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No, STR. Nobody cares. Wonderboy Rick is only interested in generating profits and as a landlord Blackstone is just a rent collector. I think it's safe to say that we are now officially a slum. Discarded mattresses, piss and shit all over the place. Yup, we live in a slum. Thanks a lot Blackstone, DG, TA, DeB. Just what we wanted. We didn't get a condo conversion, but we did get a conversion of a different kind. From decent, clean, well-managed housing complex to stinking, filthy slum.
These loops are one big garbage dump making this community resemble a slum
In front of 448 e 20th street, directly across from the flag pole, for the past 3 day, around 3 pm, a ton of stuff is being thrown out. A TON. It now all dissapears the next day around 6:10am the next morning. Want to know why, management does not their tenants to witness this the next morning when they wake up to go to work. They are SOO sneaky in doing this! The problem is really big around here, and it continues. This place is a disgrace! Not fooling us whatsoever in your new tactic Rick! You can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all of the time! All is NOT well here!
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/nyregion/gains-for-new-york-and-a-real-estate-behemoth-in-the-stuyvesant-town-sale.html
"It is not often in the combative world of Manhattan apartment life that you find tenants or elected officials singing the praises of a landlord.
Yet that was exactly what happened at Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village on Tuesday, only hours after the Blackstone Group, a Wall Street behemoth, signed a contract to pay about $5.4 billion for Manhattan’s largest apartment complex, 11,232 units in buildings sprawled across 80 acres east of First Avenue, between 14th and 23rd Streets.
At a news conference underneath the London plane trees at Stuyvesant Town, Councilman Daniel R. Garodnick, a Democrat and a resident of Peter Cooper Village, said that tenants had found a “true partner” in Blackstone."
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Do any PCVST residents agree with Dan about Blackstone being our partner?
STR,forget mattresses.
At least they're left outside...most of the time.
Why not take a picture of the dog sh*t in the stairwells?
Send an email to Rick the Dick.
I'm sure he'll take care of it right away.
I must be delusional...lol
Jus' askin'...
Unfortunately, I can't forget any of the infractions.
I have decided to turn another leaf. I tried for a couple of months to also comment with photos "behind the scenes" in the hope that Management would listen. While they were good, I basically received the same excuses and deviations. Photos do not lie, and I took the time to query with photos and official postings. Nothing seemed to work. I have not seen this property look so messy and be so noisy. I see infractions of the rules continually. Perhaps it is just my mood, but I don't think so. And it is going to get worse. At least for the residents living along part of 14th Street. Maybe others. And then we have the ferries to consider and a "new" cove. And a new subway, once it gets finished. Good luck. New York City is changing, and it isn't for the better, though some things have changed in a positive way.
I'm tired of working, or trying to, behind the scenes. For the first time, I am seriously considering moving, but it will not happen soon, as I have many things to take care of, which take time. So, unless something happens to me, I should be around for a good, good while, and this blog will continue.
Ineptitude will generally win. Not all the time, but the deck is truly stacked against us.
For 70 years the north side of 14th Street was the "good side" of the block.
Not anymore.
And PCV was considered the jewel of the complex. Not anymore. And they are reworking those large PCV apartments to make the rooms smaller.
I was down on the LES today and walked by several NYCHA properties. They all, without exception, had grounds that are cleaner and pleasanter than the grounds here. This really and truly is a slum now and I somehow feel that it is being deliberately allowed to slide into a nasty slum. I don't know what the motive is, but there must be one.
As for the TA, if they send me a notice about renewing my membership, they will get a two-word response and it won't be Happy Birthday. They are deliberately turning a blind eye to what is going on here and that makes me think that they are in on something that the rest of us are not. If they are trying to get new tenants who have any sense of discernment and like their money to be well-spent, then they are going about it all the wrong way. If they are trying to empty the properties of permanent tenants and attract only extended-stay transients, then they are not even being very subtle about it.
Rick really is a dick. That's about the best that can be said for him.
"And PCV was considered the jewel of the complex. Not anymore. And they are reworking those large PCV apartments to make the rooms smaller."
I think they call them "cribs."
I feel for you STR and appreciate the work you do on this blog but you do know you're essentially 'pissing in the wind.'
By renting to many students who by their nature are temporary residents Blackstone knows they are less likely to complain because they won't be staying here long-term. The TA is pretty much useless as tenant advocates. Their membership will continue to dwindle as the old timers die off. The woman above me just died who was an old RS tenant predating me. I've been at my current apt for 28 years and lived in a different ST apt for 10 years prior to my current apt.
The days of Metlife are long gone. It will never return to the 'good ol' days.' One must accept this fact.
Living experiences here can be like night and day depending upon your apartment and building. Some tenants are surrounded by noisy neighbors while others live in relative peace and quiet. My apartment used to be very quiet because all my neighbors were respectful and if told they were too noisy they actually cared and did something about it. Things changed about 10 years ago when one of my neighbors died. Since then I have had periods of quiet and periods of a lot of noise. I don't deal with PS anymore for noise complaints. I talk to the neighbor. If they refuse to do anything about the noise then I fire my big loudspeakers at their wall or bang on the wall with a bat. That usually works!
One thing I can tell you is I will leave this place on my own terms. I grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx so it takes a lot to 'rattle my bones!'
BTW, Stuytown and PCV might look like the projects but they are far from it. Take it from someone who survived the real projects when New York was a true shithole!
Even though I can afford to move to other places and I might do it if I get too pissed off at New York it is hard to give up a $1500/month RS 1-bedroom apartment!
You only have one life and you deserve to be happy so if this place or New York in general doesn't suit you then it might be time to move on if it is financially feasible. I might take my own advice; time well tell.
revisiting the mosquito issue for a moment--the constant water irrigation is the culprit, I believe. It is truly like living in a rainforest here. NYC humidity already sky high, watering ups it even further--standing pools of water in soil and on sidewalk breed mosquitos.
there's no need for this. met life never did this--its just stupidity and waste.
Rick, if you're really planting crops that need to be watered 24/7, may I suggest perhaps PLANTING OTHER CROPS. there's no need for this constant watering. plenty of plants that can survive in humid NYC without it. or how bout just planting GRASS. that people can walk on. not jungle plants.
utter stupidity from Blackstone as usual
Do any PCVST residents agree with Dan about Blackstone being our partner?
I think he meant to say that Blackstone was going to make him a partner, once his finishes out the shitty job he has now. Would certainly explain a lot.
It sickens me when I recall how Garodnick and the other politicians fawned over Blackstone at the meeting introducing them. They could not stop sucking up to them. Boy, do they have egg on their faces now. Not one of them, Garodnick, kavannagh or Hoyle has the nerve to admit what a fiasco this deal was. Partners my foot. This management has turned this community into a slum. We have more garbage, more students and more churning than we ever had
Screw Dan Garodnick!
Do any PCVST residents agree with Dan about Blackstone being our partner?
I think he meant to say that Blackstone was going to make him a partner...
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Dan crafted lots and lots of $leaze options for himself.
He can be a highly successful lobbyist billing lots and lots of $$$$$ brokering air rights for billionaire predators casting dark shadows over NYC.
For chump change, and they are chumps, Dan molded his puppet TA Board into a corrupt revolving door greasing wheels for dishonest NYC politicians taking predatory $$$$$ and lobbyists feeding them predatory $$$$$ to rotate back and forth.
Dan sold himself and his office out to billionaire predator $leaze before his 1st term ended, but it was his Bloomberg sponsored unconstitutional 3rd term that killed us. He literally and figuratively guaranteed in writing for Blackstone a date certain final destruction of the same historic PCVST middle class community he was raised in and then betrayed.
No photo, but this morning there is a big chunk of unpicked dog shit on and near the manhole cover by the small guard booth at the Oval. Also, nearby, there is a cigar smoker who is stinking up the area far removed from where he is sitting with his dog. Shit and smell. Let's not forget the noise of the lawnmowers at the Oval grass area. So, a nice morning, but dog shit, cigar smell, and noisy lawnmowers. Another fine morning in Stuy Town.
Something to cheer somebody up:
http://rew-online.com/2017/04/12/report-rent-stabilized-stuy-town-tenants-see-highest-rent-hikes-in-the-city/
Blackstone needs to figure out a better way for the constant movers to dump trash. This method of dumping anywhere on the loops makes the place look like a slum. I guess that they really do not care one way or another. All in the name of Pig Sty Town.
It's really bad here, isn't it folks? We know exactly what's going on around here, and so does management. They don't care either. The reputation of this place is disgraceful. 14th street is a disaster.
Life in Stuy Town.
Should take some photos of the rent bill for 70% of us. Ever rising bullcrap and I can get our place cheaper than my renewal. Bunch of yahoos work for blackstone, dumb as bricks.
The dog shit is still there and not picked up. Over an hour at least. Many people passing by, even some who get their paycheck from Blackstone or Management. No one cares.
Where is the TA to address these issues? Where?
It's really ashame that nobody cares about anything anymore.
You'd only see this stuff years ago only if someone died. I'm embarrassed to live here.
That shit is still there, but getting much darker. Who knows? Perhaps it will be there for the Oval Office? Or will be removed by then?
Oh, and a woman sitting casually with her dog in the Oval Fountain area, where no dogs are allowed. No PS presence, of course.
STR, take a look at the Town and Village article on the hockey stick attack. Management states that 20th street isn't their property, so I guess that means they can't drive their golf carts and suvs on the perimeter sidewalks anymore!
Hi STR. Recently about two weeks ago I was carrying my small dog in my arms standing up and talking to my elderly neighbors who were sitting on a bench in the Oval Fountain area and a PS officer came over within 15 seconds and told me to move off the fountain patio.
It is embarrassing to live here unless you are a transient or student. The property is so scruffy and seedy looking with the discarded furniture and mattresses. Yuk!
>>Hi STR. Recently about two weeks ago I was carrying my small dog in my arms standing up and talking to my elderly neighbors who were sitting on a bench in the Oval Fountain area and a PS officer came over within 15 seconds and told me to move off the fountain patio.<<
Yes, if a PS officer is around, chances are that you will be asked to leave the Oval Fountain. It this case, however, there was no PS officer.
>>STR, take a look at the Town and Village article on the hockey stick attack. Management states that 20th street isn't their property, so I guess that means they can't drive their golf carts and suvs on the perimeter sidewalks anymore!<<
I was just looking at the post and comments on club car riding in ST and PCV. Sure enough, Stuy Town is not responsible for anything "beyond its borders" and sure enough their club cars are breaking the city law when the cars go beyond these borders, which they do all the time. This has been said to them (by me) and a smile and a shrug are what you will get. Management doesn't care.
Or to put it a different way: Even a lawsuit, unless there is a life involved, will not do much because they (Blackstone) can deal with the few dollars you may win.
Of course, the Stuy Town TA is different than one individual, but the Stuy Town TA also doesn't seem to care.
STR, expect NOTHING from the TA unless it is a request for dues! They are totally in bed with Management and will never go against them, except in a nominal wink and nod "victory" concerning an MCI. For that, we will get a 35 cents per room decrease IF we are lucky!
I too am embarrassed to live here and have visitors. The dumping of furniture and garbage add to the slimline appearance.
What a crock that Blackstone is. In their weekly bulletin e-mail they state that a lot of new residents have been moving in. No kidding, churn,churn,churn. Then they nicely request that tenants follow noise and carpet rules. Like that is going to change things around here in the Pig Sty.
What a SHITHOLE! No wonder they have to try to bribe tenants (the transient/dorm/kids) to bring in a friend. How could anyone do that to a friend.
"Hey Bestie, you wanna live in a shithole in a $3k coat closet, sharing the bathroom with at least 4 others (emergency amenities available (a/k/a the stairwell). Please sign up so that I can get a one-time $1k off of my $3k rent for my crib in the broom closet. I'll buy you a coffee at the 5 Turd E-Coli Cafe as a way of saying thank you."
STR, you ask "Does anyone care." Clearly, Wonderboy Rick doesn't care and this is all happening on his watch. Not a word from the TA, of course, but that ship sailed a long time ago. This has to be the most mismanaged property in the City of New York and it is shaping up to be the typical Blackstone story that has been repeated throughout the country. Buy a distressed property and run it into the ground. Bleed it and its tenants dry and keep the units churning so nobody stays long enough to really start bitching in a meaningful way.
http://nyp.st/2uV9KzV
Not on the property, but close enough that I figured it should get people in the neighborhood aware of. This city is certainly heading backwards...
August 17, 2017 at 9:07 AM
Solution? STOP RENTING TO THESE STUDENTS!
AND, The TA does not exist anymore, because they realize that they are POWERLESS!
It's every man for himself now. Abandon ship! What a shame.
Have a nice weekend everyone.
I don't mind students, as long as the rules are obeyed and the price of their apartment is not jacked up. Those two tend not to happen.
I also like the various young female attractions, which can be encouraging to any male over thirty.
As for the TA, I don't think one can assume they are viable.
I agree that the only solution is to keep rents stable and then they would not be renting to students and transients. Not going to happen as it is too profitable for Blackstone. Place will keep spiraling down into slum status
" don't mind students, as long as the rules are obeyed and the price of their apartment is not jacked up. Those two tend not to happen.
But since all 11,000 plus apartments here are currently under NYS RS law (almost all renovated apartments loose their NYS RS status effective 6/15/2020-NYC lottery apartments as well)) and students usually have a 1 year, 2 year lease at max, SPS, like CWC and TS before, will jack up the legal rent (no matter what the "market" rent is charged) to the max amount (this occurs 100% of the time) allowed under NYS RS law once the lease ends and the apartment is churned. This impacts affordable housing here (RGB % increases are impacted as well) and in NYC overall.
Tell me again how this is not a NYU dorm and pee on my leg & tell me ts raining, I stand a better chance of believing the later
I watched a truck with NYU Housing Services move furniture into 300 First Avenue the other day. Guess they don't feel the need to hide anymore. Everyone knows that "The Pig Sty" is just a campus now.
Can see moving trash in the loop out my window. It has been there over two hours. What a Pig Stuy this is. It will never change as long as they keep raising rents which forces them to rent to students and transients. The management is fine with this as long as they are raking in the cash. No solution to this problem
Dan the Man on the cover of T&V opening the stock exchange bell. Thought he had disappeared. He certainly has vanished from Pig Stuy Town. Another worthless politician and he has got to be running for something. I for one will not vote for him. He pushed this deal with the Blackstone devil and now has disappeared from sight as the community becomes a slum.
"http://nyp.st/2uV9KzV
Not on the property, but close enough that I figured it should get people in the neighborhood aware of. This city is certainly heading backwards..."
I witness that. I was waiting for a bus at Second Avenue and 14th Street when dozens of boys and young men came cycling north on Second. They ran into an SUV and then swarmed at it because the SUV had hit one of the bicycles and bent the wheel. The SUV was stuck in the middle of the crosswalk and couldn't get through when he had the light. When the SUV took off, many of them took off after it. I think it was some kind of gang because they were dressed in some sort of signature garb and many of them were carrying flags, though I couldn't say what kind of flag. Had a lot of stars on it, but it wasn't Old Glory. The guy who had his wheel bent wheeled the bicycle over to the sidewalk by KFC and was inspecting the damage. He wasn't so young - probably in his twenties.
UNBELIEVABLE!
Some clod brought his dog ONTO the Fitness Track ( Playground 7 ).
He tied up the dog to the fence and began to jog slowly around the track ( 500 laps to the mile...like a rat in a maze ).
The guy barely made it around once before Fido lifted his leg and took a leak.
At this point a lackey from Stuy Town ( oops, I mean, Fitness Consultant ) came over and told the fellow he had to remove the canine...which he did.
Too bad. A couple of more laps and the dog probably would have taken a massive dump on the track.
Now that would be a sight to see.
Only in Pig Stuy Town folks!
Headed over to the Five Turd eColi Pig Stuy Café for a yummy artisanal treat.
Anyone have any Kaopectate?
My stomach is rumbling.
I feel the Hershey squirts coming on.
Hey, weren't they once closed down by the Department of Health?
Hershey squirts guy loves to post here. Why? No one here is eating there. Really no point and not constructive.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/nyregion/gains-for-new-york-and-a-real-estate-behemoth-in-the-stuyvesant-town-sale.html
"Residents at the complex, a middle-class haven since 1947, have battled for the past nine years with recent owners and speculators over attempts to turn the complex into a luxury village by pushing out longtime residents and raising the rents.
Mr. Gray told the tenants that Blackstone was “humbled to be here and to have the opportunity to acquire Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village.”
“The uncertainty and turmoil that this complex has endured,” he added, “is definitively over.”
>>No one here is eating there. Really no point and not constructive.<<
A lot of people eat and drink beverages there.
I will have something later about that "hockey" attack--and also the bike attack the other day from a hoard of "kids"....
This morning I saw two suitcase rollers viewing a map of Pig Sty Town and searching for their air bnb. You cannot tell me that Blackstone is unaware of this. Perhaps the renting is so out of control that they just don't bother.
The city is going to the crapper again, and we have nobody to thank but our horrible Mayor DeBlasio. If I do much as see Marsh use the TA Facebook page to promote him, I will have to say something.
Management should be coming up with plans to prevent crime from coming in here, because the area around the property is getting really bad again. Just take a stroll on 14th street to see how close the trouble is getting...
https://town-village.com/2015/10/29/blackstone-addresses-tenants-concerns/
October 29, 2015
Blackstone addresses tenants’ concerns
Market raters bash deal, ask for insider priority on affordable apts.,
Blackstone says students have been top complaint of residents
Mayor Bill de Blasio popped by for a bit and spoke, as did U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, but the real star of the show wound up being Nadeem Meghji, senior managing director for Blackstone ... “We know that we are going to need to earn your trust,” he said ... He then added, “I’m honored and humbled to stand before you in this capacity.” ... “We intend to own the property for decades,” said Meghji. “We only wanted to be part of this if the solution was going to be embraced by tenants. For us to be successful, you have to be happy.”
"But not everyone was. One tenant, Tim Joyce, expressed his disgust with the fact that Blackstone’s CEO and chair Steve Schwarzman had once made a statement comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler over tax hikes. Meghji responded that Schwarzman has “publicly apologized” for that comment.
---[MUCH MORE IMPORTANT]--- Joyce also wanted to know why it was just the Tenants Association and not others who got to be informed of the terms of the deal, which preserves affordability for 5,000 units for 20 years, before it was signed.
“So you’ll do in 20 years what Tishman Speyer did in 10,” Joyce fumed."
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Joyce is 100% correct. The Blackstone deal 100% guaranteed, in writing, Speyer's dream raking in multiple billion dollar windfalls pushing our historic, middle class community out of PCVST will be 100% successfully realized by Blackstone.
Squandering away more than 5 years on a sham transaction, NYC Councilman Dan Garodnick, a life long PCVST resident, conspired with the Worst TA Board in NYC History to disgracefully betray all their 25,000 neighbors/constituents promoting their infamously secretive "tenant led purchase" that had no tenant support. Their phony, middle class unaffordable condo scam delivered EVERYTHING PCVST - the same multiple billion dollar windfalls Speyer tried and failed to snatch - for Brookfield, a $25 Million Speyer investor, and NOTHING for their PCVST neighbors/constituents that they didn't already have - eroding RS legislation.
Garodnick and Steinberg completely botched their disgraceful 5-year conniving scheme to ensure our incredibly conflicted TA Board's business partner Brookfield would successfully rake in greedy Speyer's lost billions. Then instead, without hesitation and without informing us (nothing new about that), very quickly surrendered our homes to Blackstone after they were bitch slapped by Mayor de Blasio taking Blackstone graft $$$$$. During the "We Betrayed You For Blackstone" media show, both Garodnick and Steinberg could only basically mutter, "It could have been worse."
The following politicians, all elected to protect 25,000 PCVST residents against REBNY/Wall Street predators like Speyer, BlackRock, Fortress, Moelis, Brookfield and Blackstone, attended the show, simultaneously sucking up to Blackstone while betraying all of us for Blackstone $$$$$:
Assembly Member Brian Kavanagh, Blackstone senior managing director Nadeem Meghji, Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been, Congress Member Carolyn Maloney, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, Council Member Dan Garodnick and ST-PCV Tenants Association President Susan Steinberg listen as Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks.
Always remember their names.
>>This morning I saw two suitcase rollers viewing a map of Pig Sty Town and searching for their air bnb. You cannot tell me that Blackstone is unaware of this. Perhaps the renting is so out of control that they just don't bother.<<
Very easy to take care of this. Have newbies register with PS or Management. One of the few questions: which tenant has you as their "guest". After a few months, the landlord will have a nice list of people who are using AirBnb to make a buck.
Of course, this requires more work and workers, but it can be done.
1:33pm, great post! Probably one of the best and most informative I've seen. STR, maybe it's time you remind the masses of the things in this post?
Four move-ins/move-outs taking place in 7PCR today at once. Four. And it's only August 19! Way to go Rick...
Exactly, management can screen the suitcase rollers but chooses not to. Registering with the office is a no brainer but Blackstone does not care about illegal and transient tenants. It fills their coffers and that is all they are concerned with as this place evolves into a slum
four peter cooper huge piles rolling in suitcases this morning as we were playing tennis in front of that building.
>>STR, maybe it's time you remind the masses of the things in this post?<<
They can read and agree or disagree with the post. But I do well remember the praise heaped on Blackstone, outside when the deed was official, and inside at the tenants' meeting.
Regarding the two attacks. We know that the hockey one is not "kids" from here, so outside "kids" are the suspects, and outside "kids" on bikes are involved in the other incident. As nothing much is mentioned about these "kids" (and I'm putting kids in quotes because if you do the crime, whatever it is, you are not a kid in my book and don't deserve protection), then there is the good possibility that the "kids" are from two nearby areas--and both areas are not predominantly Amish.
Seen by me the other day and a host of other residents, including a PS officer who was quick to phone, a group of black "kids" on Citibikes pedaling wild in the Oval before they made their exit. Take that to the bank for that "incident."
There were a group of about 10 non-PCVST teens riding their bikes near Playground 9 earlier this evening. They were absolutely looking for trouble, and security saw them and continued on their way, instead of checking things out. Hopefully they did not find any trouble.
This is DeBlasio's NYC for you. If Blackstone cares about their investment (this property), they should be very concerned with what's happening in the surrounding vicinity. It will absolutely decrease the value if they can't protect their tenants.
The whole complex has gotten overrun with outside teenagers/college age "young men," perhaps we should call them--from outside who don't live here, hanging around esp. fri sat sunday nights, in the places with no streetlights behind playgrounds, on main, etc.
These people need to be kicked out, stat.
I'm not using coded language here, the "kids" I see seem to be white/latino or something, idk. This is not a racial issue, from my perspective, it's these young men with nothing better to do who come on to the property and potentially start committing crimes, like the young man who came in from new jersey and attempted to rape and murder a resident.
public "safety" does nothing. I walked around on a weekend night, saw plenty of people of this description hanging around, making lewd comments to passersby at times, smoking pot, drinking, public "safety" nowhere in sight, of course.
the only thing public "safety" does is try watch for finable infractions and ways to evict RS.
I got over to YELP las night to finally read reviews. They are terrible, mostly of noise complaints. It is baffling to us that stuy Pcv would not fix this, it would cost less than the shit looking floral they plant over and over. I have t hear my neighbors sex screaming every fucking night, every night and my ten year old daughter too. What what what to do? FIX THE FLOORS STUY FIX THE WALLS. ADD ANOTHER LAYER YOUMOFO WHORES.
Took a stroll down 14th street last night around 10pm, from 3rd Avenue to Avenue B. Seen along my walk:
2 Trans prostitutes
A group of 5 drug users, actively using between 1st and 2nd
Another guy shooting up on A, on the Stuy side
18 homeless people
"on Citibikes pedaling "
I saw a "flash mob" of these "kids" last year in the 14th Street loop and they then went into the Oval. This year I saw them on First Ave around 21st Street taking over the entire width of First Ave with a NYPD car following them. I think your ID bike type is not correct, they were riding BMX bikes, no self respecting hood would ride a Shitibike.
It is interesting how Peter Stuyvesant on their site is now posting articles and photo s critical of Blackstone yet not doing anything about it. Useless.
Could not get into my elevator today because of a huge oversized dog.
PS are undermanned and unarmed. They are scared of these gangs of trouble who come on the property, especially those on bicycles. WE HAVE NO SECURITY. NONE WHATSOEVER. Y'ALL HEAR THAT MOMS AND DADS OUT THERE WHO THINK THEIR PRECIOUS SNOWFLAKES ARE COMING TO A SAFE AND CLEAN DORM. THIS PLACE IS A SLUM AND A DANGEROUS SLUM TO BOOT.
DO NOT BELIEVE MANAGEMENT'S LIES.
I would like to put that on Yelp.
Today seen right in the middle of the sidewalk, a big uncovered dirty mattress blocking pedestrians. What a Pig Stuy Town this is. Blackstone ought to be ashamed of itself for turning this community into a dirty dorm hotel dump
Where in Boca did Rick work? Was it a resort or housing project? He doesn't seem to be fazed by the sluminess of this dump. In fact, he seems to be oblivious to it. That makes me wonder if he worked at one of Blackstone's properties that they bought up because it was distressed, but it wasn't necessarily an "upscale" place. Maybe Rick worked at one of the trailer parks that Blackstone purchased when it (the trailer park) was on the point of insolvency. Rick seems to be totally in sync with trailer park ambience.
As long as Rick and company take in the money they will continue to drive this property into the ground
Rick likes that we are mostly over paying - 70%+ now.so yeah,. why should he not?
Funny how the new lovely stove and other appliances are really just total crap. We should let prospective tenants know before they rent here. M wife and I will break lease next week. Fed up with the fucked up losers here.
@ August 19, 2017 at 1:33 PM
"https://town-village.com/2015/10/29/blackstone-addresses-tenants-concerns/
October 29, 2015
Blackstone addresses tenants’ concerns
...Squandering away more than 5 years on a sham transaction, NYC Councilman Dan Garodnick, a life long PCVST resident, conspired with the Worst TA Board in NYC History to disgracefully betray all their 25,000 neighbors/constituents promoting their infamously secretive "tenant led purchase" that had no tenant support. Their phony, middle class unaffordable condo scam delivered EVERYTHING PCVST - the same multiple billion dollar windfalls Speyer tried and failed to snatch - for Brookfield, a $25 Million Speyer investor, and NOTHING for their PCVST neighbors/constituents that they didn't already have - eroding RS legislation..."
Add this to the concluding sentence - eroding RS legislation conveniently for dishonest NYC politicians held hostage by the corrupt swamp in Albany overlorded by Garodnick's mentor Governor Cuomo.
There's a post on the TA fb page that there are some "stop work" orders on a major renovation in PCV. No permits were given for the project. Maybe Blackstone is behind in its bribes to DOB.
Anonymous Edmund Dunn said...
" don't mind students, as long as the rules are obeyed and the price of their apartment is not jacked up. Those two tend not to happen.
But since all 11,000 plus apartments here are currently under NYS RS law (almost all renovated apartments loose their NYS RS status effective 6/15/2020-NYC lottery apartments as well)) and students usually have a 1 year, 2 year lease at max, SPS, like CWC and TS before, will jack up the legal rent (no matter what the "market" rent is charged) to the max amount (this occurs 100% of the time) allowed under NYS RS law once the lease ends and the apartment is churned. This impacts affordable housing here (RGB % increases are impacted as well) and in NYC overall.
August 18, 2017 at 1:13 PM\
Aren't you the great defender of the TA? Aren't they culpable here? Have you called them out on their hypocrisy?
Forget the "affordable" apartments... With buildings like this, perhaps it is time to move out of the city.
http://streeteasy.com/blog/via-57-west-affordable-units-lottery-open/
Rick sent out an e-mail apologizing for work done without permits. Not covering their asses? He needs to apologize for the slum like conditions here
This is serious but, as I personally found out, Management doesn't really care:
From the TA Facebook, the start:
"Intriguing development. A Stop Work order, citing 'work being done in a dangerous or unsafe manner' has been issued by NYC Buildings Dept for the PCV apt attached to mine (bedroom & bathroom). For the past few weeks I have been living with the noise nightmare as the apt gets reconfigured. It seems to me that the noise has been worse than the previous renovations I've lived through. To reconfigure a one bedroom, the old kitchen became a second bedroom. A new kitchen has been created in the living room and supposedly a wall had to be removed/moved. Any ideas what could be dangerous and unsafe."
Part of another post:
"But, to summarize: Electrical work without permit, plumbing work without permit, wall construction without permit."
A response from "Peter Stuyvesant":
"The TA is releasing the following statement: When tenants reported to the Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association that no permits had been posted for certain apartment reconfigurations underway in Peter Cooper Village, the TA pursued the issue with the Department of Buildings, City Council Member Dan Garodnick, and management. The DOB deputy commissioner confirmed that permits were needed for each unit being reconfigured and work should not be performed without permits unless they were both obtained and posted.
On Friday, August 18, DOB inspectors came to six Peter Cooper Village buildings to review units that had no permits. The inspectors ultimately issued 15 violations for five units (electrical, plumbing, and general) as well as four stop-work orders. The violations carry fines.
In the follow-up with management, the TA was told that, unknown to StuyTown Property Services, the Construction Manager started work on several units before permits were issued and neglected to notify SPS. SPS conferred with its reconfiguration consultant team to determine what had happened.
When the violations are 'cured' and permits issued and posted, work will resume.
Council Member Dan Garodnick commented: 'Thank you to the Tenants Association for their keen eye and advocacy on this, and to the DOB for responding to our request for an investigation. We expect management to play by the rules, and regardless of how they allowed this to happen, they to need deliver on their commitment to correct this practice immediately.'"
As I had previously said, I don't think that this lack of DOB posted filings is anything new. I have been fighting this FOR WEEKS in my own building here in Stuy Town. And, it seems that the StuyTown Property Services and/or Rick, the General Manager, is aware of the problem, but is swift in making, what else?, excuses. The TA message and Garodnick's are BULLSHIT, as they do not know that this lack of proper filing is not posted as it should be NOT JUST FOR THIS INCIDENT. Wake up! Blackstone rams on because they know they can. Fuck the DOB. Blackstone owns this place.
So we are made to believe that Blackstone and Company is all innocent here and that: "the Construction Manager started work on several units before permits were issued and neglected to notify SPS." This after such new work has been a MAJOR news item in the Stuy Town area for weeks? How come everyone is oh-so innocent, except the "Construction Manager"?
Garodnick and the TA make me vomit. They are such a bunch of liars and crooks. They care not one iota for the safety and wellbeing of the tenants.
There should be a criminal probe into Blackstone's egregious safety violations.
And...again I have seen those "golf carts" on NYC sidewalks (not Blackstone property we are told) and going outside while crossing 20 Street (not on Blackstone property again)....
And ask yourselves: How much are those fines? Then ask yourselves to compare those fines with the asking price of the apartments in question? Do you think Blackstone is crying?
Now a different take:
>>Dear Residents of PCVST,
To renovate apartments, the Department of Buildings requires landlords to have active permits in place. It came to our attention late last week that StuyTown Property Services began work on five apartments without the proper permits due to an administrative and communication error. Upon notification of the lapse, work on the five impacted units was stopped and will not begin until proper permits are in place.
It is important that the community know StuyTown Property Services’ position on how we aim to serve the residents of PCVST and work with the City of New York. We are very disappointed that this situation occurred and are taking appropriate steps to ensure it does not happen again.
Should anyone have any thoughts or concerns, I will do my best to address them quickly.
Respectfully,
Rick Hayduk
CEO | General Manage<<
What happened to the "Construction Manager"?
Also what happened to the visit from the DOB and the fines?
Also what happened to the visit from the DOB and the fines?
Oh, I think you misunderstood. What he meant to say is that after the DOB showed up, management, um.. "consulted privately" with the inspectors, who then advised everything was fine.
All of the churning and renovating is designed to expand dorm and hotel apartments. They need to shut it down completely. Rick Hayduk and Dan Garodnick's statements were sickening
Yikes! These people are so damned sleazy! Rick, DOB, Garodnick, TA, all slimy sleazy bottom-feeders.
"Aren't you the great defender of the TA? Aren't they culpable here? Have you called them out on their hypocrisy?"
When you have the balls to put your real name on a post here, I'll respond.
Plain and simple, management got caught trying to pull an illegal fast one. Since they were already busted, they gave Dan and the TA the green light to issue a statement against the stop work orders. Otherwise we all know that Dan doesn't speak up against REBNY or Blackstone, and the TA just follows Dans lead.
I could excuse the Tenants Association if they were simply weak, incompetent and impotent. However, their self-serving, profoundly dishonest reaction to the DOB illegal renovation scandal is truly appalling.
The two-faced response by Disappearing Danny Boy Garodnick and Bikini Babe Susan Steinberg is chilling.
Thank goodness Danny will be gone at the end of the year.
And when DA Cyrus Vance finally gets around to auditing the TA's books, their "leadership" may be going on a long vacation to Rikers Island.
Vile, corrupt, dishonest.
I'm not wishing Rikers, but I will have a new front page post about this fiasco. In the space of hours, we heard different things from different officials. I think from where I'm looking that pulling "a fast one" is probably closer to the truth, but this fiasco will not be hidden. Sorry.
I am seeing more and more mattresses and suitcases moving in and out. No furniture. These appear to be air bnbtype rentals. I have seen about five thus past week. This place is a real crap house. These move outs were just in my building alone.
So many air banners coming directly from the airport. You cannot tell me that management is helpless against this. They are aiding and abetting it. Otherwise they would have these suit case rollers register. Another day in Pig Stuy Town. Although our previous owners were bad , I have never seen the status of the property so bad as it is now--more students, garbage, airbnbers than ever,.
It is total bullshit for Management to say they were unaware of the lack of permits. If you look at the City website they have a history of this kind of dishonesty. The TA, Blackstone and Garodnick huddled together very quickly to try to varnish over the "mistake." What a bunch of slimy lowlifes they all are.
They have to churn. Damn the city rules. They must get awards or at least pats on the back for the amount of apartments that are turned over. Illegal activity? So what? Give me the small fine and let me churn some more--and quick, too. Noise? Fumes? So what? The tenants can suck it all up.
And I do not care how much they deny it, management is working with the city on City subsidized apartments here.
I know it's off-topic, but does anyone know if Barry Shapiro is still running for City Council? We are swamped with Keith Powers' glossy blurb and annoying door-bell rings, but I haven't seen anything lately about Shapiro. I am only going to schlep to the primary election to vote for him (if he is still running) and Sal Albanese.
"'m not wishing Rikers, but I will have a new front page post about this fiasco. In the space of hours, we heard different things from different officials. I think from where I'm looking that pulling "a fast one" is probably closer to the truth, but this fiasco will not be hidden. Sorry."
If nothing else, this is a major fail of the SPS property managers, many who came over from CWC and even TS. They are worst than useless.
I would love to see the Engineers report regarding the removal of walls in these newly configured apartments. I doubt they are load bearing walls (I seriously hope their not load bearing walls), but I'd be curious to see how many wall removals they can do in a line of apartments from M-14 before something seriously crumbles. I worry that we will find out sooner rather than later, and it will be catastrophic.
I've just been reading some of the recent Yelp reviews. People have terrible experiences (including one lady who had a neighbor who hoarded dead cats and Management wouldn't do anything about the stench and flies until somebody called the City!) and that asinine Peter W writes the most nonsensical crap replies. Instead of addressing the dead cat stench that lingers in her apartment, Peter W glowed that she liked the friendly community here! You can't make this stuff up! I am actually beginning to miss CWC and Compass Rock because Blackstone has proven to be the worst of the worst.
This is the shit company that the TA, DeBlasio, Garodnick and the rest of the sordid crew of politicians tried to tell us was nothing short of Divine Deliverance itself! I will never ever vote for any of these despicable politicians no matter who they are running against, including Satan himself. As for the TA, I suspect that they are nothing more than paid toe-rags for Management. They should be forced to open their books and then be disbanded.
>>I know it's off-topic, but does anyone know if Barry Shapiro is still running for City Council<<
As far as I know, he is running and made "the cut"....
"And I do not care how much they deny it, management is working with the city on City subsidized apartments here."
I believe you. The TA, Garodnick and DeBlasio did a deal with the Devil. a/k/a Blackstone. I have nothing against City subsidized tenants so long as they behave like civilized human beings, which is more than you can say for most of the students dorming here, but there is so much underhanded dirty dealing going on with the above-mentioned major players.
....As far as I know, he is running and made "the cut"....
GREAT! I hope he wins. He seems like the only candidate who has a scrap of decency. Powers is a former lobbyist and is obviously well-funded because his campaigning and in-your-face. I suspect he would be another Garodnick and we don't need that!
>> Anonymous Edmund Dunn said...
"Aren't you the great defender of the TA? <<
I've never considered Edmund a great defender of the TA. Sure, he posts there, but unless I'm missing something, his posts are just a link to facts that can be opposite of what some what to hear.
@1:38 PM I have the exact same fear. I hear so much drilling, jackhammering, sawing and hammering as they do renovations all over the property. The entire property is a construction site and these buildings were not built to withstand all the assault and battery that they are getting. Blackstone doesn't care about human life in any way whatsoever. They don't care about safety, quality of life or any other aspect of human life except to bleed the most cash out of it. There is something almost Satanic about the company.
Since I don't have balls your comment is beyond stupid. Using you real name is not brave just stupid. So you get 2 stupids for your one post. Congrats!
Just got a Barry Shapiro flyer on my door. Definitely going to vote for him. I think he's the only decent one of the bunch.
I'm very surprised to see (on the Stuy Town Tenants page -not the TA) a woman who fights for this community to be defending the TA for their "fight" against these stop order permits. The only reason anything was said was because tenants fought management, not the TA. I was one of them... went directly to DOB, not management or the TA.
Just to reiterate again (and again), this blog is anonymous on purpose. If one wishes not to be anonymous, one can easily use one's name. The main reason for its anonymous nature is to let people comment without fear of reprisal. This reprisal could be a mistaken notion on the part of a poster, but it is the way I run things. I do not, however, speak for anyone who comments, and have refused to let a comment through that went beyond "the pale," though I can make mistakes, too, and have let through comments that I later regret. I am only responsible, truly responsible, for my comments and the photos that I take. I can't make it plainer than that.
4:35 PM >>>> We all know that the TA does absolutely NOTHING except jump on the band wagon after tenants have done their job for them. Of course, not to be left out, Slimy Dan jumps on the band wagon with them. If tenants didn't fight for their right to a healthy and safe environment (something Blackstone doesn't believe we are entitled to) nothing would ever come to light. Notifying the TA of any violation is light pissing into the wind.
As to the TA, I consider it, and Dan, both worthless. The TA has particularly disappointed me, and I have proof. We (the residents) also don't need the TA to agree (when did they lead?) about noise. We know this place can be noisy. That's what a bunch of us have been arguing with Management about. The fact that the TA will try to claim that they were there first is insulting, and their cheering section is misguided big time. Sorry, no dues from me. And Dan... forget about him.
>>I'm very surprised to see (on the Stuy Town Tenants page -not the TA) a woman who fights for this community to be defending the TA for their "fight" against these stop order permits. The only reason anything was said was because tenants fought management, not the TA. I was one of them... went directly to DOB, not management or the TA.<<
It the TA wanted to, they could take photos of the various infractions of "the rules" and post them on their Facebook and website. When was the last time you saw that???
Perhaps someone official from the TA can get off their ass and take photos and show us?
Why can't tenants get a new TA or form a new one?
"Since I don't have balls"
It's a metaphor. dumbo.
Metaphor-noun
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
synonyms:-figure of speech, image, trope, analogy, comparison, symbol, word painting/picture
a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract.
From the STR:
"never considered Edmund a great defender of the TA. Sure, he posts there, but unless I'm missing something, his posts are just a link to facts that can be opposite of what some what to hear."
Checkmate. Busted.
BTW, here's my post again. In your infinite wisdom, where am I wrong in my post? BTW, we are where we are (vacancy decontrol) due to Patiki/Bruno in 1997, not the TA, current or past. Who did you vote for back in those times if you were here back then? ? And the figure of 25,000 tenants/occupants in PCVST quoted at this blog is very obsolete. Even CWC admitted to 30,000 a couple of years ago. I'd say we are close to 35,000 right now.
From the STR:
"don't mind students, as long as the rules are obeyed and the price of their apartment is not jacked up. Those two tend not to happen."
From me:
"But since all 11,000 plus apartments here are currently under NYS RS law (almost all renovated apartments loose their NYS RS status effective 6/15/2020-NYC lottery apartments as well)) and students usually have a 1 year, 2 year lease at max, SPS, like CWC and TS before, will jack up the legal rent (no matter what the "market" rent is charged) to the max amount (this occurs 100% of the time) allowed under NYS RS law once the lease ends and the apartment is churned. This impacts affordable housing here (RGB % increases are impacted as well) and in NYC overall."
I've called the 13th precinct about the golf carts on non-Blackstone property, and they told me they are aware of the situation and figuring out how to handle. I take that with a grain of salt.
I plan on attending the next precinct community meeting to further this discussion. Blackstone can't continue to get away with this flip flop crap regarding what's theirs and what's not based on the situation.
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