File under Accidents Waiting to Happen! A Stuy Town resident sent us this photo of a large hole left exposed on a Stuyvesant Town path after a new victim moved into the compound. When the hole isn't functioning as a lawsuit waiting to happen, it's usually stuffed with a metal pole to prevent cars from driving into the Oval though today it was stuffed with this foot.
February 2009 Archives
File under Accidents Waiting to Happen! A Stuy Town resident sent us this photo of a large hole left exposed on a Stuyvesant Town path after a new victim moved into the compound. When the hole isn't functioning as a lawsuit waiting to happen, it's usually stuffed with a metal pole to prevent cars from driving into the Oval though today it was stuffed with this foot.
The stark fluorescent nightmare Stuyvesant Town calls a leasing office continues to fall apart before the neighborhood's eyes. The bored receptionist on display in the desolate diorama finally has something to do - climb a ladder and tape the joint together!A Sty Spy passing by Rob Speyer's failing business/hobby stopped pointing and laughing long enough to take these photos of Stuy Town's signature blue tape holding together the front desk and ceiling. Maybe the 14 college kids they crammed into the apartment above finally made the building structurally unsound. If that's the best they can do with their own office god help the residents with the fake pressure walls.
Even with NYU, The New School, and the Art Institute of New York City now renting over 150 apartments in Stuyvesant Town, mega slumlord Tishman Speyer is still having a hard time filling vacant apartments. The residential newbies will have depleted their $400 million cash reserve by this summer and are frantic to find new ways to generate revenue.Attempts to pay current residents a $1,000 finder's fee for each referral that rents in Stuyvesant Town are just as laughable as the $3,000 + asking price for a one bedroom apartment in a competitive renter's market. Running out of local colleges to recruit, the cash strapped Tishman Speyer is now looking at the Bowery's displaced homeless shelters as a possible source of income.
Stuyvesant Town's managing director, George Hatzmann, says the idea was all his. "I was at a dinner party with Jerry and his wife Katherine. She was droning on about her work with New York's homeless women and children... blah blah blah," he says. "I was drifting in and out of consciousness when I got an idea. There are currently six homeless shelters on the Bowery that are being displaced by Tishman Speyer commercial projects so why not move those bastards into Stuy Town! Katherine thought it was an excellent idea so Jerry thought it was an excellent idea."
"Unfortunately we've been priced out of the neighborhood," says Donald McNullen, Chief Executive Officer of the Bowery Mission. "In four short years we've seen the Bowery devoured by four new hotels, seven new bank branches and thirteen drug stores. We can't compete with that corporate money. But thanks to Jerry Speyer and his generosity, we have a second chance to give these down and outers a better life."
The homeless shelter has already taken over three floors at 285 Avenue C and longtime Stuy Town residents couldn't be happier. "I was walking through the Oval the other night and saw one of the homeless gents beat an NYU student over the head with a handful of black squirrels," says Gail Mahoney, a 25 year Stuy Town resident. "She was crying hysterically and called her mother on her cell, begging her to let her move back to their home in Massapequa. It made my day."
"It's a welcomed change to the community," says another tenant. "It's nice to have someone other than Tishman Speyer begging for my money. This place feels like New York again."
Other residents say the homeless influx has gone mostly unnoticed because they have a hard time differentiating them from the hipsters. "I can't tell them apart," says another resident. "Both are disheveled, both take drugs, and both live out of the large bags they carry. Seriously, it's a thin line between crazy bag lady and Rachel Zoe."
Most Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village residents know their neighborhood stands on what was formerly referred to as the 'Gas House District' because a Manufactured Gas Plant (MGP) that once stood in its place. Residents have long wondered what toxic remnants lie beneath their apartments and what could possible rise to the surface of the soil with help from Tishman Speyer's obsessive landscaping and construction projects. A concerned Stuy Town resident writes us: "The issue I am writing about relates not to that current plant, but to the consequences of PCV and ST having been built on a site that used to be a manufactured gas plant. Check out the following Con Ed website, available here. Look in particular at the Peter Cooper Village / Stuyvesant Town section, including the PowerPoint from the October 3, 2007 community update, which I attended. The nub of this is that almost all of the ground on which PCV and ST are built is chock full of toxins that are by products of the gas plants that were torn down in order to pave the way for the complex. (The PowerPoint contains some great photos that overlay figures to show where the plants were in relation to the complex as it exists today.)
Con Ed has agreed to investigate the presence of toxins, has concluded that they are there in abundance, and now has to decide what to do about it. While there are fair questions whether there are threats to human health, it's not conclusive, and in any event, the remediation could be wildly disruptive to the community (guys in hazmat clothes digging up and replacing tons of contaminated soil and dirt?) Also, the remedial investigation phase they're in now has been dragging on for years. They want to delay this because they don't know how to deal with it. And query the disclosures that TS is failing to make to prospective renters about this time bomb, and also query whether investors in the securities that were issued from the loans TS took out to buy the place were given disclosure in their prospectuses about this risk. (Was there a risk factor that said "there may be negative consequences from the fact that the place is built on a toxic waste site?) I learned from the state department of environmental conservation and other state agencies that bidders during the met life sale were all over the agencies' records during due diligence in the bidding process.
And what about all of the digging that's been done to plant all of the new trees? Isn't that digging up this bad stuff and leaving it all around?
FYI, the attached pic is from my building -- shows that Con Ed is now doing "indoor air sampling" in connection with the investigation and clean-up of the toxic residue from the manufactured gas plants. To be clear, this "indoor air sampling" is being done to determine the extent to which the AIR in the buildings contains carcinogens from the toxic residue on which the buildings lie. They have been telling people that there is no threat to human health, but now they still feel it's necessary to test the air?"
Last summer, Stuy Town halted its use of illegal pressure walls as bait for college-aged renters when it was discovered they created a TB friendly environment. The pressure walls allowed renters to subdivide an apartment, (turning the living room into an additional bedroom), which blocked the one window off from what was left of the common area. To make matters worse the fake walls were also found to be a threat to first responders. For a brief period of time some of the hazardous walls were removed and replaced with tacky office grade rolling partitions while new, less offensive wall plans were drawn up.
Eventually the office partitions were rolled out and new walls were put into the offending apartments, the cost of all this bungling passed on to the tenants of course who not only paid for the original wall, but it's more expensive replacement as well.
Unfortunately not all of the original pressure walls have been removed. A Stuy Town resident writes us:
"I am writing in regards to the converted wall fire hazard. I moved into Stuy town in February 2006, which was when the wall was put up through the company they sent us to. I think the Door Company? Anyhow, it does in fact block off the large window in the living room. To my understanding (through your website as well as others,) these walls were supposed to be taken down at the end of the current tenant's leases when the FDNY issued the order in 2006. If this is in fact the case, I was never contacted regarding the matter and actually renewed twice thereafter. How can I get a public copy of the order?"
Lux Living's Pressure Wall Coverage
Recent Pressure Wall News
Illegal walls turn NYC apartments into firetraps [MSNBC]
Bronx Landlords Guilty in 2 Firefighters' Deaths [NYT]
"In 2006 and the prior six years I lived in Stuyvesant Town it was
not only nice - it was exceptional. In the past few years Stuyvesant
Town has gone from a community of neighbors who cared about each other
to just a jumble of buildings with nameless, faceless short stay
renters with regard to no one but themselves.
One did not find the incompetence in the staff that exists today. Now cutbacks in maintenance and security are resulting in a dirtier, unhealthy and unsafe environment.
Tishman Speyer bought a sparkling jewel which has since faded and crumbled into dust."
One did not find the incompetence in the staff that exists today. Now cutbacks in maintenance and security are resulting in a dirtier, unhealthy and unsafe environment.
Tishman Speyer bought a sparkling jewel which has since faded and crumbled into dust."
- Ginger Grant, in response to "Stuy Town - Do Not Live Here"
"My neighbor has his tv mounted on the shared wall. I can hear every word of his programs. The security guards who come to answer a noise complaint commiserate with him about how nice it is to be able to watch sports at whatever sound level one wants and then may or may not log in my complaint as objectified. Great, programs I don't want while we are dining next to our adjacent wall!"
It seems sleepless Stuy Town residents are using their newly found spare time to warn others in the neighborhood about Tishman Speyer's uninhabitable complex. A Sty Spy sent us this photo of a flier taped to the bus stop at First Avenue and 20th Street. The flier reads:"Noise Town"
Stuy Town is a great place to live if you don't need to sleep.
- Lots of loud yelling from bar patrons returning home 2-4am Sat & Sun
-Ski-Trip buses on the 20th St. Loop at 5:30 - 6am"
Continue reading A Tishman Speyer Project Delayed? The Hell You Say!.
Stuyvesant Town tenants residing near the unstable Con Ed power plant on Avenue C woke up this morning to find their new graveyard disassembled and trucked off by Tishman Speyer employees. The polluted plot was first used as a dumping ground for the 'death watch trees,' a large group of expensive trees that Tishman Speyer purchased only to leave rotting above ground for weeks. Soon after, the dead trees were joined by the abandoned security booth used as a hook-up hut by Stuy Town's college dorm dwellers.
In the process of carting away the frightening fauna, Tishman Speyer employees continued to rape the earth and then dumped mulch on her corpse.
Continue reading Stuy Town Closes Graveyard.
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Via ApartmentRatings.com
"DO NOT LIVE HERE
From: StuyTownsucks
Date posted: 2/17/2009
Years at this apartment: 2006 - 2009
Wow, where to start with this place. When I moved in back in 2006, the place seemed nice. They were remodeling, and had aspirations to make it a family friendly place to live. They told me all construction would be completed by the time I moved in. Not only was the construction not completed, but it lasted for the ENTIRE 3 years I lived there -- both road and other apartment renovations.
The staff from the beginning lacked the intelligence of middle school grads, so I had low expectations. But the experience of handling lease renewals, questions about the lease, and the eventual ending of the lease and move-out have been some of the most frustrating experiences in my life. First off, when you call the Management office, EVERYONE in that office sends all calls directly to voicemail, and RARELY returns calls. So if you have a question regarding your lease or other that may be time sensitive, time to get your law degree and read and interpret every word one your lease. If someone ever gets back to you, they quickly demonstrate that they have no knowledge and just refer back to the lease to answer any tough questions. Meaning, they hide behind their own laziness and incompetence.
So, if you are considering living here, know that it is very expensive for what you get, the costs keeps rising, management is terrible, lease agreements are written to screw you, maintenance doesn't do any actual work, and the whole living experience will leave you VERY FRUSTRATED. My experience cost me thousands of additional fees, and I did everything right. Beware before locking yourself in..."
"DO NOT LIVE HERE
From: StuyTownsucks
Date posted: 2/17/2009
Years at this apartment: 2006 - 2009
Wow, where to start with this place. When I moved in back in 2006, the place seemed nice. They were remodeling, and had aspirations to make it a family friendly place to live. They told me all construction would be completed by the time I moved in. Not only was the construction not completed, but it lasted for the ENTIRE 3 years I lived there -- both road and other apartment renovations.
The staff from the beginning lacked the intelligence of middle school grads, so I had low expectations. But the experience of handling lease renewals, questions about the lease, and the eventual ending of the lease and move-out have been some of the most frustrating experiences in my life. First off, when you call the Management office, EVERYONE in that office sends all calls directly to voicemail, and RARELY returns calls. So if you have a question regarding your lease or other that may be time sensitive, time to get your law degree and read and interpret every word one your lease. If someone ever gets back to you, they quickly demonstrate that they have no knowledge and just refer back to the lease to answer any tough questions. Meaning, they hide behind their own laziness and incompetence.
So, if you are considering living here, know that it is very expensive for what you get, the costs keeps rising, management is terrible, lease agreements are written to screw you, maintenance doesn't do any actual work, and the whole living experience will leave you VERY FRUSTRATED. My experience cost me thousands of additional fees, and I did everything right. Beware before locking yourself in..."
Stuyvesant Town residents have had it with the perpetually problematic Mac-Gray washers and dryers recently installed in their buildings. The dingy laundry rooms, renovated only two years ago, were gutted again last summer and the existing appliances were replaced with more "energy efficient" models provided by Mac-Gray. Though residents agree they are more energy efficient, "they never work so of course they're energy efficient," says one tenant, when functional the washing machines often leave clothes dirty and the dryers are so hot clothing actually burns in the drying process. This domestic disturbance has left tenants to seek other options with the hopes of looking and smelling respectable including washing clothes in the bathtub and hanging their own clothes lines.Residents complain that the lack of water and detergent make it impossible for clothing to come out less dirty than when it went in. "I hate those machines," says Mary Allen Todd, a resident of 6 Stuyvesant Oval. "How is a machine that uses three cups of water and a teaspoon of detergent supposed to get your clothes clean?" "Maybe because they can only hold two pieces of clothes at a time," chimes in her friend Ellen.
Another tenant likens the washing machines to a lost and found bin. "Condoms, empty cans of Red Bull, chunks of hair, you name it, it shows up in my 'clean' wash," says a resident at 447 East 14th Street. "The leasing agents were giving one of their famed tours of the building and were showing a new batch of suckers the "state of the art laundry room" just as I found a switchblade in my load of laundry. They looked at me like I was insane. I didn't know what to say so I just held it up and said 'welcome.'"
Continue reading Stuy Town Residents Hang Clothes Lines Thanks to Mac-Gray Letdown.
Via the New York Post
"As Wall Street stumbles and jobs are lost like old gloves, diehard New Yorkers hope the economic downturn reveals at least one silver lining: out-of-control rents might finally fall.
But it hasn't happened - at least not as much as one would expect.
That's because New Yorkers are subject to the most perverse rental situation in the nation - a Soviet-style mechanism that keeps many apartment rents barely above the price they were in the 1970s.
Rent regulations are why residents pay $2,500 for a one-bedroom while their neighbor pays $900 - instead of both paying something in the middle. They're why tenants who are lucky enough to be in rent-stabilized units hold onto old, low-priced apartments they've long outgrown. It's why it's impossible to find an apartment unless you pay a ridiculous broker's fee.
And frighteningly, state lawmakers don't want to fix the system - they want to calcify it. Instead of continuing the trend of the past 15 years, in which the city moved toward deregulating rents, legislators are hoping to roll back Gov. Pataki-era reforms and put a massive number of rentals back into stabilization.
Earlier this month the Assembly passed a slate of 10 so-called "affordable housing" bills. Thanks to a slight Democratic margin in the Senate, they may become law when senators vote on the package this spring. The bills will do exactly the opposite of what the Legislature intends - keeping middle-class and low-income people out of New York for decades to come."
The Madness of Rent Stabilization [NY Post]
"As Wall Street stumbles and jobs are lost like old gloves, diehard New Yorkers hope the economic downturn reveals at least one silver lining: out-of-control rents might finally fall.But it hasn't happened - at least not as much as one would expect.
That's because New Yorkers are subject to the most perverse rental situation in the nation - a Soviet-style mechanism that keeps many apartment rents barely above the price they were in the 1970s.
Rent regulations are why residents pay $2,500 for a one-bedroom while their neighbor pays $900 - instead of both paying something in the middle. They're why tenants who are lucky enough to be in rent-stabilized units hold onto old, low-priced apartments they've long outgrown. It's why it's impossible to find an apartment unless you pay a ridiculous broker's fee.
And frighteningly, state lawmakers don't want to fix the system - they want to calcify it. Instead of continuing the trend of the past 15 years, in which the city moved toward deregulating rents, legislators are hoping to roll back Gov. Pataki-era reforms and put a massive number of rentals back into stabilization.
Earlier this month the Assembly passed a slate of 10 so-called "affordable housing" bills. Thanks to a slight Democratic margin in the Senate, they may become law when senators vote on the package this spring. The bills will do exactly the opposite of what the Legislature intends - keeping middle-class and low-income people out of New York for decades to come."
The Madness of Rent Stabilization [NY Post]
"I'm sick of seeing Stuyvesant Town pimped like a whore. I can't believe
that all the deceptive advertising and blatant lying isn't illegal and,
therefore, actionable."
- Beulah, in response to "Stuyvesant Town: Age - 61, Mood - Accomplished!"
- Beulah, in response to "Stuyvesant Town: Age - 61, Mood - Accomplished!"
Via the New York Times"A landlord's plan to have hundreds of tenants pay for their own electricity at an apartment complex on Roosevelt Island has been put on hold by a state utility commission, after tenants and elected officials complained that the plan was flawed and too costly for low-income families.
For years, tenants in the complex, formerly known as Eastwood and now called Roosevelt Landings, never paid separately for electricity because it was included in the rent. The landlord, Urban American, was preparing to charge tenants for the electricity they use starting in April, part of a growing trend, called submetering, among property owners.
Proponents say residential submeters encourage tenants to reduce their energy consumption by making households that never had to worry about electricity costs take financial responsibility for the power they use. But sample bills sent by Urban American to tenants in the 1,003-unit complex set off outrage. Several tenants received sample bills of $800, $900 or $1,000 for a 33-day period from November to December.
On Thursday, the State Public Service Commission issued an order suspending the submetering plan. The commission approved the plan in November, but it temporarily rescinded that approval in response to a petition from Assemblyman Micah Z. Kellner, whose district includes Roosevelt Island, and other elected officials."
State Freezes Plan to Have Tenants Pay Electric Bills [NYT]
Between the typo-filled, rambling e-mails from Oval Concierge and typo-filled, rambling ads by New York realtors, one would think Stuyvesant Town should stay as far away from the Internet as possible. Nope. Instead, Stuyvesant Town decided they would send their publicist to an early grave by creating this typo-filled myspace page. (Conceirge, package pick, avtivities???)A warning to the ubiquitous Tom and a faceless "Martha" - the only two who have signed on as friends - disgruntled Stuy Town residents may get all Lori Drew on your asses.
Via The Big Money
Run for Shelter
Use the federal TARP money to preserve affordable housing.
"For three years now, housing advocates have been sounding the alarm about the rise of "predatory equity" in New York's affordable housing. Their research has identified about 90,000 units acquired by private equity firms in the last four years. Tenant advocates in California have seen similar disturbing trends. Financing for these purchases was often predicated on exceptionally large increases in rental income. In New York, this kind of rent increase is achieved either by turning out long-term tenants with low rents or escaping the rent-stabilization system that limits rent increases to the cost of living and bona fide improvements to the properties.
This strange situation has made tenant activists surprisingly familiar with several private equity firms--Vantage Properties, Apollo Real Estate Advisors, Stellar Management, Normandy Real Estate Partners--otherwise known only in the financial world. Along with more prominent groups like Tishman Speyer Properties, these firms have increasingly drawn headlines for paying outsized prices and supersizing debt on middle-income, rent-restricted properties."
Run for Shelter [The Big Money]
Run for Shelter
Use the federal TARP money to preserve affordable housing.
"For three years now, housing advocates have been sounding the alarm about the rise of "predatory equity" in New York's affordable housing. Their research has identified about 90,000 units acquired by private equity firms in the last four years. Tenant advocates in California have seen similar disturbing trends. Financing for these purchases was often predicated on exceptionally large increases in rental income. In New York, this kind of rent increase is achieved either by turning out long-term tenants with low rents or escaping the rent-stabilization system that limits rent increases to the cost of living and bona fide improvements to the properties.This strange situation has made tenant activists surprisingly familiar with several private equity firms--Vantage Properties, Apollo Real Estate Advisors, Stellar Management, Normandy Real Estate Partners--otherwise known only in the financial world. Along with more prominent groups like Tishman Speyer Properties, these firms have increasingly drawn headlines for paying outsized prices and supersizing debt on middle-income, rent-restricted properties."
Run for Shelter [The Big Money]
Via BusinessWire.com
"The CDO increased its participation in mezzanine debt secured by interests in a Fitch loan of concern, Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village, to 5.0% from 1.8% at last review. Although the property's performance remains consistent, the property is still dependent on reserves to cover debt service shortfalls. As of Jan. 15, 2009 the general reserve balance has been completely depleted and the debt service reserve balance has decreased to $127.7 million from $400 million at issuance. Property cash flow is not expected improve from 2008 based on the borrower's restated budget for 2009. As a result, approximately six months of reserves remaining to cover the trust portion of debt on the property, according to Fitch's calculations and the 2009 budget."
Fitch Downgrades 7 Classes of Concord Real Estate [Business Wire]
"The CDO increased its participation in mezzanine debt secured by interests in a Fitch loan of concern, Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village, to 5.0% from 1.8% at last review. Although the property's performance remains consistent, the property is still dependent on reserves to cover debt service shortfalls. As of Jan. 15, 2009 the general reserve balance has been completely depleted and the debt service reserve balance has decreased to $127.7 million from $400 million at issuance. Property cash flow is not expected improve from 2008 based on the borrower's restated budget for 2009. As a result, approximately six months of reserves remaining to cover the trust portion of debt on the property, according to Fitch's calculations and the 2009 budget."
Fitch Downgrades 7 Classes of Concord Real Estate [Business Wire]
Via CityCribs.com
Is Stuyvesant Town the new Gramercy Park? Judging by this ad posted by our new friends at Anchor Associates it is! The misleading ad says the renter will have a private outdoor area, (shared common grounds covered in college grade vomit and dog peep), 24 hour concierge service, (Oval Concierge burns the midnight oil?), and a gym, (for a non-competitive rate and refusal to wave initiation fee, even if paying a full year in advance). Lux Living is sure our readers will be more than happy to correct them.
Is Stuyvesant Town the new Gramercy Park? Judging by this ad posted by our new friends at Anchor Associates it is! The misleading ad says the renter will have a private outdoor area, (shared common grounds covered in college grade vomit and dog peep), 24 hour concierge service, (Oval Concierge burns the midnight oil?), and a gym, (for a non-competitive rate and refusal to wave initiation fee, even if paying a full year in advance). Lux Living is sure our readers will be more than happy to correct them.
Anyone reading the New York Times real estate section knows there's no shortage of ads for Stuyvesant Town apartments being marketed as "prime Gramercy" and "luxury" buildings with "doormen." One Sty Spy had enough of the blatant Internet lies and contacted Niko (Nizan) Gavrieli, one of the realtors from Manhattan Connection that's hawking the faux-lux apartments. The ad in question shows a 2 bedroom apartment converted to a 3 bedroom, (notice there is no window in the living room), and is "Prime Gramercy" with a doorman!
Prime Gramercy! Subway, Gym, Garden!Very Trendy Neighborhood
Now the exchange:
Continue reading Stuy Town Residents Call Realtors on Their Blatant Lies.
"I've lived in Stuy Town for 12 years and in those 12 years my apartment has been flooded several times thanks to the less than qualified labor Stuy Town hires to renovate their apartments. The last time my apartment was flooded they were installing a dishwasher 2 floors above me. For several days there was a slow leak of water coming though my cabinets so I called maintenance. They checked on some of the apartments above me but it was a holiday weekend and said they couldn't just "go in" to the others while nobody was home. Really? Never stopped them from waltzing into my apt. Anyway.So Tuesday comes and they get back to work in the leaky apartment. I'm standing by my window making lunch when I see this HUGE blast of water coming down at me from an above window. They broke a pipe and used something to direct the water out the window. I slammed my window shut just in time to avoid getting hit with the water. Now my wall is dripping majorly. The workers came down to my apartment to check the damage. They spoke LITTLE english so I just showed them the kitchen. Then some sleeze bag in a cheap suit from managment came in and left his card. He told me to let the walls dry completely which usually takes 6 MONTHS and call management and schedule to have them repainted.
I waited 6 months all the while the paint was peeling off the walls, inside the cabinets, everywhere. They made me sign a document when I moved in stating that I was aware there was lead paint in the apartment. I said of course there is, do you really think these walls have been scraped and resurfaced since the 40s??? They came and used this horrible smelling oil based paint which stunk up the apartment for over a week. Even with the windows open it was difficult to breathe.
The paint still peels in my apartment as you can see by the photo. This is why there is mold in the buildings. It's not from the tenants it's from the water logged walls. I've stopped calling management because the paint they use is so harsh and when I request acrylic paint it's a "custom job" so they want to charge me a small fortune. I just let the paint chip off and I throw them away.I don't even want to know what it getting on my dishes and glasses."
Is this the crumbling infrastructure President Obama has been talking about? No, just some more Stuy Town pipes falling apart thanks to the non-stop banging and clanging caused by Tishman Speyer's new "heating system." Sadly, there is no bailout for the market rate and stabilized tenants who submitted these photos.
Who is responsible for Stuy Town's mammoth, much-hyped, landscaping project, PWP Landscape Architects or Tim Burton? We're not sure either but there is a reason neither are claiming responsibility for the ghoulish grounds.
A Sty Spy tipped us off to this ad in the New York Times real estate section which looks as though it was co-written by the drunk-at-the-keyboard Abigail Michaels / Oval Concierge crew. For Tishman Speyer, who is already in desperate need of a public image makeover, the unreadable-titled ad posted by Jia Wang at Anchor Associates makes you wonder out loud who is in charge over there?NO FEE !!! 1167sq !!! Gramercy Park E 20 ^^^ Huge 3BR ^^^ Ez App Share Pet Ok [NYT]
Stuyvesant Town residents are used to their cash strapped landlord, Tishman Speyer, continually forcing unwanted products and services down their throats but the wretched rent collectors have hit a new low - the reselling of discarded Christmas trees.Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village residents received notices under their doors this morning inviting them to the "Valentine's Day Tree Sale" taking place this weekend at Playground 9. The shameful flier promises "fresh trees for your sweetie" that won't "break your budget." A few curious residents passed the playground this morning to investigate the bizarre sale only to discover the upcoming event is just the reselling of discarded Christmas trees.
"I was skeptical as soon as I saw the words 'fresh' and 'trees' used in the same sentence," says Jennifer Barron, a market rate tenant living in Stuy Town. "I mean, have you looked around? There's not a living tree in this place let alone a fresh one." "My 'sweetie' doesn't need a tree," barked another tenant. "She needs heat!"
Other residents were more open to the idea of starting a new tradition. "That's a fine idea," said Mary Alice Wannabaker, an 87 year old Peter Cooper Village resident. "It will look charming next to my space heater."
Dear Ovil Canseairge Memebrs,Come see for yourself! We your conseearges have harnissed the power of email so well that now we are going to take on the zenith of meedums, the Google! We are ecksited to let you now that we are now offering online serveses! With Ovil Conch you can now schejule amove in date a cleaning date or a date with a fancy call girrl all with a click of the button thoug were not sure which button that is but we think we ment mouse.
Too visit, and we wont specify what youll be viditing, pleeseclick this link: https://resident.petercoopernyc.com/Default.aspx or somethingmes this link https://resident.stuytown.com/Default.aspx and then click on someother link for oval concierge see, we dont have a reel website because Lux Living noticed that the domain name wasnt taken then sold it to some collge guy and boy do we look drumb!
Once you are in the second clas website you should will be asked for a pen and that pen number is the last for dijets of your primary phone number but we wont tell you if thats your home or cell because we;re hoping to share the goof with the 3 lawyirs Tishman Spy has hired to boot you.
Once inside the web portal you can do things like change your phone number or change your email and tell us what time to deliver your junk, you can also request services and appointments what what type of services and appointment is anyone guess which is why we havent specified.
So please come see for yourself the multitrude of service your conseerags have for you.
Manny
Ovil Conceiare / Abigail Michaels
Newark Airport
Free Umbrulla
...Or so this first grader's e-mail from Oval Concierge should read.
Continue reading Oval Concierge Now Offers Online Services...God Help Us.
Via UrbanDigs.com
"If you pay attention to the commercial real estate market in New York City, there is no doubt you have seen the recent articles on Larry Gluck's Riverton Houses apartment building investment. The Real Deal recently reported that the property will be foreclosed on February 20th. Even if you never heard of Gluck's Stellar Management, you would most certainly have heard of a little firm by the name of Tishman Speyer and would probably be aware of their investment in Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, which is now also on death watch. If you have not heard of the Stuy Town deal you are missing out on a little piece of history, as in my opinion, this one will go down with AOL/Time Warner in the annals of top marking value destroying transactions."
The Death of NYC Multi-Family Rent Regulation Arb? [UrbanDigs.com]
"If you pay attention to the commercial real estate market in New York City, there is no doubt you have seen the recent articles on Larry Gluck's Riverton Houses apartment building investment. The Real Deal recently reported that the property will be foreclosed on February 20th. Even if you never heard of Gluck's Stellar Management, you would most certainly have heard of a little firm by the name of Tishman Speyer and would probably be aware of their investment in Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, which is now also on death watch. If you have not heard of the Stuy Town deal you are missing out on a little piece of history, as in my opinion, this one will go down with AOL/Time Warner in the annals of top marking value destroying transactions."The Death of NYC Multi-Family Rent Regulation Arb? [UrbanDigs.com]
When Stuy Town's Mac-Gray dryers actually work, they can also be used to dry herbs!
Moving day N.Y.U. style.
Stuy Town residents call real police, who write real reports, and keep real statistics.
When your living room has been converted into 4 bedrooms, where ya gonna drink?
Well, OK. Blue Man Group doesn't make nightly appearances in Stuy Town apartments but considering the noise emanating from the pipes in this tenant's apartment, she can't tell the difference."The complete dismantlement of the ring from the ceiling is all thanks to the percussion that occurs in my bathroom. This is what I pay four grand for. Now if only the pipes actually gave us heat, that would be a wonder!"
"Five washing machines in the laundry room of 423 East 14th have notes on them indicating that they take money and don't work, or don't spin etc. Perfectly functional machines were replaced with lemons. Unfortunately, I have no photos. Called service to report, but of course, all their service reps were busy and I don't have an hour to waste waiting on hold."
- unhappy tenant
- unhappy tenant
Poor Tishman Speyer. It seems they are having a hard time finding a new brood of arrogant leasing agents for their 20,000 square foot, fluorescent nightmare on First Avenue. What could be keeping the next generation of smug go-getters from filling out applications? Could it be the horrible pay? The in depth articles on what a failure Stuy Town has become? The on-site heckling? Or maybe it's the title 'New York's most mocked landlord' that's keeping Stuy Town from acquiring more 
Lux Living is catching up on e-mails - thanks to all of our readers for submitting these links to us this week!Clash of the Utopias [New York Magazine]
Proposed Rent Rules Stir an Owner Outcry [NYT]
Stuyvesant Town, New York, NY: Data Report [NYT]
A New Stuy Town Blog! [Save Stuy Town]
The Ciprianis Give Up [CityFile]
Stabilization Mobilization! Landlords Sound Warning [NY Observer]
Assembly Passes Rent-Regulation Revisions Opposed by Landlords [NYT]
In Survival Mode [NY Post]
GOV TO TYCOONS: TAKE TAX GRIPES TO SILVER [NY Post]
New York's Governing Billionaires on the March Again [New York Magazine]
Old P.S. 64 owner now just trying to rent building [Villager]
Laurence Gluck's shaky foundation [Crain's]
Future of NYC's Middle Class - 52 Page PDF [NYT]
Feb 5th, 2009 - Town & Village
Continue reading New bill would prevent landlords from 'double dipping' on submetering.
The only thing Lost is the direction of this business model..and the poor employee buried in the futon.
Dears Ovil Concearge Menber,Come see for yourslef! Frbuarty is fintaly hear and eben though that crazy gopher Punxaphonix Phyl sees six more weeks of winter after biting Mayir Bloomberg on the thumb we won't let you suffer from fruit frost so grabbed your loved one or some pay by the hour gal and see what yr haff baked conceriges have cocked up for you for this valentines day.
Everyone is alwys ineed of a good restiunat and but unfortunalety not only are their non in around Stuy Town beckause Tishman Speyer droved them aways with crazy rents and we can't afford to go to one if their was because we make minow wage. But we wanted to give our members the best of the best for this valentines day because like you valintines day is the most specialist day of February so we hope you will partake in the feisty friskiness of the date!
Today our word of the day calnidar says our day word is Zenith so Manny will use it in a sentince. Whether you prefer to eat at the zenith of tappas kwizine restaurant or try some sake, suchi feast or god help you use your passport and go to borkklyn to experience what has been called the most OK restiaotnt ever in the trendy williams burg we bet youll be full!
Do grab some hart shapped coockies or get a happy endin massaje or just sit in alone and bee thankfil you dont werk at Oval Conseaers and enjoy valentines day stuy toewn style.! Happy valentines days!
Manny
Ovial Concieirje/ American Leesure
Newark Airprot
Swan Boat Fery
Or so this ridiculous email from Oval Concierge should read. How do you spell that groundhog's name?
Continue reading Valentine's Day Oval Concierge Style.
The Art Institute of New York City now joins NYU and The New School on the list of local colleges who stuff their students into Stuy Town apartments. A Sty Spy tipped us off to this page on the Art Institute of New York City's website which lists Stuyvesant Town as a student housing option. And there's that word "luxury" again!
"Stuyvesant Town Luxury Apartments at 14th Street and 1st Avenue in Manhattan are also available. These are two bedroom luxury apartments housing four students, offering independent student living. The apartments offer modern kitchens and baths, are furnished, and provide East Village community living. Telecommunication services including unlimited national telephone calling, high speed internet services and cable TV connection included in the living room. Students must provide room lighting and all computer, phone and TVequipment if desired.
Stuyvesant Town is conveniently located next to the 1st Avenue stop on the "L" subway line. This is not a student residence hall, and buildings are occupied by the general public. Students are responsible for maintaining and cleaning their apartments which undergo health and safety inspections each month by housing staff. Additional information at http://www.stuytown.com/.
If you are interested in arranging for Student Housing, your Admissions Representative will assist you. Housing is available on a first come, first served basis until all spaces are filled."
We can't wait to see how well the tattooed rocker guys get along with the dude and bro gang and their insipid gal pals!
"Stuyvesant Town Luxury Apartments at 14th Street and 1st Avenue in Manhattan are also available. These are two bedroom luxury apartments housing four students, offering independent student living. The apartments offer modern kitchens and baths, are furnished, and provide East Village community living. Telecommunication services including unlimited national telephone calling, high speed internet services and cable TV connection included in the living room. Students must provide room lighting and all computer, phone and TVequipment if desired.Stuyvesant Town is conveniently located next to the 1st Avenue stop on the "L" subway line. This is not a student residence hall, and buildings are occupied by the general public. Students are responsible for maintaining and cleaning their apartments which undergo health and safety inspections each month by housing staff. Additional information at http://www.stuytown.com/.
If you are interested in arranging for Student Housing, your Admissions Representative will assist you. Housing is available on a first come, first served basis until all spaces are filled."
We can't wait to see how well the tattooed rocker guys get along with the dude and bro gang and their insipid gal pals!
A Lux Living reader just sent us a video, (we love our videos hint hint), of the loud banging pipes that keep him awake all night long in his market rate Stuy Town apartment.
Have some Sty Town footage you'd like to share? E-mail your file to pcvstluxliving@gmail.com and we'll post it on our luxurious YouTube channel!
Have some Sty Town footage you'd like to share? E-mail your file to pcvstluxliving@gmail.com and we'll post it on our luxurious YouTube channel!
Today, Stuy Town introduces their latest amenity - graveyard! Lux Living readers remember the expensive 'death watch trees' which tenants were placing bets on as to how long it would take for them to die above ground. Tishman Speyer minions caught wind of the ghoulish guessing game and moved the trees to their final resting place on Avenue C where they remain rotting to this day.
Now the trees are joined by the abandoned 'Oval love hut,' an old security booth that was primarily being used by college kids as an alfresco hook-up hut. Sexy! Residents in the building next to the new dumping ground are less than thrilled with the cemetery vibe their garden has now. "As a rent stabilized tenant, it's kind of creepy. I know they want me out of my apartment," says Margaret Moses a 65 year old Stuy Town resident. "but to build a graveyard outside my window? The mausoleum is a bit much."
OK, we admit, nothing shocks us much these days as far as Tishman Speyer's destruction of Stuyvesant Town is concerned....but then a Sty Spy tipped us off to this Craig's List ad. Excuse us as we get all Chris Rock for a second...but a mother f*cking kitchenette in the god damn closet???
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$950 EAST VILLAGE- 15 X15 ROOM W KITCHENETTE, FIOS, DIRECT TV, ALL UTIL (East Village)
Reply to: hous-1017783644@craigslist.org [?]
Date: 2009-02-02, 2:11PM EST
15 X 15 ROOM LARGE SUNNY ROOM SOUTH AND WEST EXPOSURE QUITE, SECURE, LARGE CLOSET AND KITCHENETTE IN SEPARATE ROOM AND AREAS OF LARGE 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT. STUY TOWN ON EAST RIVER, AVE C 16TH. SHARE BATHROOM.. NON SMOKER, NO DRAMA, NO PETS, RESPECTFUL, CLEAN. STEADY JOB AND INCOME. INCLUDES, HIGH SPEED INTERNET, ALL UTILITIES, DIRECT TV WITH HBO CHANNELS. BEAUTIFUL PARK AND FOUNTAINS IN STUYVESANT OVAL.
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$950 EAST VILLAGE- 15 X15 ROOM W KITCHENETTE, FIOS, DIRECT TV, ALL UTIL (East Village)
Reply to: hous-1017783644@craigslist.org [?]
Date: 2009-02-02, 2:11PM EST
15 X 15 ROOM LARGE SUNNY ROOM SOUTH AND WEST EXPOSURE QUITE, SECURE, LARGE CLOSET AND KITCHENETTE IN SEPARATE ROOM AND AREAS OF LARGE 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT. STUY TOWN ON EAST RIVER, AVE C 16TH. SHARE BATHROOM.. NON SMOKER, NO DRAMA, NO PETS, RESPECTFUL, CLEAN. STEADY JOB AND INCOME. INCLUDES, HIGH SPEED INTERNET, ALL UTILITIES, DIRECT TV WITH HBO CHANNELS. BEAUTIFUL PARK AND FOUNTAINS IN STUYVESANT OVAL.
A Sty Spy snapped this photo Sunday night of the Super Bowl party at Stuyvesant Town's Oval Lounge. The sad little shindig yielded three whole guests, most likely sympathetic friends of the employee forced to keep the place open until 10PM.
"Thought I'd contribute this little golden nugget of info in case it hasn't already been brought to your attention....
We got our lease renewal papers - that we won't be signing - in the mail yesterday and the kind people at TS offered to keep the rent on our 1 BR the same as last year ($3350).
A couple of paragraphs in is this "After June 30, 2009, Tenant shall be responsible for making full payment for the actual electrical consumption as billed." Given we run both AC units 24/7 in the winter to counteract the searing heat and keep the temperature under 80, the coned bill will probably add another $250 a month to the rent.
A couple of other changes from last year --- the fine for paying more than 10 days late is now 10% of the total due amount. Failure to provide reasonable access to the landlord during the last 3 months of the lease (830AM to 9PM weekdays, 10AM to 9PM weekends) will result in a $1000 fine per incident of refused access.
Can't wait to get a visit at 9PM on Sunday night."
We got our lease renewal papers - that we won't be signing - in the mail yesterday and the kind people at TS offered to keep the rent on our 1 BR the same as last year ($3350).
A couple of paragraphs in is this "After June 30, 2009, Tenant shall be responsible for making full payment for the actual electrical consumption as billed." Given we run both AC units 24/7 in the winter to counteract the searing heat and keep the temperature under 80, the coned bill will probably add another $250 a month to the rent.
A couple of other changes from last year --- the fine for paying more than 10 days late is now 10% of the total due amount. Failure to provide reasonable access to the landlord during the last 3 months of the lease (830AM to 9PM weekdays, 10AM to 9PM weekends) will result in a $1000 fine per incident of refused access.
Can't wait to get a visit at 9PM on Sunday night."
When security could still be found in Stuyvesant Town's Oval, there was a secure box located in the security office where residents could drop off their rent checks. The security office has since been converted to one of the Oval Atrocities leaving residents to drop their rent in one of the vacant, mini-security gazebos. This month Tishman Speyer has installed a monster green, plywood box for residents to drop their $3,000+ rent checks into. How long will it take for some drunken college kid to kick it over, run off with the bounty and start stealing residents' identities is anyone's guess.
Yesterday, New York Magazine published the most realistic depiction of Stuy Town's plummet from middle class housing to failed, faux-lux living.Clash of the Utopias - How the Bottom Fell Out of the Speyer's Vision for Stuyvesant Town - [New York Magazine]
Photoshop image submitted by a Sty Spy.
"...I call 311 a lot... it's almost become a part-time job.. now not only is my
living disturbed by neighbor noise, and illegal drug use... but now
part of my night has to be spent calling 311!
i had a fun one last night.. my good friend PD Dawson at the police dept (13th precinct) informed me that the only way the cops can do anything about the pot smokers that stink up the apt and the building..(you know...the "love your space," "luxury living" apartments).. was to catch them in the act so i have to call 911 (not the precinct.. she specifically told me NOT to call the precinct) and then hope that the cops come in time to catch them.
if the cops smell it.. they aren't going to "knock on the doors smelling each apt till they find it" so if the cops show up and dont "see" anyone doing it... then there's nothing they can (or will) do. i am no trained German Shepard or anything but even my nose can quickly isolate which apt it's coming from. am i missing something here??? if my hallway, and apt SMELL like pot.. isn't that "probable cause" enough for the cops to investigate illegal activity?"
- market rate, in response to "2 Bedroom Stuy Town Apts on Craig's List - $2650!"
i had a fun one last night.. my good friend PD Dawson at the police dept (13th precinct) informed me that the only way the cops can do anything about the pot smokers that stink up the apt and the building..(you know...the "love your space," "luxury living" apartments).. was to catch them in the act so i have to call 911 (not the precinct.. she specifically told me NOT to call the precinct) and then hope that the cops come in time to catch them.
if the cops smell it.. they aren't going to "knock on the doors smelling each apt till they find it" so if the cops show up and dont "see" anyone doing it... then there's nothing they can (or will) do. i am no trained German Shepard or anything but even my nose can quickly isolate which apt it's coming from. am i missing something here??? if my hallway, and apt SMELL like pot.. isn't that "probable cause" enough for the cops to investigate illegal activity?"
- market rate, in response to "2 Bedroom Stuy Town Apts on Craig's List - $2650!"
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10/23/09 While NYC Renters Rejoice, More Pain for Tishman and Co. [WSJ]- 10/23/09 Tsk, tsk, Tishman [NY Post]
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- 10/22/09 Stuyvesant Town Ruling Worries Tenants and Landlords Alike [NYT]
- 10/22/09 Court Deals Blow to Owners of Apartment Complex [NYT]
- 10/22/09 Tishman Rent Rise in Manhattan Voided by New York’s Top Court [Bloomberg]
- 10/22/09 Court Shakes Up New York Landlords [WSJ]
- 10/19/09 StuyTown Tenants Fear Inspections [WNYC]
- 10/15/09 Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association seeks second chance to buy building complex [NY Daily News]
- 10/15/09 Commercial Real Estate Watch: Stuyvesant Town Set To Implode [Business Insider]
- 10/15/09 An Apartment Complex Teeters [WSJ]
- 9/11/09 Stuy Town Down [NY Post]
- 9/10/09 Tishman Speyer's Stuyvesant Town Lost $3 Billion [Bloomberg]
- 9/10/09 Stuy Town Owners in Court Over Rent Boosts [NBC NY]
- 9/10/09 When a Real Estate Deal Goes Bad [NYT]
- 9/9/09 Tishman, BlackRock, Could Default on Stuy Town Loans [Real Deal]
- 9/9/09 ST / PCV on the Verge of Ruin [Gothamist]
- 9/9/09 Bloomberg's Rich Friends, and His Silence on Affordable Housing [The Awl]
- 9/1/09 Florida Lost $250 Millionon New York's Stuyvesant Apartments [Bloomberg]
- 8/31/09 Fitch: Stuy-Town Debt Reserve May Run Dry [Globe St]
- 8/25/09 Cash Crisis for America's Most Expensive Housing Complex [Multi Family Investor]
- 8/22/09 Stuy Town Cash Crisis [NY Post]
- 8/6/09 Welcome to Stuy Town U [NY Press]
- 7/21/09 Rape in Stuyvesant Town [NY Post]
- 7/15/09 Targets Elderly Men [The Villager]
- 7/14/09 East Side Attacker Of Elderly Re-Emerges [CBS News]
- 6/12/09 Police release video of suspect in muggin spree [NY Daily News]
- 6/4/09 I Really Don’t Think People Defecate in the Hallways of Stuyvesant Town [NY Magazine]
- 5/27/09 Now It's War [Curbed]
- 5/22/09 Group of Stabilized Tenants File $10M Suit [Curbed]
- 5/21/09 Landlords Could Soon be Responsible for Indoor Air Quality [Epoch Times]
- 4/7/09 Tishman Speyer Victory: Can Appeal Stuy Town Rent Ruling [Huffington Post]
- 5/18/09 Protections Sought For Foreclosed-Upon Renters [City Limits]
- 5/6/09 Stuy Town Woman Fondled by Teen [NY Post]
- 4/23/09 Gang Violence Leads to Mounted Partol in ST [Town & Village]
- 4/9/09 Perv Plea: Save My Stuy Apt [NY Post]
- 3/6/09 Stuy Town Owners Set Back on Rents [Metro]
- 3/6/09 Big Landlord Found to Have Wrongly Raised Rents [NYT]
- 3/6/09 Stuy Town Rent Win [NY Post]
- 3/5/09 NY court deals landlords huge setback [Crain's]
- 3/3/09 Study Questions Whether Cameras Cut Crime [NYT]
- 2/25/09 Stuyvesant Town Debt May Be Cut If Rent Law Changes [Bloomberg]
- 2/25/09 Fitch may downgrade New York City apartment CMBS [Reuters]
- 2/5/09 Proposed Rent Rules Stir an Owner Outcry [NYT]
- 2/1/09 Clash of the Utopias [NY Mag]
- 1/20/09 Illegal walls turn NYC apartments into firetraps [MSNBC]
- 1/14/09 Apartments Try to Stay Afloat [WSJ]
- 1/11/09 STUY TOWN OWNER SUED OVER 'EVICTION SPREE' [NY Post]
- 12/31/08 Tishman Close To Figuring Out If Stuy-Town Was Worth It [NY Observer]
- 12/16/08 A List a Landlord Doesn’t Want to Be On [NYT]
- 11/21/08 NYPD Daily Crime Blotter [NY Post]
- 11/13/08 Unclear why E Side water runs brown [NY Daily News]
- 11/13/08 Brown tap water plagues NYC residents for weeks [WCBSTV]
- 11/11/08 Will Tisnman Speyer Buckle [The Real Deal]
- 10/28/08 No gas for one week steams Stuy Town [NY Daily News]
- 10/26/08 Tishman Speyer up against residential rout [Crain's]
- 10/26/08 A Shift in Albany Could Avert Higher Rents [Gotham Gazette]
- 10/21/08 Heat's on Tishman [NY Post]
- 10/17/08 Stuy Town Fight Club [Curbed]
- 10/13/08 Managers facing ‘Survivor’ challenge [PI]
- 10/7/08 What the Other Half Thinks [City Limits]
- 9/29/08 Big Squeeze on Affordable Housing [NYP]
- 9/28/08 More City Apartments Facing Foreclosure [Crain's]
- 9/27/08 Stuy Town Blues [NYP]
- 9/17/08 Stuy Town a Money Loser for Tishman? [WNYC]
- 9/8/08 Out of Control [Barron's]
- 8/27/08 From a Doorman to Dorm Rooms [WSJ]
- 8/26/08 Fear of Defaults After a Flurry of Apartment House Sales [NYT]
- 8/3/08 Tishman's Stuy Buy Hurting [New York Post]
- 7/23/08 Revenues at Stuyvesant Town are Down [Gothamist]
- 7/23/08 Stuyvesant Town Revenues Have Fallen, Report Says [NYT]
- 7/15/08 Stuyvesant Town Renters Rally in Wake of WallGate [Curbed]
- 7/14/08 Stuy Town Wall Woes [New York Post]
- 7/5/08 A Very Stuyvesant Town Fourth of July [Gothamist]
- 7/2/08 Tishman Speyer Canceled Pressurized Wall [Curbed]
- 6/29/08 Life After Tenements [NYT]
- 6/22/08 Far From the Fairways, Unpopular Visitors [NYT]
- 5/27/08 Stuy Town Follies: Now It's War [Curbed]
- 5/27/08 Tenants Roiled by Challenges on Residency [NYT]
- 5/27/08 Renters Forced Out of Stuyvesant Town [NYT]
- 5/22/08 Preserving Stuyvesant Town [NY Sun]
- 5/8/08 Everybody's Sexy in Stuyvesant Town! [NYMAG]
- 3/5/08 Stuyvesant Town, Desperate for Renters? [Gothamist]
- 5/27/07 Tenants Blast Stuy Town 'Spying' [NYP]
- 5/27/07 Landlord probes tenants in fight over apartments [WABC]
- 10/21/07 Child Pornography Arrest Stirs Previous Allegation Against Therapist [NYT]
- 1/16/07 After Sale, Rent Increases Give Some Sticker Shock [NYT]
- 9/23/06 Complexes’ Seller Pushes Profits, as Critics Fear Higher Rents [NYT]
- 7/12/06 An Earlier Case of a Gas Explosion After a Broken Relationship [NYT]
- 7/6/06 A Surprise Lurks at Stuyvesant Town - Luxury Rentals [NY Sun]
- 11/5/03 Stuyvesant Town tenants wary of N.Y.U. influx [The Villager]
- 10/23/02 Sniper Hits a Teacher at Stuyvesant Town [NYT]
