Tenant Reviews for 45 W 139TH ST

Been Living in Savoy Park over 20 years. The good thing is it is near major transportation. Yet the bad outweighs the good. The music levels on the lower floors of building 2300 are out of control. The management company does not respond and neither does security. The management company has been sanctioned and is a long court battle with tenants over repairs and other unaddressed issues. It is best to read reviews about the property if one is considering moving in.

Terrible, Terrible experience. I just received an approval email almost over two weeks after I filed the application. The day I applied my application, they toured us in the building and showed us one bed room and studio. Both rooms were installed with all new appliances including stove, dish washer, fridge and A/C. I loved the place, so I filled application with $75 fee in the same day. The process took longer than I was told, they even called my company to verify my wedge, I gave them two years of Tax returns, pay stubs, 12 months paid rent receipts , and so forth. Finally, after I've got an approval email, I requested for the floor plan which was very different from what I saw at the tour. They also added saying all appliances are white finish. Which, I wasn't sure what it meant, so I've asked to see the place before I signed the lease. After this approval email, they required us to sign the lease within 24-48 hours. They never responded to my request regarding showing the place, but I asked several times saying because the floor plan is very different and the unit furnished in all white appliances also sounded very different from what I saw, I needed to see the unit. I also asked them where this unit located in the building( I insisted them that I don't want a room right next to the trash chute), they never intend to show the room or share the photograph of the room. Instead, they pretend that they never heard what I've requesting, they were keep pushing me to come in and sign the lease without sharing the building floor plan or any photographs. It got too sketchy after they started talking about within my budget($1600) everything will be all white finish(which I was never told before and the place I saw was $1640 which is only $40 more, and the studio I saw was with all new appliances with far under my budget). More over, if we were to use A/C would cost us extra $28 per months even thou we provide our own A/C nor we don't use it for the entire year(A/C, maybe you use them summer time only right?), this they never told us on the tour nor when we filled application. After I told them that I cannot sign the lease unless I see this place, they stopped talking to me. I really feel like this was complete scam. They pretend they act as professional, but they are not. Very sketchy. Don't trust them. After reading the bed bug reviews, ughh, I guess this was just meant to be. After all, I'm glad this didn't work out. Cheers,

My husband and I lived in Savoy Park from 2008 - 2010... WHAT A NIGHTMARE! Where do I start? Our upstairs AND downstairs neighbors would play loud music every morning starting at the crack of dawn and night after dusk. I've called the police due to the noise because I tried to knock on the neighbors' door to resolve the issue personally but the music has been so loud with both neighbors that neither could hear me knocking (or kicking) at their doors. The police even had trouble contacting my upstairs neighbor because he couldn't hear them knocking over his loud music. Walking up and down the stairwells to knock on my neighbors' doors was terrible. All I was smelling/breathing in was cigarette smoke, urine and marijuana. It was disgusting, illegal and hazardous. A little after a year of living in Savoy I was no longer able to sleep past 7am or enjoy waking up without the fear of someone looking into my window (on the 11th floor). why? well, because there were construction workers pointing bricks on my bedroom window at 7am. I complained to the city (via NYC resident Hotline) and to the management office but nothing was done. It would have been nice if the construction work started at 8am (when most people are off at work/school). BEWARE OF BEDBUGS (and roaches)!!! Ugh. I"m not sensitive to bedbugs, so I had no idea what was happening to my husband's skin every night. He would wake up with lots of tiny red bug bites and fairly large rashes. Once we did our research and actually learned how to trap bedbugs in ziplock bags we made complaints to the management office ASAP (with the bugs in a bag) but nothing was done. The manager just told us that the only way for our apartment to be fumigated was once we removed all of our furniture from the unit and found a place to sleep for 2-3 nights (at our own expense). Sidenote: My husband and I were full-time college students with very little time and on a strict budget) Maintenance was also horrific. The maintenance guys (over twice my age) would stand around the laundry room staring at me like I was a fresh piece of meat or simply eye candy for their viewing pleasure while making vulgar comments about me to each other. I always had headphones on but little did they know that one of my ear pieces didn't work ... SUPER creepy and downright rude. Note to maintenance workers/creeps... if you're going to be dirty old men please try to be more discrete about it. There were so many crazy tenant violations happening in here. The whole time I lived in Savoy the management was working super hard to push out tenants paying subsidized rent for ages in order to repaint the apartments, put in "fancy" appliances and fake hardwood floors as a means to hike up the rent and attract yuppies by portraying the place as "luxury apartments". Folks, this is the hood... people get robbed, stabbed and shot here every day and night hence the cops ALWAYS standing across the street in front of the corner stores and basketball courts. I was born/raised in a slum like this so I didn't particularly mind all of the chaos the I was desensitized to. I also recall management trying to install a water meter in our unit (illegally) shortly after signing our second lease. Management wanted to charge tenants for water when the lease specifically said that water and all utilities (except cable) were included in the rent. I simply ignored all notices and pretended not to be home when the meter folk stopped by. I also recall the meter installers pulling my door lever in hopes of finding my door unlocked so that they could waltz in and install a meter. Last, but not least, after deciding not to be jerked for an additional year we emptied out our apartment and cleaned everything (even the inside of the fridge and oven) in hopes of seeing all or most of our 1.5 month safety deposit. NOPE! My husband and I had to ask our lawyer to write the management a "not-so-nice" letter explaining that my husband and I took before and after photos of the apartment and that a massive lawsuit would be coming their way if our deposit was not returned. Management then decided to be more reasonable and return most of our deposit (except for the cost of our bedroom door, which I did accidentally damage at some point)

this is my third year, the new management is a night mare, been trying to get my AC fixed for 2 month and all they keep saying is that i am on the waiting list for 2 months. they are friendly only when you drop the pay check, other wise they are painful to deal with. i live in the building 60 west on the 15th floor and it is noisy, for a light sleeper it is highly unrecommended. the apartment is good as lon as nothing breaks in it, then it becomes a night mare. my advice: get an apartment in another place where they have decent management, i am moving out my self.

BED BUGS .......... !!!!!!!! STAY AWAY .......... and THE WORST MANAGEMENT ..... IN NYC ...