Stuy Town: A Transient "Community" in Action

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. How will this ever
change?

I just heard of a BEDBUG infestation an apartment in my building. Thanks very much TS.

BTW, I love how the dudes are sleeping directly next to one of those "blue light" SECURITY CAMERAS.

In the past few weeks there have been two muggings caught on camera, and now these drunken, shoeless fools drink beer bu the playground and pass out underneath the security cameras?

Good work security! It must be hard juggling your busy schedule of beeping your jeep horns at residents dogs, running people off the sidewalk and watching Sponge Bob.

Remind me to give you fat fucks the finger the next time I see you.

I believe we are now officially a slum. Thanks Tishman Speyer for turning our community into a slum. You have done it extremely well. You bloodsucking fucks.

Un-fucking believable. I just dropped my work to take a minute to make an entry here- that's how pissed I am. Not only is tihs guy slee;ing in front of a security camera but Itihnk that;'s near my building (I saw the trash outside a building near me just yesterday). And sorry for the expletive, but seriously. I passed up a doormanned, real luxury, lobbied new high-rise in Chelsea for $500 LESS than this piece of shit dump.
I can't fucking wait until TS's stay has expired and they have to finally start paying out after they lose their appeal.

A "community" this size can't handle people coming and going on a what seems like a monthly basis. There's tons of cheapo furniture and junk being disposed of with no place to put it. It either ends up piled around the storage units or randomly tossed onto the street with pizza boxes and the odd shoe.

Last week I saw a huge computer monitor with the screen kicked in sitting on top of the garbage can outside my building. It obviously didn't fit into the can yet it sat there for two days.

Lux living!

just moved out

finally got my security deposit back less many deductions (uggh!) but i am sooooo happy to be gone

it is a real shame what has happened to this community

they charged me for repainting primarily - we painted the bedrooms and the living room

in hindsight i should have scheduled a "free" repainting before i moved out since i was there 7 years anyway

we knew we would be charged but did not expect them to try and rip us off so much --- well yes i guess we should have given the need for money to support Robie's poor investment

I just saw a sign in the carriage room of our building that says you can no longer put discarded furniture there. If you do and you're caught, you will be prosecuted. Before TS turned StuyTown into a transient, dormlike community there was no issue with discarded furniture. Our building didn't have a "revolving door" and the furniture issue was manageable. This new sign (in day-glo orange, no less) documents yet another round of inconveniences (and landlord threats)that have resulted from Tishman Speyer's greed.

TS is trying to push its new service where you call to have your furniture carted away and get charged for it. I think we were supposed to call MetLIfe too.

Also, question: what if I paid $0 deposit for this place? What could they charge me for if I painted?

A flyer was hanging up in my lobby advertising the carting-away service. I remember it said "reasonable fees" or words to that effect. You could call the management office if you feel like spending a half hour on hold!

If TS wins their appeal, i hope you guys have plans to go ballistic and march on city hall and go for Bloomberg's jugular! Bloomberg is ultimately responsible for all the crap that's happening at Stuy Town. I hope no one in Stuy Town votes for Bloomberg. Anyone would be better. Over here in the rental apartment building I live in, Independence Plaza, that's being raped and pillaged by the crummy developer that bought it and took it out of Mitchell-Lama and is trying to evict the lower rent tenants and rent to market rate people, we are all voting for anyone but Bloomberg. Bloomberg is the root of the problem. He's giving NYC to all his rich developer friends.

Y'know, I'm trying to think of one good, positive, decent thing that Tishman Speyer has done for our community and sadly I can't think of even one thing. They haven't even done themselves any good; they've lost money and have become one of the most loathed and ridiculed landlords in New York, though I'm sure they are just as loathed in other places where they have practiced their trademark piracy and destruction.

In my building TS has gone further than putting up neon-glow signs saying you can't dump furniture by the trash cans--they've actually spray-painted that message onto the walls in the trash room. Looks like TS wanted their own tag--something more "sophisticated" (??) than our chicken-footed Stuyvesant Town mascot!

Prosecuted by whom, I wonder?

Nobody has stopped to think about the possibility that because TS posted signs in the carriage rooms threatening prosecution for leaving discarded furniture inside, residents are simply leaving furniture outside !

What morons.

remember.....

PLEASE LEASn YOUR DOGS.