Tishman Speyer's courtroom ass-kicking seems to be having an immediate effect on the Stuyvesant Town leasing office. Lux Living received several e-mails tonight suggesting that Stuyvesant Town is not doing any new business through leasing office on First Avenue until further notice.A reputable source close to the Tenants Association tells Lux Living the Stuy Town Leasing Office is "under a 'lease freeze' and no business will be conducted until further notice."
The source says this information is based on three phone calls to the Tenant Association's message center, several e-mails, and interaction with a market rate tenant coming up on a lease renewal.
A separate e-mail was sent to Lux Living by a potential renter who recently answered an ad on Craig's List titled "$2450 / 1br - 755 SQFT TRUE ONE OF A KIND CLASSIC SUNNY APT (East Village)" which has since been removed.
The potential renter got an automated reply from Annette Beatrice who has yet to respond:
"On xxxxx, Beatrice, Annette <ABeatric@TishmanSpeyer.com> wrote:
From: Beatrice, Annette <ABeatric@TishmanSpeyer.com>
Subject: Out of Office: $2450 / 1br - 755 SQFT TRUE ONE OF A KIND CLASSIC SUNNY APT (East Village)
To: "xxxx" <xxxxx>
Date: xxxxx, October xx, 2009
Hi, I am currently out of the office. I will get back to you as soon as possible. If you need immediate assistance, please call the main Leasing Office at 212-253-3610. Thank you."
Stuy Town stopped placing it's usual suspicious Gramercy Park / East Village ads on Craig's List October 20th, 2009.
UPDATE: Tuesday, 7:40am
A third source confirms that if you want a lease at Stuyvesant Town, you have to put your name a waiting list, just like the good 'ol days.
Ms. Beatrice was the leasing agent with whom my wife and I dealt, and, gee, she told us e-mail was the best way to get in touch with her. /pout
And I love "true, one-of-a-kind classic." Those words imply there aren't 11,000 similar apartments in the community.
Tell you one thing, the magazines in the leasing office will be meticulously stacked tomorrow.
We should all call shotgun on Leasing Office items...
I got dibs on the grand piano magnet!!!!!!!
Ha! Those damn magnets. Can you imagine if 1. you could actually fit one into the elevator and through the apartment door, and 2. how many new friends you'd make playing a piano in one of those cavernous sounding apartments.
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I claim the light bulbs.
Again with the goats!
def a lease freeze, my lease was up end of november and i was negotiating with them but she said as of now they have no idea whats going to happen and are not doing any lease renewals
Did they say you could stay in your apartment, though, or do you have to move out?
they literally have no idea, i asked will my lease be month to month, do i have to move? she literally said we have no idea whats happening
Ouch!
Stay, rent-free, until they get their shit together. :) They won't know you're there, trust me.
Just be sure to change the locks if they have your keys. Don't want them coming in when you're ummm indisposed.
Please let us know what happens. I'm a month behind you with my renewal process.
According to a recent Crain's report, NYC has gained a thousand people a week in the past decade. That's about 500,000 for the first decade of this century. http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20091025/FREE/310259998 For $199 you can get the entire report.
New posting on the Tenants' Association website says, "Got J-51 Questions? Get Live Answers This Thursday 10/29 3 p.m."
Eric, email your question to j51atstpcvtadotorg (I've spam proofed that address. Just replace the at with @ and the dot with . -- of course). It'll get forwarded to attorneys at Wolf Haldenstein, and to members of the ST/PCV-TA Legal Committee for monitoring and tracking.
In the meantime, stay where you are. Although you're not officially re-regulated yet, you're not exactly market rate either. Rent regulated tenants must have their leases renewed. The tenants' attorney advises market raters to pay your rents in full until the case gets through the initial court process.
2 cops seen tonight inside leasing office. What are
they protecting?
Light bulbs and refrigerator magnets.
Nothing.
There to pick up the patronage payment$.
Nothing new but this just made Yahoo.com's front oage:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_meltdown_biggest_bust
Now the rest of the country can read about this.
Yeah, and the 1,000 people who moved in last week all moved into the apt. across from me.