All 8 tenant reviews.
529 EAST 85TH ASSOCIATES LLC · avg 2.8 ★★★★★ · New York City
“Unit 4A Pros: Huge beautiful prewar style apartments Used to be an amazing place to live Cons: -Building under new ownership and the new owner has clearly run out of funds to maintain this building -Horribly maintained- extremely rude management company. They either unresponsive or does not help -constant leaks from mis-handled construction and patchy repairs -crumbling walls due to haphazard repairs after a 2017 fire that displaced tenants -repairs take almost a year to be addressed -things break daily -super is unable to do repairs because of owner doesn't want to pay -mice, cockroaches, bed bug infestation -ongoing construction that doesn't end because contractors keep changing -filthy halls and common spaces -High percentage rent raises -constant attempt to destabilize stabilized or rent controlled units- makes those tenants as uncomfortable as possible -Owner purposely not renting out stabilized units and using them as storage and keeping one for himself that is not his primary residence -Tenants move out because of mismanagement and the state of the building and the units sit vacant for years. Advice to landlord: Sell to someone better equipped to handle the property. This building used to be a gem on the Upper East Side and now is a disgusting place to live.”
— 529 EAST 85 STREET · Manhattan“Pros: Huge apartments with ton of natural light Cons: Very dirty building, old apartment floors, unresponsive managment. Advice to landlord: Actually supervise what is happening in the building. No one cleans it.”
— 529 EAST 85 STREET · Manhattan“Pros: The management company are fairly quick to respond to emails Cons: We reported mice sightings to the Super which went ignored for 6 months. The building has also had cockroaches. The landlord refuses to accept bank transfer for rent payments, only physical cheques which makes it difficult when you travel for work. There is currently construction work on the building for at least 4 months. Tenants weren’t warned about this at all and the noise is excruciating. Finally, when we first moved in the apartment was covered in a lot of dust and had clearly not been cleaned for at least 6 months. Advice to landlord: Reduce the rent because the price is too high for such a poorly managed building”
— 529 EAST 85 STREET · Manhattan“Unit 2D Pros: Feels homey, various ages so not too loud, dishwasher, lots of closet space Cons: Takes MONTHS for important things to get fixed. They do not tell you when water is off or when things are under construction”
— 529 EAST 85 STREET · Manhattan“Pros: Amazon lockers are nice. Cons: No laundry facilities. Advice to landlord: Keep rents low”
— 529 EAST 85 STREET · Manhattan“Pros: Cheap and near Carl shurtz park Cons: We had a case of rodents in our unit. Very old with minimal renovations.”
— 529 EAST 85 STREET · Manhattan“Pros: The super is attentive, speedy, and responds to repairs/problems quickly Cons: Lived here 4 years. Third year had major mice problems. Toughed it out for an extra year because of the cheap rent. Advice to landlord: This building is old!!! Keep the rent low but at least do some repairs and updating to keep it livable.”
— 529 EAST 85 STREET · Manhattan“Pros: Lovely prewar charm. Great neighbors. Apartments are very quiet. Attentive live in super. Cons: Maintenance has gone downhill in recent years. The elevator never works. Building common areas have gotten very dirty and are rarely cleaned. It has been difficult to get things repaired and the contractor they hire to do the repairs does shoddy work- warped tiles, patchy walls. There is possibility for onsite laundry but they won’t add it. Rent is high. Advice to landlord: Fix the elevator and clean- used to be an amazing place but needs to step up the maintenance”
— 529 EAST 85 STREET · Manhattan