LatinX??? Beam Living, once again, goes woke. The latest is using LatinX, instead of Latin, which everyone understands and has understood for decades.
To the pharmacist: "Sir, do you have any salve for this skin problem." Response from the nice pharmacist: "Yes, we do have a new product that works wonders. It's called LatinX."
Is Beam/Stuy Town serious? Do they have a person who is real and not just a voice who follows whatever idiocy the party line suggests?
I guess using Latina or Latino is out. Now, these people are LatinX!... Why not call everyone X, and be done with it.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 392 of 392Also, I am a Veteran and enjoyed what I saw, limited though it was for me.
Beam is not interested in commemorating the past--only in celebration(s). Free snacks are no substitute for safety, cleanliness, and heat. They keep Kennedy because she perfectly suits/implements their evil purposes.
Our laundry door is locked , but truly believe that there a few women that use the laundry as a business and a couple that do laundry for their church. One woman had almost all the machines and dryers one day. Another appears down there with a large load nearly every day. Of course you can’t prove this.
"Note "Celebration," not "Commemoration." And, again, Veterans Day is Saturday."
Well, you know we're not dealing with intelligence here. Resort hacks of the worst kind.
I can't agree with the comments about Ms. Kennedy because I've always found her to be very helpful and pleasant. Never met her in person, but have bitched and whined via email a few times. Lately, my grumblings have been responded to by other members of her staff, who are equally pleasant. I was told that they are going to replace the locks on all the laundry doors and that the laundry rooms are going to be renovated. Probably, that will mean more expensive machines. I stopped using the laundry room and now send my laundry out. Two things put me off our laundry room: I can't read the white-on-white instructions on the washers; and when the locks were removed I didn't feel safe in there. Our laundry room is shared with an adjoing building and there is a door to outside that is sometimes propped open. Also, the storage lockers are all along the passageway between the two buildings. It is dimly lit and who knows who might be lurking around! Also I am on 14th Street across from Trader Joe and there are a lot of druggies and dealers doing business in this neck of the woods.
I agree. They try to cover their negligence of heat, noise, and cleanliness with gimmick events for holidays and summer events. It is a nasty ploy. A few fall for it, but most don’t. Our city commemorates all holidays,and provides first rate entertainment. I never saw such blatant crap coming from a big landlord. We were always fine with our yearly Christmas tree/Hanukkah lighting and caroling. We sought our entertainment elsewhere. Our grounds were pristine and we had heat. We also knew who our neighbors were..
Correction regarding scaffolding erection re basketball program - it looks as if something different is being done. Maybe the ground will be dug up there having to do with pipes. Whatever they are doing, they've created a good deal more danger because it is a much narrower walkway onto which wheeled/electrified vehicles travel past people at speed.
@November 9 at 6:56: I totally agree with your comments. You have said it all. I wish that the people in "management" would read your post and give it some serious thought. I really don't think they realize how much we hate their "efforts" and wish they would just lay off the stupid crap that they consider "entertainment." They are not good at doing their jobs. They don't belong in the world of residential housing because they are all from the hospitality industry and their "skills" just don't work here. Probably, they did well in the hospitality industry and they are probably frustrated (maybe even a bit hurt) that so many of us hate and resent their "venues." They just a typical example of a square peg in a round hole.
Blackstone is notorious for buying up properties - single family homes and multi-unit developments like StyTown - and making the lives of the residents absolute HELL. It is busy destroying the Amazon Rain Forest for profit and undiluted greed. We are living in a property owned by one of the most (if not THE most) satanically avaricious and life negating corporations on on the face of the Earth. I have absolutely no respect for the people who work for them because they are working for the worst people on the Planet.
I could go on, but STR (quite rightly) wouldn't publish my comment.
Just let's keep in mind, people, that there is NOTHING good and decent about the human beings that OWN this property. Maybe the employees who do their bidding are not evil, but they are not encouraged in any way whatsoever to behave in any way other than how they are instructed by their evil, life-negating employers.
Ms Kennedy is a total failure. Plain and simple. She is the embodiment of incompetence and her staff is the same. There are NO competent people in the entire Beam Living organization, and they know it. They also don't care that we know it. Without a viable avenue to fight them they win and they know that as well. The only reason to live here is either you have a ridiculously low rent due to being here forever or you just don't care about the project and are only here to run amok. Real NYers don't move here, they know better.
"And, again, Veterans Day is Saturday."
8.39 PM here. Yes, I am very well aware of the official date 11/11 and the "observed" date-this year it was today, Friday, 11/10/23, of Veterans day because of the 11/11 date being on Saturday this year. After all my father and brother were veterans and my Godson (made Major last year, US Army, he has 2 Afghanistan combat tours under his belt plus deployments to Kuwait and Korea, now he is stationed stateside with his family) is still in active service. As noted in Kennedy's email today:
"COMMUNITY CELEBRATIONS
Honor Our Nation's Veterans
Head out to the Oval until Monday and join your neighbors pinning flags in the ground to spell "SERVICE." Come together to honor those who have served and commemorate Veterans Day."
Although IMO this Blackstone/Beam Living Oval event shout out to vets, like the shout out to the LGBTQ community, is disingenuous, at least it makes sense.
"There was one guy playing an electric guitar, and I thought he was quite good."
I don't care if he was the living embodiment of Jimi Hendrix/Jeff Beck/Duane Allman, we who face the Oval are tired of Robert Vazquez's noise events. And on 11/29, there is this. It's from 6.30 PM to 7.30 PM (listed at the webpage as a 7.30 PM close?-we shall see) but still:
"Christmas Tree Lighting & Concert
Wed, Nov 29 | 6:30pm | At the Oval
Join the annual holiday celebration as we light the community Christmas Tree with a special guest performance by recording artist Stevie Mackey.
Mackey will premiere his new song "Hung up on You," from his holiday album The Most Wonderful Time. The evening includes complimentary hot chocolate & cookies and a special appearance by Santa & other great characters.
Plus, grab dinner at the Shake Shack food truck on the 20th St Loop from 12-8pm."
Stevie Mackey. Can't wait. Not. And food trucks are gas spewing horror shows. So much for Beam Living being "green".
I've never been to one of those concerts, but I can hear them all the way to 14th Street. They don't appeal to me in the slightest, but some of the other events are ok.
You are lucky you don’t live on the oval. Those concerts are vile. You can’t hear your TV or go about your normal routine. The noise is unbearable. It is your choice to go to some of the events which you deem as “OK” but it is the tenants that attend these sham events that keep them going. Lots of outsiders but ST tenants too.
Thank you 8:30 am.
The extreme selfishness, unconsciousness and related laziness of even longtime neighbors hurts.
This is all part and parcel of the murder of trees, torment of grass on the Oval, interference and perhaps harming of other lives on the Oval - not human.
No human being has any reason or right to walk or sit or BE on the Oval. Period. Full stop.
It is not only the soul-dead twisted landlord and his servants who are such destructive beings. All of the commercial crap has no business.
As bad, and possibly worse, are our supposedly less brainless neighbors who encourage this atrocious, illegal, life-hurting misery.
https://inhabit.corcoran.com/nyc-residential-rental-market-report-october-2023/
I think 8:30 AM and 7:06 PM on November 12 is one and the same person. Give us a break, please.
Genius who surmises that the people writing about the so-called concerts and the marvelous neighbors who encourage their existence: two different people. The first poster was polite and not a name-caller. The second spouted some venom, no?
I've got a new one. One of my "neighbors" leaves there cat out in the hallway to roam around.
The roaming cat: when my first husband and I moved into 6 Stuyvesant Oval, a breathtakingly noble long, lean, orange cat named Mississippi, used to sit outside, on the steps of the Main entrance. This was back in 1980. He came to no harm and was an encouragement to sit outside peacefully near him, all of us quiet and content. I believe he lived in a Main level apartment facing the "courtyard" and may have come and gone from the open window there.
The present cat roaming the hallway: I'll bet he lives just across the courtyard from 6 Oval, yes?
Of course at todays' "Turkey Trot" running event at the Oval, a loud DJ with another Beam Living employee screaming into the mike PA system as the runners finished. I see nothing wrong in having a health oriented fitness run (I did 2 marathons in the distant past) but of course, facing the Oval, Robert V. HAD to have, per usual, loud music and a loud PA system at an event. There is now never a week going by without this shit which again, never happens in PCV where all of the senior Beam Living Management live. BTW this event was immensely popular so I give up. Again, I have no problem with event itself but I do have an issue with the loud music/PA system (started at 10 AM and just finished at 11 AM) Meanwhile Blackstone, REBNY, RSA, and other RE industry front organizations are trying to do an end run to the MAGA Supreme Court to end ALL residential rent regulations. 3 cases have been submitted, one the Supreme Court decided not to hear but 2 are still pending.
Adjacent to one of the basketball playgrounds, major work is being done on the sidewalk with one small area just open for people to pass. What brain thought this up? The scope of the work is totally unnecessary. I travel that path--on a walker, no less--so I know what needs to be done. Parts can be fixed, but not the whole thing. So bad is this major work, that scaffolding has to be built on the playground side so that the fence there doesn't tip over. I assume other major sidewalks are in store for the same unnecessary work. Someone is making money. That's the only purpose I see. This in the city that is LOSING money, and where certain loops in Stuy Town are still cracked and bumpy with holes for seniors. The sidewalk will look good once it is finished, but how long before cracks start to show up again, with all the heavy carts running around Stuy Town?
STR, surely you realize by now that there is no INTELLIGENCE running this dump! The people running this dump into the ground are the pot-scrapings of the hospitality industry. They do not have a clue how to run this place in a competent and safe manner. Hayduk, for all his smarm, did have some innate intelligence. Since he's been gone there has not been a real Property Manager (I don't count the two who didn't stay long enough to unpack).
If it is true that the TA and Garodnick brought this traveling circus in to run the place we call home, then nobody should ever give a dime to the TA or cast a vote for the little slimeball. We don't need their kind to represent us in any way whatsoever. I am hoping that eventually there will be some journalist who wil do a deep dig on what this "management" and the "TA" are all about. Bringing in an untalented and predatory POS like Vasquez to ruin our homes with his garbage is the biggest insult yet.
"What brain thought this up?" Probably the same one that sends out all the Good Neighbor emails. Or, could be the cruise-director/DJ. Actually, you don't need much brain to make decisions that negatively impact the most vulnerable tenants, especially seniors. This place is run by total morons. I doubt any one of them could successfully run a hot-dog stand.
I would love to have a landlord/management comprised of people who I could actually respect. This bunch are sooooo out of their depth trying to run a place like this. I just cannot respect them, no matter how hard I try. They're here long enough now to have learned a few lessons about residential property management.
Look at what a dumbass we have running the City into the ground. However, I'll never forget or forgive the despicable fascist human-trafficers in the Low IQ States who shipped thousands of immigrants here just like they were cattle.
So sick of living in an unsupervised dorm for self-centered undergrads. They have turned this place into HELL. Can't wait for lease to be up and I am warning everybody I meet to avoid this place like you would avoid stepping in shit.
The whooping, screaming and braying of those repulsive morons should not be permitted on a property where people who go to work, school, work at home, have children to get to sleep. It is a stark gob in the faces of the adults here who work hard to make the money to pay the rent to live in this overrated, glorified "luxury" complex. It's about as luxury as an overflowing unflushed toilet.
>>"What brain thought this up?"<<
I blame "the suits." Every once in a while, they turn up from Beam and walk around Stuy Town, pointing to this and that, and making, I think, "improvements." Of course, the brains, or one of them, could be local here. It's more easy if you just ask residents, but "the suits" or the local reps think they are above the regular people and will make decisions from them.
Correction: The scaffolding is for the Christmas trees. They will be placed against them.
How the HELL did we fall into the hands of these moronic assholes? We deserve better. Much better. They have turned this once-enviable place to live into a filthy, dangerously disorganized dump.
Well, many reasons, but the main one is we do not own the property.
The "suits" - bastards supreme. Several years back, I encountered them, in a tight group of dreadful soul-dead, missing-heart-and-essential-parts of brain human toxins walking around the Oval.
I accosted them, brightly but forthrightly asking them questions, pointing out the hell of various sorts here, and asking for responses.
So, you know what I received: blank, dead stares, mainly refusal to acknowledge I was physically present and speaking to them. Maybe one son of a bitch referred me to "Resident Services."
It reminded me of the time I went straight for the long-departed Kelly Vohs as he walked into my building upon his first arriving here. He stared hard at me, but with a shit-eating smile on his face and didn't utter a sound.
As I've written, I came to know Rick pretty well. He never once treated me in either of those ways. Also as I've written, twice his facade cracked to reveal a besieged man, pressured, stressed hugely, shocked by what was being thrown at him, and angry.
He did not want to be doing what he was doing. He took orders from "above" him, and I never believed for a moment that it was his brainchild to screw with the directories and the nameplates on doors.
Vazquez, as has been detailed by so many of us, is another animal entirely. An ugly, ego-driven little man who is a liar and without conscience. Rick hired him, and for that, Rick has a great deal to answer for, but I don't think he then understood what a vile, despicable piece of excrement is this person.
I sometimes wonder if Rick had some notion that no matter what damaged "lifestyle manager" person he hired, he'd end up with an arrogant, flaming control freak. Having worked with and around entertainment industry people years ago, this is a stock character.
This whole title and position and whatever the hell it is doesn't belong here. For heaven's sake - these are 2 apartment complexes, not a circus venue or stadium.
>>The "suits" - bastards supreme.<<
Well, they do look nice in their suits. If it is really warm outside (not now, of course), they take off their suits in their Stuy Town stroll. By the way, they always go to the Security Office. Like bees to honey. "How are things going?" they must ask. "Great!" is the response.
Do we have anybody actually running this place? Apart from the Cruise Director and Events Planner, is there actually someone intelligent running this place? If there is, many of us haven't been aware of who that person is.
I miss Rick Hayduk. He did, at least, have a handle on things other than Events on The Oval.
My experience with Rick was dismal. He was a hypocritical phony. He picked me off the tenants complaining on Facebook. He arranged a meeting for “coffee” through his staff. He was cold and apathetic though pretending to listen and put my complaints on an IPad. He rushed the meeting and told me that they would consider earphones for concert goers in order to alleviate oval noise( my main concern). No offer of coffee by the way at the Oval Cafe.. He didn’t like dissent and if you saw through his friendly, helpful facade, he responded negatively. Many long time senior tenants worshipped him because they could e-mail him privately. What is funny is that they never really got their issues like heat solved by him. I dealt through the phone staff and at least they tried and were pleasant. Had to laugh at the nice guy act that fooled so many. Accessible Rick. Remember that he instituted the events and concerts here . Could care less when he left.
Now Beam is advertising to us the apartment buildings they manage in Kips Bay and elsewhere. Don't they think that the job they do here is sufficient warning to not even THINK of rent anywhere they manage.
No heat in this shithole today. What else is new?
He didn’t have a handle on the heat. In fact, the years when he managed this dump were the worst years for heat in my apartment. It has improved a bit the last couple of years. Not great, but better.
Any manager that they bring in here tows they company line. Don’t expect competent and caring management here anymore. They are intent on running this place to the ground.
When a place is run by CLOWNS, you get entertainment. Nothing else.
Hey, STR. Just want to wish you a VERY HAPPY THANKSGIVING surrounded by good friends and family! (Note that I put the good friends first and family second because sometimes "family" are not always the high point of the Holiday. At least some of 'em! LOL!).
Given the lousy heat situation and the constant water shut-downs, I cannot for the life of me understand why people pay "market rate" rent to live here. Much, much better can be had elsewhere. We have a lousy, incompetent management company running this place who don't care a jot about the real "amenities" such as laundry machines, heat on cold days (and nights), enforcement of the carpeting policy and the quiet hours. They cannot find enough suckers to rent all of the MR apartments, so they stuff them with students. Not the more mature graduate students, but the undergrads who are just away from momsy and popsy and are feeling their oats. I strongly RESENT living alongside those kids since I haven't been an undergrad since many years ago! And, yes, I was just as noisy and oblivious and self-centered as the ones I an complaining about, but I lived in a REAL dorm, not a housing complex. Sheesh! The people who manage this place are very, very incompetent. They forget that this is a [for some] very high-priced place to live and people who pay high rent expect and deserve much, much better than what they are paying for here. The dopey, amateurish concerts and "events" are not what they signed a lease for.
The reputation of PCVST used to be one of excellence. Unfortunately, that is history. It's present reputation is not so stellar.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone here!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, STR. Thank you for all you do for us. xxxxxxooooo
On Thanksgiving Day, some young people who might charitably be called demonstrators 'protested' against Schwarzman at the Main Public Library, which he donates money to. Unfortunately, had nothing to do with STPCV or housing. And anything given to NYPL is only pocket change to him.
Why were they protesting against Schwartzman?
Please provide information that the wonderful institution of the main branch of the NYC Public Library was attacked and defaced and vandalized because Stephen A. Schwarzman is Jewish, and not because he is obscenely wealthy and an acknowledged sociopath and infamous for destroying people's lives and the Amazon Rain Forest.
I had no idea that the hatred of Jewish people was involved, the hatred which is tearing society apart.
These "young people," by the way, need to be at home during the times they are calling for torment, rape, murder, extermination, and the like. They could be at home cooking, cleaning, studying, working on a hobby. Or doing volunteer work for the betterment of other people and other life forms, or working to earn money for themselves and others who need the money.
"Young people" is a neutral way of describing people who are at the least, verbal terrorists, and daily endangering others by blocking streets upon which ambulances and fire engineers travel to save lives. Among other things.
Just sayin'
"When a place is run by CLOWNS, you get entertainment. Nothing else."
Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here? :)
Schwarzman might have been paying his overdue library book fees.
No heat today. Are they deliberately trying to make the tenants in the unrenovated units become sick and die? I really think they are. Anybody who pays the market rate to live in freezing cold apartments is a bloody fool. Seems they are having a problem getting bloody fools, so they get students instead. They don't care if it's cold because they are packed in tight and don't spend that much time at home, anyway.
STR, STR, how I wish you were in charge of this shit-fit circus. Plenty of "events" to celebrate the Jollie Holliday, but not so much as a breath of heat or compassion from the vile filh who run this place.
I do NOT wish a Happy New Year to any and all of the dregs of the "hospitality industry."
I know several people who the sensors in their apartments and they all say that the things don't work. They freeze on cold days and sometimes the heat comes up on mild days when they don't need it. It is an absolute joke of a system, but not a funny joke. The moronic losers who run this place don't care. It's all about Christmas Tree Lighting and other sh*t that we could happily live without. At least experiencing them is a salutary lesson to never, ever book a vacation at a Blackstone owned resort or move anywhere run by Beam Living.
Super loud crap music coming from oval disturbing my peace. Sounds like dead cows. Disgusting. They have to have music with everything. Just light the tree and sing a carol. Years ago the Carol era came around to the buildings and sang.
"I do NOT wish a Happy New Year to any and all of the dregs of the "hospitality industry."
Amen to that.
5:39 p.m. on Wednesday, November 29, 2023. I just walked into the bedroom I use as a study. "It's the most wonderful time of the year" was blasting into this room in which I read, think, pay bills, study. Now they are assaulting me with another song during which they (male and female singers) clearly believe they are soulful, stirring, just wonderful performers commanding their adoring audience.
More intrusive, illegal, and frankly ego-maniacal audio interference arranged by the little dictator here, Vazquez, and whichever "Look at me, listen to me, I'm sooooo talented" musical act he dragged here tonight.
This window is in a corner of the courtyard, which means that all of the damned noise and audio invasion is greatly magnified and focused here. Most of my spring/summer/fall is a nightmare because of it. They don't let up here at any time of the year.
6:45 p.m.: It's worse. The volume level in my home is unbearable.
3:25 AM and it is so damn cold that it is impossible to sleep. Absolutely no heat for hours and then only a little tepid heat. Would it really eviscerate Blackstone's profits if they gave us a little more heat? They can stick their f*cking Christmas tree where the sun don't shine. Same with their lousy events and gimmicks. Just give us some heat in the cold months and stop being a damned slumlord with a fake glossy coating.
Wonder how many fools watched that Christmas concert in 30 degree weather. Probably the usual saps.
"Wonder how many fools watched that Christmas concert in 30 degree weather. Probably the usual saps."
They depend on the saps. Saps and students are the only people they can find who will occupy the apartments these days. Chopped-up, claustrophobic apartments with low-end appliances. The unrenovated apartments are roomy and spacious. No wonder they are trying to drive out the older residents. They are enjoying more space and paying less. I hope they all live to be at least 100! The original apartments in Peter Cooper are fantastic.
It's been extra extra noisy on the 14th Street Loop (beginning part) tonight/morning. Why do we have to put up with these lousy assholes? They wouldn't get away with such disruptive behavior on a real campus. They must have been raised by savages.
"extra noisy on 14th Street Loop" - if I had been awakened by them last night, and we'd had each other's phone numbers, I would have met you outside so that, together, we could shut them up.
As I've written previously, when I have been out there, I've managed to shut some of them down if they weren't impervious due to drugs or alcohol.
Also, I've asked for people to exchange phone numbers so we can do it together.
On another note: the washers/dryers here are truly worse than their predecessors. For the first time in many years, a winter coat never dried in a machine despite being in there through nearly 4 cycles. This is unheard of for me.
I'm sorry I already paid December rent. These human parasites and those they hire to do their filthy bidding deserve something far different than "rent."
I think that we just have to accept the fact that Stuyvesant Town is now a dorm/transient dump and it is not likely to get better. They cannot fill the overpriced apartments with real renters and have to take whatever they can get. The reason for the deterioration is because it is owned by one of the worst money-grubbing corporate parasites in the world and it is run by people who just don't have a clue as to how a residential property should be run. They only know resorts and pubs and are totally out of their depth here. It won't get better. It will get worse.
Yikes! I wish there was a real grocery store/supermarket near this property! I live on the 14th Street side and all we have is Target and Trader Joe. NOT good options! I regularly schlep up to Morton Williams and D'Agastinos, but it really is a schlep with a shopping cart and a toddler.
What is wrong with these people that they can't fill the space on 14th Street that has been vacant so long? No matter what bread and circus "events" they lay on, it doesn't alter the fact that this is NOT a convenient place to live. I don't believe that we will be renewing our lease next year. The apartments are great, but the neighborhood conveniences (for a big City) are totally abysmal.
OMG! I just cannot belienve the prices some people are paying to live here at "market rent." They must have money to burn. For what they charge to live in a "platinum" apartment in this disintegrating old dump, with no doormen and crappy, unreliable plumbing and, for most of the time, NO HEAT!!!!!! you could rent a really nice, genuinely luxury apartment elsewhere.
Where do they find these gullible fools? Please, get an apartment with a doorman, real central heating, water pipes that don't contain lead and all kinds of shit from 1947 and a real MANAGEMENT who are not rejects from Blackstone's shitty, third-rate resorts! OMG! They say "there's one born every minute" and it is SO TRUE. SMFH.
I agree that the supermarket situation here is abysmal. Trader Joe has good fruit but other than that is terrible. All of their products are full of salt and sugar. Some of their brands taste terrible. I can’t imagine why that store is so popular and it is certainly not offering a healthy option. Morton Williams, the only good option, is too far. D’Agostinos is quite far from 14th St. and is overpriced.
No heat all day today and it is NOT exactly toasty. Why don't they just rip out the sensors or disconnect them to the heat source in the basements and send up heat when it is cold? Other landlords do that and MetLife did that and I don't remember ever being cold during the winter at that time. The sensors are a scam and so are the windows. We're paying an MCI for the windows and they are no better than the ones they replaced. In fact, they are worse because they don't open and close easily.
I totally agree that the access to a decent supermarket is abysmal. I am sick of Trader Joe's and Target. D'Ags and Morton Williams are too far to schlep to, especially with a shopping cart. I really miss Associated and if these money-grubbing asswipes had given them a good option, they would have stayed.
There used to be a good supermarket on 14th near Union Square, but it closed and now they are putting in another shitty Target store. Target, TJ and Whole Foods seem to have a monopoly around here and I loathe them all! A huge housing complex like this needs more grocery shopping options. We might as well be living in he friggin' boondocks. At one time we had a plethora of good supermarkets around here and they all closed.
I, too, can't understand why people pay market rent to live here. They clearly have more money than sense.
50% or more of ST "residents" are NOT permanent ones. They don't care about supermarkets. Those fools paying market rate here can afford to have ALL their food delivered.
"50% or more of ST "residents" are NOT permanent ones. They don't care about supermarkets. Those fools paying market rate here can afford to have ALL their food delivered."
They really are fools. For what they're paying here, they could be in a place with a doorman, heat and security. This is an old and decrepit project. The grounds used to be beautiful and the apartments were very spacious. Now, the grounds are a mess and the apartments are chopped up to make more rooms than they were designed for. Fire safety is no longer in existence because of the "renovations" and sheer indifference by "management" to the safety of residents. They really are fools and I have no respect for them. I love my spacious unrenovated apartment and am happy with the rent I pay, but if I could afford what the fools are paying, I would not be living here.
@December12 at 12:44 PM: We are in serious danger when it comes to fire safety. The original doors on the apartments are fire-proof. Don't know about the new doors. The fact that people are crammed into chopped-up apartments with flex walls is a fire hazard. The real walls are fire-proof. The fact that so many residents have to use space heaters because of the ridiculous heating system plus the fact that many people charge e-bikes and e-scooters in their apartments dramatically increases the risk of fire.
If (God forbid) there is a fire and there are fatalities or serious injuries (never mind loss of personal property) the FILTH who own this place and the MORALLY BANKRUPT garbage who "manage" it, will be on the hook for culpable contribution to death and bodily harm to the people who call this place home (whether permanent or temporary). I have ZERO respect for anybody who works for Blackstone and I think the ghoul who owns the company, the pathologically avaricious Schwartzman, well might end up dying in jail. They have no morals and no conscience and no matter how they might try to present this place as a "Good Neighbor" friendly place to live, none of them will stand a chance if/when the worst happens. Kennedy and her ilk will be found to be as culpable and negligent as the masters they serve because they are participants in, and profiteers of, the absolutely abhorrent lack of safety and oversight that exists here.
The higher-ups at Blackstone are all, by definition, missing conscience, empathy, caring for lives other than their own. Some of them? Most of them? may also be suffering from mental and emotional illnesses which cause a person to actively enjoy hurting and destroying others, possibly which these sociopaths themselves cause.
"Management" personnel are usually made responsible for responding directly to the people being harmed by the "owners." They cannot continue to earn their living without doing the bidding of the "overlords," "masters," et al. So, they convince themselves they're doing good. If they do not leave their jobs, they develop ways to rationalize and justify their actions. I've personally observed formerly decent, gentle, caring people become callous and hurtful because they chose to stay. In other words: they became corrupted.
Rick Hayduk walked away from what was literally causing lines in his face and hair which was turning white. Some of the people whom he hired or brought with him chose to stay here and have become atrocious humans. Rick's immediate "successor" clearly realized immediately that he did not want to be part of this callous, lethal behavior. The next up, with whom I had a couple of ugly encounters, ended up with serious medical problems and also left.
Those who are here now are a mixed bag of people, and all of them are literally unable to do a damned thing to DO THE RIGHT THING. Some of them are truly stupid and inept. Some of them are bright and retain a tiny conscience but drink the Kool Aid of deliberate destruction. They talk sh*t and are obstructionist because to do otherwise means termination of their employment.
I have sympathy for them. But I no longer respect their behaviors.
Yes, 12:39 AM, the lives of tens of thousands of people, and other kinds of lives, whether dogs, etc. and trees and the earth itself are imperiled. Our lives and safety are endangered callously and likely deliberately by those "on top." The "management" here either does not care either, or ignores it to save their dreadful, dreadful employment. They, too, will have to answer for it eventually.
One of the coldest days so far and we have no damned heat. We are supposed to tell them the temperature and they want us to have their lousy thermometers. This is like a Charles Dickens horror story. Bleak House comes to mind.
I am tempted to stand outside the renting office with a sign that says: DON'T EXPECT ANY HEAT FOR THE OUTRAGEOUS RENT YOU WILL BE PAYING TO LIVE IN THIS M-Fing DUMP.
Stuy Town sucks! Plain and simple. The fucking dog off lease areas stink to high heavens, you can smell Stuy Town from second avenue. The noise from these areas make working impossible. My building is invaded daily by outsiders doing their laundry and walking all over the building. I caught someone from another building going floor by floor stealing stuff from outside people's apartments. Public safety did nothing. There is not one saving grace here unless you have been here forever and pay $1500 per month for a two bedroom. Otherwise, this place is the absolute worst place to "live" in NYC. Might be a good place to party, steal and screw over your neighbor but it is not a good place to"live".
I have no respect for Rick Hayduk whether he walked away or not . He was a hypocrite. Although my heat has lapses it is much better than under Rick Hayduk. He targeted people who criticized him on the TA site “ to discuss their grievances”. Told me he would institute ear phones for the concerts. Bull. He gave seniors his personal e-mail. They were thrilled, but got no better heat or service from him directly. I must say that the maintenance service here is good and the customer reps very nice. I had a drain issue solved within four hours of calling. I had to laugh when these worshiping senior tenants would call Rick directly and get poorer service than from the desk reps.
This place has become a TRUE DUMP.
Aah! STR! You've been kinda quiet lately. I hope all is well with you and your family.
Nothing gets better in this place. No heat, crappy laundry machines, vile "events." But at least most of the lousy students have gone away for the Holidays. I so miss the time when this was a quiet, well-run, clean and safe housing complex. It's been raped and pillaged by one bunch of greedy garbage afer another. We just have to make the best of it, I suppose. As my husband always says: "They couldn't run a news stand." I think he's right.
>>STR! You've been kinda quiet lately. I hope all is well with you and your family.<<
Just very busy. A busy bee!
33 degrees outside and the bastards have turned the heat off already. I think they want the place to burn down.
I hope prospective suckers read this and know what they would be letting themselves in for.
STR, your prior post (at the end of August) was about migrants. Do you know if any of them actually ended up being housed in ST? This not a frivolous question; I really would like to know. Thanks in advance.
I can suspect, but I don't know if migrants are here officially. I do know that there are probably Haitian migrants gathering the empty soda cans in the complex. Used to be only the Chinese.
Everybody is entitled to live. I feel sorry for the migrants, but I wish people could rise up against their oppressive, tyranical governments (like the pioneers did against the British) and not just run away. I'm sure it's not easy though and life is short and not always sweet. I really can't blame people for coming here and trying to get a decent future for their children. Like I said, life is short. Very short. We have to do the best we can for ourselves and our kids.
Oh, jeez! Please don't start this "migrants" stuff on this blog. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. I come from "migrants." My husband is a "migrant." The hell here in this country and other western countries sure as hell is not "migrants."
We have enough trouble here, including the ability of just plain New Yorkers TO LIVE. I MEAN LIVE AS IN HAVE SHELTER AND FOOD. (I am not referring to all of the spoiled, selfish, self-absorbed who have lots of money.)
Many of us living HERE, in New York City, and yes, even in Stuyvesant Town, are not only monetarily POOR, but live daily in fear of homelessness, for damn good reasons.
And you daily see our own thousands-of-homeless and mentally ill, our war veterans living homeless. Where do they "run away to?" Their own city and state and country are tormenting them.
As for "our kids:" OH,PLEASE DON'T GET INTO ANYTHING HERE ABOUT OUR PLAGUE SPECIES MAKING MORE OF US TO TORTURE AND DESTROY EVERY OTHER FORM OF LIFE ON THIS PLANET.
PLEASE.
That's not what this blog is about.
Just want to wish you a Very Happy Christmas, STR. I hope you will have warmth and comfort in both the form of heat from our LL and love from friends and family.
Happy and Healthy Christmas and New Year to STR and all followers of the blog. xxxxxooooo
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! I am a bit "under the weather," so I'm taking a break.
STR - Feel better soon.
If it helps any, at least one of your faithful followers is under the weather too - with her first case of COVID. The germs, they are a'multiplying at this time of year!
Take care of yourself.
And everyone else - take care of yourselves, too.
Merry Christmas STR and may you feel better soon!!!
I have not had heat since this morning and texted when I came home from my dinner at 6pm. Still no heat and the temperature is 66 degrees in my apartment.
I am immune compromised and this is detrimental to my health.
Apparently, the powers that be have no consciousness whatsoever even on Christmas Eve!
Dec 24 @ 8:22 PM: Please call 311 and report the lack of heat in your apartment. The incompetent, uncaring goons who run this place need to get an official reminder and a hefty fine, letting them know that they have to adhere to certain rules and regulations and blaming sensors that are not functioning correctly is no excuse. The heating system here is SHIT.
By the way, said powers that be have no consciences on any day, let alone Christmas Eve.
Agree about the Stuy Town smell. The open dog area on playground 1 in ST smells like vomit, seriously, a very strong, ever present smell of vomit. Absolutely disgusting. I can't imagine living near that horror show. I feel like puking just walking by. Beam Living is THE WORST property manager in history.
Hi, STR. How are you feeling? I hope you are feeling better because I know you have been under the weather lately. Do you get plenty of heat in your apartment?
@3:44 PM: I agree, Beam Living is definitely the worst of the worst. We have no actual Property Manager. They have an incompetent woman in charge and she is all about events and hoopla crap. They need to get somebody who knows how to run a residential property, not some dope from the hospitality and resorts industry. They have absolutely total incompetents running this place and we have to live with their stupidity.
NO HEAT!
Something about the New Year coming up. Well, I hope it's a good one, but it may prove very interesting.
"Something about the New Year coming up. Well, I hope it's a good one, but it may prove very interesting."
What is this, "something" which is going to be foisted upon us, please?
How are ya, STR? Some of us (probably many of us) are rather concerned that you may not be feeling well. You can always post here and ask for any kind of assistance you may need. Can do it by any means you desire to keep it anonymous. xxxxxooooo
With the outrageous and exorbitant rents one would think we are entitled to a modicum of heat.
How foolish of me?
However, we do have the Amenities of dog sh*t and urine in elevators and stairwells, brown water from the faucets, drains which don't drain, and transient, uncaring new renters who don't give a fu*k about their neighbors or anyone else.
How lucky can we get?
Happy 2024, STR! God Bless and good health!
I had done that a few years ago. The city waits a couple of days and I imagine notifies ST when they are visiting the apartment. When the guy came, I had heat. He knew where I was coming from but could not write up a violation.
You OK, STR? You've been rather quiet lately. I hope everything is ok with you and your loved ones. xxxxxooooo
Yes, I'm okay! Thanks for asking and the concern, but I've got many things to do and a head cold, which is passing, so I'm low level right now.
I hope you feel better soon, STR. xxxxoooo
What's with all these thousands of "Asylum Seekers" who are flooding the City? Aren't they what used to be called "Illegal Immigrants?"
How you feeling, STR? Do you have sufficient heat in your apartment? Most of us don't. I wish the TA would address this situation, but I guess it's not political enough.
I'm okay, but a lot of things (non-Stuy related) to do. Heat is okay in my apartment, unlike last few years.
I feel sorry for all these "asylum seekers." Can't imagine doing what they have done. I wonder just what is happening in their countries that they go through so much just to get to freezing NYC. It's not like we don't have problems with drugs and violence. I would like to see drug-dealers publicly hanged.
4:12 PM yesterday: Should the Sackler Family be hanged? Also, when executions still take place in USA, hanging is not method employed at present. And the Boston Marathon Bomber is still alive (on appeal)....
NO HEAT!!
20 degrees outside!
Heat is better in my apartment thankfully.
STR, I hope you are ok. You have created a new post in while. Just hope you're ok and enjoying life. xxxxooooo
I'm fine. A lot of work, as usual.
BTW, yesterday I saw a white bus passing through the 20th street loop that I've never seen before. Never. It was the size of a school bus. Couldn't see the passengers.
I wonder if migrants are being housed here? Doubt they’ll want to stay as the indoor temps aren’t much better than outside.
Reports today that a 66 y.o. man had his throat slashed at 14th St & 1st Ave after he, and a couple of other passerby's reprimanded a man for urinating on a parked car. Happened in front of McD's.
https://thevillagesun.com/senior-viciously-slashed-on-e-14th-for-telling-guy-to-stop-peeing-in-public
Since it's no longer a crime, and NYPD therefore won't get involved, why risk your neck (literally)? Am not saying this is right City policy, though....
Still NO HEAT! Innumerable calls to Resident Services. Worthless.
Anyone have advice how to handle this freezing situation?
Calls to 311 and emails to Sioban Kennedy no use whatsoever.
Why are we allowing this?
Where is both the outrage and the compassion on the part of just plain people, NEW YORKERS, which might help us TOGETHER tackle this anarchy, chaos, shame?
@2:59 PM on January 23: Is it the lack of heat or the assault by the church you are referring to?
"Calls to 311 and emails to Sioban Kennedy no use whatsoever."
Siobhan Kennedy is of no use whatsoever. I don't know what her job as VP of Resident Experience. What a ridiculous title. Resident experience is not good here. Our experience is persistently inadequate heat; noise from neighbors with no carpets and/or the habit of playing loud music late night into early morning. A major part of the experience is dog piss on the hall carpets (big warm puddle by our elevator right now). Also, we have nefarious strangers getting into our buildings and stealing packages and hanging out on the stairs. We have a very diminished "Public Safety" crew. I never see them patrolling like the used to.
If Siobhan Kennedy had any REAL resonsibilities beyond coming up with cockamamie "events" then she would have a real job. But, I don't think she is up to doing more than crappola job that she does. There is NO PROPERTY MANAGER HERE therefor, the property is not MANAGED. It is a shambles. Every "idea" they come up with is of nursery school level and ridiculous.
Jan 23 at 2:59 PM: what exactly are you talking about? Are you talking about the lack of heat or the slashing victim?
From Jan 23 at 2:59 - I was referring to the general and specific conditions in New York City, not the hell Blackstone created for Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village.
This city, as others, has become lawless and beyond lawless: theft and violence are encouraged. The homeless/mentally ill suffer horrifically and inflict their misery upon others in a variety of ways. What used to be normal, everyday shopping, is nearly impossible to do because stores are gone, replaced by filth, graffiti, boarded up buildings.
Many of us don't have enough money to rest easy that we can stay in our homes, feed ourselves and our families, have health care we need.
NYC is ugly, crime-ridden, dangerous in places it never was before. The city (including the boroughs) have been destroyed and uglified by the monstrous skyscrapers.
We've hundreds of thousands of strangers invading New York City to whom we hand money, goods, clothes, access to already strained hospitals. The mayor and city council literally invite and welcome invasions of people further taking, stealing from us, destroying the city in which we live.
The bicycles, scooters, motorcycles - ALL of them are a menace in multiple ways. I, personally, do not like cars. They are, however, a feature of most cities, and the most convenient and effective way to get around. Now? Parking screwed over, streets screwed over, assholes on every kind of wheeled mechanism zipping around this city endangering every single person who dares to walk out their front door.
I'm outspoken and have been pretty much fearless until recently. If someone was misbehaving on a bus or train, I spoke up. And in other scenarios. Now? I keep myself silent no matter what is going on to disturb myself and others because I don't know who's going to pull a knife or a gun. I will intervene to help someone or try to stop violence. But otherwise, I endure whatever antisocial and annoying event is going on. Out of prudence and fear.
I could go on. You get my drift. I'm old enough to remember times when people were kinder to one another, when they didn't steal and stab with impunity. I'm old enough to remember times when people ORGANIZED, UNITED to truly change intolerable conditions, when they could speak English and THINK.
I hope I've answered your question.
@Anonymous January 27, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Watch Jules Feiffer's Little Murders, never more appropriate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtUYLyy6r2c
Will try posting again, even though my prior one was 'censored' by STR. The problems of this city (and country) start at the top, with politicians of both parties drunk on self-interest, wealth, and power. They also like to sow division in order to further their own ends. However, everybody here can nevertheless relax, because it's now legal in NYS to grow your own marijuana at home....
To the Poster Who Provided the Jules Feiffer's Little Murders (1972) link: thank you.
I watched nearly half of it last night. The scene of the judge bellowing about his family's experience in NYC as immigrants had my stomach aching with laughter. He was perfect.
I don't know, though, if I'm going to watch until the end after reading a synopsis of it. It is too horrifying.
Good call, though, and sadly appropriate, as you observe. Thank you again. I think that in my older years, I may "remember" at least a little of life here as one helluva lot more idyllic than it was in reality.
Our species is seldom significantly more peaceful and helpful to each other than the exact opposite.
"Hey, let's be careful out there," to all of us (courtesy of the 1980's series, "Hill Street Blues."
This place gets worse and worse. Aside from the incessant banging from work on my building, there was a coating of clay dust on my bathroom window sill and the window was closed. This has been going on all week and it isn’t even on my line. The noise is horrible and the dust coating was disgusting. They may as well condemn this sty of a place.
Jules Feiffer's Little Murders' poster:
Thank you.
My husband and I watched it. Perfect. Oh for the writing, directing, acting, sensibility which produced this little gem!
The movie is too similar of the way life is now, yes!
The difference is that there was intelligence and an ability to THINK and handle the language. Most of that is gone gone gone these days.
Did you remove the Facebook links, STR?
This place has been reduced to being a SHIT HOLE. We have the greediest landlord on the planet and the most inept and unsuitable "Management." Management doesn't know shit from shine about running a residential property. They couldn't run a bungalow, let alone a multi-building, multi-storey, multi-unit place like this. They need to clear out the current "management" and put in some people who really know how to run a place like this. We don't need their pathetic side-shows and silly events; no, we need heat; public safety (who have been reduced in numbers - or so I'm told) and more electricians and plumbers. What we don't need is Siobhan Kennedy and her lunatic ideas and the Carnival Cruise idiot who has NOTHING to offer except raw amateur annoyance. We hate the thought of the upcoming warm months because we know we will not be able to get our young kids to sleep with all the repulsive noise coming from the Oval (which we are close to) and we are struggling through the winter with a space heater in the kids' room, which we don't leave on but we have to warm that cold little room up. Some nights we have all four of us slept in the same bed and kept the space heater on.
Bottom line: this place is a gigantic rip-off and we have written to the dept of consumer affairs, but not heard back.
We plan on breaking our lease soon and will not pay the last months rent. I rather look forward to addressing Housing Court and telling the story of this SHIT HOLE rip-off quasi slum.
>>Did you remove the Facebook links, STR?<<
Probably. But some time ago.
I wonder if this management has any idea as to who actually lives here apart from people who have bona fide leases. I am always seeing ads for room-mates and sublets on the various facebook sites. We just have no idea who our "neighbors" are. Probably, the majority of these transients who make private arrangements with the tenant-of-record are decent people, but who knows? There used to be such strict vetting of who could or could not move in here (and I'm not referring to the days when people of color were not allowed to live here, but in more recent years). It was hard to get an apartment here and there was a long waiting list.
I know times change, but not always for the better in many ways. It's good that the racist discrimination was abolished, but it's not good that anybody can advertise for a roommate on social media and management and neighbors don't have any idea as to the arrangements. Probably, the majority of these people do not have criminal records and are not child molesters, but who the hell knows? Sty Town is a No-Tell Motel/Shitty Unsupervised Dorm. To add insult to injury, the assholes who run the place have laid off some of the PS staff (so I've been told). I wish they would lay off that idiot who comes up with all the noisy, shitty concerts and other idiotic events that attract more outsiders than tenants. No wonder we have thieves roaming the buildings. One was caught in my building recently helping himself to packages delivered to doors. This place is becoming more and more of a fucking hazardous place to live. The management we have are the bottom of the barrel losers and I wish they would all go back to the gigs they had before they came here. I would've thought Blackstone could afford to hire better, but that would be against their "ethics."
We have an apartment on our floor that is constantly rotating students. Sometimes they don’t even lock the door. I guess some of them don’t have keys. They don’t know or care who lives here as long as they get that 4,000 a month for 2 bedrooms. The banging construction is unbearable on our building for the past month. At least my line has had adequate heat most of the time, unless the temperature outside rises. I am sure others suffer with inadequate heat. The place is full of dogs. Just thankful it is not concert/movie season at the oval. That misery is unbearable.
We have rotating "residents" on our floor. I don't think management knows or cares who live here. When there is a major crime like assault or murder it will maybe get their attention. We have no idea who may be armed and dangerous or mentally ill and dangerous. Management don't know or care. This so-called "management" are the dregs of the hospitality business and have no idea who to run the property as a residential apartment complex. I wish they would re-sell the property, but once Blackstone gets its filthy claws on something they don't let go until they have wrung ever ounce of blood, sweat and tears out of the place and destroyed the lives of everybody.
You must be very busy, STR. You haven't created any new posts for a few months. I hope you are well and happy and busy getting up to mischief! ;-)
2/10/24-5 PM. One of Robert Vazquez's, Beam Living's Lifestyle Director, noise events going on full blast on the ST Oval. Insanely loud drumming and some dancers in dragon costumes at the Oval. Chinese New Year celebration. This was advertised in one of Kennedy's emails. Of course NONE of these crap events take place in PCV where the senior mangment of Beam Living lives. In Chinatown, there was the real thing happening and God forbid any of these rubes take their kids to the real thing. Of course, Vasquez has to have his crap events here. EVERY one of them has to have loud "music". BTW there were at least 300 hundred people at this event, there are many families here who love this shit, especially the movies. It's now 5.20 PM and the drumming has finally stopped. I hate him like poison.
Where are ya, STR? I hope everything is well with you. xxxx
No heat in this overpriced dump.
>>Where are ya, STR?<<
Still here. Very busy, as usual. If I pass through comments, I am here!
Mmm. Wondering what you're up to. Writing a tell-all book? Autobiography? I bet you have some tales to tell! xxxxoooo
I heard that crap too. If people would not attend, maybe they would curtail the events. They give out little food treats I believe at some of these events. Some people would do anything for a free cookie or piece of cake. Unfortunately, I do know of residents who eat up this crap.
To the poster regarding Sunday's abomination of Vazquez's "Chinese New Year" illegal (we are RESIDENTIAL) and deliberately intrusive and disturbing Oval garbage:
You hate him like poison? I wish that it was feasible for me to go into detail regarding who he is, what his background is, what his character is. In another life, I knew him personally; in addition, I've had previously cordial relationships with dear friends of his.
He is one sick, twisted cookie. One helluva mistake in judgment was made when he was hired. Out of the many people in "management" I've known over many years here (and some of them were truly rotten human specimens), he is the undisputed worst.
The question of whether it is just him, or whether the Blackstone sickos would have put in his place someone just as devoid of decency, someone just as committed to lording over other people as a raging egotist and meglomaniac is something I'll never quite figure out.
As to the jackasses, the low grade "families" and "parents" and "adults" who patronize these "events," to the detriment and harm of the rest of us . . . well . . . society has gone to hell in part because of people like this.
STR, I hope you are going to come out of the monastery you have joined and give us some more of your wonderful wit and talent. Your last post was in September.
Most importantly, I hope you are in good health.
xxxxxooooo
I'm doing a lot of things and that, and the weather, takes my time. I'm trying to zero in on these things.
Keith Powers posted that Blackstone will now rent stabilize all apartments. Well I guess they can’t get more than 4500 monthly I n this dump even with all the dorms. Especially with the heat issues, lack of amenities and lack of maintenance. He said it was a big deal. If they fix this place up a little it will be a big deal. They had no choice but to stop raising rents. This is a project, not a luxury group of buildings.
I was under the impression that all the apartments here were rent-stabilized. Some very high rents, but all rent stabilized by law.
Where did Keith Powers say this?
Ya got that right
All apartments here are already rent-stabilized (on paper). Clarification of yesterday's post is needed.
This place was built as affordable housing mainly for returning veterans (so long as they were white). It is a typical Robert Moses project (not in the PJ sense) as Moses had no sense of esthetics whatsoever. He bulldozed his brainfarts through New York with no thought whatsoever for the people he was displacing or for anything other than sheer basic practicality. Robert Moses had no sense of taste (except in his mouth) and he didn't give a flying f**k for anything or anybody who might be damaged, hurt, displaced in any way whatsoever.
PCVST (especially ST) is cookie-cutter housing project architecture (if you can call it architecture) and the only thing that set it apart from the NYCHA projects was the beautiful, parklike grounds. It doesn't have the beautiful, parklike grounds anymore because they have been destroyed by the vultures who have descended on the property since MetLife ceased to be a mutual insurance company and went on the stock market. They cut down all the beautiful plane trees that were in the Oval and subsequent vultures have continued to destroy every vestige of beauty the property ever had. Now we have side-shows, execrably bad "concerts" and we are under the management of former third-rate "hospitality" employees.
I wouldn't be surprised if Blackstone eventually has the entire property demolished because the land it is on is of more value than the aging buildings. Blackstone has as much sensitivity to human beings (or any living thing) as P.T. Barnum had for the animals and handicapped human beings that were tortured for entertainment and profit, especially profit.
There was a lawsuit by Blackstone against it apparently.
With the high winds and cold, it comes as a surprise that there is NO heat. At least when it was freezing, the heat was on. But now? Is Blackstone saving money now? Our Beam management? What gives?
Powers seems eager to take undeserved credit for something he had absolutely nothing to do with.
Without space heaters these shitty, drafty apartments are unlivable. This "management" is made up of failed resorts people who no doubt destroyed the all the pleasure of the people who were paying to have some R&R at their shitty venues.
This place was built as affordable housing mainly for returning veterans (so long as they were white).
No, that’s Management’s gaslighting. It was built as affordable housing, period. Initially, preference was given to vets, and as there were 10x as many applicants as available apartments, most of the early residents were vets (or Met Life insiders, who also got preferred treatment).
Calling it WW2 veterans housing is a way of whitewashing what was done here. Probably Rob Speyer’s idea. After all, almost all WW2 vets have passed now, so PCVST is merely being re-purposed, right? Sounds a lot kinder and gentler than turning scarce affordable apartments built for middle class workers into market rate, short term rentals for the well heeled.
Agreed.
This morning and through the night there has been NO hot water. Someone at Beam forgot to pay the Stuy Town bills or that there was a time change. No heat, nothing.
ConEdison has informed us that they have encountered a delay in the ongoing repairs. They anticipate service to be restored by approximately 3pm. We understand this is an inconvenience and are working closely with the ConEdison team to keep you updated. Thank you for your patience while these important repairs are in progress.
Can’t blame Mgmt for this one. Been here since 1984, this occurs several times a year.
The story is once again and again ConEd. Yeah, the work they are doing mandated another shutdown.
>>Can’t blame Mgmt for this one. Been here since 1984, this occurs several times a year.<<
But I do blame management. Not for this, but the way that residents were informed. I wasn't. I was given a link, but had to put down a mobile number, too. I don't have one. And a lot of seniors don't have one either. So we are screwed. Thanks to management.
The ConEd shutdowns are not just several times a year. They happen in my building way more than that. So something is wrong. Either the workers (which I don't think) or the pipes/equipment. If the latter case, what's up? Get new ones. Not in the future, but yesterday.
It's closing in on 6pm. No heat, no hot water. Can we make it 24 hours? Or maybe more?
There are some sanctimonious fucking yentas on fb telling us to be glad we are not in a war-torn country or on the streets starving to death. I wonder if they volunteer to go help those unfortunate people their hearts bleed for? I doubt it.
To 8:07 pm: I noticed that thread with all the attacks on one person. I also read the other two facebook sites. One is run by the TA and other is run by some heavy-handed monitor. The one thing those two sites have in common is that they don't allow attacks on posters and it is not allowed to tell somebody to move out or call someone names. The "inclusive" facebook is not monitored and some posters get very abusive and insulting. The TA facebook is the best one of all three.
There are some really very, very nasty people posting on fb these days. The TA fb is actually monitored, but the other two are the Wild West of insults and suggestions to move out if you don't like it, etc., etc. I think these comments come from some of the people who are overpaying and if they see a complaint from a long time tenant who is not paying through the nose, they bridle with indignation if such a person dares to complain about noise, lack of hot water, heat, etc. They are just so totally pissed that they are paying through the nose for what is basically a slightly tarted-up NYCHA-style project.
You ok, STR? We haven't had the benefit of your wit and brilliance since September. I hope "Management" hasn't threatened you.
Very ok. Just a lot of work!
STR, We all hope you are OK. We haven't had an update from your brilliant "pen" in quite a while and nothing improves in this place under the guidance of the Circus People!
We hope they haven't succeeded in bullying you.
Still very busy doing work not Stuy Town related.
Comedy Night on the Oval coming up!
Lots of clowns and comedians, (they get them free from the Leasing office) and for the closer, Dan Garodnick will read some excerpts from his book, ‘Saving Stuyvesant Town”
"Lots of clowns and comedians, (they get them free from the Leasing office) and for the closer, Dan Garodnick will read some excerpts from his book, ‘Saving Stuyvesant Town”"
I read the preview of Garodnick's book. Nobody saved Stuyvesant Town. Maybe we got rid of Tishman Speyer, but the current owners are even worse. Blackstone is the most despised RE vultures on the face of the earth. Total BLOODSUCKERS and employ the most incompetent people to run their properties.
HAPPY EASTER, STR! XXXXX
Same to you and yours!
STR, we really, really need you to come back. Do you see the Residents Inclusive facebook and the horrors posted on it? The practices of this "management" are beyond abusive.
We are waiting for you, STR. Fingers tapping on the table ;-)
We NEED you, STR. Please don't desert us.
Seven months since a new post, STR. We really, really miss you. xxxxxoooo
I am betting that management doesn't miss you - at least if they do, it's in a different way!
I have several projects that I have to clean up, not Stuy Town related.
Get them done! We need you! We love you miss you!
Would you like to turn over the blog to someone else, either temporarily or permanently?
Maybe someone else could take over and keep it going.
Too much trouble. Yesterday, I was planning to do a post, but the cellphone ran out of battery life! Soon.....
There is ONLY ONE STR and we will wait for him to take care of his other commitments (which, hopefully, he is being paid for) and then when he's rested he will be back to write about the rotten lowlifes who are running this place into the ground.
STR, do you read the Residents Facebook? There is a family living with a bathroom that has a falling-in ceiling and walls and they are exposed to asbestos and all kinds of toxic shit. I think it is a renovated apartment, so they are paying through the nose to be slowly poisoned. I hope they don't get so sick that a major lawsuit will be necessary, but I wish they would they would post the photographs of the mess in the media.
Of course, Ms Kennedy and her useless lackies are only interested in creating dog days, carnivals and hawking tacky shit. The fact that some tenants are sucking in toxic dust and god knows what else in their "luxury" hellhole, does not phase her in the slightest.
She and her ilk should go to jail because they are totally uncaring and incapable of running a residential property.
Take a look at the photographs, STR. It looks like they are living in Gaza.
"Maybe someone else could take over and keep it going."
There is only one STR and he's worth waiting for.
I bet I know who isn't looking forward to his return! The crew of dumf*cks who call themselves "Management" must be hoping he had gone away forever!
I was over at Waterside Plaza one night this week, around 8pm. There was a TA meeting going on, a very well attended one too! I could see it through the big glass windows they have in their beautiful residents' lounge overlooking the plaza. Does our TA hold regular meetings? There is so much to discuss, including the latest: elevator maintenance that's going on in multiple buildings that's supposed to take 6 weeks for each cab!!
Was walking by the oval lawn today and it looks so lovely and pristine. On May 1 they will open it up to people . The sunbathers and picnickers cheapen the look of the property. Met Life had it right when the oval was without people.
Maybe you are new to the community, but we do not have a real TA. They do nothing and are actually an arm of management. Many residents including myself are on to them especially after they pushed the selling of ST/PC to this atrocious management. They have ignored all QOL issues including sparse heat in winter and other health/ safety issues. I doubt they have enough due paying members to hold a meeting. Many moons ago we had a TA and meetings.
The Oval was the Crown Jewel of Stuyvesant Town. It was a beautiful tree park, oxygenating the air and home to many birds and squirrels. Now it is a disgusting shit patch.
We need an encampment of young idiots on the Oval, like they have now at many colleges (sarcasm).
I admire the kids protesting on campuses. We need more like them.
There has been a steady rise in fascism in this country and throughout the world during the last decade. Fascism, racism and, in some places, out-and-out genocide. We need to learn from history. Different players, but same motives and catastrophic results are happening now in many parts of the world.
We have invasions and disturbances, illegal and destructive behaviors every single day and night once the soul-dead corporate zombies invite the brain-dead zombies onto the tortured and tormented Oval.
"They do nothing and are actually an arm of management"
This is such a dumb statement. The TA has some major problems/issues but it is not a tool of management. The TA had 2 major wins recently, one being the stoppage of the the 2 CHPs (natural gas plants) one on Ave C, the other on 20th Street. The other was winning in the NYS Court of Appeals via their attorney, that ALL PCVST apartments are under the HTSPA. Why doesn't the TA hold meetings any more? At least 2 reasons. On is that JHS 104, where they were once held before, is not ADA compliant and the inevitable lose due to death/disability of long term tenants here, being replaced by transients. And many long term tenants here, who vote against their own interests, don't have a clue of what is going on with the HSTPA and the RGB. One only has to look at the TA FB page and see the few responses to notices about the HSTPA and the RGB but when someone posts a picture of a tree or a bird, then there at least 200 "likes". And you cannot beat something with nothing. Oh where oh where is that alternative replacement to the TA has has been talked about for years at this blog? Radio silence.
Hey everybody. Robert Vasquez's Oval Carnival Cruise Crap Nosie events start a little early this year. He basically runs this dump. I hate him like poison. But around 300-400 of the rubes here love it.
"Special Saturday Screenings (Weather Permitting):
Kentucky Derby Screening & Social
Sat, May 4 | 6:30-7pm | The Oval
Meet up with your neighbors and BYOH (Bring Your Own Hat) on the Oval Lawn before a live broadcast of the 150th Kentucky Derby on the big screen.
May the 4th Be with You
Sat, May 4 | 7pm | The Oval
A special screening of "Solo: A Star Wars Story," the under-appreciated epic adventure."
C'mon, STR! This crap management is giving you so much material! They have the summer "events" coming up. All low level Club Med crap. We also have benches you can sit on and wait for someone to come and chat with you. They even have signs on the benches advertising that the person thereon seated is lonely and wants somebody to talk to (like that doesn't happen naturaly when people plonk down next to each other). I would be embarrassed to sit on one of those benches and would cover the notice with a cardigan or scarf. We have always chatted away on benches in Stuyvesant Town and made friends that way. That's before the place became a student dorm and the Oval was a beautiful tree park that was very inducive to sit close to and listen to the breeze stirring the leaves and watch the squirrels and birds that called it home. That's before it was turned into a scrubby lawn, littered with bodies that really should not be put on view.
OMG! Whoever thinks up these things really should retire. They have a very stale brain.
A real TA would act against people freezing all winter with inadequate and sporadic heat. It might also do something about the vile oval concerts and events all summer which plague residents with noise pollution. This TA was instrumental in the sale of our community to Blackstone/Beam. Their membership has dwindled because the QOL here has really deteriorated.
Ridiculous. If there was a viable TA they could meet in the community center. The above achievements you cite stem from the push of the TA to sell to this owner. I will never forget the meeting during which they welcomed Blackstone with open arms.
So true. Most tenants have no clue about terms of RS and no idea about impact of 2019 rent law and declaratory judgment win spearheaded by TA. The widespread ignorance and inattention likely due to the transient nature of tenancy who have no interest in lease renewals or future rent hikes.
What a shame that we don’t have a decent full service supermarket in the 14th St. area. Trader Joe’s is good for flowers and produce. As a diabetic I am appalled at how much sugar is in their products, heavy on salt too, really packed with sodium. They certainly cannot call themselves a health conscious store. Although Associated wasn’t the greatest , I do miss it a lot.
My two or three cents. The TA is largely a waste of time. I am suspicious about the electric plants that were stopped. I think the troubles of Con Ed have more to do with that than the TA. We will never know. As to group meeting: less and less residents. The TA can't fill a large audience anymore.
"As to group meeting: less and less residents. The TA can't fill a large audience anymore."
True. More and more of the residents are students or short-term renters who have no intention of staying here for longer than a one or two year lease. I don't blame the non-student tenants for not renewing because the rents they are charged are ridiculous. This is very, very much a transient residential project/dorm. The TA should never have welcomed the Blackstone scum with open arms (open legs if they had been younger and more appealing); it was the worse decision ever and we are stuck with these parasitic scumlords. There were several other entities looking to take over the property, but somehow Blackstone won the prize notwithstanding its appalling records of being a despicable landlord elsewhere, as well as the most predatory corporation on the planet.
Short sighted view, the TAs advocacy for RS protection for all tenantry is a huge deal that provided real results. The TA deserves everyone’s support and the malcontents who bash the TA are Blackstone’s biggest supporters, whether they know it or not.
Just me. But I'm sick of the TA.
They are certainly not transparent. BS masters.
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