The Ashland at 250 Ashland Place,

Brooklyn, NY 11217

No noise from neighbors when inside the apartment (unless your neighbors hang out with young children in the hallway, which happened constantly for us). Repair requests are handled promptly. The doormen are amazing. The building is near so many subway lines, which makes getting around easy. The Fort Greene nei

The elevator situation in this building is truly terrible. Despite having six elevators for 53 floors (one being a service elevator), at least one is almost always out of service—and often for weeks at a time. This causes major delays when trying to get to or from your apartment. On some days, two or even three elevators will be down, making the wait unbearably long. Lines regularly form in the elevator bay and spill out the front door.

To make matters worse, the building management is appalling when it comes to notifying residents about elevator issues. When an elevator goes out of service, management often puts their email on "Out of Office" (this is not a joke) and directs all complaints to the doormen, who are powerless to fix the problem. Occasionally, residents receive an email full of excuses about how difficult it is to repair the elevators—citing their European origin as a major challenge—but nothing ever changes. The elevators were unreliable when I moved in six years ago, and they still fail constantly today.

That said, I can’t speak highly enough of the doormen, who are excellent. It’s just unfortunate that the management is equally as terrible as the doormen are fantastic.

Additionally, the building’s proximity to a hospital results in a lot of ambulance and fire truck noise. Due to the local street layout, ambulances have to loop around the building from Flatbush Avenue to reach the hospital, often getting stuck in traffic. Flatbush is already a noisy street with no shoulder, so when ambulances are stuck, the sirens are very audible from the apartments. This means that no matter where your apartment is located—facing any direction or on any floor—you’ll likely deal with frequent siren noise.

Fix the elevators. Stop making excuses. Get it done. No one feels sorry for you.

The staff (not management) are very helpful, responsive, and friendly- they make living here bearable;

Great light and views;

Central air and heat;

Close to McDonald’s.

Elevators are frequently down. I’m on the 40th floor, and wait times for me are typically between 7-10 minutes in the morning. As of late there have been lines out the door to get an elevator back upstairs during rush hour, with wait times of 30 minutes or more. This has been a chronic problem for years;

Walls are paper thin. When my neighbor coughs, I jump because it sounds like they’re in my living room;

Being next to Flatbush kind of blows. Very loud, even from the 40th floor;

I feel like we should be getting a washer dryer in unit with the rent they charge. Or at the very least, supply enough washers and dryers for the entire building. Maybe even throw in a working elevator or two.

Fix the elevators already. And charge fair rent.

In my two years here I have enjoyed the building's great location, outdoor grills, and friendly staff.

Given construction in the area you can probably get a good deal right now and its a nice place to live most of the time (see cons).

There have been consistent elevator issues since the building opened. It's a regular occurrence to have 1-2 of the 4 high rise elevators out which results in long waits. One day in March 2024 was egregiously bad -- 5/6 elevators were out and it took an hour of waiting to get down and back up. If this was a one off event I could understand, but these elevators are unreliable at worst and occasionally unnerving at best.

Fix the elevators!

Location and views

Not great run building

-concierge and porters are great
- nice amenities (if you want to use them)

- separate fee for amenities including just being able to enter through the back door
- constant elevator woes
- if you have bad neighbors (loud noise at night, smoke smells) be prepared to just live with it

The staff here is incredible and do the best they can under the circumstances. The units are decently well-built, and corner units have a lot of privacy and light. Amenities are affordable and often rarely used.

Given that it's a corporate management organization, rents are exorbitant and non-negotiable if you're in a market-rate unit. They will leave units empty for as long as it takes to get a tenant who is willing to pay above market rate.

Street noise is loud, but tolerable. Neighbors are variable depending on the floor you live on; domestic disputes are not uncommon. Constant elevator issues, which can be troublesome if you live on a higher floor. Laundry room could be better maintained— washers and dryers aren't the best.

Lived here for 3 years and loved my studio facing Fort Greene. I had no major issues with my apartment while living there. Management was responsive and bldg staff were always friendly and helpful.

-thin walls; I could head my neighbor when he had guests over
-some units are for the lower income lottery. I had neighbors next to me that were violent and abusive with each other that I had to call security at 2am. There have been some cases of domestic violence in the bldg.

Clean
Responsive management
Beautiful building

Elevators constantly down
Sound (not the best build, can hear sounds from neighbors)

Bright and modern apartments. It's a well-managed building. There's easy access to several subway lines. I lived here for 2 years and would recommend the building.

The elevators were often crowded and slow, especially if you lived on the higher floors.

Doormen, package room, amenities

Elevators and trash outside building

- Clean
- Wonderful staff on site
- Issues fixed very quickly
- Quality apartments
- Close to the subway

- Loud construction outside
- Elevators were often broken

- pretty clean over all
- concierges are super helpful
- overall, pretty reactive when you have any issues
- no noise or smell issues at all

- The laundry room isn't great - not always clean and washing machines and dryers are not great quality. They'll damage your clothes over time and dryers don't really dry to a great level, leaving clothes still humid.
- price of amenities is a bit high in my opinion. Gym isn't super qualitative, and sun deck was closed for a while at the beginning of the summer.

Invest in the gym a bit more...

Building staff (door men, porters, custodians are amazing)

The wait for the elevator, the size scope and cleanliness of the gym, the upkeep of common areas, the unwillingness to install a washer and dryer

Really nice amenities

Not the best insulation from neighbors, but not a big deal

Can't think of anything

Kind doorman
Responsive team
Clean
Big living areas

Sometimes there is a bit of a long wait for the elevators

Staff members are friendly and helpful. Common spaces are inviting and useful.

Elevators are sometimes affected by very windy weather making them unavailable for use.

Lots of dogs and staff struggles to get residents to take their dogs to the curb to urinate. In between cleanings the sidewalk outside the front entrance can get smelly.

Great place to live

— Clean building
— Nice doormen / staff
— Responsive to issues
— Great views
— Nice ammenities
— Nice neighborhood

Our unit is south facing and gets some street and construction noise from Atlantic and Flatbush which are very busy. We can hear our neighbors TV.

Great staff who care about the building and are super friendly. Apartments are nice with great views. Amenities are great and the gym is huge with great equipment.

Noise from street can be a bit loud.

We love it here

Apartment was brand new and clean enough. Waaaay too expensive for what you get though.

Elevators were always out of service which sucked because I was on a high floor and had to take the stairs The cabinets and fixtures were cheap. The kitchen in my 1BR was tiny with hardly any cabinet space. They also told me I was getting the last 1BR in the building but when I moved in I found out that most of the building was empty including tons of 1BRs. I think this place is warehousing units.

Views are incredible depending on unit, it’s quiet even though you’re near busy downtown Brooklyn

Occasional long wait times for elevators.