So I passed by Playground 9 (that's the playground that has those Citi-bikes), and found that the actual playground is closed for repainting, etc. But not closed is Citi-bike. Playground 9 was recently worked on, but now, in September, the playground will be closed for basketball. Makes no sense. A normal company, if work needs to be done (a big question mark), would close the playground at the winter months, but not in September!
Unless, of course, Citi-bike requires an "adjustment" at that playground, and time can't be wasted with Citi-bike and our incompetent Management. (Or maybe Management is very competent, but doesn't bother about residents in this situation.)
Regarding the rule of walking your Citi-bike. BS. Today I passed by two Citi-bikes that were not being walked in the pathway by Playground 9.
A big failure. Enjoy September.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 400 of 649 Newer› Newest»"We are mostly deathly afraid to speak up so we do not lose our $1500 rentals here."
Why? What could they do you? They can't evict you for complaining! I wish I had a $1,500 rental, but whether it's $1,500 or $5000, you cannot be evicted for complaining, especially if it is a justifiable complaint.
6:01 PM contact Management yourself. Don't wait for them to respond to the porter's complaint. Or contact the head of PS. We are entitled to doors that close and lock without having to be Hercules.
STR, I was told by a VERY RELIABLE source, as in "whistleblower", that the Veterans Monument which is being built on the Oval is not being done out of Blackstone's concern for honoring our veterans or the goodness of their heart or any altruistic motive.
In fact, the spot that was chosen sits exactly above a HIGHLY TOXIC CHEMICAL DUMPING SPOT used in the mid to late 1940's just before Stuyvesant Town was being built.
I was told that the monument is being put up at the spot where the proverbial body was buried where the most carcinogenic material is located.
Very clever, huh?
Perhaps too clever.
Something to be investigated.
Perhaps we should JUST CALL RICK.
No joke. This is a very serious environmental concern.
Your thoughts?
"We are mostly deathly afraid to speak up so we do not lose our $1500 rentals here."
I'm sorry; this is so typical of long term tenants here. Docile and afraid. Their ignorance of NYS RS law and current events here is very disheartening. That's why the cheerleaders win. The NYS RS law gives you many protections. RH knows me. Legal knows me. TR knows me. PS knows me. LS knows me. You can say almost the same re the STR. I give Rick and his team credit when credit is due including Legal lately for 2 major issues. But I will call them out for many issues as well. I am one of the very few people at this blog who has given his real name. Name recognition gives you power. Staying in the shadows does not.
No one should be afraid because they've been here a long time with a rent that's lower than newbies. In fact, being here a long time gives you more experience around here, and seeing the changes through the decades.
>>Your thoughts?<<
I don't know about that. Why would Blackstone purposefully build (awaken) over toxic material? That said, I know that there was a nauseating stink in that area which was way different than fertilizer smell. Also, I see work there was temporarily stopped. So I don't know what's up. Or if Blackstone is "showing" that there is a work slowdown with the new rent laws.
But I am concerned. What has to happen is that someone, maybe a worker there, can speak up.
Getting back to that Veteran's Monument. Do we know or is there an old plan of where that chemical dumping spot is located? If the workers dug up this area and let loose toxic material, that is a major scandal. Major.
This is an old 2006 article and the links are gone. But read:
https://gothamist.com/news/stuyvesant-town-peter-cooper-villages-environmental-issues
I have seen that Gothamist has written a few things about Met Life's proposed sale of Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village. I am a market-rate tenant in Stuy Town-Peter Cooper, and I believe one under-reported aspect of this concerns the fact that most of the site is built on toxic contaminants that are the subject of a cleanup agreement between Con Ed and NY State, pursuant to which the State is, for now, holding off on characterizing the site a "superfund" site. I thought I'd pass along what I know. It might take 30 minutes or so to read through this, but I personally think it's worth it.
At bottom, I don't think people that live here have been paying sufficient attention to this, and I am concerned that Met Life and Con Ed have significant interests in keeping this quiet. I think if it received some media attention there would be better public debate about what should be done to clean up the mess that exists just a few feet below the surface of these properties, to ensure that whatever is done is done safely and with the best interests of the community in mind. Here is a summary. [FYI, this apparently is disclosed in the bid book created in connection with the sale (hard to imagine how it couldn't be); the only recent mention I've seen of it is in the last paragraph of Janny Scott's NYT article the other day, but she didn't say anything other than to note it's disclosed in the bid materials.]
This entire issue stems from the fact that Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village were built on what used to be manufactured gas plants. A fair amount has been written about former manufactured gas plants (FMGPs) generally, such as the following BusinessWeek article:
The NY State Dep't of Environmental Conservation has a website on the topic of FMGPs; this provides very helpful background, I think.
With respect to Con Ed, they have various information sheets that are publicly available on their website (I think these are required pursuant to the voluntary cleanup agreements). These describe, in general terms, what FMGPs are, and what Con Ed is required to do about them pursuant to the agreements.
* Con Ed's fact sheet on FMGPs generally can be found here
* There is Con Ed's FAQ page (PDF)
* Also, I believe Con Ed is required to have a "Community Involvement Plan," and it can be found at the following link
With reference to the Community Involvement Plan (third bullet above), at the Peter Cooper site where I live, we are now at "Stage 4," i.e., the testing to date has led to the conclusion that contamination is present, and remedial action is required. Over the past 6-8 months there has been "remedial investigation," i.e., investigation of how they will go about remediating.
T & V, a little over a year ago:
https://town-village.com/2018/06/19/con-edison-remediation-wells/
There are not enough people to unify. The commenters on this blog are a very minute minority.
https://www.coned.com/-/media/files/coned/documents/mgp/2017-oct-st-fact-sheet.pdf
There has been little change here. Not sure what power you are talking about. Concerts are still loud, garbage is still dumped, the demo gets worse and worse. As far as I can see, giving names or knowing who we are makes no difference. If you had power things would be different. It is only getting worse. Let’s see how much heat we get this winter.
And so we complain and complain . Big deal
I have seen no positive changes here in the past year. My building is full of transients and students. The loops remain garbage dumps . My lobby is filled with crap people put out, the events go on and on and the property has never looked worse. In the shadows or out of the shadows , it remains the same. As long as we have a bogus, management oriented TA there will be no improvement.
Please stop the fearmongering about the Manufactured Natural Gas sites and the nonsense about it being dug up by the Veterans monument. All the information about the contamination is Public Record. It is available at ConEd's website.
There were several locations where there were gas tanks including the corner of the property at 14th & Ave C, the area around 16 Oval and 522 E. 20th and several locations in PCV, mostly along 20th St.
If you're really worried about this, take the time to educate yourselves and stop talking out of your asses.
"Getting back to that Veteran's Monument. Do we know or is there an old plan of where that chemical dumping spot is located? If the workers dug up this area and let loose toxic material, that is a major scandal. Major."
Why do you think MetLife planted lots of trees on the Oval and wouldn't allow anybody, especially children, to go on the Oval? I've posted about this before. You think the likes of Blackstone, TS, et al give a flying fuck if you and your children are exposed to carcinogenic shit while you frolic on the "lawn" and sit watching those lame-brained concerts? Of course they don't!
If Rick is unaware of what is under the lawn, then he is woefully ignorant. Probably, though, he just doesn't give a damn.
Pretty sure the old guard of the Vichy TA know about the toxics under the lawn and other parts of the property.
"There are not enough people to unify. The commenters on this blog are a very minute minority."
We need to be a very vocal minority. A loud and vocal minority.
I know these yelp reviews are infuriating and criminal, literally as it is supposedly illegal to buy favorable reviews and misrepresent your business online--but Id encourage people not to vote reviews as "funny" when theyre obviously fake. Yelp has no way to downvote and it counts "funny" as an endorsement.
please report all these fake positive reviews. if enough people do it we can get them removed.
all problems with organizing here come down to this--the massive size of this place. for most tenants they can do a rent strike to threaten a criminal landlord. we don't have recourse to that--we'll never be able to organize 30 thousand people. and most of them are stupid rich NYU yuppies or current students--they're loud, there here for two years and then they're gone, they don't actually care what the conditions are like here.
without rent stabilization: this place is an absolute sh!t hole. it just is. the reason it worked for all these years is rent stabilization. it does not work now. I stay because my rent is simply too good for me to leave. but it feels like the golden handcuffs. I hate it here and fantasize CONSTANTLY about leaving, I'm talking every f@#$@#$king day I dream about it.
The one satisfying thing--Cuomo's rent reform. which he only did because he hates diblasio and wanted to show him up as a fool. regardless, it's all verrrrrry satisfying
wait wait wait what is all this about a whistle blower? why must everyone on this blog dramatize everything and be so crazy all the time?
we don't need to whisper amongst ourselves here--if you think the MGP residue is being disturbed, contact 311 and make a complaint. We have a right to know what chemicals are being disturbed by this construction activity. Call Keith Powers while you're at it, let the guy earn his salary for once.
incidentally the construction of the collection wells has already started. This is all being done completely haphazardly by ConEd, without enough state oversight, which is infuriating. The state is letting ConEd handle it, which means they get to it when they get to it. I'm aware of at least one well that was constructed in PCV. There's possibly more, not sure. If you saw something that looked like a drilling rig for a few days, that was probably the excavation of the wells. I saw the company logo that they contracted to do the drilling. don't remember their name now but I looked them up. there's an environmental guy and the guy operating the drilling rig. I reported to 311 which is when the environmental guy showed up, but this is all according to state regs, can't be stopped. I think it's an idiotic poorly vetted plan. but we do have the right to know where/when it's happening.
There's a Con Edsion steam service line on E 20th St and 1st that is constantly being serviced. When Con Ed sold the Waterside plant (1st Ave & 37th St) in the early 2000's, the steam production it handled was transferred to the East River plant. From what I've heard the tie in from the Waterside plant to the East River plant service was done at E 20th St and 1st. Some of the work of the tie-in is evidenced by the ventilated steam lines and street grating by the M15 bus stop on the northeast side of the block.
My dog is deathly afraid to go near an open patch of grass (“dog-friendly”) behind 6 Peter Cooper Road. She does not have this issue with any of the other open patches for dogs, so of course I can only help but wonder what she smells in that particular area that has her so afraid. I’m sure it has to do with what’s under the soil in that area....
The "cheerleaders" will not be cheering so much if/when they start feeling the toxic affects of what's under this place. Those trees kept it well covered as well as keeping the general air clean. Management's policy is that ignorance is bliss.
>>Please stop the fearmongering about the Manufactured Natural Gas sites and the nonsense about it being dug up by the Veterans monument. All the information about the contamination is Public Record. It is available at ConEd's website.
There were several locations where there were gas tanks including the corner of the property at 14th & Ave C, the area around 16 Oval and 522 E. 20th and several locations in PCV, mostly along 20th St.
If you're really worried about this, take the time to educate yourselves and stop talking out of your asses.<<
I've taken some time, and put up some links and quoted even. Yes, there is fearmongering, but there is also ILLEGAL dumping. I came across this the other day, and the old illegal dumping was done in the East River, probably close to us. So, yeah, we don't know for sure, because there are workers who DON'T CARE ABOUT THE RULES and will cover up in more ways than one.
One of my "activities" is going back in newspapers archives. I see old ads from DOCTORS recommending this cigarette or that one. Smiling faces all. And the message is smoke and do not worry. Now we know that cigarettes can cause cancer, but decades ago, this wasn't fully known. A lot of people used to smoke.
So what do I see now? Doctors will tell you there is nothing wrong with newest cellphone you just bought or that reception tower that was just built, so just relax and smile.....
Maybe, but maybe not.
>>Please stop the fearmongering about the Manufactured Natural Gas sites and the nonsense about it being dug up by the Veterans monument.<<
And I have never smelled the area around the memorial stink so bad and obnoxious. I thought I was going to retch.
>>wait wait wait what is all this about a whistle blower? why must everyone on this blog dramatize everything and be so crazy all the time?<<
Everyone? Misguided opinion if you say "everyone"? How about you? Are you everyone?
Mayor's office open to higher regulated rent increases
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/mayors-office-open-higher-regulated-rent-increases
State lawmakers closed some doors on regulated landlords ability to raise rents, but the de Blasio administration may open a window.
Louise Carroll, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, said at a Crain's housing forum on Wednesday that the Rent Guidelines Board—another mayorally appointed entity—might grant the owners of the city's roughly one-million stabilized apartments larger annual rent increases in coming years. The comments came in response to concerns that property owners may not be able to recover their investments in building and unit improvements due to the sweeping reforms to the rent laws Albany passed in June.
Carroll asserted that, by disallowing substantial yearly rent hikes over the past half-decade, the Board had sought to counter “excesses” and “abuse” of prior programs that allowed landlords to pass repair and renovation costs on to tenants.
“We’re in a new climate,” she said. “I think we can’t look to past Rent Guidelines Board increases as indications of what will happen in the future."
Asked by event moderator and Crain's senior reporter Daniel Geiger whether this meant that owners could expect the Board to sign off on rent bumps larger than 1.5% increase for one-year leases and 2.5% for two-year leases it approved in June, Carroll pointed out that the entity does not fall under her agency's control. But she noted its decisions are supposed to take into account the financial burdens landlords face in maintaining their properties.
"The Rent Guidelines Board looks at absolute data and expenses," she said. "I have faith that the people on the Rent Guidelines Board will do what they think is appropriate, and you can't take those past increases as any indication."
Carroll also said that the city intended to extend greater subsidies and loans to landlords struggling to pay for improvements, and would look to underwrite the purchase of struggling rent-regulated buildings by nonprofits. She also vowed that the administration would soon propose an expansion to the J-51 program, a tax incentive for investments in residential buildings.
"Right now our reimbursement in that program has not kept up," she said. "What we would like to do is really work with landlords."
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“We’re in a new climate, I think we can’t look to past Rent Guidelines Board increases as indications of what will happen in the future."
Louise Carroll, Bill de Blasio’s commissioner of HPD
Not a surprise to see De Blasio sucking up to Blackstone and other REBNY predators bankrolling him with a pledge to weaken new rent regulations by jacking up annual rent increases to historically unprecedented levels.
I have been vocal as have others.The TA and the local pols do nothing to assist us. Sorry folks, Blackstone wins. You can all look forward to a cold winter in your apartments and the concerts and filth continue . Hear that Vichy TA .
If you are all so worried about toxic waste, confront Slick Rick and his posse at the tent Thursday night.
>>If you are all so worried about toxic waste, confront Slick Rick and his posse at the tent Thursday night.<<
I've heard lies and half-truths before, so why would this be different?
And...I have NO faith in this East River Park resiliency program. Come back in ten years and see what has been done and who are the new rich tenants living along the Lower East River Park.
10:53 my best guess is they've been trying to get us who live above Hane out for 20 yearend jackhammer and living next to drug dealers helps.
I hope this isn't going to be another long, cold winter with no heat in our apartments. I am dreading it. I hope that anyone who signs a lease here at this time of year realizes that they have a very cold and miserable winter to look forward to and that complaining will only get them a cheap thermometer and intrusive visits from maintenance men who will do nothing.
Doesn't matter whether your apartment is Platinum or 1940s-style not renovated, you will be cold and miserable and Rick the D**k won't give a damn, even if you have fragile little ones, are elderly, are sick or disabled. You will be cold and miserable and the City agencies who should help you have been paid off and will not respond to any 311 complaints.
Most of the suicides occur in the cold months. I think people are at a low ebb when they are cold, sick and depressed. Do Blackstone, Rick or the faux TA care. No they do not. No more than they care about you letting your little ones play on grass that covers a toxic waste dump. That's the way it is Blackstone's America.
11:25, I too am dreading another winter with minimal heat. Mine was bad for about a month but improved at the end of the winter after several calls. I know others suffered throughout the entire winter. It is just despicable the way Councilman Powers and other pols pretended to take names but never acted. And even more atrocious how the Vichy TA offered tours of the heating plant. I still cannot believe that the city looked the other way. I know that many tenants called 311. And last of all the evil corporation who owns us would tell you if you called that nobody else in your line complained. And still the cheerleaders applaud Slick Rick and just love it here. Minimal heat is the worst thing that a landlord can impose on tenants. I hate the events, I hate the garbage on the loops, but the heat thing, well it speaks for itself.
It strikes me as ludicrous that not only are there still people on the TA site who praise Blackstone, but some who marvel at what the TA does for us. They are worried about inspection notices and window latches, but see nothing wrong with the facts that the Vichy TA let us freeze all winter, even offering bogus tours of the heat plant to deflect the blame away from management, allows these loud, intrusive events to continue, and sits by as we are living on a filthy property filled with dirty mattresses and trash. Who are these people and why are they defending a corrupt, secretive, ineffective parasite of management.
Hear this local pols: No vote for any of you unless you face the true issues here. Keep harping on East River Parks and keep ignoring lack of heat, noise pollution and squalor here and I will not vote for you.
"Hear this local pols: No vote for any of you unless you face the true issues here. Keep harping on East River Parks and keep ignoring lack of heat, noise pollution and squalor here and I will not vote for you."
I second that emotion! They should never take our vote for granted, especially now we have to go off the property to vote in a not-too-pleasant location (not that this place is that much better). We are SICK of these self-serving assholes who don't care how badly this travesty of a landlord treats us. Just don't take us for granted, Assholes! We've had it with that!
Why is no one willing to DO something? It is scary, yes. But to sit quietly, in terror, as they freeze us again???
I don't know who here has put it together, but as has been posted more than once:
WE LIVE IN AN AREA IN NEW YORK CITY WHICH IS UNDER ATTACK. THE ATTACKS ARE INCREASING IN BOTH NUMBER AND KIND.
Not only is New York City, generally, suffering from predation by sociopathic carbon-based creatures who want MORE of EVERYTHING MATERIAL, and CONTROL OF YOU, but 14th Street, RIVER to RIVER, is systematically being expropriated.
The 14th Street corridor, and the neighborhoods abutting it have been wearing huge red bullseyes for several years now. Do you think for one minute it is coincidental that it took NYC over 6 years to "repair" the tunnel between Brooklyn and Manhattan (L train) such that the misery, lies, impoverishment of many residents (especially in Brooklyn) happened at the same time Stephen Schwarzman and Jonathan Gray (Blackstone) intensified their assault on Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village?
Do you think that the noise, pollution, commercialization, destruction of needed stores (Associated, within the month, among others) along 14th Street and its environs, coupled with the escalating filth and both heartbreaking and homeless phenomenon, is another coincidence?
The East River "protection" they are now poised to unleash on us and the Lower East Side very soon - do you think the timing is coincidental?
Today's inauguration of "no goddamn cars on 14th Street between Ninth and Third Avenues while the assholes and morons run you over on bikes, electrified bikes, scooters, motorized scooters, skateboards, motorized skateboards, (illegal) electric hoverboards because WE ARE SOOOOOOOO ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE" is an attack. (I am no fan of cars, never have been. But New York City is a very large city in which cars are needed, along with buses, trains, ambulances, firetrucks, police vehicles, delivery trucks and Yellow, Medallioned Taxies. Period. NO other wheeled conveyances make sense in a city such as ours.)
There is more coming, more planned, and much more we don't know about. 14th Street, from the East River, near which we live, to the Hudson River on the West Side, and BOTH RIVERS have been claimed, staked out, and are being increasingly COLONIZED.
Everyone still want to sit in silence? Well, we've all got a grand view outside our windows and doors of how the human cancer is rapidly invading, paralyzing, and murdering us.
Well, according to the news it is supposed to drop below 50 degrees last night. Heating season officially began on October first. Who wants to bet we get no heat tonight?
In addition to the deteriorating conditions inside the Pig Stuy, the surrounding neighborhood especially between First Avenue And Avenue A has become a cesspool. You retch when you walk through from the smells of urine and pot. Homeless abound as do groups of unsavory characters. Great job local pols. Of course the inept Mayor is to blame too. This whole city government reeks.
This is Peter Stuyvesant's "sage" advice for anyone whose apartment is cold this winter:
"And when it does get cold, please remember the process from last year to get help from management: 1) get a thermometer from Resident Services 2) track the temperature in your apartment over a few days 3) call them if your apt is below the temps above 4) if they are at or above the minimums but you still feel cold (cold pipes do not guarantee a cold apt), call RS and ask them to come check for drafts from windows/AC's/doors 5) let them in the apartment. They will try and help, but you have to let them in to check things out. (note: not suggesting giving permission to enter if you aren't home, just saying make an appointment to get your apt checked out)."
Same old routine with absolutely help from the TA. Why they just disband and go away. As useless as tits on a duck!
Not surprised. Peter Stuyvesant is a fraud. Maybe they will offer more tours of the heating plant. Their pat statement disgusts me.
It’s going to be a very, very cold winter and I predict that many of us will be relying on space heaters and gas stoves. I hope there will be injuries, sickness or loss of life caused by Blackstone’s blood-sucking parsimony.
We are sliding back to tenement living, unfortunately.
No heat from these chintzy muthafuckas!
I complained to Susan Steinberg, President of the "Tenants Association."
Her response?
You guessed it!
"Just Call Rick!"
Funny...if it wasn't so sad.
What a shameless, slimy, useless piece of work.
PLEASE...just go away!
Why are we paying an MCI for "Heat Exch" when we don't get any damned heat? What is the useless Vichy TA doing about that? They really need to open their books because they do NOTHING to help tenants. The MCIs pile up and we are stuck with them.
Was passing by the darkened window leasing office today and saw about five students, not all together, renting apartments. Surprise, surprise. They can darken that office all they want, but we know what a student dump this is. Also approached by a student who told me she was moving in and wanted to know where to dump her trash. At least she asked. I felt like saying, in front of the resident services office. Also stopped by an outsider “looking for the fountain.”In case you didn’t know folks, this is no longer private property. Yuk. Yuk.
"I hope there will be injuries, sickness or loss of life caused by Blackstone’s blood-sucking parsimony."
Oops! I meant to say "I hope there will NOT be injuries, ......"
Sorry folks.
8:00PM, Saturday evening, saw a homeless guy peeing on the wall of one of the buildings.
His compadre was fast asleep on a nearby bench.
I LOVE IT! Luxury Living at its best...
HAHAHAHAHA
Actually, not so funny.
I've never seen the property look so dirty, untidy and totally "slummy." Maybe the person in charge is a Hillbilly from the Ozarks or Appalachian backwoods and this looks normal to him, but it sure isn't the way this property is supposed to look (or ever has looked) prior to current owner/manager.
Maybe the Property Manager is some kind of hick from the boonies and has no idea of how this place (or any residential property) is supposed to be run, but he should be sent on a couple of courses to learn how to do the job because he sure as heck hasn't got a clue. Those discarded mattresses remind me of when I went driving through rural Appalachia a few years ago.
So much for New York City being the most sophisticated city in the world! LOL! Where the heck did they get such an incompetent to run this place?????
As I have said a million times, Hayduk does exactly what his bosses want, They are obviously urging him on to run down the property. As he has been here nearly five yeasts he is the guy they want. He schmoozed as he looks the other way. ANY manager here would be the same. Blackstone is running this property the way they want. Hatful is just an efficient puppet.
Not a hick from the boondocks.A hypocritical, purposeful, calculating puppet of management
I have noticed that the TA site has been so calm and free of complaints lately. It looks like they have censored anything controversial or critical to management or themselves. All about produce, stores, window latches and parks. What a farce that TA is. Guess they will be censoring all of the heat complaints too this winter. Big Brother is watching.
how do we unify if 70% of the property or more is paying 3 or 4 times as much as the others @i have a low rent but many are angry to me about it.^
I don't think we can unify the property at all. Division, whether or not purposeful, has and will happen.
The ice rink is preparing.... More noise for those in the buildings, and there is no ice rink this close to buildings. But it is an "amenity."
I thought a tornado hit the carriage room, but, alas, it was all the garbage left by the clods who live here as transients or one or two year transients and then they are GONE.
Stacks and stacks of cardboard boxes, scores of rotting garbage strewn everywhere but the cans. Newspapers strewn all over. Crap everywhere. It looked like a veritable tornado hit. You could barely open the door to enter.
I saw the porter this morning. He shrugged and said, "Oh it's like this every Monday morning.
Whaddaya gonna do? I gotta keep my mouth shut if I want to keep my job."
Nice, huh?
"how do we unify if 70% of the property or more is paying 3 or 4 times as much as the others @i have a low rent but many are angry to me about it.^"
That's their problem. What rent you pay is strictly your business and no neighbor has the right to even broach the subject with you. If they were dumb enough or desperate enough to move into this place at a ridiculous rent, that is their problem and in no way yours. If anybody asks me about my rent I always tell them that I don't share that information and leave it at that.
We will never be unified. That ship sailed a long time ago.
"I have noticed that the TA site has been so calm and free of complaints lately. It looks like they have censored anything controversial or critical to management or themselves. All about produce, stores, window latches and parks. What a farce that TA is. Guess they will be censoring all of the heat complaints too this winter. Big Brother is watching."
Hayduk and his minions monitor the TA Facebook. They closely monitor it. Hayduk will contact you if you complain too much (ignore him) and he will tell "Peter Stuyvesant" to get rid of you if you persist in complaining, no matter how justified your complaints are. Hayduk and the TA are joined at the hip. Neither can be trusted.
The ice rink is preparing.... More noise for those in the buildings, and there is no ice rink this close to buildings. But it is an "amenity." >>>>>>
What they call "an amenity" most folk call "a curse." It's always a case of inconveniencing the many to please the few.
There is no chance of unifying this property (I cannot even call it a community anymore) without a viable TA with lawyers. And we all know we have a sham, Vichy so called TA. As I have mentioned here before, many of my good friends who are long time tenants love Rick and management. It is funny . They have complaints to him every week, but as long as he answers them by e-mail they don’t realize that the accelerated complaints are actually a sign of the bad state of things here. Slick Rick has a good system going to fool people. In addition, we have over half students and transients here. Absolutely no chance for change or unification.
Many of those people paying the high rents are groups of bro’s and coeds and roomies they put together. For the most part, families don’t rent here anymore or leave after a year lease,. Go look at who your new neighbors are.
Not just division, a majority of uncaring and thrown together students and young people chipping in one third or one fourth of the rent each and are happy with that for a one or two year lease.
>>What they call "an amenity" most folk call "a curse." It's always a case of inconveniencing the many to please the few.<<
Adding: To please the promotion of this property as having a "cool" (no pun) amenity.
Yes that is true. In addition, the TA cannot tolerate any criticism of their do nothing Vichy attitude. They go berserk. That site has become a miserable joke.
BlackRock who bought StuyTown in 2006 with shell companies and Blackstone who bought StuyTown in 2015 are in business together partnering, loading and unloading properties. It is all the same corporations and investors going by different names that own and run this place, Blackstone, Brookfield, BlackRock and so on. The same developers of downtown old world trade center have their hands and wallets in here too. Funny coincidence the former city council person who brokered the deals here and his colleague close friend in the downtown alliance are at the center of both properties handoffs of all the same players.
For a list of the people running the real estate s**t show at the Downtown Alliance 120 Broad NYC:
https://www.futuresandoptions.org/fao/fao/board_of_directors/
Major helicopter noise after 6 AM! Not just passing, but hovering. Could be for the movie that's being shot on 1st Ave., but still.....
There was a fire/car on FDR or near it....
There are a lot of helicopter flights to the airports now. If they crash, I hope they do it in the river and not in the heavily-populated downtown Manhattan. We have to pander to the fucking elites always. Now they want to build monstrosities that will cast shadows over the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. They can't even find renters for these hideous monstrosities that blight the skyline, yet there is record homelessness in New York City. Something's got to give. Call it Oligarchy, Plutocracy, whatever. Something's got to give and I think it will happen soon.
I growing pet peeve. Helicopters. Probably beyond "pet peeve" now. And what are OUR politicians doing about it???
https://ny.curbed.com/2019/9/5/20851233/helicopter-rides-nyc-laws-nyc-edc-noise-complaints
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/transportation/city-council-eyes-helicopter-ban
I have to laugh at the posters who keep making excuses for Associated. They had a monopoly for over twenty yearsand could have cleaned up that store and improved it. That being said, their deli department was good, better than that of Dags.Shopping was a better experience at Dags. You didn’t have the boxes in your way. Hoping Trader Joe opens soon.No excuse for the obstacle course aisles and dirty appearance of Associated.
to 10:07:
I've been asking for the next revolution since the year 2000, when life was just peachy keen compared to the hell we are living in.
Those who know history inform me it won't help - even if "we" "win" the revolution, people will seize power all over again and behave just the same way. I think they're right -
BUT, I STILL THINK WE SHOULD TRY.
After all, here in this country, there are many hundreds of millions of "us," and maybe only thousands of "them," with corresponding ratios in other countries.
Probably, though the Earth and Mama Nature are gonna take care of us sooner rather than later. My greatest concern is for the suffering innocent lives of other kinds of creatures.
Almost five grand a month for a two bedroom.
Here are the "amenities":
BROWN WATER COMING FROM THE FAUCETS
NO HEAT
POT SMELL EVERYWHERE
PISS AND DOG SHIT IN THE ELEVATORS AND STAIRWELLS
SCREAMING YELLING COLLEGE STUDENTS
STOLEN PACKAGES
What a deal I have!
What a fool I was for renting in this dump.
Oh, well. Lease is almost up. I'm outta here in three months.
Adios, Rick!
I am sorry for your experience. That is why we are no longer getting families and professional couples here. Many are on to the Blackstone scam. The majority of apartments are becoming dorms packed with four bros or dens of three or four unrelated roomies. They move in and out to be replaced by others. This rent sharing makes it difficult for this management to keep track of who really lives here. This pattern of renting is becoming more and more prevalent as Blackstone continues their greedy game. As a result this property(I refuse to call it community as the cheerleaders love to call it before they get priced out) has become a filthy, low demo, transient slum.
"I have to laugh at the posters who keep making excuses for Associated. They had a monopoly for over twenty yearsand could have cleaned up that store and improved it. That being said, their deli department was good, better than that of Dags.Shopping was a better experience at Dags. You didn’t have the boxes in your way. Hoping Trader Joe opens soon.No excuse for the obstacle course aisles and dirty appearance of Associated."
I'm glad you are having so much fun laughing at those of us who make excuses for and/or like Associated. I can't join you in your mirth because as a person with mobility limitations (although not elderly) I am devastated that Associated is closing soon. I cannot afford to shop online and I really don't want to. I don't want to shop at Target or Trader Joe because their stuff is definitely not to my taste (and I could never stand online for an hour at TJ). I cannot afford to shop at D'Agostino where the prices are criminally mafia-level high. They lend a whole new dimension to the term "Price Gouging."
You sound very much like the person who was always bitching and whining on the TA Facebook about Associated. They didn't have your favorite jello, the aisles were blocked, the Manager didn't fall at your feet and worship your presence. Well, you will soon have your wish and the store will be out of business. Enjoy your gloating while some of us wonder how we will get affordable groceries, especially in the winter months.
Unbelievable! These fucking jerks are now charging for maintenance to retrieve something that fell down the plug hole in the bathroom sink. Just read a post on the Tenants (not TA) fb page. Next time my drain is blocked by ANYTHING I am going to pour gallons of Draino and Liquid Plumber down it. If it bursts the pipe, so be it. I will be out of here soon and will advice everybody I meet to avoid this stinking Shakedown Operation like the plague!
There are people on the TA fb page complaining because Management is charging them an arm and a leg to retrieve items dropped down the sink and bath tub. In this case, I applaud Management. If these people are too stupid and cheap to buy a little catch-basket to go in the sink and bathtub (a coupla dollars at Ace), then they deserve to lose their earrings, toothbrushes, etc., and be charged to have them retrieved. No wonder we have so many instances of backed up drains! They don't rent to intelligence here, obviously.
I can understand that the convenience of Associated was a plus, but I could not abide by the fact that the managers did nothing for over 20 years to improve the store. I appreciate the need for a decent grocery store in that spot, but Associated was a lousy store. I am not gloating, but I do know that people shop at C-Town and find it inexpensive and satisfactory as well.
A lot of the drain problems are coming from apartments crammed in with six or more people. Whenever my drain in the bathroom gets clogged, it stems from the extended family of seven living on my wall, some of who have long thick black hair which clogs the drain. The plumbers are reluctant to go into the other apartment. As a consequence, I have to have my tub snaked several times a year. It generally clogs soon after the work is done. I know that it is coming from them because the water seeps up while their shower is on.
I see they’re again offering a bounty to bring in a new victim, though at only half the amount they used to offer.
And they are trying to rent these apartments as “luxury!”
I think some people wash their dogs in the bath tub. It should be mandatory to have a hair catch basket in the tub. That should be as much a requirement as a working smoke detector. Management would save itself a lot of money if it just made that a rule - and maybe even gave them to new tenants - because many of the people moving in now are just so ignorant and uncaring about how the way they live affects other people.
I see lots and lots of rolling luggage these days. Am sick of having the back of my ankles bumped by those idiots who drag them along without caring about how far out from them the thing is and how much it is weaving. The even drag them around Associated, bashing them into people's ankles and feet. Assholes! The AirBnB brigade go into Associated and on their way to the place they're renting and have all their luggage with them. They are easily identifiable by the one or two day supply they get. LOL! I guess the "hosts" don't provide toilet rolls, milk, etc.
Yes, the Airbnb brigade is increasing. Sometimes you see three or four of them on your walk through the property. They are on their phones contacting their hosts. The frat bros on my floor are celebrating Autumn with their pot parties, stinking up the halal way. The idiots even leave their door open a crack. Shows you how fearful they are of security. What a dump.
"C-Town and find it inexpensive and satisfactory as well."
They are fine for staples, good selection of pork and chicken, good sales items, and the best local Goya section. But their produce kinda sucks. Went to the new "Dags", their prepared food bar section was decent, the food bar prices are cheaper than that Gracefully $9 per pound vs. $10.50 but their other items are around 40% higher than Associated.
This week I noticed that in our lobby we no longer have the name/apartment directory board; don't know when it was removed. I also noticed that our door buzzer too no longer shows a name directory, you can only look up the apartment number to get buzzed in.
Do we know reason ice rink has different set up this year?
"This week I noticed that in our lobby we no longer have the name/apartment directory board; don't know when it was removed. I also noticed that our door buzzer too no longer shows a name directory, you can only look up the apartment number to get buzzed in."
Ditto. I assume that the Blackstone PR spin will be that this was done for “privacy concerns”. BS. They have lost control of their transient tenant population and they are in denial that AirBnb is out of control here. This will also make it very difficult to sue tenants directly via the small claims court process.
Update to my post re the 8.12 PM post. The names are still listed on the intercom. For now.
@8:12 PM: that is probably because this is no longer a residential apartment complex. It is a sprawl of dorms and AirBnB units. Nobody with any sense moves in here as a real tenant with a regular lease. Blackstone shot itself in the foot by hiking the rents so high that they are way more than any apartment here is worth. I'm talking about the renovated apartments. The only people getting a good deal are the long time tenants who pay under $2k per month. Who the hell in their right mind is going to pay $4k and up to live here? No doorman, next to nothing in the way of security, no heat in winter and ancient plumbing that spews brown water and drains that constantly back up. The cringe-worthy concerts and events do not appeal to people who want to live in a decent, clean, safe community. It's a nasty, dirty, unsupervised dorm and quasi hotel community. We have no tenants association that can legitimately call itself that and a smarmy, smirking, glib-tongued puppet who passes (barely) as a manager.
Long story short: there is little point in listing names on a directory or door buzzer because the occupancy churns constantly. They could never keep up with who lives here and who is a transient or dorm dweller.
>>Do we know reason ice rink has different set up this year?<<
I am assuming that it may look longer this way, or the noise will be less.
>>Do we know reason ice rink has different set up this year?<<
I am assuming it will look longer this way, or the noise will be less.
11:35, you hit it right on the nose, but they didn’t shoot themselves in the foot. They are raking it in with this dorm and transient dump setup. No worries for them in this slum.
those ladies at Gracefully sure are rude nasty witches
The names and apartment numbers lists have disappeared from the lobby of my building too. Also, you have to scroll down the buzzer system to find a name. This is going to make it all the harder for delivery guys who may have a name on a box/package, but not the apartment number (can happen). Maybe they will put them back when they have updated them. Doubtful, though because this really is a transient/dorm/no-tell hotel these days. ;-)
Sad and discouraging, but a sure sign of the times.
Recently had new upstairs neighbors move in. Loud, noisy at all hours, inconsiderate young college kids. Here for a year or two, no more.
Asked them kindly, can you possibly show some consideration and keep it down to a dull roar. Guess what? Got the middle finger salute.
Like I said, sad and discouraging.
>>those ladies at Gracefully sure are rude nasty witches<<
I love Gracefully!!! Including those ladies!
Today as I was entering my building, I overheard three young people talking about one of them renting a room. This is really disgusting. A regular dorm/boarding house.
"Asked them kindly, can you possibly show some consideration and keep it down to a dull roar. Guess what? Got the middle finger salute."
Call PS over and over and over. File complaints on 311 and call 13th Pct and make a nuisance of yourself. We know that Rick the Dick doesn't care and laughs at the suffering of bona fide tenants who are harassed by these students, but just be as obnoxious and persistent with the complaining as they are with their giving you reasons for complaint. Also, go on YELP and other review sites and be clear about the address, etc.
Don’t see much difference with the new carless 14th St. In fact, the off rush hour buses seem even more crowded as if they are running fewer.
The rents here are higher than ever even with the lowish # we have since 2001, it's climbing fast is just a drug filled dormitory now
"Call PS over and over and over. File complaints on 311 and call 13th Pct and make a nuisance of yourself. We know that Rick the Dick doesn't care and laughs at the suffering of bona fide tenants who are harassed by these students, but just be as obnoxious and persistent with the complaining as they are with their giving you reasons for complaint. Also, go on YELP and other review sites and be clear about the address, etc."
Yes, take this advise to heart. Does it suck to have to do this, over and over again? Yes. Don't let the bastards win. The problem is once they leave, guess who comes in to replace them? The usual suspects. But I have done all of the above and will continue to do so rather than assume the fetal position and take it. And don't let them give you the BS of the so called "quiet hours" time window. You have the NYC legal right of the "Quiet Enjoyment" of your home no matter what time it is.
"The rents here are higher than ever even with the lowish # we have since 2001, it's climbing fast is just a drug filled dormitory now"
Totally agree. Families and respectable professional people don't want to stay in this environment and definitely don't want to raise kids here. It is absolutely packed full of students. Some (maybe most) are clean, quiet and respectful of their environment and their neighbors, but many are not. We are also deluged by vagrants and junkies roaming the property, looking for "opportunity" and as we have little to know Security presence, we are at their mercy. The elderly are especially vulnerable. How dare they offer a reward for bringing a friend in! Friends don't do that to friends! The only people likely to take up that offer are the dorm residents and those who are running their own guest houses, boarding houses and AirBnBs here. The presence of transients is now so clear and obvious that I have to believe that this is perfectly acceptable to "Management."
Of course, if we had a Tenants Association, these issues would be brought up with Management and addressed. Unfortunately, the TA is either complicit with Management or just has absolutely no influence in these matters. In either event they should just disband and refund the dues to those people who were trusting and/or foolish enough to pay them dues.
Doesn't 8:28 PM yesterday realize that the whole SBS system is one giant kickback/PR scam. Crowds AND reduced frequency of service on all current SBS routes....
Wonder how long that ugly scaffolding will be up in front of my building. Three months and counting with no work done as far as I know. Just adds to the slummy, dirty look of the property.
Everything you say is so true 1:50. Sad to say that this has become a transient, boarding house, dorm dump. It galls me how Slick Rick and company glorify their disgusting events and other crap and some residents eat it up. They disgust me. Just saw a report tonight on NBC regarding NYCHA. This place is getting close to those conditions and it is privatized, particularly when the heatless winter comes. Hide in shame TA.
A "lesson" about the new rent laws. "We have no money!" says Blackstone.
"A "lesson" about the new rent laws. "We have no money!" says Blackstone."
Should we start a Go-Fund-Me for them?
The entire city has a homeless person problem and seems to worsen by the day. Not sure PS is to blame or BS That being said, Astronomical rents this far east isn't working out for professionals answer for any landlord=====you will see hundreds more bros and hoes that's they way it is people. Our own building has a known drug dealing apartment perhaps more than one. Lower the rent.
The clanging noise this morning from contracted workers is terrible. Not sure what they are doing but it is too early and too loud.
9:04 am Agree completely! Crazy noise that is going on is from the veterans memorial site in the oval, I think.
Also, looks vacant in the general managers apartment in PCV. Windows now open which were always closed. Just an observation.
"The clanging noise this morning from contracted workers is terrible. Not sure what they are doing but it is too early and too loud."
YES!!! I heard it too! Too much noise and too early in the morning! I am on 14th Street. Is that where you heard it?
"Our own building has a known drug dealing apartment perhaps more than one."
Go talk to a detective at 13th Pct. Never mind the dopey uniforms, go straight to the suits.
1ST AVENUE RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC UNBEARABLY NOISY NEAR HANE I DONT KNOW HOW WE CAN LIVE LIKE THIS
8:20 A.M.: If you know for a certainty that you've drug dealers, get in touch with the 13th Precinct or the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration). I worked for the DEA many moons ago and they took it seriously. Maybe go, in person, to the 13th Precinct to ask them to get rid of the drug dealers.
How you spoken with our own "Security" about it yet?
I would think that written detailed complaints to "Management" which have gone unaddressed are a guaranteed cause of action for a lawsuit against our dearly beloved "landlords."
Anonymous 8:20AM says his building has a known drug dealing apartment.
Well, my building and another building I know of has "working girls" operating there.
Unbelievable!
A member of Public Safety told me on the quiet that Management knows all about this.
But the whole mantra is keep things calm, keep churning the apartments, MAXIMIZE profits.
Slimy shameless Susan Steinberg and the so called Tenants Association know about this as well.
But, hey, they are in bed with Management too.
I wonder when this garbage "management" will start sending up heat. I have a toddler with a respiratory illness and I have been keeping space heaters on 24/7. I feel like I'm living in a tenement slum, though paying the rent of a "luxury" apartment. I think I'll send my child's doctors' bills to that monster, Haduk.
HEAT:
OK - On Thursday morning, October 17, 2018, when it is 51 degrees outside with strong winds blowing and a Real Feel of 46 degrees according to Accuweather.com for New York City, I am being denied all heat.
When I phoned Resident Services was insistent, as they were the last two years, increasingly, that there was nothing they could do, the sensors, Con Ed, etc.
Last year, begging, pleading, complaining and such netted me no heat until late February starting in mid-December (at least two of the coldest months of the year with NO or insufficent heat, but it DID garner threats from the landlord, and I've been instructed that I MAY NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT LACK OF HEAT THIS WINTER.
This year, would anyone like to finally organize to secure heat for ourselves, our families, our pets?
First puff of heat this season came on this morning. I hope it's not supposed to last us the rest of this cold day. This isn't a hotel where people are out all day. Some of us work from home, some of us are retired, some of us stay home to care for children. Even the students might study at home. We need consistent heat. We shouldn't have to beg for it. This place has become so institutional - Charles Dickens would be proud of Hatful.
It was coming from the oval loopThat is where I heard it. Near PG 12
Some of the cheerleaders on the TA site were bragging that they had heat today. I did not. Looks like this crap is starting all over again. Believe me, if they keep pulling this crap this winter, I will get a lawyer. Thus sensor stuff is crap. After February my heat became consistent. After calling four times.
I agree. The some have heat and some do not is starting again. This management is the worst we ever had.
The TA is worthless garbage.
" but it DID garner threats from the landlord, and I've been instructed that I MAY NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT LACK OF HEAT THIS WINTER."
The threatened you?!! They actually had the gall to THREATEN you? I think you need to go public and loud with this. How dare they threaten you! What exactly did they threaten you with? Eviction? Physical Violence? Harassment? I hope you have records of these threats. I record every telephone conversation with them when I am complaining about heat (or anything else for that matter). I'm pretty sure you have the makings of a lawsuit or a formal complaint to the City if they really have been threatening you. I would never, ever put up with threats from anybody. Depending on the nature of the threat, it may be that you could go to the Police. Keep every conversation on record. Tell the bozos that you are recording them.
Sheesh! The fucking balls of the lowlife scum who are running this place.
"This year, would anyone like to finally organize to secure heat for ourselves, our families, our pets?"
I would go along with any action, but I personally couldn't organize it. That is something the useless, depraved, thieving, lying faux tenants association should be doing. I wonder what they get out of being such hypocritical vermin?
Speaking of heat, at the TA FB page, a poster said:
"Heat is on in xxxxx! (at a building address).
The response from the nasty "succession"* non-renovated (WTF?) apartment Blackstone cheerleader:
"So happy that excites you. It is 55 degrees out!"
As as a poster pointed out on this blog, it was 46 degrees with the wind chill today.
Such a nasty, non empathic piece of work she is.
*For those who post here, you know who I am referring to.
A cheerleader made a remark on the TA site saying sarcastically that someone who said they had heat at 55 degrees and was happy should not be excited about it. It is these people who egg on Blackstone. It may have been 55 but it felt like 45 and by the way I had no heat.
It is 54 degrees with a fierce wind making it feel like 50. The residential building that I work in has had heat for the past few days, since this nasty spell of weather began. My apartment in this hellhole is cold and drafty. Hang your evil heads in shame Blackstone, local pols and especially that parasitic bunch called a TA. This is inexcusable that in a private development owned by a mega corporation, residents are exposed to pneumonia and other chill related illnesses because they are cold. They can blame sensors and offer up all the crap they want. This is purposeful and cheap. Keith Powers and Harvey Epstein, you are not ever getting my vote again. Rick Hayduk and Blackstone, I see you for what you are and I am so glad that I have not paid TA dues in three years. Heat is not an entitlement, it is a necessity. And they get away with this.
what are my rights here please anyone who may know reply; there is screaming day and night from a child living above us. we moved here in july. i have tried to call CPS as i suspect abuse but now want to move out as it is disturbing and haven't slept in months. Who do i call to break a lease and move away DHCR and Peter Cooper Stuy? i will not pay a penalty for this.
I would first try Rick (contact in the front page).
Child screaming? Well, I have a new resident on my floor who for a few days if their child was screaming they would put the child out in the hall. It has stopped. Otherwise the next time they did it I was going to call 911 and report an abandoned child.
Rick thinks that heat is an “amenity”.
"Anonymous 8:20AM says his building has a known drug dealing apartment.
Well, my building and another building I know of has "working girls" operating there.
Unbelievable!
A member of Public Safety told me on the quiet that Management knows all about this.
But the whole mantra is keep things calm, keep churning the apartments, MAXIMIZE profits.
Slimy shameless Susan Steinberg and the so called Tenants Association know about this as well.
But, hey, they are in bed with Management too."
If Management knows about this and chooses to do nothing, then they are, in effect, running a brothel. I wonder if they get any kick-backs? Would never have taken Rick for a Pimp, but ya never know.
Just went to look at the TA fb page to see who it was who made the sarcastic remark about heat. Was not surprised at all! That is one nasty, b**ch! She has a horrible superiority complex and sense of entitlement. She looks down her ugly nose at other tenants, but she is working the system for all it's worth. She is the type of parasitical longtime tenant who really SHOULD have been purged a long time ago. She makes it clear she has a home elsewhere, sneers at those who do their own laundry, can't afford extra for new refrigerator, etc., and is hellbent on getting her offspring to have succession rights. Horrible woman.
"This is inexcusable that in a private development owned by a mega corporation, residents are exposed to pneumonia and other chill related illnesses because they are cold. They can blame sensors and offer up all the crap they want. This is purposeful and cheap. Keith Powers and Harvey Epstein, you are not ever getting my vote again. Rick Hayduk and Blackstone, I see you for what you are and I am so glad that I have not paid TA dues in three years. Heat is not an entitlement, it is a necessity. And they get away with this."
I will vote for ANYBODY who runs against Powers and Epstein. They have totally ignored our suffering at the hands of Heartless Hayduk and Powers used to be on the TA Board, so we know his type.
There are some really snarky trolls on the TA FB page. I know which one you are referring to and she is one of the very worst. Not an empathetic bone in her body and seems to always try to demean other posters. Nothing wrong with fair comment, but she has a very superior, snidey edge to her comments. There are a couple of others like her, unfortunately.
We all know people like them, though. Always the snarky one-upmanship attitude. A sign of an inferiority complex, imo.
@7:03 AM: If you suspect child abuse call 800-342-3720. I have called them twice in the past and they sent an inspector to the address within 24 hours. They WILL NOT reveal to the subject family who it was who called them. If they find evidence of abuse (which they did) they take immediate action which does not necessarily involve the removal of the child from the home (except in egregious cases), but they follow up. An abused child suffers for the rest of their life (I know because I was one) and the psychological pain and anguish stays long after the physical scars have healed. I wish somebody had cared enough to intervene, but my father was violent and scared people when he was approached. A nasty, violent alcoholic. But I am in my 70s now and things were different when I was a child. Unfortunately.
People need to remember that New York is a one-party consent state. As long as one party consents to record a phone conversation, it is totally legal. That one party can be you! People should do what you are doing and record their conversations with management, you never know what they might say and when you might need the conversation details in the future.
No joke. Someone recently said Management would have (again) self-defense classes after the recent crime against residents. Well, self-defense classes are now being promoted on some of our small billboards. Yeah, seniors, start learning those high kicks! That ought to keep this community safe.
BTW, that front page video of uncovered mattresses is now up to 406 views.
When I got up today at 5:15am the beat was on by 7:15am, the beat was off already! Last night, had to use space heater in the early evening it was so cold in my apartment.
Agree with the person who won't vote for Powers of Epstein again!
When MetLife owned us we had to crack the windows there was so much heat!
Yes we know, head cheerleader
All of my friends who live in Manhattan buildings all have heat now. I have had a couple of puffs during the overnight. I wake up to a chilly apartment. So sick of this tenement dump.
But it accomplishes nothing.
Exactly right. The fake, bogus, nasty TA should be organizing, not offering tours of the heat plant. They disgust me.
I think they want the older people to get sick and die. They don't care about the babies either because they know those tenants aren't going to stay long anyway. The students (who make up the majority of the population here now) don't care how cold their apartments are because they are not home that much. They come home late (usually tanked) and as there are so many of them crammed into the units, they probably generate enough heat of their own!
Hateful, heartless Hayduk is one nasty piece of work. I bet his own kids are warm (probably don't live here) and how many days and nights does he spend in his apartment? I don't think his family lives there anymore.
Same situation with me. Heat on for a couple of hours when you are under the covers. Then nothing. Looks like this will be another Dickens winter in the dorm dump. Hang your heads in shame Hayduk, Powers, and the parasitic TA.
52 degrees , feeling like 49 and not a puff of heat. The ballplayers at the Stadium are bundled up with hoods. This management nickels and dimes this heat. Wonder if we will get any as the thermometer drops.
They are telling people that if they put space heaters on they will prevent the sensors kicking in for the whole zone. That is such a fucked up system! What about people who cook and have hot apartments because of that? The whole line has to suffer no heat? What about those who like to throw open their windows and have a very cool apartment? The heat kicks in for the whole zone then?
This is the most ridiculous system I've ever encountered and I've lived in several different apartments during the course of my 45 years! Never encountered such a ludicrous set-up.
By the way, I have spoken to neighbors who have those sensors in their apartments and they have told me that even when it has been extremely cold in their apartments (including the room where the sensor is) the heat has not come on. That pretty much proves that the bloody things don't work!
"Agree with the person who won't vote for Powers of Epstein again!"
Don't know about Epstein, but Powers is a classic jerk. He was a member of the TA Board, a REBNY Lobbyist, he was the most over-the-top aggressive PITA when he was campaigning, even to the extent of setting up very close to the polling station, which I understand is illegal. He campaign workers roamed the buildings constantly and would always knock the door at dinner time! One of them came to my apartment and asked for me by name; when I inquired, through the door, who was asking, she gave me her name, but refused to tell me what she wanted. I stupidly opened the door and was bombarded with Keith Powers campaign materials. I wish I had told her to f**k off! I might have voted for him, but for the fact that he and his workers were so overly aggressive as to be obnoxious. Maybe I'm too sensitive, but I did hear other people (many of them) expressing the same disgust for the aggressive behavior.
Mid October and already heat complaints. And according to posters already BS answers from management. What say youPowers, we will take names and apartments down. What say you fake TA, let’s take a tour of the heat plant. What say you Slick Rick. But look at the amenities. Hold your heads in shame.
met life sold you out long ago pal. move on. Talking and bragging about Met life is fucked up since they sold us all for over 5 billion.
Down to 50 degrees, feels like 48. Where the hell is the heat. Dirty dorm slum.
Last night I was told that they would not "turn on the heat" until it went down to 55 degrees. Today, and tonight, it has been below 55 degrees at some times, and tonight it is predicted to dip to at least 49, and maybe below that.
More virtual PLEADING for heat and was read the script again today. . . after holding on the phone for Resident "Services" for nearly 30 minutes.
BLACKSTONE KNOWS FULL WELL THAT THEY ARE ENDANGERING HEALTH AND SAFETY, INVITING ILLNESS AND EVEN DEATH TO VISIT THEIR TENANTS BECAUSE OF, OR ACCELERATED BY, THEIR REFUSAL TO PROVIDE HEAT. DO NOT DOUBT IT FOR A MINUTE. WHY?
BECAUSE BLACKSTONE IS INFAMOUS FOR HARMING AND DESTROYING THE LIVES OF OF THOSE WHOM THEY "LORD" OVER - TENANTS - REMEMBER THE ARTICLES PUBLISHED LAST SPRING REGARDING THE UN'S CONDEMNATION OF THEIR HUMANITARIAN VIOLATIONS.
BECAUSE BLACKSTONE IS INFAMOUS FOR BEING A MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR/CAUSE OF THE BURNING OF SO MUCH OF THE AMAZON FOREST - REMEMBER THE MORE RECENT PUBLICATIONS DETAILING THEIR LEADING ROLE IN DESTRUCTION OF THE AMAZON (FOR MONEY).
We are dealing with people the likes of which we've not seen before they bought PCV and ST. None of the crooks, liars, thieves previously "owning" and "managing" us were of this caliber, although some of the longtime employees of all or some of the older regimes are still in place, and they function, in part, as ongoing nightmares for us.
What do we do? One person wrote that they are willing to join in an organized effort to protect ourselves. Anyone else?
Try to keep yourselves WARM and safe tonight . . .
P.S.: A newer tenant, one who is young and female, stated today that she is AFRAID EVERY TIME SHE WALKS INTO HER BUILDING. She fears that some act of violence will be perpetrated against her EVERY TIME SHE WALKS INTO THE BUILDING WHICH CONTAINS HER HOME.
---Good going, Blackstone! You've succeeded in striking fear into yet another innocent person.
Lots of heavy foot traffic on the stairs of 445, as well as yelling and cursing. Have my door locked tight and wouldn't venture out for any reason whatsoever. I see all kinds of weirdos coming and going in this building. To add to the aggravation there is some fucking dog (a corgi) that barks angrily all night. God! I loathe this Hell Hole!
Had to set up the thermometer already. Giving us the bare legal minimum. Scumbags.
HEAT? What's HEAT?
Truly you must be delusional to expect heat.
Surely, one must be truly narcissistic and self-absorbed to want a puff of warmth when paying 3-4-5,000 rent per month to live in this dump.
A ROYAL FU*K YOU to Rick the Dick and the ULTIMATE PARASITE, President Susan Steinberg, and her bogus, corrupt "Tenants Association."
The bastards have already started with the heating games. This is nothing more than deliberate harassment. What other landlord (apartment from NYCHA) does this to tenants? It is harassment pure and simple. Read the posts on the Tenants (not TA) facebook page and see what the vermin is putting a mother and young child through.
We have to take care of our own problems in this dump. Buy safe space heaters and be sure not to leave them on when we go out and be extra mindful where children and pets are concerned.
Blackstone is living up to its worldwide reputation of being the most inhumane, money grubbing landlord who hires the worst kind of people to do its bidding. Hayduk probably was a disaster of a manager in his previous jobs and that’s why he’s here.
>>But it accomplishes nothing.<<
This in response to my front page video that is going up on viewers. Up and up.
I don't care if "accomplishes nothing." I know Management would love NO photos or videos of the rule transgressions here. But that's not me. Sorry. Whatever it "accomplishes" with Management does not matter to me. I will keep on doing it until I move out of here, one way or another.
"I don't care if "accomplishes nothing." I know Management would love NO photos or videos of the rule transgressions here. But that's not me. Sorry. Whatever it "accomplishes" with Management does not matter to me. I will keep on doing it until I move out of here, one way or another."
Good for you, STR! Please keep up the good work. I have sent the link to this blog to friends and relatives far and wide (even overseas) so that the word about Blackstone's deliberate mistreatment, the cold-hearted indifference of Rick the Dick and the incompetence and corruption of the TA becomes well-known outside of this miserable Hell Hole.
9/24 -3:23 Pm
Entry should have said 1-3 NYPD around the property not 1-23. I always see NYPD Patrol Cars here now.
These scum bags know how to play the heating game. My bedroom was drafty and cold last night. My thermometer read 69 which is just above the legal minimum. When I called to complain last year they told me they like to keep it at 72 or 73. They are full of it and know how to work the system.
They have had a few years to fix this system. They can also pump up the heat if they want to. A few times after I called to complain last year, my heart increased. Also it improved in February after two horrible months. They know how to manipulate the system to their advantage.
Weirdos and lowlifes abound in this dump.
I agree that it is harassment. They have obviously convinced the city to look the other way and know that keeping these apartments at the bare legal minimum is not comfortable. That is what they are doing. Other buildings are well heated and even overheated. When you get up in the morning , these apartments are cold.
I wish they would put some heat on, but I know they won't. It's so chilly and cheerless these cold, windy mornings. They don't take into account the wind chill. I don't bother calling anymore. I bought to large space heaters (one for bedroom and one for LR) and put them on and leave them on. No point in contacting the TA because they are totally complicit with the evil bastards who run this place. I'm not surprised so many people here commit suicide. I can well relate to that. When you are depressed and cold you can get to that low ebb. Been to the brink, but not over it. Hope and pray I don't go over it.
I think that I will get a space heater too, but I will still complain and talk to a housing lawyer.
Sending the photos and links are fine but we are still suffering the same issues here, even more so. The photos have to get to the right sources not controlled by Blackstone and I still say that lawyers are the only solution. Although photos are sent(I used to post many myself) there is no organization.
I have friends who live in rentals all over the five boroughs. None has the heat problems we have here. I believe that this is deliberate and calculated harassment. The want to keep the place churning (notice they have removed the directories from the lobbies). I don't know whether Hayduk is incompetent or evil. Maybe a mixture of both. Tishman Speyer started with the denial of heat and it has gotten worse and worse over the years.
Now in addition to the slum conditions of dirty mattresses and trash on the loop and minimal heat, we now have lobbies filled with crap. Today someone left a bag of old clothes. Take it to a charity or to the booth at the green market. No, instead they dirty up the lobby. You never know what junk you will find there.
Me, too where the heat is concerned.
Let's at least meet to talk about this. There are community organizations and there is media (possibly SOME media who are not corrupt), and there may be lawyers who might care about this.
PLEASE don't write anything discouraging here about at least gathering to TALK about options.
Suicide, illness due to lack of heat, maybe even death are truly, truly NOT good options. Fear is the order of the day here, I know. But succumbing to bullies who threaten our health and our very lives is no way to live.
The e-mail address is: quietenjoymentnow@gmail.com (that address was named for the wish that the damn "concerts" and "events" were stopped. This is now about heat and life itself this winter for some of us)
quietenjoymentnow@gmail.com is the address for us to start talking with each other about the denial of any, or adequate, heat.
Lady with young child complaining about no heat (on the Tenants, not TA, fb page). Been given the Royal Runaround by RS, resulting in still no heat. The usual snide b**ch comments that she's been running her air conditioner. That woman is a real piece of work. Not a nice piece of work. She works in a medical practice in a managerial position (ob/gyn) and I pity the woman who go there for treatment! I doubt she has a sympathetic bone in her body. Horrible creature!
if someone near the skating rink wants to do an apartment swap over the winter, I'm happy to do it.
I mean by this we each just pay our own rent and keep our own lease, and just swap living spaces for a few months.
I don't care about outdoor noise--skating rink doesn't bother me--but I'm in an unrenovated apartment.
If anyone is interested please post here, and as with all apartment swaps we can swap references, credits scores, etc.
These lousy scumbags won’t give any heat. Cold, nasty night and feels below 50.
i agree 11 19 this is why i am moving. why put up with this just for money
Just for an FYI, they are not following the new rental laws passed. Tenants are still being charged on renewals close to the higher rate and not 1.5 or 2.5%. Complaints to no avail. Fucking thieves.
Too bad our politicians are all so corrupt (including DeBozo) because we have nobody to turn to concerning the withholding of heat and the lease renewal overcharges. NYC has the most corrupt politicians in the USA.
5:27, I too have spoken to friends in all five boroughs who rent, and they all have been getting heat. My work residential building gets plenty of heat. When I get up in the morning , I have to put on socks and sweatshirt immediately. Fortunately I am not home most days. When I am home I will keep complaining. This is a terrible situation.
Hayduk just follows the despicable rules set by his bosses. He is very competent in turning this property into what they want, a slum.
That cheerleader is sickening. She supports everything management does and even talks about lending her apartment out.
Quiet Enjoyment
A Covenant that promises that the grantee or tenant of an estate in real property will be able to possess the premises in peace, without disturbance by hostile claimants.
Quiet enjoyment is a right to the undisturbed use and enjoyment of real property by a tenant or landowner. The right to quiet enjoyment is contained in covenants concerning real estate. Generally a covenant is an agreement between two parties to do or refrain from doing something.
Courts read a covenant of quiet enjoyment between the Landlord and Tenant into every rental agreement, or tenancy. Thus a renter, or tenant, has the right to quiet enjoyment of the leased premises regardless of whether the rental agreement contains such a covenant.
In the covenant of quiet enjoyment, the landlord promises that during the term of the tenancy no one will disturb the tenant in the tenant's use and enjoyment of the premises. Quiet enjoyment includes the right to exclude others from the premises, the right to peace and quiet, the right to clean premises, and the right to basic services such as heat and hot water and, for high-rise buildings, elevator service. In many respects the implied covenant of quiet enjoyment is similar to an Implied Warranty of habitability, which warrants that the landlord will keep the leased premises in good repair. For example, the failure to provide heat would be a breach of the implied covenant of quiet enjoyment because the lack of heat would interfere with the tenant's use of the premises and would also make the premises uninhabitable, especially in a cold climate.
Other rights related to quiet enjoyment may be tailored to specific situations. For example, at least one court has found that the ringing of smoke alarms for more than a day is an interference with a tenant's quiet enjoyment of leased premises (Manzaro v. McCann, 401 Mass. 880, 519 N.E.2d 1337 [1988]).
Tenants have at least two remedies for a landlord's breach of the covenant of quiet enjoyment: the tenant can cease to pay rent until the problem is solved, or the tenant can move out. A tenant who moves out may be liable for any rent owing under the agreement if a court decides that the landlord did not breach the covenant of quiet enjoyment.
A covenant of quiet enjoyment may be included in an exchange, or conveyance, of land ownership at the option of the parties to the deed. Quiet enjoyment has a slightly different scope in the context of land ownership than it has in the context of a tenancy. When a seller gives a deed to the land to another party, the seller no longer has control over the property. The covenant of quiet enjoyment, when contained in a deed to real estate, warrants that the title to the land is clear, meaning that it has no encumbrances, or claims against it by other persons.
A warranty deed includes a covenant of quiet enjoyment. By contrast, a quitclaim deed makes no warranties regarding the title and contains no covenant of quiet enjoyment.
Further readings
Kroll, David G. 1992. "The Landlord/Tenant Warranty of Habitability and the Covenant of Quiet Enjoyment." Colorado Lawyer 21 (June).
"Real Property." 1994. SMH Bar Review.
West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
"Lady with young child complaining about no heat (on the Tenants, not TA, fb page). Been given the Royal Runaround by RS, resulting in still no heat. The usual snide b**ch comments that she's been running her air conditioner. That woman is a real piece of work. Not a nice piece of work. She works in a medical practice in a managerial position (ob/gyn) and I pity the woman who go there for treatment! I doubt she has a sympathetic bone in her body. Horrible creature!"
There are 2 threads for this issue, started by the same woman who has the heat issue. The "creature" did her A/C remark in the first thread. In the second thread there was another A/C running response but not from the "creature".
The "creature" is not a bad person at all. A little dismissive in her attitude toward other posters, but not nasty or argumentative. There is a lady (I think she is friendly with the "creature") who really can be extremely dismissive in a very unpleasant way, and she always has to get the last word! NBD, I guess. ;-)
I don't think there are any really horrible people on either facebook page (Tenants page and TA page). Some people are a little brusque and "know-all."
I disagree with you. There are many nasty vindictive people on the TA page including the TA board who pounce on people who attack management and tell the truth. They have attacked me and twisted my words. There are about 5 or 6 who almost seem to be put up to silence dissenters. There are even nastier ones than the one cited. I have had one private message me telling me that I have a miserable life because I disagree with him and management. They get personal and some are jealous as well as mean spirited. If you notice, there is very little dissent on that page anymore. Heat is a major issue and lack of it can sicken and even kill. Flippant remarks about it show a lack of intelligence and empathy. 11:29 you are off the mark on your comment and a poor judge of character. That site is controlled and inhabited by a bunch of ignorant, nasty trolls.
Our corrupt NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio spent the final miserable days of his failed, collapsed POTUS campaign demanding large bribes from the usual real estate developers, lobbyists and lawyers. Incredibly, our corrupt NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio demanded money from people he could not take money from (legal max already paid) and/or publicly pledged not to take money from (pending NYC business), directing them instead to procure funds for him via checks from their family, friends and co-workers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/nyregion/2020-de-blasio-donors.html
Inside the Last, Desperate Days of de Blasio’s 2020 Campaign
"... David Weinraub, an Albany-based lobbyist on the list, said he got a call from the mayor last month. “I hadn’t talked to him in a long time,” Mr. Weinraub said. “I said, ‘What do you need, a zillion smaller donors?’ And he said no, I got that,’” he recalled the mayor saying confidently. (Mr. de Blasio was relying on an endorsement by the city’s hotel union, which provided him with thousands of low-dollar contributions to his campaign.) “The goal then was that he was going to try to get into the October debate,” Mr. Weinraub recalled, 'and he said he actually needed some big donors...'”
Suggestion:
Corrupt NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is already bribed and has already suggested frustrated REBNY predators searching for ways to make up for their Albany losses should redirect upstate bribe money downstate to grateful, corrupt politicians anxious to serve them in NYC. As a result, the 2-year 2.5% stabilized lease renewal is likely a better option right now.
9:58 AM. Mayor DeBlasio belongs in jail with Silver and Skelos. Unbelievably, Silver is still out on appeal, but Skelos is, I believe, in the slammer. DeBlasio is as corrupt as the day is long. I think he should be investigated, removed from office and convicted. He is the laziest, most corrupt and most useless Mayor the City has ever had. I am no fan of Cuomo, but I would love to see him crush DeBlasio. If Bloomberg hadn't been such a high-handed megalomaniac, we would never have got stuck with this goon. A lot of us voted for him because he seemed to be the UnBloomberg! Lhota seemed like a cold little creepy crawly. I hope that when the next Mayoral Election comes up we have decent candidates. We have had the cream of the scum for much too long. Le Creme de la Crap!
When, oh when! is that lazy incompetent Hayduk going to enforce the rules pertaining to dogs? I am sick of seeing mounds of shit all over the property, sick of almost tripping over those extremely long retractable leashes and sick of listening to the fucking barking of dogs left alone all day and, sometimes, all night. The carpets stink of dog piss and dog piss stains are all over the steps and walls outside.
What, exactly, does Hayduk do? I don't expect him to clean up the shit and piss, but it's his job to make sure the rules are enforced. What does PS do? I know there is only a handful of them now, but that lazy b***ch who is their "Chief" doesn't do anything to make them enforce the rules. '
So sick of living in a filthy, nasty, dangerous SLUM. This place is worse than NYCHA. Rules are enforced in NYCHA.
We are living under Blackstone’s standards
which are not high from the tenants’ POV.
Hayduk enforces nothing in compliance with his bosses. They want to turn this place into a transient slum. I believe that PS is told to ignore infractions too although there might be a couple of good ones left.,Their stupid motto is that the place is cleaner than it was before Blackstone. They are liars. The PS officers lie for Hayduk to keep their jobs.
What Slick Rick does is type into that useless IPad he carries around and pretends to care while deceiving tenants.
In front of our PCV 370 building is a large patch of grass that alternates with an identical one in front of PCV 350 as a "dog friendly" area (toilet). Ours has just been closed to dogs and the other one opened. Predictably, dog owners use both areas, closed off or not, depending on which area is more convenient for them. Tonight as I came home, there were 3 dogs being walked where they should not be. When 2 of the dogs (one owner) left, this couple took their dog off its leash and played catch on the grass. Respect for rules? not these people! enforcement of said rules? not this management!
>>When, oh when! is that lazy incompetent Hayduk going to enforce the rules pertaining to dogs? I am sick of seeing mounds of shit all over the property, sick of almost tripping over those extremely long retractable leashes and sick of listening to the fucking barking of dogs left alone all day and, sometimes, all night. The carpets stink of dog piss and dog piss stains are all over the steps and walls outside.
What, exactly, does Hayduk do? I don't expect him to clean up the shit and piss, but it's his job to make sure the rules are enforced. What does PS do? I know there is only a handful of them now, but that lazy b***ch who is their "Chief" doesn't do anything to make them enforce the rules.<<
Answer: Nothing. The "rules" are plain, but there is almost no enforcement, and Blackstone/Hayduk/PS know it, too. Things are done to make ST look special, but, in reality, almost nothing is done.
As someone who sees things around here, I can tell just by looking that certain dogs (some of them outside ST) leave smears or just crap, and dog piss is all over the place. Used to be that Stuy Town did not allow dogs, period. But then the money sign took over, and what we see is now here, and the mess is increasing. We even have "dog days"! Welcome to Stuy Town.
Another thing: The other day, during morning rush hour, the sidewalk at 1st Ave near 18th couldn't be passed freely because heavy machinery was used to dig that planting ground by the small trees. Totally insane idea to do work at this time. Morning rush-hour, children, strollers, etc. Is no one in charge thinking?
"no one in charge thinking?"
STR, there is nobody in charge who is capable of thinking.
The nerve of management to put out a statement about what to do if you don’t have enough heat on their weekly e-mail. How dare they tell us to put up our thermometers and have windows covered when we know that the heat withholding is intentional and malicious. Unfortunately some people still believe their phony sensor and window excuses. This is so incredibly despicable.
The entire area is becoming a slum. A bunch of aggressive panhandlers have decided to take over the bench in front of Associated and they are playing music, using some kind of amplifier and are accosting young women who walk by. The Manager at Associated has spoken to them, but they remain there. I'm sure the people living in the apartments over Associated are going to just love listen to their blaring hideous "music." You don't even have to go the Oval for that "amenity" now. '
I think that when Associated closes the situation with the homeless and panhandlers is going to get much, much worse. 14th Street in our neck of the woods is going back to being the filthy scum-filled street that it used to be in the 70s and 80s.
THE MAYOR AND THE HOTEL UNION HEAD PETER WARD
"... David Weinraub, an Albany-based lobbyist on the list, said he got a call from the mayor last month. “I hadn’t talked to him in a long time,” Mr. Weinraub said. “I said, ‘What do you need, a zillion smaller donors?’ And he said no, I got that,’” he recalled the mayor saying confidently. (Mr. de Blasio was relying on an endorsement by the city’s hotel union, which provided him with thousands of low-dollar contributions to his campaign.) “The goal then was that he was going to try to get into the October debate,” Mr. Weinraub recalled, 'and he said he actually needed some big donors...'”
What did he do to get the hotel union? Nevermind. We all know what he did. Everyone knows what he did. It is not surprising he has to stoop to begging for money and still has to drop out of the race. An investigation of the hotel union and its leaders will surely expose some of the dirtiest tactics and maybe even expose criminality. One day all will be known about the Mayor and his hotel union.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/16/nearly-70-of-de-blasio-2020-donors-are-hotel-workers-tied-to-powerful-union/
https://checksandbalancesproject.org/inquiries-to-new-york-union-leader-peter-ward-go-unanswered/
Inquiries to New York Union Leader Peter Ward Go Unanswered
2017-03-15
Large Payments to a Nonprofit Linked to Mayor De Blasio and the Hotel Association Raise Questions
So now the New York City Fire Department has signed off on FIRE PITS in Manhattan???
"Song & S'Mores
Friday, November 15 | 7 pm
Residents (and their guests) are welcome to roast s'mores at the new fire pits at Peter Cooper Village (390 1st Ave Lawn). $5 S'mores packs will be available with proceeds going to the Bowery Mission."
(https://www.stuytown.com/residents/good-neighbors)
Fire Pits!?!?
I see now, having gone to the link. So Stuy Town's newest initiative is to push their "Good Neighbors" policy to help the New York "community".... Fire Pits, included. Hey, guys, instead of this goody Good Neighbors policy, why don't you first clean the place, including dog refuse, enforce the rules (which you are ignoring) and a few other violations I see all the time when I exit the door. Don't be jokers, and just do your job!
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