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Unless you're young, this is your first building in NYC or you got in through the low income affordable housing program, avoid this building at all costs. Even so, it's extremely overpriced. As a tenant here of a little over 3 months, I don't even know where to begin. In my first month, I had at least 7 occasions of no hot water. The walls are paper thin...like nothing I've ever experienced in an... [more]

Unless you're young, this is your first building in NYC or you got in through the low income affordable housing program, avoid this building at all costs. Even so, it's extremely overpriced. As a tenant here of a little over 3 months, I don't even know where to begin. In my first month, I had at least 7 occasions of no hot water. The walls are paper thin...like nothing I've ever experienced in an apartment. You hear your neighbors house phone ringing like it's your own. If they play music with any slight amount of bass, get ready to enjoy it. I hear a dog barking in the unit half way down the hall like he's outside my door. When a neighbor shuts their door, you not only hear it but feel it. I heard my neighbor discussing his mirror/design plans with his parents last Saturday when he moved in from laying in my bed Saturday morning. I'm by the trash chute so when people above throw garbage down, it sounds like someone is breaking in my apartment. On many days, the hallways and elevators are warmer than the temperature outside. I've left a digital thermometer in my hallway and it averages around 78-79 degrees. There is ONE 4 to 5 inch supply vent for the entire hallway. They had to cut into the walls and move the sprinkler's down. The scaffolding in the front and back of the building that was supposed to come down months ago, just came down two weeks ago. Who knows when the rest will be done. The rooftop hallway is still just concrete and drywall. There were numerous verbal and written/email breaches on when these issues would be corrected. If you live in the units facing each other in the courtyard, prepare to live in a fish bowl. You pretty much have to keep your shades down at all times. There is no tint on the windows at all so you see clearly in the units across. I've seen both a man and a woman naked. Some of the units that you can see into are messy disasters and eyesores. The building is extremely understaffed. I'm not sure what they mean by "ultra-luxury" building but there are no doormen and at best, one person behind the front desk. Many times he or she is in the back handling packages or boxes and there's no one. At times, there's just a person in a maintenance uniform there. Trying to get a package after work is a nightmare. You have lines of people waiting to do so and food delivery guys lined up. The 4 full-time people they do have are excellent but just not enough of them. If you enter the 22nd St side, no one in sight...like a ghost town. We cannot get our laundry to smell fresh with the washer and dryers...impossible. If you have Verizon, forgot about having cell service except for your home wi-fi connection. Texting to others without an iPhone won't happen. I haven't met one tenant here (not including low income) that plans to stay past their lease expiration. People that have done work in my unit for or from the building say, "everyone is complaining here". It's such a shame this building was constructed so poorly and so many corners were cut. It's a waste of a great location. They need to take some lessons from other "luxury buildings" like Chelsea Stratus or Caledonia and adjust their price accordingly. [less]