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/
They are putting fossil-fuel burning power plants on the property so I doubt they care about our health in any way whatsoever. Blackstone is notorious for being a life-negating murderously greedy organization. Its policies are all based on greed and murderous avarice. It is owned and run by evil people who have no regard for life in any form whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteSchwarzman himself has likely never visited ANY of his many 'residential' properties. Why should he?
ReplyDelete"Schwarzman himself has likely never visited ANY of his many 'residential' properties. Why should he?"
ReplyDeleteThat's a good thing because it would take a group of Exorcists to clean up after him.
I remember that Tishman Speyer cut back on the leaf-blowers because tenants complained. They also took those annoying back-up beeps off of their vehicles and put some other less intrusive sound on them. Hard to believe that TS had some more sympathy or tenants than BS does, but they did.
ReplyDeleteI think, though, that TS was regularly shamed by the blogger "Lux Living" and he or she had some impact!
The students are coming in en masse carrying their stuff in laundry carts. This place is a disgusting dorm. Unbelievable. What a disgrace. A private residential development becoming a dorm and Airbnb.
ReplyDeleteI’m not sure that leaf-blowers are actually a time-saver. Effort-saver, for sure, easier the point the blower than to sweep with a rake.
ReplyDeleteBut, with all the time spent walking back and forth, waving the blower around and corralling all the leaves, it could probably be done just as quickly with a rake or two.
Blackstone is not interested in, or even slightly cares about, our health. This is a murderously avaricious, blood-sucking corporation and the owners and servants of this Corporation have to check their consciences at the door when they sign up to work and get a paycheck from this vermin.
ReplyDeleteI grew up there. They used tanker trucks to spray the trees around the playgrounds with DDT while the kids were playing and the moms were sitting on the benches.
ReplyDelete"I grew up there. They used tanker trucks to spray the trees around the playgrounds with DDT while the kids were playing and the moms were sitting on the benches."
ReplyDeleteWere they aware of the dangers of DDT at the time? If they knew how toxic it was, then that is inexcusable. Somehow, I doubt they would have done it or been able to get away with it if it was known at the time how toxic DDT was. Blackstone knows all the dangers of its policies, from burning the Amazon Forest to building filthy power plants on residential property and they go ahead anyway. My hope is that what goes around comes around.
PIG STUY TOWN!
ReplyDeleteBraying bros yelling, screaming, loud music until 2:00 AM.
ReplyDeleteGuess Dorm Move In Weekend has arrived!
Lucky us!
Can’t wait to move out of here. Never thought I’d be paying $3k to live in a dorm!!!!
ReplyDeleteI have never seen as many dorm people. It is sickening. My building is full of them. In an apartment on my floor I think there are 5 living there. Pig Sty Town.
ReplyDeleteRegarding students: please remember that whomever, and how many people, are moved into these buildings, these are homes. Period. This is not a college campus. Period.
ReplyDeletePlease feel free, please know it is your right and your duty to educate any of these screaming, drunk, drugging, puking, or otherwise misbehaving jackasses.
No matter who pays for them, how they got here, they MAY NOT disturb people in their homes.
You, me . . . we . . . may not be able to get rid of them. But our leases do not specify that we be harassed, abused, harmed in any way by them.
Masks are now recommended for indoor building use especially in closed spaces such as elevators. (Per CDC). 8 out of 10 students in my building do not wear them in the building. Wonder how many are even vaccinated and where they come from. This is a health risk.
ReplyDeleteHayduk was more non the ball when it came to Covid. Don’t think the current GM is quite tuned in. Hope I’m underestimating him, but he does seem a bit out to lunch
DeleteI plan to file a public health complaint because we are infested with maskless students from everywhere.
DeleteStuyvesant Town is NOT a safe place to live.
A couple of maskless bros jumped into the elevator with me last night. It was too late for me to get out because they had pushed in as the door was closing. Thanks a lot Beam Living. Maybe you should change your name to Beam Dying. Probably, there will be deaths caused by you morons.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to get out of this damned place and warn everybody I ever meet about this place.
Hayduk did at least SEEM to be more cognizant of the seriousness of this virus. Until he started back with the dumb Carnival Cruise events.
Hayduk had no choice, because at that time NYC was under lockdown and afterwards stringent rules. The fact that he allowed the concerts showed that he couldn’t care less. He doesn’t deserve any credit.
DeleteDorm-ville, transients, short-term 6-month leases, city subsidized housing, AirBnb, dog shit all over the grounds, hokey Carnival-like events, an overpriced, sanitary challenged Five Turd eColi "Cafe", no tenant directory which is illegal, noise, noise, noise....
ReplyDeleteWhat a dump this place has become!
STAY AWAY POTENTIAL RENTERS!
Hahaha! Funny story.
ReplyDeleteI was coming out of my apartment and two young ladies, new NYU dorm residents, shrieked. "Ooh, the water. It's brown, stinky and gross. It's coming out of the shower faucets. Now my hair is ruined. Is it like this here all the time??"
Hahaha, I chuckled to myself.
Yes, it is like this all the time.
Welcome to PigStuyTown!
2:22 AM: "Don't think the current GM is quite tuned in."
ReplyDeleteHayduk and the current GM were two entirely different people. They have entirely different backgrounds, outlooks, concerns in life.
People can be exceedingly complicated and contradictory. I, personally, had a good deal of contact with Hayduk. Most of it was more than pleasant. Some of it was distasteful. I went back and forth in my estimation of him and my feelings about him. I now believe that I was initially correct: he said "yes" to being the disingenuous face of Blackstone here, and I still speculate as to his reasons, one of which might have been compelling, and, believe it or not, unselfish. I wrote about it years ago.
We've had, what, two other Managers here? I don't think the last, short-lived one, or the current one, lives here.
I like knowing with whom I'm dealing so I do research. Information is out there.
I had very limited contact with Hayduk. The one time I met with him, he turned out to be a hypocrite phony. He met with people who had criticized management on the TA site. He agreed and listened to my complaints about the concerts and did nothing about it. Pretended to be sympathetic. He charmed some of my senior friends with the answering of their e-mails personally. Yet things never improved here. A phony. He set in place many of the negatives we deal with now.
DeleteAnother potential comment not posted. Calling the moderator here a name does not win you a prize at this blog, so your message is not posted.
ReplyDeleteBTW, the citizen app reported this morning that there was an accident on 14th Street and Ave A with a bus and a pedestrian. I've heard nothing about this, so I am curious.
ReplyDeleteThe two NYU dorm girls who moved into an apartment on my floor lamented the brown shower water. Apparently that has cleared up. Now their complaint is the water doesn't go down in the tub. This is a problem many Stuy Town apartments have. One of the students wailed, " For this I'm paying over $4,000 a month for????"
ReplyDeleteIf these students don't like their accommodations, they can go elsewhere, and make room for the next suckers (seemingly endless supply thereof, unfortunately).
ReplyDeleteI agree. Let them go live in dorms. We don’t want them here
DeleteLet them go live in dorms. We don’t want them here.
ReplyDeleteThe illegal, unhealthful and disruptive noise on the Oval beginning significantly before 6:00 P.M. (scheduled start time): "Concert" on August 19, 2021 -
ReplyDeleteDeafening drums and guitars.
I'd been advised by "management" weeks ago to call to complain to: 311. When I stated nothing would be done, they advised me to call "the police."
I called the police (13th precinct), who informed me: it is legal; it is entertainment. It is a civil matter and I ought go to court against the landlord; the police could/will do nothing. I need to call the Department of Buildings about it. Any decibel reader not "professional" does not count. (Noise here has already been recorded at as much as over 100 decibels, 25 decibels over NYC's legal level.)
The EPA needs to be present and record decibel levels over 75 for the police to respond. (I'm not sure they would actually respond.)
I am sitting and listening to noise going through my entire body.
Someone else called Security, who responded they'd call "management."
I've lots of thoughts, including COVID SUPERSPREADER. I spoke with a number of people today and yesterday who related to me that they knew a list of young people who now have COVID-19 despite either having 2 vaccinations, or being previously vaccinated.
Is anyone here interested in taking action?
That concert noise is horrendous. I actually have a headache from it. It is screeching noise, not music. The nerve of them for subjecting us to this. I live on the oval and it is horrible. Yes you, Keith Powers, do something about this.
ReplyDeleteI live on East 20 and the noise carries to my kitchen window, facing north! For me, the noise is not loud in my apartment, but one can hear that something is happening.
ReplyDeleteConsider yourself lucky. I live on the oval and it is just booming noise, not even music. It has given me a headache and is horrible.
DeleteThis is not even music. It is loud noise pollution. Absolutely disgusting. This crap is sickening.
ReplyDelete>>Is anyone here interested in taking action<<
ReplyDeleteThe only action is a legal one. But that takes time, loads of evidence, etc. Meanwhile, Management hopes that residents will lose their cool, and then Management can start legal proceedings AGAINST any tenant.
I agree. There is nothing we can do. It is so sad that they can destroy our quiet time with this noise. You don’t see this anywhere else. They are filthy, disgusting landlords.
DeleteYes, there is something you can do. Aside from complaining here (or on FB as those of you “brave” enough to do so under your “real” names), organize and litigate if you feel you have a legitimate complaint. Or continue to whine.
DeleteThey definitely turned up the volume for this concert and I'm not anywhere near the Oval.
ReplyDeleteFor those who think they can do something about it....don't waste your time or money.
Blackstone has paid off local pols, the police, city agencies, etc.
You can't fight da Man!
I think a decent council member could help out. Of course we don’t have anyone like that. A city pol would know what strings to pull in order to stop this. Hear that Powers?
ReplyDeleteI live on the oval on a low floor and it sounds like animals are being tortured definitely not music!!!
ReplyDeleteI live on 14th Street and can hear that “music loud and clear. The “musicians are untalented losers and “management” are sadistic bastards.
ReplyDeleteThe "concert" noise was HORRENDOUS.
ReplyDeleteAn ABOMINATION.
The leaf blowers have returned! So, on my way to buy a few groceries this morning, leaf blowing was happening wherever I went: playgrounds, Oval path, etc. The blowers didn't even have a mask on! In this time of Covid and variants, too. It's not hard to figure out that not much attention is given to certain tasks as long as the tasks get done with money saved for Stuy Town/Beam Lining/Blackstone.
ReplyDeleteWhen we moved into Stuyvesant Town 18 years ago (market rate as it was the only way to get in) we absolutely loved it here. 14th Street was rough and tumble, but safe and had plenty of shops that we spent our money in; the grounds were beautiful and filled with trees. Since then 14th Street has become like a gutter in Calcutta and we hate even stepping out onto that street. The grounds have been violated and now we have those painfully noisy, horrible "events" and concerts that are nothing more than ABUSIVE. The noise carries all through the complex and people who live on or near the Oval should go on a rent strike.
ReplyDeleteThey are constantly asking people to recommend this place to friends, but to be honest, I would NEVER recommend anybody move into this place. It is full of noisy students and badly maintained and, worse of all, we have these violations of our peace and sanity occurring weekly all through the summer months. I pity people who have had to work from home because of the pandemic. Speaking of the pandemic, I see very few of the younger tenants wearing masks. Management just doesn't give a toss as to whether the new strain of the Covid virus spreads and multiplies. Management doesn't give a toss about ANYTHING relating to tenants' safety and health. All they care about is pulling the gelt and if they can drive the older people in the rent stabilized apartments into their graves, they just love to do that. Don't tell me about the complex being ALL RS because the rents are market rate, no matter what you call them.
Sadly, we are looking for somewhere else to live in a decent neighborhood and in a building that is owned and run by responsible, competent people. The "management" here is the absolute dregs of the RE industry. I doubt that anywhere else would hire these abusive lowlifes. Maybe that's how Blackstone works: hires the most incompetent, uncaring bodies who will do anything to please the Masters and has no conscience or sense of decency. Also, there was a real Security Department here when we moved in. They were competent and caring. That cannot be said for the current mall cops they have working for "Public Safety."
We love our apartment, but the surroundings and the quality of life here is the absolute worse that we've ever encountered. The local politicians are all on the take (can't prove that, but it seems very obvious) and if we are still here come elections, we will vote for every candidate who runs against the current bunch of jerks. Keith Powers should resign in shame. Same goes for the woman who represents the district south of 14th Street. It is a terrible shame that what was once a really gem of an apartment complex has become a festering sore.
Perfectly said 5:36.
DeleteThings have got so bad on 14th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A that I don't know why the cops have not got rid of all these illegal peddlers (selling stuff that has no doubt been stolen, thanks to the rule that stores can't call the cops or stop people who steal up to $150 worth of merchandise. I can't wait for De Blasio to be gone. He and his corrupt wife have been milking the taxpayers of this City for her so-called mental health organization while the mentally ill (violent and passive) and the dope dealers and general underbelly of society literally clog up our streets, put legitimate business out of business - not because of the competition, but you have to step over and run the gauntlet of these disgusting creatures to even get into a legitimate store. I don't even like going to Trader Joe or Target anymore because they are on the unflushed toilet side of the street (though the toilet is spreading over on the Sty side too).
ReplyDeleteI don't know how parents can let their student kids live here, but they probably don't care. I see all these young people (Im pretty sure they are students) out on Avenue A and beyond and they are not wearing masks and seem to be quite unaware of the risks of the Delta Virus, the dangerous human shit prowling 14th and south. Well, if they come to grief I'm sure Blackstone will not give a crap because as one student leaves, no matter what the reasons, they can soon replace him or her with another cookie-cutter stereotype.
Just so sick of this filthy, unhealthy, dangerous and thoroughly nasty place. It's like a cross between an unsupervised dorm and a very bad NYCHA Project.
Garbage in the halls and stairwells, crap left outside of carriage room door.
ReplyDeleteTruly disgusting.
Disrespectful to fellow renters and porters.
Hmm, there was a comment about the new "Bread Store" in our neighborhood. It was not positive. I don't know if the writer removed the comment or whether it was removed by an admin. A couple of the minor negative comments are still standing. Most of the comments are positive, but it's weird nevertheless.
ReplyDeleteI have heard pretty good things about the new bread store, but like other new businesses in this area it is not one I will frequent. Not particularly needed here.
DeleteI actually thought I would never say it but I do miss Associated being here for the easy one stop shopping. Trader Joe is not great for some items and of course household goods must be bought at Target or elsewhere. The retail around here is pretty bad. I appreciate Target, but there is not much else.
DeleteReading and seeing photos of the 14th Street area here, I can't help thinking how this city has fallen, with no one in political power assertive enough.
ReplyDeleteThe city is definitely dirtier and seedier, even up on the west side where I work, but 14th St appears to be one of the worst areas without a doubt.
DeleteNews flash: I learned not so long ago that not only is "Security" indifferent to the wellbeing of tenants, it will vigorously and physically seek to protect the minions of its employer. The tenants, and others, are permitted to be in harm's way courtesy of rapists and potential rapists; thieves and would-be thieves; drugged and/or drunken or mentally ill violent people. Anyone defined as connected to the esteemed "landlord" is a person whom "Security" will protect.
ReplyDeleteLong ago, Security was nearly as good as it gets in its activities to do what is healthful and needful for Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village residents. Gradually, and especially once Blackstone came in, they were cut off at the knees. Some of their longtime Guards were badly, badly treated to the point of physical illness. They harassed, lied to, hounded out some of their most effective and caring Officers and Administration.
They instilled an utterly alien culture in which Security enforces nothing having to do with the wellbeing of any resident; routinely ignores scores of legitimate and sometimes dangerous situations of residents; is mostly unthinkably rude, insulting and maybe even threatening to legitimate requests for help. Many of their personnel behave like worse than the stereotyped mall cops. Blackstone/Beam managed to both terrorize and intimidate Security into either quitting or doing the bidding of "master Blackstone/Beam" no matter how harmful to residents.
Some simply strut around smiling at specific residents, crouch down to coo over babies, and then turn scary Rambo on residents who need them.
They have learned to talk sh*t about "Quiet Hours" (which is either for kindergarteners or college dormitories, and not in residential apartment buildings), to insist that shrieking adolescent morons are perfectly within their rights to keep you awake or wake you up on any night of the year.
Ever since Blackstone came in, I've been immensely sympathetic to the plight of Security; I've known many of them and had excellent relationships with them. When the Purge started and they were instructed to do what was wrong and harmful, I felt sorry for them and let them know I understood it was not their doing or choice.
That has changed. Most, but not yet all of the good ones, are gone. And it has been made plain to me that some of them now identify as "part of the Blackstone/Beam team." That means nothing good, and possibly just the opposite for residents. It is sad.
Two women have been menaced here, as recounted on the Facebook page for tenants. I thought I was unshockable, but I was shocked by the response of the latest "man in charge." It seems that rape, violence . . . not to mention threat and menacing of women here is just fine. What is it that employees wear on their "team" sweatshirts?" "Leave people happier than when you found them?" Does that include leaving women menaced and possibly raped and battered, too?
This is from the Stuyvesant Town Tenant Facebook (not the Tenant Association) having to do with a woman who was recently accosted by two (2) different men as she walked her dog on the perimeter of Stuyvesant Town (14th Street, near their fabulous, groovy, sooooo badly needed gym). She recounted her frightening early morning experiences and then goes on to let us know:
ReplyDelete'I wrote to Nadeem Siddiqui, our GM. This is his answer, "So sorry to read about this. I can only imagine how you felt. We do regular patrols around the perimeter of Stuytown. Unfortunately, focusing on 1 side of the perimeter, will leave others vulnerable. What we can do, is make more frequent patrols in that specific area.."
(The woman who wrote this then goes on to comment: 'Stuy Town pays for extra patrols when they close the loop roads on Sundays so all of the college students can move in without a hitch, but they can't pay for extra patrols between the hours of 1:00 am - 6:00 am to protect their residents from being assaulted and raped.') Exactly right, yes?!
This is the Nadeem Siddiqui (look him up, please, especially in Linked In. Interesting information there.) who has written 0 to us about the New York State Emergency issued early this afternoon having to do with Henri, now described as a Category 1 storm, the same as the devastating 2012 Hurricane Sandy.
Where is Kelly Vohs, the Beam Dying chief, who goes on and on and on about kindness, caring, being good and doing good for others on his Facebook site, and in that splendid puff piece put out by the New York Times during the earlier pandemic days?
Not word one about this storm which is forecast to begin to show its teeth around 2 or 2:30 this morning (Saturday night - Sunday morning). Even when the generally reviled Rick Hayduk was here, we were warned and prepared. Now?
They just sent out an e-Mail on Henri
Delete>>I have heard pretty good things about the new bread store, but like other new businesses in this area it is not one I will frequent. Not particularly needed here.<<
ReplyDeleteWhat goads me is the suggestion that because of Covid, a staff can be rude, and we, the customers, need "patience and compassion" when dealing with rudeness. BS. I go almost every day to Trader Joe's and the staff is always very nice. Rudeness is unexceptionable. Period. I don't know if this is happening in this store, but a couple of the explanations at one of the blogs are ridiculous.
Is this so called rudeness about wearing a mask in the store?
DeleteThere is a big chronological gap for Siddiqui on Linked In. What exactly was he doing 2004-2009? His alma mater has links to the Pakistani Military (big supporters of Taliban, btw). Furthermore, "College" in other countries is NOT the same as an American college/university.
ReplyDeleteYou’re joking, right? Trolling on LinkedIn is not a great source, as not everyone keeps their info up to date. Maybe attend one of the outdoor “office hours,” and ask any questions to him directly?
Delete>>Is this so called rudeness about wearing a mask in the store?<<
ReplyDeleteFrom what I read, that wasn't it. Just rude.
>>They just sent out an e-Mail on Henri<<
ReplyDeleteNot to worry!
https://abc7ny.com/10965745/?ex_cid=TA_WABC_FB&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20Trending%20Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1C4C0mVcMIRTu1Y6MNGLze5dfym4ZrlmN-b2Yl_ayb_UZXl2vJGY6Vuho
A lot of celebrities will gather today/tonight to celebrate NYC. Blessings from Mayor Bill de Blasio. Seriously.
OK. Please also notice re Siddiqui on Linked In - what his two "Interests" are, please.
ReplyDeleteThe e-mail about Henri was late and did not go far enough. "Look in on your neighbors," and such was missing.
ReplyDeleteAt 8:40 tonight - now - just received word from PCVST on a text message stating that Con Ed advises that if a storm surge over 7 feet occurs, steam will be turned off. This translates into no hot water.
Siddiqui has a lot of credit card business experience. No running a residential apartment complex experience.
ReplyDeleteWhy did they send this loser here?
We need PROFESSIONAL PROPERTY MANAGERS here. As for Kelly Vohs, what the hell does he do? Probably nothing of any use to tenants.
It's like the place is being run [into the ground] by a bunch of creepy, shady morons.
Can't wait to get OUT of here and warn everybody I meet that this is shithole that is run by shitheads.
Doesn’t matter who they send to manage the property. The owners intend to turn it into a dorm, transient slum. The managers they put in from Hayduk on carry that through.
Delete>>Aside from complaining here (or on FB as those of you “brave” enough to do so under your “real” names),<<
ReplyDeleteJust like you, Anonymous? LOL.
>>Con Ed advises that if a storm surge over 7 feet occurs<<
ReplyDeleteParty time, says Mayor Bill de Blasio!
>>Maybe attend one of the outdoor “office hours,” and ask any questions to him directly?<<
ReplyDeleteBeen there, done that, previously. Want to keep my blood pressure down at this point. Those "office hours" are one of Stuy's rip-offs. The BS is flying high there.
Those office hours events are a joke. They write things down and pretend to care. Then the complaints are ignored.
DeleteCan't access his "Interests" without registering there. What are they (besides screwing-over the 'real' residents, and making lots of money)?
ReplyDeleteRegarding Nadeem Siddiqui's LinkedIn stuff and other profiles, bear in mind that his name is as common in Pakistan as Michal O'Brian is in Ireland. There are a lot of Nadeem Siddiquis out there. I remember when there was a guy from CWC named Sean Something and everybody though he was a former Marine because they were looking up the wrong Sean (was it Sullivan).* Some names are very, very common and are out there under several different profiles - none of them connected to the one you might be looking for.
ReplyDelete*I think T&V might have put out that incorrect information, but that's not surprising. Anybody miss that silly rag? I sure don't!
I don’t miss that rag. It became an arm of management under Blackstone.
DeleteYeah, I checked the other day and he is not the only one with that name.
ReplyDeleteIt was ALWAYS an arm of Management, since 1947. And they'd originally had their offices (plus printing plant) on 14th Street near Avenue B, which wasn't the hellhole it is now.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, 'our' Siddiqui is in fact rather easily found on Linked In. But his resume there is NOT encouraging....
I am afraid if refilling my Netrocatd in the subway station over here because of all the vagrants who hang out there. It’s bad enough even using that station. Gotta get out of this rancid slum SOON!
ReplyDeleteGood going Powers and Rivera. You’ll soon have nothing but a fetid slum as your constituency.
"Furthermore, 'our' Siddiqui is in fact rather easily found on Linked In. But his resume there is NOT encouraging...."
ReplyDeleteI'm sure he's doing the best he can with what was handed to him. Can't be an easy job.
Not a nice sight at Target today. Why not a nice sight? Because it was loaded with students buying their goods for their Stuyvesant Town pigsty dorms. They were all headed into this dorm dump with their purchases. Also seen were a few rolling suitcases. This is truly now an Airbnb Dorm Dump.
ReplyDeleteHave never seen so many students at one time moving in and that is saying a lot, as they have been here for several years.
DeleteLooks like a low-life punched an Asian woman who was walking with her children on the First Ave. side of Stuytown.
ReplyDeletehttps://nypost.com/2021/08/22/brute-punches-asian-woman-in-unprovoked-nyc-attack/
It is important that people wear masks now in indoor spaces such as hallways, elevators, laundry rooms because the Delta variant is no respecter of vaccinations, ages, previous illness or not from COVID-19.
ReplyDeleteOf course, many of the younger ones here (courtesy of blackheart) refuse to comply. Of course, blackheart installed them here, not only illegally (these ain't no stinkin' dorm, and they cutting of apartments ain't legal, up to code, etc., and so on), but in dangerous numbers in cramped spaces.
Let them know each time you come across these geniuses - politely at first - that they need to be wearing masks in these shared spaces.
This next is from the following site:
NYC HEALTH: COVID-19 Face Masks: Frequently Asked Questions
What if I live in group housing with shared facilities?
If you live in a facility that has shared kitchens, bathrooms or other common spaces, wear a mask when you leave your apartment or room. The facility may require masks in shared spaces, even if you are fully vaccinated.
Common spaces require masks.
"Blackstone Backs $784 Million U.S. Student Housing Portfolio"
ReplyDeleteWho knew?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-20/blackstone-takes-stake-in-784-million-student-housing-portfolio
Guys and gals, I know this is stressful time, but I can't pass certain posts that are more "aggressive" and attack people that are not even residents. I'm not talking about the company Blackstone.
ReplyDelete"Have never seen so many students at one time moving in and that is saying a lot, as they have been here for several years."
ReplyDeleteThey've stripped the shelves at Target! I don't mind them, but I wish they wore masks. I saw loads of them dancing (maskless) in that bar that is next door (or two doors) to the Yemini-owned deli on Avenue A. They were thoroughly enjoying themselves and I hope and pray they stay well. Also saw a bunch of girls in the laundry room with no masks. I think it's time Mr. Sadiqqui started to "get with the program." At least Hayduk was a bit more on-the-ball when it came to the Covid outbreak, especially in its earlier and more virulent period. The Delta variant is said to be a LOT worse.
Wise up Management. You can save lives. And (more importantly to Blackstone) save Blackstone and NYU having to shell out big bucks when bereaved parents start suing. We know the only thing that matters to BS is money, so they'd be doing themselves and us a favor if they took some firm measures to protect us from Delta.
Three apartments on my floor rented to NYU students.
ReplyDeleteIt's party time!
AirBnb is back!
ReplyDeleteRolling luggage and confused tourists galore!
The other night I came home and found a big bag of delicious hot food parked outside my door. It had the tenant's name on it (nobody on my floor or who I knew) and there was nothing to indicate which restaurant it had come from. So, thanks to Idiot Hayduk's policy of [illegally] decommissioning the Directories and making all new tenants/guests/transients have the name Welcome Home on their door, I got to have a nice big free dinner and there were enough leftovers for a sandwich the next day.
ReplyDeleteThank You, Idiot Hayduk! Sorry to the people waiting for their delicious dinner to be delivered. Hope you learned the lesson that all you newbies are named Welcome Home and you need to give the restaurants you order from your apartment number because, even if your name is on the delivery, without an apartment number you are just an anonymous nobody with the label "Welcome Home."
"NYU having to shell out big bucks when bereaved parents start suing. "
ReplyDeleteNobody suing anyone, NYU or Blackstone, unless you are on 200% legal ground. This sue option is always bought on this blog and yet there has been only one recent successful case of the woman who sued CW Capital for the construction noise, dust, etc. that caused her a major medical condition during construction of the 276 1st Ave Administration office.
https://town-village.com/2015/05/11/former-st-leasing-agent-says-she-was-fired-over-sick-days/?s=Annette+Beatrice#
>>Nobody suing anyone<<
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't be so certain.
I don't know the outcome of the case you mentioned, but there was another one by a resident and it was successful. Even the Roberts case, though open to debate, was successful. One can sue. It costs time and money and evidence, but it can be done.
ReplyDeleteYou do realize that people sue PCVST all the time, right? Every time someone gets hurt in a playground or elsewhere on the property, they sue. Usually quite successfully. I know this for a fact as a friend sued when his daughter fell in Playground 12 and broke her arm. I was blown away that they sued and more so that they settled for far more than I would have expected. According to his lawyer this happens all the time.
ReplyDelete"Welcome Home" - I am reasonably sure that it did not originate with Hayduk. It is the kind of crap the geniuses above him concocted to hide their illegal destruction of the apartments with their "renovations," chopping up of apartments, and shoveling in hordes of irresponsible, unrelated, non-paying (Daddies and Mommies with too much money paying) human waste (termed "students.")
ReplyDeleteThe neutralization of the directories and these inane name labels on the doors are from, I'm nearly certain, a whole host of demented, emotionally damaged "higher ups" in Blackstone and Beam Dying.
As for COVID-19 - well, I'll be writing lots more when I can replenish my energy. I encountered one postal delivery person whom I've always respected and cared for today, along with at least 3 neighbors, whom I now think ought be tossed into the same place the students need to be for our safety.
Grown people, some of them older folks, in my building's Terrace hallway, either just tolerating me or arguing with me about wearing masks.
It was extremely bad during the first wave of the CORONA VIRUS. It is worse now because people who might have known better the first time around have decided, basically, "f*ck everyone 'cause I ain't wearin' my damn mask for (fill in the blank reasons) and you can die 'cause I don't give a shit about you."
It is also worse now because the Delta variant is much more transmissible, carries a viral load 1,000 times the size of the previous variants, often escapes any and all vaccinations, doesn't give a damn if you've previously contracted and recovered from COVID-19.
The virus will cause you to be contagious for, on average, 12-20 days, and often much, much longer. Even if you have no symptoms yourself.
You can goddamn not only hurt, but kill other people. But, hey, who cares? As my father, dead many years used to say, "People's attitudes is 'HURRAY FOR ME; THE HELL WITH YOU.'"
I'm glad he's not alive to be threatened by the virus. I'm more thankful he's not here to be experiencing the exploding ugliness of human behavior.
If you have any doubts that the dorms are open again, just look at the recycling area. I feel sorry for the porters.
ReplyDelete>>You do realize that people sue PCVST all the time, right? Every time someone gets hurt in a playground or elsewhere on the property, they sue. Usually quite successfully. I know this for a fact as a friend sued when his daughter fell in Playground 12 and broke her arm. I was blown away that they sued and more so that they settled for far more than I would have expected. According to his lawyer this happens all the time.<<
ReplyDeleteYou raise an interesting point, something I wanted to stress before. The person that posted a comment about suing and its impossibility was promoting an attitude of don't sue, whether he/she is aware of it or not. As most people are "anonymous" here, be aware that anyone can comment, even Blackstone or their legal team.
Regarding Covid, the experts are all over the place and one can't just decide baaed on what someone tells you. A person, and their doctor, have to decide. I think Stuy Town is doing some right things, but also doing some terrible things regarding this virus and variants.
ReplyDeleteI just don’t think they are doing anything anymore. They can’t keep track of all these students and transients who may come from highly infected areas and may or may not be vaccinated. I haven’t seen any new notices up in the building regarding masks and elevators.
DeleteI do think that masks should be worn in the building especially in elevators right now. Many students are not wearing them. Management can certainly put up a new notice to that effect. But why antagonize their bread and butter NYU slime. I have never seen so many bros here in my life. They have infested my building.
ReplyDeleteWhen Hayduk was running this place I asked him to give me a certain amount of money as settlement for damage caused to my apartment due to negligence of one of his contractors. He balked at first. Then I told him if he didn't agree to my amount myself and my attorney were going to sue the management company for a lot more than what I was requesting. Within a couple of hours he emailed me to tell me he agreed to my settlement amount.
ReplyDeleteSometimes ya gotta play hardball in life. I'm born and raised in da Bronx so that comes natural to me! I had plenty of evidence to support my claim and he knew it. Remember, management is NOT your friend. They may send nice emails from time to time but their goal is to separate you from your money and are not so quick to give back any of that money!
ReplyDelete"The experts all over the place" is for a whole bunch of reasons. Reasons are "scientific" as well as deeply personal - meaning we rarely can get out of our own tiny, tiny and usually routinely and supremely selfish selves. I've had many medical personnel talk sense and caring for selves and others to me. I’ve had the opposite. I've had one of my own main doctors talk absolute dangerous shit to me about insane can-kill-you behavior regarding COVID-19.
This is not "personal." It is public and widespread and utterly devastating.
What is true is that this virus is a killer, and a brutal and ugly killer, at that.
What is true is that the doctors and scientists know precious little about this particular virus and its versions. They know next to nothing about its lingering effects, and about how it can do damage organs, damage that will not show up for months, and yet be serious, as we've seen in some cases. But these are early days for this virus and its many forms, so we know very little.
What is true is that it is spread from human to human, and some other animals, through the dispersion of droplets coming out of a person's (or other animal's) mouth and nose.
Which means that the least amount of contact, and the most amount of distance, is the most effective way of limiting the occurrences of illness. Not complicated or a mystery.
If contact substantially lessened, and distance substantially expanded, that many fewer people become seriously ill.
Which then means that many fewer people will suffer horrendously, including possible intubation.
Which then means that many fewer people will die excruciating and unnecessary deaths.
This comes down to what pandemics have come down to before, except we have much more information about how this virus is spread, and how we can LIMIT ILLNESSES, SUFFERING, DEATHS:
If people insist that it is simply and ONLY "personal," as I'm hearing more and more these days, from people I respected and trusted to be decent human animals, then we are more fully and graphically living up to our role as the greatest (most numerous and efficient plus creative) destroyers of life on Mother Earth, of everything that is good.
Regarding suing, Hayduk told me personally that they don't enforce many of the rules because they get letters from the attorneys of the miscreants. They don't want to be sued by people who break the rules and threaten to sue. Don't know how they feel about people who are hurt by the rule-breakers. Maybe they hope that the person who is injured in some way by a rule breaker (dog attack, getting hit by a bike, being driven to distraction by unacceptable noise) will go ahead and sue the offender and leave Blackstone out of it.
ReplyDeleteBlackstone doesn't care a damn about people getting hurt by others who live here. They don't enforce any of the so-called rules because they only care about the kick-back from the assholes who break them.
I detest these management people so much that STR would never print my sentiments. I will only go as far as to say that I hope that what goes around comes around.
Would live to see one of Blackstone's "suits" in a body cast after being hit by a speeding bike. Or someone from upper management missing a chunk of flesh after being attacked by a huge dog that shouldn't have been on the property in the first place.
>>If people insist that it is simply and ONLY "personal,"<<
ReplyDeleteI hate to say it, but it's always personal. Even if you care about your fellow man, it is personal. That's the way we judge a character.
>>I detest these management people so much that STR would never print my sentiments. I will only go as far as to say that I hope that what goes around comes around.
ReplyDeleteWould live to see one of Blackstone's "suits" in a body cast after being hit by a speeding bike. Or someone from upper management missing a chunk of flesh after being attacked by a huge dog that shouldn't have been on the property in the first place.<<
I may be wrong, but this afternoon, there was a small gathering in front of the PS office that may have had one or two "suits," but without their suits since it was so hot. I was a good distance away, though. Of course, a speeding bicycle went by them and wasn't stopped.
I am also seeing the same small dog being walked round the Oval path. This time, the little pooch did a dump. The security officer inside that small booth has said nothing to them anytime I see them. Typical day at Stuy Town.
Can't wait to get out of this shitty hellhole. We are paging Market Rate and I don't want to hear we are all RS. It's the sum of the money that makes it Market Rate!
ReplyDeleteNever encountered such a badly run, chaotic and dangerous dump. It makes NYCHA Projects look like a gated community in Belle Air.
In the management “community memo “ e-mailed this week, they made a big deal about roomies who fell in love. Lovely story, but four unrelated roomies in one apartment is unacceptable. This management is actually bragging about this wonderful roomie set up they have here. Shameful how they stuff these apartments full of unrelated people instead of renting to families. Of course families do not wish to move to this overpriced dorm dump anymore.
ReplyDelete"Roomies" - Sorry for the "shouting" here, but:
ReplyDeleteIT IS ILLEGAL IN NEW YORK CITY FOR AN APARTMENT TO HOUSE MORE THAN FOUR (4) UNRELATED PEOPLE.
Do you really think they care?
DeleteDo they boast about the brothels that are set up here?
ReplyDeleteI thought it was illegal to rent to so many unrelated roommates? Just keep paying off the pols and get away with murder.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of excited burbling on the TA Facebook about the Lottery Apartments. I don't understand why the hell anybody would want to live here, no matter how low the rent. That said, at least they are real, grown-up adults and not the flaming nuisance NYU trash that is all over the place right now. I can't wait to get out of here. It has become such a nasty, noisy, dirty unsupervised dorm.
ReplyDelete"IT IS ILLEGAL IN NEW YORK CITY FOR AN APARTMENT TO HOUSE MORE THAN FOUR (4) UNRELATED PEOPLE."
ReplyDeleteIt's more than 3, not 4.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/nyregion/29roommates.html
This is the Beam Living roommate link. As I noted with the NY Times article, any # greater than 3 unrelated adults is illegal under NYC law.
ReplyDeleteThe number of 4 roommates is repeated twice in the article.
https://www.stuytown.com/stories/stuytown-spotlight/roommates-to-soulmates-a-stuytown-love-story
From our masters: The four roommates "hit it off" right away and did everything together -- from dinners, movies, and parties to taking walks around the Oval.
ReplyDeleteYes, illegal? I'm going to question legal of Stuy Town on this. Will get back....
Screaming, yelling bros next door partying hearty.
ReplyDeleteWonderful.
Screaming, yelling bros next door partying hearty.
ReplyDeleteWonderful.
I don't understand. Did 2 of the roomies fall "in love," or was it a 4-way scene (orgy)? Straight or gay?
ReplyDeleteThe way I understand it, the Stuy Town apartment was occupied by four unrelated roommates, a no-no legally. Two fell in love and later got married. (Straight.)
ReplyDelete"Anonymous Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteScreaming, yelling bros next door partying hearty.
Wonderful.
August 27, 2021 at 11:53 PM"
Apologies in advance for the "shouting" I am going to do here. Also, please know that I have taken my own advice many times, and I am no huge male on steroids and bulging muscles.
DO NOT JUST SIT THERE AND ACCEPT THE NOISE. IF "SECURITY" WILL NOT HELP YOU, CONSIDER CALLING THE POLICE.
IF THAT ISN'T IN THE CARDS FOR YOU, TAKE CARE OF IT YOURSELF AND/OR WITH OTHERS.
LOUD KNOCKING ON THE DOOR.
MAYBE POLITE ASKING TO SHUT IT DOWN OR QUIET IT DOWN CONSIDERABLY.
MAYBE SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT. AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE.
REPEATEDLY DURING THAT SAME DISTURBANCE.
UNTIL THEY DECIDE YOU ARE NOT GOING AWAY AND YOU ARE NOT PLEASANT AND THEY NEED TO END IT.
If you have questions or doubts: look at your lease, please. We (YOU) are not living in any kind or sort of UNIVERSITY or COLLEGE HOUSING. Correct?
You have rights to peace, quiet, enjoyment, safety in your HOME.
DO NOT GRIN AND BEAR IT.
Again - I take my own advice, and have been so doing for years now.
How the fuck can they ask us to refer friends here? Unless your friends are dormies why would they want to live here? I and all my friends graduated from college quite a few years go and the VERY LAST THING we want is to have to live with undergrads in a totally UNsupervised dorm!
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of mentally deficient people are running this place now?
Not as mentally deficient as you would think. They know what they are doing and although they might have lost money last year when the students were not here, they are raking it up now. They have very lucrative deals with the colleges, city, and also I believe tourist organizations (for very short term rentals) to fill these apartments and make money on these apartments.
DeleteFive years ago, I had issues with noise and pot smells in the downstairs apartment. I had to call security several times until I got a proactive officer who handled one issue. The other issue was not resolved until the bros moved out. It was a nightmare. From what I have heard , the police call it a ST matter and it is difficult to get them to intervene on noise. I got no satisfaction from management. I was able to talk to another group of bros and they responded. Good luck. They are reluctant here to warn or evict the bros who pay over 4,000 dollars for their dorm dumps.
ReplyDeleteYou are right about the deliberate dorm/motel activity here by way of "real estate" (the term makes no sense to me and has long represented avaricious, rapacious destroyers of life, along with their pals in banking and too many lawyers and public relations of all stripes).
ReplyDeleteI spent too much time lately reading about housing, colleges and dormitories, "real estate." It is horrific.
I am literally sick this morning - not with COVID-19, but other physical debilitation and misery because of extreme and growing stress and tension.
ReplyDeleteMost of it is due to two distinct and yet related groups of people:
Blackstone/Beam, who shovel into our homes groups of students who are and have, for many years now, been extraordinarily harmful to rent-paying residents living peaceably in their own homes, and
Those students.
Not even something vaguely approaching a good night's sleep is helping to fight off symptoms of illness brought on by depletion of energy deliberately created by these ruiners of human life.
Is not Hurricane Ida enough? Is not COVID-19 enough? Are not the fires and droughts out West enough? Is not the nightly display of innocent suffering humanity in Afghanistan enough?
Why deliberately create so much more human misery right here in our homes? "Money?" "Profit?"
STR -
ReplyDeleteYou know me, personally, pretty well.
I am literally physically ill today after a particularly obscene and damaging interaction with "neighbors" and their "guests" last night.
Afterwards I wrote here on your blog. Either a technical glitch deleted it. Or you made a decision to not publish it.
As I say, I am literally sick today because my body cannot fight "germs" when I'm drained by threats in my own home.
Please publish it today:
The students living here do not fit the description a friend used years ago about unsavory people: "garbage people." They far exceed it.
They are literally toxic as in capable of killing you via the poison they carry. Seriously. This particular poison is this tiny little virus.
Parasitic, living off parents who are likely as harmful as their offspring, taught no elementary common courtesy and manners, they are vile.
If I had ever once behaved as they do at their age, I would not have been writing this. My father, no saint, but a good father who worked his backside off for us, and spent his adult life helping other people, would have made damn sure I never had the chance to behave like these despicable kids do. And frankly, it would never have occurred to me to even think as they do, let alone speak to another person as they do.
They are spoiled in the true sense of the word: rotten, useless, with no worth, unfit for any respectable use or function.
I attempted to reason with several of them regarding masks and regarding parties in our homes (our buildings) during these days of growing illness, suffering and death courtesy of COVID-19'S Delta edition. (Please watch the nightly news if you doubt the horrors we're continuing to live through in this pandemic. Please. And just wait until NYC finally is hit again hard. We just may end up with the supplemental morgue facilities seen in other states already.)
I was distressed, yes, but I was earnest and respectful and maybe even a bit pleading. I was met with manipulation on the one hand (wink, wink, she believes us, the idiot old woman) and some of the ugliest contempt, sneering, ugly dismissal, disrespect and denigration I've come across in many years.
As I write this, I am aware of wave after wave of young human beings walking into a neighboring, attached building. A top Security official here years ago explained that "gatherings" on weekends are "the party before the party" - before they decamp to the bars a block down.
I am also being disturbed by the noise, first, and then sight of waves of them walking past my building, on the way to those very bars.
They do not belong here. They never did. And they likely carry, or will carry, the Delta or other variants into our buildings to harm and/or kill us.
PLUS: you get to hear vile, contemptible young of our own species vent venom at you as they laugh behind your back and in your face, maskless. And yet, they, too are sickening and some dying and they laugh.
Well, we'll see.
So we live with dorms and short-term rentals for tourists. I would call that a safe living situation. Isn't there some State agency that could crack down on them? I used to love living here, but now I hate it and I hate the people who run it. I am fortunate that I have very nice neighbors who are real tenants, but the elevators are always full of braying, unmasked students who all seem to have mouths like horses. Never seen so many huge teeth! The laundry room is unusable because most of the machines are broken and the few that actually work are monopolized by the bros and screechy girls who fill them to capacity, put in half a jug of detergent and then forget to empty them for a few days. By that time the whole machine smells like dirty, sweaty tennis shoes.
ReplyDeleteGotta spread the word to prospective suckers: DON'T RENT HERE!!!!! It is a SHITHOLE unsupervised dirty dorm.
"I would call that a safe living situation."
ReplyDeleteI am assuming this statement was either sarcasm or a typographical error!
The forgetting the laundry:
ReplyDeleteYears back, maybe even before blackheart bought this once lovely oasis in Manhattan, I was there for Public Safety's talk with a young (yuppie used to be the term) couple about their laundry:
The male and female (people didn't "identify" themselves in those days) were indignant, outraged and apoplectic. Why?
Someone had the nerve to take their laundry out of the dryer (I think, probably not the washing machine) and steal it A WEEK AGO. Gosh golly darn, it was only LAST WEEKEND.
Why had someone stolen their laundry a week ago?
I can go you one better, one I think I posted here also a few years back:
Public Safety told me that at least once a week some teary female came in asking if they could help her recover whatever had been stolen the night before from her apartment. How was it stolen? She went out to one of the bars here, got drunk (maybe drugged, too, I dunno), dragged home some stranger she didn't know, slept with him, fell asleep and woke up to find out, "He's gone and he stole my . . ." This was standard. College students going out in laughing hyena herds, dressed like particularly tasteless and lower rung working girls, getting drunk and picking up strangers. They still do it, looks like to me.
I was young. I was a little on the wild side for some years. I never did dumb sh*t like that. None of my friends, I don't think, did that kind of thing. Other stupid things. Not that stupid.
Public Safety told me, some time after that, that the decorous and modest young ladies living here too often call for help and answer the doors nearly naked. No, these aren't the brothels. These are the vampire (as in parasites; I actually like some of the traditional and non-traditional vampire tales) children produced, raised, and taught by the previous exemplary generation. Our youth, our young college girls.
Oh, boy!
Today a student was moving into my building and didn’t even know what building she belonged in. It was actually on Avenue C. They are trickling in like insects, infesting our buildings.,More than I have ever seen before. They hand them a key and that is it. Worst scenario ever here. Are you happy and proud, Garodnick and the TA? Was this turning us over to a good owner? As earlier posters have said, these bros and gals do not belong here. It is a dirty, unsupervised, transient Airbnb/Dorm. Nothing like this anywhere in the city.
ReplyDelete>>Public Safety told me, some time after that, that the decorous and modest young ladies living here too often call for help and answer the doors nearly naked.<<
ReplyDeleteThis needs to be investigated by STR. Full reports with many photos. Seriously, a site that would show such things would get a lot of views, including Public Safety with their ever-watchful monitors that never see a crime.
"This needs to be investigated by STR. Full reports with many photos. Seriously, a site that would show such things would get a lot of views, including Public Safety with their ever-watchful monitors that never see a crime."
ReplyDeleteYou got that right, STR! LOL!
A few years back, Playground 10 was starting to get filled with bikini young women. The TA protested. There was even a NY Post or Daily News article, with photos. Well, I posted about it, and because I can tell the number of visits to my blog and where these visits are from, I was surprised by the amount of people, all across the world, who came to see the "action." It was by far the most popular post in terms of viewership. So...I was thinking mischievously of starting a blog, named PLAYGROUND 10, which would give voyeurs what they want. I never did that, of course....
ReplyDeletePlease stop this thread.
ReplyDeleteOr I'll haul once luscious young body, now over 70 years old, out on the Oval in near naked condition, maskless of course, frequently remove my skimpy bikini top and give everyone one helluva show of elderly womanhood!
All of the men who like to look at naked and near naked female bodies (and also women, and every other self-identified gender or sex) can come out and feast your eyes on my exciting elderly female figure.
Also, take pictures and videos, and give the whole world a chance to salivate and yet be in hopeless despair because you can't have the splendor that is me now.
>>All of the men who like to look at naked and near naked female bodies (and also women, and every other self-identified gender or sex) can come out and feast your eyes on my exciting elderly female figure.<<
ReplyDeleteI have to get my video camera ready. Though PS will have many photos first and claim that this proves they have the property watched all the time.
I saw on the news that there was a deadly house fire somewhere in Queens because somebody was charging the battery on an E-Scooter.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many of the E-Scooter owners who live in PCVST charge their toys in their apartments? It's bad enough that most of us have to use space heaters during the cold months because of the insufficient heat that Management parses out?
The area from First Avenue to Avenue A is getting really scary. Mentally ill, homeless, degenerates hanging out on the corner of First where the bank used to be, one guy urinating. Then you hit the vendors. This is a horrible disgrace and should be dealt with by our do nothing city council people. It gets worse by the week. Target is full of the dorm dump folk buying up the store. Lines long, populated by the pigsty student element. This neighborhood has truly become disgusting.
ReplyDeleteGood one! I'm shopping for the skimpiest bikini for old woman warriors I can find for my adoring audience.
ReplyDeleteI love the almost naked bikini babes on the Oval.
ReplyDeleteI hate the piles of dog shit on the grass and on the paths.
I do not like the garbage left on the Oval or the empty liquor bottles under the Adirondack chairs.
I do not like the smell of marijuana wafting throughout the premises.
I despise the dog urine in the elevators and the dog shit in the stairwells.
I abhor the noise blaring concerts which are an assault on our peace and quiet.
I wouldn't eat the garbage which passes as food at the Five Stuy eColi Cafe or consume their watered down overpriced drinks if they gave it to me for free.
I hate the Oval Cafe's canned "muzak" which plays incessantly hour after hour annoying the residents of the neighboring buildings.
I give Management a grade of F.
This is a residential community, not a resort or cruise ship.
No more transients, AirBnb, or dormification!
I would give management an F.
Any thoughts or comments on my rant?
Agree. I hate the fact that these NYU lowlifes are moving in like flies. My building is now officially a dorm. It goes on and on. I also despise this neighborhood, the catering to dogs, and the rundown appearance of these halls.
DeleteJust a FYI everyone. This holiday weekend is going to be a very bad NYU/Bro/Woo party weekend. And as it's been noted, this is the worst NYU dorm shithole time ever here. They are EVERYWHERE in the Sty. And do to the excuse of the storm, there will be zero PS enforcement. Yeah, I know, very little PS enforcement to begin with. I hate this place now, it could be so much better.
ReplyDeleteYes. I demand equal time. Mostly naked men (only athletic supporters allowed). Mostly naked people of every imaginable gender. After that, mostly naked other animal species.
ReplyDelete@ 9:51 AM: Agree with everything except that I don't love the bikini babes on the Oval. This isn't a public beach or park. Not a nudist colony either, and some of those babes show more tits and ass than is acceptable to many of us who have children.
ReplyDeleteIf there is one thing that was good about the recent storm it is that they had to cancel the "concert" and spare us the noise of the untalented goons that think they are musicians. It would be so bad if they had real talent and maybe put on something like a "Mostly Mozart" series. Then people who live on the Oval might open their windows to listen instead of having to desperately try to shut out the execrable din. Probably, they would attract real music lovers if they put on something that was pleasant to listen to. End of Rant.
Unfortunately there is another concert next Thursday. Pray for rain. This oval resident had her head exploding from the last one.
Delete"recent storm it is that they had to cancel the "concert"
ReplyDeleteIt was movie night, Wednesday. The horrible concert will be 9/9, Thursday night with a rain date of Friday, 9/10. No escape unless your leave the hood which my wife and I do all the time now for these events. Why we have to do so is BS but people do not complain on the record enough here.
BTW, they will reschedule the movie night dropped due to the storm to some Wednesday in September. During the school year. They have done this before. Our "Life Styles" director thinks he is the commissioner of MLB.
Anything I wrote previously about the human poison flowing into my home is now doubled and trebled. I am speaking of the incorrigible, seemingly irredeemable sob's whom the utterly depraved landlord and its minions BROUGHT INTO OUR HOMES over the last couple of weeks. "Students?" They are "students," surely, of only depravity, extreme and literally lethal persuasion that they alone are worthy of life itself, and you, you can go to hell and die a slow agonizing death. And don't you dare question them about it. I am referring, specifically to actions connected to COVID-19, and of course, to most of how they behave.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, lack of sleep, and forced inhalation of marijuana smoke, and hours of noise which can hurt the entire body, and inability to be safe in your own home because of all of the real dangers they bring in (be they bedbugs or the rapists who come here attracted by the hundreds of girls getting drunk and dressed like what can charitably be called as lower class working women, or any of a number of dangerous behaviors) can eventually contribute mightily to the stress and diseases that kill people.
A few years back, a close friend came upon a badly injured young delivery man lying helpless in one of the Loops early in the evening. At least one group of young college males stood there and looked at the injured man and refused to even call an ambulance on their parent-bought mucho expensivo cell phone.
All of the mob behavior for nights on end broadcast from NYU's Washington Square Park last year has returned to destroy our tiniest sliver of peace, of peace of mind, of possible safety from the now three or four variants of COVID-19.
I cannot state what I know to be the only solution for their behaviors. It is considered impolite in this country to graphically and precisely describes what stops people from preventing other people from hurting them as a way of life.
A close friend of mine who worked for 10 years in a prison system as a volunteer, trying to broaden the thinking and hence choices of the inmates, has often told me: People do not change. They learn nothing. An inmate may have been in solitary confinement for an entire year. Within one hour of being released, they are indulging in exactly the behavior which had them thrown into solitary a year ago.
My friend goes on to assert, with truth I am afraid, that this near total intractability, refusal to improve behavior, is a basic human trait.
Well, this society -
- first every "parent" of these students of moral depravity (absence of morals, manners, values - read "sociopathy) has more than likely passed this on to these worse-than-parasite-class-animals, because this has been the way of the land, increasingly, for at least 20-30 years now, and then
- the educational system (it's ok, I was a teacher myself and am related to teachers and so forth), which was debased and destroyed at least 20 years ago, and
- other institutions, and the consumer culture, and
- the "I am the best thing that ever happened in this solar system" crap
have made it a virtual impossibility to persuade these arrogant, hateful, brazen children that they might want to behave much differently toward their fellow human beings.
I am light years past sick of what these parasites, in their many hundreds now, are doing to my home, your home, our home. I am light years past sick of now every employee supposedly assigned to help and protect us either ignoring or hurting us.
What to do? Other than leave my formerly much loved home, what to do?
There are no students on my floor, thank God, but can hear the whooping and braying of two different parties two floors down and one floor up. Totally sick of the "quality" of life in this verminous shithole.
ReplyDeleteRegarding NYU students (clearly undergrads): I wish someone had warned me before I signed my lease that the place was going to be infested with these moronic fucks. If the party going on across the hall doesn't end by 11 pm, I will be calling the cops. And calling and calling and calling the cops. I have no faith in the minimum-wage mall cops they call "Public Safety."
ReplyDeleteThere’s a noisy party going on at 445. Hell
ReplyDeletehas arrived. No point in calling PS because they’re useless. I’m sure the Delta Virus is being liberally distributed throughout the building.
Fortunately, I live in an apartment that is not surrounded by the students described here. This could change, of course. The ones I see in my building have been nice.
ReplyDeleteWhether nice or not, they don’t belong in a residential community, particularly in such huge numbers. Since they moved in, our recycling area looks like a pigsty.
DeleteMany of these”nice” students do not wear masks in the elevators. This is not good. Most of the older residents wear the masks.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was much younger, I came up with the notion I called the "10% or Iceberg" truth.
ReplyDeleteIt is simple: anything (usually anybody) which is wrong, destructive, negative . . . is revealing to you only about 10% of their bad stuff. There is a vast, looming iceberg beneath the surface which you cannot see. There is tons more of the wrong thinking and action and speech in that person, that situation.
The actions of the Blackstone Group, their "Management" Company, Beam; many of the employees such as "Public Safety" and relatively higher echelon "Management" people are inimical to us beyond anything we've yet seen. I have been given increasing tastes of threats to my health, life, well-being. And several varieties of escalating literal threats now.
So have: September 3, 2021 at 10:51 PM; September 4, 2021 at 1:05 AM above and others.
Do you understand, whomever is reading this, that there is an entire list of laws that are being broken in connection with these "parties?" Do you understand that all of this is 100% illegal for good, ethical and humane reasons?
Do you understand that, in addition to all of the now standard illegality and inhumanity, NOW it can be literally death-dealing because of COVID-19?
Actions are being taken to wantonly and deliberately hurt us, badly. "The money" is nowhere near the whole picture, although it figures in in many ways.
I'll provide some details later. I wish to heaven that, as another poster said above, more of us would (my own words now) FIGHT back, literally defend ourselves against harm and possible death.
(If that sounds exaggerated, or overly dramatic, recall that now there are multiple break-ins or attempted break-ins in Stuyvesant Town in the last couple of weeks, including last night; attempted attacks on at least one woman a couple of weeks ago. "Security" does nothing to prevent break-ins, violence, rapes, attempted rapes, attempted assaults. Not anymore. They are not permitted to protect us. Their jobs - salaries, benefits - will be taken from them if they do protect us. That has been true for some years now, and it is worsening badly now.
Some years back, on the same day, one older woman jumped out of her window in Peter Cooper as just hours later, on that bright sunny Sunday, an NYU student killed himself and harmed innocent people with his Stuyvesant Town meth lab.)
There is some number of us who do not want to leave our homes. There is no reason we need to leave our homes because soul-dead, twisted psychopaths have colonized us and brought with them human parasites to hurt and even kill us with their other behaviors in addition to the COVID-19 killer virus.
It’s true that a residential complex should not be used as a dorm, but the vindictive ranting is very inappropriate and somewhat unhinged.
ReplyDeleteThe presence of such a large number of very young students living in an unsupervised dorm presents danger to the whole community. They tend to attract predators, especially as there is so much drinking involved in their “recreational “ behavior. Also, they have numerous visitors coming and going and we don’t know who might be prowling around our buildings.
I know that management wants to get rid of the older tenants in lower rent apartments, it they can’t hope to attract high rent tenants to live in an unsupervised dorm. Adults with jobs to get up early and go to or who work from home do not want to live in a dorm atmosphere. Nor do people who are raising families.
Dorms do not coexist well with post-college living!
It is not vindictive, unhinged ranting. It is supported by what is going on here. Noise in apartments and outside, transients who don’t wear masks in elevators and may come from poorly vaccinated areas, filthy recycling rooms, reeking pot, management not knowing who the bros have in their apartments. All true and not unhinged ranting.
DeleteGot about 2 hours of sleep last night thanks to the fucking morons who were partying two floors down from me. Hooting, stomping and screeching. The party broke up at around 2 am. Then there are all the braying assholes staggering home from the bars.
ReplyDeleteManagement offers a reward for referring someone to live here! There is nobody who I hate enough to encourage them to live here. I consider it a public service to warn people to avoid this place because they would get a better quality of life if they moved into a homeless shelter.
The Sty was relatively peaceful before these fucking students came pouring in. It is inexcusable to turn a residential property into a dorm. It's no good calling Public Safety because they have been castrated and a very small group anyway. Management got rid of all the really good PS officers and has these dopey kids who look like they just got out of high school. There used to be a good guy in charge of "Security" as it was called a whole ago, but they got rid of him and put some puppet in his place.
Can't they at least get some kind of Dorm Captain/Child Minder or something to make these losers behave like civilized human beings who show respect for their neighbors?
Just read on the Tenants (not TA) facebook that they are renovating apartments above and below a senior citizen's apartment. There was no warning given. This is more than lack of consideration; this is an attempt to make that person sick and give up the apartment. Harassment comes in many forms, as does murder.
ReplyDeleteThis vile, cruel landlord is literally trying to torture older tenants into moving. They do construction on more than one adjacent apartment at a time; they do not enforce any rules pertaining to noisy parties, no carpets, etc. This is constructive eviction. This is the kind of behavior that Jared Kushner and Michael Cohen engaged in when they were trying to get rid of rent stabilized tenants. Our elected "representatives" do absolutely nothing about it and are probably paid off by the LL to ignore requests from the tenants who are being persecuted. If Keith Powers or any of the other pols canvas me for a vote I will literally spit in their faces. I am not kidding.
ReplyDeleteI will not vote for Powers. I don’t care who he runs against. He is totally ineffective and has been a lousy council member for our area despite his crowing about his accomplishments elsewhere. Unfortunately he will probably get re-elected.
DeleteBlaring, drunken, marijuana reeking party by the loud and obnoxious in two apartments on my floor last night.
ReplyDeleteCalled Public Safety.
Nothing.
They didn't even bother to show up.
Nice.
"Called Public Safety.
ReplyDeleteNothing.
They didn't even bother to show up."
Call the cops. If the 13th Pct isn't interested, call 911 and tell them there is a drunken afray going on and you fear for your safety. They'll show up.
I like the vindictive ranting because the landlord is as vindictive as the young free loaders being packed into this decrepit slum.
ReplyDelete"This is constructive eviction."
ReplyDeleteIn my heart, I say yes. The STPCV dorm dump situation and the impact from it is off the charts. But legally, a lot tougher to prove:
"Sam Himmelstein, a tenants' rights lawyer with Himmelstein, McConnell, Gribben, Donoghue & Joseph (and a Brick Underground sponsor) says that the situation has to be so egregious that you have to vacate the apartment. So a minor leak or a neighbor who occasionally throws a noisy party would not be grounds for a constructive eviction. "
https://www.brickunderground.com/rent/constructive-eviciton-situations-it-applies-to-landlords-renters-nyc
Thank you to those of you who recognized that I am not "unhinged" or "ranting."
ReplyDeleteAs I've said before, the conditions here are much worse than we are aware of at any given time. I've been trying to understand a little of the motives and the results here. I don't like what I've been able to understand and accept. It is not only infuriating, but it is painful and to me, in some ways incomprehensible.
I wasn't raised in a world of compassionate, wise, unselfish people. Many, however, were just that - friends and relatives - and strangers. Yes, there has always been greed and cruelty among people. Not at this magnitude, though. Human animals simply didn't have the methods to consolidate it as they have now, and are doing so increasingly.
. . . much more, I'll try to put it into words. Again: to those willing to experience, accept and express their awareness of the hell deliberately imposed upon us: you are helping to keep me sane. And just maybe, we might finally join together to actively oppose it.
Dreading the cold months because we get little-to-no heat. Living here is a nightmare, but it’s not that easy to move when you are older and not wealthy. The threat of more variants of COVID and an unheated apartment is a grim reality .
ReplyDeleteThis used to be a great place to live, but it’s now hellish for many tenants, especially the older people. The TA needs to wake up.. Most of the TA board are older, but they have money and places in the Hamptons!
ReplyDeleteThe so called TA has been in bed with management since Blackstone took over. That is obvious.
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ReplyDelete"Sam Himmelstein, a tenants' rights lawyer with Himmelstein, McConnell, Gribben, Donoghue & Joseph (and a Brick Underground sponsor) says that the situation has to be so egregious that you have to vacate the apartment. So a minor leak or a neighbor who occasionally throws a noisy party would not be grounds for a constructive eviction. "
What is described is definitively and emphatically NOT what is happening here.
What is the phrase: "I call bullshit!"
There is a clear, ongoing, well-defined pattern, and most likely detailed and written PLAN to harass (read, "badly harm and injure") tenants in order to force them to leave.
No minor leaks, no occasionally noisy parties.
WHO posted this, anyway? Some "management" malignant creature?
"much more, I'll try to put it into words. Again: to those willing to experience, accept and express their awareness of the hell deliberately imposed upon us: you are helping to keep me sane. And just maybe, we might finally join together to actively oppose it."
ReplyDeleteI don't know what you think we can do. I try my best to deter anybody from even thinking of renting here (and I do run into a lot of people who are interested - until I describe the reality!).
I agree. There is nothing we can do. This is not a landlord owning a few buildings.
DeleteI think it is criminally irresponsible for management to bring in hordes of students from all over the country (maybe from other countries, too) when we have such a virulent and worsening pandemic. Who knows whether or not they are vaccinated or carrying the virus. They are living crowded together and no doubt those who are vulnerable will be infected by those who are carriers. The unvaccinated are the the biggest threat to others and the most vulnerable themselves.
ReplyDeleteWe have several elderly people living here and there are young families with children (though I think that many of those people were smart enough to get out of here early on). Management persists with these ridiculous "events" that encourage people to crowd together and there is absolutely no enforcement of the CDC guidelines regarding masks and "social distancing." It's like they are inviting the virus to spread. They are just about rolling out the red carpet for DEATH!
I pity the people who work here in Covidville. They probably don't have much choice, given that they need the jobs.
I knew some families with children who didn’t want to live here when they heard about CHP plants being built on the property. Young parents are very wary about endangering the health of their kids. That plus Coronavirus was more than they were willing to live with.
ReplyDeleteStay away from this dump.
ReplyDeleteSo long as you feel helpless and powerless, then, of course you are helpless and powerless.
ReplyDelete"WHO posted this, anyway? Some "management" malignant creature?"
ReplyDeleteThis statement is ridiculous. I posted a link with a quote from a tenants' rights lawyer. That firm, Himmelstein, McConnell, Gribben, Donoghue & Joseph, is very reputable one.
"Constructive eviction" is a legal term. If you think you are better and know more than this firm, why don't you go all the way and just do your own rent strike?
https://www.hmgdjlaw.com/
Around 9pm tonight, 3 female tweens came racing and screaming out of a ST building. They continued chasing each other and screaming and laughing at the top of their voices, past apartment windows and people sitting quietly outside. They went screeching past a woman on the path, then doubled back still screaming, past her again. The woman stopped and sternly told them "Must you be so loud?" Well!! a female adult who had been trailing the girls said mockingly "Oooh! were you scared?! did they scare you?! Well here... " And she started jumping up and down, waving her arms around and screaming and laughing at the top of her voice too!! It never occurred to these low lives that people were being disturbed by their antics. I truly pity their neighbors.
ReplyDeleteI'm not passing a couple of comments because of their content or a couple of words used. While I understand residents' frustration, a comment that goes overboard (to me) can't be let through here. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteThere are no tenants' rights if constructive eviction is limited to, and pardon the language, please, the most extreme misery possible inflicted by the landlord. It is preposterous.
ReplyDeleteI've read that a nation gets the government which it deserves. Years of living have taught me that tenants get the homes they deserve and workers get the working conditions they deserve. Plug in any other situation.
This all boils down to: if people just submit to predation, exploitation and so forth . . . when they have the numbers and the means to organize resistance . . . well, then you are inviting more of it.
As an old colleague of mine used to finish up, "just sayin'"
Constructive eviction can occur as a result of the landlord's breach of the implied covenant of quiet enjoyment if (1) the landlord substantially interferes with the tenant's use and enjoyment of the premises by his actions or failure to act to resolve a problem; (2) the tenant gives the landlord notice of the problem ...
ReplyDeleteTenants here do not have any numbers. Most tenants here are students, transients, etc. As I have stated before, rent strikes do not work unless your landlord owns one building.
ReplyDeleteAre they having one of those appalling "concerts" in the Oval this evening? I can hear caterwauling all the way over on 14th Street.
ReplyDeleteGod help those poor souls who live in apartments near or around the Oval. It's not even like it's hot enough to put the air conditioners on full blast out the noxious wailing. Sounds like they are torturing somebody to death out there.
Yes, there was one of the "concerts" last night. It was dreadful.
ReplyDeleteThat was definitely one of the many examples of constructive eviction.
There are professional musicians, and sound mixers living here who will emphatically testify to the lack of music, lack of proper mixing and controlling of sound and decibel levels.
But, hey, years ago before even these sob's were here, we had a many-houred "concert" at which the NYPD 13th Precinct was in attendance and experiencing themselves sustained decibel levels heard for blocks around us. They did absolutely nothing.
The last time I spoke with the Precinct, a few weeks back, I asked whomever was at the desk that night to give me the name/s of exactly who is being bribed to allow this, and to also supply me with the amount of money given to them.
No chance of getting to sleep early in this dump, no matter how much of taxing job - one that needs alertness and sharpness of mind, such as a nurse - you have to get up early for.
ReplyDeleteScreeching, braying, bellowing kids, who I think a probably students from out of town, exercising their vocal cords and one twerp practicing his skateboard jumps. It started around midnight last night and went on for a couple of hours and it has started again now (midnight).
I can't believe that this "management" asks tenants to recommend this dump to a friend (and get a big fat $500 bucks for!) I would never recommend this mismanaged project to anyone. Even if I totally disliked the person, I wouldn't want them to go through the hell of living here.
I am unfortunate enough to live on the 14th Street Loop, so the bros and gals are wending their drunken way home after a night in the Village.
Garbage and filth left throughout the property after weekend "events".
ReplyDeleteThis is supposed to be a residential community, not a State Fair.
This is a totally inept and incompetent management. We are reduced to being residents of a slum. No wonder so many people leave and they can only get college kids and transients.
ReplyDeleteDoes anybody else still miss Associated? I know I do! We don't have a decent supermarket in the neighborhood over on the 14th Street side of the property. I don't know how the elderly manage to get their stuff. Trader Joe and Target just don't fit the bill. Target has garbage and TJ is all its own brand and not too good a brand. Also, it's always so crowded. I think I would move to another place just to be near a good grocery store. Dags isn't too bad, but not great and Morton Williams is a schlep. I so miss that handy store that stayed open until midnight and always had plenty of the staples. I can't carry heavy stuff too far because of a back problem and we're too far for delivery from real supermarkets. This is a major drawback to living here at this time. Going across 14th to TJ means encountering all kinds of human garbage cluttering the sidewalk and some of them are really menacing. Never liked crossing to that side of the street since they closed all the useful stores we used to have and put up that condo. I pity people who are paying major bucks to live in then14th Street condos that have replaced the lively shopping strip that was it was from First Avenue going East. Plenty of grocery and miscellaneous stores. Anybody remember Bargain Bazaar?
ReplyDeleteDog walkers galore, residents and non-residents as well.
ReplyDeleteDog sh*t and urine everywhere, paths, elevators and stairwells.
Classy, huh?
Bags of garbage left in front of carriage room doors. WTF???
ReplyDeleteRe: 9/19 12:07 Am
ReplyDeleteI don't know how people with responsible jobs can live here, go to sleep 1/2 am and expect to function. There was many a time IO had to ask one of my co-workers to please take over some of my job duties because I was just too exhausted and I slept in my office.
Fortunately as a nurse, there must be wide open opportunities for other jobs. Why torture yourself?\
I'm semi retired now and don't have to get up at 6 or 7 Am but the kids upstairs and downstairs still keep my up till sometimes 4Am!!! on w/e. I will leave here as soon as possible. Staying here is just not possible.
>>Does anybody else still miss Associated?<<
ReplyDeleteI used to shop there regularly. There is something coming to replace Associated. High-prices, for sure. And the replacement even has a place for live music. Stuy Town is building a back entrance, so a resident doesn't have to leave Stuy Town. It's all a part of making this area "upscale." I'm more interested in prices, though.
Live music in a supermarket? No thanks! It's bad enough with the piped muzak in regular supermarkets - especially during the holiday season with all that recycled holiday crap music.
ReplyDeleteThis place is already a nasty, dirty, dangerous slum. If "management" would work on rectifying that situation it might make sense to try to install upscale additions, but so long as it is a dirty, dangerous NOISY, dog/human shit-splattered dump, they should really not bother. I'll take cabs and buses to real supermarkets, but I won't spend money in TJ, Target and any overpriced facility (music be damned) that this total fuck-up of a management wants to provide.
Nadeem should go get a job that he can actually handle. Don't know what that would be, but he sure as hell is making this hellhole worse and worse by his total inaction, indifference and incompetence.
They need to give that “upscale” a rest. Everyone now knows about this transient/dorm dump. That is such a joke with the filthy hell across the street and the dirty, student clogged buildings here. The other day a homeless guy was sleeping on the ST side and one was picking through the garbage on the ST corner. As for Associated, although I didn’t like the store I do miss it. I am not crazy about Trader Joe brands and a lot of their so called healthy choices are full of sugar and salt. Target is fine for household goods but it is two stop shopping. I miss the deli especially at Associated.
ReplyDeleteNoise, noise, noise...
ReplyDeletethe new mantra of PigStuy Town be it the Oval "concerts" or "events",
the braying drunken bros at 1:00AM or the incessant "muzak" blaring from the 5 Stuy Oval Cafe Patio which annoy residents and passersby no end.
Face it, Stuy Town is dead. RIP, Stuy Town, we will miss you.
ReplyDeleteThe new neighborhood ushered in by the vultures who picked the dead corpse left by the foreclosure is now referred to as THE STY, yes, as in Pig Sty or those gross, puss spewing things one gets in the corner of their eye. The only thing Beam Living can do is collect rent. They have no other skills.
The new Stuy Town is Battery Park City.
Absolutely. This pigsty will
Deletecontinue the downward spiral as older residents pass on. I believe that about 70 percent of my building is now roomies, students, and transients. They are really packing them into these apartments. The only decent thing we still have here is maintenance service. Nothing else. You can’t even compare Battery Park City to Stuyvesant Town at any time. More expensive but definitely more upscale.
>>Face it, Stuy Town is dead.<<
ReplyDeleteI don't disagree to some extent. Management is not managing but just BSing.
This place is truly for the dogs. Not only is it uninhabitable for residents. I never saw so many dogs in my life. Infested with them and many oversized ones. Like one big dirty dog park.
ReplyDeleteSome residents with no heat in winter, apartments filled with 4 or more students or roomies. Airbnb galore, dogs out of control, noise polluting events on the oval, filthy halls, a hellhole across the street which occasionally spills into the development, ancient plumbing, pot stinking up the halls, maskless students in the elevators, filthy recycling rooms due to students, management having no inkling about who lives here, lousy retail in the neighborhood. If this sty isn’t dead, I don’t know what is.
ReplyDelete@September 24 at 5:40 PM - you hit the nail right on the head. This place is DEAD. It is dead inasmuch as it is a safe, clean, well-run residential complex for families and professionals and firefighters and cops. It is now a dirty, nasty, noisy, unsupervised student (undergrad student) dorm. We have AirbNB galore and I know for a fact that people just swap apartments and Management hasn't got a clue who lives in very, very many of its apartments. Management doesn't seem to care because it makes it so easy for people to do this! People don't break their leases and go through the aggravation. No, they just find somebody to take over the apartment at whatever rent the "rightful" tenants are paying. I know people who do this. It is very easy because every apartment (except the unrenovated ones) is occupied by "Welcome Home" and they are listed on the Directory (if you can call it that) as "Private." Management should forget about its leasing office and agents because tenants work these things themselves. We don't know who is living here and neither does Management.
ReplyDeleteIf there is ever an award going for the most badly run, unregulated (as far as who is here and who is not) apartment complex, this place will take First Prize. Same if there is an award going for the most inept, unprofessional Manager and Management Team, I don't have to tell you who would get the trophy.
Ignore your lease. If you don't want to go through the hassle when you want to move out, just find people who will (under cover) take it over. By the time the lease is up, the second round will probably be out and Management won't know where the original Lessees are and won't know squat about the people who moved in and then left without officially terminating the lease. They could all be anywhere on the planet and Management will never catch up with them, even if they leave the apartment totally trashed.
Our total asshole of a Mayor wants to do away with criminal background checks; he already lets criminals out without bail; and it has cut the balls of the NYPD so that petty crime, such as shoplifting is not prosecutable. Noticed how stores have everything under lock and key and/or shelves deliberately left empty? Any and every asshole POS will soon be in here without having been checked for a criminal record. Probably, a lot of them are here now.
Such a pretty picture, eh? But cheer up folks because at least we have the movies on the Oval, muzak a the Five Turd E-colie Caf, plentiful heaps of dog shit and puddles of dog piss, not just outside, but in our elevators, halls and stairs. There's a giant shit patch (I think somebody must have skidded on it, but never mind because it's supposed to be good luck) and two huge puddle stains on the carpet in my hall. I am embarrassed to invite people over.
To whomever was responsible for selling us to the Amazon-burning, life-destroying murderous crew known as Blackstone Properties: may you have the worst karma imaginable dog you for the rest of your wasted-on-you life/lives.
I too am embarrassed to have people come over to visit me here. Our carpet is stained and the entire development is shabby looking.
DeleteRegarding your last paragraph- that is easy. It was Garodnick and the TA. Boy were they gushing when Blackstone had their initial press conference. Karma will absolutely get all of them.
DeleteAbsolutely . Phony Garodnick and the do nothing TA are responsible for the terrible state of affairs here. I remember how they hailed this deal with the devil at the introductory meeting. Shame on them.
DeletePlenty of screaming, braying drunks last night.
ReplyDeleteI hate living in a dorm. What a rotten failure the
Sty has become. It in no way is run as a livable housing complex. It’s gone 180 degrees from the pleasant place it used to be.
There’s an illegal swap situation on my floor (they even were stupid enough to admit it) and the new folk have brought in a dog that barks all fucking night.
ReplyDeleteWhen i move out (soon I hope) I won’t bother to tell mismanagement. They don’t have the will or the staff to care who lives here.