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Anonymous
4 years ago
Pros: The the location is ideal! Great views if your living on the top floors. Cons: My family live here & it’s been very scary, the neighborhood shootings since we are located near housing projects. Blood on the floors one morning scared are children. The building is not a luxury building & the construction is beyond belief. We were told they would be completed in 4-6 weeks, now it’s almost two years?! We are thinking of not reusing our lease. The winters we froze, constant water shut downs & now rodents, roaches due to all the demolishing. They announced the gym will be opened shortly?! They promised us this a year ago! Do we feel safe going there?! The elevators after two years are working & the dust & debris from the construction are irritating are children. It’s time to leave so our children feel safe. My husband was recently assaulted on the heritage plaza by a resident with a pit bull?! Why are these dangerous breeds living here! So disappointed in this complex. Advice to landlord: Please update to what you promised when we moved in? Gym? Lovely lobby, tighter security. A workable phone to the receptionist area & for them to announce when people are entering someone walked up to our apartment with us knowing? Creepy homeless guy! We have children! Please take this seriously! Water leaks mold in the lobby. Please help the property managers! They are overwhelmed!
Anonymous
4 years ago
Pros: The apartments are large, living room gets great sunlight, all apartments have more than one bathroom, newly renovated kitchens. Cons: Poor management. For example, we needed screens on our living room windows and the repair guys would come like once a month in an ~attempt~ to fix it and then just kept coming back every month pretending like they were working on it. This was never fixed throughout my one year lease. There are also definitely nice no matter which floor you’re on (we were seventh). Will not keep packages in the mail area. Also the bedroom windows are really weird and high. Advice to landlord: Don’t promote this as a luxury building. Be responsive to tenant work orders.
Anonymous
4 years ago
Pros: You live a block from Central Park in a secure building on top of a grocery store (score!) and with a train and bus stop around the corner. The apartments are all immaculate upon rental. Electricity was included. Cons: Close to unsafe areas in East Harlem with. Management company is unresponsive and when they do respond they are rather rude. They also detach themselves from any issue other than a minor maintenance or repair thing. “What exactly am I paying for” was a way too frequent question. Advice to landlord: Management companies shouldn’t treat tenants as a nuisance when they’re requesting services well within their contracts. Work elsewhere if it bothers you so!
Anonymous
4 years ago
Pros: It’s a high rise so no pest issues. Great large space that you really can’t get anywhere else for the location and price. Large windows and view of Central Park. Laundry is accessible in building if not in your unit. Doorman and never any package issues Cons: Management takes so long to respond and maintenance process is a drag. Pair more in rent towards a key fob and it broke the day it got installed and it was never fixed for a whole year… people would just hang outside the building so wouldn’t you want to fix the door? Advice to landlord: Please respond to y’all’s emails and these are things that affect your tenants day to day wellbeing…
Anonymous
5 years ago
Pros: Great location. Across from Central Park. Amazon lockers, laundry room. Cons: Carpet hallways that’s aren’t cleaned regularly. Weed smoking in the hallways and staircases. No amenities!! No bike parking, no gym, no outdoor seating, no doorman, no playground for kids, laundry room only has 5 good washers out of 20. Three huge apartment fires in recent years due to landlord negligence. Repairs aren’t done good. Constant renovations on empty apartments so lots of drilling and banging for years!! It’s never ending. Advice to landlord: At $3K a month, you should be offering your tenants so much more.
Anonymous
5 years ago
Pros: On the corner of Central Park. Cons: Over time we started to get little wood shavings falling down from our ceiling right above the front door, we hypothesized that a mouse was eating it’s way through the wall. This then led to an exterminator informing us “there’s a mouse highway above our door” that comes form the trash room in the basement and goes into the rest of the building. Eventually the mice succeeded and ate through a hole behind the dishwasher. For a few weeks I’d see on average about 5 mice a day, and they ate through all my Neoguri noodle packets 😔 we ended up borrowing a friends’ cat, Sherman, an excellent mouse hunter despite being a very fat cat. He slayed about 5 mice, and eventually I also set up live humane traps. Since we couldn’t “do the job” anytime I caught a mouse, I’d wrap it up in a plastic bag and let it go outside as we lived on the corner of Central Park. Oh then the next month, I had roaches flying down from above the kitchen cabinets. The more Raid you sprayed, the more they came. Plumbers discovered a huge pipe leak that created the perfect conditions for the dynamic duo of roaches and mice (not to mention black mould), so after tearing a massive hole in the wall, a swarm of roaches 🪳 had been let loose into the apartment. They tried to fix the pipe but the metal, being nearly a 100 year old building, would disintegrate at the touch. They did me a solid, filmed the situation. Sent it off to our landlords. Terminated the lease and didn’t pay our final month of rent. Got the **** out of there. Happy to provide any photos & videos. After those 4 months last year, I still jump at the sight of any movement, love having mouse PTSD. Advice to landlord: Don’t be such a dick. Repair your building like ACTUALLY repair it. None of this bandaid solution.
Anonymous
5 years ago
Pros: Nice neighbors Amazon lockbox Adjacent to Central Park Quiet Beautiful renovations and no pests if you can get a gut renovated unit Cons: Tenants smoke weed in stairwell and smell enters apt. Tenants smoke weed everywhere! It’s cold. Mgmt claims you can control heat, but it’s always cold in the winter. Thermostat claims it’s 70 in the apt but it feels like a cool 60. Advice to landlord: Don’t charge fair market rent when you know the quality of life isn’t ideal
Anonymous
5 years ago
Pros: Cheap, spacious and with nice views Cons: Poor administration, problematic neighbors and sometimes dirty. Advice to landlord: Improve maintenance, cleaning and better tenants selection
Anonymous
5 years ago
Pros: THE VIEW (oh lord, I lived on the top floor and my balcony overlooked Central Park, Harlem, and the UWS), the neighbors were all amazing and had lived there for years and took care of each other, super accessible to the rest of NY (close to the 6, right across the street from Central Park, and right next to major bus routes), the seamless game is STRONG Cons: The building went through major renovations the last few months that I lived there... this was a plus and minus. The purpose of the renovations was to cause enough change to apartments so the building could get rid of rent control (most of the people I lived around were amazing and had lived there for years) - the other side of this was that the place looks super new and modern. Also, the elevators tend to go out of service on occasion (bad, when you live on the 35th floor)... one time all went out and I had to walk up 35 floors Advice to landlord: All in all, I actually liked living here. I only moved to be closer to work and friends
Anonymous
5 years ago
Pros: View, space, la vecindad with the bodegas and all the amazing cultural offer of el barrio Cons: Always under construction, no public spaces Advice to landlord: Communicate better and improve public spaces