Great place to live if your looking for pre-war walkups
Pros
Super is nice, didn’t have much experience with building management, but they seemed on top of everything. For a 100+ year old building, it’s pretty solid if you're used to pre-war buildings. Layout is nice and spacious for the city. Neighbors are nice and no complaints. Reasonable rent increases for a market rate unit (didn't ridiculously jack my rent up after the covid deal). You seriously can't beat nearby restaurants/stores/trains/parks.
Cons
My unit is street facing, and the windows didn’t really do much help protect the noise from busy 3rd ave. You have to have a high tolerance of car/traffic noise. Nighttime was pretty quiet and you do get used to it after a while. I’m sure there are a lot worse places for noise though. Also, there were a couple days of no hot water and it sucked. Things happen though
Advice to the owners
Keep doing what you're doing!
Affordable and ok
Pros
Location 100% Size of the apartments Privacy Very little noise from outside and inside the building
Cons
Pest control, we’ve had roaches Garbage management Cleanliness of the building overall
Advice to the owners
The super in charge needs to be cleaner to avoid pests. The building is not cleaned enough, and when they do it it’s not a good job. One of the neighbor’s dog pooped in the hallway of the first floor about 6 months ago. You can still see some of it. There’s no deep cleaning, only done very superficially. The garbage needs to be taken out more often, or stored accordingly. Most of the times it’s overflowing making the entrance stink and attracting more roaches.
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