Tishman Speyer recently distributed this flier to the residents of 649 East 14th Street to clarify how they should handle garbage removal in their building and, oddly enough, there was no instruction to leave it in large piles on the street or toss it into a dumpster at 3AM.
Real residents of the building have been telling us Stuyvesant Town's new transient community Tishman Speyer is so proud of have been lazily dumping their unwanted IKEA furniture in the halls on moving day rather than properly disposing of it as instructed. Trying to score points with the established Stuy Town residents, Tishman Speyer distributed this flier and act surprised that some of their market rate tenants paying $3,900 for a one bedroom apartment would act as if they were above throwing out their own trash.
Hmmm, the painfully outdated UGG boots, bone straight blond hair, and bouillon cube tan didn't give that away at the leasing office?
Well. For many years I've experienced odd occurences in my apartment. Once, a section of my hair was cut while I was sleeping, another time jewelry flew off my body while I was watching So You Think You Can Dance, and last week I found a washcloth tucked under my cat Cuddles while she was sitting on the dresser! A few minutes later, a white paper napkin appeared next to the dresser where Cuddles had just been!
Lately, I've found odd things -- dishes, cups, toys, games, microwave ovens -- that mysteriously appear in the hallway outside my apartment! For example, last night Cuddles threw up gastric juice on my foyer rug and as I went to throw out the rug, I found an old knife set, a red Kenmore vacuum and a carnival tent in the hallway next to the trash compactor door! I could go on and on about all this but I think you all get an idea of what's going on. It is unnerving, to say the least!
We give this budget motel a 1 star rating. Buyer Beware!
Ah, the accoutrements of the rich and clueless. I love it when the students throw out their lecture notes and research materials. Beulette has just been accepted into MIT by submitting some kid's carelessly tossed thesis on quantum physics.
Edna, are you sure it's not Mother doing these things when she is in one of her frisky moods? I get the feeling she has a very mischievous streak in her. Being thought of as elderly and harmless can be very liberating you know because nobody suspects what you're up to!
Mr or Miss anon,
Thank you for your suggestion, but Mother is quite docile these days. Unless, of course, I put on Xavier Cugat's long-playing record, "Cugie's Cocktails." The song "Creme de Menthe" gets her quite worked up.
Of course there was as much care put into the notice as there is into everything else that Tishman Speyer does. "Thank you for your cooperation in helping us keeps your building clean and safe."
It would be interesting to know what they're doing to keep it clean and safe.
So Mrs. Doodle is a Coochie Coochie fan? She aint that docile then, bless her!
Beulah,
Congratulations on Beulette's acceptance into MIT. Can I sublet her trailer while she's gone? (And does it have heat?)
Some of these younger, market-rate tenants are so self absorbed. Your description of them hits the dim nail on the head. Tishman Speyer should send a memo reminding them that they do not live in their parents house anymore and they don't live in the suburbs where their partying goes unheard. You live in NYC, don't by such a horrible cliche and constant reminder of why people leave the suburbs in the first place.
These women all around
Are obsessive c*nts
File under miscellaneous
They're stomping and carnivorous
We've got to protect what we love so much
Of course there are vapid and self-absorbed idiots in both the newby level and the long-time resident level here in Stuy Town. Being a slob is not limited only to market rate renters who move out in disgust of Tishman's slum conditions. So I am not shocked by garbage left in the halls, etc.
What does amaze me is that those so-called maintenance workers - the ones I see leaning against our stairs or door frames so often - make no effort to keep the building clean either. Sure, we can grouse about inconsiderate dumping in the halls, cigarette butts on the stairwells, urine and vomit in the elevators. There will always be tenant slobs and we won't ever control their miserable actions.
But I'd like to know the last time our so-called maintenance guy vacuumed the hall carpets, swept the stairwells of this luxury building, got rid of the dirty handprints left on the walls by Stuy workers who were "fixing" the hall vents, or cleaned the laundry room, etc.
We don't need concierge service, or a "study" or a "film room" half as much as we need some decent maintenance, both to clean up the usual day-to-day messes, and the stuff left in the halls by inveterate or newly-spoiled slobs.
We have a GREAT building porter these days. He's always around cleaning the halls. I've often seen him cleaning the lobby, vacuuming the elevators and even polishing the baseboards on our floor !
You have to remember that they're very overworked. I think at one time they had assigned 3 buildings to one porter, so our guy is working really hard. I'm actually reminding myself to remember him at holiday time as the one bright spot in this whole miserable experience.
Don't reveal your building OK or TS will make sure to fire your porter for doing a good job. Don't want to pamper those tenants too much