25-28 Broadway,

Queens, NY 11106

Quiet, great neighborhood, pet friendly

Not a responsive landlord

Be more responsive

Clean, garbage chute, nice tenants.

Upon agreeing to move in, I was told the rent would be $2,500. Lease was not completed until day before I moved in and was only given to me to review/sign on the day I moved in. Lease stated the rent would now be $3,000 a month (with first two months free to even out net rent to $2,500). This was only the beginning of my time here and the horrible experience. Upon viewing apartment I was told certain things would be finished that never were. For example, my walls were simply never painted. My door was half painted as well. Continuously shady or illegal practices, poor response from landlord, and no super who we could directly contact (despite this building having over 9 units) led to a poor living situation. Units are extremely small and for some reason my unit would get extremely hot year round (mid-80's and that's with the heat in the unit completely turned off). I was given no solution by landlord or super for why my unit was constantly too hot year round. I was told to open some windows to help in the winter. It was horribly uncomfortable and the only way to fix it seemed to be to install two large SLEEVE A/C's in each small room of an apartment. I found out later my next door neighbors had no heat at all and were using a space heater to get by. Every way this building seems to be put together is either faulty or extremely poorly designed. The pipe under my sink has burst more than twice leading to flooding. The balcony looks gorgeous but it is concrete and directly in the sun so from May to October is almost unusable. The elevator is very slow. The building has no security and people come and go all of the time, easy access. They tore down all the businesses across the street and there is a large apt/condo building being built that has been undergoing loud construction for the past year and I assume for the next several. Laundry is in building but costs $5 a load. I told the landlord that one of the machines was broken and eating my quarters and instead of just fixing it or putting an OUT OF ORDER sign on the machine with the issue, she instead put up a sign saying they're not liable for any laundry room losses. Very cool! Despite all of that, don't worry, they're now charging 300 more than what I was paying in rent.

Stop being part of the problem. This is a pathetic and sad legacy.