All 9 tenant reviews.

“Pros: Nothing - literally nothing. Cons: Rats. Mice. Roaches galore. This place was an absolute health hazard and the live in super was a homeless man who slept in the boiler room. Lived here in 2017 so take this with a grain of salt, but truly an awful disgusting place to live. Zero stars. Advice to landlord: The basement is not a habitable environment. Stop renting it out.”

“Unit 2D Pros: The price was very fair, cheap for a 3bdr in a pretty good area. Across from a school, never felt unsafe. Water pressure was high and clean. Cons: Livingston Management Services was terrible. They don’t respond to emails, they don’t fix broken pipes. The boiler has been broken in the building for over 8 months and there’s no heat. Additionally, there is a mice problem (even up to the 5th floor) and they will not send exterminators. Finally, the laundry room constantly has water up to your ankles and half the machines are broken. Advice to landlord: Answer emails”

“Pros: Good location, nice apartment Cons: I was told the building had laundry but I’ve been here for a few months and there’s one working washing machine and one working dryer. Advice to landlord: Pls fix the laundry! And do something about thr endless mice”

“Pros: **make sure you read the cons** Lots of space, the halls are vacuumed and the elevator cleaned once a week, the AC generally works well, elevator is reliable, really good natural light if you’re facing the back side of the building, extremely quiet area (daytime it gets louder bc of the schools having recess), area feels very safe Cons: Ho boy. - building boiler has been broken for over a year so in more than half the units, there is no heat in the winter. Management offered space heaters and bill credits, but the credits weren’t that much and who wants to run space heaters all winter? - in building laundry has been broken for close to 2 years and the working machines aren’t maintained. Like seriously out of 4 washing machines there’s only 1 workable one, and out of 3 dryers only 1 is truly working, the others just spin with no heat. - Package theft is EXTREMELY common and has been happening for over a year. The building has a door leading to the basement that is just left unlocked, and neighborhood undesirables have figured this out, so they’ll come in and open every package in the mail area in the stairwell where there’s no cameras, and take whatever they like. Not to mention, these people even come in and do their laundry sometimes since it’s free. - Rodent and pests - we’ve seen rats AND mice here as well as cockroaches. The latter 2 have come out of the walls as high up as the 5th floor. We called management about it in our unit and they didn’t come for a whole week - The front doors into the building are poorly maintained, and once every 2 months or so, the doorknob mechanism or doorknob itself will break, meaning it is literally not possible to leave or enter the building thru the front, unless you go through the door leading out from the basement This building used to be so, so good. The management company changed to the current one 2 years ago, and that’s when things started to go downhill. If the company changed or they started getting their shit together, this apartment would be incredible, Unfortunately, I’m not sure I see that happening anytime soon”

“Pros: cool neighbors, everyone generally nice Cons: The property management company is absolutely terrible. The girl our building had an email for sometimes goes months without responding, sends people multiple times to fix AC or heat units that consistently report that they need permission to replace it, and get stuck waiting so long for that permission from management that they forget the issue and need to check again. Washing machines and driers been broken for 2+ years, don't let them tell you that is a perk of living here. Advice to landlord: Fire Lekse I guess, or scrap the property management company if you want people to stay here”

“Unit 1B Pros: Only thing good was the location. Cons: This building is a nightmare and I left as soon as my lease was up. Filthy: My apartment was not cleaned properly when I moved in. On the day my lease started, I arrived to find workers, at 2pm, still painting and trying to fix things, as I was moving in. Terrible. The kitchen was left filthy. The windows were not cleaned - I had to clean the outside of the windows myself. The basement laundry room is a disgrace. - 3 working washing machines, which leak water across the filthy floor, plus 4 drying machines - Coin operated washing and drying machines but with a coin machine that was out of service for the last 4 months of my tenancy (May-August 2023) meaning you had to go to the laundrette down the block to get quarters. - A stench of trash from the trash bins and trash room on the same basement level as the laundry room, making every trip down there disgusting. - Rats on the same basement level - in the summer you hear them in the trash room down the hall from the laundry room. Disgusting. Poor security: A street door that does not close properly, resulting in young kids sometimes coming in to the small hallway to "hotbox" and smoke weed. You would come back in the evening and have to climb over 3-4 teenage guys smoking weed in your hall, who did not live in the building. When I called the super about it, he said there was nothing he could do, and to call the cops. The second entry door left broken and without a lock for 2 months (July-August 2023). Extremely noisy: 1. The building is very poorly built and noise from other tenants in the apartments above is extremely loud. 2. There is a homeless shelter on the same street that has daily issues with its clients, shouting, fighting, drinking on the street, often by the apartment building. Constant ambulances attending sick clients at the shelter too. It has a hugely negative impact on the living standards of the W 52nd St block between 9th and 10th Ave. 3. Homeless people gather at the steps of the school next door to 458 W 52nd and hang out there for hours each night, shouting, arguing, playing music until well past midnight. It is a nightmare in terms of noise for any street-facing apartments. Terrible management agency: Livingston Management Management agency still has not returned my deposit, 40 days after my tenancy ended, despite repeated emails and calls requesting them to do so and reminding them that the law states it must be returned within 14 days of the tenancy ending. Emails to ask for the door to be fixed, the laundry room coin machine to be refilled or fixed, the washing machines to be fixed, the noise issues with tenants to be addressed all were simply ignored. They just don't bother responding. Speaking with other tenants, this was something they had experienced also. Every tenant you met in the hall or laundry room would just complain about how bad it was. Advice to landlord: Fire your management agency and get a reputable, professional agency. Fix the doors to make the building secure. Completely refurbish the disgusting basement area and laundry room. Address the rat problem. Work with the homeless shelter down the street to raise concerns about clients gathering outside the apartment building and making noise.”

“Pros: conveniently located between 9th and 10th avenue cool floor plan with steps leading to a slightly higher level Cons: issues with mice old appliances that break —- it usually takes the super a couple of days to come and fix them (he is not live-in)”

“Pros: Elevator and open apartments Cons: Hallways were not super clean”

“Pros: it’s inside, so that’s better than outside. the layouts of the apartments are architecturally interesting. pets allowed. central ac (when it works). elevator. Cons: grossly overpriced rent for the neighborhood (like a good 30% over comparable units in a four block radius). non-existent pest control. i mean, they send the dude but he’s as useful as legs on a snake. i have spent the entirety of quarantine fighting to get rid of mice. not like “oh you live in nyc, of course there are mice.” i’m talking wake up in the middle of the night and there’s a mouse sitting on your nightstand watching you. mice that you can hear scrambling in the walls at all times, and frequently squeaking and fighting. mice that are so voluminous your dogs, who were both bred for vermin destruction, are exhausted and have also given up on getting out ahead of the situation. security doors are often broken or left open. package theft. incompetent super who frequently winds up making whatever they’re “fixing” somehow worse. Advice to landlord: i don’t think this is the business for you.”