Sunny now. Even the rain looks and feels nice.
Update #2, June 6:
Beam Living, Stuy Town Management (constantly addressing residents as little children in "woke" phraseology),
our local politicians to include our Mayor (by far the worst NYC mayor I have seen in my lifetime) and, yes, our Governor:
CHUMPS
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New July 1
Impeach Mayor Bill de Blasio
Link above goes to Change.org site.
This idiot must go.
(150,000 signatures have been reached. Now the site is going for 200,000!)
Newest update, July 6th:
Mayor de Blasio's Accomplishments
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New from the NYC Official Site! Posted 8/6
Mayor de Blasio has no plan for indoor dining
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Governor Cuomo begs New Yorkers to come back. He will even cook for you!
Keith Powers, Our City Council Person.
Votes for Police De-funding and the "progressive" issues that are making this city more and more unlivable. Was a lobbyist for Real Estate in his pre-council win. Never does anything about the quality-of-life violations and (some city ones) he has to see in his own community.
If you are satisfied with what you see in the city (dramatic increase in crime, homelessness, garbage), cheer him on!
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Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association
Not transparent at all.
This organization has so far refused to give the number of paying dues members, pre-virus, despite receiving from our city councilman $30,000 last year and receiving membership fees. They claim they are the largest tenants association in the nation, but are very secretive about membership numbers and where the money they receive is allocated. No tenant organization that I know of is so secretive. Very simple request: Open up the books.
Update 6/18/2020:
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«Oldest ‹Older 601 – 800 of 916 Newer› Newest»Walking to my building I saw a speeding bicycle around the Oval. Nearby, in the small booth, was a PS guard. Did he say anything? No.
The PS guards have been castrated. They all sing falsetto as they stroll (occasionally) around the grounds. Rick has a castanets collection he keeps in his office.
I AM SARI SLATER and MY ANONYMITY IS OVER
I am one of the regular bloggers; I am also Stand Up and Fight at quietenjoymentnow@gmail.com. I am Sari Slater, living in one of the closest buildings to the Oval, 2 Stuyvesant Oval. I have lived here in a Stuyvesant Town Oval building since the summer of 1980.
8:28 P.M./August 20, 2020 stated her husband is a lawyer; there are many firms who would “salivate” at taking on the people harming us. This is a matter of interest for me.
Many of the Blackstone/Beam Living personnel are people known quite well by me. They also know who I am. At this point, many know that my life might be put at risk by the practices they appear to be putting into effect at the time of this writing. They know of the following medical concerns with which I now live.
I am older, in formerly good health. In early February of this year, I developed sudden cancer symptoms; a visit to Beth Israel’s Emergency Room netted the physician’s urgent plea to me that I schedule a biopsy within THREE (3) DAYS. My first visit with an oncologist was on March 16, 2020, the day before NYC “shut down,” during which the doctor advised me she would have performed surgery within a month but was prohibited from doing so because of Covid-19. The surgery was performed DURING THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC ON MAY 8, 2020, on an ambulatory basis. I have been recuperating at home since May 9th; I underwent follow-up radiation treatments throughout July, and need to perform certain activities on my own to continue treatment. I will be monitored every 3 months. My health is therefore fragile.
My doctor ordered me to walk for 20 minutes, at least, twice daily. I CANNOT WALK ANYWHERE NEAR MY OWN HOME SINCE THERE ARE NEARLY ALWAYS TOO MANY UNMASKED, SMOKING, BICYCLE-RIDING, JOGGING PEOPLE BEHAVING IN LIFE-THREATENING MANNERS THROUGHOUT THE PATHWAYS, AND ON BENCHES, THE GRASS, etc.
Now, Blackstone has seen fit to move multiple people onto my floor, two or three of them right next to my own apartment. I am under the impression that HUNDREDS of apartments in our complexes are VACANT. Hence, there is no reason to place multiple vectors for Covid-19 within feet of my home.
The small black plastic tags slotted into two of the apartment doors on my floor, instead of containing the name of the brand new resident proclaim the following: WELCOME HOME. When I called Resident Services twice today, I was told that these inane front door resident identifications are “new” and are placed only onto apartments which have been rented, and into which people will be moving imminently.
(continued in Part 2)
PART 2 from Sari regarding Covid-19 and Blackstone/Beam Living
I asked one Representative to contact “Management” and one to contact “Legal” regarding these actions which endanger my life. In other words: Blackstone/Beam is moving multiple people very close to me, people who themselves could contract and carry the corona virus, and who will be having “guests,” delivery people and so on coming to their doors to also possibly carry Covid-19 to me.
I asked each Resident Services representative to please leave a message which stated that they (“Management” in one case, and “Legal” in the second case) WERE AWARE THAT I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER DURING THE ONGOING PANDEMIC, UNDERWENT MAJOR SURGERY, UNDERWENT SUBSEQUENT RADIATION and was IN FRAGILE HEALTH. Further, there are hundreds of vacant apartments, so please move people into one of those hundreds of apartments, and certainly not MULTIPLE APARTMENTS ON MY FLOOR.
I can count at least eleven (11) Blackstone/Beam employees who know of my cancer, surgery and radiation; “Management,” “Security,” and “Legal” are all represented in that group, as are other Blackstone/Beam people. Two “Security” employees advised me to STAY IN MY APARTMENT IF I DIDN’T WANT TO RISK COVID FROM NEW PEOPLE MOVING ONTO MY FLOOR, JUST FEET FROM MY HOME.
Therefore, as I clearly described to the two Resident Service Representatives mentioned above, IF BLACKSTONE/BEAM INSISTS UPON MOVING MULTIPLE POSSIBLE COVID-19 CARRIERS ONTO MY FLOOR, MERE FEET FROM MY HOME, THEY EITHER (a) DO NOT CARE IF I SICKEN AND/OR DIE OF COVID-19, or (b) ACTIVELY DESIRE ME TO SICKEN AND/OR DIE OF COVID.
Either way, Blackstone/Beam’s personnel are behaving in a malicious manner where my very life is concerned. PERIOD. END SENTENCE.
I have attempted to reach several “Legal” and “Management” people myself today, to no avail. My last conversation with Resident Services ended at 2:42 this afternoon, Friday, August 21, 2020. No one has communicated with me to reassure me that I will not be (knowingly, deliberately, consciously . . . And therefore . . . maliciously) threatened with an influx of groups of possible/likely Covid-19-carrying people just feet from my home.
I can be reached at (917) 520-0065. I invite anyone reading this report of mine to call me, please, to discuss their own similar concerns, and with any and all information relative to dealing with this matter.
I obviously know who you are and we have even met months ago. Just as obviously, I want the best for you during this time.
What I see in Stuy Town is that the selling of rentals is the priority here. There are things which make this area more livable than others, but there are also things that make it frustrating (at the very least) with Stuy Town's priorities. There are things that go against the "rules," and Management knows about this, but the selling rentals takes over. Now with Covid, matters turn much more serious, but Stuy Town's priorities still remain.
STR - Thank you for publishing my account of my current living conditions. And thank you for your good wishes for me. I know, from experience, that the energies around us, including thoughts and wishes and emotions of those around us, exert powerful influence on us - for good and for ill.
So . . . my gratitude to you, my appreciation, and my similar wishes for you.
They cannot rent these apartments without the students. Pandemic or not, they will keep on doing it big time. It was so nice here over the summer without NYU.
I just came back from the Facebook TA. Credible news that now PS will NOT stop bikes traveling about the Oval. So, the real message is "we're turning into the Wild West, so go for it." I don't know how people don't see through this. If enforcement of certain rules was down, now it's completely down.
Students in my building two floors up from me were partying loud and long after midnight last night.
I think Rick is an evil man. Blackstone is evil and he is their perfect front man. He doesn't care if we sicken and die or get hit by bicycles. I think he is just a nasty and rotten person. If he wanted to run this place as a livable, safe residential project he could. He doesn't want to do that or doesn't have the skills and competence to do that. Am seriously apartment-hunting, pandemic nothwithstanding.
My mother, in her 70s, is a lifelong resident of Stuyvesant Town. She lives alone, but manages very well. She has severe osteoporosis and is at risk if she falls. I drive into the city two or three times a week to see her and she likes to go for walks. We no long walk around the property because she (and I) are absolutely terrified of the speeding bicycles and scooters. They are potentially lethal, especially to the elderly and to young children. Well, they are potentially lethal or the cause of life-changing injuries to EVERYBODY walking those paths.
The face that this so-called "manager" has instructed whatever the security force is not to enforce the rules is absolutely disgraceful and criminal. If anybody gets hurt I am sure it will be actionable, but that is no comfort to the victim.
The "manager" seems more interested in his pet projects such as the cafe and the movies which are ok, but wouldn't appeal to me, than he is in keeping the property a safe and pleasant place for the people who live here. Mom and I go for our strolls off the property because it is just so much safer than walking around anywhere (especially by the Oval) on the property. It is like walking on the street! I half expect to see a bus coming along!
I know nothing good lasts for ever and bad things seem to just continue, but I didn't really expect Stuyvesant to deteriorate so rapidly and drastically as it has done since the arrive of this non-manager they hired. He is a total loser in my view - and the view of many others I've spoken to who live here. Total loser. A project as large and diverse as PCVST needs a competent manager and managerial team. This person they hired is so totally lacking in the skills and the "authority" that is necessary to do the job he is failing at. It will probably take a serious accident, maybe a fatality, before the owners wake up and get rid of him.
One of my neighbors met with Rick to discuss the QOL and bicycles here. According to the neighbor, Rick told her that if they stopped errant bicycle riders they got threatened with law suits and had received attorney letters from folk they had called out for the behavior. I find that very, very hard to believe that they (Blackstone) would be afraid of lawsuits. The reason: for several years I worked as a paralegal at one of the major law firms that numbers Blackstone among its clients. I often saw them at the office, as well as other unsavory characters like Donald Trump (not that they were connected). This was a law firm made up of people who would eat thier young. Blackstone is that type of outfit, too.
This makes me think that Rick is afraid of his masters and is letting the place go to hell because it is easier than actually standing up for the rights and wellbeing of tenants. If he can be intimidated by miscreants breaking rules and endangering tenants, then he is certainly not going to stand up for the tenants.
I am beginning to understand that the reason why Rick has castrated what used to be "Security" or "Public Safety" is because he is afraid anybody being called out on their behavior would file a lawsuit (which they would lose and which are mostly groundless and just bluster) and he would get a slap upside his head from his bosses. If that is the case, then it is very sad and I think he is going to find that when injuries and worse result from his fear of his bosses, he and they are going to be put to a lot more inconvenience than if they had taken care of things differently.
Grow a pair Rick. Get a spine. If you get a letter from the lawyer of some asshole who was told to get off or slow down his bike, don't be afraid and shit your pants because if the jackass was in the wrong and Security was in right, what do you have to fear from some polyester-suit lawyer? You are supposed to be on the side of US, the rent-paying tenants, Rick. If some of us are scofflaws, go after us. Stop being a cowering wimp who can only arrange tea parties and games. Go work in a seniors nursing home and get on their nerves.
The property is done. Other than being scared of change, I have no idea why any person that is retired and living in a rent stabilized apartment would stay here. You pay ridiculous taxes in retirement to remain in NY state, and now that this property has turned into a glorified resort and college dorm, what the hell are people thinking.
I am still a few years from retirement, but if my job continues extended telework moving forward, I am out of here at the beginning of 2021. 52 years here, and the only home I’ve ever known, but this is just not my home anymore. This is now a temporary stomping ground for college undergraduates who want to live in “the city,” but not in an actual dorm.
Thank you Sari and STR. This blog does make a difference.
On the matters of the bike, someone will be hurt, injured or killed in the near future. They didn’t enforce the rule but now they no longer have a rule about bikes on the property it is a disaster waiting time happen.
Why don’t they care?
We are paying for Security or Public Safety that we don't have. Their presence is to create the illusion of safety for tenants and (maybe) a deterrent to criminals. However, the fact is that they don't enforce any of the rules pertaining to "public safety." It is such a very small group of "officers" compared to what we used to have and I don't know what kind of a Chief they have. Not a very competent one at best. We have been stripped of all the protections we used to have before this place was bought and turned into an undergrad dorm and cheesy fairground.
Hayduk is a sleazy loser and that's why he has the job. It's all smoke and mirrors. PS doesn't protect and Hayduk doesn't manage. I feel rather sorry for the PS crew because they are told to look the part and not act the part.
It's not surprising that people are leaving in droves. Even if we didn't have a pandemic I think that people would be moving out because word has got around that the project is noisy, unsafe and unheated during the winter months. Why would anybody want to pay big bucks for that? It was good value when it was under REAL rent stabilization, but after it went market and all those shoddy renovations went in and the rents were jacked up to a ridiculous level it became a scam. It was good value when the grounds were clean and well-maintained and free of dogs and dog shit and before bicycles were allowed and merely asked nicely to be careful. Hayduk is he kind of idiot who would open all the doors of a penitentiary and post signs asking inmates to please not leave.
They should just ban bikes from the grounds period. We never used to be exposed to this level of danger. Delivery guys should just chain their bikes to the railings and walk to the buildings. If their bikes were insured and licensed they would be more careful because when people are hit in the pocket they respond. The reason Blackstone gets away with so much shit is because it only costs them whatever it is to buy off our local politicians to look the other way. Where is the Tenants Association on this issue? I don't know why that organization even exists. Wait, wasn't someone in the TA instrumental in getting us sold to Blackstone? Some disgraced lawyer on their board had a house in the Hamptons next door to Jonathan Gray? Gimme an effing break! No way in this world is that outfit on the up-and-up!
Traveling bikes on pedestrian paths, scooters (with adults on them), noisy skateboards... All allowed by Rick and Blackstone. Sure, there will be a message or post from Management asking to "slow down," but zero enforcement of something that is illegal on a NYC street.
I go stroll in PCV. Much safer and quieter than the Sty
Rick and Blackstone are not afraid of injuries/deaths. In fact, if it's a rent-stabilized oldtimer who's the victim, they would actually welcome it as a 'message' to others in that demographic.
All of the posts about Blackstone/Beam Living's actions and inactions are helpful to me. Among other reasons is the fact that the personnel here are fond of telling me, and all others who express concern and outrage, that we are crazy, overreacting, too sensitive, too emotional, to mind our own business and the like.
These retorts are, of course, one of the tactics used by individuals, and by collective entities such as corporations, to isolate the injured person, and further injure them by insulting them and inducing them to question themselves.
So . . . thank you.
Over this weekend, I've received no response from any Blackstone personnel regarding Covid-19 carriers/possible carriers being deliberately brought into close contact with me both inside and outside my home, particularly with regard to my fragile health.
In addition: any SMOKE exhaled by a human being these days could very well be the medium for the killer virus. It is bad enough that smokers smoke outdoors here with impunity. Now, there may well be a tremendous upsurge in marijuana smokers in Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village due to the new KILLER VIRUS CARRIERS/POSSIBLE CARRIERS BEING INVITED BACK INTO OUR LIVES.
To August 22, 2:29 PM - “Students in my building two floors up from me were partying loud and long after midnight last night.” This is a near perfect example of the danger Blackstone/Beam is inviting into our lives. It is likely there were drugs and alcohol in play there, which further the danger of behavior which spreads the killer pandemic throughout the building and further, not to mention the noise.
Please consider calling me to talk about this.
For anyone who contacts me, please understand that it is me who is no longer Anonymous on this blog. Anyone with whom I speak IS ANONYMOUS.
We’re going to be getting rent bills again soon, for September. PAY SOMEONE/S TO DELIBERATELY ENDANGER YOUR LIFE?
Tomorrow is Monday, when “personnel” in “Management,” “Legal” and such are back “at work.” Let’s see if they reach out to reassure me that they will keep me safe instead of deliberately, knowingly endangering me.
>>Among other reasons is the fact that the personnel here are fond of telling me, and all others who express concern and outrage, that we are crazy, overreacting, too sensitive, too emotional, to mind our own business and the like.<<
My favorite is when you call resident services about a general issue that involves many: "You're the first person who has called..." Yeah, sure.
I am rather surprised that Rick doesn't see the danger to the elderly and children (and anybody really) with these speeding bikes, many of the electric as well as the scooters. There's a young man in my building who has some kind of neuromuscular problem. He walks very slowly and tentatively (it might be MS or something like that) and he would be in great danger if we walked up toward the Oval with all the speed nuts. If he fell down he probably would severely hurt himself. Elderly people don't keep their balance all that well in some cases. Rick is putting their lives in danger and depriving them of the pleasure of walking through the grounds while he allows the selfish, dangerous assholes to treat the paths as a speedway. I don't know where Rick gets his priorities from, but I certain don't admire them at all.
A competent, caring manager would take everybody into consideration and not pander to the young and callous who don't care if they harm others. I hate to say it, but he really is a jerk.
To Sari Slater: Did you know there is this profile about you? I think it is very intrusive. I googled you to see where you live and this came up: It is on "Absolute People Search. Just google you name and it will come up. I was going to post the link here, but decided I should not do that.
To 7:07 PM: Thank you. Your concern, and your sensitivity, are unusual; I appreciate this a good deal.
I'm not sure which particular profile to which you are referring. The Web has given us some positive phenomena . . . and a whole slew of damaging ones, as well. Any time anyone's name is searched for in cyberspace, it's nearly guaranteed that some disturbing and likely untrue or confusing assertions will be found. It is especially prevalent these days, when reason, logic, common courtesy and respect for one another are nearly extinct.
Regarding myself: (1) There is more than one Sari Slater, at least in this country; and (2) Supposedly Benjamin Franklin asserted we need to "believe none of what you hear, and half of what you see," and I'd update that with "none of what appears on the Internet; and (3) I've no secrets about myself, my life, my past.
I cannot influence what anyone chooses to write or believe. Anyone who would like to meet me, in person, albeit behind a Covid-necessary mask, or on the phone, is invited to make form their own opinions.
Again, though, thank you.
7:07 PM - again - My husband just looked up the search to which you referred. My inclination is to ignore the nonsense, but he was curious. As I thought: much of it was simply inaccurate - no surprise. And yes - you're 100% right: intrusive. This is the lovely society in which we live these days. Again: thank you.
Meanwhile, has anyone read the TA's latest posting to us? And the included statement by Sate Senator Brad Hoylman? This arrived in e-mail tonight. I'd be interested to hear what people think of all of this.
The internet, through a bunch of "services," allows one to search for someone. Except for the initial simple search, it can be costly. More information will follow. Public records are checked, etc.
>>Meanwhile, has anyone read the TA's latest posting to us? And the included statement by Sate Senator Brad Hoylman? This arrived in e-mail tonight. I'd be interested to hear what people think of all of this.<<
Same BS as before. Aside from handouts to new residents, nothing is done by Stuy Town and Rick. Others can differ, of course.
Some folk on the TA fb page are concerned about the pop-up flea market/drug bazaar on 14th and other streets. Of course the usual sanctimonious, self-righteous fucks are chiming in. The City is going to hell and nobody must complain or they are accused of NIMBY mentality. I have seen drug transactions outside Trader Joe and some of those fools are so stoned they can barely move. Drugs are expensive and that is why they are selling shit on the street.
Last week I overheard a man who was panhandling being approached by a kid on a skateboard and asked if he would like to buy (I can't remember the name of the drug, but I think it was the street name for ecstasy) at $8 a pop. The panhandler said he didn't have enough money to buy it and the kid on the skateboard took off. Clearly he wasn't panhandling for food. Let the self-righteous morons take them in and feed them and find out that food is NOT what they are looking for.
Thanks DeBlasio for turning the City back into the SHITHOLE it used to be in the 70s and 80s.
Why on earth would I read ANYTHING from the defunct TA?
This neighborhood has turned into a dangerous slum. Where is that Congesswoman Rivera? She does nothing. Disgraceful. Between her and Powers we have two do nothings. As for DeBlasio, we need a new mayor. It is also getting bad on the UWS where I work.
The TA Admin has turned off commenting on the thread concerning the flea market outside TJ (and other businesses that are having to endure them). I can't say I blame the Admin because there are some people who will just not let go. They have to have the last word at all costs. Mostly those are the people who think the "vendors" stinking up the streets are victims rather than nuisances.
There are some metal panels over what I think must be an engineers' entrance down to the subway on the Westbound side of 14th Street. Every time a vehicle goes over these panels there is a resounding noise. A very loud noise that can be heard every few seconds by those of us living in the Sty buildings on that side of the street. I hope they plan on tightening these things up when they finish the construction work on the subway station. Never a moment of peace in this place!
They need to install wood shims under the corners. Had the same experience years ago in the Avenue C loop.
"Where is that Congesswoman Rivera? She does nothing."
She's a City Council person. 2nd District. But you are correct in this, she does nothing.
New dorm on my floor. One replaces another. Lots of student move ins today. Disgusting dorm dump.
6:45 PM: This is beyond "disgusting" dorm dump. This is a threat to our very lives at this point. I believe that it might be Germany and France which are experiencing a resurgence of high numbers of the coronavirus. I might be wrong in my country attributions. I do know that colleges in many locations have become hotbeds of the disease, and the opening of schools in Israel has caused a spike in the disease.
I had a long talk yesterday with someone from "Legal" who did indeed call me back. The conversations are always more than respectful and cordial and civil.
YET: no one in "Management" has spoken to me or responded in any way to me.
I was instructed yesterday regarding where/next to whom/how many individuals in one apartment and the virus the following: they advertise apartments. People can choose wherever they want to live. It is "illegal" to refuse them the apartment these advertised-to individuals WANT.
Oh, good. It doesn't matter what I want or NEED to stay alive.
Neither does it matter that just about every action they've taken here in Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village is either illegal, immoral, dangerous and sometimes beyond dangerous.
Just to put the icing on the cake for me last evening: my closest living blood relative, who is in "real estate" and who has way too much money for his own good, advised me that I "cannot tell Blackstone to whom to rent." Further, I have no way of knowing the story about any apartment. And why should Blackstone, Management, et al., care about me and my current health/life situation when there are so many (MAINLY) OLD PEOPLE LIVING HERE, who also might not want hundreds of (illegal/dorm/callous/marijuana-smoking/noise-making/LIFE THREATENING) "students" here. He went on like that for a while. Pretty damn nasty and uncaring about me. After all, when you're wealthy, "f**k you, no matter who you are." Right? It works for Blackstone; it works for politicians; it works for banks and large corporations. It works for people who are selfish, self-absorbed. Why not close relatives?
Although I'd been in a good deal of despair last night and this morning, in today's e-mail I came across a message from the Universe, or Monster Magnet in the Sky, or Creator/Creatrix, or my great-grandmother's protective Spirit: "All is not lost, don't give up."
How? I was given evidence that there are those WHO DO KNOW, ARE WATCHING, AND CARE DEEPLY ABOUT SOUL-DEAD GHOULS LIKE BLACKSTONE.
An e-mail from the wonderful people who made the film PUSH about the worldwide housing crisis. Blackstone, those sweet, decent, honorable sociopaths who "bought" our homes are featured in that documentary, and it looks as if we can now watch it.
AS GOOD OR BETTER: THERE IS A LINK TO A TALE ABOUT THE "LANDLORD" AND HOW THEY HURT A PARTICULAR COMPANY. I haven't yet listened to this podcast, or the other ones offered in this e-mail. I don't yet know how to send this out here on the blog. EVERYONE who reads this blog would benefit and might feel affirmed by watching and listening. One of the podcasts offered is titled: "Corruption: The New Normal."
Please take good care of yourselves; keep your immune systems strong.
"New dorm on my floor. One replaces another. Lots of student move ins today. Disgusting dorm dump."
This is why they can't get real tenants to move in here. Who the hell wants to live in an off-campus undergrad dorm? It's not like we have a real property manager who gives a damn. Can't wait until my lease expires in November and I can hightail it out of here.
OMG! This place has become such a fucking shithole. I went down to the recycling room this afternoon and could not get near the overflowing bins because of the cardboard boxes strewn all over the place and even out into the halls. No more recycling for me. I came back upstairs and put it all down the garbage chute. I took the glass jars and bottles out because I understand that these can splinter off in the compactor and throw shards of glass into the faces of the porters. Apart from glass, everything is going down the garbage chute.
Hayduk has proven over and over and over again that he is not up to the job of managing this property. We need a real, experienced, competent and hard-working property manager. If he was hired by Blackstone to run the place into the ground, then he is doing an excellent job. It is not surprising that so many people are moving out and they can only rent to students and subsidized people. Who the fuck would want to pay $4k or more a month to live in this slum?
A lovely young family with two small kids just moved out from my floor. They broke their lease because they feel so unsafe here. Another family with one 4 year old are thinking of moving out because they don't feel safe. The mom told me that she doesn't feel comfortable walking along 14th Street because of all the crazies and the filthy flea market and construction and she says she doesn't like to walk through the property because of all the zooming bikes. It's very sad that Stuyvesant Town has become a place where people are afraid to walk with their children. It used to be the safest place to live in New York City. It has gone 180 degrees from how it was just a few years ago, and not because of the pandemic of the Coronavirus, but from the pandemic of greed and the likes of Hayduk. I am wondering if he and his family even live on the property anymore. Pretty sure he doesn't take them to the Covid Cluster events or even attend those things himself.
To the extent it's possible, given the pandemic, we are looking for a new place to live, preferably somewhere out of the City. We don't have young children, but living in a nasty, noisy, dorm that is filled with students from god-knows-where and carrying god-knows-what diseases is not what we care to pay rent for!
If management is not going to let PS intervene when people breaking the rules and riding bikes, scooters dangerously on the property and when students are partying and keeping people up and stinking up the place with their pot, then PS should be disbanded and let go. Why pay them to do nothing? I think they are just a form of display to entice new renters.
Hayduk is the absolute worse manager we have ever had. His incompetence and smarmy BS is vomit-inducing. I have unsubscribed to his stupid emails. I overheard one of young people (don't know if she was a student) commenting that there was something creepy about him and his almost daily emails.
Anyone who pays 4k to live here is a first class idiot. Anyone who pays 3k to live here is an idiot. Anyone who pays 2k to live here is an idiot.
Loud Covid spread movie pounding in my ears tonight. Hordes of NYU students moving in their crap on the service road. This place is truly a dump. More Covid spread and longer waits for elevators.
Near 23rd street today I had 2 people with beach chairs in tow (and no masks) ask me where the oval was, and that they were going to see the movie. I’d be curious how many people invading the oval for these events are actually rent paying tenants here.
Rick's family moved away - far away- years ago. He commutes between here and his family living down South.
300 people said to be at the Covid event ("Movies").
This writer has come to the conclusion that Blackstone is the personification of the word "bully," who has "bought" "property" and utterly demeaned those of whom it demands "rent." (I put quotation marks around each word because to me each word has come to mean literal non-sense.). Maybe "extortion" would be the word for "rent" here these days. What's the word for paying someone to harm you grievously as a way of life?
We are no longer "residents." I'm not sure what the polite or impolite words are for how they view us.
I will tell you that the classic book on prejudice, Gordon Allport's "The Nature of Prejudice," eloquently and clearly maps out how people are able to persuade themselves to hurt other groups of people. Schwarzman and his ilk follow the paradigm: intellectually demean in their own minds the people they are going to harm, degrade them. Think about them as unworthy of decency, kindness, compassion, respect.
Then: take advantage of, exploit, physically and mentally and emotionally harm them or cause harm. Curse them, ridicule them, ignore their basic needs, accord them no respect. Objectify them and use/discard them.
What are the identities assigned to people of whom you can take advantage with impunity? Rubes, suckers, marks. This is how they see us, how they see millions of people living on this planet.
It gets worse because they've used another mechanism which turns people against each other and panders to the lowest and basest instincts and desires of people. That's for another time.
. . . Are you gonna pay them rent to hurt you this way and now DELIBERATELY INVITE DEATH IN THE FORM OF CORONA VIRUS INTO YOUR HOME?
Thanks Rick for the Covid-Spreading Movies on the Oval!
Thanks Rick for the Covid-Spreading Maskless Fools on the basketball courts!
Thanks Rick for the 5 Turd eColi Stuy Cafe!
Thanks Rick for the dog sh*t on the pathways and in the hallways!
Thanks Rick for the urine in the elevators!
Thanks Rick for turning a gem into a Love Boat piece of crap!
Many are not. I don’t know how Hayduk gets away with these Covid Spread movies. He just has to continue them during a pandemic. Crappy third run films. Pathetic.
8:18 PM: Jackasses with lawn chairs seeking the Stuyvesant Oval:
Of course. I was lied to last night, I think, about WHO IS "ALLOWED" to even defile the Oval with their filthy shoes to ENJOY FREE MOVIES. Security Guards and other Blackstone employees checking ID's. That's what I was told. Oh, really and truly???
Rent bills have arrived or will arrive now that this is the month's end. So have quantities of illegal students. Illegal in so many ways, and starting with the simple fact this ain't a dormitory. Ain't zoned for it. It is residential. End story. No defense, explanations.
REWARD DEMENTED MURDEROUS CREATURES FOR BRINGING IN PEOPLE TO SICKEN OR KILL YOU WITH THIS NIFTY LITTLE VIRUS? PAY RENT NOW? FOR FEAR, NOISE, A VARIETY OF THE PLAGUE TO SICKEN AND KILL YOU OR THOSE YOU KNOW? FOR INABILITY TO WALK ON PEDESTRIAN WALKWAYS?
Think about that one. PEDESTRIAN PATHS. Feet. People WALKING. Not "riding" on any wheels except maybe those attached to wheelchairs.
PAY TO RISK BEING RUN OVER AND MAIMED, INJURED, KILLED?
MAYBE NOT. MAYBE NOT.
RENT DEATH? RENT INJURY? RENT FEAR OF EVEN WALKING OUTSIDE YOUR HOME? REALLY? REALLY?
Another robbery. This time of a senior citizen at PCV. Mid-day, too. Black assailant looked over packages before heading to an elevator where the woman was robbed. Of course another resident let this guy in to the building.
We need a full-time ON SITE Property Manager and a beefed-up well-trained SECURITY force who will actually patrol and enforce the law and the property rules. We are paying rent to live here and it is not a free flophouse, where there would actually be real security!
Rick, get your smarmy ass out of here and Blackstone start behaving like a good landlord and not an opportunistic ghoul of a slumlord.
As a public service, it behooves us to warn people not to rent here. Dorm kids' parents should also be aware that they are NOT entrusting their kids to a safe and secure dorm. They are even more at risk that the real tenants. Predators love those hot little asses from the Midwest.
ABC news is covering the story, which Rick and his bosses must not be at all pleased about. Since we do not have any NYPD presence here, it’s about time that Rick and Fran get proactive and do something about the security in this place. With crime on the rise citywide, it’s only a matter of time before the criminals start coming into our nice, “safe” enclave.
If he doesn’t do something, he will definitely lose his prized demographic, the students. Mom and dad ain’t going to pay to have their kids live in a place that isn’t safe. Balls in your court Rick, now do something about it.
Zero mention of robbery of senior citizen at PCV.
Sickening.
But Rick will tout is Covid-spreading Movies on the Oval.
A vile, two-faced liar.
Oh, I think there will be mention by Rick, but it will hover around residents to make sure no piggybacking by others into the building. The door must be closed. Yada, yada, yada. We've seen this message before. Nothing new.
"it’s about time that Rick and Fran get proactive and do something about the security in this place"
LOL...Good one...don't hold your breath.
The only person more incompetent than Rick Hayduk is Fran Martin.
Two families moved out of my building this week. One moving out of state with 3 kids other moving to Battery Park city with 1 kid, paying almost a grand less for a real two bedroom not like their former chopped up two bedroom here. People have a choice now, this isn't going to be their choice given how it is currently mismanaged. No choice but to fill apartments with college kids and homeless. Get used to it as it will never change back to the way it was, that is gone forever.
Just got his lately loathsome e-blast. No mention of the robbery, but they want us to bring in new tenants for a bounty of $1k. What a POS.
Just read Hayduk's latest email and there is not one word about the vicious assault and robbery committed at 3 Peter Cooper Road. The victim was an 86-year old lady. That slimy lowlife, Keith Powers, responded by telling us not to profile people. OK, Keith. The perp was tall, young, male and was wearing a mask. Could have been an Hassidic Jew for all we know. :-) What a fucking asshole. As useful as tits on a bull. Well we know that Powers is a total bought-and-paid-for REBNY tool and does not represent us in any way whatsoever, but Hayduk is the supposed property manager. But wait, maybe he hasn't heard about the robbery and assault yet. After all, it's not like he lives here. I guess his lackeys haven't told him about it yet.
God Help Us. Can't wait to get out of here and warn everybody I know (and don't know) to avoid this fucked up mess of a housing project with no Security and a half-wit cruise director for a manager.
Not a word of sympathy or concern from Keith Powers (on one of the fb pages) or that creepy so-called manager of the property for that poor old lady who was robbed in broad daylight in PCV. I hope somebody is reaching out to that lady and making sure that she is doing ok. That could be the beginning of the end for someone that age, but I'm sure that would please Blackstone.
Everything that is evil about Blackstone is personified in the current management. Life-negating, money-hungry ghouls. Everything about this management makes me sick to my stomach - and that's without having ever stepped foot in the E-Coli Five Turd Cafe.
On one of the Facebook pages somebody mentioned how difficult it is for delivery people to negotiate the intercom. I've never tried to use it myself, being as I live here, but I've heard people mention this before and I've often seen guys with tons of food desperately trying to figure out how to use the outside intercom. It was a lot easier before that numbskull Hayduk ripped out the directories and named new tenants "Welcome Home." That guy has done nothing but harm to the property and the tenants. He has to be the worst property manager who ever existed. Totally out to lunch when it comes to what really matters here. I'm sure he doesn't give a damn if all the elderly people who have lived here most, if not all, of their lives. He feigns caring, but actions speak louder than words and his actions do nothing but harm, whether it's his covid-spreading gatherings, his cutting PS to the bone and instructing them not to do anything to protect tenants or his denial of heat in the winter to so many tenants. I think he is a very cynical and nasty person. I hope he goes away and stays away!
FYI, this robbery (including video) was also featured prominently in the UK's Daily Mail, most-widely viewed online newspaper in entire world. However, they did NOT state the exact location--just "Manhattan." Probably paid-off by Rick & Co.....
Not a word from Rick Hayduk about the vicious mugging of an elderly lady INSIDE a building in PCV. I guess it's not good for business. For shame. If he had even a scrap of decency he would be posting warnings and a still-shot of the perp.
His "social conscious" offerings are window dressing to make the vile outfit he works for seem like a caring entity. We all know the truth. Blackstone is a corporation without caring or decency and that is reflected in the way it treats those who pay rent to live in its properties.
Yeah, there was a message by Rick. As predicted. Second verse, same as the first.
STR: You were dead on regarding "Management's" Response to the Violence Perpetrated on a Woman in Peter Cooper Village This Week. This is the e-mail from Rick this afternoon.
"Earlier this week, a visitor came to our community and while waiting for the elevator, her necklace was stolen by a non-resident. The visitor did not need medical attention and is okay. Importantly, an image was captured and turned over to the 13th Precinct.
"We cannot stress enough that doors should not be held for anyone you don't know, even delivery persons. In this situation, it was an exiting resident that allowed the perpetrator to enter the building. Either coming or going, one should not allow someone you don't know into a building. For those who feel uncomfortable about this, simply say, "I'm sorry, but I cannot let anyone I don't know in the building." This action will protect you and your neighbors.
"We wanted to take a moment to update you on some important security upgrades across our community as we continue to make safety our top priority.
"First, we have increased the number of public safety officers on patrol. As today, these officers will be on foot, on bike, and on segway. At the same time, a Public Safety patrol car will continue to drive around the perimeter of the properties. As Public Safety focuses on being out in the community, its work will be supported by more than 1,300 cameras, which we monitor around the clock.
"Finally, as always, we ask that any quality of life issues be called into Resident Services allowing Public Safety to focus on deterring crime. And, as the NYPD encourages, "if you see something, say something" – in cases of emergency, call 911. For all other situations, have the Public Safety number in your contacts: 212.598.5233.
"It does take a village. Let's look out for each other – it's what we do.
"Wishing everyone a safe and peaceful end of August.
Rick"
These messages from Rick are either partly written, wholly written, or vetted by, someone in some "Legal" department within Blackstone.
I could easily dissect it to point out the outright lies, misdirection, and such. I'm sure most of us reading it could.
More use of words to create misery: The insert in our RENT (DEATH) bills now is priceless. Action after action after action ADVERTISED to expose people to Covid-19, and to invite others to expose themselves and others to the virus.
It isn't the sole Blackstone motive for all of their actions, but one of them is material greed. As a good friend recently said, "Wealthy people (these days) will kill you if they can get one more drop of money out of you." She meant it literally, and I think used the word "drop" rather than "cent" to imply that your blood flowing out of your dying body is just fine as long as they can make money out of it.
I agree.
This is the exact same email he sends out every damn time there’s an incident. Enough of the BS Rick, you need to actually do something this time, because all of these incidents are on YOU.
Are you going to get public safety even brighter vests to make it look like there are more of them then there actually are? Maybe there are high visibility points where you will send them to make it seem like there are more of them?
The finger pointing at tenants needs to end, and Rick needs an actual plan. With the nonstop influx of delivery people going in and out it does not matter if every single tenant shuts the door on anyone they don’t know, a criminal can get into a building here in a matter of minutes. A new plan and statement are needed, because we’ve had enough.
Rick says we should call RS. What will RS do? Rick is a total asshole and a liar. We have no protection here and none of the rules of civility is enforced. PS is a total joke and RS is what? It's like telling someone who experiencing a heart attack to call the local dry cleaner.
Things are getting worse and worse on this idiot's watch and I think we have to start protecting ourselves. Mace and pepper spray are legal. I think we should all make a concerted effort to get the word out about what a useless and uncaring SOB we have here who is being paid (probably very well) for being a Property Manager. He does NOTHING. At least nothing that is beneficial to residents of this residential property where the rents don't come cheap! He is a total bullshit artist and has taken this property down to the level of being an unsupervised off-campus dorm that is a magnet for predators and he has totally neutered the Security force that we used to have. He really doesn't care how much we suffer. He doesn't care if we die as the result of his cost-cutting and indifference. If he quit the job today we would not notice, other than not having his banal emails advertising his banal "events," which he, of course, wouldn't be caught dead at! I don't know what Blackstone pays him for, but being a money-worshipping corporation they could save themselves a nice piece of change by offloading Hayduk and up-staffing Security and hiring someone competent to be in charge of Security. Without Hayduk and his cruise director mentality, a competent property manager could be found to oversee day-to-day operations. Somebody who actually lives on the property and takes an interest in what is going on with the quality of life, a large part of which is the safety of residents. Maybe then they would having more people looking to rent here and fewer just itching to leave.
"It does take a village. Let's look out for each other – it's what we do."
Really, Rick? I think we need someone who doesn't tell us to call RS for QOL issues because most QOL issues are people breaking the rules and endangering or disturbing someone and a little girl from RS is not going to be any use in that situation. RS is for when we need a plumber or electrician, not a Public Safety officer. People who violate the rules are usually endangering the safety of other tenants in some way or other. You want some lady from RS to go out and chase down speeding cyclists? You flaming IDIOT!
"It does take a village. Let's look out for each other – it's what we do."
It's what we do? Who are "we," Rick? Sure we look out for each other to the extent possible as neighbors, but we are not running this place. That's supposed to be your job. We are not Public Safety; we NEED Public Safety. You have stymied them. You want them to be here just as window dressing. You don't want them to do their job because .......?
I don't know why you don't want them to do their job. Is it because you don't pay them enough and don't pay for health insurance or life insurance for them? Are you afraid they might get hurt on the job and sue you? Are you afraid that they might piss off an errant tenant and the tenant will sue you? Are you afraid that if they apprehend a violent perpetrator and get hurt they will blame you and expect you to pay them sick pay and pay their medical bills? Is it because Which is it, Rick? Is it because those guys are not trained correctly and are none of them is able to carry out the duties of a Public Safety Officer?
Is it one or two of the above or all of the above?
We used to have a crack Security Force who were professional, well-trained and capable of doing the job they were paid to do. I don't think they were paid minimum wage mall cop pay though. All that changed when you and your shabby, disreputable employers arrived on the scene. Tishman Speyer were cut-throat, godless bastards, but you and your outfit make them look almost decent!
Many of us don't like you Rick. We see you for what you are, just as we see your masters for what they are. Maybe you are what they made you, but that is your choice in life. I am one person, but I think I speak for many when I tell you that you are neither liked nor admired for the poor job and detached, uncaring attitude to the constantly deteriorating qualify of life that threatens and steals the lives of the people who pay to live here. Many paying through nose, but they can get up and leave and find somewhere better and safer. The older tenants are stuck with you and your totally indifferent bullshit and I feel very sorry for themn.
The Movies on the Oval and the maskless idiots on the basketball courts is a THREAT to pubic safety.
How can Rick Hydick permit this?
Utterly appalling.
So, when the stinking pot-smoking students upstairs from me are playing their music at 3 am or fighting (as they often do), am I supposed to call Resident Services? I don't understand what this so-called "manager" is talking about. Nothing he says lately makes any sense. We need somebody to be on the property, not working from Florida or wherever the hell he is working remotely from. What a loser. Never has the property been so badly mismanaged as it has been on this turkey's watch. No wonder people are busting their guts to get out, including some of the people in the unrenovated lower rent apartments! I know some of them and they say they've HAD IT with this dump.
The grounds are nice (even you can dodge the bikes), but the buildings are rotten, unsoundproofed and cold as a witch's you know what in winter.
"The Movies on the Oval and the maskless idiots on the basketball courts is a THREAT to pubic safety.
How can Rick Hydick permit this?
Utterly appalling."
How can our corrupt, gutless local politicians allow this? Did anyone see Powers insulting and gutless response to tenants posting on the Tenants' fb (not TA)?
He started off by telling tenants not to profile. Nobody was profiling. Maybe he would, but nobody discussing the on-video assault and robbery of an 86-year old tenant was profiling. It's because of Powers and the other gutless, corrupt "representatives" we have that Blackstone is able to get away with murder and subject us to these poorly-attended so-called "events." They probably get away with some kind of tax rebate for putting them on. They don't do anything for us without there's a payback of some kind. These events certainly don't draw new renters (probably deter them), but I know for a fact that they draw people who don't live here and want to park their lawn chairs and asses on what was once the pristine Oval.
I have yet to hear of anyone sighting Rick and his family at one of these Covid events.
Already the reek of pot coming out of the newly occupied dorm apartment on my floor. It never ends. They are moving in like flies. Covid spread and noise returning to the Dorm Dump.
Sick of your BS Hayduk. Fix this dorm dump.
Well, another post of how this complex is worsening. I saw a non-resident come into PCV with a bag of alcohol in his hand. Don't ask about how I know he's a non-resident, but if we are are now renting rooms to the homeless, maybe I am wrong. Just know that on 23rd is a liquor store. Even if you are a non-resident, it's easy going, unless you are disruptive and look really bad.
Then I go to my Stuy Town building and as I enter the elevator, a young man tries to come in, holding his laundry. "Sorry, one person per elevator, unless you are part of a household." He moves away, but not before insisting that the rule is three per elevator. Now, maybe I am wrong here, and the "rule" has just been changed, but the only "three" is three to an apartment, if all are not related. Yes, college time move-in. Now what's the betting that he's from one of the states where he has to self-quarantine, too?
This invasion of covid-carrying, defiant, reckless students (graduate, undergraduate, no matter) is beyond scary. IT IS TERRIFYING and could put some of us on ventilators in ICU.
(And yes: (1) Children can contract Covid-19; (2) Young people can contract Covid-19. Both groups can become permanently ILL from it and DIE FROM IT. (3) Once infected, you might become re-infected . . . and maybe die.)
Too many people are talking about or writing about this DELIBERATE behavior to kill us, or at least sicken us by ACTIVELY RECRUITING AND PLACING THESE POTENTIAL DEATH-CARRIERS INTO OUR HOMES (Oops! Buildings)
I've also been hearing screaming, possibly drunken voices at night. The irresponsible, partying students again???
THE RENT BILLS CAME AND BLACKSTONE WANTS US TO PAY THEM TO BE ENDANGERED AND MORE LIKELY SICKENED AND EVEN KILLED BY THIS GROWING INVASION.
We need NOT to PAY BLACKSTONE/BEAM TO ADVERTISE TO PEOPLE TO COME HELP SICKEN AND POSSIBLY KILL US WITH COVID-19 AND THEN FILL OUR BUILDINGS WITH THESE DEATH-CARRIERS.
STR, this place is a death-trap. I have friends all over the City and most of them live in apartment complexes, some much larger than this one (excluding the grounds we have). Everywhere the rules are strict. No more than three people in the laundry room at one time. Masks an absolute MUST and Security that makes sure that rule is observed or there is a letter from Management. No Covid Cluster gatherings allowed. Rules are strictly enforced in co-ops and rentals that I know.
PCVST is pretty much the Wild West at this point. Thank you Blackstone, you murderous bastards. Thank you TA for turning a blind eye (while you constantly ask for money). Thank you Powers, et al for living off taxpayer money and doing nothing to earn in. Most of all though, thank you Richard Hayduk for being the most useless and incompetent property manager we have ever had. Inept and smugly revels in our misery. I can't say any more without losing control.
As of August 30th, six million cases of the pandemic virus are reported as being recorded.
Even more troubling, and for us - frightening - colleges in every state are reporting coronavirus outbreaks due to "Hey, man, let's party hearty!"
Do you remember the horrific videos of hundreds of "young people" (I use that term instead of the words I want to use - words which are more descriptive and accurate, but impolite. I follow the example of 1:52 AM in tempering my language.) gathering, screaming, yelling, laughing, getting drunk just a few blocks away from our home a couple of months back?
THE PEOPLE YOU ARE PAYING TO LIVE IN YOUR HOME HAVE INVITED THIS. At least four people have posted on this blog in the last week or so that they've had EXACTLY THE SAME KIND OF ASSHOLES WHO WERE PLACED IN APARTMENTS NEAR THEM DURING THE LAST FEW WEEKS.
I WITNESSED AN ENTIRE GROUP OF THESE PIECES OF HUMAN GARBAGE WHO CARRY POISONS ON THEM HAPPILY MOVING THEIR CRAP INTO PETER COOPER THIS WEEK.
Colleges are locking the Covid-19 "students" down. The call is out NOT TO GO HOME TO THEIR PARENTS IN OTHER CITIES AND STATES after they've tested positive.
BLACKSTONE/BEAM HAS PUT THESE SAME ASSHOLES RIGHT HERE TO MAKE US . . . US! sick.
Why on earth would you PAY these Blackstone bastards to PUT MULTIPLE "STUDENTS" WHO FU**KING "ENTERTAIN," Have "GUESTS," go out screaming and shrieking and get shit-faced and fucked-up on drugs and booze right goddamn next to your home, above your home, below your home???
I don't give a good goddamn about Powers, Epstein, Hoylman and the rest of the sick mfer's doing this to us. PROTECT YOURSELVES AND DO NOT PAY THE SOCIOPATHIC KILLERS WHO ARE DOING THIS TO YOU! TO ALL OF US!
>>As of August 30th, six million cases of the pandemic virus are reported as being recorded.
Even more troubling, and for us - frightening - colleges in every state are reporting coronavirus outbreaks due to "Hey, man, let's party hearty!"<<
Could you report how many people have died due to the virus? Thanks.
Die from the virus . . . where? Worldwide? The United States? New York State? New York City?
Also, and just as important: What is the manner of death? How much physical suffering is entailed in the death process? How long is the death process? How much loneliness, fear, panic, terror, despair is involved in a death by this virus?
Also, how many other people (family, friends and others who care and to whom it matters, such as nurses and doctors and other hospital personnel) suffer intensely during the dying of the person who is leaving their body? What are the effects upon them, both during the dying process, and when the afflicted has left their body?
According to the CDC, as of 8/22/20 161,392 people in the United States have died from COVID-19. Of which 50,867 were over 85 years of age (thanks Governor Cuomo).
Not to get into conspiracy theories, but there is at least one interesting number in that count. 5,133 had a comorbidity of "Intentional or unintentional injury, poisoning, and other adverse event." So, if you hung yourself because the economy has been hamstrung (once again kudos to Cuomo and Deblasio), and had COVID with no symptoms, you are part of the count.
This place has become worse and worse each day.
It is a college dorm, a transient dump, a breeding ground for Covid-19 virus.
To hold Movies on the Oval during a pandemic is criminal.
Again, DON'T PAY BLACKSTONE FOR COVID-19 WHICH THEY ARE ACTIVELY SOLICITING AND BRINGING INTO THEIR BUILDINGS (OUR HOMES).
ANOTHER GROUP, OF SEVERAL ALREADY WITNESSED, MOVED IN JUST AN HOUR OR SO AGO.
The Greed-Mongers who have been running Pukavillage and The Sty since it's original sale have never managed to get it right. They tried to drive out all of the longtime tenants by harassing them to the point of death in some cases. Then they put in cheap renovations and tried to market to wealthier people who could pay "luxury" rents, but at the same time they also rented to large groups of undergrads from the local colleges, mostly NYU. They were/are too fucking stupid to realize that nobody wants to pay an exorbitant rent to live in an unsupervised off-campus dorm.
Avarice and Intelligence seldom go together. The purveyors of avarice who accumulate great wealth usually do it by creating suffering and pain for their victims. Doesn't matter whether they're Blackstone or Mafia. No conscience and driven by undiluted, unscrupulous greed is what gets them what they want. When they fuck up (as did TS and now BS) they make money anyway and the collateral damage doesn't bother them one iota. TS and Black Rock (not Blackstone) put this property in the hole and then walked away from the debt. I can only hope that Karma gets them in the end.
"To hold Movies on the Oval during a pandemic is criminal."
Very true, but as criminal as management is there are always brainless suckers who will attend these events. If nobody showed up, they would probably discontinue these covid-spreading events. Hayduk doesn't care if every resident on the property gets Coronavirus, so long as he doesn't! Ever see him and his kin at these events? Of course not! He's sleazy, but he's not stupid!
Just got an email from Hayduk about the CHP project they're working on. Does this mean that those of us who don't get heat all winter will now get heat? If not, then why the fuck should we care? I'm not interested in their so-called "sustainability" projects so long as I continue to freeze every winter. Fix the so-called sensors so that they actually work. My radiators are cold almost all of the time during the cold months and the temperature in my apartment hovers around the bare legal minimum and that is not warm enough to be comfortable. I'm so sick of the bullshit that Hayduk spews all the time.
To poster August 31st 5:28 PM:
Heat? Heat in the winter?
Surely you jest?
"o poster August 31st 5:28 PM:
Heat? Heat in the winter?
Surely you jest?"
Plan to be out of here before cold months, even though it means breaking lease. Cannot stand another winter of begging for heat and being asked if I have a thermometer .... You know the story! Never lived in such a cold place and with such a totally intelligence-insulting poor excuse for a management. If the temperature is at or a tad higher than the bare bones minimum mandated by law you are told to suck it up. What a vile and insulting way to treat people who are paying hard-earned money to rent here. I pity the elderly who are probably stuck here because they can't afford to move. Maybe freezing them in the winter is a way of getting them sick so that they will die and vacate the apartments. Well, they will soon be the only people renting here (apart from the students). That asshole of a manager will deny that this is an off-campus dorm, but the lies roll off his tongue.
Plenty of apartments available on the rental market now. We just have to do some due diligence and make sure they are not owned or operated by Beam Living and have no connection to Blackstone. Blackstone and Kushner are both the vilest landlords in NYC. We plan on "interviewing" current tenants before signing any lease in the future! We certainly alert everybody we meet to never, ever sign a lease here.
I hope this doesn't mean things are going to get even worse:
https://therealdeal.com/2020/09/01/layoffs-at-blackstones-stuy-town-management-firm/?fbclid=IwAR1GvspdTKnyDuBiNhgo3WDDfWQxNjEjhuSiXW-0aoZQhuTxnE0NhqCaFiw
Pray for rain so we won't have the Covid-spreading Wednesday Night Movies on the Oval.
A true danger to the community.
An abomination.
Thanks, Rick Hydik.
You are a true piece of work.
I heard they are laying off some people at Beam Dying. I hope they include the Cruise Director and the Lifestyles Director. They should be the first to go and be replaced by a Property Manager and more Public Safety Officers. Run this place as a residential apartment complex, not a fucking resort.
Just so we are aware if the FILTH that owns this place:
https://theintercept.com/2019/08/27/amazon-rainforest-fire-blackstone/?fbclid=IwAR0ffwAnr4uqdAfLLVP_Ho85lEa9PFNbwHI7DSNrc12G5kXm9uEjh-VUkeg
Anyone noticed that some postings that are on the Tenants FB page are NOT on the TA FB page? Why? Because they are about Blackstone and Beam Living and the atrocities committed by Blackstone. The TA and Blackstone both sleep in the same bed and piss in the same pot.
The TA and management have been one and the same since Blackstone bought this dump. The TA along with Garodnick pushed the sale and it became increasingly clear that they we’re working in tandem. We really have no TA. Anyone who pays dues to them is giving money to management.
I was at my oncologists office today and we got to talking about Stuy/PC and the fact that is owned by Blackstone, who is currently engaged in destroying the Amazon Rain Forest. He sighed and said the ARF could very well hold the cure for cancer. He's pretty high-up in the cancer research area of medicine and his comments were tinged with genuine sadness. He shook his head in disbelief and dismay that there are people like Schwartzman and the President of Brazil who have so much disregard and contempt for the planet and God-given miracles that can be found in places like the ARF, not to mention the wholesale destruction of Planet Earth. People like that are certainly evil and depraved and I hate to think I'm paying to live in one of their mismanaged properties. If I could leave tomorrow, I would. When you're battling a deadly disease you don't always have the means to pick up and leave. I hope I live long enough to get out of here, but mostly I fear what my grandchildren are going to have to deal with as they grow up and live in a world that is destroyed for money by the unscrupulous and evil likes of Schwartzman and his kind.
Love the dog shit on the Oval.
Really adds class to the place.
Not.
Somebody on the TA fb page is wondering why Hayduk hasn't answered her email about bicycles on the Oval. Doesn't she realize Hayduk doesn't live here? He mismanages this place remotely.
Someone else was disappointed that the movies were cancelled with no notice. They shouldn't be planned in the first place. Hayduk has a tendency to plan events that some people actually like (have nothing else going for them) and then they are cancelled with no notice. It's all part of the total contempt he and his masters have for the people who live here.
Some wimp on the TA page was all ready with her snacks to go to the Covid Spread movie last night and alas it was canceled. If these fools didn’t attend maybe they would cancel them. Not sure why they canceled yesterday. Hallelujah. Hate the noise in my oval apartment and fear the Covid spread. Lots out outsiders were waiting outside for the crap to begin.
To 10:56 PM -
My sympathies and prayers go out to you. I had a televisit with my radiologist a few days ago.
And for those of you who might believe, or know someone who believes, that life-threatening illnesses only happen to either "someone else," or "not to younger people," look at St. Jude's Hospital and similar places.
It takes strength of body and resolve and spirit to do what you are doing, 10:56 PM, September 2, 2020. Know that you are not alone and that others who know you, and don't know you, care.
As do I.
And I pray that SOMETHING enters into and changes the hearts of people like the "owners" of this place.
Just so people know and the comments directed to this are gone: As far as I know Rick's family does not live here anymore. That was one of the selling points when Rick moved in, but, again, as far as I know his family is not here anymore. Rick is here when he is working. I assume his PCV apartment is still his. And, no, I have never seen him at one of these movie events.
Why would Rick go?
It’s too loud and it’s a COVID-19 breeding ground.
STR about where in the world is Carmen Sandiago/Rick Hayduk:
As I've previously posted, Rick's family moved out quite some time ago. The move had nothing to do with Stuyvesant Town, Peter Cooper Village, or New York City. It was for a very good reason having to do with family needs.
Rick had been commuting. He may or may not be here often during the pandemic. Most, but not all, of all kinds of staff and workers of Beam Living are working "remotely." I thought I read or heard something like "70%" but I am not at all sure.
I do know for sure that several "Management" people are here daily.
THE NEWS OF THE FIRING OF BEAM EMPLOYEES DURING THE PANDEMIC IS SICKENING, DISGUSTING, AND TYPICAL OF BLACKSTONE AND OTHER PREDATORS.
I don't know the present location of Rick. I've seen him walking one of the ST paths a few months ago. I try not to go near the weekly Thursday tent at the Oval, which has been restarted. So I don't know if he is there.
Rick is The Wizard of Oz.
I wonder why they cancelled the movies this week without telling anybody. Not that I care because I wouldn't be caught dead at one, but it seems strange to not send out an alert. I think it's mostly outsiders who go to those things. We have outsiders roaming the buildings and the grounds. There is totally no real Security here.
I could care less where Hayduk is. He is an ineffective, hypocritical lackey. I will never deal with him as regards any issue. Will just call resident services. These people who think contacting him directly produces results, they just want to be made to feel important. He presents himself as the tenants go to guy. He is a phony. Who cares where he is.
Wherever Rick Hydick is I don't really care.
As long as he stays far, far away.
He is so responsible for the decline of Stuy Town.
This is a residential community, not a resort, not a cruise ship, not a college dorm.
Save your "amenities" for the Love Boat.
I just read: 1. An announcement from "Management" that goes like this:
"I’m happy to announce that we’ll be opening the newly constructed Playground 4 on Saturday at 9:15am. This playground is located on the east side of Stuyvesant Town on the M level, right about where 15th street would be.
"This playground, almost two years in the making, has Stuyvesant Town’s first pavilion which has 2,400 square feet of covered play area. In the winter months the pavilion will be outfitted with vinyl walls such that the elements will be kept out. Although the under-pavilion’s air temperature will mirror the outside temperature, the space will be dry and will not be subject to wind.
"The playground also has two zones for two different age groups with water features separating the two. The northeast corner has the “dream catcher” climbing equipment and the southeast side has equipment geared towards younger children. The northwest corner has artificial turf for just about anything and the swing set remains on the southwest corner. The pavilion sits right in the middle.
"The space will be available for birthday parties consistent with our playground protocol. If you’d like to reserve any of the playgrounds, remember to contact the Lifestyle Services department (Recreation) to set that up. We’d hate to disappoint anyone if a section of a playground hasn’t been reserved.
"As we expect a good turnout, especially on a holiday weekend, one of the recreation team members will be there to ensure we do not exceed the allowable capacity in accordance with COVID-19 guidelines. We politely ask that residents refrain from bringing guests on this opening weekend. And, remember that adults must wear masks whenever inside any of the playgrounds.
"It’s been a difficult spring and summer; we hope to bring some happiness to Stuyvesant Town families with the addition of this new recreational amenity.
"Rick"
As soon as I finished reading this HERE IS A NEW AND SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO SPREAD THE KILLER CORONAVIRUS TO EVERYONE IN STUYVESANT TOWN, I read the following website:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/shared-congregate-house/guidance-shared-congregate-housing.html:
CDC SHARED OR CONGREGATE HOUSING GUIDANCE (UPDATED AUGUST 22, 2020)
which specifies what measures need to be taken to keep residents safe.
THE COVID-19 SPREADER EVENT STARTING AT 9:15 IN THE MORNING TOMORROW IS AMONG THE MANY ACTIVITIES SPECIFIED AS DANGEROUS TO HEALTH AND SAFETY.
THE BASKETBALL COURT ACTIVITY, THE NEWLY OPENED GYMS, THE MOVIES . . .ALL OF IT, INCLUDING THE LACK OF HEALTH PROTECTION IN THE LAUNDRY ROOMS (FOR MANY MONTHS NOW) IS ALL SPECIFICALLY LISTED AS DANGEROUS TO LIFE (I am paraphrasing the words) BY THE CDC.
Regardless of my current opinion about the CDC, it is beyond plain that Blackstone/Beam is deliberately, knowingly engaging in behavior that can damned well sicken and kill us. They can write all of the crap, do all of the verbal tap dancing they want: this is conscious invitation to continuation and deepening of a killer disease in our environment.
I don't think it matters whether he is here or not!
Sari, 10:56 PM, Sept 2 here. Thank you so very, very, very much for your good wishes, sympathy, empathy and prayers. You have no idea how much your response meant/means to me.
I am in a good place right now and hope I am well down the road of healing. I sincerely hope and pray that you are too.
Living here is not so bad, except for the noisy neighbors and lack of heat during the cold months. It is nowhere near as nice, pleasant and safe as it was maybe 20 years ago and I wish I had appreciated it more then, but I never thought it would change to the extent that it is has. It certainly hasn't changed for the better. Also, I was younger, had a loving daughter then who has since passed at too early an age, and life has just got more difficult and lonely over the years. BUT, I am getting better, have wonderful doctors and am looking forward to feeling stronger and stronger as time goes on and looking forward to end of the pandemic, as I'm sure we all are.
Sari, I wish you all the very, very, very best of Good Health, Love and Peace.
Be well, my dear. xxxxoooo
I guess "family needs" only apply to Rick, and not to the other people living here who simply can't afford to move out, even if they wish to. Aren't "quiet enjoyment" and safety family needs, too?
There was an assault on a 74-year old woman on East 14 last night. It looks from the news (NY1) that it was near Trader Joe. 3 teens were the perps.
The crime is getting worse in this neighborhood. An elderly lady was assaulted and robbed on East 14th Street near 1st Avenue. It looked like it was near that scuzzy flea market by the church. I wish Rick would boost up PS and stop with the ridiculous Oval Events. He does not apply whatever resources that are within his purview to the appropriate departments. Get rid of that Valesquez guy and re-allocate his salary to PS. We don't need entertainment; we need safety!
As Rick and his family no longer live here, I guess it doesn't really matter to him whether or not the property and its residents are safe or not. 'We also need to have name-plates on the doors. Sometimes I deliver packages that are left in the lobby (so long as they are not too heavy) and I'm surprised to see that so many doors have no name on. It's just pure laziness that is the reason for this.
I think we should petition for an onsite manager who cares about our safety. Rick can't do a good job when he is only here part time. He is paid to take care of business here and he clearly is not doing that.
I think it's time for senior citizens to carry mace. The attack are getting more frequent and more brazen and in broad daylight.
https://abc7ny.com/75-year-old-assaulted-robbed-while-bringing-food-to-friends/6410579/?fbclid=IwAR37uKLHl5jW4l_FqzaIRFlNWauNS0zr96ScGZ6nTy_Kh_vmyXkiL1-iVYQ
FWIW, I did see Hayduk on the lawn in PCV Saturday evening.
The reason for lack of names on the door is the fact that this is a transient dorm sty. The students and transients go in and out every six months or so. They don’t know who is living here and do not care.
That 14th St area is getting worse and worse. I hate going to the post office. Councilwoman Rivera should be voted out and Powers is no bargain either.
The satanic bastards at Blackstone and the corrupt politicians in Brazil are destroying the Amazon Rain Forest for money. They are destroying God's work during the few short years they have on this earth. If ever there was an example of life unworthy of the gift of life, those people qualify. I hope their stays on this planet will not be prolonged.
"I think we should petition for an onsite manager who cares about our safety. Rick can't do a good job when he is only here part time. He is paid to take care of business here and he clearly is not doing that."
I don't think that anybody who works for Blackstone in an executive position can have any decency or a good moral compass, so whatever they would replace him with would be just as bad, if not worse.
The fucktards of NYU took over Washington Square Park last night to have a boozy, maskless, ho-down. These clusterfucks may well be spreading the Coronavirus all over the place today (when their hangovers wear off). I wish that seat of learning would either burn down or crack down on the scum it takes in a students. It used to be a very well-respected university. Used to be.
646 pm:
What was the description of the suspects?
And I hope social workers were called and not those nasty cops! These teens just need love and understanding
What was the description of the suspects?
And I hope social workers were called and not those nasty cops! These teens just need love and understanding
Three Black kids, but in a different part of the City they could have been White. I don't know if anybody was called, except it probably wasn't their parents because it's doubtful they have any. Breeding mills maybe, but not parents.
>>Three Black kids, but in a different part of the City they could have been White.<<
Realistically, where?
">>Three Black kids, but in a different part of the City they could have been White.<<
Realistically, where?"
Who knows or cares. Let's not turn it into a racial issue.
3:12 PM ... why did you ask? What was your point? I'm sure you already knew what the answer would be.
September 5, 2020, 12:09 PM
Thank you for being who and what you are. If more of us were as strong, and emotionally intelligent, the world would not be in the mess it is today.
I've been here since the summer of 1980. For years before Covid-19, my home was deteriorating. Predators, depraved and very sick people, had "bought" it. I do not believe in "ownership" of land, water, "air rights" (the sky). Blackstone and their ilk are literal killers of a kind - the Amazon Rain Forest, the homes and safety of humans around the world along with the forest which is home to all sorts and kinds of lives.
I am very sorry about your daughter. But I am grateful for your good medical team, as I am for my own.
Please be safe here - against disease, and against harmful humans. Thank you for your thoughts. It helps to know that people such as ourselves are not alone.
>>Who knows or cares.<<
I would think someone living in the city would or should care. It's called the News. But there are photos.
The NY 1 feed captured the incident on 14th Street.
The teenagers involved did not appear to be hurting for money or the material goods money can buy. They were well dressed.
"Black Lives Matter?"
Well, this was an older White woman, and she was mugged and hurt by these "Black Lives (who) Matter."
These "Black Lives Matter," both White and Black, have now been yelling, "Death to America."
Good, huh?
"I would think someone living in the city would or should care. It's called the News. But there are photos."
OK, so there are photos. Why did that person ask? If the three perps were Chinese and their ethnicity was clearly obvious, would he/she still ask for a description?
When it comes to the Developers and billionaires who rob us of our homes and destroy the environment for the sake of money, we never have any question about the ethnicity or need photographs.
NYU: Oh, I could tell you stories. Pretty damned unpleasant stories. I was a graduate student there myself, as an adult. Sexual predation; scholars who were known as worldwide experts throwing fits, infuriated that they had to teach, or read papers. An administrative aide throwing student files onto the floor, threatening a grad student and administrator in the department and actually physically harming someone. This was tolerated by the head of the department. Professors denigrating and demeaning their graduate students. Undergrads listening to a professor boasting how he never prepared for their classes. And more.
The physical structures were old, uncomfortable, dingy, depressing. Wherever there were donations by people who insisted on their names on buildings (such as a business school, of course), the decorations and necessities were beautiful - again, of course.
There was the widespread practice of luring grad students with generous grants, only to stop the money midway through their degrees. And the nationwide practice of lending money to students who could not possibly pay off their student loans (a practice leading to the largest class of debtors in the country).
And, not to leave this out: historic and current anti-semitism.
Today: it seems clear that New York University ought be held criminally liable for the nearly certain spread of Covid-19 because they allowed last night's Washington Square maskless debauchery to occur.
>>If the three perps were Chinese and their ethnicity was clearly obvious, would he/she still ask for a description?<<
It depends on the situation. There are times where a photo is not around.
"It depends on the situation. There are times where a photo is not around."
Well, there WAS a photo in the link in this instance, so the question was redundant or suspect.
If your name is Langone, Perelman and a few others who gave big donations, you can have an elevator bank or a pavilion named after you at the hospital. I think that NYU has outlived its stellar reputation and is somewhat overrated these days. It certainly doesn't give a flying fuck about the horrible behavior of some of its undergrads.
>>Well, there WAS a photo in the link in this instance, so the question was redundant or suspect.<<
This time there was, but we are looking at the same thing. Others may not. Radio, for one. It also begs the question if the assailants were white, would the news item underline that. Or wearing MAGA caps.
The bottom line is that the area around 14th and First is deteriorating so badly. Homeless abound and it needs to be patrolled. I blame Congresswoman Rivera, the NYPD and the mayor for the decline. Crime will continue to flourish there. The UWS is experiencing this decline as well.
I guess the "for residents and their guests" mandatory line was BS once people or the politicians would not care anymore.
https://www.grownyc.org/greenmarket/manhattan/stuyvesant-town
And one prints this out to help spread the word:
https://www.grownyc.org/files/gmkt/2020_Flyers/stuytown_singlepage_eng.pdf
So, come one, come all!
How many residential communities have "green markets" and similar commercial enterprise placed right next to homes . . . and are then subjected to strangers from who knows what areas of the region . . .
ADVERTISED DURING A GROWING CONTAGION WHICH KILLS PEOPLE?
Once more, with feeling, my neighbors:
WHY THE HELL ARE YOU LITERALLY PAYING THESE DEPRAVED, SOUL-DEAD BASTARDS TO KILL YOU???
For the second time Rivera is City Council not Congress. Again, she is useless.
Absolutely nothing here is “for residents and their guests only.” Anyone and everyone who wants free reign to this property can have it.
Don’t live here, but want to use the lawns and grassy areas? No problem, nobody checks to make sure you’re a resident.
Don’t live here but want to use the playgrounds? No problem, just wait for one of the unsuspecting kids to open the gates to let you in.
Don’t live here but want to go to one of the cheesy events? No worries, they only post a guard at 1 or 2 entry points, just walk in anywhere else.
The list goes on.
There is a major problem with slob residents dumping their junk in the lobbies. It is insanitary and gross. In addition, it makes more work for our porters. Management should address it in a sign or an e-mail. They post a lot of other crap. This is really terrible. In what other “luxury “ privately owned buildings is this done! I think it is partly the NYU crowd that has just moved back in. They treat this place like a garbage dump which it is. Hayduk doesn’t think this is important I guess. Just put a damn sign up deeming it a violation.
"WHY THE HELL ARE YOU LITERALLY PAYING THESE DEPRAVED, SOUL-DEAD BASTARDS TO KILL YOU???"
Probably for the same reason you are living here. It's not that easy to up and move. I pay my rent and stay in my apartment except for when I have to go out for exercise and necessary shopping. Until this pandemic is over I avoid the public areas and the grounds. I agree, it is absolutely outrageous and criminal that they are holding events and allowing the general public to come onto the property to attend them, but this is what it is with a miserable creep like Hayduk running the joint. He does the bidding of Blackstone, which is a universally-known killer of all forms of life.
Hayduk doesn't even live here. He puts in an appearance now and again, but for all intents and purposes he has moved out and is living in another state. Whether he is here or not doesn't really make a difference because he is totally indifferent to our wellbeing and peaceful enjoyment of our homes. He is just another con artist, toady of Blackstone.
Right now, we are infested with undergrads from NYU and other schools and these kids carry Covid 19 and don't give a shit about who they spread it to. It's only when they get sick that it starts to matter to them.
We are in the grips of a deadly pandemic, which is getting worse; and we are in the grips of a deadly management that is fanning the flames of death.
Isn't Rivera the city council person with the illegal rent stabilized apartments?
STR, I still haven't seen Ramon (The Mayor of 14th Street) for a very long time. I fear the worst because he was always a fixture. He had become more skinny and dirty and smoked incessantly. He could be a bit of a nuisance, but he was harmless. I moved in here in 1980 and he was the first person who introduced himself to me. Then I started to hear the tales of woe: his mother died, his grandmother died (that grandmother died so many times unless he had several grandmothers!) and then his father died; then his brother died and so on and so on. Always a sob story to get some money, but he was really harmless. I hope he's just staying out of the way because of the pandemic, but I really think he has probably died. I don't think he would get along very well with the nasty riff-raff who have set up shop on the section of street where he used to hang out. I've been looking for Mikey, the ice cream guy, because he knew Ramon and used to give him money. Mikey has a big soft heart and is as sweet as his ice cream.
I did see him a few months back and maybe recently, too. I will let you know if I see him again.
Clarification re NOT paying rent: I don't mean moving out.
I mean a RENT STRIKE.
Thank you.
What good would "[putting a] sign up deeming it a violation" do? And there are too many signs around already.
The area around the bus shelters on First Avenue is disgusting. Homeless lying all over, smoking without masks. A health hazard. This is your side Keith Powers. Get it cleaned up.
"I did see him a few months back and maybe recently, too. I will let you know if I see him again."
Great! Thank you. I'd hate to think he had succumbed to the virus. He's a rather pathetic little guy. Totally harmless and (I suspect) has a learning disability. He can be a bit annoying, but only a little bit. If I see him again I'm gonna give him a nice "donation."
Some idiots on the TA site are raving about living here because of the food trucks. You can see food trucks all over the city. Plus they are not supposed to be in here.Big deal. Food trucks. I would rather have clean buildings, no dorms, and a nice community.
At least acknowledge the problem. May not work for all, but may deter a few.
Rick does not "acknowledge" ANY problem(s). And one of the biggest problems is...him.
Another Covid-spreading Movies on the Oval night.
No masks, no social distancing, no checking of resident ID cards.
Disgraceful.
Truly, Rick Hydik, you are without a conscience, without a soul.
Have you no decency?
Passed by the movie in the oval this evening. Many without masks and clustered together without social distancing. Despicable. Hayduk will be responsible if the Covid spreads in this dump. How dare him sponsor this crap during a pandemic.
What's with these Welcome Home nameplates on the doors of the new tenants?
That is ridiculous.
Maybe because this place has become a transient dump, a college dorm, a short-stay layover?
Rick doesn't know who lives here.
And probably doesn't care.
As long as the money keeps flowing in.
Truly pathetic!
Remember whoHayduk works for: The Prince of Death and Destruction, Stephen Schwarzman
Our idiot management is holding outdoor movies on the Oval. Hundreds of people clustered to watch a third-rate movie. Masks and social distancing recommended. How's that for inviting Covid to come and have a feast? We're infested with undergrads from NYU who are using this place as an off-campus dorm. They're too cool and young and healthy to wear masks and social distance. Just ask them and they'll tell you. This is fucking death camp without the torture at this point.
This lousy off-site manager has done more damage to this property and to our quality of life and safety than Tishman Speyer and CWC did during their evil run. I wish to god they would get rid of him and his idiot "Director of Life Styles" and put in place a competent, caring Manager who knows how to Manage. Hayduk is a total disaster and I suspect he is not down South to be with family. He is working on some other enterprise there. He doesn't give a rat's ass about this place and the misery and death that is occurring thanks to him. If he can't live on site because of family needs, then he needs to leave. Commuting from NYC to wherever down South is ridiculous, especially at a time of pandemic. How does he get there and back? Drive? Doesn't leave him much time and energy to take care of business here. If he had to move his family down South, he should have picked up and gone with them.
"Truly, Rick Hydik, you are without a conscience, without a soul.
Have you no decency?"
The answer to that question is self-evident. He has done nothing but damage since his arrival. From the tearing down of directories to his fetid Oval events to leaving doors open for all comers on Halloween and to neutering and diminishing Public Safety to the level of mall cops. No quality of life complaint is met with anything but smirking contempt and a glib response by this smug and uncaring man.
I don't know the behind-the-scenes of where Hayduk goes and when. I don't think anyone here is sure. Anyway, Blackstone rules.
Everyone needs to take a look at today’s glorious email from our fearless leader Rick. Towards the bottom of the email there is a link to a story on the Beam Living website, written by a “Community Journalist,” which states that NYC is not dead.
This “journalist” then goes on to list a number of things that tenants supposedly said about the current state of affairs in the city, and each thing is an exact definition of why NYC is currently dead. Empty gyms, empty restaurants, empty subways are all signs that this city is currently DEAD.
Do I think it will stay that way? No, but it’s possible. I just laughed very hard at this person trying to list off things trying to prove a point in something when in fact her points completely contradicted her overall theme. Typical Beam Living garbage.
Maybe Little Ricky has access to a helicopter or private plane, thanks to his wonderful boss, Schwarzman. Nothing would surprise me anymore.... At one point, Bloomberg owned nine aircraft. Maybe it's more now? Homeless crisis began under Bloomberg. Or have we forgotten?
Another "amenity".
Apparently there is a gym right above me.
I hear weights crashing down at all hours of the night.
I guess the clods who rented the NYU dorm don't believe in the concept of carpeting or respect for your neighbors.
Oh, well.
I'm sure they'll be gone when their lease expires in a year.
This fake & anonymous "Community Journalist" is obviously on Blackstone's payroll, so who cares what they write?
"At one point, Bloomberg owned nine aircraft. Maybe it's more now? Homeless crisis began under Bloomberg. Or have we forgotten?"
Bloomberg is a mean-spirited little jerk who ruined this city with his developer friends. I'm surprised he didn't try to buy a fourth term.
Saw Keith Power’s post on the 9/11 vigil tonight . Although there appeared to be many wearing masks, they didn’t appear to be socially distant, clustered together. To each his/her own.
Hayduk should be arrested for putting on those Covid-clustering events. Of course, that won't happen, but when the Covid rate increases in this community we will know who to blame. Apart from arranging these banal "events" what does he actually do? He seems to have one of those no-show jobs.
I took it upon myself (and I do this frequently) to deliver the numerous packages that are left in the lobby by FedEx, USPC, etc. because I feel for people who don't get the things they ordered delivered to their doors, especially the seniors. Some of these packages did not have the apartment number on them so unless the tenant had opted to have their names listed on the directory, there was no way to know what apartment they lived in. Those packages were just left in the lobby. This place was so very much better run before this fool from Wherever took over the job of mismanaging the property. I wish he would just go away and take his lousy resort staff with him.
According to the CDC dining out is linked to the increased number of cases of Covid. Why do we have to have a cafe on the grounds here? Apart from being a health risk (in many ways), isn't it against the zoning laws for this property? Does Blackstone feel that they can't generate enough profit without having these "amenities" and events? If they kept the rents at reasonable levels (as opposed to outrageous "luxury" levels) and ran the property as a clean and SAFE place to live, they wouldn't need to add all these tacky, gimmicky "amenities." Considering that just a handful of the population here attend the stupid "events" why do they bother with them? They just spread the virus, harass people living near the Oval who have to deal with the over-the-top noise from these "events" and appeal to such a small number of people, many of whom don't even live here. Clearly it is exploitation and not intelligence that fuels Blackstone's greed. No wonder they can only rent to undergrads and I doubt very much that they attend these cheesy events and dine at the Sty Cafe.
This was on the TA fb page:
https://www.housinghumanright.org/modern-day-robber-baron-the-sins-of-blackstone-ceo-stephen-schwarzman/?fbclid=IwAR1Rp9JIaB7uwOYzdUGhqcl5kRFl6sN4ZEHzfYHRZ3ImiP9aBQcU374qQsA
Schwarzman must be one of the most evil men on the planet. He is sickeningly evil and no doubt has a very diseased mind and mentality. Darkness and Evil most certainly exist in human form and they are not all fascist dictators. Some are the billionaires who are destroying life on this planet as well as the planet itself. If there really is a Judgment Day, Schwarzman should be afraid. Very afraid.
We have broken laundry machines that never get repaired, no matter how many times a service call is placed. The place is filthy and dangerous. This is what happens when you have a Manager who doesn't manage, but just writes trite emails. Hayduk is an absentee manager and that is worse than an absentee landlord. No wonder people are falling over each other to get out of this filthy, mismanaged shithole.
If you will pardon what may be just conspiracy theory, but:
I was thinking today about whether the shutdown of gas at 350 PCV has anything to do with the work being done at Rosemary's? Hot plates are provided for the residents of 350, and anywhere from 30 to 60 dollar per day. This has been going on for a while, almost at the time Rosemary's was starting. Is the gas shut down finished at this building? And why is it taking so long? Why not more outrage from residents?
STR, you can bet your bippy that it is no coincidence that the shut-down came when it did. As for outrage, where is the useless, so-called Tenants Association's outrage? The tenants at 350 PCV should be persistently contacting the NYTimes and all of the news outlets about this abuse.
This Management is so typical of Blackstone and Blackstone didn't get its reputation as the most abusive landlord in the world without earning it.
I don't live in that building, or even Peter Cooper, but with the current photos and debate about what is being planned top of Rosemary's, I started wondering. I don't want to start a false rumor, but something strange is going on here. Of course, it could be just simply incompetence from the "powers that be."
This should be investigated further. By our TA, of course. But....
If I remember correctly, there used to be a bank there? In the old days. (Not the one on 23rd.) Then two restaurants. VAMOS and the Belgian one. I always wondered about the smell and noise coming from there at the time. They closed. Now, there is an Italian restaurant coming there. New vents, etc, on the second floor. Forget about a view if you live on the bottom floor facing vents, piping, etc. Is this a blatant case of greed (Blackstone's) overriding tenants? Something the TA should be asking and further investigating.
Also: The work on Rosemary's required asbestos abatement. Posted warnings indicated that. Why would a restaurant that is replacing two other restaurants, require asbestos abatement? Because something additional is being built. Asbestos has to be removed.
The new restaurant needs more than the other two previous restaurants.
If you will pardon what may be just conspiracy theory, but:
They are replacing the gas risers in all the buildings throughout the complex. Mine was done some time ago. If I remember it takes 6-8 weeks. They rip open the walls in your kitchen and leave it open until it is done.
Oh and you get an MCI, although it will be lower than mine under the new law.
Just wait your turn, it is coming to your apartment eventually.
STR, the TA and Blackstone might as well be one and the same. Who brought this greedy, vile landlord in in the first place? Why is the TA so silent on all the abuses of us by this slimy, bloodsucking "management?" Why hasn't Holy Hayduk ever come to the defense of long-suffering tenants? Because he's too busy not being here and planning his covid-spreading events that he wouldn't be caught dead at.
>>They are replacing the gas risers in all the buildings throughout the complex. Mine was done some time ago. If I remember it takes 6-8 weeks. They rip open the walls in your kitchen and leave it open until it is done.<<
Is there a link to this work for all the buildings? 350 seems to have been singled out. Why?
"They are replacing the gas risers in all the buildings throughout the complex. Mine was done some time ago. If I remember it takes 6-8 weeks. They rip open the walls in your kitchen and leave it open until it is done."
I think they are trying to inspire a new spate of suicides here. There hasn't been any just lately, maybe because so many tenants have moved out. I'm sure they are hoping that the tenants in the un-renovated apartments will all gas themselves or jump out the window. Then there would be a lot of champagne corks popping in the Management Office. Won't work though because the older tenants are made of strong stuff and have a lot more moral fiber than the evil bastards who now own this property.
I did the walk down 1st Ave, across 14th, etc. Around 5pm. Should have taken a camera.
This is what I saw.
Corner of 14th down to Trader Joe's: A disaster with garbage and people selling junk. I pity the mom-and-pop stores on that side. No business because no one wants to confront the junk sellers. An Asian woman was sitting in front of her store, looking dejected. Nothing is done. How long has this problem being going on? A clear failure of our local government, big-time.
Trader Joe's: No longer having a seniors welcome at any time. Just between 8 and 9 in the morning. Otherwise, get on line.
Target: Many people. No money at the cash machines, and one has to wait on the main line if you don't have a credit card. I guess the wave of the future.
Stuy Town: On my way to my building, I passed four riding bicycles around the Oval. Another failure. Most of the time you can ride your bike around the Oval, unless the bicycle will hit a PS guard. I blame Rick. He knows what is happening, but he doesn't want to rock the boat.
New York. A wonderful town.
That there were many people in Target shocks me. At the beginning of the pandemic they were jammed, but of late they have a line outside and clock numbers. Inside the store is generally not crowded.
"If I remember correctly, there used to be a bank there? In the old days. (Not the one on 23rd.) "
That was the 'East NY Savings Bank.' I had an account there in the early 80's.
I hope one of the bicycles hits Rick and really shakes him up. He has totally no interest in how this property is run and it shows. He's just here (when he is here) for the paycheck.
Forget Target and Trader Joe's. I shop at Food Emporium. Much, much better. More choice, better prices and nice people working there. It's worth the walk or couple of stops on the 14A or D.
Mound of dog shit on the Oval on my morning walk.
Garbage at the Loop bulk drop off points.
Nice.
Just like the projects.
This place gets more like the projects every day. I wonder how many tenants have moved out? I think we are getting more and more NYU Covid-infesting students here all the time. I won't go near any of the common areas and always take the stairs now instead of the elevators. Fortunately, I don't live on a very high floor. They can keep their shitty laundry room with the constantly broken machines. Of course, Hayduk will be having his weekly Covid-spreading movies and other idiotic events to make sure the virus keeps going round. Had it with this fucking dump!
"Trader Joe's: No longer having a seniors welcome at any time. Just between 8 and 9 in the morning."
More specific, TJ's used to have a seniors only door policy every day from 8 AM to 9 AM. If there was a line outside post those hours, one could break the line to get in. Now the 8 AM to 9 AM window for seniors only is only for 2 days a week, one day being Wednesday, I forget what the other day is. And unless one goes on a Saturday diner time or some other just post a holiday day, I now rarely see an outside line at the Ave A TJ's.
"Food Emporium. Much, much better. More choice, better prices "
Sorry the prices, although not rip off like Dags, are not cheaper than TJ's or even C-Town on on Ave C but are more expensive in general. Since the food Emporium is a full service supermarket of course it will have more choice. It's part of our shopping choice as is Westside market on 3rd and 12th. . Anyway, that store will be a Target in 2023 as well if the pre COVID_19 news for that store is still valid. See EV Grieve link.
https://evgrieve.com/2020/02/report-target-will-replace-food.html
The squeeze is on for the seniors! It was nice, but now stores are starting to take away or reduce senior perks. Dag's will not honor Senior Discount day on Tuesday, unless the senior buys much. I forget the exact price, but it is not just a few items.
. Dag's will not honor Senior Discount day on Tuesday, unless the senior buys much. "
From the get go, Dag's is a fking rip off period. I will never buy anything there, even chips that have the retail price on them.
I was out shopping at TJ and Target today and I can honestly say I haven't seen that area of 14th Street as dirty, desolate and gross as it is now. At least not since the 1980s. What's with the NYPD (9th Pct?) and Carlina Rivera? They want this nabe to be a filthy slum? Well, I guess I know the answer to that question. From now on I won't go over there. I'll shop across town or downtown. I feel sorry for the Mom & Pop stores along that stretch of the street.
For a moment I sat near the PS office at the Oval. Two riding bicycles passed me by and the PS office. Not a word from PS. I've seen this many times.
STR, PS has orders from Rick, our non-manager, to not apprehend bicycle riders. The rules here are not worth the paper or metal they are printed on. It's all just show. PS are used as window-dressing for the property. They need to get rid of Rick and replace him with somebody who can actually DO THE JOB he is supposed to be doing. All Rick is good for is organizing Covid-spreading noisy "events" on the Oval. I could do that myself if they would pay me his salary.
Another Covid-spreading "event" on the Oval this evening.
Vile.
Are you without self-respect, Rick Hyduk?
9:20 pm and shitty movies still blaring in the oval!!! Sound is truly obnoxious!!! Couldn't take a bath tonight cause the water was almost black! Karma is a bitch Blackstone!!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/nyregion/suny-oneonta-covid-outbreak.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces&block=more_in_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=327548416&impression_id=04505ad2-f8dc-11ea-b406-4bfefc5f07df&index=3&pgtype=Article®ion=footer&req_id=590268955&surface=more-in-new-york
"Colleges have become hot spots for the disease, like hospitals, nursing homes and meatpacking plants were early in the pandemic. A New York Times survey of over 1,600 schools last week indicated that there had been more than 88,000 cases of the coronavirus on campuses since the pandemic began, and at least 60 deaths. Most of the people who died were college staff members."
"Testing protocols vary between schools, but off-campus housing and parties are frequent spreaders of infection."
Just Ask PCVST Dormitory Manager Rick Heyduk about precautions taken to protect at-risk PCVST residents forced to live adjacent to PCVST dormitories packed with unidentified infected untraceable transient students.
The problem is that there are conflicting reports. A lot of them are used by both political sides to push their agenda. Quoted is a NY Times article, which refers to the DOE (Department of Education). The NY Times is constantly criticized by the other side, and even here. (Quality of Life in Stuy Town, anyone?) As for the DOE, I assume that members are part of the union of teachers, which also has a political agenda. What we do know is that the individual is at greater risk depending on age and health issues, regardless of any agenda. What I see from the links is pictures of people who die "of" Covid, but more needs to be known. Were most of them at greater risk? More facts need to be known, not agenda pushing.
"Just Ask PCVST Dormitory Manager Rick Heyduk about precautions taken to protect at-risk PCVST residents forced to live adjacent to PCVST dormitories packed with unidentified infected untraceable transient students."
Hayduk has no conscience, no guts and no sense of decency. He wouldn't subject his own family to what he subjects us to and (I hear and believe) that he has moved them far away from this Covid Hot Spot. His insistence on putting on those Wednesday events on the Oval that help spread the virus and disturb good, decent people who are just trying to enjoy the peace and privacy of their apartments, in unforgivable. What kind of moronic cretins attend these "events?" Probably freeloaders who don't even live here. This man and his ridiculous Carnival Cruise mentality has been a curse on the property since the day he arrived. What's with having a "Lifestyles Director" here? This is a residential apartment complex, not a resort. We plan and live our own lifestyles and don't need these overpaid, useless idiots to plan our lifestyles for us. In fact, they have destroyed our chosen lifestyles, which were to live in peace and dignity in a safe and clean residential community.
YOU FUCKED THAT UP FOR US RICK AND THAT'S WHY SO MANY OF US DESPISE YOU.
Although only a tiny percentage of the population of NYC have eaten out at an outdoor dining spot, over 60% of new covid cases involve someone who did. Now we are opening indoor dining. Good idea.
@1:19 PM: I agree with most of what you say. Hayduk should, as the Property Manager, be focused on the wellbeing and comfort of the current tenants and not be constantly trying to "sell" the place. A competent property manager would not be disturbing tenants with outdoor events that are not welcomed by the majority of tenants and are disturbing to a large number of tenants who live near the Oval. He would also make sure that the directories in the lobbies are kept up to date and tenants would have the dignity of having their name on the door of the apartment they are living in! I don't know where they got him from, but he certainly has not been a residential property manager before. This is probably one of the most mismanaged properties in New York City when it comes to a very large residential properties. He really runs the place like some kind of transient, rather than residential, property.
Most people who are seeking apartments don't want to live in an extended-stay hotel type of property and they most certainly do NOT want to live in an off-campus dorm!
I think it is dishonest practice to not tell potential renters that this is, for the most part, an off-campus dorm. They should also be warned that there are these "for your entertainment" rather intrusive events that are not usually found in normal residential complexes because they are not what most people want or expect when they sign a lease.
The TA Facebook Overseers are limiting what type of subject matter can be posted (and I'm not referring to offensive posts). I think it is getting more and more controlled by Management and the local politicians.
On the alternative-to-TA Facebook a longtime tenant is posting about how his replacement stove is dangerous - gets overheated when broiler on and pots slipping off the burners when they get hot. Sounds like a tragic accident waiting to happen.
What is it with this management that they get away with treating tenants the way only landlords of vile, dangerous tenement slums have been able to get away with? Is this the Blackstone way of doing business? Is endangering the lives of their tenants and putting them at risk for painful, life-altering accidents the Blackstone Modus Operandi? They really live up to their terrible reputation (seems that way to me, anyway) and I guess part of their MO is to instal a useless, unsympathetic empty suit of a manager who has no interest in running the property as a place that people can call Home. These reprehensible, amoral people make me sick to my stomach.
>>Although only a tiny percentage of the population of NYC have eaten out at an outdoor dining spot, over 60% of new covid cases involve someone who did. Now we are opening indoor dining. Good idea.<<
Drop the fear mongering and try and understand facts before you start saying things. This is a blatant distortion of the truth. You don't need sensational headlines to make money, try understanding something for a change.
PCVST is an off campus dumping ground. Students booted out of an on campus dormitory for irresponsible, unsafe behavior can anonymously move overnight into a vacancy inside PCVST off campus dorms where they can maintain their irresponsible, unsafe behavior with impunity and without being traced, thereby placing vulnerable, long term PCVST residents at higher risk.
Just call Rick removed PCVST resident directories because he has no clue about the identity of hundreds, if not thousands, of transients constantly moving in and out of PCVST dormitories.
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