Tenant Reviews for 552 MAIN STREET

Lack of doorman is the only substantial draw-back. Building is UGLY on the exterior but the newly renovated units have hardwood floors, new kitchens, and are much more spacious than the floorplans suggest. Building is a 4 minute walk to the Subway, I personally like Roosevelt Island and the building because of the access to all the green space - we have two Shiba Inus who especially enjoy the dog park nearby. Suburban feel with access to city life!

The most disgusting place I ever lived. This building (546 Main St.) has many issues: drugs, smoking, roaches, noise, dirty carpets in hallway, dirty hallways, rude staff, dirty laundry room, vey cold in winter (it is set to a fixed temperature, the thermostat stops working two times a day and when I got home in the afternoon, the apartment is too cold), very expensive for what you get (actually you do not get anything!!!). Trust me and do not ever think about moving to this terrible building even if they offer it free! I got sick in this building. If I could have canceled my lease, I would have done it on second day of my stay in this building!!! :-(

The most disgusting place that I have ever lived in. Management should be ashamed of themselves. They want to charge Manhattan rent rates for sub par building grounds. Maintenance sucks...good luck getting stuff fixed in the apartments. They promise to come fix but never do. I have missed multiple work days because of this and have complained to management about it. Bathroom tub is always clogging and the pipes leak even though this is a "gut renovated" unit. The laundry rooms are the worst. Machines are always breaking and nobody even seems to clean the laundry rooms. Dryer machines are filled with lint it's disgusting. You find balls of lint all over the floors. Also, be careful which machines you wash clothes in as it seems some maintenance people wash old greasy rags in them. I have had multiple clothing items ruined with tar because of this. I seriously can't wait to finally move out when my lease is up.

This evening I come home find two hoodlums hanging outside my apartment in Roosevelt Landings. 15 minutes later bell rings and I find beat up chinese delivery guy outside. The thugs lured him to my apartment with a false order, stole his money and of course the food. This place has no security. The owners of the building want to turn into a market rent cash-machine with Manhattan level rents, but the place is like a housing project. VERY SCARY PLACE TO LIVE.

This place will say anything to get your money. We signed our lease with the understanding our 2nd & 13th month were free of charge. The leasing company is not upholding this promise. No one ever answers any questions you have and it takes weeks to get a response via email. Maintenance was promised to always be accompanied by a PSD officer, which never happens. They're rude, leave dirty footprints and mud all over the place as well as used our facilities and pissed all over our toilet. Our apartment was never cleaned before we moved in and our freezer door did not shut patio was filled with trash. Our hot water is spotty at best and our bathroom ceiling leaks brown liquid.

Have been renting an apartment with this disgusting company since mid 2010. At that time it was a great find price-wise and view-wise on Roosevelt Island. Initially had continuous problems with hot water during the fall and winter, and after escalating to their Portfolio Manager, Doryne Islye, it took another couple of months to get the problem rectified. The problem has again resurfaced since the last couple of months and there is always the same excuse of "boiler problems", but apparently nothing ever gets done to rectify the issue. Calling the emergency numbers has never helped...they take our contact numbers saying someone will get back to you. In my 2 yrs and 9 months have never received a call back. If one can avoid this management company please do so. They are the most pathetic of them all.

Apathy at it's best, nobody seems to care about the original theme of these buildings and the family-oriented designs...the buildings are turning into dorms

We moved in over the summer of 2012. We could not pass up the great space, value for the money and the view. Boy were we wrong. We moved in with only 1 working elevator for 20 floors - that lasted almost 2 months on top of the months it was broken before we moved in. We can't have deliveries unless we stand downstairs because our intercom is broken and the office wont fix it. Forget about hot showers before work - we've been told by maintenance that we are crazy to expect hot water in the morning and evenings because too many people are using it. We have a window leak that wont get fixed either. All this AND we are paying market rent. The staff is nice however I get the impression that management does not approve repairs. Most of our work orders are simply ignored for awhile and then closed. Then there are the people...if you must live here try and get a higher floor. My opinion is this is essentially glorified public housing. This place is a ghost town at night. You can't find a taxi and at rush hour the trams are completely full. F train is horrible - it seems its shut down at least 1 weekend a month. Food stores on the island are horrible, dirty and immensely overpriced. Drugs are pretty easy to come by...just hang out in the walkways.

The porters are thugs who are completely unsupervised. They'll go out of their way to inconvenience the tenants. Laundry facilities are, for no good reason,locked beginning @ 8pm but the porters consistently lock them earlier, according to how early they feel like leaving. Would love to get a job like that.

Moved to Eastwood now renamed Roosevelt Landings in 1977 with our college masters and jobs in teaching and Manhattan non-profits, we found most of our new neighbors moving here for the same reason we did -- an affordable place to raise a family and still remain in Manhattan. Our 3 bedroom faces the 59th Street Bridge, our two children, 9 months and 2 years old in 1977, grew up here. The building gave them and us the urban living experience we all wanted. The recent renovations in our 3 decades here upgraded the apts to the level we wanted in out senior years, the current rents in the $2000 for 3 bedroom River view beat anything you could find that is a 2 mins subway ride on the F or a stunning 3 min. ride over the East River in a Tram to the heart of the upper east side at 63 and Lex. or 59th and 2nd. Just as the $399 a month rent did for us in 1977. One of our children's childhood friends from 1979 on Roosevelt Island is now living in our old 3 bedroom starting a family, they have college degrees and work in the City. We are still on Roosevelt Island now 35 years, and it is still the an affordable place to raise a family with thrice the population and amenities and a first rate elementary school K-8th grade and four daycare/nursery schools.