41-15 46 Street,

Queens, NY 11104

Building is convenient to neighborhood amenities and the subway. The apartments are well sized and quiet. Some units are rent controlled, others are stabilized.

The building and building next door(41-29 46th Street), both owned and managed by Park Drive Equities, are consistently dirty and in very poor repair. Peeling paint, broken windows in public areas are common and never fixed. Lobby, vestibules, stairways have filthy, un-mopped floors with litter everywhere. The building’s exterior and walkways are shabby and unkept. The elevators are regularly out of order making it very difficult for elderly tenants with mobility issues. The pest problem has remained unmanaged for the 5 years I’ve lived here. Feral cats, rodents, raccoons, and roaches everywhere. I’ve never lived in a place where the roaches are this bad, it’s overwhelming. There is a criminal element and drug abuse problem with multiple tenants and mail theft is a regular occurrence. There are a lot of great neighbors in the building but most don’t stay very long because of a few bad apples. The landlord is TERRIBLE and unresponsive. The super, while nice, is never available. If you want any repairs done to your apartment you have to file a complaint with 311. If you like living in slum like conditions then this is the place for you otherwise AVOID at all costs.

Fix your property in a timely, LEGAL manner. Get the pest problem under control.

It’s close to everything you need/want in a great neighborhood. The bedroom and living space sizes are really big. Rent is affordable

* Nothing ever gets fixed and it’s nearly impossible to get a hold of super or building management
* super is nice but he is not live in. He lives down the street and isn’t very responsive to upkeep in this one. Any fixes are done by non union labor and you can expect it to be a duct tape and glue job that won’t last
* electric is old and building won’t update fixtures. More than one lighting fixture has shot flames out
* they got rid of all the in building laundry units so you have to go to a laundromat
* the elevators are broken several times a month
* at least 2-3 times per winter you have to call 311 to report them for not having heat on
* they got rid of normal old school buzzer system in favor of an unstable system dependent on wifi that never works in lobby and a mobile app. Deliveries have trouble getting in touch with you. The tech company behind app has poor rating with better business bureau
* LOTS OF UNSAVORY NEIGHBORS. a good amount of turnover in the building tenants except for the junkies and criminally unstable living here for years and are either begging for money on Queens Blvd, nodding out on drugs in front of building, harassing people on the street with slurs and threats of violence, and using the hallways as personal storage for junk/furniture picked from street garbage around the neighborhood.
* counters, fridge and oven are ancient
* since pandemic started there has been no pest control. Roaches everywhere in units and halls. Can now hear mice beneath floors and behind walls

Turn into a co-op or do a better job screening tenants so it’s not a bunch of scum bags, and start fixing things. Instead of keeping a photo up in the lobby of “the friend of someone in building who is stealing packages” do a better job of building security and tenant screening

Originally came here because of the location and it was a lot more space than the studio I was in. It’s rent stabilized, which is great, and we pay a very small flat fee for electricity. The neighbors have been nice or chill except for one crazy dude and overall it’s a good building.

Pretty sure we were told there was laundry in building when we first moved here, but I’ve never seen it. And literally this apartment would be great except this building definitely has a roach problem. It was especially bad during the pandemic and it’s incredibly gross and frustrating. The building has only ever sent an exterminator once and it didn’t really make a difference. We’ve tried our own solutions but it’s clearly a building-wide problem.

Deal with the pests. I get that it’s an older building but an effort needs to be made.

Location and size of apartment

Everything else. Roaches are out of control, can NEVER get ahold of super. Any repair you need done will be fixed only halfway, if you're lucky. For the amount of rent you pay, not worth it. Garbage just sits in the garbage shoots, and the elevator is rarely turned on or working for you to access the basement where you are to put your recycling.

Hire a better super and invest in upgrading your apartments and find ways to control the outrageous pest problem.

Location—2 blocks to #7 train
Close to shopping, restaurant, bars, cafes & laundromat
Great, respectful Super
Allows pets
Rent Stabilized

Lobby & hallways could be cleaner.
No laundry room

Update Elevators
Polish hallway floors
Cleaner Hallway garbage chutes