: no more vacancy decontrol!
Sounds too good to be true.
STR, isn't Fred Knapp "The Prince of Darkness," the head of the Legal Department? You expect him to deign to answer your questions? Don't hold your breath.
Rick Heydik, Property Manager of Stuy Town, proudly announced a NEW and SPECIAL
OVAL "AMENITY" this summer...drum roll please...SUMMER EVENING RACES AROUND THE OVAL!...that's right folks! MOTORBIKES VS. RATS...4 times around the Oval...wagers accepted at the Oval Café...of course, limited to RESIDENTS and their GUESTS ONLY...
Anonymous Anonymous said...
TWO large RATS observed scurrying outside of the eColi Five Turd Cafe patio garbage cans on my late night walk at 3:30AM.
Lovely!
Never one to miss an opportunity, the ever vigilant Shameless Susan was trying to sign them up for a $50 membership to the Tenants Association.
She offered them a chunk of cheese and endless Oval "amenities" as an inducement to fork over the fifty but the rodents declined.
"Even the garbage here stinks", the much maligned four-legged creatures lamented.
"Not to worry", the ever cheerful Susan retorted, "No problem. Just Call Rick!"
June 16, 2019 at 9:03 AM
A curious matter of interest, but somewhat unrelated:
Over the weekend, I walked along Park Avenue. Where there are office buildings, the plazas are wide and spacious in front of each building, and there is lots of room for people to eat, sun, read and rest along the sides of the plazas, too.
Blackstone is at 345 Park Avenue, on the corner of 51st Street. On a sunny, warm Spring day, when tourists as well as weekend workers and residents were outside, the plaza at Blackstone was the only one I observed where there were derelicts and people who clearly were neither tourists nor those with any appreciable money. None of the other buildings attracted the level of socioeconomic need that the people in front of and on the side of Blackstone's New York headquarters evidenced.
It most likely has no significance, but I found it interesting and a bit peculiar. And I remembered pictures I've seen of people demonstrating against Blackstone's predatory and malevolent housing practices at that very spot.
>>Rick Heydik, Property Manager of Stuy Town, proudly announced a NEW and SPECIAL
OVAL "AMENITY" this summer...drum roll please...SUMMER EVENING RACES AROUND THE OVAL!..<<
Please tell you are joking.... Can't be! My mind cannot comprehend.
>>Can anyone explain the new rent laws to me, please? Does this mean that when a rent stabilized tenant moves out they cannot go in and turn it into a dorm or "luxury" apartment and charge a million dollars for $50 worth of tarting up? Will units stay rent stabilized when they turn over?<<
We have apartments that are ALL rent stabilized. Even though your next door neighbor may be paying 2K per month more than you, his/her apartment is rent stabilized.
As it is the complex can allow anything they want on their property. They can even cross the street with the club cars going from Peter Cooper Village to Stuyvesant Town. What they cannot do is ride the club cars up and down the exterior sidewalks or up and down the new protected bike paths let alone up and down the city streets. Taking East 20th street as an example, the city property line is 128 feet. Meaning that from the Stuyvesant Town brick wall all the way across the street to the Peter Cooper Fence line is city property. This includes the cobblestones, the sidewalks, the service road, islands, the street and the bike paths. All of it being city property. Which means NO motorized vehicles of any kind are allowed on the exterior sidewalks or bike path.
I didn't know that all the apartments were stabilized. I thought the renovated ones were market rate. I'm still wondering if they can raise the rent on a unit vacated by a longtime tenant from, say, $1500 to $3,500 or more? They shouldn't be able to do that if the vacancy decontrol and the 20% bonus have been eliminated. I don't trust Blackstone to do the legal thing though. I think they are totally dishonest and have no respect for the law.
"We have apartments that are ALL rent stabilized. Even though your next door neighbor may be paying 2K per month more than you, his/her apartment is rent stabilized."
That pretty much ensures that those apartments will continue to be rented out as dorms or multiple room mate flats. I wonder who they will rent the lower priced units to if they are not allowed to raise the rent more than a certain price?
Now we have more incentive to stay here if we have [real] rent stabilized apartments because they can't gouge us on MCIs and they will have no incentive to get rid of us if they can't get more for the apartment. I hope that the legal eagles keep a close eye on the Blackstone renting practices because they are very dirty people and totally ruthless and lawless.
"We have apartments that are ALL rent stabilized."
That fantasy is nearly over.
""We have apartments that are ALL rent stabilized."
That fantasy is nearly over."
You would never know from the rents on the renovated apartments that we are ALL rent stabilized!
Lucky lottery winners may end up paying the highest rents.
"TWO large RATS observed scurrying outside of the eColi Five Turd Cafe patio garbage cans on my late night walk at 3:30AM.
Lovely!"
I too have had multiple rat sightings recently in the sty (first ave loop). Honestly, this property has always done a good job regarding rats. It's been a long time since I've seen them here, but that's changing. It's so embarrassing to live here.
I agree. Sanitation under this management has deteriorated greatly. We always had better rodent control. When you allow food everywhere and let in low life dirty people who leave trash in the loops, you increase the vermin population. This place is filthy.
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