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50 Horatio Street

West Village, Manhattan, NY 10014

20 units·6 floors·Built in 1907
3.2

9 reviews

Rent-stabilized apartments

This building has apartments that entitle you to a renewal and limited rent increases.

Good cause building

This building guarantees a renewal and capped rent increases, if you follow your lease terms.

Highlights

No
Evictions
26
Open violations
8
Litigation cases
No
Bedbug history
Pet friendly

Renter recommendations

-%

Renters recommend this building

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Renters approve of the building's owners

Review summary

Summarized from anonymous rental reviews on Openigloo.

Recent reviews for 50 Horatio Street highlight a prime location with good kitchen amenities. However, issues arise with small, poorly managed bedrooms and smoke odors from the bar below. Concerns about heating, unresponsive management, and challenges in reaching the owners are recurrent. Some tenants face difficulties with rent-stabilized units and communication gaps. Despite friendly neighbors and spacious units, the building's management is under scrutiny for inadequate responses to maintenance requests and security concerns. Suggestions include better upkeep, addressing odor concerns, and enhancing owner accountability. While the location is praised, there are notable gaps in management effectiveness.

Reviews

Former tenant·1 week ago

Slumlords somehow getting away with it

Pros

Location, great kitchen

Cons

Closet sized bedrooms, bathroom and living area; Cigar smoke from the bar below permeates the entire building and everything we own; Spent winter 2020-2021 without heat; Management refused to address building security concerns after a break-in with theft; Owners/management impossible to reach by phone, no response to emails; Extremely questionable handling of rent-stabilized units (entire building was rent-stabilized just a few years ago, now only units with 10 year+ residents still stabilized; no investment in building renovation, only individual units with very minimal improvements that clearly did not cost enough to achieve deregulated status); Failed to notify me of the unit’s rent-stabilized status in the lease agreement as required by law; Lawyers determined my unit was illegally rented out to me at market value for $3350 as the documented rent history of the unit shows it was registered as and leased rent-stabilized by the tenant before me, with the most recent monthly rent rate being roughly $780 - a 430% increase.

Former tenant·Over 1 year ago

Mngt, building a nightmare

Pros

location, new super is an improvement

Cons

Barely passable. Chronic building issues, unresponsive management - it’s a fight to get any relief. Repairs delayed weeks or months, or ignored altogether.

Advice to the owners

Communication !!!!

Building ratings

Cleanliness

-

Trash management

-

Pest control

-

Water pressure

-

Heat

-

Neighbors

-

Noise levels

-

Owner responsiveness

-

Rents and deposits

-

Renters received their security deposits back

-

Electronic rent payments

Open violations

From past 10 years · Updated 2 days ago

Average violations per unit in this building is worse than the city average.

Building average1.30Violations per unit
NYC average0.81Violations per unit
5Class C
Immediately hazardous

Rodents, pest, mold, inadequate heat or hot water, defective building parts

14Class B
Hazardous

Smoke detector issues, inadequate lighting, no lighting for stairways

7Class A
Non-hazardous

No peephole on a door, no street number on the building, unlawful keeping of animals

0Class I
Missing info

Missing or non-compliant with administrative information orders or filings

Building owners and associates

Change of ownership/management in 1999

  • 5
    Top rated

    50 Horatio Llc

    3.2(9)
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    1 building

  • K
    Top rated

    Karen Spitalnick

    3.2(22)
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    4 buildings

  • E
    Top rated

    Edin Bakovic

    3.2(9)
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    1 building

  • B
    Top rated

    Birchwood Properties Llc

    3.3(31)
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    7 buildings

Renter Q&A

How was the building overall? Was it clean and decently well lit?

Over 1 year ago

No, the halls are usually dirty but I'd say they're lit enough. At night they often smell like smoke because of the cigar bar on the ground floor.

Over 1 year ago

Answer

What did you do for heat?

Over 1 year ago

I lived in apt 17 for the last 2 years - I had a tiny space heater that would follow me into every room and sit right next to me from December through March. It was a beautiful and charming apartment but the management company was a disaster. I recently called to put someone in touch for a lease takeover and the person they gave me lives in miami and had never seen my unit, but quoted her above 4k for a space I had paid half of that for. he had mistaken it for a different unit but she was so put off by his demeanor that she found another (nicer) apartment. Meanwhile, we just got a notice that they are in debt to con-ed (~$6k) and common area spaces will no longer be serviced. It is truly egregious lol

Over 1 year ago

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