95 Wall St. IN Financial District at 98 Front Street,

Manhattan, NY 10005

Lobby was nice.

Terrible responsiveness to issues.

Friendly leasing office
Easy to use renters portal

Package room hours
Waterbugs in apartment

Long time building staff is great (aside from mgt/leasing)

I’ve lived in 3 different units here:

-Sep 2024: School starts, college kids move in, and hot water disappears. The buildings hot water system cannot handle the buildings size. The building does not meet the NYC code requirement to provide 120 degree water at all times. My water temp dips into the 90s almost always during common shower times (8am to 10am) (8pm to 11pm) and sometimes even lower when it’s a really popular time (say 9:30pm or 8am).

Summer 2024: It seems every time they Reno a bathroom on my apartment line I get an absolutely disgusting sewage smell that takes over my entire apartment all day. At first I thought there was a dead body inside the walls, that’s what the smell is like..

-May 2024: Building has an ongoing hot water distribution issue. Building management ignores questions about it by closing queries in the resident app with no response. Enjoy your cold to room temp showers. But at least they stopped branding themselves as a luxury building.

-April 22 2024: building wide ac/heat issue, confirmed with multiple other tenants. Major hvac/electrical/plumbing issues are something of a traditional here now I guess.

-April 21 2024; electrical surge in building, AC units in multiple units stop working properly. This building is a disaster, do not get suckered into renting here.

-“Renovated units” are kind of renovated (janky loud AC units still there) and the new fixtures/appliances are the lowest cost things they could find, washer/dryer is ruining my clothes.

-Building management WILL lie to you. Latest example from Feb 2024. Sudden full building electricity shut off. Management sends email to tenants stating the entire block is being shut down by ConEd to repair electrical wires that were damaged. What really happened? Only this building had damage, ConEd was unaware of any such issue when contacted. No other building actually impacted, fire occurred inside 95 Wall.

-AC: building AC has been off all summer 2023 even after their new cooling tower was installed.

-Unit AC always breaking and extremely loud:rattling sounds.

-No AC in hallways, gym is sweltering hot.

-Paper thin walls, if you live next to one of the buildings many flex wall dorms or Air Bnb units, or even a loud talker, good luck.

-Dust/air: extremely dusty, seems to come from the lone air return duct. No mechanical ventilation. Air circulation is extremely poor.

-Window blinds chain breaks constantly.

-Oven makes burning plastic smell but can’t be replaced or fixed.

- Poor security. Minimal camera coverage. 50/50 chance the front desk person does access control. Depends on the person on duty, so outsiders can and do enter and roam the building. There is a person that roams the halls checking. For unlocked door, management reportedly ambivalent to it.

AirBnB: building claims they take it seriously. They don’t. Front desk is basically a hotel check in desk. Plenty of listings on AirBnb.

No Gas in building currently for the two months due to gas leak. Building management is defiant and doesn’t understand what a gas leak is apparently and claim that the shut off is to “appease” ConEd. As if a major gas leak on multiple doors is nothing.

The building is forcing “GigStreem” internet on all tenants and charging $70 / mo for it.

Cut the crap

They seem to answer maintenance requests quickly and is a pretty clean building

The entire building was out of cooking gas for over 2 months without any compensation

Nothing, truly nothing.

Gas was out for months on end, elevators are broken constantly, college kids are the main residents so noise is always a problem. This place was only worth it when the building was rent stabilized which it isn't anymore.

Great laundry and great super

Not a very good doorman situation

Convenience to work, spacious studio

Need more elevators, building maintenance can interfere with work at home (electrical, plumbing, etc).

Be more responsive and considerate when scheduling building maintenance.

Location and having an elevator

Not asthma safe, lack of air flow, hot water only in the kitchen, small flex rooms

Building is not suitable for tenants

The dishwasher was ok. Package room guy is nice, but only open during the times you’re at work.

Unsafe. There have been multiple murders, and robberies are shockingly frequent. Anyone can just walk in. There are also a lot of illegal airbnbs that bring in really sketchy people. Management knows (they check in at the front desk to get their key) and does nothing. Homeless people around both entrances. People regularly got followed and harassed. The apartments also all have “smart locks” that you have to pay a monthly fee for. People figured out the master code, so they can unlock whatever door they want.

Elevators will be out for hours at a time. When they do work, they’re insanely slow. Just bake an extra 5-10 minutes into your commute.

Pretty frequent power outages? The last one took a day and a half to fix. Management wouldn’t give an accurate estimate on how long it would take because if they did, they’d have had to pay for our hotel rooms.

Paper thin walls that let you hear everything above below and beside you. Constant noise

Insane utility bills. $400-500 in the summer. Really inefficient building where hot and cold air leak in through the windows and floors. You also pay for the building’s utilities, so even if you’re responsible, you’re still going to pay. The hidden costs of living here are ridiculous.

You have to pay $70 for wifi, but it’s so bad that everyone has to buy Verizon wifi if they want to work from home or even stream a show. It’s actually unusable.

Vents run all the way up, so you hear and smell everything in every apartment below you.

Massive rent hikes. Expect at least 10%, but I’ve heard as much as 25%. The building is no longer rent stabilized, so they get you in with low rents and then jack up the price on renewal.

Utilities never work well, break frequently, and maintenance is slow to fix if they fix at all.

Multiple gas leaks. We didn’t have gas for like four months?? Management gave everyone the cheapest hot plate on Amazon to make up for it.

Tons of roaches, and a growing number of apartments with bedbugs. Management is not diligent in addressing this.

Just dissolve

ex Philippe Starck designed building, decent lounge on the roof-top,

The winter and summer months can be brutal on your heating and cooling costs. The windows are poorly designed and not double-paned, therefore, you're going to have to run the heat on high during the winter months. Utility bills above 600/month are not uncommon.

UDR should repair the windows

Convenient location with access to a number of trains.

This building is awful. After living in 8 different buildings in NYC, this is hands down the worst. The front desk lets anyone in; this became apparent when a random screaming person roamed my hallway and then broke into my apartment. There were parties nearly every night; many mornings I would get in the elevator to walk my dog and find empty beer bottles on the floor. I felt completely unsafe and have zero peace and quiet (which, despite living in Manhattan, I have found in other apartments!).

Invest in stronger security and vet your tenants.

Convenience to subway and has all of the makings of what a luxury building should be. But as the saying goes, it’s just lipstick on a pig.

This building might as well have been sponsored by local colleges because most people that live here are students. They are super rowdy and because of their naiveness, management takes advantage. Also the elevator was really slow.

Improve the conditions of the rooms.

No amenity fee, location, w/d in unit

Bad management last year, no gas for 5 months

In unit washer and dryer, nice maintenance and doormen/building staff, gym, rooftop

- Building management ignored reports of a gas leak which resulted in entire building’s gas being shut off for 6+ weeks; they did not offer any rent reduction or compensation
- illegal after-hours street work on Water St causing immense amounts of noise and jackhammering from midnight until 7am
- UDR is incredibly unresponsive for major issues and gets sassy
- Water and electricity were turned off for entire day and night at the same time gas was out, tenants forced to pay out of pocket for hotel, building blamed ConEd but ConEd confirmed it was from a building fire, not related to ConEd
- no transparency in electricity bill; bill doubled in the month when I was not even there
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amenities were great

could hear everything

invest in noise absorbing something, the walls are very thin

The building had friendly staff and was well maintained.

Maintenance requests were slow to be completed and shoddily done.

Fix your fridges and ACs. Keep your front desk staff

The mail room guy is amazing, and maintenance is super sweet. The roof is another bonus, but is only open 6 months out of the year and the building will randomly rent it out.

The building nickeled and dimed you for everything. They took forever to reply to emails and were very cold to residents who had lived there for multiple years. The doormen don't do shit and contribute to why so much illegal activity took place in the building.

Affordable, amazing water pressure in the showers, safe area, no noise issues with neighbors, no pest issues, office personal is very attentive

Gym could have better hours, it’s not 24 hours.
Can only pick up packages in certain time frames

The water Pressure is great

Management is slow to respond

Become more responsive and provide better solutions

Package room
Fitness canter
Location

Doormen don’t pay attention
Handymen don’t ever fix anything properly