Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, together with the surrounding areas, are the worst I've ever seen. And I have been here for over three decades. The Covid disaster has just exacerbated the situation. A mess everywhere one looks. Inside the complex and outside. Would you want to live here? Yes, there are reasons to do so, but convincing is starting to look purposeless.
Also, at wintertime, there is infrequent heat for many tenants. Unless you use space heaters and/or turn on the stove (against your lease), you may be freezing. Management does not care. If Blackstone gets penalized, the payment is very small. So Blackstone continues on....
Photos: Inside this complex:
Outside:
Much more to tell and experience. (My camera was "attacked" by one of the vendors, but I held on and took more photos.) The various quality-of-life rules are not enforced as they should be, and can be ignored. Outside dogs casually being brought in, electric scooters and delivery bikes, unpicked dog refuse, it's all here. Welcome and have a nice day.
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This place is getting a wide reputation for being an unheated slum. I am embarrassed to tell anybody where I live because it always turns out that they have heard about it already and I get looks of pity. It is widely-known by now that what used to be a reasonably-priced, middle class pleasant "oasis in the City" has bow become an [ironically] overpriced, dirty, noisy off-campus dorm where the heat is sporadic at best.
They offer an inducement to bring in a friend. I think it is $1,000 of each party's rent for one month. Nobody would do that to a friend! In fact, I wouldn't do that to someone I didn't even like! There used to be a very long waiting list to get an apartment here (and it helped if you "knew someone"), but now people are just aching to get out! Many people break their lease because they just can't bear the place any longer because it is so cold and crappy and unbelievably badly run. The senior "management" is made up of longtime Blackstone employees and I believe it is because these are people who would never be able to get jobs if they applied somewhere else and because Blackstone knows that these people know the drill. Working for Blackstone carries a stigma. Ask anybody in the RE industry. Blackstone's business plan is NOT designed to make tenants happy or give them a fair deal for their rent. It is designed to gouge as much money of the property and the tenants as humanly ("inhumanly" would be more appropriate a description) and keep the occupancy churning.
Nobody with any sense of worth or self-respect works for Blackstone. That is also a known fact.
There might --- only might --- be a community organization willing to get involved to help us regarding the lack of/insufficiency of heat. I spoke with them twice before the pandemic and they asked me to bring a couple more people in with me to meet them and discuss our situation here. They'd informed me they have attorneys who work pro bono.
That was about a year ago. I posted, asking for folks to join with me and received zero responses then. Maybe once we're done with the viruses, or they're done with us, we can have a go at it.
Meanwhile: I've called several "management" and allied people here asking that we be GATED until after the start of January.
I, and others I know, watched several groups of people coming into our building, and nearby buildings, with food and presents. Read: COVID GATHERINGS. "Oh, it's the holidays (holy days - hahaha!), let's go get sick, make others sick. Maybe we or them will die. Maybe others will die 'cause we gotta party with family/friends/strangers."
From now until after January 1st, all entrances ought be locked and blocked to ALL people who cannot produce proof of residence, or legitimate working situations, or delivery errands. I'd prefer it to remain that way all of the time, but I'm not totally unrealistic.
IT IS REALISTIC TO BLOCK ALL ENTRANCES DURING COVID-SPREADING SEASON.
Some entrances have historically been blocked, as in more than one July - when the fireworks were on the East River; and when one of the former "presidents" (I ain't a fan of any politico, and haven't been since I've been severely disillusioned quite a few years back) caused chaos in the City with his disruptive visit to some restaurant quite near here, I think.
Blackstone has the ability to TOTALLY ban everyone not living here, working here, or delivering here during a particularly dangerous time period.
We are unique in this urban environment; there are already guard houses at most, if not all entrances.
Worldwide deaths for nearly a year, and rising, would dictate the prudence of this measure.
As I stated, I discussed this, at some length, with a number of likely utterly powerless people, and asked them to convey my thoughts to someone who could protect us.
My money, though, is on the consistent responses which boil down to, "go to hell, drop dead, we don't care about you." Now, it seems clear, "drop dead" may well be meant literally.
Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. Peace on Earth.
I went into one of those little bodega-type stores on Avenue A tonight to get a few things because it's easier than dealing with Target and TJ for a small number of items. One of the guys who works there asked me if I live in Stuyvesant Town. I said I do and he then asked me if it's true we get no heat. I told him it is true, though we get a little heat here and there. He asked me if we had heat last night and I had to be honest and tell him that we didn't and that it was as cold as a grave.
It seems that word is getting around about this fucking shit hole.
Shivering Sarah, I hear you! I'm calling practically daily because of lack of heat. When I filed with 311 last year, never got a resolution from them. Surprise, suprise!
Melted snow has shown a massive amount of dog shit on the pathways.
Most dog owners are responsible but a sizeable portion are irresponsible jerks.
Don't even get me started on those who let Fido do his business in the stairwwells or the elevator.
Wait! That must be just another Oval "amenity."
Hahahaha...I'm not laughing.
I saw the comments about the dogs. I lived in ST until 1975, when I was 22 and moved out on my own, to a civilized apartment building that had a/c and allowed pets. I wanted to mention that when I was 18 or so, I had a job that I didn't get home from until 2 or 3 in the morning. I'd walk from the Canarsie Line exit to my building, which was at Playground 3. I'd see a group of underground dog owners out with their charges on the eastern side of Playground 12. As I recall, the dogs were all small, and I'm sure they must have been de-barked. This would have been 1970, 1971.
I think Blackstone pays off the City to not respond to heat complaints. They have their dirty fingers up everybody's ass when it comes to compliance with City rules and regulations.
"As I recall, the dogs were all small, and I'm sure they must have been de-barked. This would have been 1970, 1971."
Never heard of dogs being de-barked. What a heinously cruel thing to do. If you have to resort to that kind of cruelty to have a dog, better to just live somewhere else.
Does everyone on this blog have heat issues? I’m serious — my apartment is 78 degrees + and is oftentimes closer to 80-81 in the living room.
BED BUG ALERT in laundry rooms at 445 and 435 East 14th Street!
Friend just told me she got WARNING email from Stuy Town.
Does anyone know what penalty is currently being assessed by Blackstone for an early termination of a lease ?
Infestation of bed bugs reported in numerous Stuy Town buildings.
When asked to coment Rick Hyduk replied, "Just another Oval amenity."
Stuy Town is not serious about bed bugs. I'm sure they don't like it, but considering all the uncovered mattresses on the loops, no. I have so many photos, it's depressing.
I was even speaking to Rick at that Thursday tent meeting, and as I got to my building, I saw an uncovered mattress on the loop. If you call it in, Resident Service will say a resident put in out. Standard line for them.
>>Does anyone know what penalty is currently being assessed by Blackstone for an early termination of a lease ?<<<
I don't know, but Stuy Town will be overjoyed to tell you. Your lease should have the answer. With Covid, there may be a way to lessen the charge.
I suspect the bedbugs were brought in by students or AirBnB customers. I don't even think that many of the real tenants use the laundry rooms at this point. They (the laundry rooms) are overpriced, dirty and the machines don't do a good job of washing and drying. There are so many good laundries that can do the job with no pain and stress and they cost a lot less. Gee, I made a jingle!
Bed bug infestation in a number of buildings which is being kept on the down low by Rick which contravenes the NYC law which REQUIRES notification of residents.
"Jus' sayin'..."
The problems of bedbugs and Covid spread are absolutely propelled by the disgusting transient dorm renting here. People move in and out and many are unsanitary. This is a true slum.
we got a notice of bedbugs in my building. Are they supposed to list every building or just the one you happen to live in?
https://abcnews.go.com/US/army-green-beret-charged-murder-illinois-bowling-alley/story?id=74924675
Yeah - we should feel safe.
Happy New Year, STR!
You are respected and admired by many.
Many thanks for your efforts!
FLASH! ALERT!
Rick Heydick has announced a new "amenity" for Stuy Town residents to ring in the New Year!
Instead of the "bubbly" champagne flowing for the celebrations Rick and Tenants Association President Shameless Susan Steinberg have announced a new treat.
That's right!
It's called "Brown Bubbly."
No need to trot out to your liquor store, Rick and Susan's "Brown Bubbly" flows right from the sink.
Drink up!
And as an added treat, you can enjoy the libation while showering or turning on the water for a bath.
No need for a glass.
Just let the brown slime caress your body as you bathe!
HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!
After living in PCV for decades , this will be our final New Year's Eve here. This once vibrant and safe family community has been ,to a large extent ,destroyed by a series of avaricious and uncaring landlords, culminating with Blackstone ,aided and abetted in recent years by a Tenants' Association Board which cheered the Blackstone acquisition and since then has become largely moribund , and even worse. Many of our friends have moved or passed away but we still have a significant number of neighbors who we like and respect but we, like they, have been overwhelmed by Blackstone and the virtually nonexistent TA Board. I am tired of fighting with management about basic issues like adequate heat, safety and package delivery to apartments (with respect to the latter, I note Hayduk eventually acquiesced to a return to sanity and safety by permitting package deliveries to apartments to resume (despite the written objection of the TA Board )). Good luck to all who still care about STPCV!
@December 31, 2020. Good luck to you and Happy New Year. I hope you'll be happy in your new home. I can totally relate to your feelings about the property and the way it has become. I think ST is in worse shape than PCV. The buildings are old and showing their age and it doesn't help that this avaricious management burdens them more with chopped up apartments and a multi-roommate demo, as well as turning many of the apartments into dorms. The infrastructure was not designed to take such use and abuse! The last nail in the coffin is the power plants they are building on the property. I don't know the reason for this because it's not as if we are out in the middle of nowhere; we have a stinky Con Ed facility just down the block. No, it's all about the money they hope to reap from these horrors and the tenants' health and rights be dammned. I've live here most of my life and hate what it has become. Am also looking for a new home and feel sad that I'm leaving because Stuytown has become unbearable. It really is nothing more than an overpriced slum project. I hate to compare it to NYCHA because that is an insult to NYCHA. Some of the NYCHA projects are better. I'm sick of freezing in winter, listening to dogs barking at all hours and pot-smoking students creating such unlivable conditions for their neighbors. Have really "had it" with the place and the half-assed, gimmick-crazed "Management" who couldn't manage a McDonalds.
New Year. No heat. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Thanks, Rick!
What's with the jerks who leave their garbage OUTSIDE the carriage room door?
How fuc*in' lazy can you be?
Management may be horrible but that doesn't relieve the tenants of acting responsibly.
Another ice cold morning in lovely Stuy Town.
Made my obligatory call to Resident Services and 311.
NOTHING! NADA! ZERO!
Marijuana stench in the halls and starirwells is unreal.
At least I don't have to walk down to Tompkins Square Park to cop a nickel bag like back in the day...lol...just kidding.
All I have to do is step outside my apartment door, breathe deeply, and I get a buzz...haha!
Woke up in early hours shivering under a comforter. Icy cold bedroom. We really need to make a public protest about this. The TA is a bunch of charlatans because this is a matter they should address. I am
Surprised that even the bedbugs can put up with living here.
Another lie. Residents were promised some time ago that the new power plants being built would have the necessary permits and that these would be made public very soon at the time. Well guess what?
I hate to quote the TA but here it is:
"Management lacked an essential permit to complete the Avenue C plant. With the proposed 20th Street plant, they’ve had to resubmit all their applications for both plants as a single project. As a result, management hasn’t made public the studies they had done—we don’t know how much additional pollution will be in our air or possibly washing down on our playgrounds and open spaces."
This dump is owned by a fucking fascist billionaire and run by a stupid asshole with no backbone or decency. So what is "news" about the fact that they are building two air-polluting, fossil-fuel burning power plants ON THE PROPERTY? Pure GREED is the religion of people like Schwartzman, Hayduk, et al, and they are very devout in observing their "religion."
Can't wait to get out of this deathtrap shithole. We thought it would be a nice place to raise children. Might as well move to Chernobyl. Blackstone must be shoveling tons of money under the counter to DeBlasio in order to get away with the life-destroying enterprises it comes up with.
There is an easy form to fill out about the electric plants being built but you have to go to the Resident Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Stuyvesanttown/
This is the place they used to call an Oasis in the City and A Park Runs Through It .... That was before this blood-sucking filth got their avaricious hands on it.
I noticed there was a comment about the power plants in the (digital) Times yesterday. It was in one of the articles about people leaving New York. Somebody commented about it being not a place to raise a family.
I just saw a young guy looking at the intercom board outside, trying to find a name and apartment number. He couldn't find the name because he couldn't figure out how to work the intercom search facility. I let him in and he was trying to find the name on the directory board in the lobby. He was a house cleaner and knew the his new client's name and what floor he lives on, but couldn't remember the apartment number. He just new it was on the 7th floor. He searched the directory in the lobby, but couldn't find the name. Of course not. How often is that thing updated? I wish him luck with find the name as the apartments are now just occupied by Welcome Home.
I can't think of one thing that Hayduk has done that has benefited tenants in any way whatsoever. I wish they'd get rid of him and get somebody who knows what he's doing. Worst "Manager" we've ever had. A total incompetent.
Doesn't 4:15 PM realize yet that Hayduk wasn't put in place by Blackstone to "benefit tenants"?
4:15 PM:
The young guy who was a house cleaner with a new client: OK. HERE WE GO WITH THE CAPITAL LETTERS:
THIS STRANGER SHOULD NOT BE IN THE BUILDING. PERIOD. UNDER NO GODDAMN CIRCUMSTANCES.
PANDEMIC. KILLER VIRUS. EXTREMELY CONTAGIOUS. DANGEROUS. AGONIZING WEEKS OR MONTHS ON VENTILATORS.
DEATH IN A PROLONGED, PARTICULARLY PAINFUL WAY.
This species has puzzled, saddened, infuriated, and disgusted me since I was perhaps in my 20's. WHY THE HELL ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, INCLUDING THOSE LIVING IN NEW YORK CITY, SO DEFECTIVE AND DANGEROUS THAT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND WE CANNOT HAVE ANYONE IN OUR HOMES UNLESS IT IS A BONA FIDE EMERGENCY?
WHY? WHY? WHY?
The lack of names on the Apartment Directory is a farce.
And most probably illegal.
This Welcome Home nonsense on the doors is bullshit.
"The lack of names on the Apartment Directory is a farce.
And most probably illegal.
This Welcome Home nonsense on the doors is bullshit."
Very, very true. The reason for this bullshit is that this place is no longer a stable residential complex. It is a student dorm/AirBnB/Transient dump. Not much more than a glorified flophouse.
So Ricks resignation email came out today. I didn’t bother to read through the lies about all he’s done to make this place better.
I am actually here to call out the person who has been asking for Rick to resign for years. Many people responded that they would hire a similar body to continue what Blackstone wants done here (not Rick!). And what do you know... we are getting a Rick clone from the hospitality industry, just as many predicted. You asked for his resignation and now you’ve got it, only problem is that Rick isn’t going anywhere. Although Rick and Paul have different faces and names, they are the same person here doing Blackstones bidding.
Rick Hayduk is leaving on February 14, 2021.
" . . . the new EVP and General Manager, Paul Burke. Born and raised in Yonkers, with family ties to Stuyvesant Town, Paul is excited to return to the City and to serve the residents of the two communities. Paul comes to us following a lengthy career focused on hospitality and property management, including the General Manager of Sheraton Hotels in Manhattan and recently the COO of Atlantis in the Bahamas.
"Paul Burke will join us January 18 and my last day will be February 12."
The above is from tonight's e-mail from Richard J. Hayduk.
I've done some research and I've lots and lots more information, but none that is relevant.
As a particularly thoughtful observer told me tonight on the phone, nothing will get better. Blackstone will do what it is doing.
Please take very special care these days to stay away from your fellow women, men and children because the new strains of Covid are soooo much more contagious.
There is a Paul Burke in this area, but he's a medium. I guess that's not the guy.
Goor riddance to that self-serving pompous ass, Rick Highdik.
Don't forget to shut the door on your way out.
I didn’t get an email about Ricks’s resignation, but I wish him the best of luck wherever he’s going. Didn’t appreciate everything he’s done here, but I think he’s tried his best and has good intentions.
Hayduk leaving and Burke arriving -
Do you know the adage: "Be careful of what you wish for?"
And, "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know?"
I did some reading about the new "leader" who will be here very soon - Burke. It is possible he might have us wishing for Hayduk again.
"Hospitality industry," yes, for both of them.
But: If I read correctly, they are nothing like each other. Burke reads potential problems and troubles the likes of which Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper have never known since they were built.
I may be reading wrong, misinterpreting, seeing things that aren't there. I'm probably wrong, jittery, suspicious, paranoid, unreasonable. I hope so, for all of our sakes.
Please - anyone who wants to know what I'm writing about here - look him up. Find him in Google, in various social media and reassure me that the situation living here is not about to become more threatening and unpleasant.
WRONG is something I've always enjoyed being in so many ways. I dearly hope I am 100% wrong now.
As for "the person asking Rick to resign" here on the blog - there is not one person; there have been multiple persons.
Just looked up Paul Burke. Many people with same name. He may or may not be the one I think he is. Hopefully not.
Then, again: how often does a malevolent employer hire a replacement who is less malevolent than their previous employee?
Sometimes . . . time will tell.
I hope it doesn't tell the same story began in 2015 when Blackstone came in here.
The road to Hell is paved with "good intentions."
I wish Rick the best success whatever are his plans. As far as Stuy Town is concerned: Second verse, same as the first.
We don't want or need another manager who is sourced from the hotel, resort and hospitality industry. We need a manager with experience in running residential apartment communities. The "hospitality" mentality is one of keep the guest happy with tacky events and distractions and they won't bother complaining about the cold rooms, noisy neighboring guests and a few bedbugs here and there.
We LIVE here. We are not fucking guests (even though there are a great many more transients than it is probably legal for a place like this to have) and we just want to be warm, safe and comfortable in our HOMES - notice I said HOMES, not suites or rooms - and we don't want or need the tacky, useless Oval this Oval that, snores and smores, singalongs, outdoor movies, etc., etc. Just give us a manager who knows that for the majority of us this is our HOME and not a hotel. When I do go away and stay at hotels I avoid the kind of hotel that is run by the idiots who run this place.
"with family ties to Stuyvesant Town....." Yeah, just like Garodnick. "Meet the New Boss--same as the Old Boss. Won't get fooled again."
New guy is coming to us with experience managing Atlantis. Prepare yourselves for bonfires, luaus, and water slides. People thought it was bad with Rick, just wait, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Congo lines around the oval - coming summer 2021! Leave your masks at home.
Hane should name a sushi roll after Rick. Maybe a Rick Roll. I crack myself up. Maybe a Hayduk special?
This blog continually destroys Rick. Bottom line, doesn’t matter who owns or runs this place. Everyone is unhappy.
Rick put peoples lives at risk on a daily basis in order to pad his bank account via his salary from Blackstone. He took the marching orders and implemented the things that were pushed on us from Park Avenue, and he did it while vindictively lying directly to many of our faces, all while he had a smile on his.
I’m sure your ok with the pollution generating, eye sore power plants that are being built around this place on Ricks watch. If nothing else he’s done bothers you, this alone should.
Bottom line is Rick took this job of his own free will. Nobody held a gun to his head and told him he couldn’t leave. He saw what was going on, and his conscience told him to stay. That is not the sign of a good person.
To Rick Hydik's successor:
Forget the Oval "events" and all the bells and whistles...
HOW ABOUT SOME HEAT???
Pretty Boy Keith Powers also has "family ties," but that didn't/doesn't help tenants.
"New guy is coming to us with experience managing Atlantis. Prepare yourselves for bonfires, luaus, and water slides. People thought it was bad with Rick, just wait, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Congo lines around the oval - coming summer 2021! Leave your masks at home."
DON'T GIVE THEM IDEAS! THEY COME UP WITH ENOUGH BAD IDEAS BY THEMSELVES!!!!!
I wonder how Rick would feel if somebody decided to build two fossil fuel power plants near his new endeavor?
I think there is a fairly large misconception of the power plant. I’m not going to argue about it on the blog because it’ll just piss everyone here off.
Rick is doing his job. The purpose of owning Stuytown is to make money. This is a rental complex. A complex that a lot of people enjoy living at.
Just like has a choice, so do you. You can move just as much as he can quit. Sorry if that hurts to hear but you can move.
Funny how they are all missing Hayduk over at the TA site. He was a hypocritical manager and never impressed me with his priorities of stupid movies, concerts, and foolish events over basic needs such as heat and a pot free environment.
>>you can move<<
We've had this talk before. Generally, residents who have been here for a while, can't just move. They are either too old or too poor to live anywhere else. And residents who have been here for a while, have similar people that they know. Move where and how? Do you have the money to give people?
Moving also represents leaving your home, the place you grew up in, the people you have known (and some have passed away)..... Move? Sorry, but your advice seems heartless.
STR: I am simply playing devils advocate. The comment was saying that Rick should quit if he felt bad about the direction from his employer. The counter argument is that this is a rental property. No one is forcing anyone to live here. If this were a condo, and the power plant affected value, I could see that argument.
There are plenty of other places to live, even if you have a true stabilized unit with a legal rent. I get this is people’s home, but it’s a rental. It means the owner can do what they want. When signing up for a rental, you make a decision to live here. New York already has the strongest (or second strongest) rent laws in the country. Everyone here is protected above the terms of their lease.
Imagine you owned a rental and wanted to make money. You’re telling me you would just do whatever the renter wanted?
For those that complain about everything about the property: would note there are virtually zero violations and rents are ‘high’ (pre-covid) for a reason.
STR, that poster's comments/advice are very heartless and I suspect were posted by somebody in Management. Stuyvesant Town hasn't always been a badly-run, cold and nasty place to live in. It used to be a very decent place to live in. It has been brought to what it is by a succession of parasitic, heartless money-grubbers and inept and uncaring "managers." And it is very true that it is not so easy to uproot and move to somewhere else. We're not all people who live out of a suitcase and a backpack! There is also a great deal of expense and energy (that many of don't have a lot of) involved in moving. That is if you can find an acceptable place to move to.
So, no. We cannot move just as much as he can quit and to say such a thing is the utterance of a cold, unempathetic poor apology of a human being.
"Imagine you owned a rental and wanted to make money. You’re telling me you would just do whatever the renter wanted?"
If I owned a rental I would indeed want to make money. But I wouldn't want to make money at the expense of my tenants having no heat, poor quality of safety and quality of life conditions and a churning demo of transients living alongside them. I hope that when Rick Hayduk takes up his new enterprise he doesn't have the same attitude toward the disabled people who will be working for him and the guests who will be paying good money to stay at his hotel that he has toward we who live here in Stuyvesant Town. Quite frankly, if I had a disabled child I would be very concerned about him/her working for such a man. I'd want to know they were being well-treated and didn't shiver themselves to sleep in unheated bedrooms, the way we do here. We, at least can complain and report these vile conditions to the City (not that it does us any good), but a mentally disabled person probably wouldn't be able to do that. They would be told to shut up and be grateful, same as we are, and they wouldn't be able to do anything about the situation.
I'm aware that this is a rental and we don't own it, but our rent isn't just for the four walls and a floor and a roof. We are entitled to something call "Quality of Life." Well, I guess with do have Quality of Life, but it just happens to be extremely poor Quality of Life.
>>It means the owner can do what they want.<<
No. You even said so a sentence later. Sure an owner wants to make money. But there are different ways of making money.
To 2:47pm: I don’t work for management and I have lived here for a few years. I like living here. Could it be better? Sure. But I also know you get what you pay for. Ultimately, I don’t have a say where I live except for moving. If I move, Stuytown makes less money. If the “Power Plant” and events were such a bad idea, and Blackstone was losing tenants (their main source of income) because of it, they would stop doing it. Under the pre-HSTPA laws, there would be merit to an argument that they are actively looking to displease long term tenants. Now, there is no financial benefit. They aren’t going to renovate old units because they are legally capped.
The only financial benefit to a unit that has a legal rent below market rent is to renew them and get the RGB increase. If all the long term tenants left, they would lose a lot of money as they can’t re-rent the units without spending money.
The property used to be run better because it used to make more money. When the J51 was enacted, all the rents were market and the largest expense, taxes, was abated. Expense growth far exceeds rent growth when your rent growth is capped. It’s simple.
I’ll stop arguing on this but it’s such a simple concept: at one point in time, you chose to move into a rental. Period. A rental means you don’t own it. You don’t have ownership in it. Maybe you have an Owner who is great, but that can change, because you have no say.
If your income level does not allow you to move, that sucks. If Blackstone was violating laws, it would be one thing. But people being unhappy about events, a plant, etc makes no sense to me.
Blackstone makes money by people living here. They also make money cutting expenses. That’s all they care about. It’s why they try so hard to tell everyone they don’t. But guess what...MetLife did the same thing. Why do you think they sold it?
"Owned a rental and wanted to make money?" ?????
Where to begin?
Profit, greed, selfishness, inability to care about anything other than your own petty, divorced-from-LIFE-itself concerns.
Material preoccupations. Fear of death. Utter inability to either THINK about what it means to be in a body on this material plane of life. Thoroughgoing lack of either ability or desire to FEEL, EXPERIENCE, KNOW, LIVE that every single being (including microbes, pieces of glass, tiny clods of soil) IS MADE OF THE SAME MATERIAL, IS, IN SUCH FUNDAMENTAL WAYS:
THE SAME THING. EVERYTHING ON THE PLANET IS RELATED SO INTIMATELY AND INEXTRICABLY TO EVERY OTHER THING ON THIS PLANET THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO EXPLAIN.
Humans who wrote the kind of tripe ("management") above suffer from lack of sympathy, empathy. They lack the most basic knowledge about life itself on planet earth.
THIS is precisely what the planet is suffering from, in addition to this virus, this plague that is exalted, superior humanity in its impossible numbers.
It has long been easy to understand the years of zombie movies we had occurring before Covid. So many of us ARE zombies: dead to our (whole, entire, true) selves, to every other life form which breathes the same air in and out of its lungs and gills and pores.
"Move if you don't like it." "Quit your job if you don't like it." And on and on and on like that.
Non-dead human life forms care for others, human and otherwise.
I feel sorry for you unconscious, soul-deformed humans. Even with my sympathy, and pity, it is difficult to live among you.
>>If the “Power Plant” and events were such a bad idea, and Blackstone was losing tenants (their main source of income) because of it, they would stop doing it.<<
No. Again. It can be a bad idea, but Blackstone knows that residents will not push back. Oh, some of them will but not enough. They don't care about bad ideas as long as money is made.
And they will always find new renters, bad ideas or not.
"Ownership" and "property" are a crock of sh*t.
Everything is temporary. None of us get to "own" anything. It all is taken from us, including body parts, body functions, and our entire bodies. Sooner or later. Period.
Mine, mine, mine. This is 2 year old crap. And it's appropriate for 2 year olds, developmentally speaking, because they are learning they are independent beings, not literally a part of another human being.
But then they are, presumably, socialized. Which means, "share. Play nice. Give your toy to another child. Comfort that child if they are crying." And similar concepts.
"Mine," "property," "own," "I can do what I want to you/with you/about you" is just plain ugly, obscene.
Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village used to be referred to as "homes," and sometimes as "complexes," "developments." Less kindly: "projects."
This "property" terminology is telling, and it is controlling and manipulative.
"MINE AND NOT YOURS" and therefore "I CAN DO WHAT I WANT TO IT AND TO YOU. AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, GO SCREW YOURSELF, OR MOVE, OR DIE."
That is what those bastards did here and that is what we accepted.
I've pleaded with people since 2015 to stand up against these mentally ill and morally corrupt pathetic people.
We can agree to disagree on this. Blackstone is clearly giving people what they want, or people wouldn’t live here.
I will address the making money comment though: making money is a math equation. Dollars in and dollars out. The events they plan are to benefit what they charge in rent. If there was no financial benefit, they wouldn’t do it. I haven’t been to one event. They are wastes of money and aren’t safe. But people clearly go to them and like them or they wouldn’t do them.
I am enjoying the conversation and positions you and others are taking though. It’s a lot more constructive than talking about how someone’s dentist knows it’s a dump or how a bodega knows we don’t have heat.
Also - I’ve been reading for years. I always think talking about these things is better than writing banter. If you want to meet for a socially distanced coffee I’d love to chat.
It was in 2011 that Rick met the "real estate developer" (I always substitute "destroyer" for "real estate developer") with whom he would join to build the hotel in Clemson, South Carolina for which he is departing imminently.
Was it in October of 2015 that Blackstone invaded these grounds? I believe so. Maybe December. I seem to remember the ominous press conference in October - maybe on the 20th - in the 20th Street Loop, I think.
So . . . Rick was slated to leave quite some time ago. A sudden, or gradual, attack of conscience did not have him leaving us.
And, something like 2 years ago, I think (or maybe just a little over a year ago - since the plague named Covid began, it's been hard to keep track of time), Rick and I sat in one of those horrid little cells in "the bunker" and spoke about the hotel he was building in South Carolina for his daughter and similarly situated individuals.
The person with whom he has partnered in South Carolina to build The Good Shepherd hotel is, to my way of thinking, in the same ballpark as the Blackstone gang. He's interesting, if stomach-churning reading. If you are a fan of people who take advantage of the need for shelter, for a home - then he's right up your alley. Just go the lavish hotel website.
It us true that people are complex, contradictory, complicated. They can do good; they can do bad things. Still, I have great, great trouble with those who ignore they are doing to one person - or many people - in the name of some worthy cause.
When MetLife owned the property it was very well run and they made a profit. There was a very long waiting list to get in here and very few people moved out.
When MetLife ceased to be a mutual property and went public things changed. They took vacated apartments out of rent stabilization and charged market rent and then sold the property to the vilest ghouls on the face of the earth -- Tishman Speyer. They tried to make it into a luxury property and totally failed. They harassed and abused longtime tenants to the point where, I believe, some killed themselves. Then, they found that they were just not going to make the tons of money they thought they would, so they walked away from the property and left the property deeply in debt to the bondholders. The property went further and further downhill after that.
I don't know what Rob Speyer is up to these days, but I hope he is not a happy or a well man. That's about as "kindly" as I can put it.
Anonymous who would love to chat:
Socially distanced coffee would be nice, but not feasible now given the virus' ingenuity in reproducing itself.
The phone might be a way to begin a verbal interchange.
If you would like, please e-mail me at:
quietenjoymentnow@gmail.com (that is quiet enjoyment now, which is how I began posting awhile back, and I'm clearly not STR)
This invitation is for all who read and write here, too. We're living in such difficult and alienating times.
The new renters are transients, students, foreign people with short term rentals.Also renting rooms to unrelated individuals . They know all the tricks. This has become a dump.
I couldn’t read Ricks email about his departure and reasons why. The text is too small and can’t be magnified. Many of his emails are difficult to read because of the font.
What's wrong with the guy who Rick is partnering with for his hotel? I think his name is Rich Davies. Sounds like a respectable businessman to me. When you go into an enterprise with somebody, it has to be somebody who is in that field of endeavor. If you're opening a hotel, you're not going to partner with somebody not in the hospitality/RE field. I wish Rick lots of luck and success with his hotel. Having had a sibling with Down Syndrome (sadly she passed away a few years ago), I know that people with that disability tend to be blessed with warm and hospitable personalities and a great many of them are willing and able to work, so long as the work is within the scope of their physical and intellectual capabilities. They take pride in the work they do and do it to the very best of their ability. They enjoy a sense of pride and being a meaningful member of society. Through my sister I met many, many persons suffering from Downs and other learning disabilities and a lot of them had hidden talents that when nurtured made a great difference in their lives and the lives of others. Maybe, sometime in the future, I'll spend a couple of nights at that hotel and I'm sure I'll love it.
Well, seems Rick has provided me with a going away present. I have been lucky to get any heat to speak of for the last couple of years. However for the past few days I have had heat in the high 80's and had to open windows.
I have no intention of complaining for fear of not needing a freezer in my apartment.
Sick and tired of Rick's family situation being used as some kind of excuse for Blackstone's conduct here. Just like how Schwarzman contributes to NY Public Library, so he can't be a Bad Guy??
People are complicated, which means they can be both harmful and helpful.
I'm all for the Good Shepherd Hotel; one of my careers saw me working with differently-created teenagers every day of my working life.
The Hotel sounds to me like a loving, compassionate idea.
Richard C. Davis is one of those complicated people, I guess. The hotel is "good."
He, however, in my opinion, and along with a whole host of others, including some of my own blood relatives, is deserving, metaphorically speaking, of a reservation in hell for a couple of centuries.
"Real estate" people of a certain ilk are predators. "Flipping houses" is an obscene practice.
Please, look up Richard C Davis. If you're impressed with TV, "fame," making money by "flipping houses," being "rich," then he's the guy for you.
On another note: I am sorry about your sister.
My own personal belief system includes the possibility that at some point in our soul's learning process, we have completed the courses learnable on this plane of existence and do not need to come back into a human body.
Some humans souls, however, choose to teach the highest and deepest lessons of love, compassion, sacrifice, unselfishness. I was fortunate enough to meet one of them some decades ago.
They come here for a relatively short time, appearing as "handicapped" human beings. Their situations are such that others need care for them with great unselfishness.
Those caretakers, and others who come into their lives, MAY learn the sacred lessons of selfless love, of true maturity, responsibility, fellowship.
I met one of them, as I wrote. He was here less than 3 years.
Randy changed dozens and dozens of people. And his presence in the life of one old, poorly educated, stubborn, ignorant, prejudiced old man, a bigoted farmer in Wisconsin, changed that old man forever.
I've lately listened to an old song with the lyrics: "He ain't heavy; he's my brother. If I'm laden at all, I'm laden with sadness that everyone's heart isn't filled with the gladness of love for one another." And "his welfare is my concern."
We seem to have problems with all of those beliefs and convictions these sad days.
"Please, look up Richard C Davis. If you're impressed with TV, "fame," making money by "flipping houses," being "rich," then he's the guy for you."
Never heard of this guy before.
Thank you to the tenant who let his dog take a shit in the laundry room.
Class! Real class!
There are some behaviors you can't blame on Management.
Although Rick would no doubt call the turd an Oval "amenity" in his never ending spin about how wonderful things are here.
@3:53 PM: Ask Security if they can identify the person who took his dog in the laundry and allowed it to defecate. They have security cameras aimed at the laundry rooms and, because of them, recently found the tenant who infested the laundry room with bedbugs. I don't know exactly where the security cameras are located, but they ARE there and they monitor what goes on in the laundry rooms.
Sadly, I have seen this property go from being a clean, well-taken care of, lovely place to live to being brought down to the level of a filthy, vile slum. It's not Hayduk's fault. Blame MetLife/Tishman Speyer/CWC/Blackstone. I know Hayduk works for Blackstone, though not for much longer, but the lowered standard for the kind of tenant who can move in here was created many Owners/Managers ago. Most people I know who have been here a while are working on getting out. I'm going nowhere, but it breaks my heart to see what a vile, dirty dump the property has sunk to over the last several years. I don't blame Hayduk for wanting to shake the shit of this place off his shoes. He didn't start the rot, his money-lusting predecessors did.
63 degrees in my bedroom at 6:55AM!
Yes, the rot began in mid-Seventies, under the 'New Met Life'.
What did he do to turn around the problems that his predecessors started?? Exactly, nothing. He took what they started and built upon it, instead of trying to change course.
I think it was a bit later than the seventies. I came here in 1980 and noticed the decay started in the early to mid nineties and the property went rapidly downhill.
Anybody else constantly losing internet and cable signal?
So we will be getting another used car salesman to run the property. Nothing will change.
Now the Covid virus is increasing in severity, in intensity and in number of victims, I hope that the upcoming spring and summer are not going to bring on more of those asinine Covid-spreading events on the property. Rick didn't ever give a flying fuck about the morons who attend those "events" getting infected (after all, he never attended any of them himself, so why should he care?), but he strongly promoted them. If the incoming Manager is going to be as cavalier as Rick Hayduk, I think we should all write letters of complaint to the Health Department. Even though those of us with some self-preservation instinct (as well as a healthy sense of self-respect) we are still at risk because we share common areas with the cretins who attend those movies, events, shit-throwing contests, etc. and as they haven't got the basic intelligence and decency to wear masks and socially distance, it's unlikely they bother to wash their hands or sanitize their hands. I doubt some of them even wipe their backsides.
ICE COLD pipes in my apartment and all other apartments on my line.
REPEATED CALLS to Resident Services have achieved NOTHING.
NO HEAT!
More package thievery in a number of Oval addresses.
"Sadly, I have seen this property go from being a clean, well-taken care of, lovely place to live to being brought down to the level of a filthy, vile slum. It's not Hayduk's fault. Blame MetLife/Tishman Speyer/CWC/Blackstone. I know Hayduk works for Blackstone, though not for much longer, but the lowered standard for the kind of tenant who can move in here was created many Owners/Managers ago. Most people I know who have been here a while are working on getting out. I'm going nowhere, but it breaks my heart to see what a vile, dirty dump the property has sunk to over the last several years. I don't blame Hayduk for wanting to shake the shit of this place off his shoes. He didn't start the rot, his money-lusting predecessors did."
I can't really improve on this paragraph. After 22 years here, I'm getting ready to leave. It was hard for me to accept in the beginning, but no more. I see shit and piss and filth all over the place and couldn't care less. But yeah, when you juxtapose this open sewer with the beautiful community it once was, it was hard to accept.
Repeated efforts to get some heat have been unsuccessful.
Calls to Resident Services and 311 are worthless.
At least tenants in the projects get heat.
Anyone who moves here needs to get his head examined.
"Anyone who moves here needs to get his head examined."
Only students move in here these days. Students and transients. Nobody in their right mind moves in at the ludicrous rents they ask and the substandard conditions they offer. Contrary to what Blackstone thinks, most people like to get heat in the cold months and are not too partial to walking through dog shit that is all over the place. They also like a bit of peace and quiet which doesn't happen where there are uncarpeted floors and paper thin walls. I hear my neighbors when they fart. Most importantly, most people don't want all of the above at a ridiculous rent! $4k for a one-bedroom torture chamber? I don't think that appeals to many people.
I feel so bad for the people whose apartments are next to the so-called "power plant".
None of the energy produced goes to Stuy Town.
It is going to be sold to Con Ed for a profit by our ghoulish, avaricious landlord.
Do the effected tenants have legal recourse?
Did the rubber stamp Community Board sign off on this?
Something smells in Denmark.
One of the security guards told me on the QT that there are a number of "working girls" here in Stuy Town. Management is trying to get them out discreetly to avoid negative publicity. Gee, and I thought this was just another one of Rick's "amenities". Hahaha. Funny, eh? Actually, not funny at all.
I need to know where they are, too. Information will be kept strictly confidential.
If these "working girls" pay their rent, why does Management want to get them out? With or without them, this place is still a dangerous dump at present.
"If these "working girls" pay their rent, why does Management want to get them out? With or without them, this place is still a dangerous dump at present."
Are you kidding? Bad as this dump is, prostitution is going to make it worse. Dangerously worse. Along with the hookers being on the property, there are their pimps and johns. Most of those are the total scum of the earth with organized crime connections. Add to that that prostitution also involves a lot of drugs, guns the risk of child molestation.
I can't help but wonder what kind of human being you are. Thought I'd seen it all this past week when it comes to the dregs of humanity.
We've had hookers and drug dealers living here in the past (had an IRA bomber once!) and they were turfed out by Management, in coordination with the Feds, Cops, etc.
Of course, at that time we had a real Management instead of resorts and cruise ships alumni.
Gives a new meaning to that "stimulus" check!
Hookers, Johns, and Pimps=Residents and their Guests. Organized Crime? I'd thought Giuliani the Great had (supposedly) solved that problem years ago....
Things change in NYC with de Blasio.
Blackstone=Organized Crime (Corporate variety).
"Things change in NYC with de Blasio."
I don't think Giuliani got rid of vice completely. He Disneyfied Times Square, but the vice just went elsewhere. I guess we have our share of it here. Maybe we always did.
"Hookers, Johns, and Pimps=Residents and their Guests. Organized Crime? I'd thought Giuliani the Great had (supposedly) solved that problem years ago...."
He did. Then we got woke. Really intelligent comment, keep 'em coming!
Do residents bring hookers to their units? Where I live you can see them leaving around 6AM.
Totally off topic, but I would really know if anyone has switched from Spectrum to another service recently and, if so, was it a painless transition? Thanks in Advance!
"Do residents bring hookers to their units? Where I live you can see them leaving around 6AM."
How do you know they're hookers? Some people do leave FOR work at 6AM.
Nobody in their right mind moves in at the ludicrous rents they ask and the substandard conditions they offer.
You think they tell you about that in the Leasing Office?
Like... "Ask about the 75 year old plumbing and our famours brown water!"
Most of those people have no clue what they're walking into. Thus, the high turnover rate.
Wonder how many prospective rent..., er suckers saw this blog and bailed on PCVST?
Brown water, no heat...
what more could a prospective tenant possibly want?
How can one fight the new power plants WITHOUT lending support to the corrupt PCVST-TA? Last time I signed one of their petitions they counted me as a member, something I will never be as long as they are corrupt and incompetent. Although many rightly blast Susan Steinberg, remember the true culprits in all this TA corruption are Al Doyle and Dan Garodnick. Plenty of blame to go around for sure, like the disbarred lawyer from the Hamptons and basically the entire board, past and present.
Who’s the “ disbarred lawyer from the Hamptons “?
From our soon to be new manager: "...work will occur on the FDR offramp between 25th Street and 23rd Street early on Friday morning and Saturday morning. This work will produce noise including jack hammering between midnight and 1am and subsequent debris collection with trucks until 5am."
I guess if you live around there, you can expect a lot of noise during sleep/rest hours in the next years. Good going!
"From our soon to be new manager: "...work will occur on the FDR offramp between 25th Street and 23rd Street early on Friday morning and Saturday morning. This work will produce noise including jack hammering between midnight and 1am and subsequent debris collection with trucks until 5am.""
No wonder they are begging for people to rent here! Some of us are just about desperate to get out, unrenovated apartment notwithstanding. There is only so much a person can take. No heat and constant noise and filth. Life's too short to have to deal with this if there are options. And now they are building two power plants on the property, even it were rent-free it would be not worth putting up with the lousy quality of life. Nobody in their right mind pays big bucks to endure what we endure. You have to be really out of options to continue to put up with it.
Has Hayduk gone already? I don't get the emails they send out. Sometimes my neighbor forwards one to me. Never good news.
up at 3:20 am because it is too damned cold to sleep. no heat since yesterday afternoon. what an overpriced dump.
"Never good news" is right!
Burke is beginning his job here by looking to encourage people to come out in the cold, DURING COVID, and "Meet and Greet" him. Please read this reckless, dangerous, and inexplicable imbecility:
"I’m very eager to meet you all and learn more about your community. I will be conducting socially distant “Meet and Greet” sessions over the next couple of weeks. I’ll be located under the pavilion in Playground 4 (with heaters) and ask that you click here to book one of the available 10-minute slots. I’ve done my best to accommodate everyone’s schedules including providing availability during the day, in the evening and on a weekend day."
When I "clicked here," I was taken to the "eventbrite.com" to screens that look like this:
Paul Burke - New GM Meet & Greet
Stuytown Playground 4, New York, NY
Thurs, JAN 21 3:00-3:10 PM Sold Out
Every one of his 10 minute "slots" to "meet and greet him" from January 21 through January 27 is SOLD OUT.
There is no logical place to begin to dismantle the inanity, insanity of this "Meet and Greet" "event," nor its cyberspace availability on what is essentially "Ticketmaster."
Paul Burke's introduction to us also includes gems such as:
"At every step, I’ve placed a premium on community building and a “customer first” mentality, flowing from a great team that I always push to think innovatively and learn and improve each day. I am committed to bringing the same focus on customer service and community building to the residents of Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village."
That followed his referring to us as "valued residents."
(Years ago, a book came out entitled, "Your Call is Important to Us and Other Bullshit" by Laura Penny. "Valued customer" is enough crap. Now we are VALUED RESIDENTS???)
As they say, "YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP."
And, of course, hats off to the previous poster/s who commented that this would be more of Blackstone's "managing" this cruise ship/carnival/circus residential complex, HOME as did Rick.
With Burke organizing this atrocity, forget the insulting, offensive "Good Neighbor" jargon. We are now moving into the era of "Dead Neighbor" era courtesy of Blackstone's deeply caring new purveyor of misery.
(PLEASE DO NOT START WRITING ABOUT HOW SAFE IT IS OUTDOORS, 6 FEET, MASKS, ETC. THIS VIRUS IS SO EXCEEDINGLY CLEVER AT REMAINING ALIVE AND WELL. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR INVITING PEOPLE OUTSIDE INTO A "PAVILION" NOW.)
P.S.: Complaints have already been registered, pleas to abort this action. The usual practice of 100% ignoring "valued residents" is in full swing by this sterling, caring new steward of our homes.
Zero heat in my bedroom.
I don't want another asshole from Resident Services coming into my apartment, waving around a thermometer, and saying, "No problem. Legal minimums are meet".
So sorry to see you go, Rick.
NOT!
Don't shut the door on the way out.
Leave room for the next lackey to slither in.
Have to laugh at the new manager’s attempt to meet with residents, giving out slots. Those people really want to suck up to him , for what? He won’t do anything different. Same publicity ploy as Hayduk, access to tenants and then they ignore what you complain about. These TA site suckers are too much.
Will President For Life Steinberg be seated at the table with Mr. Burke under the pavilion, soliciting donations to their joint enterprise?
I think it's time "Adam Rose" took a break from monitoring the TA and non-TA Facebook accounts. Not sure he is an official moderator on the TA account. He is getting crabby and nasty. Another thing, both sites insist that members use their real names. The Boss Lady on the non-TA site most certainly does not use her real name. I know that for a fact. I rather doubt Adam Rose is using his real name. I really don't care what they call themselves, but stop being so damn nasty.
It is amazing that people are flocking to meet our new Dear Leader. Haven’t we heard enough BS from prior managers including Hayduk to know that whatever significant concerns tenants have will go in one ear and out the other !It’s one thing to waste a few minutes in normal times . But to expose oneself to a risky situation like this in this COVID time is truly foolhardy.As the old saying goes “ fool me once, shame on you . Fool me twice , shame on me “ . Well we have been fooled many times
Pray tell . What is the real name of the “ delightful “ Ms Martini?
Exactly. It’s nothing more than reverse psychology on the part of management. Provide tenants with an opportunity to chat with the new manager, but the new manager knows damn well that there are no plans to improve the conditions in this place. But hey, we gave them a chance to chat!
The only changes I see forthcoming are the size and frequency of these carnival events, events that are attended by about 1% of the Stuy Town population.
No heat this morning. So what else is new?
The font is so small on those management emails that I just can't read them. The put the ads in huge font, but the actual message is in the smallest font available!
Someone on the TA fb said he saw Hayduk and Burke outside today and suggested they fix the heat system. Hayduk just laughed at him. Asshole. Glad he's going, though the replacement is probably just as bad as the replaced.
Why is he City forcing these apartment inspections upon us while there is a pandemic? I am not going to let any inspector in and if they don't like it they can lump it. The only people I would let into my apartment at this time would be the EMS and I hope that will never be necessary. If I don't let my family and friends visit (and they are all Covid-free, as per their frequent tests), I sure as hell am not letting some guy who has been in god knows how many apartments (where some people may be Covid positive) and may himself be Covid positive. They can threaten me all they want, but I am NOT letting any inspector in even if he's wearing a total body-sized condom!
9:06: Absolutely, no "inspectors!"
As I've written more than once, we humans too often are massively conditioned to "go along to get along." We allow all sorts of actions to be taken which hurt us because we are intimidated.
As is sometimes said, and I like this expression here: I will let you into my apartment OVER MY DEAD BODY. Literally.
Don't be threatened by these thoroughgoing idiots. Protect yourself.
The City is "forcing these apartment inspections upon us," because it's a Mindless Bureaucracy, and our Mayor is a phony "progressive," who actually works hand-in-glove with REBNY. Be sure to submit your annual Window Guard and Stove Knob forms, too, or else there will be 'consequences' (negative ones)....
Why are these fuc*in' apartments so cold??
Why doesn't Management provide heat instead of tacky "events"?
"Why doesn't Management provide heat instead of tacky "events"?"
Good question! We're in the grips of a deadly pandemic. We have little-to-no heat. They want us to let some guy in to walk around and "inspect" for no good reason. They offer $1k to bring in a sucker to rent here. Management holds "meet and greet" the new Loser-in-Chief. I could go on, but what's the point?
Just who is this "Adam Rose?" Is he a duly-appointed moderator of the two FB pages he is ALWAYS on? He used to pop up here and there and always offered knowledgable and sensible answers and commentary. Now, it seems he owns those two sites! He used to be civil and polite, but he is turning into a little dictator. It's enough having EJD a constant correcting and monitoring presence on both sites, and his constant reiterations of all the rules and regulations, complete with screen shots, but he at least is a genuine, transparent tenant here. Adam Rose just seems to have appointed himself Chief Know-All.
So many of them can’t wait to suck up to him. For what? He isn’t going to improve life here. Just like Hayduk’s publicity hound approach. Funny how many on the TA site gave Rick glowing good-by reports.
One jerk on the TA site actually thanked Burke for his heat. Like he had improved the system. Hope his heat stays on but it is not due to Burke.
Lots of Police action going on in the Sty tonight. God, please let me get outta here soon! Am hoping to move out next month and will warn everybody and anybody I meet to avoid this nasty place. I know crime happens everywhere, but we have such a bullshitting and deleterious "management" here that we never really feel safe. What makes it worse is that "management" doesn't even give a flying fuck. They are only interested in spin and avoiding bad publicity, which means avoid the truth about this rotten place ever getting out. There used to be a waiting list to get in and now people are falling over themselves to get out. Sad.
"One jerk on the TA site actually thanked Burke for his heat. Like he had improved the system. Hope his heat stays on but it is not due to Burke."
I think he might have being a bit sarcastic. This is the guy who Hayduk laughed at when he asked for heat. He's been suffering from no heat in his apartment for a long time. Hayduk is such a phony.
>>Lots of Police action going on in the Sty tonight.<<
On 20 St, in Stuy, and 14th, in Stuy, also. I just read on the resident blog. The TA blog, the news is VERBOTEN, it seems.
Welcome to Stuyvesant Town!
23 degrees outside.
No heat.
63 degrees in my apartment.
Pipes ice cold.
Only a fool would move here.
I guess that makes me a fool.
I feel so sorry for the the seniors and disabled who live here.
They are trapped.
Sad.
This place is crawling with lunatics and weirdos. Anybody with a bank account can rent here. The only vetting they do is to make sure they can pay the rent. They could be serial killers or child molesters. OK with Management so long as they pay the rent. I don't think anybody with an ounce of common sense and self-respect decides to rent here at this point.
"I feel so sorry for the the seniors and disabled who live here.
They are trapped."
They are trying to exterminate those demos. No heat and crazies all over the place. That'll do it!
It's hard to believe that there used to be a waiting list that YEARS long to get an apartment here. And that was before we had air conditioning, dogs and there were strict rules about carpeting and not creating undue noise. We also had a crack security force that were grown men and properly trained. True, the rents were very low compared with other apartments in the City, but most places in the City at that time were rent stabilized and reasonably priced. It was the stability, peace and quiet and the beautiful grounds that made people want to live here. Sadly, all that has gone and now people are scrambling to get out! I don't think we've had a decent property manager since the place was sold. The famous Mr. Potter had been retired for quite a while at the time the property was sold, but there were other managers after him who did a good job. From Tishman Speyer going forward, the property has been run by a succession of "managers" who were/are the bottom of the barrel scrapings in the profession of Property Managers and I doubt it will ever get better.
My apartment reeks of pot every evening. Apartment downstairs which has been filled with potheads and noisy college students for the past 10 years, just changing residents every couple of years. It is nauseating. I have given up calling because you have to wait for
an officer to come in and smell it. This place is a true sty.
We have had no heat all day. Temp is in the mid-sixties in my apartment. Bathroom is even colder. I consider it a public service to publicize far and wide the fact that we are treated like this by this vile landlord.
My gazillionth complaint to Resident Services re lack of heat.
Naturally no response.
And naturally NO HEAT.
This sensor system is useless - except for saving the LL money by denying heat. The minimum heat mandated by the City is subsistence level, not comfort level. I hope this dump isn't still advertised as "Luxury" because that is a total lie and a violation of the Truth in Advertising Act.
Heat? Everyone keeps posting comments about heat? What's heat? I sure don't have it in my apartment. In fact, I'm thinking of subletting my place to a butcher shop. They don't have to use a freezer. Simply store the meat in my apartment. Remember the scene from the movie Rocky where he boxes against the dangling meat carcasses in the freezer. That could be my place!
New tenant here at Stuy Town.
Brown water coming out of faucets.
What's up with that????
I have a feeling I made a BIG mistake moving here.
Heat is sporadic at best.
Stuck for two years in this overpriced "project".
Oh well. "My bad" as they say in the hood.
The windows here in Stuyvesant Town are a disgrace. Certainly do not keep the cold out. Drafty beyond belief. When it is windy feels like a gale force in my apartment. Neighbor told me we a paying an MCI in perpetuity for this crap. Is that true?
Yes.
I am emailing everybody I know and asking them to warn anybody they might meet who may be apartment-hunting to avoid this place like the plague. It's not worth the $1k bloody money they offer to destroy somebody's life and, undoubtedly, lose a friend.
The heat system doesn't work. The windows might as well be wide open for all the protection against the elements they provide. That MCI we are paying for in perpetuity should be rolled back and we should be given refunds. MetLife owes us that. MetLife was not and is not a "benign" institution. It has a history of defrauding people over insurance policies and various financial instruments it has marketed and as a landlord here it was a rigid, unbending Hitler. True the QOL was better inasmuch as they made us have carpets and enforced rules, but it was in no way a company with a moral compass. Certainly no more than the current filth that owns and runs this dump.
I know it's not politically correct to say anything nice about Management on this blog, but I'm going to anyway. I have lived in several different places and have friends in apartments all over NYC. Not everyone of the buildings I am or have been familiar with has been cleaned as thoroughly as these buildings are cleaned. Not pre or during Covid pandemic. Not every landlord goes to the trouble of notifying tenants that somebody in their building has been tested positive for Covid. I don't know whether or not there is a law mandating that landlords are supposed to do this, but this landlord is the only one I've heard of that does it. The through cleaning that takes place when a general health risk occurs - wether it be a contagious disease or an infestation of bed bugs - is not something that can be taken for granted in most rental (or even co-op) buildings.
I agree that the heating system sucks, and the LL could be a lot more interested in and proactive about noise violations (which are a health risk in and of themselves to others), but I must say that this is one of the cleanest places I've lived in as a renter.
I am very disappointed and concerned that Management is putting stinky power plants on the property and that could be a deterrent to them getting good tenants and could drive some good tenants out. By "good tenants" I mean people who pay the rent on time, and conduct themselves in a civil and responsible manner and show respect and consideration to their neighbors.
That's all she said. Thank you! :-)
I have a different opinion and photos to prove it. Just this morning, there was an uncovered mattress on the loops, a bedbug disaster waiting. And, sorry, but the smell of dog shit in one of the elevators with a doggie bag in the corner. Again, just this morning. Yeah, it's not the worse place or even close, but it is far from clean.
Question for Community: is anybody else experiencing frequent outages of cable and internet? Don’t know if it’s a Stuy-wide problem, just my building or just me! Thanks in advance.
21 degrees outside and no heat inside so it’s a less than toasty 63. But it’s just above the legal minimum. Won’t freeze to death, but certainly no comfortable. Still, for $3.5 per month I guess you can’t expect to be comfortable.
I wish you nothing good Hayduck, Burke and all sleazy bloodsuckers of your kind. I hope the suffering you inflict comes back to you tenfold.
Spectrum. I had to get a new router and modem
A tenant on the TA site made a good suggestion that management and our councilman make an effort to get a community vaccine center for seniors in ST and PC. Being that the vaccine is scarce and getting an appointment is extremely difficult, management might step up to do this. Communities are doing it for city developments. Unfortunately I have little hope that Beam living will do this or our councilman. For Pete’s sake do something for the tenants here.
"Still, for $3.5 per month "
That should have been $3.5k per month. Cold fingers don't type well!
17 degrees this morning and NO FUCKING HEAT.
Despicable.
The windows in my apartment are the pits.
Drafty, poorly installed.
When you factor in the lack of heat you can understand why people ask me if I live in a "cold water flat."
Not so funny at $3 grand a month.
I can't wait to get out of this slum.
"Being that the vaccine is scarce and getting an appointment is extremely difficult, management might step up to do this. Communities are doing it for city developments. Unfortunately I have little hope that Beam living will do this or our councilman. For Pete’s sake do something for the tenants here."
If they won't give us heat do you really think they are going to get us the vaccine? They want the elderly to die. They want out apartments. I wonder if Schwarzman got the vaccine? I would inject him with rat poison if I could.
"Spectrum. I had to get a new router and modem"
Did it also affect your cable service? Both the cable and the internet go down at the same time. Several times a day. It's driving me crazy. I don't know the difference between a modem and a router. I have this one flickering gizmo made by Arris and that is what brings in the internet. Usually, when the internet goes down the cable goes down at the same time. I am totally fed up of it happening. They tell me that too many people are using the service because of the pandemic and the system gets overloaded. My neighbors who have FIOS or RCN don't seem to be having the same problem.
26 degrees outside and the heat went off at 11 pm. Now we have to shiver through the night in this overpriced slum.
One of the elevators in not working again. This is becoming a regular occurrence.
12:50 A.M.:
Last night (Saturday), was the first time my heat went off around then, too, and I turned on the space heater.
Are you in 2 Stuyvesant Oval? That is where it happened to me.
No, I know they will not help seniors get the vaccine. They call this a community but that is what community is all about. This management is despicable. Our local pols also are despicable.
I only had wifi issues. Once they replaced the equipment , my service was back to normal. It took two technicians, the first was awful and several calls.
Minimal heat again this morning.
Why could I possibly want heat?
There is a blizzard outside.
Oh well, time to get the space heaters cranking again.
Lately , the heat amazingly has generally been adequate . That is until yesterday . This morning I woke up to the lowest temperature I have ever recorded in my apartment, 62 degrees ! The pipe-in my living room where I keep the thermometer are cold. The heartless people who run this place wait until we have a cold , windy and wet day to provide little or no heat ! Might as well maximize the pain to tenants. This long term tenant is counting the days until I and my wife can escape this hellhole . I’m sure Schwartzman and his merry band of billionaires are nice and warm in their multi million dollar abodes
I made my daily call to Resident Services this morning about lack of heat. The person I spoke to clearly read from a printed boilerplate response.
I said I don't want a thermometer. I want some heat! Awful! Just awful!
I am also a long term tenant and have to use space heaters in bedroom and living room. My apartment would be unlivable without them. This is a bastard slumlord of a landlord and has a worldwide reputation for being just that. Unfortunately, they have our elected "representatives" (and definitely the TA) in their pockets and we are stuck with them. I have ZERO respect for the "management" here and the TA which is clearly complicit in the cruelty and depravity of the Blackstone/Beam human filth.
I'm not giving up my apartment and will just deal with it best I can. I do warn anybody who ever asks me about living here.
33 degrees outside and a howling wind. Heat went off at 11 pm and won't be back on for several hours. Did somebody on here say they would stay at Hayduk's hotel which is staffed by disabled people? Imagine what the conditions will be like there for the guests and the unfortunate workers. I shudder with disgust to think about that. Hopefully, there will be a lot of oversight from authorities and organizations that protect the disabled.
So damned cold tonight and no heat. What kind of a lousy slum is this? The rent isn’t exactly on par with that of a slum, but the conditions certainly are. They should be fined for not
providing heat when nit is so bitterly
cold.
Good people living in the sty, for god's sake, under no circumstances should you eat yellow snow.
Ice cold pipes this morning.
I was so cold last night even under a ton of blankets and a comforter. I think they want people to get sick. Maybe they want to empty the place so it can be bulldozed. Or maybe they are such sick-minded bastards whose only conception of God is money. I wish we had a good legal team on behalf of tenants who could sue them for refusing to give adequate heat. Of course, if the City and our corrupt pols did a good job, that would not be necessary.
Has the TA come up with another tour? Maybe how the sewer system works this time?
State Senator Hoylman is currently busy advocating for transexual hookers. (This is not a joke.) He's also in the running for Manhattan Borough President, and undoubtedly has fantasies of becoming Mayor after that.
Paul Burke just sent an email about the snowmen in the project. How about giving us some heat, Motherf**er? We are not impressed with the damned snowmen! We want heat. Go back to your damned stupid job in the Bahamas. This is NOT the Bahamas and WE WANT HEAT!!!!! Are you too fucking stupid to realize that?
Where the hell does Blackstone find these losers!
"State Senator Hoylman is currently busy advocating for transexual hookers. (This is not a joke.) He's also in the running for Manhattan Borough President, and undoubtedly has fantasies of becoming Mayor after that."
Hoylman is a joke.
The lack of heat is a major problem for many of the tenants particularly the elderly.
Yet others claim their abode is too hot.
Clearly the heating system and sensors do not work.
The Tenants Association is completely worthless in addressing these concerns.
A lot of former employees read this. We should do a new post Q&A so we can answer all your questions! Some of the stuff we get is hilarious.
Have you ever seen this, STR?
http://www.manhattanrealestate.com/neighborhoods/stuyvesant-town-manhattan-new-york-apartments-for-sale-and-for-rent-and-real-estate-information/#:~:text=Apartments%20in%20Stuyvesant%20Town%20are,apartment%20of%20the%20same%20price.&text=For%20those%20who%20do%20not,than%20the%20rest%20of%20Manhattan.
I didn't think that any apartments here were for sale.
64 degrees in my bedroom this morning.
All of the local pols including Hoylman, Powers, and Epstein are a joke They do nothing for tenants here. Especially as regards the heat issue and vaccine distribution. Will not vote for any of them.
They need to be reported to the City for the denial of heat.
63 degrees in my bedroom at 8:10AM.
A balmy 64 degrees in my living room.
Toasty warm, eh?
Not quite.
No heat and the neighborhood is regressing back to being the filthy, drug-infested dangerous slum it was in the 70s and 80s. East 14th Street is totally infested with drug dealers, drunks, homeless people and crazies. I heard that someone got slashed in the face yesterday right by the subway station. And this loser management wants us to entice friends to live here for the princely sum of $1k? Friends don't do that to friends. I'd have to really hate somebody to do that.
@ 6:11 PM: Yes! I saw that slashing attack when I took a peek at the TA fb this afternoon! Right in front of my building! I don't recall hearing/noticing a lot of police activity yesterday and I was home all day. I think we hear sirens so much these days that we (or at least I) don't even notice it. I don't know if they caught the perp, but I hope the victim will be ok.
As for heat, it hasn't been too bad lately. I hope I haven't jinxed myself by saying that!
They have been. Must have a deal with city inspectors. Numerous tenants have called.
This neighborhood is getting worse and worse, especially on 14th between first and Avenue A. Maskless, mentally ill, and harassing types make walking there at night a challenge. Plus the flea market blocking the sidewalk.
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They have been. Must have a deal with city inspectors. Numerous tenants have called.
February 4, 2021 at 11:28 PM"
Are you talking about heat or crazies on 14th?
You can't even get hold of anyone in RS these days. We pay rent for heatless apartments in an unstaffed project.
We received a message today informing us that the Avenue C Loop will be closed beginning next Tuesday (February 9th) some time into April for "Con Ed Repairs."
Allegedly, Con Ed has been searching, fruitlessly, for a gas leak for quite some time. They are supposedly going to be replacing something or other over the next many weeks.
I don't think I believe this. I think that if there is even a leak, it has been caused by the illegal and death-dealing power plant they built on Avenue C.
Who is worse? Take your pick: druggies, homeless, maskless, armed-with-guns-and-knives violent crazies, or predators in suits who torment you and kill you slowly (hint: suits refers to "real estate," political, "legal" subspecies of human animals.
@ 3:41 PM: Have you ever believed a word that came out of Hayduk's mouth? If you have then shame on you for being so gullible and trusting. The new guy isn't going to be any better. In fact, he'll probably be worse. We are owned by Corporate America and if they could get the gold out of teeth they would. And they would sell it to the highest bidder.
We are no longer living in the America of our parents, grandparents and even grandparents. We are living under a pseudo-fascist regime where human life is only worth what its minerals can be sold for.
Has nobody else noticed this? Am I the only one who has been awake these past four years?
The situation around here has gone back to the way it was in the 70s and 80s. Maybe worse. Maybe we all need to get loaded up on Mace and Pepper Spray. If you have a licensed fire arm, keep it handy. DeBlasio is the worst and most corrupt and vile Mayor we have ever had. Giuliani was a piece of work, but he did clean up some of the sewers; Bloomberg was more interested in making money for himself and his rich friends and though the poor were totally expendable. We need a Mayor who is none of the above. We need a Mayor who will be tough on crime and doesn't have one hand up his ass the one hand in the till. That is pretty much the way the last three (including DeB) have been.
I don't know if all of NYC is becoming a crime-ridden fetid Hellhole, but around here (especially on 14th) it sure has regressed several decades.
Then "management" offers a prize for bringing a new tenant! Fucking UNbelievable!
Can't wait to get out as soon as my lease expires. I will only warn people to stay away from here. Far away! Can't believe the hubris of this "Management!"
63 degrees in my apartment this morning, pipes ice cold, at 9:20AM. Thank you, Paul Burke!
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