201 East 2 Street,

Manhattan, NY 10009

The building was in a super convenient area, so for people who prioritize location, this isn't a bad place to live. The area is super lively and I never felt unsafe coming home late at night, whether it was during the week or over the weekend. All of the tenants seem to be in their early through mid-to-late 20s, which was cool. I made a lot of friends in the building who I continue to keep in touch with! We lived in a true 2 bedroom and it wasn't bad! Also the building itself is relatively clean and I never experienced any pest-related issues other than like, ONE bug that crawled up the drain. However, that's about all of the positive things I can say.

Management is super unresponsive and extremely greedy. Instead of having regular heaters, they switched heaters in the building to ones plugged into the wall, forcing the tenants to pay for the heat bill as opposed to including it in the rent. The heater in my room was completely broken and management couldn't figure out the part needed to fix the heater so they just gave me a space heater instead... which was fine and probably kept our electric bill lower than it would have been if the heater actually worked. Also, we didn't have mailboxes for like 3 months, which is super illegal. Packages are constantly stolen (through a mix of being an inside job and by the people constantly loitering on the stoop) and management was adamant about the fact that they just simply could not install cameras inside the hallways, which is a bunch of BS. Also.. sometimes individuals experiencing homelessness will fall asleep on the stoop.. and other tenants and I saw others shooting up/engaging in illegal activities on the stoop late at night as well. However, as far as I know, nothing's ever happened and tenants have never been harmed.

Stop being so greedy and pay for your tenants' heat. Also, handle serious issues (like the mailboxes) in a timely manner and be more responsive.

True 2 bedroom, great natural light, no bugs or pests

Loud, lots of package stealing, management sucks

Amazing location in east village
Mostly friendly neighbors, except for tech bros and NYU kids
The Super was AMAZING! Super responsive, met his family, even gave me pasta to take home one time

They raised my rent for 130 % (almost double and a half!) when I moved out.

The walls are PAPER! They literally bent when pressed and I could hear every single word my neighbors said.

Water tasted a little off, and often ran out of heat in winter, but that's to be expected in an old building

Buy earplugs, and don't expect them to keep your rent at the price you paid last year.

Location, restaurants, natural light

Steep stairwell, frequent tenants opening roof door which sounds alarm that doesn’t turn off unless a super is home

Good location and nice light on the upper floors

Really awful management — dirty, unresponsive when things break (they broke a lot), and roaches. Packages get stolen and when I lived there they said the lobby cameras didn’t actually work

Give a shit!

Building itself was surprisingly quiet for housing mostly people in 20s but louder outside since it's on an avenue.

Never had an issue with bugs or rodents.

Super was very nice and responsive.

Roommates window leaked excessively during storms and water became trapped behind plaster. Very difficult to get management to do anything about it - I imagine it could have turned into a mold problem after we left.

Across from fire station so there will be frequent sirens.

Try to get on top of property issues when they are reported so they don't become a bigger problem in the long run.

Clean and good location.

Submitting maintenance requests literally never worked and nobody would pick up the phone.

Pick up the damn phone.