Tenant Reviews for 95 WALL STREET

95 Wall Review

Pros: Building management is great, work orders are processed quickly and the staff, from front desk to maintenance to mail room, are all great people. Cons: Outside noise is a little annoying at times.

Good if you’re young

Pros: Nice gym and outdoor area Cons: Dark, small units, could use a bit more upkeep

Overall good but a few cons

Pros: The building staff are really kind, young environment, and great amenities. Cons: A lot of people don’t wear masks, a little noisy, and sometimes there is litter in the hallways. Advice to landlord: Enforce masks!

Resident Manager more like Resident Bum

Pros: Most of the concierge and building staff are friendly and very responsive. Cons: The Resident Manager CJ is totally checked out. He wears sweat pants and t-shirts while “working” and he has really turned this place into a dump since he took over. Weeks to fix broken refuse chute on our floor. Improperly lit public areas (burnt out lights everywhere). He even lets the mobile COVID testing site on our block use our “private” amenity bathrooms. Advice to landlord: Hire new management and implement new procedures. Or change your marketing campaign and quit falsely advertising 95 Wall as luxury living.

Don't do it. If you are 22 and have no issue with consistently filthy hallways (dirty carpet, random delivery bags of food that sit there for days, and open bags of garbage in the refuse room), front desk staff that could not be bothered to check where anyone is going and a management company that defines inadequate, then by all means sign that lease. Having lived in rental buildings all over the world and as a born and raised New Yorker, I have seen the best and the worst of them. 95 Wall is the worst of them. Do not expect your apartment to be clean when you move in. Expect there to be grime on the stovetop, peeling floor boards and white paint splatter left behind from the painter who hastily painted over the previous tenant's damage. Do not expect to see the same neighbors every day. 95 Wall rents their apartments to short-term companies such as Air bnb, which means you get random strangers parading through the hallways day and night with their luggage and screaming children. Oh, and let's not forget that they rent apartments and stuff as many tenants as they can into a one bedroom. Forget the law, make it a clown car, right guys? Do not expect an actual oven. Congratulations, you are paying 3K+ a month for a studio apartment that offers you the delightful convenience of a convection oven and microwave combo. So if you are one of those people who likes to play Russian roulette with their poultry, sign that lease. If you love living in a doorman building because you just love seeing another human when you walk in the front door, then this is the place for you. If you expect them to actually get the door, know where your packages are or ask guests/delivery people where they are going, don't do it. You could happily skip your soon-to-be-miserable butt through the lobby naked and not even get a glance up from whatever they happen to be scrolling through on Instagram. Ah, paradise. Do not expect to work with a community manager, leasing agents or a management company that is concerned with your enjoyment or peace of mind as a tenant. If you enjoy inhaling smoke all day and night, and parties that begin at midnight causing your walls to vibrate, by all means go ahead and do the thing. Expect to receive scripted, monosyllabic responses from management for months about how they will "send a letter to the offender." UDR and 95 Wall do not hold up their end of the bargain to provide a reasonable amount of habitability. Prepare to spend nights calling 311, forcing you to play the role of cranky next door neighbor. So if you're one of those who loves putting your hard earned money right into a shredder, sign the lease. Better stock up on that Advil now. There are so many better options in the neighborhood. For example: 19 Dutch 8 Spruce Street 20 Broad Street 180 Water Street 2 Gold Street Positives? The porters are very kind and there is a Duane Reade next door--convenient for late-night beer runs when you need to drown out the sound of your own poor lease-signing decisions.

Run the other way

Pros: Good amenities (doorman, common areas, etc.) and nice location Cons: The building itself is fine, the staff are lovely, but the biggest concern I have living here is with the terrible, disrespectful management. COVID protocols are next to none (not ONE meaningful acknowledgement about how it affects community guidelines in all this time; they didn’t even have a sign about masks in the lobby until Oct 2020) and are completely unresponsive to concerned pleas from residents. I chose to live here under the guise that a doorman building be a safe place to live, and I’ve never been more uncomfortable in a living situation. Advice to landlord: Get your shit together

A Nefarious, corrupted company with confident audacity

Pros: After being overseas for work. being back in New York gave me a sense of comfort and security. Nyc is love if my life, I owed everything I an to this phenomenon. Cons: MGMT: it is with no inconsiderate degree of reluctance that I decline to accept their consistent bait & switch. I had already lived in a unit and wanted to upgrade to a new one. During this process leasing office officials throw me for a 2 week application process done in bad faith, complete and utter abuse of power. They lie and they are not to be trusted. Even when you have done nothing wrong as a tenant they will find a find to make you suffer for their short comings. Advice to landlord: I know UDR has been taking dip in performance and trying to make shareholders too be not worried. But you need to see what your employees are doing without your consent that will, it’ll be too late before you find out you allowed a leasing office staff make a mockery of a seemingly well respected name under UDR

(1) Very abnormal noise levels & thin walls (unlike any other rental); (2) Worst building to live in during COVID (even NJ is better!) because too many 18-25 year olds that are slobs/don't wear masks/party like crazy (expect thumping until 5 AM MINIMALLY if you move in here and parties galore even on random Tuesday nights); (3) Dishwasher/W/D may not even work after you sign lease & won't be fixed during *entire* term; (4) Building rents out to AirBNB and other "short term rentals" OFTEN now and your "temporary neighbors" WILL use the place to have obscene unlimited person parties while AirBNB and the landlord do nothing about it; (5) The building offers "self-guided tours", but if the apartment next to you gets vacated, that means from 8:00 AM to 8:30 PM you will have unscreened people coming in and out suscepting you to COVID. Other buildings offer virtual tours only. You won't get that courtesy here; (6) Amazon "Prime" is useless here. Your "next day delivery" is subject to the package room's 2-3 day slow processing. Try to get it before then and you get angry looks. After the 2nd time, they just lie to you that they don't have it until it "magically" shows up. Very annoying. Paid less rent in NJ and got WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY more class, quality, rapid package processing, etc. (even with a game room, heated pool, etc. lol); and, (7) They don't have real utilities in this building. When they lie to you that you're going to be paying "electricity/water/etc.", what they mean is that they have their own weird personal plan and you will be paying for everyone's electricity, etc., Communist style. Expect your utilities bills and other "hidden fees" to be WAY MORE than you thought. If the rent of the place says $3800 for a 1BR, then you will be paying another 200-300 in "rent" basically by not getting to do your own utilities and spend your own money. The lease is written in a way that makes it obvious they are trapping people here to make up for losses in rent they've sustained since opening the building. The biggest mistake you can make is to sign this lease. Once you do, the penalties to get out aren't just normal amounts, they're EXORBITANT. Do yourself a favor and take MORE time looking if this is the place you think you want to rent. I wouldn't write this if I didn't want to stop someone else from experiencing the same BS.

Great building and wonderful staff

Pros: I have lived in this building over the course of a few years in different units. The space is modern and you get great service and amenities ontop of this. The staff knows everyone and makes you feel like family. I’d happily come back if the time is right. Cons: The building leans towards young professionals. As you get older and look to start a family you may think twice. Walls aren’t super thick. Depending on where your unit is located you may get more noise than others. Advice to landlord: Look into noise prevention where possible. Mandate COVID safety more.

Appearances can be deceptive.

Pros: The building looks modern. Great Stuff. Cons: The building has serious mold problems and the appliances are over 10 years old and they are in very bad shape. *The electric bill is higher than usual. The apartments don’t get painted properly for new tenants, and don’t expect it to be clean either. If you are planing to live in this building, please conduct a full inspection (Hire your own painter & a maid for deep cleaning) Otherwise it will affect your health and well-being. You can get sick from living in a toxic environment « This comes from my personal experience that I’m still recovering from it». Some apartments don’t have ventilation because The Vent has been broken for a while now. *I can provide Inspection documents, Photos and Videos. Advice to landlord: The apartments are in need of remediation.