The Transient Community Lifestyle

Throwing glass down the chute is very dangerous to the porters who deal with the trash the other end of the chute. The lady who works in my building almost lost an eye when someone hurled a glass bottle down the chute.

When you are paying Lux. prices for an a Lux. apartment, you expect better services, you expect what you pay for. Like taking my garbage down for me, bring my packages to my door and wiping my A*S! I can't wait until my lease is up so I can move into a Real Lux. apartment, and not this middle class rat trap, roach motel that's called Stytown.

When you are paying Lux. prices for an a Lux. apartment, you expect better services, you expect what you pay for. Like taking my garbage down for me, bring my packages to my door and wiping my A*S! I can't wait until my lease is up so I can move into a Real Lux. apartment, and not this middle class rat trap, roach motel that's called Stytown.
PS, Dad I am moving back home with you and Mom.

Such a chillingly dark scene recalls historian Lewis Mumford's disturbing comparison of Stuyvesant Town to "an unrelieved nightmare." Oh, the scrambled visual logic! The already oppressively tenebrous atmosphere of the hallway is only heightened by the mysterious appearance of ordinary items in an unexpected location. This morbidly slothful tenant most certainly reveals his unsurpassed mastery of the psychological chiller -- I will surely check my hallway twice before leaving for work today!

That's not trash, it's a "welcome home" drink station for market rate tenants. For a small fee of $250 a week, you can have a snapple martini mixed with a coat hanger by a former recreation worker (now American Leisure). la bonne vie!

No, NO you have it all wrong, that's not a "drink station". It's a roach motel, I know it looks kind of big, but have you seen the size of the roaches here? They can take your leg off.

What kills me is that people will leave trash,newspapers on the floor in the hallway
and then GO OUT to work, GO DOWNSTAIRS to do laundry etc., and leave the stuff there!!
And the people I am speaking of are long time tenants...not newbies.

I used to have long-time neighbors who left bags of garbage next to the garbage chute. But they were stupid enough to leave identifying features, such as their mail in the bag. After I moved their garbage in front of their front door a few times, this rude behavior stopped.

But I do wonder--does the door to the recycling room have to be locked? Many people don't carry that huge key on their key ring, and it would be easier if you could just go in and throw stuff away without needing a key to unlock the door.

The fact that the recycling room is locked really makes it a royal pain to put stuff in there.
In Penn South Houses in Chelsea, there is a hamper like thing built into the area near the mail boxes in which you can dump torn up junk mail immediately so you never have to take it up to your apartment.

When I lived underneath a bridge abutment, recycling was easy, we just threw our stuff into the river.

Now I have to carry this HEAVY KEY around with me all the time.

Makes me want to slit my wrists. Life is just not worth living.
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THE KEY IS TOO HEAVY ?????

Give me a freakin' break.

I have friends who live in Penn South Houses and I visit frequently. TS could learn from the way Penn South is managed. The buildings are clean, the recycling area is clean and the people who live there take pride in their homes. Of course, Penn South doesn't claim to be luxury. It's funny how TS has made "luxury" and "slum" synonymous. That's the TS touch!

It's friggin awkward to have to open a door with a key when your arms are loaded with stuff to be put in the recycling room.

So it's friggin awkward. It's awkward for all of your neighbors and THEY seem to be able to deal with it. For god's sake. Grow up ! Take some responsibility in life. The Carriage room door is locked for security reasons so that people won't steal everything inside. Want a safer building ? Move to a REAL luxury rental where they can leave it unlocked Not everything will be done FOR you from this moment on, and if you're a person who should be having everything done for them, you certainly shouldn't be living in this dump.

The key is too heavy !! ROFLMFAO !!

Oh.. here's an idea. Put stuff down on floor. Open door with key. Hold door with foot while you pick stuff up. Go into room with stuff.

Einstein couldn't do it better !

I believe that the original intent of MetLife, when they decided to switch to key cards, was that the doors to the carriage rooms and laundry rooms would be fitted with the same electronic locks and it wouldn't be necessary to have metal keys for any door except your mailbox and apartment. I don't know what happened to that idea, but it would certainly be very convenient. I think that some of the buildings in PCV were equipped with electronic locks on the laundry rooms. Maybe they ran out of funds for that plan before they got to Stuyvesant Town!

If carrying an extra key and opening the door to the carriage room is too much effort, maybe you need to move to a nursing home!

Yo Also Anonymous-Fuck you! I'm not implying that carrying the key is awkward. I'm saying that putting the key in the door when you're holding a bunch of things like pizza boxes, bags of paper etc. is awkward for me. Perhaps I don't have your dexterity. To tell someone to go to a nursing home is downright hostile since you have no idea who I am or how old I am or if I might have only one arm. Fuck you again!

Calm down, people!

I always put my garbage in the garbage chute and bring my recyling downstairs. But I have noticed, in my bulding, that some poeple actually bring their garbage downstairs, only to leave it in the hallway outside the door to the carriage room. I am assuming that this is because they don't have their key. I never said that the key was "HEAVY", just that it was large (as is the key card for the front door--couldn't we have something smaller that actually fits on your key chain like gyms and drugstores offer?)

My point was that, by making it more convenient, maybe more people would recycle. Not really sure why the door needs to be locked anyway--might someone steal our garbage?

"Yo Also Anonymou-Fuck you!"

LOL !!!!!

Learn how to live. Grow an arm. Whatever. LOL !!!

It's a National holiday and the morons are all home from work or school. LOL

They certainly are.

And if I catch you leaving garbage in MY hallway, I'll smack you so hard your other arm will fall off BRUDDA !

Please, ladies and gentlemen, this is beginning to look like the nasty Curbed blog with all the cussing and dissing. Let's keep it at a higher standard. Please.

Saying that getting into the garbage area is awkward does not mean I don;t do it.

Saying that the set-up is awkward does not mean that I leave my garbage in the hallway, asshole.

Sounds like a lot of pent-up fury on the part of some residents is leading to nasty comments. Liza is right. Let's keep things at a higher standard. Appropriate anger should be directed at the landlord rather than at fellow tenants.

>>If carrying an extra key and opening the door to the carriage room is too much effort, maybe you need to move to a nursing home!