Stuyvesant Town residents lucky enough to escape Tishman Speyer's residential real estate failure are flipping their former landlord the bird by dumping their unwanted furniture all over the complex, ignoring Tishman Speyer's new "No Furniture Dumping" rule.Last week Lux Living told you about a new "rule" Stuyvesant Town management made tenants aware of via bio-hazard colored stickers that read "No furniture dumping, violators will be prosecuted." In two years Tishman Speyer has turned the middle-class housing complex, which once had a lengthy list of people waiting to move in, into a transient community which tenants now cant wait to get out of! The large transient community is leaving behind a lot of furniture which is causing a problem for the landlord. Their response is to penalize the tenants, though the ill conceived plan doesn't take into account that the tenants have moved out, making it difficult to prosecute.
Aside from the stickers, Tishman Speyer provided their tenants with no further information about the rules or what the procedure is to have furniture removed until local paper Town & Village called to inquire.
"Tishman Speyer can kiss my ass," says Bridgette Briggs, a tenant moving out of Stuyvesant Town. "They rented me an apartment they knew had bed bugs and now they want me to pay to have my furniture thrown out? They're lucky I don't burn it in front of their leasing office."
Long-time residents, RS tenants, families, and single and married adults who consider their Stuy Town apartment a *home* instead of a place to flop for a couple semesters don't treat the grounds like that. Un-fucking-believable.
As for the first picture, though, was it taken after building services emptied a carriage room of accumulated crap, before a dump truck pulled up to haul it away? I find it hard to believe that stuff was piled outside like that, even by the college pukes.
I live at 449 East 14th Street and though its not as bad as other spots because of the community center and the model apartments there are definitely people leaving furniture and boxes of garbage outside.
Other than the story in T&V there has been no notices or anything from the management office so people just don't know what to do.
The telephone number for the fire dept. is
1-212-999-2222. Use it but don't abuse it. The bottom pic in particular sure looks like a fire hazard to me.
That number was helpful when ambulances couldn't get to buildings unless they had wire cutters. Remember that one, Luxie?
There was a ratty black pleather sofa sitting on the curb outside my building this morning. "Dump and run" is the new ST slogan!
Off topic but still (I hope) interesting re: TS's business deals: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124631610981670647.html#articleTabs%3Darticle
I saw the junk in the first photo - it was on the Main level of 625 East 14 Street near playground 5 - wouldn't the building service people have left it on the terrace side near 14 Street for easy pick up by the dump trucks?
don't try to reason with these people. unless it fits there agenda(to complain)they will not respond, if it makes sense(like you just did) they will bash you. they will never mention any of the numerous wonderful things we have here, they will only complain. you have to realize that there are about 6-10 people you write on this site to complain about everything and there are probably 25000 of very happy people who love living here. this idiot that picture almoust always takes them out of context.
you should be happy now because they will not bash you, they will attack me like ussual.
skibummonel, re-read Suzie's post. She is actually saying the opposite of what you think she is saying.
I think there's some confusion here. The furniture on the curb actually belongs to students from the School of Visual Arts, and they are moving into their new luxury outdoor dorm rooms! SVA began this pilot program to prepare MFA students for the hard times after graduation (which will likely include life on the street) when they have their MFA's and $80,000 student loans in hand.
The furniture in the last photograph looks brand new. Cheap and schlocky, but brand new. Why would it be in the recycling area?
And just for the record, I am not Caroline or Miserable in Stuyvesant Town, whatever. Speaking purely hypothetically, if I were those posters the only person who would know that would be Lux Living himself and I can't see him giving up gratuitous personal information about posters to girl or anyone else. None of us would be safe if that were the case. Credit Luxie with a little more integrity than that. Also, I can take care of myself on and off the computer, thank you. Back to the furniture: I think someone might have put that there while they were moving in, not out. I often see furniture dumped in the hallway temporarily while the movers are bringing stuff in. They're taking a chance on losing it, but that their problem.
No, that's not true. When you accused loathemyspace and I of being one and the same, Lux posted more than once publicly on this site that we definitely are not. Of course, he won't give up personal information, but as you can see, he will confirm that two posters are not the same. And after RR posed the question about you and your various sock puppets, Lux's silence speaks volumes.