pest control and hot water

Is this really in Tribeca?

What a HORRIFIC situation. Hopefully, you are a renter, can withhold rent, and ultimately can get out of that hell hole! What you are describing is housing at its most terrible and illegal.

The building is in Chinatown, next to a police detention facility. The school district is Chinatown. With a name like that, just because it has a Broadway address, does not make it Tribeca.

The majority of people living here are Chinese, and most of them don't even speak English. There is even a Chinese temple with Nuns in the building.

I wouldn't call it TriBeCa, as it's on the east side of Broadway, and historically the area was bounded by Canal Street, West Street, Broadway, and Chambers streets. At one point, "TriBeCa" was the cool place to be if you couldn't get into SoHo, but that was long ago supplanted by Park Slope, Williamsburg, Harlem, etc. Perhaps with the draw of Nuns (!), Chinatown will be the new "It" place.

Apparently streeteasy put this building in TriBeCa, and I have noticed some real estate agent put up ps 236 as school district of this building. We made the same mistake, moved in expecting to go to TriBeCa school. It turns out in 2011 due to the over capacity of TriBeCa school district, this building was reasoned to Chinatown, which is more appropriate given the tenants and location. And as for the nuns, they run funnural services and burn incense every day. It is very irritating to eyes and we have to put up a wet towel to cover up the gap between door and floor to keep the smell out.

Sounds like the landlord is just ditching out on his job. In my non-expert opinion, I would call 311 / HPD and complaint. And personally, I would withhold rent until the landlord fixes things.

It is the landlord's legal responsibility

Sean 007 has been posting things that are not true. The exterminator comes regularly, usually the last Thursday of each month. If that conflicts with a holiday, he comes on a different day. Notices are posted every month as reminders to sign up to request that service. I am an owner/resident here, and during the time Sean007 says there was no pest control, the exterminator came and sprayed in my apartment every month. It is also not true that this building is next door to a police detention facility. That facility is a crosstown block away. Sean 007's claim that most of the people in this building are Chinese and "don't even speak English" is also not true, and rather offensive; many are of Chinese and other Asian ethnicities but how can he possible know what languages they speak unless he has personally asked every single one? I have been in this building for ten years and had many conversations in English with many neighbors during that time.