355 West 51 Street,

Manhattan, NY 10019

Love the people here. Big Glisten is the best elevator dude ever.

The super (vanja) is extremely unhelpful

The elevator operators/doormen will become your best friends. They’re so kind and helpful. They’ll come fix your heater when it starts leaking or put mouse/cockroach traps around your apartment when you’re too scared to go back in (from personal experience lol). They also bring packages up and do extra stuff to help you out even though they don’t have to! Good amount of space and the heaters WORK. Like I turn my AC unit on sometimes at night in the winter because it gets so hot. The neighbors are also super friendly. If you hang out in the lobby with the evening elevator operator, you’ll end up making a bunch of new friends!

Super works a full time job in addition to being the super. She is responsive within 4 days like 50% of the time, 25% of the time takes over a week to respond, and 25% just doesn’t respond. We call her “the dragon” so idk take that how you want. And even though she won’t respond to you during working hours, she will yell at you if you text her outside of working hours. One of my neighbors/friends sent her a text about cockroaches at 8pm and the super went off on her. Also, there is a hole in my sink from a plastic bottle falling from the mirror shelf (so like a foot), and I was told I need to replace the sink myself. The sink is literally thin plastic. There is a literal hole in my sink from normal wear and tear I’d say (bottles fall off shelves, but the sink shouldn’t be so weak that it breaks), so I’m salty about that. The apartment was very dirty when I moved in. We spent a whole cleaning. Hallways/lobby are dirty/dusty, but that doesn’t really matter. Laundry machines are out of order sometimes, but at least 1 washer and dryer is always working. Also, our oven smells like gas whenever we use it, even after getting it replaced (which took like 3 months), but the carbon monoxide detector we bought on Amazon has never detected anything. I’ve seen a few bugs and a mouse in my apartment. Overall, it’s a pretty good building for NYC, and all the negatives are worth the location and people!