362 S 1 St,

Brooklyn, NY 11211

Close to transit, near restaurants and shops, no pests or heat problems.

Front door was not secure causing house less people/friends of tenants spending nights in the stairwell, hallways not cleaned enough, ambiguous management.

Secure the front door locking system.

Unit itself was fine

Everything else - including pests, loud noises, not feeling safe at night

Location
Price
New super was pretty responsive when our drain was clogged

Can’t order packages because they will be stolen
Constant drug activities in the building and on the street and people sleeping in the stairwells
Front door constantly left open
During the winter would constantly wake up to fights and yelling in the halls

Cheap stabilized rent
Nice neighbors who have lived in the building for a long time and are willing to help

- Homeless people squat on the roof and stairwells
- Super is unresponsive and doesn't fix anything (left another building super to fix after ignoring us)
- Lots of flies, roaches, and mice/rat problems
- Lack of hot water at times
- Packages get stolen
- Lots of drug activity in the front of the building
- Building door is always broken
- Management does not respond unless it's a rent issue or you threaten legal action
- No phone line to management
- Property owners do not care about tenants safety (building door was broken for more than 3 months)
- Piles of trash in front of the building (has been slightly better due to community effort)
- Illegal activity in the building that management doesn't care about

Get rid of the current super, he doesn't care to fix anything. Check your voice mail inbox since it is either full or unavailable.

Rent stabilized
Somewhat updated

Unit is comically small
Management does not care about any safety concerns - some neighbors give constant open access to people that do not live in the building
Often people smoking, doing other things, staying overnight in the stairwell
Some roach problems
No trash management
Super did not fix lack of heat in the living room for 3+ months

Some nice families live here, and it’s cheap

Lots of drug use, late night/early morning noise including fights, roaches, poor upkeep, poor response times.

management is responsive, but building repairs are usually band-aid solutions (not long-term)

trash was not well maintained

There is nothing good about living in this apartment apart from it being rent controlled.

Living here has been a nightmare. You cannot get in contact with the landlord after multiple attempts at emailing and phone calls. There are homeless people who sleep on the stairwells every night and repairs take months to get fixed after constant phone calls to the super. There’s also random charges to our rental payment we and we can’t get in touch with our landlord to identify the charges.

You need to answer your emails and calls as your apartment is an unsafe place to be living in.

Some kind neighbors
rent-stabilized

many suspicious older men that harass tenants
repeated loss of heat and hot water
super is unresponsive
management even more unresponsive
packages get stolen
roaches
older + longer tenants are mistreated
front door locks, peepholes, etc are not properly maintained
garbage is unsanitary and sprawled across the entrance of the apartment

near a lot of conveniences.

building door gets broken or left open often. packages also get stolen really often. hot water goes out periodically also up to a day or two.

Great location, inexpensive

Bugs and roaches literally everywhere, hard to communicate with super (didn’t speak English) and wouldn’t replace my broken fridge

Neighbors are happy people with different backgrounds.

The landlord company is new to the building and do not care about managing the building.

If you won’t care for the building, you should consider selling it to someone who is FROM the neighborhood and WILL treat the building and it’s tenants with respect.

If you’re lucky to find a still rent stabilized unit in the building, those are gems. The apartments can have wacky layouts but they’re unique for sure and there are tons of windows and high ceilings. Super lives in the building and the landlord’s office is just two blocks away.

The heat is building operated so it can get really hot in the winter (better than no heat but uncomfortably warm) and there are occasional roaches. The building offers extermination but if the neighbors don’t opt in then it doesn’t always alleviate the problem. No access to courtyard and no composting available. Walk up only.

Make the courtyard a public space accessible to the tenants and find easier ways to communicate with landlord other than email.

Nothing! It’s old and unsafe

It’s loud, dirty, they sell drugs in the building, it’s absolutely atrocious

Stop hiring crackheads to maintain the building.

The landlord was extremely responsive. They have roach folks come once a month if you end up having an issue.

Roaches when we first moved in. Definitely were one bedrooms converted into two bedrooms. There is a gentleman who is on section 8 with amputated legs who lives on the third floor and landlord refuses to move him downstairs.

Move the gentleman with amputated legs down to first floor for his safety.