2167 Cruger Avenue,

Bronx, NY 10462

Spacious apartments
Near a lot of shopping centers and transportation

The building is pre-war and looks like it, with old creaky wooden floors, old closets with doorknobs that are hardly attached. One thing I want to point out is that the pests are out of control here. I’m talking mice, rats and roaches. The roaches are unbelievable, no matter how clean you are, it’s an internal issues with the building that needs to be handled. The rodents get in because there are holes in the apartments that they refuse to fix and rent is close to 2k. Pest control comes once a month and just uses sticky traps for the mice and that’s it, anyone can do that. Heat barely comes on during the winter, they shut it on at a certain time at night and it’s off for the rest of the day. The neighbors are INCREDIBLY noisy. Weekday or weeknight they’re playing loud music or having their kids run across the floor. I tried to make a complaint to the superintendent (who is incredibly rude and yells at everyone who attempts to speak to him) and he said there’s nothing he could do about it. Tried asking the tenant to keep down and she insulted me and tried to fight. On top of that, she had her bathroom over flood several times to the point that there is black mold growing from my ceiling. There is also illegal subleasing going on in this building, be careful with that because the rent is supposed to be stabilized, no one should be charging you over the rent price for a room. At the end of the day, no one should have to be forced to live in such conditions while paying so much for rent.

Make more repairs, call an exterminator to get rid of all the pests in the ENTIRE buildin. If you focus on one apartment, they’ll just run to the next. There should be a curfew for the noise, no one should be blasting music on a weeknight at 11pm

The apartments in the building get a lot of light, and you get a lot of space for your money. The super is quick to respond to immediate issues, despite not having proper support from management. Rent is fairly cheap for being right by a train. Most residents are peaceful a few neighbors who have come and gone who blast music into the night but not as bad as it could be.

The building has a big roach problem, even if you keep your apartment spotless and seal up all food it won’t make a difference especially during the summer months. A failure to properly exterminate the whole building including the fallout shelter below has created a playground for these pests. Also our ceiling has caved in once from the pipes above leaking into our bathroom. Our walls in the hallway got flooded from poor roof drainage and it took management 2 years to repair the damage and paint the wall. Sloppy paint job all over the apartment as well. You get what you pay for with this building.

Maintain your building better, stop cutting corners with water pipes so your apartments don’t keep getting flooded. Exterminate the whole building for roaches including the basement and the fallout shelter otherwise the problem will never go away.