239 Eldridge Street,

Manhattan, NY 10002

Nice building. Garbage disposed of daily.

Extremely excessive and unreasonable co-op regulations and rules that make even the most respectful and rule-abiding of tenants feel that they are unable to peacefully live in their apartment and the building. Neighbors are rude, verbally abusive, and will harass you in the stairwell or outside the building if you so much as move in your apartment after 10pm. Walls and structures are paper thin, need renovating and repair to resolve the non-noise noise complaints. You can have no music on, no tv, earbuds in and be folding laundry at 11pm and your neighbor will bang their fist on the wall because apparently this is considered “disruptive.” No support from landlord when voicing the unreasonable expectations from said neighbor who has been harassing you verbally and quite frankly frightens you as a large muscular older man when you are a petite young woman and is screaming at you through the wall on a Sunday afternoon for moving a broken down cardboard box out of your apartment…before you have even stepped out the door. I felt he might physically harm me and unsafe. It’s a very expensive building with very high co-op fees, broker fees, and you may move into this building and feel like you have no choice but to move out and take the financial loss because it will cause you so much mental distress. I was told to purchase pricey items for my apartment to mitigate the sound of me walking barefoot like a large area rug that covered the entire floor. Move around my furniture. And also to adjust my schedule to go to sleep at the same time as my 60 year old neighbor. So just know that you will be treated like a child as in you have a bedtime now and it’s “lights out” at 10pm. Please don’t let this happen to you! Avoid at all costs!

There is only way to control the “paper thin” walls as the landlord described them to me when I viewed the apartment and the door frame that apparently shakes the neighbors’s whole wall if you don’t close it ever so softly with the utmost care—I’m talking stand there and barely move as you carefully pull the door shut, so softly it should be inaudible to the human ear with the knob turned all the way so the lock doesn’t click or this unreasonable excessively irritable neighbor who is harassing other tenants will be disturbed. You must have the wall constructed with soundproof foam plus a layer of dry wall overtop (there are many soundproof companies and experts out there who all say this is the only way—I did hours of research and read their websites, resources, online articles, blogs, comments from tenants, etc. This cost est is around 3,000–a small price to pay when one tenant pays more than that per month in rent and is suffering from sever mental distress and cannot reasonably move around in their apartment. While the other is being untrainable but won’t let up. Then, seal the door frame as a sealer can reduce the sound by up to 50-70% for both parties. Clearly the walls have sheet rock in them that has decayed over time and has cavities. This is not a tenant problem who can be heard through the wall if they are folding laundry, obviously. This is a construction problem, first and foremost. And an expectation level that is way out of hand and needs to be managed by the building manager and not by harassing this tenant who is simply living in the space. Either this apartment must remain empty or construction needs to be done.