great apartment building
Pros
Friendly staff, great neighbors, great location
Cons
management increases your rent by a significant amount each year
Nice, but not worth
Pros
The staff are very friendly (both the doormen and maintenance staff), the building is gorgeous, the views are great, the appliances are new, and the fellow tenants are generally good (they keep to themsleve
Cons
The building keeps its heat on too long, making the apartment uncomfortably hot even as late as May; the elevator operator is an interesting novelty, but it gets frustrating when the doorman steps out (which of course they may need to) and then you have no way of getting to your unit. Similarly, the maintenance elevator is the only way of getting to the laundry room, but it's locked down several times a day for garbage pickup, so you have to
Advice to the owners
Address the heating issue, and post the elevator lockdown times more publicly and clearly.
