1392 Madison Avenue,

Manhattan, NY 10029

This apartment is one block from Central Park which was a dream for me and my dog.

It's close to the 6 train, cafes, restaurants, etc. so the location is decent, albeit a bit far uptown.

There are young and friendly tenants in the building and some older tenants who seem to have been around for a while because of the rent stabilization (which is another plus).

My apartment specifically is newly renovated with new fixtures but I think the rest of the building is old and without a dishwasher.

Tenants who know each another will bring each others' packages up (because of the package thieves).

The walk-up is brutal with a raised first floor. Feeling for the senior and disabled folks in the building.

The laundry room is shared with the other building and you have to go outside and downstairs where the trash area is to get there. Not fun in the rain or in cold weather. There are only 4 washers and 4 dryers and they break down from time to time. When you tell the Super, they tell you that YOU have to call them to fix it.

There's also an evil stray cat that will wait under the stairs and try to swipe at your feet when you try to go back upstairs to get back into the building.

The building is not maintained. Any trash or debris from outside will remain for weeks and weeks in the same spot.

When I moved in, I found 3 dead roaches on the stairs that remained for the next month until I emailed the building. It's become clear that they clean the building maybe once a month? Or if we beg.

Our downstairs neighbor has had parties blasting music as late as 3am on weeknights and as early as 6:45am on weekend mornings.

Bad lighting; apartment faces the back of the building. It always looks like it’s 8pm and the winters are miserable.

Beginning of winter, the apartment was FREEZING. Now that we've settled into winter, it's usually too hot.

The building has a number of package thieves and on top of that, the 2nd door into the building is constantly broken and for weeks on end. Delivery people press all the buttons so regardless, it's easy for anyone to get in.

When I contacted the building about fixing the lock on the door because it was a bigger risk to tenants and our packages, the management company's response to me was that it's up to the building if they want to install cameras and they recommended my requiring a signature for my packages. This was in response to me asking if they could lock their door because of the known issue. And we have cameras and pictures of the package thieves but there's nothing that can be done. This building is constantly targeted.

Please take better care of your building. Just because it's rent stabilized, you should still treat it better. (Some) people spend a lot of money to live here but even the rent stabilized folks deserve a clean and decently maintained building to live in.

Kitchen was updated, the landlord is responsive, they keep up with the trash

I live on the 5th floor; the heat can be iffy because the radiators are hard to control