Tenant Reviews for 1186 B'WAY

I happened to stumble upon this site and found this.I used to live at the Breslin many years ago.We had a doorman and the lobby was only for tenants.The rent was the cheapest ever and I never had a problem with the management.The bathroom toilet clogging up by another tenant got out of hand once and sometimes the noise was uncalled for at odd times but that's New York City.I never had a package stolen but I see a lot has changed.I don't know what the heck a store is there for but when I was there I recommended this place to others.I guess if your just looking for something temporary to get you from one place to another then this is ok.But I wouldn't recommend it as anything more permanent than that.

there are plusses and minuses to the building. pros: 1. very cheap housing 2. a good location 3. quiet at night 4. very close to the n/r train cons: 1.the area - its surrounded by discount and wholesale stores and they all sell basketball jerseys and other ------ clothing items. this in turn brings the grossest clientele during the daytime into the area. 2. some of the less expensive places have shared bathrooms 3. the streets are FULL of garbage at night from the days sales before. bottom line, if your looking for posh digs youd better shell out the 2K to live a few blocks over. if your broke and $700 or $800 a month is all you can afford for your own place (and you dont want to live in inwood) this is the place for you.

Another person's review must be challenged: <br><br>The Breslin is a God-send for people who are serious about work or school <br><br>>> More like a ----- send. I was in school while working and it was a nightmare. The neighbors were loud, doormen unfriendly and neighborhood horribly crowded with thugs. <br><br>>>Affordable? I paid at Breslin a little less than what I pay now at a luxury building in Midtown. <br><br>What am I grateful for about this place?<br>I am grateful for:<br><br>-safe, affordable housing<br><br>>> Far from safe. Anyone can enter the building from the street. Homeless people live in empty apartments. A drug addict was caught several times roaming halfway naked. People come in from the rat-infested freight area and roam freely, unmonitored. <br><br>-nice neighbors in the building<br><br>>> Some are. Some are prostitutes, drug dealers, and illegals who don't complain because they fear immigration. The good ones cannot co-exist with the uncivilized, so we move. <br><br>-24 hour security<br><br>>> NOT!!!!!!! The so-called security consists of men who sleep on the job, slump with their backs to the door and watch TV, leave to chase attractive residents and let tenants sit in the 'security' booth. Many also do not speak English, so when there's an emergency they cannot communicate with firemen, policemen or residents. The 'security' booth is a hang-out spot. <br><br>-doorman to accept deliveries<br><br>>> True. They are good package takers. <br><br>-laundry room in basement<br><br>>> If you can get to it. The 2 elevators to the laundry facility are often broken. It's also filthy. Consider the fact that the general public can come and go at Breslin without supervision. Do you really want to be in a basement without windows and a camera that's broken and/or that no one watches? Take your cell with you!<br><br>-a manager who does his best with what he has, works very hard and is a very nice man.<br><br>>> The management nicely says whatever you want to hear so that you will shut up. <br><br>-convenience store on premises run by nice people<br><br>>> ...that attracts people from the street who can then roam throughout the building and harass tenants as they did me. <br><br>-quiet neighborhood at night<br><br>>> Full of garbage on the sidewalks left by people who shop at wholesale dealers during the day. In the morning it's full of pigeons picking at trash. My friends feared the area at night. <br><br>During the blackout they did a good job caring for elderly residents. That's all.

The Breslin is a God-send for people who are serious about work or school and need an affordable place to live. Prime location, very reasonable rents, etc.<br><br>What am I grateful for about this place?<br>I am grateful for:<br><br>-safe, affordable housing<br>-nice neighbors in the building<br>-24 hour security<br>-doorman to accept deliveries<br>-laundry room in basement<br>-a manager who does his best with what he has, works very hard and is a very nice man.<br>-convenience store on premises run by nice people<br>-quiet neighborhood at night<br><br>I will never, ever forget the way this place ran during the infamous black out a few years ago. The people who work here did not abandon us, they were here around the clock, along with management.<br>They were going around making sure that there were no lit candles that were unattended, checking up on the disabled tenants, and just keeping us feeling safe.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

just to state the truth, i was lucky to find a good deal in the beginning only paying about 1000 a month after a heavy brokers fee......however my apartment was flooded with sewage more than 5 times and the building did have a very government project....piss stained and ghettofied atmosphere once one got past the impressive lobby. my apartment was cute and cozy but the sewage flooding under my door monthly was not enough to keep me there. the management was also very unprofessional and typical lie through your teeth type people who took there time even in the most important emergencies ( as in everything i own has been flooded with my neighbors toilet...) case in point: you can move there its conveinent but you take the chance.

Imagine yourself in my shoes. You are coming home from a hard day at work so that you can pay your almost $1,200 rent. You go to the lobby store that used to be for tenants but is now for the general public. <br><br>Inside, a saggy-pants youth with a skull cap looks you up and down, and then follows you to your elevator, making sexual comments. <br><br>You look for protection from security, but security (the doorman) is busy watching TV, sunken down in a chair so low that he cannot even see who is coming or going. <br><br>For your own safety you wait for the stranger to leave instead of going to your apartment for fear of being followed further. <br><br>You confront the doorman who tells you that non-residents have a right to be there because they are patronizing the store or using the lobby restroom. In reality, they are not monitored and can roam freely past the restrooms or store. <br><br>You wonder how there can be such relaxed security when the area of Broadway and 29th is the site of a recent shooting and so much crime that police are monitoring it and plan to install crime cameras there. <br><br><br>You talk to management but get pacifying answers just to shut you up. You realize that the building you moved into years ago is now being run by people without class who don't care and have run an otherwise nice Manhattan apartment complex into a public housing-like environment. <br><br>If that appeals to you, move to Broadway Breslin. Me? I'm moving the hell out!