Update: The photos below were just taken about 15 minutes ago. The mattresses have been there for hours. Along the First Ave Loop. Entry for cars, 18 St., exit 16 St.; August 8:
From August 3rd:
Monday, August 5, 2019
Stuy Town Increases Plant and Tree Devastation of the Oval - Uncovered Mattresses Continue
Take a look. Soon all of it will be gone in that area. Our hope is that our Tenants Association still has a seat at the table with Blackstone, as they so proudly proclaim. Who knows? The fallen tree and plants may be made for a new table for them.
Update: The photos below were just taken about 15 minutes ago. The mattresses have been there for hours. Along the First Ave Loop. Entry for cars, 18 St., exit 16 St.; August 8:
From August 3rd:
Update: The photos below were just taken about 15 minutes ago. The mattresses have been there for hours. Along the First Ave Loop. Entry for cars, 18 St., exit 16 St.; August 8:
From August 3rd:
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 306 of 306Members? There is just one. It was in the T&V. Name the others, please. Nothing wrong in blasting the TA, just have your facts straight.
FYI - John Sheehy is no longer on the TA’s Board.
Shameless Susan was seen wandering around the Oval, snapping photos of the "bikini babes", muttering to herself, "This is an outrage. Protest! Rent strike! Our morality is being threatened."
When asked by a hapless tenant about the garbage, the mattresses strewn about, the noise from the Oval "amneities", the lack of heat during winter, the dog shit all over the place, the braying bros at 2:00Am in the morning, the lack of carpeting, the tacky "events", Susan looked dumbfounded and replied, "What are you talking about? Sailor, can I have $50 for membership dues? The Tenants Association will show you a real good time!"
Then she asked, "Will you take my picture please? Every moment is a photo opp!"
Makes you wonder, huh?
So far not one comment on the posting of Airbnb ads in ST (TA site). Do not tell me that they are not censoring negative comments. Either that or most of the posters bar one are two are TA/Management shills.
"FYI - John Sheehy is no longer on the TA’s Board."
Thanks for the update. He must have retired to Southampton. Good riddance. That T&V interview was a disaster. That makes my point event more obvious. Here the current Board member list. A copy and paste from the TA web page. So poster, you made a charge, which of these current Board members have a summer home?
Board Members
Kirstin Aadahl
Alvin D. Doyle
Anne Greenberg
Lynn Janovsky
Sherry Kirschenbaum
Michael Lang
Judith Preble Miller
Steven R. Newmark
Margaret Salacan
Jeanette Sheehan
Sandro Sherrod
Susan Steinberg
"They’re cutting locks and confiscating anything without the correct, current sticker."
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Maybe someday Blackstone will enforce rampant, blatant violations of their own published pet regulations that are merely hopeful suggestions largely ignored?
It seems more and more large and/or prohibited aggressive breed dogs are paraded around PCV with impunity.
I’m not the original poster, and I could care less if they all have summer homes or not. What I care about is that these 12 people parade around here acting like they are the voice of the tenants when in reality they are as far from that as can be. They have not affected a single change in this place in a decade, yet they still expect us to shell out membership dues.
My questions are this:
1) Where is the more than $100k they have received from the taxpayers through our corrupt politicians?
2) How many paying members do they really have?
3) Why is there absolutely zero transparency with this group? What are they hiding?
This TA board gets their names dragged through the mud on this board, and they have absolutely no recent accomplishments to their name, which makes me wonder - why are they really in it? Maybe we need to revisit that transparency and money question...
Frankly, I am tired of hearing this worship of Hayduk. You hear it on the blogs and I hear it from my friends . Are these people naive or just ignorant? He is so transparently phony and full of hot air. Rick will act, Rick is a nice guy, if Rick knew about it he would not like it. Boy he has them snowed under.
the person in your building is recycling. Many people in our buildings need books and clothing.
The lobby is not the place for discards of any kind. It is not a recycling center or a flea market.
6:50, if they need books and clothing there are places they can go to. It is people like you who contribute to the slum like conditions here.
Well, Management could make a special area for books with a time limit on how long they are held. Going to 23rd and 2nd for used books can be a difficult for some.
"the person in your building is recycling. Many people in our buildings need books and clothing."
Nice try.
No, dumping one's stuff in the lobby is not cool and is mostly likely against your lease. It's just being lazy and inconsiderate to your neighbors. There are a couple of good will locations around the hood here. Currently at the Greenmarket there is a clothes recycle organization which takes all types of clothing. At the Oval by the PS Command Center, there is a book box where one can drop off and pick up used books. In real lux apartments, which Blackstones markets this dorm dump as, such dumping in the lobbies is not only not allowed but is unheard of.
"Well, Management could make a special area for books with a time limit on how long they are held."
Come on STR, you know that such an area would be filled with trash no matter what the sign says. Just like all the bins at the re-cycle areas are filled with food trash and non-recycle items.
https://www.stpcvta.org/2018_ta_board_of_directors_election
This was from mid-2018.
Just as the poster of August 18, 2019 at 12:29 PM said, I too keep seeing very large dogs in PCV, also banned breeds.
No, the reality is people are scared, and by people in this case I mean true rent stabilized tenants. With the attack on affordable housing in this city, people are afraid that if they speak up they will be thrown to the curb and have nowhere to go that is even remotely close to the NYC Metro area for the price point they have here. And yes, there is a massive attack on affordable housing in this city, regardless of what the politicians are telling us.
As I’ve said before, most people just do not care and are not bothered by the events and crap Rick does, so they speak highly of them instead of taking on a potential risk of saying something that might have them labeled as a troublemaker. I know a number of people who fall into this category, and it was only after I did some prying that the truth came out that they don’t like Rick and what he’s doing here, even though the conversation had started with praise of Rick.
>>Come on STR, you know that such an area would be filled with trash no matter what the sign says. Just like all the bins at the re-cycle areas are filled with food trash and non-recycle items.<<
Well, yeah, but... LOL. There are creative ways to do this, though Blackstone hasn't thought of them. There should be an area (and not that "pigeon" house at the Oval), in which to find books that are not used. There is the Oval library (can't have study people being disrupted), but their library is BS and not used. Have a time, where people can enter without charge and pick up books. Even the laundry room. Instead of snacks, put an area where free books can be picked up. Etc....
"There should be an area (and not that "pigeon" house at the Oval), in which to find books that are not used. There is the Oval library (can't have study people being disrupted), but their library is BS and not used. Have a time, where people can enter without charge and pick up books. "
STR, as I have posted this option is already here at the Oval. They do need a bigger box.
"There's a new Little Free Library at StuyTown. The "mini-library," located near Oval Kids, has a small collection of books and magazines for our community to borrow and exchange. The idea behind the book exchange simple: Take a book, leave a book. The philosophy helps ensure there are always quality books inside. Little Library book exchanges function on the honor system; everyone contributes, ensuring there are always quality books inside. Anyone may contribute or take books. If you take a book (or two) from a library, you do not need to return that exact book. However, in order to keep it full of good choices for the whole neighborhood, the next time you swing by the Library bring a few books to share."
https://www.stuytown.com/stories/stuytown-spotlight/stuytown-library-book-exchange
"Even the laundry room. Instead of snacks, put an area where free books can be picked up. Etc...."
Me again
We had an old bookcase in our laundry room. But people abused it, they were leaving all sorts of very dated periodicals, team sport guides, and software books such as “Dummies for Windows 95” that over flowed the bookcase. In other words, trash. CompassCrock eventually took it away. We can’t have nice things here. The end.
>>There's a new Little Free Library at StuyTown.<<
That's it! I thought it was something for birds--a feed! That's what I meant by "pigeon" house. LOL.
Amenities for pigeons!!! Nice new marketing tool from the folks at Blackheart!
I was recently visiting my family in a community that was mainly young families and retirees. The local library had a bookmobile that visited various enclaves in this town. They would stop at a few main points in each community development. If someone was physically unable to get to the bookmobile, they would drop/pickup at their homes. I thought this was amazing and would be a great lifeline for people in Stuytown. That would be an amenity! The NYPL is to underfunded and Blackheart to lazy/greedy. I agree with STR that a community bookcase in the carriage room area would be wonderful. We would need to police it ourself as our porters are overworked and underpaid. Reading helps keep our minds sharp!
11:19, the people I know are not scared. They truly idolize Hayduk because he answers their e-mails and talks to them. He is one crafty PR man.
Yes, it turns into a trash pile with the low lives living here. The place is dirty enough outside.
As do I. Some of them look like horses.
st moms will be gone as soon as the house they want in the burbs is ready.
REMEMBER!
There are only 78 dues paying members of the Stuyvesant Town Tenants Organization.
It is a bogus, fraudulent, dishonest "organization" lead by Shameless Susan Steinberg, the biggest phony of them all.
My offer to take her to the finest restaurant in New York City on my dime still stands.
Just prove me wrong.
We're waitin', Susan!
Fed up: Major landlords consider exiting New York
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/fed-major-landlords-consider-exiting-new-york
"Battered by regulations, tax hikes and public sentiment against the real estate industry, several longtime New York developers and owners are reconsidering their future in the city.
One of the most visible and dramatic blows against New York's real estate industry was a sweeping reform of rent regulation in June. The changes make it almost impossible for owners of the city’s roughly 900,000 regulated apartments to significantly raise rents and convert apartments to market-rate...
...One of the most visible and dramatic blows against New York's real estate industry was a sweeping reform of rent regulation in June. The changes make it almost impossible for owners of the city’s roughly 900,000 regulated apartments to significantly raise rents and convert apartments to market-rate...
...Landlords complained the new law discourages investment and will push the city’s affordable housing stock into disrepair.
(Translation - They prefer laws enabling them to make the city's affordable housing stock disappear.)
“There’s life outside of the city,” one prominent developer said. “At some point, you prefer to go where you’re wanted, where you don’t get bad surprises and where politicians aren’t eager to gang up on you.”
(Translation - They prefer corrupt, bribe taking politicians delivering EVERYTHING to them.)
Hey Blackstone! GTFO ASAP!
>>As do I. Some of them look like horses.<<
In response to the dogs that are oversized.
Today two women cameo to the Sty asking if there was a park. I answered that this is private property,no public park.They replied
Oh Stuyvesant Oval, we will find it. Folks, this is now public recreation. Anyone can come in and out.
Anonymous said...
REMEMBER!
There are only 78 dues paying members of the Stuyvesant Town Tenants Organization.
It is a bogus, fraudulent, dishonest "organization" lead by Shameless Susan Steinberg, the biggest phony of them all.
My offer to take her to the finest restaurant in New York City on my dime still stands.
Just prove me wrong.
We're waitin', Susan!
August 20, 2019 at 7:22 AM
Hey, Susan, if this poster is lieing why don't you take him up on his offer and enjoy a free dinner at a fancy spot?
Maybe, what he is saying is true?
You look very bad by not responding.
>>Today two women cameo to the Sty asking if there was a park. I answered that this is private property,no public park.They replied
Oh Stuyvesant Oval, we will find it. Folks, this is now public recreation. Anyone can come in and out.<<
Yes, the new "fence" is very nice but anyone can get in.
And today I saw, yet again, AirBnb people coming into the complex. Very easy.
One AirBnb person was even at my building, waiting to piggyback once the T door was opened.
I noticed posters on the TA site saying that the large NYU population is not an issue. That is the problem here. Residents who do not care that the place has become a dorm dump.
"Your mistake, STR, is that you don't have T-shirts with a logo, like the TA does. I wonder if their $50 annual membership includes that, or if one has to pay extra...?"
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In a twisted symbiotic relationship, the captured, incredibly conflicted Vichy PCVST TA Board is propped up and financed by corrupt politicians and Blackstone pretending Vichy PCVST TA Board represents PCVST residents. Directly or indirectly, the corrupt politicians and Blackstone are happy paying for those T-shirts.
Operating separately apart and cooperatively together, Vichy PCVST TA Board, corrupt politicians and Blackstone are parasites feeding off, bleeding dry and slowly killing their host PCVST residential community.
STR doesn't need T-shirts. Ongoing repetitive troll attacks posted here are clear evidence STR is a sharp thorn painfully exposing Blackstone, corrupt politicians and Vichy TA Board malfeasance.
" noticed posters on the TA site saying that the large NYU population is not an issue."
I guess they never read this article and are shills for Blackstone for without NYU and the parental funded student demo that guarantees their profit margin, the “Sty” dorm dump and all its attendant QOL issues due to transient students, would be hurting today vacancy wise. A 11/2010 article, written by the great Gabriel Sherman, is still relevant today.
http://nymag.com/news/features/69482/
We can expose them but that is it. The Vichy TA needs to be disbanded. And Blackstone is laughing all the way to the bank.
Is anyone else noticing an uptick in filth and garbage in and around the sty, as well as an extremely disturbing elevation in rat sightings? Are we turning into LA?
The "locks" on the playgrounds are bogus too. Outsiders can get into any playground with just a stick. They reach over the fence and push the button which opens the gate. I see it all the time.
Another day another flyer from the TA under my door. Touting the changes in the rent laws (I guess we have them to thank for those). And at the bottom the form for me to return with my $50. I hope they aren't expecting anyone to send them a check.
I have to do this, even though it is time consuming and occasionally infuriating.
I just returned from ST Property Services, and was, again, given BS. I was told that residents take out the uncovered mattresses, which may be in part true, but I've seen porters take them out. Besides, there are many PS officers who see these uncovered mattresses and are quiet. The photos and PS comments were not answered, as I knew they would not be. But I had to do this, and you will see why in the near future.
Also a Shake Shack was by the fire hydrant. As far as I know, this is illegal, but I was directed to the PS office. There, I found out that they are authorized by Management to be at that place. Again, I had to do this.
BlackStone and it’s minions have zero respect for the laws of NYC just as they have zero respect for the safety and wellbeing of its rent-paying tenants. It is a law unto itself and the only interest it has is to gouge as much money out of the property and tenants as it can get away with and nothing else.
"The "locks" on the playgrounds are bogus too. Outsiders can get into any playground with just a stick. " August 21, 2019 at 10:37 AM
Recently I saw 2 young men walk in from 1st Avenue into the PCV basketball court, dribbling a basketball past the PCV security booth, playing music and laughing. They simply opened the gate to the basketball court in the normal manner. Turns out the gate hasn't been closing properly for a long time, stays ajar.
Yes, the dirty mattress and move out trash is getting worse. Management just laughs. There are solutions to this. Management doesn’t even mention it. I am embarrassed to have people visit me in this dirty dump.
The management attitude towards the mattresses and filthy trash is disgusting. Complete apathy and acceptance. They can take away all of this bulk trash signs and have a few central ones, warn the pigs, fine, build sheds.Who cares who throws it out, it should not be there. And it is mostly residents. STR, there was a NY Times article a couple of weeks ago on that and unfortunately they weren’t cited.They are the worst offenders here. Also due to all the students and transient tenants.
Am hoping for another crappy movie rain out tonight ,
They will never get another penny from me.
"Also a Shake Shack was by the fire hydrant. As far as I know, this is illegal, but I was directed to the PS office. There, I found out that they are authorized by Management to be at that place."
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/business/dealbook/blackstone-group-leonard-green.html
With Leonard Green Stake, Blackstone Harks Back to Its Roots
"Leonard Green’s retail specialty, including a stake in the embattled clothier J. Crew, could be cause for concern given the state of the industry. At the same time, it has diversified, too, by investing in the fast food chain Shake Shack..."
http://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/tribune/article_popover.aspx?guid=5baa6112-c1c8-4704-824a-cc5f92066011
Shake Shack coming to Willis Tower
"Shake Shack plans to open a restaurant in Willis Tower in 2019, in retail space the 110-story skyscraper’s owner is adding to the base of the building. ...The burger chain is the first restaurant announced for the new space by property owner Blackstone Group."
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Installing a Shake Shake truck inside the PCVST complex is just one more example of Blackstone needlessly hyping other Blackstone investments forced into a captured community. PCVST residents living near the Shake Shack "amenity" should anticipate more food and garbage littering the ground, along with an attendant exploding infestation of rats and vermin residing in the vicinity of their PCVST homes.
OK, the % went down as early evening approached but there still was a sizable % (30%) of a major thunderstorm this evening. But no, the “hospitality/Carnival Cruise” management had to roll out the oversized boob tube aka Oval Movie tonight. Of course, the rubes lined up as well.
Ha, ha, the rain streak for Wednesdays continues. Clueless fools, management and rube "tenants".
Those rubes would sit through a crappy third rate movie on a hot, humid, sweltering night. Rubes, bring your kids to an air cooled movie. This community stuff is crap. Love it when it rains on Wednesday and Thursday.
In reference to the dirty mattresses , the officers are told to ignore it. One officer who I complained to about it said the place used to be dirtier and he blamed the tenants. That is crap, I never remember the property looking like a junkyard. And duh, the residents who do this are low life and transient, Blackstone’s rental base. He appeared to be following Slick Rick’s line. The officers are becoming more and more useless, puppets told to look the other way.
I was told exactly the same by STPS.... The tenants bring them out. This contradicts what I have seen (not that tenants don't bring them out, but the porters do, too), and goes against anyone in Management and PS seeing uncovered mattresses on the loops. It is laughable that this Management uses this line. It is obviously BS, and they know it, but that is the standard line given.
Slick Rick is a total liar and the worst “manager” we’ve ever had. The property is barely one notch up from a filthy slum and “Public Safety” is a joke. They couldn’t protect an empty box, let alone a property of this size and population. Rick is disgusting and should not hold this job. He belongs in a tacky resort or a Carnival Cruise ship (which would probably have all the hapless passengers demanding their money back.
I noticed that a thread on the TA fb page about the possible closing of Associated has disappeared. I wonder if Management ordered that removed because of negative comments about Blackstone?
Mattresses and filth - even the so-called "Legal Department" have their own slick, slime-covered responses.
Yes - IT IS FILTHY here and WORSENING. It was never, ever this way in at least 40 years.
Thank you to 4:47 PM's information about our, yes, "captured community." That psychopath who "owns" this place, Schwarzman, and so many people working with and for him are, as has been written here in many ways and many times - are sick, sick, sick individuals. Shake Shack, Lyft, Ibiza Kids, Citibike . . .
They would do well if they frequently sat and focused on the elderly and infirm who live here and who spend many days sitting by the fountain. Illness, infirmity, disability and death come to each and every one of us not struck down in our youth or fated to die in our sleep. Do these mentally and emotionally twisted blackstone people think that amassing money, and controlling and hurting other people and living creatures will exempt them from what is coming for each and every one of them?
How, exactly, and graphically, is forcing us to endure spiraling misery helping or benefiting any of them? How will it enable them to evade the physical deterioration and suffering that will catch up to them?
What the hell do they imagine they are doing for themselves by injuring us so very, very badly?
"Enterprise, business," and the dozens and dozens of catch words and phrases used to describe "business practices" mean WHAT?
Expanding hell for more of us in order for a comparative very few people to have more maids, servants, houses, boats, cars? Will all of that behavior, all of those THINGS, all of the people and other living beings they're hurting stave off every kind of illness and pain . . . and finally, death?
I have been informed by a long list of people that: "You are naïve. You are an idealist. This is just how life is. Wake up." And on and on.
To which I reply, "bullshit." Because a handful of people is creating unnecessary pain for many other people for no other reason than "profit." Which, again, is bullshit. Or, more accurately, peopleshit. Look around you. Some people who live here, and perhaps those who don't even actually defecate in our buildings.
Stop accepting the status quo, the explanations. All it does is hurt every last one of us.
>>They would do well if they frequently sat and focused on the elderly and infirm who live here and who spend many days sitting by the fountain.<<
To do something for the elderly. There is the Community Center where the elderly can sit down in an AC environment, plays "senior" games, read, be in front of a computer. So there are activities for seniors and constant info about SCRIE.
I agree. These people may have money and power now, but when they meet their maker they are no different than the rest of us. They will be judged on their character and how they lived their lives, and that does not bode well for any of them. Obviously they probably don’t care, but I truly believe that karma is a bitch, and each and every one of them will end up in a place far worse than any of us when our times come to an end.
There should be a Community Center in PCV. I don't know why there isn't. A long way to walk for some seniors to the Community Center in Stuy Town. Also, seniors have to pass that 20th Street with two bike lanes of bicycles that frequently do not stop at any red light.
STR - You are right about no Community Center in Peter Cooper.
That TA site is so boring And unappetizing lately. Someone even posted an Amazon rainforest article. What relevance does that have? Mostly classifieds and other tripe. I wish they would just disband and close their stupid blog.
WOW. that is some loud music tonight. I'm near the oval, but not facing it. My windows are vibrating from that noise.
I do think management is trying to stress some old timers into a heart attack and get them out that way. LOL jokes on them, I don't particularly care and don't find it stressful, but I wonder--does anyone have time to look into potential violations of noise code or habitability? I;ve been to concerts in Central Park that are quieter than this--no way does that noise from Summerstage or whatever reach the residences on 5th Ave or CPW.
anyone anyone? :) I've spent some time lodging complaints against these idiots, but Im not elderly yet, I work full time, don't have any more time to waste on them. Every employee I've encountered hired by Blackstone is truly disgustingly unprofessional, tho-I wonder where they recruit from
">>Today two women cameo to the Sty asking if there was a park. I answered that this is private property,no public park.They replied
Oh Stuyvesant Oval, we will find it. Folks, this is now public recreation. Anyone can come in and out.<<"
Oh man. yes. this is a huge problem with this place.
I don't want to sound like a huge grump. But at this point, I simply do not stay around here on weekends or even weeknights anymore. Because it has become PACKED. I mean, you can barely walk through the Oval "Park" due to the masses of people on it.
And it's not just the "Park," lol, which is hardly a park but just a smallish lawn. It's the entire property.
The one thing I loved about this place was the relative scarcity of people. You walk out your building door and you're not immediately bombarded by people, as you would be on a crowded avenue like 1st.
It has now become like a tourist area, 9th ave or the like. It's seriously that crowded. Union Sq/ is one of the most crowded areas in all of NYC. And people have by now trickled across town to Ave A, and into Stuy town.
You can stereotype and say, "those grouchy old folks, don't want anyone else there!" --No. I'm not elderly, I'm an old Young Adult, if that makes sense.
I get that people want to enjoy the grass-I want to enjoy it too. But as I said, at this point I never stay here--I went to CP last weekend, because it was LESS CROWDED THAN HERE. I mean something is seriously wrong here.
Do I want to live in a gated community? I would never have thought I'd say yes to that. They're elitist, they have racist beginnings. But right now I just want some damn space. You can't get that here anymore--10 years ago it was a completely different place.
It's sad.
If I had 3k per month to blow on rent, you bet your a@@ I'd be out of here in a second--so many better places to live. The only people who want to be here are NYU students bc its close to NYU and of course those rich kids parents have money to blow on rent.
I hope everyone took note of that absolutely tragic story of the young man who was crushed to death by the elevator on 25th and 3rd. Not to scare anyone, but this is the fate of the elevators on this property.
I don’t know how many times it bears repeating, but these elevators were not meant to carry the loads that they do at the volume they do. These are passenger elevators used just as frequently as freight/service elevators, and the toll is already been taken.
These elevators were chosen at a time when move-ins and move-outs were rare, and everyone was working, thus giving the elevators some downtime during the day. Now you have a building turnover rate of around 50% each year, equating to upwards of 100 moves a year. On top of that you have no elevator despite periods, as the demographics of this place have people using the elevators very frequently at all hours of the day.
Rick. If you or your people are reading this, do the right thing and make sure these elevators are safe, and a tragedy like that doesn’t happen here. You can skimp on other things (although you shouldn’t!), but not this.
The noise tonight is near unbearable once more. It is 8:13 p.m. as I write, and I'm being assaulted by banging, throbbing, screaming, shouting, NOISE which has been literally invading and hurting my ears, head, ALL OF MY BODY since mid-afternoon.
The "concert" started around 5ish, but I had throbbing and low frequencies going through me since around 3 or 3:30 this afternoon.
The response is, of course, "people love it." And basically, definitely, "fu*k you, Oval resident."
>>WOW. that is some loud music tonight.<<
Interesting that you mention it. As I left my apartment around 5pm, I was hit by a drum being banged regularly from the Oval. This "sound check" was very LOUD. I approached the tent, where residents can speak with Rick and others, the sound check didn't stop. Rick was still not there, but other people were. I talked to some and even went up to the stage to complain. They all thought the noise was a joke. A joke that this "sound check" was so loud. (I guess they thought they were THE BEATLES.) I spoke to another young man who turned up, trying to keep my rapidly losing calm. Richard Something was his name, I think. He also thought it was a joke and gave me the standard BS. These people DO NOT CARE. I repeat: DO NOT CARE. Later, I spoke to Rick but when the music started (another "sound check"?), he had them turn it down.... But I just got back about 8pm and the music was LOUD. Of course, Rick wasn't around, but even if he was, I doubt the music would be turned down. Do I have to say it again? These people DO NOT CARE.
So, basically, the middle finger to those that care.
And they have signs saying that it is private property. No longer. Open house in this dump.
Blackstone’s approach to real estate - Buy It, Fix It, Sell It. When will this nightmare be over and we no longer have to deal with Rick and SPS? There are still a handful of decent real estate holding companies out there that might do right by us, so I am holding on to hope that Blackstone is nearing the Sell It phase of this real estate investment.
https://www.blackstone.com/the-firm/asset-management/real-estate
Everything is a big joke to this motley management crew. Dirty mattresses, loud concerts, students abounding and resident complaints. They are the worst winners that we ever had but gee, Slick Rick responds to e-mails, writes up resident suggestions on his I-pad and provides entertainment. How lucky can we get.
Rapist never got caught.
Poster rubes on the TA site all praising the music last night even though it was noticeably loud. Talking about how people on the benches enjoyed it and Fleetwood Mac is great. Well, people in their oval apartments did not enjoy it. This is what we are dealing with here. A bunch of Slick Rick worshippers who love everything he offers.
Isn’t that what $3 million security camera upgrades get you??? You better believe they will catch minor tenant related infractions and ticket you, but a rapist... nahhhh!!
I hope that woman sued the shit out of SPS. I’m sure they settled and made her sign a non-disclosure agreement and forbid her from ever talking about it again.
Let me see if I have this right:
Rick: Answers, agrees, does a good talk, but the problems still exist.
Stuy Town Resident Services: Follows the rules, but if BS is part of it, they will say BS.
Public Safety: Smiles, says hi to residents, but doesn't enforce most of the quality of life rules.
13 precinct: Passes the buck to Public Safety unless there is a real crime.
Our local congressman: Sees it, but nothing is done. Makes an attempt to pass the buck, too.
Our TA: Forget about it. Very disappointing. But will ask for dues.
Residents: A mixture. Some residents should know better, but they do not. Various reasons. The "sand" has been put over their eyes successfully or they have given up or, if they are older women (sorry), find it thrilling that Rick will respond to them. Some residents are also lousy human beings. In a "community" of over 30,000, you are going to find a good segment are pathetic human beings, and these can have the loudest voice.
What is left:
Well, there is the Media, but get your act together, including evidence, time and photos. Could work for publicity, but chances are Blackstone (our lord and master) will just weather the temporary storm.
The Courts: Not tried yet, but will require time and money expenditure.
How am I doing?
>>Poster rubes on the TA site all praising the music last night even though it was noticeably loud. Talking about how people on the benches enjoyed it and Fleetwood Mac is great. Well, people in their oval apartments did not enjoy it. This is what we are dealing with here. A bunch of Slick Rick worshippers who love everything he offers.<<
It was loud. But, as I said, you will find residents who are lousy human beings, and some of these residents love these "shows."
Well, arrived home last night to a note under my door. MCI for gas riser replacement will show up on your September rent bill, along with back charges. Oh, and this was approved before the laws were changed so we are going to get it. Minnie minnie ha ha!!!
But just ask the TA, they did everything in their power but couldn't prevail.
Regarding that recent elevator death in a Third Avenue apartment building: Blackstone LIKES it when one of their tenants leaves--for whatever reason. Any possible lawsuit settlement(s) are a drop in the bucket for them. Just Cost Of Doing Business.
For one thing , are you sure that this was a Blackstone owned building? I thought that I heard another company cited as the owner. Secondly , the only tenants that they really like leaving are rent stabilized ones such as the ones here. In luxury buildings, those people must pay exorbitant rents and can afford increases.
https://www.nybits.com/apartments/manhattan_promenade.html
Says nothing about Blackstone.
I will delete that original comment about Blackstone unless proof can be provided.
Deleted. Please, we don't need "fake news" here.
So untrusting! READ BELOW:
"Blackstone closes on $620M purchase of Kips Bay Court
900-unit complex is largest NYC multifamily deal of 2016
By Mark Maurer | Twitter_logo_blue copy December 08, 2016 06:30PM"
https://therealdeal.com/2016/12/08/blackstone-closes-on-620m-purchase-of-kips-bay-court/
It is written about in many publications.
LOOK IT UP, FOR HEAVENS' SAKE! IT IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE.
David Woodruff, who was, for a short time, the Chief Operating Officer here in Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village until he left a couple of months back, is someone with whom I had long conversations both on the phone and in person.
He worked for Blackstone and was much of the time in Kipps Bay.
I don't understand. What you are referencing is not where the evaluator incident took place. Or is there something else?
Kips Bay Court IS NOT THE SAME as Manhattan Promenade. Blackstone owns Kips Bay Court. Blackstone DOES NOT OWN Manhattan Promenade. Enough of trying to tie the 2 together, they are not even remotely the same or tied together in any way whatsoever.
I hate Management here as much as the next person, but tying false information to the tragic elevator incident does nothing for anyone.
Again, Manhattan Promenade IS NOT A PART of Kips Bay Court.
Walking through the Oval past the basketball playground today every few minutes the smell of pot assaulted my nose. This is in broad daylight. This pigsty has become a pot den. You are assaulted with it when you open your apartment door in the morning, when you step on the elevator, in the laundry room and when you walk through the property. Don’t tell me they cannot be more proactive in stopping this. Remember POT IS ILLEGAL in NEW YORK.
"Again, Manhattan Promenade IS NOT A PART of Kips Bay Court."
Correct. This was so easy to prove. Enough of this crap and waste of space on this thread.
https://therealdeal.com/2019/08/22/at-luxury-building-where-tenant-was-crushed-to-death-by-elevator-there-were-signs-of-trouble/
Doesn't alter the fact that our elevators are overused and abused and are an accident waiting to happen.
Yes, but the elevators here are another subject. The "news" that Blackstone is in any way responsible for that elevator tragedy at the Manhattan Promenade is false or "fake" news. If someone goes on and on about this type of "news" as being real, they are doing a discredit unless a site calls them on it.
What does this have to do with anything??????? Everyone here knows that Blackstone owns Kips Bay Court and Beam Living manages that property along with PCVST and Parker Towers in Forest Hills.
I totally agree.
Update on the "war veterans' memorial:"
A new sign on a pole thrust in that poor tormented earth reads that it is the site of the "memorial" AND STATUE.
What goes on here, anyway?
Citizen app showing a woman assaulted at 310 First Avenue yesterday morning at around 6:00am. Anyone know if this is true?? We know we won’t hear anything from zip It Rick (when it comes to crime here) or the TA, so we need to fend for ourselves and get this information out there.
Will the "statue" be of Master Rick in an heroic pose?
>>Citizen app showing a woman assaulted at 310 First Avenue yesterday morning at around 6:00am. Anyone know if this is true?? We know we won’t hear anything from zip It Rick (when it comes to crime here) or the TA, so we need to fend for ourselves and get this information out there.<<
I don't have that app. However, I do know that neither Management or the TA want this info out, unless it becomes publicly known.
You got one yuk yuk MCI letter from Rick put under your door? I got two!
You're lucky!
Had to laugh when I read the monthly Blackstone pamphlet that came with the rent statement. Those clowns were plugging”good neighbor policy. “ in addition under how to dispose of things, they actually advise people to leave bulk trash on the loops. Signs encourage this nasty practice. What pigs they are to allow this in writing.
Please don’t insult pigs because they are a lot cleaner and smarter than anyone in that Management office. Rick is like the drunken captain of a sinking ship and that contemptuous smirk never leaves his face.’what a loser!
Seen a porter take out an uncovered mattress and place in on the loop. It's been there for hours. Later, a number of PS officers were there. Checking the uncovered mattress? No. Stopping a bike running its motor. Good for them, but they are right by the uncovered mattress.... Ah well, you can't have everything....
"Ah well, you can't have everything . . ."
Yes, you can have everything: filth; noise; destruction of land and living beings; shrieking, screaming, vomiting, drugged, drunken students; dog waste on benches as well as on the streets (thanks to filthy humans who put their feet up on benches AND chess tables upon which people eat); vehicles of many descriptions just about running you down and running you over; overcrowding of the paths and some of the grass here by nauseating exhibitionists and "families" and drinking parties; lack of heat in the winter; lies and deception by the people you pay to harm you here . . . the list goes on.
We have SO much here that is conducive to health and well-being, don't we?
The dumping of the mattresses is specifically allowed by the numerous signs on the loop and designated in the monthly crap brochure. If management deems it legal, there is no reason why PS will report it or act on it. Slick Rick allows it , uncovered and all. It is actually encouraged. Pigsty.
There is a thread on the TA site regarding apartment succession. When I succeeded to my mother’s apartment it was smooth and easy and that was during the Tishman Speyer era. As mean as they were, my succession was easy. Some posters are citing that it is more difficult and cumbersome under Blackstone. Interesting. I guess they want this place to become a complete dorm/Airbnb/ city subsidized dump.
PS Officers risk losing their jobs if they do them the right way.
https://therealdeal.com/2019/08/27/blackstone-warehousing-rent-stabilized-apartments-at-stuyvesant-town/
Of course the source in this story is none other than everyones favorite TA president. This story offers absolutely zero insight into anything, it’s just another opportunity for Susan to get her name in the press.
Hey Susan, give us something we didn’t already know. And while you’re at it, do something for the residents of this community already.
In sounds as if Susan is pro-Blackstone with talk of the company's "responsibility"....
>>The dumping of the mattresses is specifically allowed by the numerous signs on the loop and designated in the monthly crap brochure. If management deems it legal,<<
According to law, it is illegal but Management keeps on doing it, blaming residents instead.
The law firm of Belkin is not pro-tenant friendly, as far as I know. They are quoted in the Real Deal article.
The entire TA is pro Blackstone. We have known that a long time.
I’m sure Blackstone is cooking up some evil plan to hurt us. It is a company totally devoid of morals
and any sense of human decency. The fish rots at the head and the poison trickles down.
As bad as things are in the sty, they could be a lot worse. Be grateful we have the Peter Cooper Village stytown tenants association having our backs. Imagine how filthy and dangerous this place would be without them. Granted, it's plenty filthy and dangerous with them around, but we would be having an outright Mad Max situation without them.
Please, they need your help.....can't you all just pony up 50 bucks for Christ's sake?
--TA Supporter
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