building at 33 Gold Street

Ha, I lived there a few years ago... yeah, pretty much a dump. It was pretty convenient to most subways, which was nice, because I hated the FiDi. When I moved, they were planning on raising the rent something like 400 or 500!, and it was one of those tri-level studios. Crazy, although my price wasn't bad, esp. for the square footage. Gotta love the way the bass from Spa 88 (at 3am) comes up through the elevator shafts, which you could feel through the paper-thin walls. Man, I don't miss that place at all.

What do you expect in a rental building? This is what you have to go through before you grow up and get a real place.

I live in the bldg, have been here 7yrs, and have to agree with all the above comments. However, it's still the best priced space in the neighborhood. If you can find a way to live with the other stuff, the apartments can be made beautiful. Rent a corner unit or one with roof access.

BTW, now that the Fulton St construction project is over and Spa 88 doesn't have their parties anymore, the noise is tolerable.

If those walls could speak…

In 3 years I saw Russian mafia fights (they own the SPA in the basement), people kidnapped by drug dealers in their apartments, doormen selling pot & coke, pets consistently pissing & more in the corridors, rats, cockroaches (even in the cleanest, high floor apartment), all sort of garbage in corridors.. Google it: there are news articles about it.

But the worst rats are the managers. They consistently steal the deposit of all tenants (don't pay them last month), they consistently sue tenants for silliest reasons (you host a friend for 5 days? They charge you with sublet and ask you for $1,700 attorney fees for sending you one letter). They will raise your rent anywhere above 6% every year (far more than market average). Your apartment gets regularly flooded and your stuff is wet and damaged? Don't even expect them to clean for you!

If managers spot you did improvements they won’t renew your lease to get more $$$ out of your work with next tenants (don’t expect ANY improvement from them!).

Amanda Ortiz, lease manager, is an impolite, unprofessional, illogical human being who will do her best to project her misery on you.
Yes: you'll get more space than anywhere else in Fidi. Yes there is a high price for this.

My advice: stay away from this building.

Make sure you look up online reviews of this building. Do not go near it.