Tenant Reviews for 225 RECTOR PLACE

Under new management (no longer part of Related Rentals), the building has gone from average to below average. Under the new management, heat is non-existant. Expect to pay high $ for your own heating during the winter months. For the higher than average rental price of a Manhattan "luxury" apartment, you can certainly find a better luxury apartment elsewhere in the city. The Doormen are more concerned with their personal phone calls, personal convesations with other staff members or reading their paper, leading to a huge security concern. The doormen are rude 11 months of the year. December is an exception because of the pending holiday tips. At least one of the three elevators is usually out of service. Average elevator wait time is about 5 - 7 minutes. The new management does not communicate anything in advance (change is building ownership, service issues, etc) and typically waits until 24 hours prior to a change to post a notice. I am puzzled by the positive reviews posted about Parc Place, espeically the comments of it being a quite building because you can very easily hear your neighbors. So be friendly with your neighbors, because they hear everything that you do too :) Noise is a big problem at Parc Place especially since many of the apartments are "Corporate Apartments" and the tennants are short-term tennants (1 week - 3 months). These short-term tennants typically could care less about you or the building and tend to do as they please. Management does not care or respond to complaints so the Corporate tennants tend to be VERY noisey and discourteous. Garbage by these tennants often tends to be dumped in the recycle bins rather than the garbage drop and stays in the bins for up to 24 hours leading to the hallways being very smelly. The gym is full of old equipment. ONE good thing is that many of the longer term tennants are very friendly. However, many of these long term tennants have now moved due to issues with the new management, lack of communications, lack of services, etc. The building is scheduled to go coop in July 2006, but this has not yet been communicated to the tennants. Shame on management. The only reason I moved to Parc Place is because the LMDC grants. With the grants, rent in Battery Park City was a good deal. But now that the grants are gone, and the building is under new management, I highly suggest you look elsewhere in Battery Park City before you consider Parc Place.

I love it here. <br>Elvir is the most incredible doorman EVER. Within a month of living here, he knew myname, when I had a package, even without my looking at anything. <br>The gym needs some work because, well, the machines are ------, there are no elipticals, etc., but it is clean and if you want you can definitely make due with it. The hallways are clean and well maintained, the staff is prompt, and the applieances are fantastic.

We lived at Parc Place for 6 months. What a wonderful experience. The location is great, and the building is very well kept. Our apartment had new appliances and countertops. It was well maintained. The noise level was very low, we rarely heard anything from the neighbors. The people in the building were great, very nice neighbors and sweet too. The staff is incredible, prompt, friendly and very accomodating. The concierges and doormen were extremely nice. We will miss living here very much, but moved due to a transfer. If we ever move back to NYC, we will definitely live here again!