Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village constantly use leaf blowing, despite their promotion at being a sustainable community, reducing greenhouse emissions and LEED certification. (That certification costs money, and the building complex is not inspected again.) Leaf blowing is a heath hazard. We are told that even after the leaves have been blow way, the blowers "put into the air little fragments of leaves, and other dust which could be irritating, and could aggravate asthma with exposure. Additionally, there are the exhaust fumes from gas-powered blowers." Here, in this complex which encourages dogs, there is the certainly that particles of dog refuse can be traveling in the air with these blowers. Yummy!
I have seen, and personally was "blown" by such leaf blowers, who use their blowers in the morning, when people are going to work (and later, too). Typically people off to work try to avoid the blowers, but this avoidance is every brief. Residents frequently pass through the kicked-up air on their way to work, shop, or, if they are younger, school. Stuyvesant is too small for the amount of people in the complex to allow this. And we are not even mentioning Covid or other viruses that may be put into the air briefly.
The reason Stuyvesant Town uses leaf blowing is that it gets the job done quickly. That's it. Before, rakes were used, but that takes time and taking time costs Blackstone money. But the rules may be changing, legally. There is a state bill up that may prohibit leaf blowers. Of course, our City Council (which got a pay raise of over 33%) should adopt this resolution, too, and sooner rather than later (or never). Perhaps, our councilman, Keith Powers, can introduce this legislation and work toward its implementation?
Stuyvesant Town is doing residents a harm with these leaf blowers. Management and Blackstone should know it. But, even if they don't, they are warned now. Next is a lawsuit if nothing changes.
Further reading: https://bigfrog104.com/grab-the-rake-gas-powered-leaf-blowers-being-banned-in-parts-of-new-york-state/
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>>This morning the bros were pounding a basketball in front of my building at 3 AM.<<
Public Safety should be called.
There's increasing violence around Stuy Town. The trouble is that 14th Street area, and further up, and now included in the 1st Ave and 18th street area. Busy time for criminals and those who wish to do harm. Good going, Councilman.
Some drunken bozo was trying to get into my neighbor’s apartment at 5am today. Persistently ringing the bell and knocking on the door. My neighbor called PS who came right over but the fool had gone away. Probably in the wrong building.
That is Rivera’s jurisdiction. Powers has nerve to post pictures of the area showing that he is helping to clean it up. They both do not deserve to serve office.
By the time they got there, they would have been gone.
>>That is Rivera’s jurisdiction.<<
Yes, the south of 14 street is, but not 1sr Ave and 18 street on the Stuy Town side. Powers was even campaigning there.
The TA has NO shame.
As far as I am concerned they do not even exist anymore.they are merged into management.
The residents of 5 Stuyvesant Oval and nearby buildings yearn for the day the eColi 5 Turd Stuyvesant Town Cafe goes belly up.
Only a matter of time.
Noise, never ending blaring "muzak", third rate, over priced "artisanal" food...hahaha...yuch!
TA is in bed with management and shill Councilman Powers.
TA does nothing for tenants.
All 25 members of the moribund TA sit around talking how important they are....hahaha.
Delusional.
Isn't it against some City Law or Ordinance to have muzak blasting from a commercial enterprise right on a residential property and literally under the windows of residents? I'm pretty sure it is, although I'm no lawyer. BlackLung/BeamDying pay the politicians to let them get away with murder (literally murder in many ways).
Unfortunately they do business. If people would boycott them, then maybe they would close or at least lower their prices. Lousy food. I went a few times after they first opened. Would not go back now, but at times they appear to be pretty crowded.
I was at the press conference on First Ave at which the Blackstone deal was announced . Local politicians and Susan Steinberg , the TA President were all preening for the cameras and gushing about the deal ! So glad I finally left PCV earlier this year after decades of living there !
5 apartments on my floor rented by NYU students.
It's PARTY TIME!
Just encountered a dog without a leash in the stairwell. When the owner heard me open the door she started calling the dog. What do you think that was about? Yeah, that's what I think too.
The noise, the filth, the dog shit and (in many cases) lack of heat during the cold months. But they want us to recommend this place to friends.
Nadeem, you are so totally out of touch with the realities of living in this place. Come out of your Ivory Tower and look around. Do you have those nerve-jarring events and muzak blasting under your apartment windows? I bet you don't or you wouldn't even be able to do the lousy job you are currently doing.
I think that Nadeem, the so-called "CEO" presently of this refuge-turned-nightmare, lives with his wife and two children in a HOME (HOUSE) they own in Toms River, New Jersey, not in an apartment here. I may be wrong. If anyone wants to research it, please do. Maybe I have incorrect or partial information.
I know for a fact that the "Lifestyle Director" who gushed about what a wonderful place this was for his wife and two girls moved away MONTHS ago to a house in Pennsylvania.
Rick at least used to live here for a while, and his wife and then only young child did indeed live with him here, in Peter Cooper Village. His wife and child moved away in order for her to go to a special school in another state. He remained here part of the time and lived with them part of the time.
The one man, who was in "management" some years back who was the ONLY manager-type I met who actually had worked in building management, real estate (as opposed to resorts and entertainment/hotels, as does the current crop) was only here about a year before he left. I was told one reason, but always suspected he could not abide the carnival/circus destruction here.
Hayduk set all of this in place. He was no better though he knew how to BS some of the older residents.
Barking dogs in an apartment which annoys the whole floor. Calls to Public Safety go ignored. "Nothing we can do" they say. What a fu*kin' joke this place has become.
Adam Rose ran this place pretty well. I liked him.
To me, Hayduk was the worst. He set the policies in motion: loud concerts, ignoring heat complaints, catering to dogs, etc. What made him worse is his BS. He would encourage older residents to e-Mail him personally and they did. You could get the same service through the office employees who are very pleasant. He met with me once because I had put critical comments on the TA website. He was cold, condescending and yessed me to death. Pretended to note my complaints but of course nothing changed. A hypocritical phony. Some residents still miss his BS.
Why would any highly-paid executive want to live in a slum/dorm, which this place has become?
Hayduk was a total asshole and typical of the corporate suck-up that Blackstone loves so much.
I don't know about PCV, but StyTown has become a nasty, dirty, dogshit splattered slum. And I mean a SLUM.
Does Stuy Town have a rule in place that their employees need to be masked in the buildings? Workers are coming in and out of apartments in my building with no mask, and 5 of them just got off an elevator and all were unmasked.
I decided to sit around and watch some of the workers going in and out of the buildings, and of the dozens I observed, only 2 went in or came out masked. This is very concerning to me.
"He met with me once because I had put critical comments on the TA website. He was cold, condescending and yessed me to death. Pretended to note my complaints but of course nothing changed. A hypocritical phony. Some residents still miss his BS."
I had the same experience with him!
>>Does Stuy Town have a rule in place that their employees need to be masked in the buildings?<<
I would assume so based on the warning on the T and M entrance.
To emphasize the fact that this is a bona fide slum, the filth that owns and runs this place have announced that this winter the heat will be pegged at the City's minimum mandated heat level. 68 degrees is NOT comfortable and for every apartment that is a hot box, there are ten that get little to no heat and have to use space heaters. I've had it with this fucking slum. Been here 12 years and it has just got worse and worse.
9:24 AM, maybe you could report this to the City's Public Health Department. It seems that Blackstone has no regard for the health of its workers and tenants. They probably are heavily invested in Covid 19 medications and health facilities.
That Nadeem, manager of the pigsty, had the nerve to put out an e-Mail that they give heat above the city standard. Such blatant misinformation.
CALL RESIDENT SERVICES ABOUT THE LACK OF MASKING.
YES, I'M YELLING. THIS IS A HEALTH EMERGENCY
DON'T LET UNMASKED PEOPLE INTO YOUR APARTMENT.
NEWS FLASH: THIS PANDEMIC IS FAR FROM OVER WHETHER OR NOT PEOPLE WANT IT TO BE.
PROTECT YOURSELVES.
I'VE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH RESIDENT SERVICES, INCLUDING "MANAGEMENT" REGARDING COVID AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM, OTHER THAN THE ENSLAVED PEOPLE ANSWERING THE PHONES, HAVE LIED TO ME ABOUT COVID AND OUR HOMES.
YES, I'M YELLING. THIS IS A HEALTH EMERGENCY.
"Rule(s) in place" don't matter here.
Bros braying, sorority girls screeching, music blasting, dogs barking. Normal late night in Sty Dorm. Prospective Renters pleas think twice before signing a lease to enter Purgatory.
4;15 am the drunken fucks are coming home to the dorm. I’m payin $4k per month to live in a shithole dorm filled with undergraduates from the ‘burbs and flyover states!
Worst place I’ve ever lived in!
There’s a Brick Underground article on the TA Facebook about a couple of graduate students who moved OUT of the Sty because of the noise!
I rest my case.
NYU Graduate Students Forced Out of STPCV by NYU Students
The vast majority of news/real estate media, including New York Times, are so intimidated by Black$tone that they would never publish a truth telling article like this about the ongoing degradation and declining QOL at STPCV.
https://www.brickunderground.com/rent/transitions-moving-from-stuytown-lower-east-side-nyu-dorm-grad-student-hells-kitchen-nyc
Verbatim from Brick Underground article:
"From StuyTown to Hell's Kitchen: Leaving the 'dorm' for a quieter neighborhood"
"The building had elevators and laundry, but I often had to wait for a machine to open up, especially on the weekends."
"I did not like: The thin walls. We could hear everything our neighbors were doing. I wore earbuds to block out the noise."
"the building was old"
"There were broken floor tiles plus a bathtub that was often clogged"
"I didn't like how noisy 14th Street was, especially at night"
"It was hard to sleep sometimes because of all the noise"
"I decided to move out of StuyTown in July—the building felt like a NYU dorm"
"I love how quiet it is in Hell’s Kitchen compared to StuyTown"
"there are more restaurants [in Hell's Kitchen] within walking distance"
They are very happy paying $470/mo or $5,640/yr above the amount they previously paid to reside in STPCV, which they say is now a NYU dormitory.
Not long ago Hell's Kitchen was noisy, dirty and unsafe compared to STPCV. People living in Hell's Kitchen would patiently wait on "The List" for years hoping for an opportunity to reside in STPCV, which was world renowned for being a quiet, clean, affordable, safe oasis.
Screaming drunk kids at 2 in the morning coming back to the dorm is not the environment I care to live in for much longer. This slummy dorm should be torn down.
""I decided to move out of StuyTown in July—the building felt like a NYU dorm""
That's because the building IS a NYU dorm. Every building in The Sty is a NYU dorm. Possibly, PCV is spared the appalling situation because it is more upscale than The Sty (most places are), but we are stuck with this low quality of life. They can't even get people to move in at this point because it is pretty well-known that the entire complex (maybe excluding PCV) has been allowed to rot and that "Management" is totally incompetent and uncaring.
Three of our newest frat boy residents puffing away on weed on the Main Level vestibule.
Not a care in the world, oblivious to the fact that their behavior might be inappropriate and offensive to others.
I sent an email to our Property Manager Niddim Suckdiki.
Still awaiting a reply.
Smoking cigarettes or weed is against the rules in any vestibule here.
What are rules here? Management could care less about rules.
I wonder if Sidiqui has ever run a huge residential property before?’ I rather doubt it. Second rate resorts are more his area of expertise.
Anyone have any info on the proposed new market where Associated used to be?
The property seems vacant and no work seems to be going on.
This place is going down fast.
Domification is almost complete.
Partying, screaming, no carpeting, no rugs, noise galore, garbage in the hallways, pot smoke, dog shit everywhere, urine in elevators.
NICE!
A new Stuyvesant Town low!
A homeless man was seen squatting and defecating in one of the elevators.
Public Safety has incident on tape.
When Management was informed they stated a roll of toilet paper wil be provided in the future as a further Oval "amenity".
This is all purposeful, not a question of knowing how to manage. The bosses want the Sty run to the ground. His predecessor, Hayduk, began the process and he is continuing. This was a plan to dormify the place while making money from the packing of apartments. Nothing to do with management know how.
>>Anyone have any info on the proposed new market where Associated used to be?
The property seems vacant and no work seems to be going on<<
I have no info, but I'm assuming they will open up next year. Too late now unless they hustle. Remember a new entrance/exit has to be built in the back.
"Not long ago Hell's Kitchen was noisy, dirty and unsafe compared to STPCV."
Hell's Kitchen was always noisy, dirty and unsafe. Most of it has been knocked down and replaced, and still remains noisy dirty and unsafe.
Without knocking down or replacing anything, Blackstone changed STPCV.
STPCV is no longer quiet.
STPCV is no longer clean.
STPCV is no longer safe.
STPCV is no longer an oasis.
There was also a mentally ill man ranting and raving and banging objects along the way on the ST side of the street today. A public safety scooter appeared to be trailing him, but nothing was said as far as I could see. Not sure what the outcome was, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t addressed. They scum from across the street is infiltrating the sty.
I've noticed more and more of the homeless have set up shop on the Oval benches and surrounding areas.
The problems on 14th Street have filtered into the community.
No more "oasis".
Why are there no City services for the mentally ill homeless? The problem seems to grow worse and worse. They are human beings, no matter how annoying they are. I don't believe they are evil people. If you want to find truly evil people you have to look at the sane and well-heeled, e.g., the likes of our increasingly predatory LL.
Vomit in the vestibule of my building.
Nice.
Guess one of the braying bros had a little too much to drink last night.
STPCV is a dirty, noisy student dorm and is a total MUST to avoid. Add to that the toxins-spewing
power plants being built ON THE PROPERTY and up close to apartment windows and you have a place that would be condemned as unfit for occupation if we didn’t have bought and paid for politicians. Our local politicians and the scum that is Blackstone are living proof that there is a type of human being that values nothing that requires
decency. The only words that can describe them are evil and avaricious.
Constant barking from dogs in adjacent apartment. Appeals to dog owner failed.
No response from Public Safety or Management.
What to do??? Any suggestions?
The lobby downstairs stinks of weed. Disgusting. They smoke it anywhere.
Loud, cursing bros right under my window. They woke my toddler.
Gotta get of this vile, shitty dorm.
At about 2 AM this morning a pack of students filed out of my building screaming and braying. There were about 20 of them. This went on for over five minutes. Security is in my building. Where were they? This is a vile, filthy, dorm dump.
Screaming, yelling drunken students in front of my building around 2:00-2:30AM.
Weed smell everywhere.
We have no Security. They do nothing.
If a dog is barking endlessly call Animal Control or the ASPCA.
I would like to add my two-cents worth to this blog. I just got home from spending a few hours in an apartment in Penn South.
I was over there tending to the pets of a friend who is in the hospital. If you think this place is noisy, well I can tell you that the walls between apartments at Penn South are probably thinner than the walls here. You can hear televisions, music, talking as if there was just a paper screen between the units. Lot of loud, echoing door slamming too. The halls are bare and very reminiscent of NYCHA (and yes, I've been in NYCHA apartments too).
As far as Public Safety goes, the PS personnel at Penn South are very good (I found that out when I had to call an ambulance for my friend when she became ill). Our Public Safety are pretty good, too. Well, I think so. As soon as I got back home I had to call PS to report that one of the elevators was out and spoke to a very cordial gentleman. I've not had to call to complain about noise for years (even though I hear a lot of outside noise, but that's to be expected in New York City). My neighbors are very quiet. We're a mix of older folk and some young people (who are not students) and we co-exist very happily. My upstairs neighbor is a very quiet elderly gentleman who I never hear; however, the apartment upstairs from him is a revolving door dorm and I hear THEM!!! My neighbor frequently has to call PS and they show up and tell the kids to shut up, but they don't go quiet for long and, after one batch moves out, another one moves in.
Fortunately, I haven't ever had to call PS because of an emergency or a crime, but some of my neighbors have and they have been very thankful for the assistance of our PS guys.
In Stuy Town, a lot depends on one's neighbors as far as noise is concerned. I've been lucky in the past (except one time, maybe ten years ago, when male students lived above me). Otherwise, no complaints, though people do complain about noise depending in which building and apartment they live in.
This place should not be used as a dorm. It is supposed to be a residential apartment complex and that is what it was designed and built for. It is blatant abuse of regular tenants to use so many (or any) apartments for student housing.
Anybody thinking of renting here as a regular tenant should be made aware that they will be paying to live in an unsupervised dorm for noisy, parentally-funded undergrads whose exuberance is understandable (as most are from the burbs and flyover states), but it is not acceptable.
We know that the owners and "Management" of this place have no moral compass and would probably sell their souls to the devil (or maybe already have) and we, the regular tenants, are being made to suffer for their avarice and contempt for decency and respect.
9.10 PM --"I've not had to call to complain about noise for years (even though I hear a lot of outside noise, but that's to be expected in New York City). My neighbors are very quiet."
9.10 PM and STR, as you said, consider yourselves both lucky. Although your situations could change in a heartbeat. We have been through this BS now for almost 2 decades. The parental funded dorm style churning means that one goes through this shit over and over again. It is 'Sty' Town now. From what I have learned, this issue is not as bad in PCV which attracts a more family/older oriented demo because it is more expensive. Also, that is where Beam Living senior managment lives. Tale of 2 cities.
Screaming, noise, partying at all hours.
Dorm City Here We Come!
Nadeem is just twiddling his thumbs--while collecting a fat paycheck--until total demolition can begin. And from what others have said, "senior management" meanwhile actually lives (their primary residences) in other states (NJ and PA). Schwarzman has undoubtedly never even set foot here once.
To 8.53. This is 4.07 PM:
"meanwhile actually lives (their primary residences) in other states (NJ and PA). Schwarzman has undoubtedly never even set foot here once."
I am talking about Beam Living Senior Managment. Not Blackstone.
Kelly Vohs-lives here. In PCV. That's a fact. Nadeem Siddiqui-lives here. In PCV. That's 'a fact. Some of the middle managment people live here. Most don't. Former CEO Rick Hayduk and former GC Fred Knapp** once lived here. Both in PCV. That's a fact. My point being is that the the vast majority of the dorm style, parental funded, apartments* and the stupid/noise events are in the "Sty". Not PCV because that is where the senior managers live. They don't want that crap close to them and their families. And I am betting that there will never be a dog run in PCV like there is now (and most likely more) in ST's playground 5.
*Lower rent, closer to NYU and the EV, are factors for that too.
**Knapp may still live here. Doubtful but I'm not sure. He is so called "retired" but he is still is a practicing attorney as per LinkedIn.
Why are dogs allowed to shit all over the pathways and the Oval grass?
This is done with impunity by the owners.
Why doesn't Public Safety take a more active role with enforcement?
Even if you currently don’t have noisy students living in close proximity to your apartment, when you enter the elevator, laundry room ,lobby, and environs they are all around polluting this development. As a previous poster said, this was not meant to be a dorm, it was meant to be a privately owned community. And no resident, quiet neighbors or not, can say they never hear the dorm braying outside, the dog barking or not smell the weed or see the filthy conditions these students make in the recycling room.
I'm not so sure about Nadeem. I looked him up not long ago and learned that he and his wife had a house in Toms River, New Jersey. That might or might not be current. And even if he has an address here, it's not a certainty he lives here fulltime.
Given that one of our prominent management types had raved about how much he loved this place and all of the advantages he took living in NYC, with his children, and then proceeded to move out to a house in Pennsylvania, I would not be sure that ANYONE from Beam Living Senior Management actually lives here, whether or not they have an address in PCV and perhaps even use that apartment when it suits them.
While I agree that I don't THINK PCV is overrun with students, I have walked by and too often seen GROUPS of students MOVING IN. I've also seen them playing a variety of ball types on grass. I've also watched many people letting their dogs onto grassy, fenced-in areas to the extent that there were bare strips and dirt. IN PCV.
I just posted about who might be living where.
It is true, however, that Stuyvesant Town has become much, much more a plague and source of misery to its tenants/true residents than Peter Cooper Village.
The utter and insupportable hell of the Oval, and all of the "businesses" they've installed around it, coupled with the thousands of students infesting some of the Stuyvesant Town buildings, exacerbated immeasurably by the herds of student vermin screaming their way around the 14th Street Loop for 2 or 3 nights a week on the way to "parties" and bars from 8 p.m. through 5 a.m. is likely a reason for physical actions even courts of "law" might condone. Enough said about that.
I can tell you, though, that at least one married couple with children who are part of the Senior Management Team (so-called. Hahaha) live in Stuyvesant Town. They are exceptions to every rule here. They are decent, generous, caring, intelligent folks who somehow ended up working for the psychopaths and even worse who are Blackstone and their subsidiaries.
>>Why doesn't Public Safety take a more active role with enforcement?<<
Not happening. They (PS) don't want or deal with trouble, unless they have to.
Blackstone castrated PS because they don't want any threats of law suits. PS intercepted someone cycling around the Oval and the guy had his attorney write a letter. Of course, Blackstone cannot handle threatened law suits from petty idiots, even though they retain law firms that make the blood run cold. I know that for a fact because I used to work for one of Blackstone's law firms.
The one or two apartments where Beam employees "live" are probably heavily guarded 24/7. There's likely another, usually-vacant one for "emergencies." And any distinction between Blackstone and Beam is a false one.
Contrasting PC and the pigsty ST, one must also look at the environs. At one time the 14th St area had decent retail and was relatively safe. Now look at it: vendors with stolen merchandise, mentally ill ranting, low lives abounding, drug addicts, I can go on and on. Not saying that the area around PC has not deteriorated but it is nothing like the 14th hellhole across the street from the pigsty. Not surprised that the dormification is more intense in ST. Also the dog runs, the noise polluting oval concerts, etc.
Overheard a young woman speaking loudly on her cellphone…
“At first, I took one look at it, and said I would NOT want to live here! But, if you go a couple of blocks away, like over to Grammercy Park or Flatiron, it’s pretty nice. So, I guess it’s OK because of that.”
There’s a marketing campaign for you, Bloodstone!
“Sure it sucks, but it’s so close to places that don’t!”
" Not saying that the area around PC has not deteriorated but it is nothing like the 14th hellhole across the street from the pigsty. Not surprised that the dormification is more intense in ST. Also the dog runs, the noise polluting oval concerts, etc."
You got that right! The section of 14th Street between First and A is a fetid, dangerous slum. I'm surprised the businesses along that strip don't rise up and try to make the local pol (Carlina Rivera) do something. The dog runs and the crappy "events" on the grounds of the Sty are appalling. Then we have the power plants that are being built right on the property and up close and light and view-blocking to several apartments. The shit that owns and runs this place are the scum of the earth.
Many of the elevators in Stytown area breaking down and people are getting trapped in them. One in my building has been malfunctioning for over a week and calls to RS result in NOTHING. I think there must be some City agency that deals with dangerous elevators. Can't think of one though. I hate this place so much and I used to love it. Vile, parasitic filth ever since (and including) Tishman Speyer. May they all rot in Hell.
Anyone read the Tenants (not TA) fb recently? A lady couldn't get her laundry out of one of the washing machines because the door wouldn't unlock. That happened to me one time and I called PS and after waiting almost half an hour I called them again and told them I was going to gemmy the door open and didn't care if I destroyed the machine in the process. Then they showed up.
This is a fucking House of Horrors! No wonder that most of us now send our laundry out! Can't wait to get out of this shithole that is sooooo badly managed. Wait ... it's not badly managed. It is NOT managed. "Management" is a sick joke. And not a funny sick joke. Just a sick and nasty sick joke.
Dread the onset of winter in this sty. Last year I had adequate heat but you never know from year to year. This is indeed a filthy, unmanaged slum.
Heat?
What's heat?
Rolling out the space heaters for the upcoming ice cold "heating" season.
STR - Please publish this. As is. It is important as many of us as possible know and understand what is happening here.
Last night, Friday, October 15, 2021, was truly memorable.
I'm in the building which other posters have mentioned: 2 Oval, in which is housed "Security." From 8 p.m. onwards, the noise was such that no unbroken sleep was possible. At 9 at night, "parents" still had little children out shrieking as they ran around the Oval fountain. So loud that I could hear it all the way from the fountain, and around my building, for I do not face that direction. That, however, was only the cocktail.
By as early as 8:00 p.m. smaller groups and hoards/herds of students or similarly aged people, had started off Friday night with noise. Noise, noise, noise. I watched MANY groups of exclusively male college students walking and yelling into 4 Oval.
(The predators/sociopaths who "own" Stuyvesant Town had been overtaxing 4 Stuyvesant Oval, its apartments, infrastructure, facilities, and residents with inordinate numbers of "students" for years before COVID-19 came to throw its own parties in the Spring of 2020.
It seemed as if many of the selfish garbage left the building during COVID-19's first spring and summer. It was relatively quiet and there was absolutely none of the crowding and partying with which it was plagued for years. Since this August of 2021, Blacksh*t has reinstalled the plague, a plague destructive and illegal in itself, but also rendered more dangerous by virtue of the dozens, if not, hundreds, of other "invited," "guest" students who crowd it every weekend before, after, and during "parties," "entertainment," drinking, drugging.
The buildings are not meant for college parties. In addition, aren't there fire and other safety laws prohibiting large numbers of people occupying small, cramped, crowded spaces? Are our lives meant for this???)
This went on for many hours, continually.
Wait for it, though . . . At 2:15 a.m. I was sound asleep when I was suddenly awakened by a commotion outside my bedroom window. It was so loud that I literally jumped out of bed, my heart pounding. Screaming, yelling, cackling voices -- many of them -- were coming in through my window. I called "Security" for information. An uncharacteristically polite and INFORMATIVE officer (he must be new; they're ordered to give out 0 information, I believe) stated that, "There was an incident."
When I asked what it was, he told me, "An elevator was stuck." When I unhopefully asked HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE STUCK IN THE ELEVATOR, he immediately spoke up:
FIFTEEN. That is right, neighbors and fellow sufferers: 15 people in ONE elevator.
It was the vermin, human waste and garbage from the elevator who were screaming and shrieking and laughing and calling out beneath my window at 2:15 in the morning.
"STUDENTS." 15 students in one Stuyvesant Town elevator which broke down, yet again, overpacked and dangerous because at 2:00 in the morning, 15 lumps of human waste were standing on two legs in one small elevator in a building which is home to decent people.
After about 10 minutes, Security did have the jackasses gone. It did not, however, end. For at least 45 minutes, I counted between 6 to 8 separate incidents of yelling, screaming loud assholes parading past my window. Each time I drifted off to sleep again, some other walking plagues came marching past yelling.
Where the hell do we live?
WHERE IS IT SPECIFIED IN ANYONE'S LEASE THAT WE ARE LIVING IN A DELIBERATELY FILTHY, UNSUPERVISED, DANGEROUSLY OVERCROWDED COLLEGE DORMITORY? I would greatly appreciate it if anyone reading this will post here on the Blog the lease page and paragraph which specify Stuyvesant Town in this manner. Thank you.
I too heard the intermittent noise of braying bros and college gals outside 2 and 4 Oval last night. Every couple of hours, beginning with a pack of hyena girls at 11:30 PM. Security based in 2 Oval must hear it but it is ignored. Face it, this is the rental plan here and the scumball students fill the apartments. Lease or no lease, Blackstone or Beam Living are not going to change the rental plan.
Oct 16 at 2:05 PM, everything you say is absolutely right. I am sick of being woken up by the braying, screeching students. We have an elevator out of order for over a week. Management will not even address, let alone remedy, the problems we have here. The GM is a total loser. And I mean a TOTAL LOSER. Hayduk did at least try (somewhat), but this ineffectual jerk who occupies the position now doesn't give a rat's ass about what we have to endure. He couldn't manage a deli, let alone a multi-unit sprawling residential complex. I'm sure he only does what his masters command. Blackstone is one of the most avaricious and criminally life-abusing entities on the face of the earth.
F**k the TA and the corrupt politicians who stuck us with this life-negating vermin.
When somebody dies as a result of the negligence of the vermin who are running this dump, maybe the press will be decent enough to refuse to be paid off. Doubt it though. Remember sulfuric acid kid? I'm sure a lot of crime goes on here that we are not allowed to know about.
>>FIFTEEN. That is right, neighbors and fellow sufferers: 15 people in ONE elevator.<<
Unless they are part of the same family (for sure, no), that amount is not allowed.
BTW, that elevator certificate should be in every elevator. It is not.
https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/Elevator_inspection_certificate
Does it really matter what is allowed or not allowed here? Who is going to stop the bread and butter of the sty.
Who is going to enforce it, if "that amount is not allowed"? And is any penalty going to be imposed on the offenders after the fact? Well, of course we all know the answers to these questions....
I doubt the elevators in the Sty are ever inspected. If they are, the inspectors are probably induced to ignore any hazardous issues. Look at who owns and runs this dangerous, mismanaged shithole.
"... I counted between 6 to 8 separate incidents of yelling, screaming loud assholes parading past my window. Each time I drifted off to sleep again, some other walking plagues came marching past yelling."
Aree this year's drunk transient/student population enroute to dorms after midnight/before dawn are yelling and screaming at much higher volumes than prior years.
It’s well after 1am and the braying, singing, screeching shit is just starting up out on the 14th Street side. Warn everybody you meet that this a undergrad dorm and they could never expect to be able to get a decent nights sleep, especially on weekends.
Interesting:
https://www.vrbo.com/vacation-rentals/usa/new-york/new-york-city/manhattan/stuyvesant-town
Re: the vacation rentals - I don't believe that mismanagement isn't aware of this. In fact, they probably get kick-backs.
Nobody knows who lives here and mismanagement certainly don't care.
Hello! I wanted to pass along information; which may empower the Tenants. The issues with noise and odors in the buildings have to do with PCVST obtaining a certificate of occupancy (CO) from false information. The Fire Tests must be passed to obtain a CO. The buildings for the past 73 years have been in breach of NYC Fire Codes. I'm in the process of having the Department of Buildings (DOB) revoke all 110 CO's. Once the CO's are revoked it will be unlawful for PCVST to collect rent from Tenants; until the problems are remedied. And each Tenant will be eligible to receive up to 6 years retroactive rent abatements.
The NYC Multiple Dwelling Law,1937 NYC Administrative Code and 1938 NYC Building Codes state all walls in Fireproof (incombustible) buildings have to be able to block the passage of smoke, noxious gas, and odors for at least 1 hour, as part of passing the 'Fire Test.' In PCVST smoke, noxious gas, and odors pass through floors and walls in seconds; meaning it failed the 'Fire Test.'
The culprit has to do with the building materials. There's a dirty little secret in the building of many NYC apartments. Especially for the 'Largest Housing Projects' aka PCVST. Builders chose cheaper inefficient materials; rather than adhere to building codes.
The reinforced cinder concrete floors aren't properly air sealed or fire-stopped; in addition to using incorrect floor sleepers. It's unlawful for Tenants to hear impact noise. The floors have to be tested to verify what cement mix was used. 1 part (portland) cement, 2 part sand, and 5 part cinder was the norm. It was called 'deafening.'
The walls are supposed to be 3" thick solid cinder block; instead they are 4" hollow core cinder block. Solid and hollow cinder block have different mineral mixes. The shell of the 4" cinder block is 7/8" wide. This means each apartment has less than 1" thick porous concrete as a separating wall on each side of an apt. Extremely dangerous and unlawful.
I also would like to clarify; PCVST is not 'Grandfathered' into any laws. Noise control is managed with proper adherence to Fire Codes.
One last note; cinder, which is a byproduct of coal, releasing a lot carbon. Hence the carbon emission issues in NYC. I believe once the 4" cinder block is furred (covered in insulation), carbon emissions will decrease significantly.
I'm unable to post a picture of the actual 4" hollow core cinder block used in the buildings on the blog. I did post it on the FB TA website.
My goal is to have the floors/ceilings free of impact sound; with proper privacy and safety between floors.
Proper walls which offer privacy and safety. And walls which block out sounds of moving elevators.
Proper door hinges; which don't allow doors to slam.
Proper window; which block out sound. It was paid for in 1993; but never received. City Quiet has great windows. Tenants wouldn't hear anything outside the apartments.
And to figure out the reason water is included in base rent increases; yet Tenants receive monthly water charges.
Here's a link to 1937 Administrative Codes. On page 254 or page 408; shows the noise laws. Apartments are stated as "dwellings." Click full view. Once the book comes up go to page number.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924014113603&view=1up&seq=408&skin=2021&q1=Noise
If I typed the incorrect address go to babel.hathitrust.org. Then put in the search bar "The Administrative Code Of The City Of New York, chapter 929, Laws of 1937."
Here's a link to 1938 NYC Building Code. Click Article 11, go to page 17. You'll see the requirements for Fireproof Partitions.
Https://www/.nyc.gov/site/buildings/codes/1938-construction-codes.page
I hope this has broadened horizons.
I have been contending for months that there are tourist rentals here. Lots of French, Israeli, and other nationalities. They must have deals with tourist and travel associations overseas. Anything to fill these apartments. Scam lords, not land lords.
It seems there are property-wide problems with the elevators. People getting trapped in them, doors not opening, etc. This is something that happens frequently in the NYCHA buildings.
One elevator on my floor has been malfunctioning for weeks.
Do we actually have a General Manager in this place? I mean, does he actually do anything besides organize cheesy "events" that a handful of people (mostly from outside) show up for? Is he capable of running a residential property of this size? Somehow, I think he would be fired by NYCHA for being a total incompetent.
It does not matter who manages here. Their plan is to not manage and turn this place into a transient dorm dump. No improvements, just fill the apartments. This was the plan since Blackstone took over. It is how a slum develops.
These buildings were put up just after WWII and there was a shortage of quality building materials, including plumbing materials. The floors were not floated and there is no buffer between floors to mute noise. That is why MetLife insisted on 80% carpeting. Rules pertaining to noise were very strictly enforced and we had a very competent and responsive Security Department.
The Filth who predatorily bought the property (sold to them by the late and not great Robert BenMoishe, who is now where he belongs) got rid of the terrific Security Department and replaced it with Public Safety, as the security departments in dorms are called. The caliber and competence of the current PS Dept. is not anywhere near the standard (or the number) of the Security personnel we used to have.
PCVST was not built for the purpose of housing students and the use of the apartments as multi-occupancy squats. The inferior bunch of losers who call themself "Management," the General Manager in particular, do not know nor care who lives here and what goes on. They just want the money. We don't have a landlord in the true sense of the term; we have a predatory corporate dollar-squeazing bunch of grifters owning the place and the cheapest and most incompetent throw-aways from the world of second-rate resorts.
Two out of five of the washing machines in my building are out of order.
One since early August and one since September!
What's up with that??
Furthermore, laundry room is FILTHY.
Don't get me started on the dryers.
That's another story.
DIRTY and UNSANITARY!
Disgraceful.
Niagara Falls in Manhattan?
No.
The BROWN WATER gushing from my tub and shower.
I called Public Safety.
They replied, "Oh, happens all the time. Just run water and it will clear up."
I have been running water for past half hour.
Still dog sh*t brown.
Thanks Sty Town.
Wonderful!
All this for only four grand rent.
Lucky me.
Heaven forbid there will be some heat! Turn on those ovens, get out those space heaters, it's "tenement" time again.
They don’t even think of giving heat until November. And then we all know what goes on here.
It was 48 degrees this morning. Under the "old" City rules (no longer in force) landlords would be required to give heat. But what does it matter, when rules were changed AND heating system here is dysfunctional? Did 'our' esteemed former Councilman vote to approve this rule-change?
Space heaters are absolutely ESSENTIAL here unless you live in one of the very few apartments that get heat. Some people complain about too much heat, but most people complain about not enough heat.
The "heating" system here is a total failure. Management know this, but rather than fix it they will gaslight us to believe that it works just fine.
Elevators out half the time in my building.
Reminds me of the "projects" where I grew up.
Three out of the five washing machines in my building have been out since August!
Space heaters are an absolute necessity here. The maximum temp they aim for is just a tad over the City's minimum required. Unfortunately, we usually don't get even that amount. I would never, ever recommend to anybody that they live here if they actually want to call it "home." Unfortunately, the LL doesn't care because they are only interested in stuffing the property with students, transients and AirBnB "guests." It is no longer a residential property in the true sense of the word. It is no longer a place that people want to call home. One big badly run dorm/flophouse.
The area across the street between 1st Avenue and Avenue A gets worse and worse. The homeless and mentally ill are entering businesses and harassing patrons. This happened in MacDonalds this evening.
Plus the vendors clogging the sidewalk. Where the hell is the NYPD? Rivera and Powers, both of you are incompetent. Do something and stop acting helpless. Why do the cops avoid this area at night?
South side of East 14th Street between 1st Avenue and Avenue A:
I have observed a person injecting himself.
I have seen a clearly deranged man wearing just a diaper.
I have seen an incoherent individual muttering and screaming epithets.
And I have seen a wacko, ahem, "pleasuring" himself.
Nice, huh?
Agreed. This is no longer a residential property in any sense. It is a disgusting dorm/flophouse. Management has no idea who lives here anymore. Rolling suitcase air bnbers abound. Students own the place.
"...or the incessant "muzak" blaring from the 5 Stuy Oval Cafe Patio which annoy residents and passersby no end."
Why the HELL would anybody buy and ear food in that filthy, greasy overpriced caff that it is? You eat there, you deserve to have belly ache!
@ October 20 @ 8:29 PM: I always go up to Morton Williams for my shopping nowadays. The store is clean, well-stocked and open 23 hours a day. Sure, it is a schlep if you live in Stuyvesant Town. However, they deliver and their prices are only a tad above what we paid in Associated. They also have an online presence.
Don't stress yourself over Trader Joe's and Target's crap. Morton Williams is a solid gold grocery store.
The Hay Ride and trick/treat crap was advertised on NY1 this morning. It mentioned thousand of people converging on PCVST.
Lock your doors and keep pets safe and calm.
How DARE they inflict this shit on us! This a residential complex not a public park.
It’s not very safe at the best of times. Now everybody and anybody is invited to maraud the property and will no doubt will be thronging through buildings. It is an unbelievably stupid, desperate and dangerous violation of out rights to live safely and peacefully in our homes.
This so-called General Manager is a psychopath or a bloody fool,
Does anyone else think that the music tonight in the oval was louder than usual?
That iis very true
ZERO respect by Management for the residents of Stuy Town.
This place has become real sh*t show with all the disruptive, noisy, "events".
Does "Hay Ride" mean we will have to deal with horse shit, as well as dog shit?
It would be so nice to live in a quiet, safe, well-run apartment complex. That describes Stuyvesant Town as it USED TO BE.
At this point in time it is a noisy, unsafe and horrendously badly run apartment complex. The General Manager is incompetent or a total asshole. Maybe both. We have those noisy, UNtalented "musical" events and crappy, over-amplified movies which are all inflected on those living near the Oval and are forced to listen to all the shit, whether want to or not.
I am absolutely dreading Halloween this year. My door will be firmly locked because it won't be little kids coming around trick or treating; it will be all age groups, some much too old and too aggressive to be trick or treating. Regardless of what the liars in "Management" say, we are understaffed in the PS department and those guys are NOT well-trained.
If anyone ever asks me would I recommend they live here, my answer will be "Run a mile from the place and don't even THINK of living there!"
The crap running this place are constantly shoving "entertainment" and "events" down our throats, but can't bring themselves to provide adequate heat. I don't know anybody here who doesn't use a space heater (some have one in each room). That is NOT the way it is supposed to be. We are entitled to comfortable heat (not just a notch above the subsistence level) and we are entitled to peace and quiet. I hope that damned Stuy Cafe gets condemned by the health department.
So much noise tonight. Screeching, yelling, loud music. Last night there was a lunatic ranting for hours on the 14th Street Loop. I guess "Public Safety" had the night off.
Lord! I hate the shithole this place has become.
4 am and the braying fucknuts are reeling home.WE SHOULD GET A DISCOUNT OFF OUR RENT FIR HAVING TO LIVE IN A SHITTY VILE DORM. I DID NOT SIGN A LEASE TO LIVE IN A DORM. A FILTHY VILE UNSUPERVISED DORM.
It would be so nice to get a little heat on these chilly fall mornings, but that would be too much to expect from these bloodsuckers. They’re building dirty power plants on the property so they can sell electricity to Con Ed. The greed and avarice of these people is a malignant cancer of the soul.
The TA is urging residents to join or renew their dues, but I seem to remember them welcoming this scumbag landlord like they were greeting The Messiah. Am I mistaken on this?
Yes, the TA welcomed Blackstone.
The TA and Garodnick are largely responsible for the Blackstone deal which turned this development into a dorm dump. I was at the first meeting during which they introduced this slum landlord, praising it to high heaven. Lies, lies, lies. Have not paid dues in six years . Scam organization.
There needs to be police presence on 14th St. Today I actually saw guys on motorcycles riding on the sidewalk near Target. Unbelievable. The neighborhood is worse than a lawless slum.
https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/736-15/mayor-local-elected-officials-tenant-leaders-20-year-agreement-blackstone-and#/0
"We welcome Blackstone and Ivanhoé Cambridge’s commitment to protecting our valued open spaces, keeping Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper as a unified whole, and endeavoring to create an environment that is most suitable for long term tenants seeking to develop roots here. ... This deal is the result of years of advocacy, and we welcome the opportunity to work with Blackstone and Ivanhoé Cambridge to bring stability back to this community,” said Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association President Susan Steinberg."
""We welcome Blackstone and Ivanhoé Cambridge’s commitment to protecting our valued open spaces, keeping Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper as a unified whole, and endeavoring to create an environment that is most suitable for long term tenants seeking to develop roots here. ... This deal is the result of years of advocacy, and we welcome the opportunity to work with Blackstone and Ivanhoé Cambridge to bring stability back to this community,” said Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association President Susan Steinberg.""
WHAT A LOAD OF FUCKING BULLSHIT. STEINBERG SHOULD BE RUN OUT ON A RAIL. I'M SURPRISED SHE EVER HAS THE NERVE TO SHOW HER FACE AROUND HERE.
These blood sucking bastards are building power plants on the property so they can sell electricity to Con Ed, but they can’t provide adequate heat to tenants in cold weather. These Blackstone/Beam people are evil of Biblical proportions.
May they all get their just desserts.
Nadeem get out before it’s too late for you. You are working for Satan.
What a shit show!
Stay away!
Steinberg can't be "run out on a rail," because she arranged to make herself TA's President For Life. If so many (genuine) tenants weren't hurting, this would actually be funny.
It’s ironic that our landlord is building power plants on the property that will not benefit us and we have to use space heaters all through winter.
If anyone complains about me playing music or practicing my guitar - at any hour - I'll just have to refer them to PS and I'm sure nothing will be done. Become a musician. Practice all you want. Ignore the "students" that have to study in peace and quiet.
Hey - that's what NYU library is for - or the Oval study.
this is NY - or rather this is ST. get used to it or move!
Incessant noise, partying, music, marijuana smoke, screaming, yelling, garbage in stairwells, piss in the elevator.
Welcome to Pig Stuy Town!
Absolutely dreading winter in this shithole. Friends in other housing complexes are already getting heat.
With all the space heaters that will be used in the coming months, this is an inferno waiting to happen. Note that the GM and all senior management live “off campus.”
They want new tenants, but can’t get them because the terrible reputation of this place is very widespread. Today the wind is whistling through my drafty windows even though they are tightly closed.
The inferior windows we are permanently paying for.
I was just reading the TA Facebook page. So many people complaining about noise made by their neighbors (especially the students). It seems PS doesn't give a FF. Probably been told by "Management" to ignore such complaints. I wish we had a real Tenants Association instead of the sham that we do have. All they do is ask for money. Isn't a TA supposed to be supportive of tenants who are being tormented by noisy human garbage that make their lives a misery? I don't care about the damned power plants as much as I do about the absolutely vile quality of life being inflicted upon us by this billion dollar grifter corporation called Blackstone. No wonder they have to rent to students and other transients. Nobody in their right minds would move into this dump if they only knew how bad it is.
Constant noise, no heat, no Public Safety worth being described as such, rampant theft of packages and mail and unsafe buildings where anybody can walk in and do whatever mischief they want - rape, assault, theft. You name it.
I consider it a public service to broadcast far and wide that this place is a MUST TO AVOID!!!! It's no different than a NYCHA project except for the rent and many NYCHA projects are better run and safer than this horror of a dump.
Zero heat when temps dip.
November rent bills are here.
No heat is here.
No peace is here.
No cleanliness is here.
No safety is here.
DO NOT PAY RENT. PUT IT INTO A SEPARATE SAVINGS ACCOUNT.
PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME THAT A RENT STRIKE IS NOT EFFECTIVE. THE PURPOSE OF DEPOSITING RENT MONEY INTO A SAVINGS ACCOUNT IS TO REFUSE TO PAY MONEY TO PEOPLE TORTURE, TORMENT, AND ENDANGER YOU. (You can find people to happily hurt you badly for free. You do not to pay anyone even a penny to harm. Lots of people hurt other people for the fun of it.)
NO, IT MAY NOT PERSUADE THESE SICK DEPRAVED AVARCIOUS SOUL-DEAD "LANDLORDS" TO PROVIDE WHAT IS NEEDED AND PAID FOR . . .
IT IS SIMPLY TO NOT, NOT, NOT PAY THEM TO HURT US.
Yes, eventually, you/me/us will end up in Housing Court. Yes. I've been there years back. You explain the situation to the judge and hear what they have to say. Maybe you'll be "ordered" to pay the back rent. OK. At least it was sitting in a savings account accumulating 3 Cents worth of interest instead of further enriching the predators.
Understand?
Lovely Halloween "event" last nite.
Not quite.
Someone, probably one of our college "bros" threw up all over the mail box ledge in my building.
Quite a stench.
And the noise.
Is any of this necessary in a supposed residential community?
"DO NOT PAY RENT. PUT IT INTO A SEPARATE SAVINGS ACCOUNT."
As has been said more than once at this blog, unless this is a mass tenant movement of at least a couple of buildings, doing this by individual method is doomed to fail and all it does is destroy your credit rating if you want to move and rent elsewhere or even buying property in the future. And doing this without listening to counsel is a fool's errand.
"Deciding on a rent strike, HP Action, etc: With the now-illegal but still common practice of “blacklisting” tenants who have been in eviction proceedings, rent strikes can be risky, especially for tenants in unregulated units. If you decide that the conditions in your building are so bad that a rent strike is in order, consider retaining an attorney, either privately or through a public legal service provider. You may also consider starting a group HP Action for repairs and services in your borough’s housing court. Starting an HP Action will not put you or your neighbors on the tenant blacklist."
https://www.metcouncilonhousing.org/help-answers/forming-a-tenants-association/
Here is another useful ink re rent strikes:
https://housingjusticeforall.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/RTCNYC.COVID19.4.pdf
SUAF: If you end up in Housing Court, Blackstone lawyers will probably propose that the judge go on a tour of the heating plant. Good Luck to you, though. Are you keeping daily/hourly written or photographic records of the temperature inside your apartment since Oct. 1?
The problem is for Blackstone that some residents are seniors and don't care about supposed consequences.
"The problem is for Blackstone that some residents are seniors and don't care about supposed consequences."
True dat! I'm a senior and Blackstone will never intimidate me!
I have no qualms about asking (or, if necessary, demanding) that shitty neighbors tone down their noise and I run space heaters 24/7 during the winter months. Complaining to HPD is a waste of time. The inspectors are all on Blackstone's payroll and Blackstone usually manages to keep the temp just at or slightly over the legal minimum. It's not comfortable, but that where space heaters come in handy. The safest ones (I believe) are the oil-filled electric radiators. I never leave them on when I go out.
I know that Blackstone would love all of my demo to croak or move out, but we ain't gonna do that. We love our low-rent unrenovated apartments, we never spend a penny on Blackstone's "amenities" (not even the gross laundry facilities) and many of us have money in the bank to pay lawyers, if necessary. In fact, many of us are the parents of lawyers who would kill BS in court, if necessary. Don't mess with us old farts; we have weathered life and fought and won battles that would make the younger generation (including Blackstone's warriors) crap in their pants.
"The problem is for Blackstone that some residents are seniors and don't care about supposed consequences."
My take is the exact opposite. Many of the seniors left here are docile, have no clue of what is going on, and are too terrified to say anything against Blackstone.
I agree. A rent strike is not effective in a large group of buildings such as this.
Just curious, today is election day, how many who have been ranting against Powers voted for him anyway?
I voted straight democratic except for Powers. Voted for his opponent. I remember how he neglects this community.
It is not that we are docile and afraid. I met with Hayduk, complained bitterly about noise and heat issues when I had them. Also met with useless Powers. It is a matter of the fact that there is nothing to be done but move. Things will not change. The development is already a dorm transient dump with no viable TA. Blackstone controls its public relations. We have a lousy council member. I wish I had moved ten years ago.
"Just curious, today is election day, how many who have been ranting against Powers voted for him anyway?"
Not me. Wouldn't vote for him if he were running for dog catcher, as the saying goes. I can't stand the man and think he is totally useless to us.
Not vote for Powers here. I never even heard of the Republican candidate, but they got my vote.
And then Garodnick had the audacity to write a book about the deal that “saved” Stuy Town. These people are so full of themselves that they truly believe their shit don’t stink.
Well said
Bravo!
This life-long Democrat voted Republican almost all the way down the line.
I doubt they could do any worse than the incumbent scum. Hoylman is the only one worth keeping around.
So now we have DeBlasio with a deeper suntan. More of the corrupt same.
The do nothing Powers won. Still am glad I didn’t vote for him. Another four years of his incompetence and BS. Makes me sick.
Garodnik undoubtedly made a hefty profit from his stupid book. But the money didn't come from retail sales thereof. Furthermore, someone else undoubtedly actually wrote it for him....
The fact that Powers did not receive 75% of the votes should be very concerning for him, and tell him that he is not as popular in this district as he believed. The results in this election could be troublesome for him in his bid to be Speaker of the council.
So cold today and all we got was a quick puff of heat early this morning. Anybody reading this blog and thinking of renting here, do yourself a favor and DON'T!!!! You will regret it when you find out the reality behind the lies.
Spent the day pet-sitting in Penn South apartment. Heat coming up really nicer and toasty. Big difference from this frozen shit hole.
Schwarzman must have closely coordinated with his Billionaire Buddy, Bezos, in order to get Garodnick's ghostwritten tome categorized as being in the "Non-Fiction" category. And this City Council District was gerrymandered years ago by the Democratic Machine (fake "reformers") to guarantee a win for people such as Powers.
Brown water coming out of faucets????
What is that all about?
where are the october posts/comments
I have started to contact real estate brokers and mortgage brokers. Living here over 3 decades with very cheap rent, but enough is enough. Sleep deprivation is a very real open door to too many medical conditions and this has for me been going on for more than 20 years.
So much to look forward to when I say oood-bye and good luck to NYC and ST.
>>where are the october posts/comments<<
Everywhere!
Heat seems to be coming up only during the night and early AM. Does not portend well for this upcoming winter. Powers is gloating about his win on Facebook. What about the miserable state of 14th St. I know . It is Rivera’s turf, but he can certainly bring it up to higher powers. What about the heat situation here? Worst council person ever next to Garodnick. Doesn’t deserve to represent any area. All of these trolls congratulating him made me sick.
Bare minimum of heat. Apartment gets cold after sun goes down. Thermometer at legal 70, but still too cold. They are only giving heat at night. Slumlords.
How come there is no heat?
Tellingly, I did not receive a single Powers campaign pamphlet in my mailbox or under my door this election season, nor did I see anyone handing them out in this neighborhood.
Pretty much tells you he takes your vote for granted. Which is why he certainly didn’t get mine.
Never mind the fact that the few times I contacted his office about PCVST issues, he promptly handed me off to some ghostly apparition named Ben, his supposed community liaison, who never, ever replied back.
Constituents? Who needs ‘em?
>>Tellingly, I did not receive a single Powers campaign pamphlet in my mailbox or under my door this election season, nor did I see anyone handing them out in this neighborhood.<<
I didn't even know he was running.
He has done nothing in regards to any serious Stuyvesant Town issues. Talks a good game but does nothing. The fact that we suffer with heat issues which he doesn’t address is horrendous. Nor did he address the oval concert issues in a satisfactory manner. Was always a TA supporter as well.
Last time, it was impossible to 'escape' him (Powers). Now, as an incumbent, he didn't WANT people--esp. in STPCV--to "know he was running." Hopefully, Council Speaker will be...anyone but him!
Did all 25-30 dues-paying TA members rush to congratulate Powers on FB? Remember, they're "the largest Tenants Association in the country"--Not. Supporting them (and him) is like slitting your own throat....
Of all the truly bad conditions this slumlord imposed on us is lack of consistent heat which is kept at minimum legal limit. My apartment has been freezing all day, but the lowest reading is 69 which is legal. And dropping. They usually give a puff of heat when it gets this low. Cruel landlords. The UWS residential building I work in has had good heat since October. Where are you Powers?
This the only place where they give out thermometers. What does that tell you. Lack of heat, slum. If they need to give out thermometers, they are not providing sufficient heat.
If there is a deadly fire in PCVST because of the lack of heat and the fact that so many tenants have to use space heaters to stay comfortable during the cold months, the avaricious bastards who own this place will be culpable. Same goes for the substandard lowlifes who "manage" the property.
There is no worse death or injury than that caused by fire and the garbage that is responsible for depriving us of adequate heat will pay for it for the rest of their miserable, worthless lives.
Heat came on in the kitchen and bathroom at 7. Only those two small rooms. What a scam they are running with the heat. We need it in the larger rooms where we sit and sleep.
"Did all 25-30 dues-paying TA members rush to congratulate Powers on FB? Remember, they're "the largest Tenants Association in the country"--Not. Supporting them (and him) is like slitting your own throat...."
I used to be a paid-up member of the TA for many years. Now I wouldn't give them the drippings from my nose. It is a bogus, politically in-bedded (not embedded) corrupt scam team. It wasn't always this way, but it sure as hell is now. Who was the corrupt, disbarred attorney on the TA team who was in bed with Jonathan Gray? Lived next to him in an enclave for the rich out in the Hamptons? The TA should go to Hell.
I have to keep space heaters on in the bedroom and living room for most of the winter. Somebody in RS told me that my space heaters are causing the sensors not to kick in and signal the need for heat. When I told her that I do not have the sensors in my apartment, she said that it affects the apartments that do have the sensors several floors up and down on my line and, therefore, tells those sensors that there is adequate heat. What kind of faux science bullshit is that? What happens if the person in the apartment with the sensors decides to have the oven on to bake or roast food? Does that make the sensors "think" there is too much heat and, therefore, all the other apartments on the line don't need heat?
This is the most ridiculous and pseudoscientific set-up I've ever come across. It's like telling people that drinking bleach will protect them from Covid. Clearly, Management thinks that we are as unintelligent and moronic as they are themselves.
12:45 PM -
The heating, "sensors," and all of that has been going on for some years. Years back, I spoke with the company servicing the heating system after I'd come upon them in the basement level here (near where the garbage is collected downstairs). I wrote pretty extensively about it. These bastards know exactly what they're doing. It's too long to get into here.
Blackstone doesn't give a damn if we are smart, stupid, alive, dying, anything. They are predators and sadists and they, like anyone wanting to make mischief on a large scale, hire many lawyers to come up with language and "rules" and "laws" and "regulations" to justify their predations, confuse the "victims," and have them suffer and make them think they're losing their minds.
I read, consistently, other posters insisting withholding of money (rent) makes no sense.
It makes sense, however, to endorse and accept this by PAYING RENT and buying and using space heaters.
(Yes, I have one or two of them myself).
I do not and cannot agree that PAYING MONEY TO BE HURT MAKES ANY KIND OF SENSE.
Keith Powers is preening on the TA Facebook because he managed to get rid of filthy vendors and beggars on 14th. For all of about ten minutes were they gone. Then they came back in hordes.
I live on 14th just across from Trader Joe. I'd love to shop in that store sometime, but I don't even use the 14th Street Lobby door for coming and going anymore. I go out through the M Lobby and do all my shopping further up First. D'Agastino's is a rip-off, but it not surrounded by menacing panhandlers. I often cut through the property and go up to Morton Williams. Inconvenient and expensive, but they deliver 23rd Street isn't the filthy slum that 14th is. Can't wait to get out this fetid neighborhood. I'm here over 20 years and have seen it go from bad to worse. At least we used to have a real Security Department and 14th was alive with stores that stayed open really late. Associated Supermarket was the most convenient and well lit store on the block and there was a Gristedes just across First Avenue where the Post Office now is. I used to love living here, but now I hate it. It has an absolutely terrible reputation. I'm too embarrassed to tell people where I live and always hope they don't ask.
I feel the same way. I am embarrassed to have people visit me here. The 14th St area becomes more menacing and disgusting. Although it is Rivera’s jurisdiction, not Powers, he should do something about it because his constituents shop and frequent the area. It has become a real hellhole.
Councilwoman Rivera was last seen partying and dancing the merengue with Chuck Schumer himself at a recent conference. Definitely on her way up, since she's young, female, and Hispanic. Can't be bothered now with petty complaints from Stuy Town residents....
She should be ashamed of the horrible conditions on 14th Street. Unbelievable what we have have representing us down here. Yesterday I noticed a few of the vendors on the bus, one maskless, screaming about their shady business. They have set in on 14th St and are ruining our quality of life.
"Can't be bothered now with petty complaints from Stuy Town residents...."
Well, her side of the street is where the businesses are and they must be affected by the fetid junk bazaar that it has become. Those business should get together and go after Rivera because they are the ones who are likely to lose customers. I think those businesses should get out the hoses and hot disinfectant water and hose the sidewalk and the vendors too - if they don't pack up and move quickly.
Does anybody know why the 14th Street Loop is so congested with all kinds of trucks and dumpsters? The noise when they are putting those dumpsters in and out of place is excruciating, especially in the early morning.
This place just goes further downhill all the time. But that is the Blackhole/Beam Business Model.
1 PM and 2 cops standing doing nothing on First and 14th as vendor scum set up. What the hell goes here?
1:19, NYPD no longer has any jurisdiction over illegal vendors--De Bozo's brilliant innovation. Or maybe this was actually his wife's idea...
Ice rink seems closed but gang of unsupervised children wildly screaming and running around intermittently chanting fight and throwing around some type of hockey nets - why even bother calling security ?
We get a puff of heat early in the morning and then ....NOTHING. Every winter in this dump is like camping out.
Just read that the police removed homeless encampments near Tompkins Square. Now they need to remove the vendors selling stolen merchandise on 14th Street and the homeless, mentally ill taking over our neighborhood here. This has gone on too longer. Hear me Rivera and Powers. NYPD just stands there doing nothing.
12:39 Civil liberties lawyers would say: There's a distinction between vendors and "encampments." Plus BLM co-founder is already threatening Adams with "riots" and "burning" if there is any enhanced NYPD enforcement.
NO HEAT!!!
What a dump this place has become.
Transients, a dorm, no heat, dog feces and piss, noise.
How sad!
"Plus BLM co-founder is already threatening Adams with "riots" and "burning" if there is any enhanced NYPD enforcement."
The NYPD enforcement referred to is the plain clothes detail that do the "Stop and Frisk" enforcement. That can be very abusive in many circumstances. However, if BLM is going to threaten riots and burning, it will lose all the credibility it now has and will lose many supporters.
Homeless mini encampment set up on Oval.
Now gone. Guaranteed they'll be back.
Is this another Stuy Town "amenity"?
However, if BLM is going to threaten riots and burning, it will lose all the credibility it now has and will lose many supporters.
That's the issue, no it won't. That is precisely what it's supporters want.
Management is asking us to polish its halo by joining its "Give Back" program. How about you give us what we are paying for, you assholes, such as heat, cleanliness, peace and quiet, laundry equipment that isn't junk?
Most of us "give back" to various causes without any need for Management to prompt us. Blackstone doesn't have an ounce of charity or decency to its name, so jut focus on managing this dump better, Nadeem, and don't ask us to join your halo-polishing efforts.
I was just watching NY1 News and they had a segment about rents in the City rising sky high. One lady was being slapped with a 50% increase to renew her lease.
Did I dream it, or the Cuomo Administration make ALL rents in NYC rent stabilized, meaning that landlords couldn't raise rents higher than what the Rent Stabilization Board decrees at its annual meetings and hearings? Are some landlords just bucking the laws or what?
No heat today, plunging into the 40's.
I have not paid November rent yet. I don't recommend anyone paying rent until we have sustained and sufficient heat.
PLEASE DO NOT WRITE TO ME ABOUT THE FUTILITY OF THIS ACTION. I'VE READ ENOUGH OF IT.
DOING THE RIGHT THING, TAKING THE RIGHT ACTION SOMETIMES REQUIRE REFRAINING FROM REWARDING THOSE WHO DELIBERATELY HURT YOU.
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