Only a few weeks have passed since Tishman Speyer deemed Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village a failure and slithered away from the mess they created. Since Jerry and Rob's spineless departure, residents have become concerned about the property being properly maintained. With the recent round of snow storms it's becoming clear that Stuy Town is nothing short of an accident waiting to happen."During the first snow storm last week they started driving these snow plows around at 3AM when the snow was just getting started. They sounded like bone crushers and jolted us out of bed," said Alice, a resident of 449 East 14th Street. "They disappeared as quickly as they came letting the real snow accumulate for another five hours. Then they send their thugs back out around 8AM to shovel while they chain-smoke and bellow at each other outside my window. They did a half-assed job and left."
Plows and salt trucks were deployed during the last two storms and though progress was made in some areas, a number of buildings were left to fend for themselves. "They plowed up to the door outside 15 Stuyvesant Oval but on their second pass they left a two foot wall of snow at the end of the walkway," said a tenant who ask to remain anonymous. "They have no concern for elderly tenants who can't scale a snowbank in a walker."
"You wouldn't believe these people," says Wanda Wayward of 8 Stuyvesant Oval. "I came down to check my mail and the snow guys were having a snowball fight. One of them ran into the lobby quick and shut the door before it was pelted with ice and snow balls filled with dog feces. There was brown everywhere. And the language they used! Disgraceful!"
With the snow storms behind us, most of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village is in desperate need of a fresh layer of salt. "The snow melts during the day and freezes again at night leaving black ice everywhere," said a resident of 635 East 14th Street. On 23rd Street the only effort to do anything about the black ice seems to be an abandoned push cart full of rock salt which has been there for several days. "At first I thought it was Oval Concierge's 'festivities cart' because of the Tequila bottles in it, but there's nothing festive about this fiasco," said a tenant.
When asked for comment Tishman Speyer's spokesman, Bud Perrone, said "Oh no you don't! Ask the new guy."
IMO, it's not a 'festivities' cart without alcohol-scented vomit, used condoms, and Jerry passed out in the basket. Since Trenchmouth-Stymaker took over, concern for elderly tenants and those that weren't imported college kids there to provide rental income sans class and responsibility, became a thing of the past, like manners. I just got a visual of a gang of rogue seniors, hiding behind walls and bushes, pelting these a-holes with frozen snowballs, pounding them to a pulp with durable medical equipment!
I think they actually did a pretty good job in PCV during the big storm. Didn't plod through ST for a few days thereafter so I can't comment on what flew around the oval...
As for last night, that's a different story. The slush quickly turned to ice everywhere. Pretty scary for those not so firm of foot. tsk, tsk...
I have a problem with one leg and I was extremely apprehensive walking in PCV last night as most of the walkway was covered with ice and no salt or sand had been spread on the ice.
It was fairly bad. No question.
Agree--much better clearing of the walkways near my building than usual. And I noticed that the crossing on the island on 23rd Street and First was well cleared. The bus stop, though, was a disaster area, but that's the city's fault. Three city buses and about five express buses use that stop, and it was nothing but ice after the storm.
No comment! (How am I doing?)
No wonder people are jumping out the windows, they are snowed in!
Wow! Just like the old Bud! Thank god, we resist change around here. We are used to everything being a fucking circus.
No comment...
Racket this a.m. beginning approx 2 until 4? I fell asleep. First, guys in loud verbal intercourse causing me to look out window. A small unquiet as well dump truck thing that they were trailing. They were security guards. I'm tired.
Shoot! You got like 80 gallons of leftover soup due to the layoffs and concomitant lackluster snow removal efforts...why not heat it up and launch it from the parapet to the unsuspecting oafs down below?!?
Get medieval on them!
How about the delivery guy who was stabbed 5 times outside 370 First and there was blood everywhere the next day! A fireman friend who lives in the building said he came upon the guy who was in shouting distance and bee's eye of the 'security' booth!
I did find a bright spot in the snow however. A laughing snow Buddha found outside building 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMxj6ErZ7z8
I respect your memory. This time around I didn't bother. (Making hot chicken soup for wet shivering shovelers. Remember them?)
I had to dump that soup. As you know our itty bitty refrigerators are more frat-friendly in that they don't hold much more than condiments.
When I was a kid we had window sills and we used them. We don't even have stinking window sills in this fascist-style architectural masterpiece.
FURNITURE FOR SALE! FURNITURE FOR SALE! If you get my snow drift.
Gawd I'm tired.
I figured as much. The days of soup and tasteful landscaping are long past.
And by the way, a REAL frat-friendly fridge will hold a 1/4 keg--that's 25.5 gallons in a stainless steel barrel. Believe me, these fridges are NOT frat-friendly...
Re stabbing victim: This interests me. When was that?
Oops. Another bad by me. A 1/2 keg is 25.5 gallons. A 1/4 keg is the little one...
Clarabelle and I built that Buddha when we were done frolicking in the snow.
thanks, sandi!
NewBud, asking how you're doing is not helpful, entertaining or funny.
That's it! I need to buy a Flip. How come the ice-toilet outside of 447 hasn't been documented so beautifully? It's to the right of the building next to the trash on the First Avenue Loop.
Nam-myoho-renge-kyo
Nam-myoho-renge-kyo
Nam-myoho-renge-kyo
Nam-myoho-renge-kyo
AND you're a Samurai?
No comment?
No. Not a Samurai. Merely a tabla rasa at your disposal.
Sigh.
I'm finally back. So what have I missed?
1. STPCV is now owned by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Anyone with any complaints is invited to contact the management office. Beheadings will follow.
2. Obama took over Congress . He is now known as "The Absolute One"
3. the NY State senate actually did something
I saw the stabbing incident as well. It was terrible. I walked up probably about a minute after it happened. The poor delivery guy was slouched over the fence with blood spewing from his face while a foot cop was trying to help him. The blood was there for 2 days and was only cleared away by the snow. I'm shocked this hasn't really been discussed on this site or at least some type of safety bulletin sent out. Keep in mind this happened at 6:30 at night right next to Chase bank on 23rd and 1st. Stay safe everyone.
Touche with an accent over the "e".
I haven't gotten my mail yet today. Wonder if our pal, Sabina, covered it?
Sounds like progress...
Mail came today. You gotta open the box to get it, tho...
Still curious as to when this happened. Another delivery guy got it in an elevator in 21 Oval a few years back. StuyTown kids.
It was the first week of February I believe, dont remember the exact day.
Yeah, but that means I have to leave my apt! I have the worst cold and just want to lay on my couch reading magazines and watching dumb movies.
(Although, truthfully, I have NYU-ers who walk around my building in pajamas and slippers so if I went downstairs in a bathrobe nobody might even notice.)