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THOR 98 MORNINGSIDE AVE LLC · avg 3.3 ★★★★★ · New York City
“Unit 76 Pros: High ceilings, good windows/daylight, solid renovated appliances Cons: The management is probably some of the worst we've ever experienced in all of our years living in NY. They do not respond to emails or phone calls and if you try to call the overall management company First Service Residential, even with their 24/7 Customer Service, they have outdated records of who is managing the property and are entirely unhelpful in facilitating a response. We have regular issues with the elevator breaking down (we live on the 7th floor and while we're able bodied, there are many residents here who have lived here for decades who are in wheelchairs and aren't as mobile) and we have also had a ton of issues with people smoking both cigarettes and weed inside their own apartments and it beginning to seep through the walls and the floors (literally - that is not an exaggeration) into our unit, especially in the wintertime when it was too chilly outside to smoke on the street. It got so bad that we had to rearrange the furniture in our apartment because one of the bedrooms (2 bed, 1 ba) was unliveable - we have a five-month long email chain where management never responded to repeated messages or were entirely unempathetic, unhelpful, and curt. We knew of at least two other tenants who were having the same issue. There are units in the building that weren't affected by the smoke and were being charged fair prices for the (lack of) amenities in the building but for our particular unit #76, they were charging $4.5K when other units in the area are going for $3.5-4K which more amenities (roofs, a second bathroom, in-building gym, etc.). Advice to landlord: Please hire competent property managers or adjust the prices you are charging accordingly. That was genuinely probably one of the worst experiences with a management company we've ever had.”
— 98 MORNINGSIDE AVENUE · Manhattan“Pros: Clean building, nice area, friendly staff, elevator building with mail area Cons: Super was usually non responsive unless you followed up multiple times. The doors are heavy and slam shut, so you can hear and feel the vibrations down the hall. The windows weren’t well insulated so it could get pretty cold.”
— 98 MORNINGSIDE AVENUE · Manhattan“This building has one thing going for them currently, which is the location from across the park. We have had many packages stolen, one of which was returned already open with missing items out of the box by our own assistant super, which ONLY came after emailing the building management, which was just bizarre. We still do not have a reason for that. My wife has emailed them many times with a few complaints and the girl incharge just actively ghosts our emails. No replies, nothing. We are not normally complainers, but with this building it has been hard. This building is as immature as it gets professionally speaking. I am currently spending $3300 to live here for 500 sq ft, and I would say we are aleady wanting to find another place. With how poorly this building is ran, I would advise you to look for another. This building could be a very nice place to live. We haven't even been here 6 months, and have already had many frustrating experiences. This building needs to be better in terms of actively responding and meeting the needs its of its tenants. This building is obviously on the backburner, most likely because of the amount of people that have rent controlled apartments here, which is disheartening.”
— 98 MORNINGSIDE AVENUE · Manhattan“Pros: Proximity to train stations and campus and the park and it's a quiet and great area Cons: The building management is not responsive nor are they helpful. Luckily we didn't have many issues and the supers are a bit money-hungry, they always want a tip for doing the bare minimum Advice to landlord: Instruct the supers to actually be helpful in times of rental issues.”
— 98 MORNINGSIDE AVENUE · Manhattan