200 East 28 Street,

Manhattan, NY 10016

Good location, clean, super always responsive

Street noise can be a lot

Nothing. STAY AWAY FROM APARTMENT 6A!!! Read below.

WARNING!!! STAY FAR AWAY!!! ESPECIALLY FROM APARTMENT 6A!!!!! The building itself is beyond unsanitary, and we barely made it through our 6 months there. The laundry and trash are located in a filthy, smelly dungeon of a basement. The building reeks of cigarettes, trash, and is poorly maintained and the musky air will make you feel sick. There are clearly issues with the building’s heat and cooling systems that either the owners or the building management are too cheap to properly fix, costing the residents hundreds in energy bills. Our real issue with the building was the particular apartment we lived in - apartment 6A, owned by Jennifer Zeng, MD which will be advertised as a 1 bedroom when in actuality is a dump of a studio apartment with an illegal wall put up - we got the building department to confirm this. The floorboards and appliances are installed crooked and uneven - leaving room for dust, filth, and debris to pile up in and around the floorboards that will make you feel as if your camping out on the street, rather than living in a Manhattan condo. When we moved in just in the midst of the COVID we were horrified at the apartment’s deplorable condition. We weren’t allowed to view the apartment due to COVID, and Jennifer’s real estate agent Beth Levy (Compass Reality) lied that it was a beautifully renovated apartment when in actuality, she never even went to look at it. Over 3 different colors of paint splotched on the walls and ceiling, mold and mildew built up in the shower, mold under the non-functioning AC unit that was promised in the lease but the landlord refused to replace, a broken dishwasher that was also promised in the lease but took the landlord 3 months to replace, food on the floor, a sticky fridge that took me days to clean, clumps of dust built up everywhere, and hair everywhere. Light fixtures improperly jammed into the ceiling, broken ventilation systems in the kitchen and bathroom - it was heath hazard after health hazard. The landlord is a crook who should have her rental license revoked for the way she keeps this apartment, and the same goes for her crooked real estate agent who charged us one month’s rent thinking she was doing us a favor, and never even thought to refund us despite how she lied to us about the apartment’s condition. When we brought these issues to the landlord’s attention, her solution was telling us to “leave”, after we just paid a full months rent, one month’s security, one month’s rent of a broker fee, plus a $400 non-refundable fee to the condo board (this slum shouldn’t even be allowed to call itself a condo), plus a $500 move-in security deposit, plus thousands in movers since we moved state-to-state. She wasn’t willing to refund us for nearly any of it, so we tried to stick it out. It took the landlord 3 months to replace the dishwasher that was broken upon our move-in. This left us to hand-wash piles of dishes every night in 95 degree heat since she wouldn’t replace the air conditioning, and we were eating every meal in due to COVID concerns. We even bought a thermostat to prove how hot it was, despite having the air conditioning as cold as possible, but she still refused to replace it. We even looked into replacing it and paying for it ourselves because the heat was so unbearable and we could barely sleep through the night. Upon trying to replace it, we learned she built the entire bedroom closet structure and the window structure around the air conditioning - so to replace the air conditioning all of that would need to be replaced as well. The unbearable heat carried into the winter and never seemed to end, also the worst part of all...our CON ED bills were upwards of $400-$500 a MONTH!!! FOR A STUDIO APARTMENT !!! One day, I entered the meter room in the basement and found that every meter was a smart meter except for our apartment. When we asked the super about this, he told us there was an issue with the wiring to 6A, so they didn’t bother replacing it. The Con Ed bills proved to be a scam when we got nearly a $500 bill in January when we essentially never lived there the entire month. The final straw for us was when the super allowed a plumber to ILLEGALLY ENTER OUR UNIT WITHOUT PERMISSION AND COMPLETELY UNSUPERVISED. A week later they added a riser into the 4’x7’ bathroom which makes it around 85 degrees, or hotter in there. When you shower, you’ll barely be able to breathe amidst the unbearable heat and all the dust piled in the vent. My fiancé also burnt his arm badly because they never bothered to put a protector on the riser. The pictures this slumlord uses to advertise are from 8 years ago. She won’t let you see it in person because she doesn’t want you to know how horrible it really looks, smells, and feels. Save yourself from congestion, constantly feeling sick, the unbearable heat, the $500/month electric bills, and run from this listing as fast as you can. I have pictures and videos for proof of all of this.

Gut renovate properly with a licensed professional, replace the air conditioning, sort out the heat and cooling situation so that your residents are not subject to $400-$500/month bills or DO NOT RENT AT ALL.