515 East 12 Street,

Manhattan, NY 10009

Affordable, great location, responsive super

Landlord is in this for a cash grab and raises rent dramatically every renewal while doing nothing to properly upkeep the buildings or respond to tenant issues. Building security is nonexistent, they haven't even bothered to put proper locks on the front door. An exterminator is offered every month because the buildings are infested with mice and there are rats running rampant in the courtyard because the LL can't even be bothered to put in a proper dumpster. Unless you're desperate, find another place.

The building is on a quiet street and it’s mostly comprised of 1 br or studio apartments so it’s never too noisy.

The landlord is very slow to respond to requests and chalks things like stolen packages up to the cost of living in East Village. The entirety of the two years I lived there the front door could be forced open. Also, the building uses a virtual doorman to buzz in people, meaning instead of buzzing someone in, the systems calls your cellphone. It took months for the landlord to get me setup with that and even then so was more of a hassle then anything as I would get solicitors calling me somehow as frequently as once a day.

Back units are really sunny and mostly quiet
Owner responsive

Package theft a few times w limited follow up from owner

Put cameras up and some sort of keyless entry for packages

The location is the only thing that makes this place even slightly bearable

Landlord rents to known harassers and delinquent tenants
Rats in the courtyard
Garbage is rarely maintained
Stolen mail periodically
Super is not responsive
Landlord is only interested in money - not providing care or protection for her tenants

Quit your job or find a heart because you’re an awful property owner as it currently stands. Maybe perform background searches on tenant applications before renting out units to known harassers in a building full of young women.

It’s affordable below market prices

Health code violations ; tons of rats in courtyard

The front of the building has a nice view of an East Village street and gets a lot of light because it is South facing. But that is LITERALLY the only pro to living here.

I am never really one to comment or review. But this place NEEDS to improve to be safe and habitable for tenants. I had the worst housing experience of my life during the 8 months that I could tolerate living here. When I moved in, there were cockroaches ALL OVER THE FLOOR, was peeling paint on the walls and ceilings, dead lightbulbs in both light fixtures, and the windows were black on the inside from a previous tenant smoking and them not being cleaned prior to my tenancy…there was no shower head in the shower and management failed to provide a new one within the first month of my tenancy, the bathroom sink was filthy and so was the toilet - all of these things I had been assured would be fixed prior to my moving in. Our heat was completely unreliable throughout the winter, rats regularly came into the hallways, and noise complaints were NEVER addressed. Three months in, the entire building got bedbugs because an initial infestation in one unit was never responded to until it became a massive building-wide issue, despite that tenant filing four reports to let management know he needed help addressing the infestation. Management failed to even attempt getting rid of the bedbugs until almost a month into the infestation, by which point most of the tenants couldn’t stand being there any longer and had evacuated the building. So management blamed us for the state of the infestation and still refused to treat the issue until we all came back, even though we had given written permission for them to spray our units while we were gone. When I came back, I reported a bad leak from my bathroom ceiling. No response until two months later when I called and sent a video because the ceiling was literally POURING brown water from the bathroom of the unit above me. The response at that point? “What do you expect me (landlord) to do about it? Try the super again.” I know other tenants who reported the brick from their walls crumbling and falling onto their heads while they were sleeping and received the exact same kind of answer. My mental health and finances were crippling by the time I was able to leave, as a result of having to spend so much time in hotels, on dry-cleaning to kill bedbugs, etc. Please, please do not ever even attempt to live here for your own sanity and well-being.

If you can’t be kind, at least try to be civil. Show up once in a while to see for yourself the state of your building. Don’t rely on a senior, extremely overworked super who is managing 14 other buildings to do everything for you. And please, when you terminate a tenant’s lease early due to uninhabitability, do not withhold their security deposit as punishment AND take them to court for the payments you didn’t receive after they moved out. That’s just disgusting.

LL is hands off but responsive, super is great and attentive, everything worked normally. Never had any pests in apartment and exterminator came once a month to check in. Quiet street and the back building rarely heard any of the East Village noise. Apartments are small and generally kind of gross but that's to be expected around here.

Some neighbors are crazy shut-ins, others are yuppies who regularly throw parties into the wee hours of the night (and blast music out the window into the courtyard). A lot of neighbors are generally disrespectful and leave their trash and empty packages scattered in the hallways. Some of them are friends and walk around drunk and yelling on the fire escape. One lost their keys once and rung every person's doorbell trying to get into the building, then climbed the fire escape and dropped somebody's AC unit all the way down to the ground, breaking it in the process. Besides that, there are rats in the courtyard. Roof is nice and has a railing but access is not allowed. Cigarette and weed smoke from neighbors wafts up through bathroom vents. Nothing you can't deal with though (although a few snarky letters have been slid under doors before).