On February 8th, a tenant from 40 Oak Street / 23 West Street, an affordable housing lottery building that shares two addresses in Greenpoint’s new West Wharf complex, was outside smoking when they saw a woman in distress. By then, 40 Oak/23 West had had enough package thefts that everyone was on guard. Word was going around that the building’s management company, Halcyon, tried charging a tenant $160 just to view the surveillance camera. So,…
Affordable Housing Tenants in Greenpoint Describe Squalid Conditions in Luxury Building Complex
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Excellent expose reporting. Hey, what do you want from rip off affordable housing, livable conditions?
All jokes side, looks like there is trouble in paradise.
My friends refer to these “affordable housing units” tucked in and shut off from the main lux. bldg. as plantation indentured servant’s quarters.
I lived with my husband and daughter at 82 Marcy Ave in Williamsburg for 2 years. Horrible management company. Not as bad as this story, but they were unresponsive and we had the same issue with elevators.
There was water damage under the floors in our apartment, and the floors started to warp. They ripped up the floors, but then left the moldy plywood underneath exposed for months until we finally stopped paying rent. We ended up taking them to court.
I am leaving a rent stabilized apartment because of a neglectful management company. The building is dirty and unsafe. Currently there are hundreds of dead flies in the stairwell. It will not be cleaned until someone makes a 311 complaint and then if not anonymous the building “manager” will call and threaten the tenant for calling 311. He did that to me thinking I would be afraid of him, I am not. There needs to be stronger laws in place to deal with these slumlords. They collect our rent and do not do even minor upkeep. At this point the city needs to start confiscating these buildings, charging fines so high that it puts their business in jeopardy. The way this city is handling these cases is not good enough.
That’s exactly what the want you to do.
Do you have any links to the the overall development plan?
This is ho horrendous I thought I was reading a logline for an a24 script
As one tenet living in 40 oak street. This management company is outrageously swept us under the rug and refuse to help in any way shape or form. It’s disgusting how many good families live here with multiple children and they have zero to no explan for withholding these amenities, rec rooms, and parking to us. Our brown water and elevator breakdowns are on a weekly basis, and something needs to be done. Someone needs to be held accountable for these horrendous living conditions, such as smelling garbage the minute you step foot out your apartment.
My son passed away in his apartment at 40 Oak St. If they had a live in super that odor would have been observed and I would know why my son passed. Do stay on and make that building better, seems like everybody has an agenda to not keeping their word. My son waited a long time for an apartment. I hope this had nothing to do with his death.
It’s a shame that a building of this size don’t have a live in super. Sadly my nephew passed away here in his apt,had a super lived there his mother and family would have known earlier of his passing