You have to hand to Beam Living and Stuy Town. They care a lot and remind children that they can start a conversion, as the little ones may get confused about what benches are for. Of course, the diapers have to be changed, too, in case they are soiled and smelly.
So, I saw this morning that these new signs and two new reddish benches were put at the Oval. How wonderful for the little ones! Apparently later there are candies, though the old-fashioned ones like Ring-Dings cost a lot now, so something cheap will be provided by Beam.
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Those two red benches look very pretty. They even have birds! (Not live ones, of course.) The children must really enjoy that!
They come up with more pathetic ideas all the time! Considering the fact that there are more college undergrads dorming here than there are "real" tenants, I don't know if those benches will ever be used by seniors, which is the demo they are aimed at. Are they going to "police" these benches to make sure that some college brat isn't sprawled out working on their tan?
Don't think so 2:43, because they don't "police" anything here. And children usually don't sit on such benches, in my experience.
Children don't sit on benches, but older teenagers for a brief time and adults, particularly senior citizens, do. No one needs to be told to start a conversation. This "recommendation" is one of the more idiotic things Stuy Town has done. Totally imbecilic.
Back in the day, some "older teenagers" would sit on them at night, drink beer, and scream. (Won't mention their ethnicity for fear of offending STR.) Now, very few older teens live here. But raucous students more than make up for that, even if they don't sit down outside.
F the idiotic signs on the benches.
How about some heat in the winter?
How about no more brown water coming out of the faucets?
How about enforcing some rules of civilized conduct here?
You need a TA and an effective councilperson for the above.
Does anybody remember the "LuxLiving" blog from the days of Tishman Speyer? I wonder what happened to that guy? He was brilliant in his eviscerating commentary, especially his opinion of Rob Speyer! I think he had some serious health issues and I do hope that he is still alive and well.
I had lunch or a snack or a coffee with him, but that was a long, long time ago. No idea what he is doing now.
This is all so "resort" mentality. I have lived in Stuyvesant Town all my life (which is long before it became the shithole that it now is) and I don't think anybody has ever had a problem with sitting on a bench and putting the world to rights! We never needed these stupid notices. But then, sitting outside was a pleasure because we didn't have to endure scooters and bikes and skateboard zipping past. Also, the air was clean and refreshing to breathe in (apart from the pollen, but we'll blame God for that) because there was so much more grass and trees and no hideous commercial venues and yapping dogs of all sizes shitting and pissing all over the place.
With all respect to the folks living in NYCHA projects, this is now nothing more than an overpriced housing project that is not even as well kept as many of the NYCHA housing.
They have some damned steel balls to call this place "luxury" because it is anything but and the people running this place are nothing more than former hospitality hacks who ran shitty hotels and bars. Check out their resumes on Linkedin. Absolute freeking low-level losers.
Ya know, STR, they are trying to turn this place into something that it was back in the day. It used to be a community. Since the sale and the various and sundry lowlife owners we have had, it has become a rotten dorm/transient squat. I think this management is trying to restore some dignity to the old place. Maybe I'm wrong, but at least give them the benefit of the doubt and see what happens.
They have had more than enough time already, 1:45 AM. Meaningless/minor gesture. It's too late.
I’ll wait for the STFU benches.
>> they are trying to turn this place into something that it was back in the day. It used to be a community. Since the sale and the various and sundry lowlife owners we have had, it has become a rotten dorm/transient squat. I think this management is trying to restore some dignity to the old place. Maybe I'm wrong, but at least give them the benefit of the doubt and see what happens. <<
Really? I see everything getting worse.
As do I ,getting worse. Building and nearby apartments cause noise constantly
What dignity? Oval events cheapen property. More and more transients. Dignified it is not. More like degrading
Yesterday my friend and I were sitting by the fountain when three children who were half dressed and in their hate feet start running around the fountain and one jumps in! Not a security officer in sight!
When an adult, whom.I assumed was the father appeared,he was in his bare feet! After telling the child to get out, he disappears back onto the oval lawn and the child continues to go back in and out of the water!
When I grew up here, if you got caught in the grass, you ran for your life as to avoid getting your name taken and risk getting thrown out!
There was pride that we lived in a development with nature in the middle of Manhattan!
Once Met Life went public, the party was over. I can't imagine paying $4,500 for an apartment here now.
My thermometer this morning was 66 degrees!
I can't afford to move unfortunately.
I imagine there are other long time residents who have similar feelings.
Shake Shack truck here today. Really adds to the "dignity" of this dump! This is a tramp management we have here.
I had two burgers from the Shake Shack truck, and neither was as awesome tasting as years ago. Now I prefer to save money and make my own burger.
The shake shack burgers are greasy and not great, although the shakes are good.Food trucks cheapen the property even more
It is below 50% tonight. Is the heat on? No. ...."indoor temperatures be maintained at a minimum of 68°F (20°C) when outdoor temperatures fall below 55°F (13°C) during the daytime. During nighttime hours, indoor temperatures must be kept at a minimum of 62°F (17°C) regardless of outdoor conditions."
Re: the dumbass "father" who let his kid jump into the fountain: I was always told that there are electrical fixtures in the fountain - something to do with the lighting - and there is risk of electric shock if you go in.
They are renting to such lowlife human garbage these days.
STR, about the heat (or lack thereof) is the rule only applicable to certain months of the year when it is expected to be cold? I have had my space heaters on for the last couple of days. Spring can be bloody cold and wet!
"Not a security officer in sight!"
The lowlife shit who is running this place have cut Public Safety down to the bone. We don't have nearly as many officers as we used to have.
It is 7 right now. No heat. 50 degrees outside.
This the rule:
From October 1 through May 31, New York City building owners must maintain an indoor temperature of at least 68 degrees between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. when it’s below 55 degrees outside. From 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., indoor temperature must be at least 62 degrees regardless of the temperature outside. Hot water must be kept at a minimum temperature of 120 degrees at the source, year-round.
We are still in May.
https://www.nyc.gov/site/nycha/residents/heating.page
STR, I know that they should be giving us heat, but when did this shitty "management" ever go by the laws of the City? They are cheap, resort rejects and say a lot about what to expect at Blackstone "resorts." They have no idea as to how they should run a residential property and they don't give a flying f*ck about the rules and laws of the City. Low class "hospitality" failures.
At least we are all well-warned about booking a vacation at a Blackstone resort!
The failed Cruise DJ should be getting his tacky crap going soon to torture us through the summer.
This oval dweller dreads the onset of summer here. Each year the crap events are louder and more frequent. It is despicable that they get away with this. People work from home, babies are sleeping, and some us want to read or watch TV in peace.
A previous poster said that once Met Life went public "the party was over." That common expression doesn't apply in this case, because once Blackstone entered the picture, the REAL party began, esp. in the Oval ("a great resource") during the summers, and with all their student tenants.
Management doesn't know and doesn't care who the hell is living here. Tenants advertise their apartments as short-term rentals for a couple of months when they are going to be on vacation. We could have a Ted Bundy subletting here. The directory boards in the lobbies are NEVER updated because, as I said, Management does not or care who the f*ck is renting here. Given that we have minimum Security these days, this place is a crime scene waiting to happen. We (real tenants) have absolutely no protection of our safety. Maybe I'll get me a weapon, legal or not. This used to be safest and best run property in the City. Now it is a shitty dorm, temporary flop, Air-b-n-B shithole. If I knew of anybody subletting or renting out as a temporary flop, I would inform Management immediately. Unfortunately, I don't think they would care. All Management cares about is that they get the rent every month - especially if it is MR.
I hope that anybody thinking of moving in here checks the Yelp reviews first. They are not good, but they are honest. Since Blackstone bought the place it has really gone down the sewer. It used to be one of the very best places to rent in NYC if you wanted an affordable rent and a clean, safe place to live.
At this point, it is nothing more than an overpriced slum. The Management is the absolute dregs. Management is totally out of its depth and haven't got a clue as to how a housing complex should be run. They all are the bottom-of-the-barrel hospitality industry hacks. They are trained to cater to people on a low budget who will put up with (or expect) low quality-low budget conditions. Unfortunately, some of us are paying through the nose for cold, inferior apartments with paper-thin walls and we go out in the hall and see a dirty, cheap carpet that has been soiled with dog shit. The laundry facilities are execrable and the entire ambience of the place screams (literally) dorm/transient/neglect and indifference.
Most of us didn't move in here in order to experience such substandard conditions. The woman who supposedly is managing the place is a total moron. I don't know where they sourced her, but they should get rid of her and get somebody who knows how to do the job of managing a place like this. All she seems to involve herself in is the third-rate "entertainment" which is pathetic as well as something that isn't even appropriate for an apartment complex. Maybe it would be appreciated at one of the City beaches, but not under our windows on summer nights! Can't wait to get out of here and will definitely spread the word (warning) to anybody who wants an opinion of this dump.
The entertainment began with the owners before Beam, but was escalated by Rick Hayduk after he became manager. It keeps escalating. I do know that some long term residents attend these events and that makes it worse. Of course there are outsiders too. The place needs a facelift. They are unwilling to spiff it up since they have turned much of the apartments into 3 and 4 student dorms. They also seem to have rooms for let situations and deals with foreign tourist agencies for short term rentals. A unique and despicable housing development.
Rick made a major hiring misstep by hiring a megalomaniac from a personal situation which seems to have seriously scarred him psychologically. We all come from less than ideal family constellations, and many of us feel cheated in the arena of physical appearances as well.
I believe Rick may well have thought he was acting out of both personal benevolence and practicality when he brought Vazquez up here from Florida as "Lifestyle Director." A "DJ" on some cruise ship, Vazquez has steadily expanded his obscene opinion of himself and his importance, control and power.
In service of that compensation for earlier trauma, he steadily creates more and more trauma, disturbance and health threats to hundreds of us for many months each year.
From reading the three Facebook sites which are for tenants, I get the impression that a great many people live here who have not been vetted in any way by Management. When MetLife owned the place there was a waiting list to get in and prospective tenants had to provide references and prove that they did not have a police record. It seems that now it is ok to totally bypass the leasing office and move into an apartment as a room mate or the sole occupant by just dealing with the current tenant of record (or maybe no record that management knows about).
I think that is a very bad practice because those of us who are not "passing through" and are tenants of record have the right to feel confident that Management knows who lives here and who doesn't. Maybe current owners don't care about that kind of thing jus so long as each apartment is rented at the maximum rent they can get. I suspect that if any of the tenants in the unrenovated apartments engaged in being "landlords" they would probably be turfed out. Tishman Speyer hired some private dick (dick in every way) to find those tenants and turf them out. Maybe current Management would have the same attitude now if an older tenant rented out their apartment.
I doubt that Management has any real idea as to who actually lives here. This used to be one of the safest and well-run place to live in this entire city. Now it is an unsupervised dorm/hotel/AirBnB/. I hope there is never a murder or rape here as the result of Management having no knowledge of and not caring about who is dossing her.
"The place needs a facelift. They are unwilling to spiff it up since they have turned much of the apartments into 3 and 4 student dorms. They also seem to have rooms for let situations and deals with foreign tourist agencies for short term rentals. A unique and despicable housing development."
I am embarrassed to invite friends and family to my apartment nowadays because the carpet in the hall is filthy and full of dog piss and shit stains. I think the pikers running this place have cut back on porters, Public Safety and skilled workers. It has an atmosphere of cheap entertainment outside and seedy neglect inside. I pity the idiots who are paying through the nose to live here. Everything they put into the renovated units is cheap, bottom-of-the-line crap. But then, look at who is managing the dump: cheap, bottom-of-the-line crap. The bottom-feeders of the seedy tourist world.
Please make comments that are different than the ones being made over and over again here. It really is tiresome as an administrator to read the same thing every time. Thanks.
So, whaddya want us to say, STR? We're all pissed off with the current management and downhill QOL.
Maybe we all have the same problems with this place, STR. I don't think you'll find too many positive posts as long as we have this dreadful management.
There are issues about this place, and, yes, it is going downhill. But there are some pleasant areas, times, flowers, etc. There are also some conveniences. Just saying everything is bad, bad, bad, sounds ridiculous.
Many of the tenants are very nice people. Friendly and pleasant. Management sucks, but neighbors are nice. Many of the students are kind and friendly, but they really should be in a real dorm. Some parts of the grounds that haven't been commercialized and ruined are very nice. It's a pleasure to have so many trees. The trees are the best feature of the property.
We need a decent supermarket nearby. Associated was extremely convenient and affordable. Gristedes is ok for the PC residents. Morton Williams is too far of a schlep. I like Trader Joe's, but miss having a real supermarket that stayed open till midnite.
There are many things that are good about the place, but this rotten, poor apology for a "management" is not one of them. We need a competent Property Manager, not a Vice President of Resident Experience who is a party planner/resort hack along with a failed cruise director. If they staffed the senior staff appropriately, it would be much better.
Also, having squirrels and birds on the property is very,s very nice. Dogs, not so much. My bedroom overlooks the dogshit patch (which used to be a lawn) and it is not at all pleasant especially early in the morning. Doesn't prevent the little dears from shitting and pissing everywhere else, including on the hall carpet which is never cleaned.
It would be nice if management was to update us as to what's happening with the elevators in our building. We were informed that it's part of regular maintenance and would take up to 6 weeks for each car. It's been that long already and we never see or hear any work being done, and this is the first car. At this rate, most of summer will be over before we have both elevators operational. I fully expect the one elevator that everybody is using now to break down. But yes, once we exit our shabby PCV building, it's all quite lovely (if you ignore the "stains" on the paths, and the fake grass in front of our entrance). I think I even saw a possum in the PCV landscaping tonight (no, it wasn't a rat!).
STR, what kind of posts do you want to see from us? I think most people post here because it is a safe and legit way to steam off a bit about this loathsome management and what they have reduced the property to. I know it is not exactly all bad to be living here, but the quality of life leaves much to be desired. Probably, newer tenants don't realize how bad it is now, compared to how it used to be under the stewardship of MetLife. They don't know how clean and safe and well-run it was. Sure, we didn't get a/c until sometime in the late 70s and we were sooooo happy when we did have the option for that amenity. But we had a real Security Department with well-trained men and women, many of whom were retired cops. We were not subjected to noisy undergrad students whooping braying at all hours of the night and we had absolutely beautiful grounds that were the envy of every large property in NYC. The Oval was a beautiful, magnificent tree park and it oxygenated the air and gave us a sense of peace and tranquility, especially when the trees were in full leaf and there was that lovely "whisper" emanating from them as they cleaned and oxygenated the air, while at the same time making we fortunate tenants feel like we were in a bucolic rural place and could thank God and our lucky stars for having the privilege of living here.
Eventually, the corporate vultures and bloodsuckers came in and stripped away almost everything that was life-enhancing and wonderful about PCVST (especially ST) and turned it into a tawdry, third-class park (of sorts) and filled the buildings with transients and students and anybody with a pulse and a checkbook. It felt like we had been raped and pillaged. Still does. However, that is, sadly, the way of the world. Everything and anything decent and wholesome has to be raped and destroyed and turned into tacky third rate shit for the sake of the shekels.
If there is a possum on the grounds, please do not harm it. They do a lot of good for the environment and no harm.
One of a number of things I noticed is how lazy Beam/Stuy Town is. Now they leave the big movie screen at the tip of the Oval. It's just there, covering the view of the lawn, etc. Not being moved, period.
Of course, they moved the greenmarket to the fountain area. Was this approved by zoning? There was a big stink about where the original should go. Garodnick got involved, etc. But now?
It is not the work being done on the bricks that is taking forever. (Money.) Plenty of space remaining. But Beam wants the greenmarket to "look good."
Garodnick got involved ... "and their guests" ... transformed ST and ST Oval from a quiet, private "oasis" into a much larger, much louder, much more crowded version of Tompkins Square Park.
I saw a pile of freshly laid DOG SHIT ON the new red bench. Unbelievable!
Do you have a photo?
"I saw a pile of freshly laid DOG SHIT ON the new red bench. Unbelievable!"
That had to have been done deliberately. Spiteful, but making a definite statement.
I just found out that the elevator ("city mandated") maintenance work is actually going to take 14 to 15 weeks per elevator. This from the original 4 to 6 weeks per elevator as we were told in a notice from management. This means that we will have only one working elevator for 6 months!! Does anyone know more about this? what is this "city mandate" regarding elevators that management keeps quoting?
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Hello. Just curious about the notice for lead based paint inspection. Notice directs to have 3 walls of every closet and a shelf on each closet available to inspect. Been here for many years and never had notice like this. Prior inspections didn’t involve entry in closets. Notice says don’t need to empty entire closet but suggests some of the closet must be emptied…to provide access to all 3 walls it seems? Will this type of inspection into the closets be an annual occurrence ? It is not a small task to clear trunks stored in back of front/entry closet to prepare for this and hoping it’s a one time thing. Curiously did not yet get notice about normal annual inspection for AC units and fridge. Grateful for any insight or info.
Not everyone constantly carries a smartphone, STR, but if true, am surprised that it hasn't happened previously.
No photo? Sorry. Sounds fishy to me. I'm at the Oval where the benches are and I've never seen this. Yesterday, today, other days.
>>Hello. Just curious about the notice for lead based paint inspection.<<
I've been here for almost 40 years and this is the first time, too. I think Beam is doing this (they don't have to) to make the property sound extra special. I was told by one of the inspectors a couple of weeks ago that the inspection will take 1 1/2 hours! This time seems way too long, even for this. I turned the inspector away, as there was no prior notice. But now...
This business with the closets being inspected for lead leads me to ask this question. Let's say they find lead in the paint in my closets, what then?
They have to get rid of the lead. So they will work on it. Of course, if you have no children who are eating the lead peelings or a pregnant woman who loves the taste of lead and will eat it, it should not be a problem. We used to rely on our word and signature every time we renewed the lease and that pamphlet on lead, but now it is inspection time!
You were complaining couple days ago, STR, about all the "complainers." Well, now you've (re-)joined them! This is the price one pays for living in housing built in 1947 and now managed by sadistic incompetents.
I'm not complaining about "complainers," but the similar comments over and over again! There is a difference, and everyone can see it. It just lowers this blog and is annoying.
The comments are "similar" only because recurring problems are never addressed by Mgm't....and never will be. The only 'answer'--as was pointed out in a very current Yelp review--is to leave, if possible. Believe Blackstone will be able to begin demolition in 2035, per their corrupt agreement with NYC politicians. If any long-term (real) tenants last until then, where will they go...?
" Believe Blackstone will be able to begin demolition in 2035, per their corrupt agreement with NYC politicians. If any long-term (real) tenants last until then, where will they go...?"
What makes you think Blackstone is going to demolish the property in 2035?
The reviews on Yelp are terrible. Unfortunately, everything they say is true. We don't have a real management. All we have are these lame-brains from the resorts and hotels world. Blackstone has absolutely destroyed the property.
What's this thing about demolishing the place in 2035? I suspect the crooked, corrupt "Tenants Association" is in on that plan.
>>What makes you think Blackstone is going to demolish the property in 2035?<<
The response should be interesting.
>>I suspect the crooked, corrupt "Tenants Association" is in on that plan.<<
Ah, the "voice" of this post is the same. LOL.
Just read Wikipedia's article about ST, which gives details of the sale to Blackstone. The City 'donated' a paltry sum of $225 million; in return, Blackstone must keep 5000 apartments below Market Rate until 2035. After that, Anything Goes (with apologies to Cole Porter). This same piece even has a link to your blog, STR, as well as references to a hopelessly-naive 'memoir' from 2000 entitled "Eleven Stories High"...and an "Irish Mafia". But Garodnick's self-serving book is NOT mentioned.
But nothing about demolishing Stuy Town. I would think that a lot scenarios are discussed by Beam, even that one. But whether that plan is serious is another story.
All Beam cares about is the Bottom Line. Demolition, followed by new condo construction, would increase that. Do you think they're going to apply for "Landmark Status" to preserve the current Disaster, instead? They are a Business (and worst kind thereof), not a Charity.
Not easy to do. There are state/city rules. Sure, the demolition would be great and a new super project for this prime territory is dazzling to Beam, but....
There is a way of doing this, but it would have to be bit by bit, and take years.
Two more fatal e-bike fires in the City. I wonder how many e-bikes are being charged in Sty apartments? Not that the LL would care.
"There is a way of doing this, but it would have to be bit by bit, and take years."
They can start now as far as I'm concerned. Can't wait to get out of this deteriorating project. We don't even have any real management here. No property manager, just a former party-planner (or something like that). I can't understand why anybody in their right mind would pay through the nose to rent here.
LOL. Basically, the same thing you've been posting for years!
"LOL. Basically, the same thing you've been posting for years!"
You know who posts here?
If it's the same voice saying the same things, yes.
The apartments are noisier because of renovations with fake wood laminate flooring and no padding because management are cheapasses...The real wood floors in the unrenovated apartments absorb noise better. And the fact that now they rent to riff raff with poor upbringing or just selfish no common sense inconsiderate behaviours. The kid next door kicks balls against my walls every day. All hours. This sucks when you work from home. He runs around screaming so loud and he isn't even a small child. I can feel my floor vibrating with every stomp. Also likes to open and slam the closet doors nonstop. Seems like he doesn't even go to school. Where do they find these people from. Take the kid outside to play. Jesus Christ. Is there really section 8 apartments here? Every day I wish for him to fall and break a body part.
So you want a child to break a body part?
I would never wish for a child to break a body part, but I can understand the frustration of the poster. This place has deteriorated to the level of being almost unlivable. Even though the rents in the renovated units are very high, the quality of the renovations are very low. I hope the poster calls PS and writes to MisManagement. It could well be that the child has some kind of learning disability and is hyperactive. I wish we had a tenants association that actually cared about the quality of life here and sided with tenants in cases like the one mentioned here. I know they fight against rent increases, but if would-be renters were aware of the vile quality of life here, nobody in their right mind would choose to move in.
This particular landlord/management is the absolute dregs of the industry. They don't know how to manage a residential property like this. They are totally out of their depth here.
If we had a real tenants association, they would address issues such as tenants who ruin the quality of life for their neighbors and a landlord that doesn't give a flying f*ck about it. I think the TA is in bed with "management." I think that withholding rent and retaining a lawyer is the only way to deal with this bunch of goons.
There really are Section 8 apartments here, but they are not necessarily the troublesome tenants. A lot of well-heeled tenants who pay through the nose have absolutely no class, no manners and were dragged up to believe they are superior. In fact they are very often the most moronic people on the planet because they truly have absolutely no class whatsoever.
'So you want a child to break a body part?'
I'd want to break his bloody neck if he lived next door to me! Well, maybe I'd want to break his stupid parents' necks. They are the ones to blame.
June 2 at 12:36 PM, have you tried talking to the kid's parents? If they are not responsive, call PS. Sounds like the kid has developmental problems, but the parents are the real culprits.
We have no "management" as such. They don't care about bad behavior because they are not equipped to deal with it (except when STR cusses at the dimwit woman who is supposed to be a quasi-manager!) We are paying rent to live in an unsupervised dorm/flop/sublet-soaked dump. Management has absolutely no idea who lives here at this point. Tenants treat the apartments as if they own them and sublet to strangers all the time. There are no nameplates on the doors because it would be impossible for management to keep up with who lives here legally and who doesn't. The NYCHA developments are MUCH better run than Stuyvesant/PCV (especially ST) because at least they have some idea of who their tenants are.
Stuyvesant Town has totally gone down the crapper and we can blame the so-called TA for that. They arranged the sale to Blackstone and I don't know what kind of kick-back they got, but there must have been something. Something worth selling their souls and the lives of the tenants they are supposed to represent for.
There are a lot of very lonely people in NYC and it could be Management is genuinely trying to alleviate some of that unhappiness.
Just got the email about all the summer events. Why the hell can't they run this property as a RESIDENTIAL development and not a figgin' down-market resort. Summers used to be so nice here before this bunch of "hospitality" rejects moved in on us. It's not like we're living in the middle of nowhere; this is New York City and there is a lot going on in the way of entertainment and recreation, but we have to have these vile "concerts" on the Oval. The Oval used to be a tree-filled beauty spot that helped clean the air and muffle the noise of the City.
I so HATE these moronic vultures from the tacky Blackstone "hospitality" circuit. I wish they'd all go back to where they came from.
Didn't we used to have a Tenants Association that actually cared about the quality of life in this place? All they do these days is ask for money.
1:46 AM on June 6: Management's only goals are to make money and get rid of longtime tenants. You're very mistaken if you believe they're trying to help anyone living here in any way. Others have posted about their long-term plans, although STR had expressed doubts regarding this....
They help in trying to get the rent bill on time.
I filled out a survey that management sent by e-mail. My low score was partly based on the loud oval noise pollution on the oval during the summer(I live on the oval) and the dorm deals. The trouble is that some ST longtime residents actually attend these horrible events and combined with outsiders make it look like a sizable crowd. And also that our local politicians ignore them and actually occasionally promote them on Facebook posts
Just got the latest "newsletter" from StyManagement. The emphasis is greatly on getting students to move in here. They don't seem to advertise or encourage actual adults (with money) to move in to occupy these overpriced apartments. I can see why someone (non-student) would be reluctant to move here. The place is noisy; it's not very clean (we have "dog stains" all over the carpet out in the hallway and it is nauseating to see them); the maintenance and security here is way below par and that didn't used to be the case. I don't think that "Management" actually know who lives here because so many move-ins are by private arrangement.
Theft is rampant; we have diminished "Public Safety" and the entire place is shabby and has a rather desolate look to it. Hard to believe that a few years ago the advertising motto was: "A River Runs Around It and A Park Runs Through It" Well, the river still runs to the side of it (never did run around it).
The place is shabby and depressing. We have people on Citibikes speeding along the pathways (permitted by Management) and it doesn't feel safe to walk outside, especially if you have young children or if you're not exactly young yourself; but anybody, able-bodied or not, is at risk from all the bicycles.
The bottom line is that we have a management that doesn't know how to manage. They have absolutely no idea because they don't the the training and experience to manage a huge residential property like this. The Head Honcho was quoted as saying she really didn't know how to go about evicting a troublesome tenant who was making other tenants lives miserable. I can remember when bad actors were evicted tout suite! No messing around! But then the place was run by experienced professional real estate people. Incompetency and inadequate training experience shows. It not only shows, but it affects every level of the experience of living here. I don't feel very optimistic about the future of PCVST as a housing complex for much longer. Dorm/hotel/flophouse ... all on the table.
"And also that our local politicians ignore them and actually occasionally promote them on Facebook posts"
And get kick backs from Management to ignore any complaints about noise violation, etc.
June 10, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Well, we all are aware that we are owned by and managed by the most morally retarded corporate entity on the face of the earth. We should never be surprised at any depth they sink to and how much harm the deliberately inflict on us.
Anybody who pulls paycheck from Blackstone has no excuse for not knowing that they are working for a monstrously, evil,greedy and total amoral corporation. Hitler would have admired them if they had been of a different ethnicity.
Blackstone is notorious for being the scum of the corporate world and is not respected anywhere. I know everybody needs a paycheck, but you can get one from much better and more ethical entities than Blackstone. On your conscience be it.
NB: Do a little research and googling on the impact this totally amoral corporation has had on the planet; especially in the more helpless regions of the planet.
STR, I keep getting a message that your website is not secure. It's getting hard to to get into it. Never happened before now.
Nothing on my end. Same old, same old.
I wish they would employ a real property manager to run this place. We have this airhead from pubs and hotels who doesn't know shit from shine. Can't Blackstone do better than this? Residents are paying through the nose to live in a place with no adults in charge. We are stuck with noisy third-rate "events" and you can have your toilet overflow and be wading in piss or you can have an insect infestation because of bad work done by lousy plumbers and you are paying multi thousand dollars to live in a unit that is literally an infectious shithole because of an infestation, but the dumb-ass airhead who calls herself "Vice President of Resident Experience" (gimme a f*cking break!) won't bother her empty little head because she doesn't know what to do.
They don’t care who is the manager. Their agenda is to run this place into the ground. Rick ,the first one, appeared competent but was not concerned about heat issues and increased the loud oval events. Some fell for his act, I didn’t. It does not matter who is manager. They all follow the script.
Why would they want to run the place into the ground? How would that make any sense? Making it more desirable to rent here would make sense to me.
What am I missing?
I wish they would get us a residential real estate oriented management company to run this place. I'm sure they're nice people, but they are so pathetically incompetent. Residents could be drowning in backed-up sewage; have a marching band practicing in the next door apartment; have rats and roaches running through their home and all "management" would care about is what loud, amateur concert or event they could put on to ruin our summer evenings. They don't know how to run a housing complex; they only know how to run Blackstone-owned cheesy vacation gigs.
Rick was just passing through. He was in the process of buying a hotel to be an employer of special needs children. That was admirable, but he didn't give a rat's ass about us. He thought like a resort manager and acted as such. Didn't have a clue about running a residential property. Blackstone has not gifted us with its best and brightest. Maybe, though, this is the best they can do. It's not a corporation that many people feel comfortable working for. It's something of a pariah.
I would like that Kennedy woman to sit on a bench. I'd be happy to have a conversation with her. I would probably give her some well-meant advice, such as get an education before you try to run a property that you know nothing about. She obviously was deceived into thinking that she was going to be running a vacation place (low income/low level resort) when she accepted the position. She should sue Blackstone for deceiving her and, if we had a tenants association, they would be suing the owner for putting in the most incompetent dimwits to run this property. They are no doubt very good at running resorts and hotels, but this is a residential housing property in the heart of the most dynamic and sophisticated city in the world and we are paying mega-bucks rent to be "ruled over" and subjected to the limited qualifications of a cheapo resort hack.
We need 60 Minutes News Team over here.
Three days ago, Blackstone Group's net worth was reported at $89.1 Billion - Eighty-Nine plus Billion Dollars.
They may not "own" New York City, or any other city, but their influence, predominantly pernicious and destructive, is far reaching here and literally all around this besieged planet.
Yesterday evening, Sunday, June 23, 2024, a man murdered one man and put a second man and a woman into the hospital shortly before 6 p.m. in front of our 14th Street Trader Joe's. All three victims were stabbed.
No, Blackstone did not do this, nor are they the police, our City Council, our mayor. Yet Blackstone's ability to influence/pressure our NYC government is enormous in ways we cannot even imagine.
Blackstone has the juice, I am certain, to coerce, bribe, etc. various officials here to clean up that 14th Street block between Avenue A and First Avenue.
This next is a reach, and utterly unrealistic, yet it is well within their resources: they've the financial resources to put effective, tough private security on that block 24 hours a day/7 days a week to ensure that the thousands of Stuyvesant Town residents across the street can once again safely walk, and shop, on that bedeviled stretch of NYC real estate.
If anyone besides myself is interested in lobbying Blackstone to help us, I'd be interested and heartened.
They have deals with NYU and can fill the overpriced apartments with students. Also do roomie deals. Specialize in short term rentals. I am sure agencies work with them on that. Students and short term renters don’t really care about the things long term renters value like heat and quiet.
The bottom line is that families and professionals will not pay 4 grand a month for an old project with no doorman or amenities. So just keep filling the apartments with students and transient tenants. 3 or 4 roomies will share the apartments for 6 months or a year. This is the deal. Once they jacked those rents up, you just knew there was a plan. I have a nice stable floor, but one apartment is a revolving door for different students. My building is probably 50 percent students.
Those of you who blame the manager do not realize that this is Blackstone’s plan. To fill apartments with student dorms, 3 or 4 advertised roomies, and to hope that long time residents paying low rents die off. This is a transient community. Always new people in my building. Why get a good manager when you are dealing with great deals to pull in students and Airbnb’s. Transients and students couldn’t care less. The concerts and events are phony amenities , false advertising. Once those rents were jacked up to 4 grand, they instituted this plan. Every day mattresses are brought in and out of my building to bed down students.
Actually, I have no respect for anybody who makes their living by working for Blackstone. It is known for being an unscrupulous and hideously amoral corporation.
Instead of focusing on those inane "events" I wish they would focus on keeping the buildings up to scratch. The carpet in my hall is FILTHY! I don't know what the stains are. We have one dog on my floor, but the people are very conscientious and I know it's not the dog that is leaving the stains. Three of the apartments are revolving door units and I don't know if "management" even knows who lives in them.
This is the absolute worst "management" we have ever had. Totally incompetent and uncaring. All the de facto "manager" VP of Resident Experience (LOL) cares about are those inane events and money-making "amenities" that most of us don't give a FF about. People who don't live here avail themselves of those things more than actual residents do.
I'm not elderly, but I was born and raised here and I never thought that the property would become such a total mess. It bears very little resemblance to the clean, safe and well-run place where my sisters and I grew up. It is a noisy, dirty transient-ridden quasi slum. It was never luxury and was never intended to be luxury and it is far from ever being what could be considered luxury. Why people pay the outrageous "market" rents is beyond me. I know there are playgrounds and for people with kids that is a big plus, but I would not be comfortable with leaving a young (or not so young) child unattended in a playground now because we have hardly any Security or PS as they now call that department and I see all kinds of street riff-raff wondering around and looking for ways to get into the buildings. We never used to have the level of package theft that we have now. In fact, I don't think we had any package theft until recent years, even though many of us used mail order quite a lot.
My heart sank when I heard the property was being bought by Blackstone because that is a corporation with one of the worst reputations on the planet and it never fails to live up to its reputation. The corrupt Tenants Association (which wasn't always corrupt, I might add) brought this filth in and I will never trust the leaders of that organization again. They sold us out and I'm not sure why because I know for a fact that other prospective buyers were interested.
The jackass Robert ben Moishe sold us to Tishman Speyer, who practically bankrupted the property, but Ben Moishe croaked and TS slithered away and now we are stuck with Blackstone. I'd love to know what the TA got out of helping Blackstone buy the property, but there must've been some kick-back.
According to other published estimates, Blackstone is currently worth more than $One TRILLION. They will happily continue the present regime here until 2035. Then demolition can/will begin. Fortunately, myself and other family members (who'd stuck it out much longer) are now elsewhere.
What is supposed to happen in 2035?
The city made some deal with Blackstone/Beam where tenant protections expire.
"The city made some deal with Blackstone/Beam where tenant protections expire."
Any way to get details, STR? I don't want to be homeless at 70.
From what I read the politicians will put in tenant protections near that time.
It is Friday evening at 7:44 p.m. on June 28, 2024.
There is extreme disturbance invading my home now. It has been going on, and escalating, for something like an hour. Pounding, pounding, pounding waves of noise, further worsened by the yowling of some moron who thinks he's a singer. At the fountain area, another example of the human garbage and toxins exhibiting themselves and hurting innocent PAYING residents and their infants. Elderly people, sick people, shift workers, people working from home even now - all held captive to the so-called "music," the sh*t "event."
This is the work of that depraved and handicapped egomaniac, Vazquez, and all of the Blackstone minions who go along with this frequent injury to tenants.
The sick, morally rotten and depraved people who "own" and "run" the "events" in my once peaceful home are illegally jeopardizing the health of myself, and every member of my household, both human and otherwise.
Unfortunately, getting rid of the lying narcissist who stages these abominations would likely help not in the least; it would be akin to shoveling sh*t against the tide, since the evil that is Blackstone would send another of his ilk since the Oval is "such a resource."
All of these bastards may eventually get theirs. I'd like to witness each one of them getting theirs now.
All of these thoughts and feelings are against my own belief system, but this torment goes on several times weekly for months and also tortures others and the Oval itself.
Those Oval “events” are a total nightmare. I can hear that ugly noise all the way I’ve on 14th Street. I pray for rain when these moronic “events” take place.
This place is run by shitty resort
alumni who probably wouldn’t be able to find employment elsewhere.
Blackstone is universally loathed because its total reason for existence is to make money for its vile owners at the expense of the homes and well-being of human and animal life throughout the world.
They have no morals, scruples or even basic decency. They also have no taste nor talent. They are SCUM!
The pounding music last night in the oval was really annoying. I dread summers here.
"The city made some deal with Blackstone/Beam where tenant protections expire."
That NYC Blackstone deal was overruled by the passage of the NYS HSTPA in June 2019. ALL STPCV apartments are under NYS RS law. NYS law "trumps" NYC law. No more sun setting of the NYS RS law which used to occur every 5 years. The NYS Supreme Court ruled in favor of the HSTPA and Blackstone then appealed to the SCOTUS, hoping that the MAGA Court would overturn ALL residential rent control regulations as unconstitutional. Blackstone has since dropped their appeal once the SCOTUS announced that they not hear the 2 cases presented to them by the RE industry. But C. Thomas, being the corrupt POS that he is, did say in his statement for the RE industry to try again and then suggested that they might hear that case. So we all just dodged a bullet on this one. Rust never sleeps.
"There is extreme disturbance invading my home now. It has been going on, and escalating, for something like an hour."
This is the "Live Music at the Fountain" that was announced by Kennedy in her usual email blast. This event will be every Friday summer evening from 6PM-to 8PM at the Oval fountain. So now we are going to have at least TWO summer nights per week of Oval harmful noise. And Robert Vasquez, to justify his 6 figure salary plus bonus, will always try to throw in other Oval events pre, during and post summer. I sent a complaint email over to Kennedy and it MAY have an impact IF we all do one since, as I recall, the original line was that these events would be acoustic, not amplified. Now, as everyone knows, Rick Hayduk, our former CEO, once announced at a CC town hall that he listened to concert noise complaints and that going forward, all live concerts would not have percussion instruments. Which was just one of his many lies but still, just ragging anonymously at this blog does NOTHING.
Good grief…the 2019 law change put all STPCV permanently under RS and a 2023 declaratory judgement affirmed this. Blackstone has withdrawn their sppeal and is adhering to the law with all lease renewals.
This is a continuation of 7:44 p.m. on June 28,2024
It is Saturday evening, nearly 6:00.
Last night was the disturbance from the twisted morally bankrupt landlord. Today it is from a selfish, self-indulgent, inconsiderate "neighbor."
For months now, every weekend, on either Saturday or Sunday, some s.o.b. in my apartment line, or elsewhere in the building, plays "music" which invades my home and my bones, and plays on my very skin from a damned subwoofer.
It goes on for hours. My partner and I have been unable to trace the source and Security told me weeks ago they have no clue as to how sound travels since the apartments were chopped up into rabbit warrens.
Usually, at around 4:00, if I am in my bedroom reading or studying or napping or eating or engaging in any activity a breathing human can engage in, BOOMING begins such that it penetrates my entire body and continues until at least 8 p.m.
Hatred is not even close to my emotion for the mound of steaming crap who subjects my entire household to this behavior as a weekly treat.
But didn't the deal Blackstone made with the City--with TA cheerleading from the sidelines--merely consist of keeping 5,000 apartments below Market Rate until 2035? (Had nothing to do with Rent Stabilization.) The fact that all apartments here are now "Rent Stabilized" has not helped longterm tenants much, has it? How has it "protected" them from this landlord's insanity and incompetence?
If the "TA" wasn't as uncaring as it, it would do something to protect us from those vile "concerts" that are force-fed to us via our proximity to them. I pray for rain every evening one of these lousy amateurish "events" takes place.
"The fact that all apartments here are now "Rent Stabilized" has not helped longterm tenants much, has it? How has it "protected" them from this landlord's insanity and incompetence?"
This is 9.59 AM. The ignorance of long term tenants on how the passage of the NYS HSTPA in 6/2019 which made permanent the NYS RS law versus what was once sunset every 5 years and which then superseded the 10/2015 NYC rental agreement made with Blackstone. See the 1.36 PM post. Google the NYS Roberts Ruling. Google the expiration of the NYS J-51. Google the HSTPA.
Next thing we all need to support is a major revision of the RGB, which right now is 100% controlled by the Mayor. Since everyone here hates the STPCV TA but since everyone here has made no effort to create an alternative STPCV TA organization that will actually deal with Blackstone and our local elected officials, there are other city wide residential rental rights organizations which one can support. Here is the best one of them:
"The Metropolitan Council on Housing"
https://www.metcouncilonhousing.org/
" goes on for hours. My partner and I have been unable to trace the source and Security told me weeks ago they have no clue as to how sound travels since the apartments were chopped up into rabbit warrens."
Ok you really need go down as many floors as you can and then up as many floors as you can when the noise makes its appearance. As an example, renovation noise can travel 6 floors down or up even if one is not in an apartment line that has the renovation. If you do what I have suggested, you will find the source.
"Security told me weeks ago they have no clue as to how sound travels since the apartments were chopped up into rabbit warrens."
You're lucky that PS even has got back to you on this because formally now, if there is noise issue, from 4 PM to 8 PM, it's now a RS issue, not a PS issue. Which is total BS I know but that's Blackstone. .
STPCVTA hate is a symptom of the ignorance around here. Their advocacy, along with the expert legal work of Tim Collins, in challenging Blackstone’s attempt to undo the 2019 law is a ecistential victory for all tenants.
STR, do you ever read the Tenants Facebook page (not the TA)? There are so many harrowing stories about the totally dismissive attitude of this so-called management when it comes to major problems, such as non-functioning plumbing; floods; feces floating under the floor boards and many other totally horrific scenarios. The Kennedy woman is a total LOSER who hasn't got a clue how to run a property like this. She's all about cheesy events and total bullshit. I can't imagine what her previous employment was. Probably a barmaid or waitress because she certainly doesn't have the qualifications (at any level) to run a place like this."
The City inspectors regarding sanitation, fire safety and general acceptability of residential properties must be all high on Blackstone's "look the other way" bribe list.
And what does our so-called Tenants Association do? They look the other way because they too are on Blackstone's Pay-Off list. I wish a legit consumers rights organization would look into the graft and dereliction that goes on here.
" I can't imagine what her previous employment was. "
Well it's all at her LinkedIn account. If you don't have a LinkedIn account, you're not really serious about finding out what the background of Beam Living/Blackstone management is. Stay ignorant, that's the ticket.
"They look the other way because they too are on Blackstone's Pay-Off list. I wish a legit consumers rights organization would look into the graft and dereliction that goes on here."
This is beyond ridiculous and it is such a Ludicrous, baseless accusation. It's posted all the time at this blog. It was the TA who filed against Blackstone and won in the NYS Supreme Court as noted by 1.36 PM's post:
"Good grief…the 2019 law change put all STPCV permanently under RS and a 2023 declaratory judgement affirmed this. Blackstone has withdrawn their appeal and is adhering to the law with all lease renewals."
And let me repeat 10.09 PM's post:
"STPCVTA hate is a symptom of the ignorance around here. Their advocacy, along with the expert legal work of Tim Collins, in challenging Blackstone’s attempt to undo the 2019 law is a existential victory for all tenants."
This is not to to say that the TA doesn't have issues, some substantial. Also, at that time, the 10/2015 Blackstone deal, as shitty as it was, there were other REBNY corporation deals out there that were even worse. Again, the passage of the HTSPA in 6/2019 and NYS Supreme Court decision to uphold it was very important for ALL tenants here.
@11:36 PM - I think the harrowing stories concerning non-functioning plumbing, shit running under the floorboards, etc., are situations (TERRIBLE situations) that are occurring in some of the non-market rate apartments. I believe that Management is deliberately allowing these situations to go unremedied because they want those tenants to move out so that they can be renovated and put on the market for a very high rent. I believe this is typical Blackstone harassment that is universally notorious for. Management (if you can call it that) is doing Blackstone's bidding by engaging in this "passive aggressive" harassment.
Ms. Kennedy is deliberately useless. She is unresponsive to the dire living conditions of some tenants because that is what her handlers/employers instruct her to do. She is nothing more than a sham of a "Manager" and doesn't even have that title. She has some vague and ridiculous title and her role is to engage in passive-aggressive harassment and cruelty toward older tenants.
I hate and despise her kind.
STR, have you seen the posts on the Tenants Inclusive FB? There are photographs that look they could've been taken in Gaza. Ceilings and walls in the bathrooms that are literally fallen in and asbestos, lead and all kinds shit is falling on the tenants. This Siobhan Kennedy cannot ever be reached and never responds to these tenants. If it were happening to me, I would get a newspaper writer to come and see it and bring a camera. I would also get a health inspector to see it. I believe the victims are longtime tenants, paying lower rents and I have no doubt that my being so unresponsive and hiding from them Kennedy is hoping they move out. This is plain and clear HARASSMENT.
If it were happening to me, I would have newspaper people and all kinds of media people coming to view the horror and publicise it. I used to work in the media and have contacts.
I know that TA Board members are on that site and, of course, they say nothing and certainly don't offer any advice or counsel. The f*cking TA is a totally useless organization when it comes to the landlord abusing tenants. They go on about Beth Israel and proposed casinos nearby. How about they focus on how hard-working, rent-paying tenants are enduring terrible, possibly life-threatening abuse at the hands of this vile LL.
I don't give a flying fuck about what is happening off the property; I care about the grotesque mistreatment some tenants are made to endure by this incompetent idiot and her "staff." This LL is a slumlord when it comes to below market-rate renters and I think they should be held accountable. I hope the tenants who are enduring the squalid, filthy, dangerous conditions sue Kennedy's useless, incompetent ass off.
We need a competent, well-trained, experienced PROPERTY MANAGER to run this place. Maybe Blackstone doesn't employ anybody with the necessary credentials and intelligence for that position. The have yet to come up with anybody qualified since the time they purchased the property.
"Well it's all at her LinkedIn account. If you don't have a LinkedIn account, you're not really serious about finding out what the background of Beam Living/Blackstone management is. Stay ignorant, that's the ticket."
FYI I have a LinkedIn account and I've read her credentials. She does NOT have the background and training to be put in charge of a place like this. She is from the hospitality and pubs with entertainment world. ST does NOT fit that category. We need a competent, caring PROPERTY MANAGER and WE DO NOT HAVE ONE. Capisce?
To the caring person of July 1, 5:35 p.m. who offered guidance re the weekly subwoofer noise in my apartment:
Thank you. Reading your post was healthful for me because so many of us are self-involved and indifferent to other people. That you took the time and effort to write restored my belief in the existence of decent humans.
I used to, and will probably again, walk staircases in my building, conducting my own personal "verticals" as Security used to do as a matter of course. For years now, sometimes when building noise was too much for me, I'd systematically explore the entire building, top to bottom, to locate the source of disturbance, as well as check from the outside.
The guilty apartment could often be located that way.
If the noise was emanating from a back room, however, it could not be detected. More than once, there were (drunken and/or drugged) kids holed up in a back bedroom who did not even hear myself and/or a Security guard ringing the bell, pounding on the door, shouting loudly.
I also learned, after many years, that a routine and specific noise right on top of our heads was not coming from the apartment directly over us, but from an apartment one floor up and on the other side of the hall.
Last year, some prime idiots who fancied themselves musicians or musical celebrities, played electric guitars and yowled (they imagined they were singing soulfully, I surmise) such that the space next to our bed was rendered uninhabitable. My partner went looking for the disturbance and could never locate it.
Security: the few oldsters there know me very, very well. I've been in this building, in 2 apartments, since the hottest day in the summer of 1980. For many years, I never complained about anything. That changed drastically just before Blackstone. Once Blackstone had embarked upon slow but utter destruction, Security, and some "Management" and "Legal" became very familiar with me.
Again, thank you for caring and sharing it here. It does not solve the problem, of course, but it lowers my blood pressure, puts a smile on my face, and helps me to live here more serenely. You're a good'un and I wish you only good in these troubled days.
I'm aware that the TA has made some substantial contributions regarding the affordability of the property. I wish they would take an interest in the fetid conditions that this so-called management crew turn a blind eye to. Pest infestations, collapsing ceilings with exposed asbestos and filth; sewer backups and floods from neighboring apartments that go unremedied or even unacknowedged by this lousy, poor apology for a manager. We don't have a real property manager; we have an airhead party planner and a ridiculous former cruiseship DJ controlling the property. Kennedy doesn't know shit from shine about managing a property, and it shows.
We need a real Property Manager with the experience and capability to run a place like this. We also need a TA that cares about the quality of life (or lack thereof) in the property they fight for. Personally, I couldn't care less if they tear the place down. Can't wait to get out of here at this point. I think the whole point of running the place as a fetid shitshow is to drive out longtime tenants and make sure the overpaying MR tenants keep on moving out. Maybe they want to make the whole place into a dorm/short-stay gig.
According to previous poster(s), none of your complaints really matter, because all tenants are "Rent Stabilized." And legalizing NYC casinos would solve all gov't. financial problems, just like OTB, Congestion Pricing, and legalizing marijuana were supposed to do....
I've been reading the Yelp reviews for Stuyvesant Town and they are terrible! Absolutely terrible! There is some Deb R (probably computer generated bot) who gives the same unhelpful answer to each review. This bot has replaced the Peter W bot.
It's hard to fathom how this place has nosedived from being one of the most sought-after and desirable places to live to being an overpriced slum. The place is shabby, the carpets are filthy and there is practically no maintenance staff. There is no Property Manager, just an incompetent young woman in her early thirties who used to work in Orlando (probably for Disney!) who does absolutely NOTHING that is of any use or benefit to residents.
We need a competent, professional Property Manager to bring this property up to par. It has really gone down the proverbial toilet.
This is what you originally posted:
"I can't imagine what her previous employment was. Probably a barmaid or waitress because she certainly doesn't have the qualifications (at any level) to run a place like this."
So how can you say "I can't imagine" and post this since you have a LinkedIn account and can see her previous employment history? Of course, like many other Beam Living managers, including our former CEO Rick Hayduk, she is from the hospitality industry. As has been posted here over and over again and even at some of the STPCV FB group pages, these people are not qualified to run a small city 110 address housing complex with at least 30,000 occupants and an age demo age from 1 week old to 90 years old. Stop the presses! BTW this hospitality industry management style is very popular now in NYC. See Governors Island and what they have done there. And the pending casino site issue on the property just south of the UN. And, sad to say and this has been noted, there is a sizable minority here who love this rube crap versus the sizable (and shrinking) minority who hate it. The majority here, including the students and just post college transient demo, could not give a shit. So let's move on. The TA has not been aggressive and seems rather lethargic on QOL issues here. So again, for the 10th time, when are the posters here going to form another STPCV tenants organization? IMO let the TA handled the HSTPA/RGB legal issues and that the other organization should be strictly devoted to QOL issues. BTW, it's been a private account forever but that Moms STPCV FB group page, from what I have heard, is very pro for Robert Vasquez's Carnival Cruise/DJ/movie/concert event agenda.
STR, are you following the infested/flooded/squalid bathrooms situations on the Tenants Inclusive Facebook? I really think we need the health inspectors to come in and condemn this "management." One of the worst situations is in a $4k+ apartment. The situation is worse than a disgusting tenement slum. I wish the press or media would come in and expose this place to the outside world. We need a new management because Beam is absolutely the very worst. It is even worse than Compass Rock and we all know that outfit was/is totally substandard.
OMG! The horror stories I see on the TA and non-TA Facebooks! Anybody thinking of renting here should do a little homework and find out how this bunch of grifters really treat the tenants, including the tenants who are paying VERY HIGH rents!
We really, really need a Tenants Association that will actually advocate for tenants. Who cares about the other outside atrocities if the tenants are being treated like shit? Nobody in their right mind stays here for long (apart from the long- term tenants who management is trying to kill, one way or the other). As far as quality of life and sensible, reasonable service goes - well, it just doesn't exist anymore.
The goons running this place are the dregs of the RE industry. Worse than slumlords. Well, they are certainly no better than slumlords, but we are not paying slum rent.
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