If you like loud music all day this is the place for you!
Pros
Cheap rent, big apartment, Older neighbors
Cons
The super rents out the alleyway for parties all the time. During the pandemic the cellar was also used for a paid party space. Parties happen in the alleyway on any day- Tuesday Wednesday it doesn’t matter, last week there was an inflatable bounce house for a child’s birthday that lasted til past 4am and then sometime after noon the next day the people were back outside drinking etc. this apt single handily ruined my NYC experience, trash gets dumped in our alleyway the garbage men refuse to remove it when it’s piled high from the illegal dumping which results in vermin inside the building, I have seen live rats in the lobby in winter. If you look different be prepared for most people to be rude to you in the building and in the neighborhood stores. Our apartment lost hot water in the winter for the first two years living there I had to take apart the shower and change the mixer to put max water pressure on hot because there was no hot water for years and nobody to fix it. It got to the point I was ready to stop paying rent and I fixed it myself because the super is useless. We didn’t even have light in the living room because the building put faulty wired LED lights in that don’t work and when I notified the super he said he would come back and of course never did. Hes having a party rn in the alleyway tho *shrug*
Advice to the owners
Fire Francisco get a super who is respectful of peoples personal space and doesn’t treat the building as a income generating resource for him to rent out the cellar and alleyway to have parties for people who don’t live here. Also one that doesn’t only speak a foreign language and you can’t communicate effectively your problem to him.. half the time I found myself fixing my own problems or just living with it because he only fixes stuff for certain tenants
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