2121 Beekman Place,

Brooklyn, NY 11225

The neighbor community

Lead Poisoning, Water leaks every year, heat problems every winter, an elevator that always gets stuck every two weeks

Don't be cheap and invest on your builsing

It is rent control.
Depending on the apt the rooms are large

Multiple locks throughout the building are broken, compromising resident safety.
Unwanted guests frequently access the building, particularly on the first and third floors.
Reports of men following women into the building, creating a threatening environment. Suspected selling of narcotics and other illicit substances on the first floor.
Unauthorized smoking in common areas, especially on the first and third floors. The elevator is old and deteriorating, posing a safety hazard.
Staircases show significant signs of corrosion.
Walls throughout the building need replastering and repair.
Constant water leaks were reported in various apartments.
Rodent infestation was reported in multiple areas of the building.
Building management has repeatedly failed to address resident complaints.
No visible efforts to improve security, maintenance, or sanitation.

Immediate security audit and repair of all broken locks. Implementation of a strict visitor policy and potentially hiring security personnel. Thorough investigation into illegal activities, potentially involving local law enforcement. Comprehensive structural assessment by licensed professionals, particularly of the elevator and staircases. Initiation of a building-wide repair and maintenance program to address all structural issues. Establishment of a regular, professional cleaning schedule for all common areas. Development of a pest control strategy to address the rodent problem. Creation of a clear communication channel between residents and management for reporting and addressing issues. Consider involving local housing authorities if management continues to neglect these pressing issues.

What pros? There are some decent tenants in the building. A tenant organization was formed to address issues with building and management.

Everything else. Grown guys standing in front of the building at night. Heckling women, and others. Disrupting the piece. Homeless sleeps in the building at night sometimes. A stranger off the street followed a women into the building. That same guy masterbates on the second floor stair way. Honestly there's not enough room. The lock is always busted.

Fire yourself for being incomptent and allow another person to buy the building.

The apartments are big but that is the only redeeming quality of this building.

There were roaches, bed bugs and ants. We also had to hire our own exterminator because management is absolutely useless. It was overall the worst experience I've had in a living situation. There was also feces left in the building's hallway.

The price for my apartment is well below market value. Older building, but has an elevator. Right next to the subway and Prospect Park.

**updated** They did recently get a new manager and super(s) to come solve some of the cons in previous reviews.

People smoking and leaving their trash in the lobby. Have reported it multiple times to property management and they don’t do anything about it.

**updated** again not perfect and they are trying to fix things now but should have been common sense to fix things earlier.

Please solve the smoking in the common area issue.

Close to the park, nice apartment sizes, the proximity to the Q&B trains, good food options nearby.

DO NOT LIVE HERE! This place needs to be burned to the ground to get rid of all the bedbugs. They’re on every floor, in everything, and they’ll follow you for the rest of your life.

Pedro, the super, lets his friends live in the utility closets and/or smoke in the empty apartments. He won’t pick up his phone - ever - until you call 3 times in a row (I’m pretty sure it’s an iPhone always set to on do not disturb so only multiple calls from the same number go through). Don’t ever expect a call back from him or management if you leave a message. MAKE SURE TO GET EVERYTHING FROM MANAGEMENT IN WRITING. You have to threaten to get a lawyer involved to get anything fixed and things break all the time. A paper trail is your friend. Email Anita as a first point of contact if you live there and don’t hear from the generic management email: anitag.mngt@gmail.com. Email Carmella if you need anything with deposits or billing: carmyusa@aol.com. It took us almost a year to get these points if contact so I figured I’d put them here to help any current desperate tenants.

We should’ve known there would be issues from the moment we moved in. When we saw the apartment with the ‘broker’ Mendel from Brick and Galo Realty it was perfect. Very few fixes were needed & he made a lot of promises to have those repairs made in time for move in - they weren't.
The day before we moved in everything was haphazardly painted (our door handles and sink faucets had to be chiseled loose) and the floors were lacquered with a cheap sticky glue. The floor never dried and we had to stay in a hotel for weeks to avoid the fumes until a friend of a friend came in and redid the floors as a favor. We didn’t get any money back from management despite our displacement.

The heater, like many NYC apartments, will uncontrollably bang and keep you up all winter. It’ll also be 1000 degrees at all times with no temperature control.

The neighbors are very friendly. Beekman has a storied history and everyone who grew up there knows one another. I love this community vibe but it also means that you’ll have crowds on the street all night and random people honking to greet one another. Then there more honking cause you’re next to Flatbush. You can’t drown out the honking by shutting your windows because, as I mentioned, the heat is always on and you’ll die of heat exhaustion.

Don’t expect to recover any packages. They’ll all be stolen.

I’m pretty sure the mop I see the super using is from 1987...the mop water too.

There is literal human feces in the stairways a few times a year. It’ll stay there for a few days until the smell becomes unbearable.

Our hot and cold water would go out at random and not be repaired for days. This happened about once a month. During COVID lockdown our hot water was out for an entire week.

While dealing with our second bedbug extermination we had a new neighbor move in next door and they didn’t even tell her about the bedbugs!!!

Once again, DO NOT LIVE HERE! It may seem like a good price but your sanity, dignity, humanity, and mental health are not worth it.

If you want more examples of what it’s like to live here head to Orchard st. in Manhattan and pay your $15 admission to the Tenement Museum. It’ll save you $1000s.

There is some serious Karma coming your way. These are people who live in your building. They have basic needs to survive that you’re not even close to meeting. You’re running a tenement - that’s not a compliment. Take your Gaudy Maserati back to Jersey, hire competent management, and don't be a slumlord.

Close to the train, park, and gold stores and restaurants.

Literally everything. Lobby constant smelled like pee. Front door always smashed in. People constantly sitting in front of my door and blasting musics outside directly outside of my window. Once had a guy pass out INTO my apartment when I opened my front door from the inside (he was leaning up against my front door and had passed out). If you do live here, DO NOT LIVE ON THE FIRST FLOOR. This apartment almost pushed me into a deeper more dangerous depression than the one I was already in and certainly helped push me out of the city in general. Tons of roaches which after 14 years in the city I was used to but this place was worse than I’ve ever experience. Once the roaches started falling from the ceiling onto my face, I left the city for good.

Super is trying its best to address apt issues

Safety issues
Garbage on the first floor
Locks to the front door are broken into
Elevator doesn’t work
Homeless and other people are being led into the building

Get better locks,fix your intercom, better communication tactics, make sure the exterminator is going to every apt, have a meeting with your tenants to address concerns. Your tenants want to collaborate with you but you on keeping the building safe

The apartments are very large

- Landlord letting building and apartments fall into disrepair on purpose. Not sure if it's an insurance write-off.
- Building is FILTHY. The super is too old to walk up and down the stairs, much less clean or fix thing. Landlord Lets paint peel and windows be broken.
- Many people who don't live in the building smoke and fight in the hallways and harass tenants, often at the front door
- see above, there is often paper or a broom propping the front door open. There is no buding security
- The elevator has opened to an empty shaft, gets stuck between floors, and generally works about 1-5 days per month at most. 311 has several pages of complaints
- It seems that they do this to punish the tenants (turn off hot water randomly, no heat consistently in the winter, etc.)
- Good luck with roaches, mice, flies, etc. If the landlords don't like you, the exterminator will "forget" to stop by or stop coming to the building entirely.

Shame on you for what you're put your tenants through. 311 does nothing and you don't actually comply. And fixing the apartments is not going to solve any problems considering the building itself is the issue. You're waiting for someone to get hurt or harmed at this point due to the lack of building safety, cleaniness, etc.

The location and size of the apartments. The price can’t be beaten.

Just check the HPD website. Broken elevators for a 6 floor building (Weeks at a time) that is filthy (fecal matter, smoke, etc), disabled tenants cannot leave. Building front door constantly broken, no package area so constant theft. USPS mailboxes vandalized and don’t close, so no mail for anyone. Consistently no heat or hot water, management offers breaking leases instead of providing services and fixing the building. Trash, cigarettes, beers strewn all over inside. Non-tenants in hallways drinking and doing drugs and threatening tenants. Pest control basically non-existent.

You are deliberately letting the building fall apart. Fixing one or two apartments but letting the windows in the hallway stay shattered, the elevator stay broken, packages stay stolen (the police are called regularly over this), etc. There are plenty of old buildings in the city that are not in this state.

Building is always dirty

There’s people drinking all day

Clean more

Close to park, a lot of space and light, allows pets

The entire building is filthy all of the time, and is infested with pests of every kind- BEDBUGS, roaches, water bugs, mites, rats, you name it. The elevator is broken more often than not and the stairs are usually dirty and/or wet and crowded with people. Packages are not kept in any type of safe place and are often stolen. When we moved in, the apartment hadn’t been cleaned/repaired and we also found that we had an open pipe under our bathroom sink preventing our tub from draining properly. The super is just incredibly unreliable and generally incompetent. The absolute biggest con of this place though is that the building itself is actually crumbling from the inside and nothing is being done about it. Old pipes/leaks are causing serious damage that are making it actually dangerous. The apartment below us has an entire part of their ceiling that has fallen down, leaving just our floorboards separating the two apartments. We’ve now noticed new water stains on one of our walls and the previous extensive cracks in the ceilings and walls that had apparently been covered with a bit of plaster have also cracked back open and are growing all the time. Calling management has proven futile in the past, as the woman we spoke to was wildly rude and unhelpful, and when we tried looking up the management company online it says that they’re permanently closed.

Get a new receptionist, get a new super, get a serious inspection done of this building and care that human beings live here.