1464 Ocean Avenue,

Brooklyn, NY 11230

-Located in the safe neighborhood of Midwood(you can walk here at night without fear of crime)
-Very family friendly neighborhood
-Close to Q Train (Avenue J station)
-Pretty conservative neighborhood so most people here will be resistant to gentrification, thus meaning slightly cheap rent
-Ever since parking became once/week/per side, parking is pretty decent to find

-Not too many food options. Not surprising as this is a predominantly Jewish neighborhood. The most you have is a deli nearby the train station, Di Fara’s pizza, and a couple of drug stores. You’ll end up going to Flatbush Junction or Coney Island Avenue for food


-Parking isn’t too bad but you’ll end up parking on the side streets between Avenue J and Bedford Avenue or the side streets behind the building before you’ll find a spot on Ocean Avenue. Hope you don’t mind walking home. Night time parking will involve parking farther then need be. Sometimes I had to park nearby Nostrand Ave.

-Management doesn’t care about anything. I’ve been requesting a laundry card for the laundry room since I moved in several months ago. It is almost October and still haven’t received it. They keep saying they sent out a request and I’ll receive it and it’s the same thing every time I call. At this point, just use a laundromat.

-The amount you pay isn’t worth the quality of life in the building. They want $1900 for shoebox apartments but this is NYC so we have no choice but to deal with it. I keep my place clean, yet I still have roaches, spiders, and other pests. There’s no elevator so try not to get an apartment above the 2nd floor(B floor). The security door doesn’t work 60% of the time, hence why most couriers hate this building. I spoke to multiple UPS, USPS, and FedEx drivers and they all told me how much they hate delivering here due to the bell never working. The management never gives them a key or special code to get in so they just end up either waiting for someone to open the door or put a slip and leave. I don’t blame them. I would do the same. There’s are no cameras so packages get stolen occasionally. My neighbors put multiple signs with hopes to deter them but it doesn’t work.

-Please add cameras in the lobby. We are tired of having our packages stolen
-Get more organized. It shouldn’t take several months just to get a laundry card
-Fix the security door with something that works
-Give couriers the necessary keys to enter in the building
-Get an exterminator
-Stop charging high rent when buildings in the neighborhood offer more for less