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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«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 600 of 997 Newer› Newest»43 degrees and still no heat. The slumlords figure that since it was 60 this morning, they will wait a while until the heat in the apartment is completely dissipated. Borderline thermometer at 70. Not warm enough , but the slumlords know it is legal. When it dips to 68 they will give a puff of heat. Incredibly despicable.
Was there really a homeless encampment on the Oval? Yikes! Unbelievable!
This dump really is going downhill rapidly. I did laundry today and it took forever. Washers broken and those that were working were filthy. The dryers had to go through two cycles each to dry stuff that should have been dried in one cycle. I’ll never subject myself to such an expensive waste of time again. No wonder most tenants send their stuff out. Seems to me that only the students use the laundry facilities here. Unfortunately, they leave their laundry fermenting in the machines. Had to empty washers and dryers of what was clearly young jocks’ stuff. Boy! did it stink up the machines!
What, if anything, does that Kelly Vohs guy do? We know Nadeem doesn't do much (especially when it comes to responding to tenants' emails), so I'm just wondering if there is anyone steering this sinking ship. Every day we get closer to that iceberg.
I was reading about the garbage washing machines they are installing. Don't they know that most of us use the local laundromats who offer same-day service and pick up and deliver everything clean, fluffed and folded? Trying to do laundry here is a total nightmare.
Maybe the idiot "Lifestyles Director" should get his head out of his ass and realize that this is not one of the tacky resorts listed on his resume, but a place where people actually live - as in where they actually reside and like to get some rest after a hard day's work (not that I would expect him to know anything about that) and far from needing his "entertainment" and "amenities," we would like to come home to a clean, quiet and safe environment where we didn't have to listen to college kids hooting, braying and rutting. Add to that the yowling, barking dogs and the shit they leave in the elevators and on the hall carpets and ...... But what's the use?
12:16 - As they say, “in your dreams…”
No, that did not happen.
Heat??
What's heat?
SLUMLORD EXTRAORDINAIRE!
Saw a police van on 14th St today and no vendors. Looked like vendors had packed up. No doubt they will be back soon. They need to confiscate their crap which is largely stolen goods.
In terms of not paying rent, that is not a good option. I don’t know about others but my heat is just within legal limits. It is sadly not warm enough, but you cannot contest management if your heat reads in legal limits which I believe to be 68 during the day.
Property manager Niddim Sukdiki sent insulting and condescending email suggesting residents "give back" during holiday season.
Hey, how about you "give back" to the tenants something called heat.
What a jerk.
Some idiot who post on the Tenants (not TA) facebook has posted a photograph of his bicycle hanging from the ceiling. I don't know how much a bicycle weighs, but I wonder when it comes crashing down will it damage the floor of his upstairs neighbors. Maybe it will pull in a part of their floor. The floors/ceilings here are not floated and are very thin. That's why I hear my upstairs and downstairs neighbors' every body function - and I have carpets.
I hope "management" sees his post and kicks him out.
Well, we had our 9 am puff of heat. Now, ice cold radiators and pipes which will probably be cold until late this evening when we might (if we're lucky) get another puff of heat. And they want us to recommend this place to friends? Friends don't do that to friends. I would have to absolutely loathe someone to recommend this dump to them and I doubt that even then my conscience would get the better of me. The City Morgue is warmer than the Sty.
Tonight the vendors were all over 14th with get this, NYPD officers watching them. I asked one of them if this was allowed. And he calmly said yes. By whose jurisdiction is this legal? Vendors clogging the streets, spreading and leaving garbage and selling stolen goods. What the hell is going on here? Who is permitting this infestation of filth? The mayor, the council person Rivera? Unbelievable. NYPD watching them. This is outrageous.
@ 8:08 PM: Maybe the legit businesses are refusing to pony-up the bribes necessary for the NYPD to take action against the illegal vendors.
Maybe. Truly unbelievable that cops would stand there accepting this. This area is probably one of the worst in the city. I see a bit of it on the UWS but nothing nearly approaching this filth. Rivera might have some part in this. How can a council member allow this?
Again, thanks to De Bozo, NYPD no longer has any jurisdiction over vendors. Maybe Adams will change this back next year...?
So should the same be said about ceiling fans?? I know a lot of people that have them hanging from their ceilings here.
DeBozo is the worst Mayor we’ve have had in my lifetime. He’s taken us back to the days of Abe Beam. He and his wife are grifters.
Vendors hanging their crap all over MTA ticket machines where we buy tickets to get on Select Bus.
The sidewalk by the Post Office is beyond disgusting. Can’t wait to move out of here and be away from the vile, fetid slum outside the property. It’s only a matter of time before it encroaches onto the property. It’s like a Third World slum on 14th
Street. It wasn’t this bad in the ‘70s and ‘80s.
"So should the same be said about ceiling fans?? I know a lot of people that have them hanging from their ceilings here."
A ceiling fan weighs a lot less than a bicycle!
If so-called "Management" would expend as much effort and manpower into responding to tenants' justified complaints about the quality of life and lack of service here as it does into thinking up and touting its tacky events and side shows, we would all be a lot happier. More effort goes into the graphics for the "community updates" than is put into keeping the property safe and clean.
Nadeem and his so-called staff have earned a reputation for being unresponsive to tenants' complaints about everything ranging from illegal and unnecessary entry into apartments to being totally dismissive of complaints about the lack of heat - and that is a very serious problem for many people who live here.
Beam Living is an incompetent and unprofessional company and the rot starts at the top.
I can't believe how abysmally, horribly incompetent the current "Management" is. Someone on the TA FB hasn't been billed for rent for ten months and can't get hold of anybody to discuss the matter with. (If it were me, I'd just move and leave no forwarding address!). Another tenant has a busted dishwasher and can't get it fixed. The cost of that piece of junk is factored into the rent though.
This place is going from bad to worse. I don't want to hear excuses such as the pandemic, supply chain disruptions, etc., because the truth is that this bloodsucking, incompetent, ludicrous excuse for a management is totally out of its depth, over it's head and needs to GO.
We pay through the nose to live in a dirty, noisy, student-infested, unheated tenement that is located in what is now a vile and dangerous SLUM. I can remember the time when this place ran like well-oiled clockwork. Now, it is a shambolic, badly run money pit.
Get off your fat ass, Nadeem, and do some real work. We don't need your bulletins and events. We need functional equipment, cleanliness and safety and heat. If you and your team of incompetents can't manage to bring yourselves up the standard to provide that service, then just resign and go the hell away and take the rest of the useless flotsam and jetsam that is called Beam Living.
I concur wholeheartedly. I've been here for over thirty years and I have never seen this place run so terribly. And Powers is running for Speaker of the Council! What a joke.
Rivera is also running for the same spot.
That is a joke. Rivera and Powers are the most incompetent council members ever. Powers is a management lackey and that cesspool across the street is Rivera’s responsibility. It is a vile and filthy neighborhood.
But Rivera has a better chance, due to demographic considerations.
Maybe we should take photographs of the filth on 14th Street, blow them up to poster size and then take them to any campaign rallies Powers and Rivera (especially Rivera) might have when they are running for Speaker. They are both useless garbage who live off the backs of the taxpayers.
Not true. Yes, some bikes can weight more than others, but I feel like someone who prefers storing their bike in their apartment over the bike storage room probably spent a pretty penny on their bike and that usually translates to very light.
Bottom line is that a lot of people hang a lot of different things from their ceilings here - from fans, to lights, to bikes. Don’t get so worked up ver something out of your control, like this. There are
plenty of bigger things to be up in arms about here.
There are no "campaign rallies" for Speaker. It's all decided internally by the Council Members now (different from Olden Days when Speaker was elected by the voters). Democracy In Action!?
Democracy is dead in America
Freezing cold this morning and not even a puff of heat. The two-bedroom downstairs has been turned into a three-bedroom and is housing at least 6 noisy students. Only one elevator working (been broken on and off for weeks) and the cretins who run this place want us to recommend this shithole to a friend! Wouldn't do that to an enemy, let alone a friend.
This place is a SLUM. A cold, dirty, noisy and unsafe SLUM. Ya hear that Nadeem? You and your style of "management" have turned a formerly pleasant place to live into a stinking, lousy SLUM. Damn you and your kind.
I hope that everybody who is deprived of heat this winter will file a complaint with HPF. The heat here is pegged at the City’s subsistence level and frequently dips lower. We are not paying the kind of rent that entitles us to only the lowest level of comfort.
There is a fetid slum encampment on the corner of Avenue A and 14th St. That Rivera needs to address this.
It has been a slum for a while. The heat issue has been going on for five years. As the older tenants die off, they can turn more and more units into dorms. Last year seemed a bit better because during the pandemic the students went home. It is a gradually deteriorating environment which is purposeful.
Unfortunately they do keep the heat at legal subsistence level, so you can’t contest it. At least in my apartment. They have it going like a science. Once it goes below 70, a puff of heat brings it back up. Not warm enough, but unfortunately legal. Rarely does my apartment feel comfortable.
No heat.
Apartment colder than the proverbial "witch's tit".
The FILTH that runs this place are totally beyond despicable. There are tenants who are suffering from cancer, going through chemotherapy, having all kinds of painful and debilitating therapy; there are elderly people who blood is thin and who feel the cold very badly and struggle with dangerous space heaters to keep warm. The FILTH keep the temperatures at barely legal minimum levels.
I wish everybody in upper management a miserable, unhappy holiday season and a horrible new year. It's as much as they deserve.
We have had no heat whatsoever since yesterday evening. At that time we had a small puff of heat. This is deliberate harassment on the part of Management because they know that the students don't care much because they are crowded in together and most of the time are out on the town. The people who are suffering and are in danger because of this inexcusable behavior on the part of the scum who call themselves "Management" are the elderly, the sick and the very young. Maintaining the heat at 68-70 degrees (a lot of the time it is even less) is sadistic and cruel. It is even life-threatening. So many people have to use space heaters that it is only a matter of time before there is a deadly fire that will claim many lives and probably result in criminal charges being filed against the blood-sucking sub-human scum that is responsible for running this hellhole.
These apartments are drafty and the windows are in no way insulated because they are defective crap. MetLife is responsible for the defective windows (probably purchased from a shady company) and for the ludicrous "sensor" system of providing heat. All of these installations smack at dealings with the Mob. The elevators are also total crap. They breakdown constantly and the "repairs" are nothing more than band aid jobs.
I consider it a public service to warn everybody far and wide to avoid renting here.
The current GM is even worse than Shady Haydy because he is totally unresponsive to tenants' concerns and complaints. I'm surprised he can get a job even at this place because Blackstone certainly doesn't hire from the genius pool. More likely they hire from the cess pool.
11/14 @6:55
I’ve had 5 bicycles hanging from my ceiling for 30+ years. We also have a pot rack that has easily as much weight suspended in our kitchen for just as long. We’ve, of course, been inspected many times over. There is zero danger if done properly.
Stick to what you know, MYOB, etc…
“Community Updates” posted in the elevators encouraging tenants to have Thanksgiving dinner at Rosemary’s.
No mention of the fact that the owners get a cut of their profits.
We went there once, and can say it perfectly encapsulates the essence of contemporary PCVST - overpriced and mediocre.
39 degrees outside. 69 degrees in my apartment. Not comfortable. We have had zero heat all day. I hate this place and the diabolical shit that runs it.
We had no heat all day until late this evening. It's been in the 30s all day and my apartment was in the low 60s. I wish we could get some journalist or the 60 Minutes News people to come and interview people here and expose what this miserable bunch of scummy grifters is getting away with. Most definitely there are people in the City's employ (inspectors, for instance) who are being paid to look the other way. The politicians who we elect don't give a flying f**k and are probably paid to keep quiet.
There's a thread on the TA fb page about missing packages and the way some delivery people now send a photo of the packages by the apartment door. Someone said they should photograph the apartment number and the name on the door. Obviously, that poster doesn't know that the majority of residents are named "Welcome Home."
Rick the Dick Hayduk really screwed up when he tore down the directories and decided that every new tenant should be named "Welcome Home." What an ASS! The guy who is replacing him is no better, though. He's as thick as the proverbial brick and bone idle.
5:20 am and not had a wink of sleep because it is as cold as a tomb in my apartment. This is totally unacceptable.
I too thought that Rosemary’s was a ripoff. Ate there twice and the food was mediocre, poor selection on the menu too. Do not understand all the good reviews. Maybe they are planted
Unfortunately 69 is legal . They have it down to an evil science. Minimum heat. Has to be over 68. Mine is 69 too. Too cold, but it cannot be contested.
Hayduk was a phony hypocrite.
Another family just moved out of the lottery apartment on my floor. They didn't last 9 months. when you can't keep people to their leases and they are in a lottery apartment, that is saying something bad for sure.
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Don’t know why people patronize restaurants that Sty management has a financial interest in. There are plenty of places that are not profitable to the despicable scum that own this place. I refuse to put a penny more than my bloated rent into Beam/Blackstone coffers. I won’t even use their fetid laundry room.
There should be an inspection sign in the elevator, not pimping Rosemary's.
I feel the same way. I refuse to go to any of their cheesy events, generally take my laundry out, and as for their restaurant , even if it was decent I wouldn’t frequent it. Until they can give us decent heat and living conditions, I will continue to refuse their gyms, benches, restaurants , so called events and anything associated with them.
BTW, considering our lack of heat (for most of us), does anyone remember the knobs on a radiator that one had to turn to get heat? I recall something like this way in the past, but I don't think it was in Stuy Town. There, a resident controlled their own heat, aside from the landlord being derelict.
69 all day but apartment feels like an icebox. I think I heard the heat coming up. The bastards will give a puff to bring it up to 70 or 71, then turn it off again.
NO FU*KING HEAT
I was just over in the 24-hour deli on Avenue A (not the new one) buying a few groceries and the guy behind the counter knows me and knows I live in Stuyvesant Town. He said he had heard that we get no heat and asked if it was true. I said yes it was true and that they keep the temperature deliberately down the bare legal minimum and often below even. He said he'd heard a lot of customers complaining about it. I occasionally heard similar conversations when I used to go to Associated, only those conversations were between residents of Sty, not the residents and the cashiers.
We have to resort to space heaters or putting the oven on for extended periods of time and those practices are neither healthy nor safe. When a major tragedy occurs here because of Blackstone's blood-sucking greed and avarice and total disregard for human life, there will be a mammoth law suit and, probably, some of the scum responsible will be thrown in jail.
I should contact Bill Maher and ask him to give a monolog about this place. He gave one of the Koch brothers who croaked recently a really "good" eulogy! The kind that only Bill Maher could get away with. I'd love to hear what he would say about Schwartzman, Grey and the rest of the filth here if they croaked. If only!
"69 all day but apartment feels like an icebox. I think I heard the heat coming up. The bastards will give a puff to bring it up to 70 or 71, then turn it off again."
These apartments are very drafty. The windows don't close properly in a lot of cases and they are not insulated, anyway.
My bathroom window is totally unmovable. I've glued a thick plank over it to keep out the cold air. Cold air whistles under the front door. I keep a draft rug in front of it (inside) and I have huge cushions (salvaged from an old sofa up agains the LR windows. Must look like a squat from the outside, but I really don't care. To add insult to injury, when the radiators are off (as they are 98% of the time), they are not only cold, but cold air comes up and out of the grill. It's like having an air conditioner on when it's 35 degrees outside. In a normal place, warm or hot air would come out of the radiator grill! But this isn't a normal place by any stretch of the imagination. It's a cross between a slum/NYCHA/dorm. And the senior management people who run it are the absolute dregs of the RE industry and the resort industry.
Never any heat overnight in this slum. No matter how far down the temperature goes, you have to have a space heater running and/or wear thermal underwear!
But then our rent is only $5K per Month for a one bedroom. Can’t expect heat for that pittance.
"BTW, considering our lack of heat (for most of us), does anyone remember the knobs on a radiator that one had to turn to get heat? I recall something like this way in the past, but I don't think it was in Stuy Town. There, a resident controlled their own heat, aside from the landlord being derelict."
I remember those knobs on radiators. Some tenants maybe unaware of the lever on the right side of the radiator which helps to regulate the heat. Make sure that lever is in the middle of it's range. That lever turns a cover inside the radiator to help regulate the amount of heat coming out. If you turn that lever to it's extreme in either direction it will block much of the heat coming out.
Yes, I am aware of those knobs and have had all checked. I also called a city inspector to come over. Result: I don't know.
>>These apartments are very drafty. The windows don't close properly in a lot of cases and they are not insulated, anyway. My bathroom window is totally unmovable. I've glued a thick plank over it to keep out the cold air. Cold air whistles under the front door. I keep a draft rug in front of it (inside) and I have huge cushions (salvaged from an old sofa up agains the LR windows. Must look like a squat from the outside, but I really don't care. To add insult to injury, when the radiators are off (as they are 98% of the time), they are not only cold, but cold air comes up and out of the grill. It's like having an air conditioner on when it's 35 degrees outside.<<
A lot of residents would agree with you, myself included.
Heat dipped down to 68 this morning, lowest yet. Finally called, still no heat. Terrible that we have to live under these conditions. I have to wear thermal clothes. My bedroom furniture is like ice. This is a true slum.
Having no heat takes the joy out of life. It is hard to feel "at home" when you are cold. It doesn't matter how "nice" the apartment is otherwise because it cannot be enjoyed in comfort when it is cold. It is not "home" then. A cheap hotel room is more welcoming and comforting if it is warm and cozy on a chilly winter day. Sadly, Stuyvesant Town is very cold and institutional and all the razzmatazz of the "amenities" "entertainment" etc., adds up to nothing when you can't relax and be comfortable in the place you are renting because it is as cold as a tomb.
68-70 degrees is not exactly "toasty," but it is the minimum mandated by the City so that slumlords are forced to give their tenants a modicum of heat. NYCHA tenants probably get more heat, with the exception of some of the really bad projects.
Can't call Stuyvesant Town "Home Sweet Home" in the winter. More like "Bleak House."
That CHP monstrosity on Avenue C is not only dangerous and unlawful, but it is a major insult to tenants whose apartments look out onto it. It's like Schwartzman went to those people, dropped his pants, bent over and took a major shit right into their faces. A shit that never ends. I don't know how anybody can bear to live in those units. There should be some legal recourse for loss of daylight, pollution, etc. Too bad that our so-called representatives in City Hall are all on Blackstone's payroll. They all belong in the slammer along with Silver, Skelos and (hopefully soon) Cuomo. New York pols are known for being the most corrupt absolute scum of the earth and they certainly earn that reputation and live up to it.
Just saw on NY1 that some NYCHA buildings have been given over to private management and that the tenants want NYCHA to reverse the decision because the private management is so bad. They're lucky they don't have Beam Living or they would really be in trouble!
Not a puff of heat the whole damned day. I hope everyone in upper management has a rotten Holiday and gets bellyache plus the flu.
Guess what?
NO HEAT!
On Thanksgiving Day no less!
Gobble, gobble!
F U avaricious, greedy ghouls who run this soon to be slum.
Does anyone get heat in this place??
At over 4K rent is that too much to ask?
Finally got heat this morning and it is not a cold day. Perhaps the masters are granting it to us for the holiday. A lot of people will be coming into the development today and you never know who might detect the slum conditions.
No Heat Today. Thanksgiving and absolutely NO HEAT! I hope nobody dies because of these greedy, bloodsucking vermin. Elderly people need heat. Babies and young children need heat. Dammit, even out pets need heat! There are elderly people (not all are snowbirds), babies, people battling serious illnesses and people who are well and young, but would just like to be warm and comfortable!
There will be a major catastrophe eventually. A space heater will burst into flames or child get burned. Somebody will die from having the oven on as a source of heat. I think that the ghouls are maybe hoping for something catastrophic to happen so the buildings can be condemned and they can build luxury apartments on the land.
Damn you, Beam Living. Nadeem you are a disgrace to humanity, as are your masters and overlords. Go away and find another job. I'm sure there's something useful you could do, but running a property like this one is not one of your few talents.
The people who work in RS are forced to lie when people call and ask for heat. It must be very demoralizing working for scum like Beam Living.
The people who run this dump are the same ilk as those who run seedy nursing homes and abuse the residents. It takes a certain type and that would be the Beam Living type.
No heat in this dump today. I've posted it on Facebook and asked all my friends to pass it on. I consider it a public service to warn everybody what to expect should they think about renting here. The warning will go all around the planet!
If people are cooking turkey and stuff today and the ovens throw out any heat (which, of course, they will) the heat goes off for the entire line. Well, that's the theory. Two of my neighbors have sensors in the back bedroom (3-br units) and those rooms are never used anymore. The sensors are in those rooms and the heat never comes on. They have tried opening the windows in those rooms on very cold days just to see if the sensors kick in and tell the heating system to come on. They didn't. One put an ice bag half an inch away from the sensor. Nothing! The heating system is a colossal failure. Just like Management.
I know it was MetLife (who were NOT the munificent, benign landlord some people claims they were) who put the sensors system in place but, as with the windows and the original intercoms, they were abysmally defective and useless. They replaced the intercoms, but we are stuck with the defective and useless heating system and windows.
First puff of heat in 24 hours just came up. Probably won't last more than 15 minutes. Wouldn't want to send Black$soul into bankruptcy.
Two brief 15-minute puffs of heat today.
You can blame Met Life, but we always had adequate heat under them. In addition, Beam has had five years to fix the heating system. They will not even admit there is anything wrong with it. When they want to raise the heat they can.
My thermometer reads 68 degrees, but my apartment feels like a fridge. The legal minimum is NOT comfortable. Are we not allowed to be comfortable? Am going online to order a couple of space heaters.
I understand it’s common knowledge now that Stytown gets very little heat. No wonder they can only rent to students. Why would anybody want to pay high rent to live here?
New Yorkers recently overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the State Constitution that would add “Each person shall have a right to clean air and water, and a healthful environment.”
I wonder how this squares with the CHP plants the landlord wants. Would seem to open up a whole new avenue for opposition.
38 degrees outside and no f**king heat inside. Thermometer reads 66. Damn these bloodsucking bastards. Damn them to Hell!
@5:35 PM: Right on! This landlord treats tenants like garbage. Who the hell do they think they are! We are moving out soon and will warn everybody and anybody about this place. We have a landlord who is probably the worst predator on the face of the Earth. Totally evil and despicable. I don't know why anybody would want to work for these lowlifes or live in one of their properties. Stuyvesant Town and PCV wasn't always like it is today. It use to be a pleasant and safe place to live. Now it is a stinking slum. We can't even recycle anymore because the recycling room makes me want to vomit. Not because of the job the overworked porters do, but because the shit who live here now just don't have a clue or a desire to do anything with respect. Garbage (not recyclable) all over the place. I now throw everything (except glass) down the garbage chute because there is no way whatsoever that anything actually gets recycled from this dump.
When it comes to a race to the bottom, Beam Living
will always win.
A brief puff of heat this morning and nothing since. I've ordered two space heaters (one for BR and one for LR) and I anticipate they will be running 24/7 for the rest of the winter. I hate this damned place and the scum who run it. I don't think anybody in upper management lives on the property and the people in RS are trained to read a script to residents who complain about lack of heat.
65 degrees in my drafty bedroom.
Drafty windows and ice cold pipes.
I have emailed our Property Manager and overseer Nadeem Suckdicki but no response.
Disgraceful and possibly illegal.
ZERO heat in many apartments...sadly, mine included.
Other apartments are saunas.
Go figuh'
Anybody know what the extremely loud machinery is on 14th? Started just after 3 am. How considerate
Never ending, incessant "muzak" blaring from the 5 Stuy Oval Cafe.
So utterly disrespectful, annoying and offensive to the residents of 5 Stuyvesant Oval and surrounding buildings.
Space heaters in bedrooms and living room going full blast!
Heat, glorious heat, where art thou?
Remember, folks, Nadeem is a graduate of the prestigious Pakistani Air Force College (in American terms, a prep or boarding secondary school). He's thus eminently qualified for his job--not!
No gas in 515 East 14th Street.
Minimal heat too.
Nice!
65 is illegal. It should be 68 or over.
Had heat for a few days, Thanksgiving holiday, now it is gone. 69 and my apartment is freezing. Arrived home two hours ago and it gets colder and colder. These bastards can control this heat whether the system is broken or not.
Emailing will do no good. I call service, sometimes it helps, not always. Mine is above legal though cold. If it is 65 it is below legal. Call 311. Although I have heard that doesn’t help either. Service will ask if you want an engineer to come over. Some are sympathetic and will raise the heat a bit. They are manipulating this heating system to save money and getting away with it. If your heat is 65, you are two degrees below legal.
Below legal.
Why doesn’t our lousy useless TA do something about this? A rent strike would be totally justified
Nadeem is a useless moron. Just a puppet
Nadeem comes from a third world country where only the ruling class have any power. He thinks he is part of that class and we are the peasants whose lives have no value
Paying top market rent for basic tenement heat.
At the end of last winter, I got a call asking if they could install a heat sensor in my apartment. Since I live on a low floor, I said yes. Guess what, doesn't make any difference whatsoever! Still need to use heater. Thermometer is usually on 66 degrees. Had windows adjusted last winter and can't latch them now after one year. Sad that greed is the number one priority of this landlord.
"Emailing will do no good. I call service, sometimes it helps, not always. Mine is above legal though cold. If it is 65 it is below legal. Call 311. Although I have heard that doesn’t help either. Service will ask if you want an engineer to come over. Some are sympathetic and will raise the heat a bit. They are manipulating this heating system to save money and getting away with it. If your heat is 65, you are two degrees below legal."
The LEGAL MINIMUM is 68 during the day and 62 at night. If your level of heat is below 68 (the bare minimum permitted by the City) during the day, you should file a complaint with HPD.
These bloodsuckers are aiming for rock-bottom in every are of what they give and sky-high in what they take. The total scum of the earth owns and manages this crumbling hell-hole.
"Paying top market rent for basic tenement heat."
That's just stupid and that's on you, not the owner.
I ran into a young woman today who shares a 2 BR renovated (market rate) apartment with a room mate. I asked her if the apartment was warm and she said NO. She said it is so cold that she and her room mate had bought electric blankets and had purchased a space heater for the LR.
I don't know what they pay in rent, but 2 BR renovated units are pretty steep, Not to have heat is a total insult.
Another freezing, no heat night.
There is no real TA. Just a part of management.
Two bedroom renovated apartments are somewhere in the range of 4,000-4500 monthly. Outrageous in this slum.
Today my heat went below the legal limit. I texted but still not a puff of heat all day. I had heat over Thanksgiving weekend, so they are manipulating it. Where is our illustrious council person? This is an unhealthy situation and the politicians are well aware of it. This is a true slum.
The owner is responsible. It is not on the tenant.
Why doesn’t our councilman help? He knows the situation here.
My home is cold, endangering both the humans who live here, and the other animals who live here, and them more so than humans.
I did not pay November's rent until it was at least halfway into the month. I debate with myself paying rent at all for December.
And, I keep telling myself that one of these days some, or many, of us, will agree to withhold rent as a group. Not only does Blackstone NOT earn rent; it earns a growing DEBT to us.
Anyone seriously considering denying money to Blackstone by reason of its deliberate endangering us now, please just write that on this blog. We can work together.
Omicron is now posing an additional and possibly highly dangerous threat to every homo sapien (sic) on Earth. Among other things, we need to mask anywhere indoors when we might come across other homo sapiens; Blackstone needs to provide plentiful and clear signs requiring us to mask in common spaces.
The youngsters and others living in Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village need to limit their socializing once more, and surely not bring people into these apartments whose inhabitants breathe all of the same air all day and night.
A family member, not old, and "fully vaccinated" in the UK, recently became nearly fatally ill with COVID-19 BEFORE this latest iteration of it. A co-worker of my husband, "fully vaccinated," young, not having traveled, is home sick with COVID-19 currently. Of course, the people in charge did not inform the employees of a COVID-19 sick co-worker.
HEAT - plentiful and constant is necessary and PAID FOR BY US. And necessary precautions against the ongoing and worsening killer virus need be put into place and enforced.
Nadeem totally ignores all tenants' communications. He thinks he is some kind of Imperial Ruler who doesn't need to lower himself to communicate with the peasants. One thing's for sure though - he is totally incompetent and out of his depth when it comes to managing this property. I doubt he would be competent enough to manage a news stand.
They can shove their noisy Christmas tree lighting tonight and loud, crap music. Froze all day long in a 67 degree apartment. Texted twice and e-mailed. Next step Housing Department which they have probably paid off. Worst day yet in my apartment. Heat just finally came on at 7. They cannot treat us like human beings but put on those crap events which I wouldn’t go to. Just give us heat, decent neighbors (non students) and a quiet place to live.
So, based on what some of us lived with and through tonight, we might rename our home using part of the name of the infamous location where prisoners were:
deliberately kept frozen; and also
subjected to loud, constant noise.
Because that is what happened to some of us this night, November 30, 2021.
NO HEAT. Temperatures so bitter in our homes that we could not go about our business of living in our homes without heavy or layered clothing, ovens opened and turned on, multiple electric heaters, barricaded windows and doors (against drafts of cold air), electric blankets, sleeping fully dressed in our beds and on and on . . .
AND:
as a bonus, pounding, booming constant noise broadcast through our windows and into our ears, and assaulting our bodies with frequencies and vibrations rendering us unable to function in our own homes for hours BECAUSE THE CHRISTMAS TREE MUST BE LIT ON THE OVAL, AND THIS YEAR ACCOMPANIED WITH EAR-SPLITTING, MIGRAINE-INDUCING, POUNDING SOUNDS TERMED "MUSIC!"
Welcome to Blackstone Group's version of Guatan*** North!
And, you get to pay dearly for it, monetarily speaking!
Why is the heat so minimal in Stuy Town?
Often BELOW the legal minimum.
How do they get away with this?
Everybody who is thinking of renting here should be made aware of this blog
My advice to all potential renters:
STAY AWAY!
https://www.92y.org/event/recalibrate-reality-jon-gray
I'm sure Stuy Town won't be discussed unless it's making good money for Blackstone.
Is that the Weasel Face who is a neighbor of the TA's crooked Treasurer? Neighbor out in the Hamptons?
"The owner is responsible. It is not on the tenant."
Sorry but anyone who willingly forks over market rate $ to live in PCVST is stupid and it's on them not the owner. Do your due diligence before you move somewhere and fork over big bucks. Anyone who pays over $2500 for a 2 bedroom here is nuts! You could live so many better places for that money.
"Sorry but anyone who willingly forks over market rate $ to live in PCVST is stupid and it's on them not the owner. Do your due diligence before you move somewhere and fork over big bucks. Anyone who pays over $2500 for a 2 bedroom here is nuts! You could live so many better places for that money."
Not everybody realizes how bad it is when they first move in. True, you need to do a little research (and reading this blog and the non-TA facebook is a great source of info), but I'm pretty sure the con artists in the Leasing Office do a splendid job of lying and misleading prospective victims into thinking this is Shangri La.
A gang of bellowing, braying bros out on the 14th Street Loop being as obnoxiously loud. It's 11:30 PM on a weeknight. Assholes.
Anybody used the new laundry machines? I hear they are even more inferior than the current ones. Typical of Blackstone to buy inferior crap. Remember when TS installed those McGray Manglers? Thank God for the really good laundromats and laundry service we have locally.
Seems to me people must be pretty aware of the demise of this neighborhood. I base that assumption on the fact that Beam Living is surviving off college rentals, the lottery and city subsidized tenants. If John Q Public was interested in living here like in the past, Beam Living wouldn't need to rely on those types of rentals. There are zero college rentals in good buildings such as Battery Park City, the NEW Stuy Town.
I wish Battery Park City was less expensive.
Is that development to the East of sty a rental or co-op? I think it's Riverside or something like that. It seems like a nice place.
"Is that development to the East of sty a rental or co-op? I think it's Riverside or something like that. It seems like a nice place."
I think you mean Waterside. I believe it was put up as a Mitchel lama development, but don't know if that changed.
Dog sh*t and piss in the elevator.
I guess Fido wasn't able to jump up and press the elevator button to get downstairs so he had to do his business on the elevator floor.
I think it is a combination rental and coop. Rentals not cheap but likely worth the money compared to this dorm dump.
Waterside withdrew from Mitchell Lama years ago. It's not cheap to live there anymore for newcomers. "Luxury rentals." There are many negative reviews posted on Google, all quite reminiscent of here. Don't be deceived by advertising.
I believe Waterside had one Mitchell Lama building (40 Waterside Plaza) while the other 3 were either condo or rental. I also believe they bought out of the Mitchell Lama program and now all 4 buildings are either rental or condo.
From what I know, this is correct.
They do have doormen, which Stuy Town and Peter Cooper do not.
They probably have heat too.
An example of how f**ked up this heat system is: some tenants are getting heat when the outside temperature is in the 50s, but get none (like most of us) when it is in the 40s. This so-called heating system is a bad joke. Unfortunately, the joke is on we tenants who have to buy space heaters and/or wear hoodies and coats inside our homes. Some "home!" I don't the word applies anymore. It's just a dorm/dump/squat. No end of people reside here who are illegally subletting or just using the apartments of friends who fled the pandemic. Some on my floor.
Management (if you can call it that) doesn't give a shit about the actual tenants. All they care about is sucking as much blood as possible.
"They do have doormen, which Stuy Town and Peter Cooper do not."
They have at least one entrance off the service (by the FDR Drive) road which does not have a doorman.
Anyway, here is the Yelp reviews link. And here are some sample review tidbits:
"This the most mismanaged apartment complex in the city."
" Really cold during the winter. I kept my space heater on until the end of April. The built in heater and a/c is suuuper loud and useless"
"only good thing is friendly doorman that's the only reason I gave 1 star
management sucks"
Full disclosure, if you go into depth re some of these negative reviews, some of them are from self-entitled, transient assholes. You know, the type who live here. For instance they have a rule that you can only move in M-F, from 9 -5. IMO, a good rule but not for some of these jerks.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/waterside-plaza-new-york?sort_by=date_desc
Of course, we are more centrally located. At Waterside, you wait for a bus which takes you along 34th Street. There is just one supermarket when I was there years ago. We have a neighborhood, with several stores, including Target and Trader Joe's. We also have more crime and depressing sights around. Good and bad.
"We also have more crime and depressing sights around. Good and bad."
That's putting it mildly! I hate Trader Joes and Target. I like to take the 14D and go to C-Town and the Associated on Avenue C. We need a good supermarket that sells regular brands, not just its own.
Does anyone know what all the noisy welding is for on the 14th Street Loop? They seem to be doing something with metal fences. There's never any peace in this place. Never any heat either. It's 40 degrees and I have to have space heaters on to survive. I think we had a puff of heat a couple of hours ago. I wonder if that Kelly Vohs person still lives here? Don't know what the hell he does, but I sure hope his apartment is as cold as a meat locker.
No fu*king heat.
What's up with that??
40 degrees outside and we haven't had heat since early this morning. My LR is a "toasty" 68 degrees. Just within the legal level, but only just. The BR is considerably colder. Cannot wait to get out of this sh*thole and tell EVERYBODY I know and EVERYBODY I meeting going forward what a totally rotten, miserable, sh*thole this is.
Damn you Nadeem and Co. Pawns of Greed and Avarice Incarnate.
I agree. We need a good regular supermarket here on 14th St. Trader Joe does not fit the bill. Their produce is good, but some of their brands are not. The area is disgusting to walk through. Our retail around here is not great.
New resident here.
No heat. Radiators ice cold.
FREEZING in my apartment.
Unbelievable.
With the rents they charge, how can Management get away with this??
Is there a tenant organization who can advocate for us?
I have a new baby. Unhealthy. Unsafe.
This is totally unacceptable.
Bordering on the criminal.
I was just reading through the TA fb site and saw a long thread about the lack of heat in this dump. One person posted a photograph of the apartment and the sub-par thermometer reading. I noticed that the apartment had an under-the-window air conditioner and this indicates that the rent is extremely high for that unit. Why the hell would anybody pay top dollar to live in a 74 years old draft, poorly maintained, under-heated dump like Stuyvesant Town? We have a "management" that is nothing more than a bunch of untalented, unprincipled hucksters who are not competent to run a trailer park and seek to deflect their incompetency with bread and circus "events" that are an insult to anyone with a smidge of intelligence.
You're paying market rate to live here? Get a clue!
Another night without heat. Lovely. Yet there are apartments like a sauna. Why can't Management get its act together? This place is like the cold water flat my grandmother lived in. Disgusting. Disgraceful.
Just a reminder that it is finals times at the local colleges. My neighbors and I took advantage of that in the past with several rowdy NYU dorm rooms by being extra loud all day long even extra late to repay their kindness to us all the rest of the year. They even complained to security who was laughed out of every apartment they went to with their complaint. Just so you know when we complained about the parties security didn't do shit. Payback is a bitch. I'm a bit disappointed we don't have any this year all the NYU apartments by me are still unoccupied. Trust me it works.
I noticed that a tenant on the TA fb thread about heat posted a photo of her apartment (an expensive one with under the window a/c) and the resident yenta popped up and criticized her for not having 80% carpeting. She posted that a City inspector had visited her apartment and said it was ok because it wasn't under 65 degrees. Excuse me! The City mandates a minimum temp of 68 during the daytime and I doubt the inspector came late at night. This is, imo, proof that the despicable landlord pays off the despicable City inspectors. I think they get away with a lot of things here because of corrupt City inspectors.
The latest "blast" from our Overseer Nadeem Sukdiki implores us to donate a coat to "Give the Gift of Warmth." How fuc*king rich is that?? Give us the gift of some HEAT, you penny pinching lowlife. My apartment is freezing.
No heat today. Not even the usual nominal puff of heat early in the morning. Nothing.
Who runs this place? Jussie Smollett?
Give us the gift of warmth, Nadeem, then I won't have to wear my coat to bed! Socks and scarf too!
Some people on the TA Facebook are complaining that their heat is often below 65 and have photographs of the thermometer. Why doesn't the Tenants Association take this up with Management? And I'm not talking about them organizing a tour of the heating system. I want my stuff to flush down the toilet when I depress the flush handle and, if it doesn't, please don't invite me to take a tour of the Sewer!
Can't believe how they have the nerve to call themselves a "Tenants Association." They are not only useless, but dangerous because they are totally in bed with Management. The lawsuits they boast about usually go nowhere.
They are a fraud, an arm of management. Anyone who pays them dues should know that. Also a nasty bunch who cannot accept criticism.
Just read the Tenants’ Facebook posts for the first time in awhile because I finally moved out of PCV after almost 40 years due to lack of heat , poor security , threats from an illegal resident , lobby filled with boxes etc . My reading indicates two things 1. Nothing has improved and 2. The TA continues to be a useless organization
That annual Santacon puke fest is going on tonight . Does that really raise money for charity? I think it only benefits the bars.
I hear some of the morons braying and screeching their way through the Sty right now.
Who started this ridiculous “event?”
Had to turn my intercom buzzer off tonight. Drunken assholes will try any buzzer to get into building.
Braying "bros" rampaging through the halls at 2:00AM.
Yelling, screaming, raucous laughter.
Beer cans all over the place.
Marijuana smoke galore.
This place has become an overpriced dorm.
Gas has been turned off at 515 East 14 Street.
Management gave tenants a hot plate "for inconvenience".
Woo hoo.
Such generosity.
As of today, masks are mandated in all interior NYS spaces. It would be nice if management reminded residents of that for elevators. Instead of those inane event postings each week, do something about health and safety here.
Charles Bagli should write a follow-up book about the shithole this place has become. It's even worse than when TS was running it. Blackstone is probably the worse landlord on the planet. TS used to drive elderly longtime tenants out by harassing them with all kinds of legal probes (which, in most cases, went nowhere); BS is doing it by pure thuggery, e.g., no heat, no Security/PS, filling the place with students of the type that wouldn't last five minutes in a real dorm. The property is now a filthy, disgusting, dangerous slum. If I were the the parent of a college kid I would not want them living in this kind of environment. I have several friends whose kids are in college and live in off-campus dorm arrangements and they are a far cry from what this place is. They are clean and safe and very well run. They also get heat in the cold months!
There is a notice in my lobby (which I can barely read because someone must've spat up on the glass covering the notice board) giving the name and number of somebody to contact concerning the heat. I think it is somebody at Con-Ed, so I doubt it would do much good to try to contact that person.
We don't know who lives here and who doesn't because Management doesn't update the directories in the lobbies and doesn't put names on apartment doors anymore. I think all the apartments listed as "Private" are the dorms. There are no certificates of inspection in the elevators and the elevators are constantly breaking down. We are living in a nasty, dangerous, dirty, cold, noisy slum. That's the kindest way to put it!
"Braying "bros" rampaging through the halls at 2:00AM.
Yelling, screaming, raucous laughter.
Beer cans all over the place.
Marijuana smoke galore.
This place has become an overpriced dorm."
True that. In a normal residential building the cops would be called for that kind of disturbance. This place has become an unlivable hell-hole for normal, decent people. A way overpriced unlivable hell-hole to add insult to injury.
Someone on the TA Facebook page says they received an opened and emptied package at Oval Services and the people there say they don't know if it actually arrived in that condition! They want us to pay through the nose for that "service" and they accept opened
empty packages? Hey! I can get my stuff stolen without having to pay Blackstone for the so-called service of safe-keeping! I can't imagine a delivery person actually delivering a package in that condition. The opening and emptying takes place AFTER delivery. I wonder if they keep an eye on the employees at that Oval Service scam!
>>As of today, masks are mandated in all interior NYS spaces.<<
Who is going to enforce this? BTW, the O variant is not as troublesome as other variants. Good going Stuy Town. Always on top of the situation. :-(
Music from ice rink seems louder each day. Hoping anyone nearby calls resident services and complains. This is residential property not 30 rock.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with enforcing masks in Stuyvesant Town or in any indoor venue.
Lost a delivery today. Probably UPS put it in the wrong building. I saw a FedEx guy dump a couple of packages at 445 in the lobby. He was reading through a bunch of books that somebody had dumped in the lobby. When I asked him if he was going to deliver the packages he had brought to the apartment doors, he said "No. They have cameras to see who picks them up." I told him the cameras don't work. He shrugged his shoulders and left. The packages are still down there.
Meantime, I have claimed a refund from the shipper because UPS no doubt dumped my package in some other building and somebody else is enjoying my purchase.
Can't stand this fucking place much longer. Won't be ordering anything else because I am sick of gifting thieves.
The delivery people are lazy slobs and this dump is crawling with thieves.
"Music from ice rink seems louder each day. Hoping anyone nearby calls resident services and complains. This is residential property not 30 rock."
We should not have to endure that kind of intrusion on our peace and quiet that we are entitled to. This is more like a tenth-rate fairground than a residential apartment complex. Thanks Nadeem, you LOSER. They only employ ALL ROUND LOSERS to run the property. Probably the standard M.O. of Blackstone properties.
>>There is absolutely nothing wrong with enforcing masks in Stuyvesant Town or in any indoor venue.<<
My question had more to do with enforcement, which Stuy Town is lax in. Who is going to enforce and what will be the consequences? But we know that the O variant is not as serious as some other variants, and that masks need to be of the type that doctors use, rather than the flimsy ones. Who is going to enforce that? Any business has the right to refuse, but the mandate is useless in several ways. Even now, I constantly see residents without masks and not caring much about Covid after their shots. The other day, I saw leaf-blowers without masks spreading leaves and dust and everything else about with residents without masks walking nearby.
Here is a radical thought. How about some HEAT??????
Stuyvesant Town doesn't enforce ANY rule except that you pay your rent. Feel free to cough, maskless, in somebody's face; play your music LOUD at 2 AM; ride your bike full speed through the property and terrorize pedestrians; rent out your apartment as a squat to anybody willing to put up with it; hog every machine in the laundry room at least five cycles in a row while you earn a few dollars doing someone else's laundry; smoke pot in the halls and stairwells and leave all your garbage and recycling outside the recycling room door because you're too shit lazy to take it in or you forgot your key.
Just make sure to pay your rent though. That's the only thing that they care about.
Powers was crowing about his service to the city today on Facebook. What nerve. He and Rivera are the worst. 14th St is a fetid, stinking, disgusting mess. Walked by tonight and it reeks with vendors, homeless, stolen goods and garbage on the streets. It is Rivera’s area but Powers’ ST constituents shop and walk there. These two had the nerve to vie for council speaker. Where the hell is the NYPD? This is a crime. Worst neighborhood in the city.
"It is Rivera’s area but Powers’ ST constituents shop and walk there. These two had the nerve to vie for council speaker. Where the hell is the NYPD? This is a crime. Worst neighborhood in the city."
This ST constituents and her friends and neighbors don't even go out to 14th Street anymore. We go trough the property to First Avenue and shop at Dagastinos, Morton Williams and (for myself) Fairway and other stores along First Ave. It's worth a couple of dollars each in a cab to get home with out shopping. Unfortunately, the cab always pulls up on the corner of A and 14th, but we persuade the drive to do a U-turn and drop us off i the 14th Street Loop. If Associated was still there, we would go there, but no way are we going across 14th from Sty to shop on the South side of the Street. Won't use the 14th Street Post Office either or CVS - OMG! Apart from the scum parked outside who hassle people, CVS has become a totally serve-yourself store. My philosophy is that I don't work for the frikkin store, so I expect somebody else to ring up my stuff. wallgreens had better not go down that slimy slope.
Party hearty next door!
Loud music, people constantly coming in and out, slamming doors, yelling, plumes of pot smoke...wonderful!
Anyone else with this situation or am I the
only lucky one?
We shouldn’t have to be forced to leave our neighborhood. The Post Office and CVS area are abominable. I do like self service as they have in CVS.
Was awakened at 3 am this morning when upstairs neighbor brought party into her bedroom! Clickady clacking with high heels on uncarpeted floor, loud talking. Also walks back and forth entire length of the apartment which is entirely bare floors!
Party Hearty -
You are not alone. CALL SECURITY. REPEATEDLY. I was told some time back that noise complaints should be called in; they are a lease violation. It was an officer here, whom I know for many years, and who was up to my apartment to deal with both my call and the call of some miserable spoiled brat complaining about me, who told me to call.
As predicted, and this is pertinent: the City and State officials are seemingly extremely worried about the quickly rising rate of COVID-19 infections once more.
MASKS IN ALL COMMON SPACES ARE MANDATORY. WEAR THEM, and, from a "safe distance," CALL TO NON-MASKERS TO PUT THEIRS ON. HERE. IN THE BUILDINGS.
READ THE LATEST ADVISORY FROM THE CITY. THE ASSHOLES HERE CANNOT, CANNOT, CANNOT HAVE PARTIES. Go to www1.nyc.gov for the "ADVISORY"
Look at Provision 4 about "indoor gatherings." INSIST THAT THE LITTLE COVID-SPREADERS BE SENT HOME if they are close to you. We are back in life or death mode.
>>MASKS IN ALL COMMON SPACES ARE MANDATORY. WEAR THEM, and, from a "safe distance," CALL TO NON-MASKERS TO PUT THEIRS ON. HERE. IN THE BUILDINGS.<<
The problem is that it is up to a resident to monitor and point out a rule. It can get to a verbal altercation, neighbor vs neighbor. And sometimes the offending neighbor will just ignore the person as if the other person doesn't exist.
Powers in that protest the other day over the power plants: “...Blackstone, that I think have been good partners with us and have done a much better job than some of their predecessors...." What planet is this guy living?
Powers is a total loser. The sooner he goes away the better. What has he done for us since he was elected several years ago?
Several people are complaining that they can't get through to RS when they need a repair done. What has happened to this property? Has Blackstone got rid of so many employees that they don't have enough people to deal with RS maintenance requests? They have to be the most bloodsucking parasite of a landlord on the face of the earth. We get little or no heat; PS has been cut to the bone and all they care about is putting on their tacky, useless "events." Nadeem Sidiqui never answers emails and totally ignores tenants' complaints and inquiries. He is a big fat NOTHING! A total ZERO!
Btw, I wonder how many jackasses are charging e-bikes in their apartments here? With all the space heaters that are being used because of the lack of heat this place is a multiple tragedy waiting to happen. Everyone I know who is paying market rent (don't give me the bs about us all being RS) is moving out because of the horrible conditions. We are living in a vile, dangerous hellhole and when somebody dies as the result of that, Saddiqi should have his dirty ass thrown in jail.
He has done absolutely nothing to help ST/PC tenants. No
Assistance on heat, noise, or 14th St slum issues. Talks a good game, but is a terrible representative. As bad as Garodnick who was decent at the beginning but turned bad.
That is disgusting and shows his lack of representation of our needs here.
I think the GM is probably doing the best he can to the extent he's allowed. I don't think he's a bad guy at all. Don't really know much about him, but I do know that the bean-counters at Blackstone call the shots and when they tell the GM to jump he has to answer "how high?"
I was born (1974) and raised here and left when I got married. My parents moved to another state. From time to time I come back and visit old friends and neighbors (very few left now) and I am totally aghast and heartbroken when I see what an absolute hell this place has now become. No heat, all the beautiful trees chopped down, nasty, dirty "cafe" and dogs and their leavings all over the place. Occasionally, we see a Security Guard (ok, PS now) and are amazed that instead of being beefy, manly persons, they are little more than high school kids who probably could't fight their way out of a wet paper bag!
When I lived here the surrounding neighborhood was called "Alphabet City" and was infested with drug users and dealers. Somehow, I don't think it has improved much. I love to visit old and dear friends who live here, but I am sooooo glad I don't live here now. The entire project has gone totally down the toilet and stinks of toilet in more ways than one.
Is Blackstone on the verge of bankruptcy? I don't understand why they can't afford to have a full staff in the Residents Services Department and why they can't afford to give us adequate and constant heat during the cold months. It operates like a property that is on its very last legs and doesn't foresee being solvent and viable for much longer. I've lived in such properties in the past and it has always been a sign that the wrecking ball will be coming through the window soon!
I hope they give us adequate notice of when the project will be closing down. I think those little amateur events and gimmicks are a way of raising enough money to keep the lights on.
It's a shame because it used to be such a nice and well-run property, but everything has to go under the wrecking ball eventually, and there are some really nice places to be had - especially if you don't mind living in Queens. We have been looking at places in Astoria and LIC and you really get your money's worth there! No need for bed socks and hot water bottles in those places and they are of comparable rent. Much cleaner, safer and professionally run.
What a dump this place has become.
Garbage galore, party hearty, transients, dorm mentality, AirBnb is back, no rugs, forget heat, brown water from faucets, dog crap and pee in elevators and stairwells, no names on apartments, packages dumped by mailboxes, shall I go on? But we have Nadeem's hokey events. Lucky us!
If the GM can't handle the job, he should resign. He never, ever responds to emails and is like the Wizard of Oz - hidden and probably not even anywhere near the property.
At least Hayduk showed his smarmy face as he destroyed our lives.
We moved in last summer. Didn't realize we were moving into a NYCHA project with no heat. Thought we would at least get heat for $5K per month for a one bedroom. Will be contacting the AG and Department of Consumer Affairs. Sick of begging for heat and now they don't even pick up the phones in the Resident [no]Service Department. What a damned rip-off this place is. Such damned LIARS in the Leasing Department. The LL must have all of the City departments on the payroll, as well as the local politicians. They get away with murder and that does not come cheap.
I hope that at some point in the near future, the AG's office will open a full scale investigation into the goings-on and machinations of the owners of what, I hear, was once a very decent place to live. We're breaking our lease and they will NOT get a penny more than the last month's rent from us. See you in court, BlackHole.
Temp in the 30s all day so far. Also, not as much as a puff of heat so far. This is must be the most expensive slum project in NYC.
NO HEAT!
26 degrees and no damned heat! Somebody should go to jail for this.
Where is the heat?
It is 28 degrees at 9:02 AM and NO HEAT!
Vile, immoral, souless, heartless ghouls!
No heat in this rotten, disgusting place. I wonder how much they "donate" to the City Inspectors to look the other way? Bastards!
I can't get renters insurance because this dump is known to be a fire hazard due to lack of heat and everybody using space heaters. Another obstacle is the turn-over of air-bn-b and generally transient population. A few years ago getting renters insurance went through immediately. Boy! How this place has changed - from safe haven to filthy, mismanaged hellhole.
31 degrees at midnight and absolutely no heat. Do these bloodsucking ghouls realize that if anyone dies as the result of having to use a space heater or if this is a massive fire as the result of us having to use space heaters, Nadeem and his underlings will spend the rest of their lives in jail and Blackstone will be sued out of existence. Schwartzman will go from
mogul to murderer and i doubt he will ever show his face in public again. Not if he has any sense.
4:50AM, Tuesday, December 21st, 2021.
Pipes ice cold.
Space heaters on full blast.
Kids crying, "Mommy, it's cold".
No heat!
What is wrong with these people.
Is Management that heartless?
Why don't they give heat? It is unconscionable. I have left emails with Nadeem, called Resident Services, contacted Dept. of Buildings, called 311. Nothing! What to do?
How come there is never any press coverage of the vile conditions here regarding the non-working heating system? Does Blackstone pay off the press as well as the DOB and other City agencies that are supposed to keep an eye on their kind?
If Blackstone treats its tenants like garbage here in New York City, which is not a city known for taking abuse lying down, one has to wonder how badly it treats its tenants in other parts of the country? Even worse, its tenants in other parts of the world, most especially the poorer countries?
This Satanic organization has been called out by the United Nations and doesn't seem to be even slightly embarrassed by that. I don't believe there is one scrap of decency in the ownership and management of Blackstone. It is an evil, despicable organization. Hopefully, Karma will strike those responsible and will really be a Bitch!
"Why don't they give heat? It is unconscionable. I have left emails with Nadeem, called Resident Services, contacted Dept. of Buildings, called 311. Nothing! What to do?"
I don't understand why they are abusing us like this. There must be something unsavory going on. Nadeem doesn't answer ANY emails; RS doesn't pick up the phone, doesn't call back and sends computer-generated responses to text messages. It's like we have a ghost management. My building is cold and filthy and people are moving out daily. It's like living in a cold, filthy warehouse. There needs to be some investigative reporting, but the Press seems to have a "hands-off" policy. Almost like we're dealing with some Satanic Masonic Cult!
I feel a bit sorry for Nadeem because so many people are hating on him. I doubt he is a bad person (unlike Steven Schwartzman who definitely IS a bad person). He would raise his reputation a bit if he would bother to answer tenants' emails and address our concerns, but I think he is probably overwhelmed and is under the whip of Head Office.
Stop paying rent.
No heat?? Call the Tenants Association.
LOL...sorry, I know, I just couldn't resist.
I honestly don't think Nadeem has any say in what goes on around here. Best not to bother him because he's a nothing. Just keep pestering City Agencies, the Media and Press. Eventually, the word will get out all over the RE market about what an overpriced, badly managed horror this is
Or call Powers. Chuckle, chuckle
If anybody feels sorry and/or makes apologies for Nadeem, they deserve what they get here. Nadeem is laughing at us...all the way to the bank.
One would think that on Christmas Eve we would get a puff of heat. How naive and foolish off me! Nothing like having a space heater in the same room as the tree. True vile, unscrupulous, blood sucking, soulless ghouls who run this place.
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