Find a different landlord. ROACHES!!
Pros
Building is convenient to neighborhood amenities and the subway. The apartments are well sized and quiet. Some units are rent controlled, others are stabilized.
Cons
The building and building next door(41-29 46th Street), both owned and managed by Park Drive Equities, are consistently dirty and in very poor repair. Peeling paint, broken windows in public areas are common and never fixed. Lobby, vestibules, stairways have filthy, un-mopped floors with litter everywhere. The building’s exterior and walkways are shabby and unkept. The elevators are regularly out of order making it very difficult for elderly tenants with mobility issues. The pest problem has remained unmanaged for the 5 years I’ve lived here. Feral cats, rodents, raccoons, and roaches everywhere. I’ve never lived in a place where the roaches are this bad, it’s overwhelming. There is a criminal element and drug abuse problem with multiple tenants and mail theft is a regular occurrence. There are a lot of great neighbors in the building but most don’t stay very long because of a few bad apples. The landlord is TERRIBLE and unresponsive. The super, while nice, is never available. If you want any repairs done to your apartment you have to file a complaint with 311. If you like living in slum like conditions then this is the place for you otherwise AVOID at all costs.
Advice to the owners
Fix your property in a timely, LEGAL manner. Get the pest problem under control.
Building Mgmt is MIA
Pros
It’s close to everything you need/want in a great neighborhood. The bedroom and living space sizes are really big. Rent is affordable
Cons
* Nothing ever gets fixed and it’s nearly impossible to get a hold of super or building management * super is nice but he is not live in. He lives down the street and isn’t very responsive to upkeep in this one. Any fixes are done by non union labor and you can expect it to be a duct tape and glue job that won’t last * electric is old and building won’t update fixtures. More than one lighting fixture has shot flames out * they got rid of all the in building laundry units so you have to go to a laundromat * the elevators are broken several times a month * at least 2-3 times per winter you have to call 311 to report them for not having heat on * they got rid of normal old school buzzer system in favor of an unstable system dependent on wifi that never works in lobby and a mobile app. Deliveries have trouble getting in touch with you. The tech company behind app has poor rating with better business bureau * LOTS OF UNSAVORY NEIGHBORS. a good amount of turnover in the building tenants except for the junkies and criminally unstable living here for years and are either begging for money on Queens Blvd, nodding out on drugs in front of building, harassing people on the street with slurs and threats of violence, and using the hallways as personal storage for junk/furniture picked from street garbage around the neighborhood. * counters, fridge and oven are ancient * since pandemic started there has been no pest control. Roaches everywhere in units and halls. Can now hear mice beneath floors and behind walls
Advice to the owners
Turn into a co-op or do a better job screening tenants so it’s not a bunch of scum bags, and start fixing things. Instead of keeping a photo up in the lobby of “the friend of someone in building who is stealing packages” do a better job of building security and tenant screening
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