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Anonymous
5 months ago
Unit Apt 16B Pros: Good location close to the B/C train at 96th and several grocery stores (Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, KeyFoods) Front desk staff is generally friendly Cons: Roaches. I've had to report roaches on at least 15 occasions and I have lived in the building less than a year. Elevator(s) frequently out. This is a 34-floor building, and at least one of the elevators is consistently out, resulting in long (5 min+) wait times. Super is impossible to reach. Have an issue? Forget about it. You will not get a response. The building also has a handyman who will sometimes attempt to be helpful, but he is not going to help with anything that requires more than minimal effort.
Anonymous
1 years ago
Unit 23E Pros: The location is great The doormen are very nice There is a garage underneath the building Cons: Huge huge HUGE roach and water bug issues. I’m talking triple digits within eyesight people. The building is dirty There is very bad water pressure Advice to landlord: Get rid of your roaches and buy a new mop
Anonymous
1 years ago
Pros: Location is great Cons: Blue Sky is inept. The super is awful. He is unionized so doesn’t care about anyone. He should be deported. The building has many smoke issues and they promote it being smoke free. We had to move. A few doormen are great some are useless. Handyman is friendly but relatively inept as well. Advice to landlord: Fire the super.
Anonymous
2 years ago
Pros: Doorman, reasonably priced, quiet Cons: Felt a little run down
Anonymous
3 years ago
Pros: Long-term residents provide a sense of community and safety. There are views from the upper floors. Convenient UWS location. Cons: Some chief complaints are as follows: Frequent elevator outages (34-story building), understaffed for maintenance and repairs, Superintendant is often not available and not present, there is severe rat infestation around the outside of the building, derelict storefronts and entryway, deteriorating masonry in the cellar, persistent problems with aging plumbing and electrical behind the walls. The rent-stabilized tenants have been harrassed with broadscale and individual attempts to evict or compel them to vacate. They renovated the market-rate apartments but did not address issues with plumbing, electrical, windows, etc., within those apartments. Noisy drilling on the building exterior (pointing) is too frequent. Advice to landlord: Manage the property so it is livable and doesn't appear derelict. Increase maintenance staff or change the oversight of maintenance staff. Don't harass rent-stabilized tenants to increase profits.
Anonymous
4 years ago
Pros: Some neighbors were sweet, doormen are lovely people Cons: This is a rent-stabilized building that has renovated some units and renting them at a much higher prices pretending to be a luxury building so the main areas like laundry room are not up to date. There was a significant roach problem when I lived there. You can treat your own unit and an exterminator comes 2x a month but that doesn’t help much if the whole building has a problem. Advice to landlord: None
Anonymous
5 years ago
Pros: Close to Central Park, doorman makes package receipts easier, mostly nice fellow tenants Cons: There’s a legal battle between Witkoff, a luxury building developer who bought this building as an investment and older rent controlled tenants they are trying to evict. This leads to an odd mix of young single yuppies paying market rates and much older rent controlled tenants who are currently suing the management. Management keeps appearances decent when showing apartments but the building is poorly maintained, likely in an effort to boot rent controlled people. There’s a rat infested unusable courtyard out back that should be in use for tenants but it’s an unsafe mess and closed. The laundry room is large but most of the laundry machines don’t work well and if you pick a bad one by mistake some of the driers burn your clothing. 30+ story building with 3 elevators but one is almost always broken leading to long waits in the lobby Advice to landlord: Carpet the hallways for sound proofing and making the building nicer. Replace the elevators because they are unsafe and broken regularly. Fix up and open the court yard to add value for tenants. Replace the laundry machines with new machines that work.
Anonymous
5 years ago
Pros: This building has the friendliest staff. Great location. Building is constantly maintained, and communication with tenants is very good. Great view from our unit. Cons: Elevators need updating. Laundry room is very hot all the time. What you get versus what you pay doesn’t quite square up. 96th street is very busy, so be prepared to hear a lot of sirens. Advice to landlord: If not already in process, I would fast track elevator replacement. They’re barely adequate.