tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post295075343244294443..comments2024-03-19T04:15:46.480-04:00Comments on The Stuyvesant Town Report: Sunday, June 3Stuy Town Reporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05538426011607971633noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-89384754220412846032012-06-16T17:59:44.597-04:002012-06-16T17:59:44.597-04:00We have no water in this shithole tonight. They &q...We have no water in this shithole tonight. They "hope" to have it restored sometime tomorrow morning. Some of us actually have to get up early and go to work by 7:30 am. I hate this fucking place so much.<br /><br />I took my first "brown water shower" in a while last week. Things seemed to have gotten better then, BAM, Mud Truck shower. No choice. I had to deal with it. I thought that was all supposed to be fixed? Things were better for a while.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-86743733624374826002012-06-14T23:14:46.448-04:002012-06-14T23:14:46.448-04:00We have no water in this shithole tonight. They &...We have no water in this shithole tonight. They "hope" to have it restored sometime tomorrow morning. Some of us actually have to get up early and go to work by 7:30 am. I hate this fucking place so much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-22247655304417514682012-06-12T14:31:58.441-04:002012-06-12T14:31:58.441-04:00My comment about breeds was not defending or conde...My comment about breeds was not defending or condemning pit bulls, not my cup of tea, but that's me. As a rule, Labs, Retrievers, Setters, are better with people, etc. They will not meet the height or weight restrictions. Smaller dogs tend to be more defensive, constant barkers, and not sociable. Can management restrict to only blue eyes, physically fit, attractive tenants?Tommyboynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-14541222223567558922012-06-11T13:58:40.851-04:002012-06-11T13:58:40.851-04:00Hard to believe that at one time MetLife used to r...Hard to believe that at one time MetLife used to regularly win the "Best Landlord in New York" annual award because of how well the property was run. It was either the News or the Post that gave out that award. We were all proud of Stuyvesant Town then. Now, we cringe at the conditions are embarrassed to even bring friends here or tell people where we live.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-91013954469278301242012-06-11T11:59:13.814-04:002012-06-11T11:59:13.814-04:00'They don't have the manpower to keep the ...'They don't have the manpower to keep the recycling areas, hallways and stairwells clean as you can see by this disgusting new Flickr account.'<br /><br />OMG! I just viewed all these photos! They are horrible, but absolutely reflect the living conditions under the Rose Regime. They really must be put out there as a warning to prospective renters. I thought my recycling area was the only one that was bad, but I some are even worse, judging from these photographs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-71732145823295819612012-06-11T09:42:13.679-04:002012-06-11T09:42:13.679-04:00These photos are brought to you by a resident near...These photos are brought to you by a resident near you. We all have iron clad stomachs now!<br /><br />But if you have photos for the new Sty-Pen, Peter Pooper Flickr feed, send them to qol.photos@stpcvta.org.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-52474047164428553832012-06-10T22:42:17.160-04:002012-06-10T22:42:17.160-04:00Someone with a very strong stomach took those phot...Someone with a very strong stomach took those photos!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-65811238036748776692012-06-10T17:58:37.518-04:002012-06-10T17:58:37.518-04:00I suggest we put the photographs from the Flikr Ga...I suggest we put the photographs from the Flikr Gallery of Horrors on the Wiki website to counter Rose's outrageous claims and deceptive marketing strategy. Does anyone know how to do that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-27068320119657361282012-06-10T11:30:44.679-04:002012-06-10T11:30:44.679-04:00"To enforce the first dog rules here, you'..."To enforce the first dog rules here, you'd have to have Public Safety really out there, all over the complex, at early morning and late evening hours too. The commitment to do this, and possibly also the manpower, just wasn't there."<br /><br />What DO they have manpower for? They don't have the manpower to enforce the dog rules so they change them daily.<br /><br />They didn't have the manpower to enforce the bike rules so they changed those as well.<br /><br />They don't have the manpower to keep the recycling areas, hallways and stairwells clean as you can see by this <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/STPCV" rel="nofollow">disgusting new Flickr account</a>.<br /><br />Why does Rose Associates even bother showing up here each day for work??? I'm surprised they have the manpower to get out of bed in the morning!!!Marienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-21088419201939336502012-06-10T02:06:56.218-04:002012-06-10T02:06:56.218-04:00Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stuyvesant_O...Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stuyvesant_Oval.JPG<br /><br />We could all add to the Wikipedia page. You know, as a counterbalance to the b.s. Rose puts up on the official site.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-85018487667949852522012-06-09T23:24:53.369-04:002012-06-09T23:24:53.369-04:00Don't stress over the recycling! 99.9 percent...Don't stress over the recycling! 99.9 percent of it goes into the landfills. Do think Fuhrer Bloomie recycles? He cares so much about the environment he flies his chopper in and out of New York 11 or 12 times a day on weekends (when he isn't flying to Bermuda) and saturates the air in fumes and noise pollution! You think he washes his truffles and caviar tins? LOL!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-30904260592487988022012-06-09T22:54:13.973-04:002012-06-09T22:54:13.973-04:00http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stuyvesant_Oval....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stuyvesant_Oval.JPG<br /><br />That's great! LOL!Stuy Town Reporterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538426011607971633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-79957714633799121672012-06-09T22:23:23.890-04:002012-06-09T22:23:23.890-04:00Dear Stuy town Reporter
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...Dear Stuy town Reporter<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stuyvesant_Oval.JPGCaptain Terlet Berlhttp://terletfood.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-63859411318974056922012-06-09T21:42:27.344-04:002012-06-09T21:42:27.344-04:00Haven't been here in awhile but reviewing this...Haven't been here in awhile but reviewing this thread, all of us can see that we are a divided community. I have to sound so positive, but I think there will be opportunity to find common ground in the future if the g-d powers that be get off their complacent butts, settle Roberts & sell this placer to us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-33628929381317321012012-06-09T20:03:08.782-04:002012-06-09T20:03:08.782-04:008:15 am. Sounds like Rose employees are back on ...8:15 am. Sounds like Rose employees are back on the blog. Losers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-34266854896303551932012-06-09T18:21:40.959-04:002012-06-09T18:21:40.959-04:00>>On another note I would like to address th...>>On another note I would like to address the apologists for management in regard to the apparent sending out of a non-lease renewal form to a tenant on this blog who forgot to send back his renewal notice. In the past when this happened management would send out a letter indicating that they were entitled to know our intensions and that if we didn't already send it in to please do so. Now, apparently, we are getting non-renewal notices. As hard as this may be for some people to believe, it is possible to forget to do things. It's even easier for seniors to forget things. To me this development demonstrates a dramatic lack of class on the part of current management (if it is indeed true). 60 days or not, the sleaziness knows no bounds at the Stytown management office.<<<br /><br />I had something similar happen to me a couple of years ago. I either forgot or misplaced my renewal lease, and before time was up, I was reminded by management through a letter if I had sent in my renewal lease or if I was intending to move out.<br /><br />Yes, I think such courtesies should be extended. If they are not, it's obvious why. The value of an old rent-stabilized apartment is trumped by the value of a refurbished market-rate rent apartment.Stuy Town Reporterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538426011607971633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-38731017954994945272012-06-09T18:16:21.894-04:002012-06-09T18:16:21.894-04:00>>When Rose took over management duties they...>>When Rose took over management duties they at first maintained these rules, and then relinquished them as opposed to attempting to enforce them. This was a management decision and as Adam Rose is the boss, responsibility for this rests on his shoulders.<<<br /><br />They relinquished the rules because they were unenforceable. Tishman Speyer couldn't, or didn't, enforce them, either, as you state. To enforce the first dog rules here, you'd have to have Public Safety really out there, all over the complex, at early morning and late evening hours too. The commitment to do this, and possibly also the manpower, just wasn't there.Stuy Town Reporterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538426011607971633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-21560067412899328592012-06-09T16:14:05.491-04:002012-06-09T16:14:05.491-04:00I am like convinced that the like 20-somethings li...I am like convinced that the like 20-somethings living here are like either totally illiterate or like totally lacking in life awareness skills. I just saw a bunch of girls go to the like recycling room with like their like garbage and tip a big bag of like ugh stuff like on the like floor and like then like put a bag of [unwashed] bottles and like cans and juice containers and like other shit into the paper recycling bin. Like can't they like read or something? Fershure!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-11408096641357404942012-06-09T15:11:46.282-04:002012-06-09T15:11:46.282-04:00"I think you're being unduly harsh on Ros..."I think you're being unduly harsh on Rose Associates, though I understand your pain. Right now, they are fencing off areas to which dogs can't get to, and there's been a push, via Public Safety, to enforce the dog rules. No one will be able to solve the dog problem to everyone's satisfaction."<br /><br />I have to respectfully disagree with you STR. As you know, when Tishman Spyer first made the mistake of allowing dogs here they stipulated that they would not be allowed on the grassy areas of the complex. Signs were put up to that affect all over the property. Of course, they were ignored. When Rose took over management duties they at first maintained these rules, and then relinquished them as opposed to attempting to enforce them. This was a management decision and as Adam Rose is the boss, responsibility for this rests on his shoulders. Managerial incompetence does not let him off the hook any more than Tishman Spyer's incompetence let them off the hook for destroying a community.<br /><br />On another note I would like to address the apologists for management in regard to the apparent sending out of a non-lease renewal form to a tenant on this blog who forgot to send back his renewal notice. In the past when this happened management would send out a letter indicating that they were entitled to know our intensions and that if we didn't already send it in to please do so. Now, apparently, we are getting non-renewal notices. As hard as this may be for some people to believe, it is possible to forget to do things. It's even easier for seniors to forget things. To me this development demonstrates a dramatic lack of class on the part of current management (if it is indeed true). 60 days or not, the sleaziness knows no bounds at the Stytown management office.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-82852777668108970062012-06-09T15:08:28.186-04:002012-06-09T15:08:28.186-04:00Not us who were given termination letter!!!! hap...Not us who were given termination letter!!!! happening to dear friends of ours who have lived here for a long time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-34253733417801458462012-06-09T15:05:46.397-04:002012-06-09T15:05:46.397-04:00The latest in dog concierge services:
http://www.d...The latest in dog concierge services:<br />http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120609/upper-west-side/dog-concierge-service-coming-dozens-of-city-buildingsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-14250661731693958592012-06-09T14:53:45.680-04:002012-06-09T14:53:45.680-04:00"Indeed, all are RS, but the reality is that ..."Indeed, all are RS, but the reality is that these are market rate apartments."<br /><br />Unfortunately, this guy/gal is right. The RS laws only apply to increases to the "legal rent." Since they've been able to jack up the legal rent to levels that no one would reasonably pay, the annual increases to formerly "market rate" apartments are basically whatever the market will bear.<br /><br />At least the rest of us are still safe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-55193468658664085572012-06-09T13:33:56.431-04:002012-06-09T13:33:56.431-04:00@Anony 12.35 PM-Understood re the actual rent char...@Anony 12.35 PM-Understood re the actual rent charged due to churning, just wanted to highlight that, under RS, a tenant does have the right for a lease renewal. If RS goes, so does that right and many other RS rights (painting every 3 years, etc.) as well.<br /><br />@Anony 10.33 AM-I know, calling 311, it’s like spitting in the wind (again, Bloomberg’s world) but if nothing else, it provides an audit trail for possible future litigation. Speaking of that:<br /><br />The NYC Rent Stabilization Law of 1969 N.Y.C. Admin. Code Sections 26-501-26-520 (“Rent Stabilization Law”) No landlord, or any party acting on his behalf, may “interfere with the tenant’s privacy, comfort or quiet enjoyment of the apartment.”<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/11/realestate/q-a-meaning-of-quiet-enjoyment.html<br /><br />Now, as per the NY Time article:<br />“But while the warranty of habitability law has been applied to noise complaints, Mr. Ferrara said, the problem would have to be fairly severe to warrant a court's intervention.<br />''The law doesn't guarantee a perfect apartment,'' he said. ''And some judges have characterized noise as one of the 'penalties of modern society' and of urban living."<br /><br />See the rest of the NY Times article. In regard to this part of the RS law, it looks like the landlord has the better hand. Now if we had an elected official with some balls (sorry, Dan has moved on), we might go get some justice here once Bloomberg is gone. And if you are looking for a savior in Christine C. Quinn, dream on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-30745531823429898882012-06-09T13:15:58.130-04:002012-06-09T13:15:58.130-04:00STR, I think you are being unduly tolerant of Rose...STR, I think you are being unduly tolerant of Rose Associates, but that is your absolute right. Personally, I think they suck and are the most useless bunch of dopes since Tishman Speyer. It would be hard to find anyone actually worse than TS, but Rose is not much better. Of course, I mean managers in the class that they put themselves in. I'm not comparing them with the slumlords of Harlem, Bed-Stuy, etc., but they are certainly not a class act for a property like this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837176580996082182.post-63873412613166147942012-06-09T13:09:55.300-04:002012-06-09T13:09:55.300-04:00Can we get signs telling the fat college kids to k...Can we get signs telling the fat college kids to keep of the grass too ???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com