87-89 Graham Avenue,

Brooklyn, NY 11206

Great location, near 4 trains and great neighborhood.

Ok for starters, we were all the way up the 13 flights of stairs. That was rough. Needs an elevator. We lived with roaches the entire time we were there and we had to buy our own products to get rid of them. If we leave we would have to constantly spray the apartment and at nights before going to bed. It was a sauna in there we had to open the windows in the winter. The building is not insulated or sealed up properly so we were constantly getting a full dose of weed smoke in over apartment when the neighbors would smoke. So our winters were comprised of doses of weed in a hot apartment with the smell of roaches blowing up through the walls with the smoke, every 20 minutes. I would have to deep clean everyday. I was scared to go to the garbage room because there were these big old rats always jumping at you when it gets dark. There was no buzzer so if you order food you would have to make it all the way down the 13 flights of stairs and back. The landlord was nice but you could tell he does care to fix anything that you asked of him. To top it off he raised our rent $650 and the day when we were moving out, he wanted to charge us for the broken blinds that came with the place and we were told was gonna get fixed before we moved in. Good thing we had pictures and videos to back that up. So crazy! As I said, this place needs to be gutted and renovated because it’s truly is a great neighborhood.

Stop being so cheap and fix your apartment building. This is where people have to live and also you are making money from the tenants. Just do better!

I liked that our unit was pretty newly renovated. We never had any pest issues inside of the apartment. I appreciated that there was ample closet space. The shower temperature and water pressure was good too.

The garbage situation was not great – there were always huge rats hanging around and it made me dread taking out the trash. Once I even found a giant dead rat in the stairwell. Our next door neighbors also had some really loud kids and I guess our walls were thin because we always heard them yelling. We also had some water damage issues and barely any natural sunlight, besides in my roommate's room.

I would try to be more responsive to your tenant's requests, and please try to keep the building (especially the trash area) a bit more tidy.

Good lighting, hardwood floors in the apt I was in, large unit, landlord is pretty hands off

Landlord manages lots of buildings, can be hard to get ahold of the super (he never responded to me), heat was WAY too hot in the winter (we had to leave our windows open all winter or else it was 80F+ in the apt. The garbage room is dirty, lots and lots of rats. Walk up— brutal if you are on floors 4+. They raise rent egregiously each year (this past year they attempted to raise it 34% — more than a 1K raise).

Get a new super, clean the garbage room, heat is way too hot in the winter.

Close to multiple trains, lovely neighborhood, large closets

Cockroaches, rats, no buzzer system despite years of promising one, the water will sometimes go out for days at a time or hot water will go out in winter, the landlord is unresponsive and attempts to dodge responsibility for maintenance.

Good size and location

Water from the apartments above leaked into my unit four times during my lease period, a lot of noise from the street, bugs, rent is increasing by $550 for the next year despite the leaks.

Near the subway

Moved out after a massive roach infestation that the landlord ignored until too late. At the same time we had bed bugs, which management never reported. We lost hundreds of dollars due to infestation of kitchen appliances and replacing bedding and furniture, then they docked our deposit for bogus charges when we moved out. Landlord told us to move if we wanted to live without pests - “This is New York”.

Comply with the law

The apartment itself is a steal for the price - upgraded kitchen and huge bedrooms.

The cross streets are SO LOUD you’ll be up all night with noise from outside. Our unit has had a few issues with pests (bugs no rodents) and worst of all there are terrible ceiling leaks that the owners are very slow to respond to.

The stove was really good. Really good. Renovated apartment.

Lived with roaches the entire year I lived there. Even though they send an exterminator every month, still huge roaches. The heat is also controlled by the building, so we were always scorching and sweating. Owner also blamed us for random things when leaving and did not return the entire sec. deposit

Get an actual exterminator to do something.

Apartments are decent, neighbors mostly keep to themselves but are all fine, good location and good price

landlord/mgmt is awful. Roach problems that never get solved in so many units. They tell everyone when they move in that the buzzer is about to be fix, but it’s a lie, broken for years and no efforts to fix it. They try and raise the rent so much, even during COVID, and will blame problems on you so they don’t have to fix them. Heat recently went out for three extremely cold days and he didn’t even tell the residents, just let them suffer unless they tracked him down to ask. They didn’t have recycling until very recently.

What the other person said. Follow the law. It breaks code to not have a buzzer for a building this size. You need to communicate with your residents and treat them better, and you need to do some serious work to de-roach the place.