100 Woodruff Avenue,

Brooklyn, NY 11226

Elevator, spacious units, laundry in building

Pest issues and the exterminator is only offered during work hours. Which doesn’t work if you are not work from home

Good location, public spaces/trash managed well.

Older building- can’t control heat, nearby subway can be loud.

Great location, convenient to Prospect Park, subway and everyday shopping needs.

The two sides of the building are served by separate elevators. This was fine until elevator replacement left us to rely on the stairs to access our top floor apartment for 6 weeks.
Also: vermin. Roaches , bedbugs, mice…

When ridding a place of bug infestations you have to treat all of the units at the same time. Otherwise, they just move from one unit to another.

So close to Prospect Park! The trash room always smells wonderful (how?!) and emptied very regularly. Beautiful adjacent garden. Lobby is always clean, festive for the holiday season.

Lots of dead branches in backyard and some trash on it.

Great area near the park. Not a ton of good restaurants/bars but enough. Lots of dogs and families. Neighbors are pretty friendly by NYC standards, lol. Super is great. Very responsive. Nice guy. 1 block to Prospect & Parkside Q station. Church Ave express is close also. If management doesn’t carve up the place you’re looking to rent, the layouts are pretty spacious but I’m sure they’ll do just enough “repairs” and “remodeling” to justify raising the rent $500-$750/mo.

Like a lot of places, you’ve gotta keep on top of the roaches. Nothing crazy but they’re not non-existent either (1 is too many, lol). Basement (laundry) you’ll see the big ones sometimes. Trash is taken out using the same elevator tenants use. And in the past we’ve had continual issues with it going out of service. They’re finally fixing/modernizing the elevator atm. Water pressure is kinda weak (6th Fl) but the super put a new shower head in and it’s much better. Occasional gun violence. I’ve been here 7 yrs and there’s been 3 shootings within 2 blocks afaik. To my knowledge they’re all gang related. And honestly the ‘hood feels safe but it’s worth mentioning. Landlord is a little shady/business minded in that they wanna get as many units on the free market as possible (not rent stabilized) and there have been a couple incidents of not cool behavior. Which I get, but the cities expensive and they’re pricing everyone out.

Thank you for finally fixing the elevator. But I saw what you did to 5M; making it a 3 BR (2BA?) in what was previously a 1.5 BR/1BA so you could charge as much as possible… c’mon man. I get you wanna turn a buck but that was excessive.

Great space. I love the living room. I love my room. I love the location. Dog/pet friendly, which is fabulous for the park. People are fairly friendly. It’s right near the train. SO MUCH to love about this apartment.

The uninvited guests are going CRAZY this year. Tons of roaches, and management’s spray hasn’t done much. Caught two mice last week. And two floors (not ours thank god) have bed bugs… SO FRUSTRATING to constantly be on guard in my own home. Intense anxiety if I’m going to see anything move — and how frequently I do.

We don’t have AC except window units, and don’t control the heat. I don’t mind it mostly, but it can get to be a lot.

The bug situation sucks since there otherwise would be a lot to like.

1. Building-wide roach & mice removal process. Tenants should not have to pay for this, and having us one by one spray just pushes them into other apartments.

2. Communicate! I wouldn’t know anyone from management if I ran into them in the building. So clearly transactional, not relationship-based.

3. Update the cabinets and hire better contractors. The bugs are plentiful because there are gaps between cabinets and walls, holes near pipes, and generally shoddy lining up of previous construction.