Pissed Off in Prospect Lefferts Gardens
A couple Prospect Lefferts Gardens are fed up with the condition of their building and aren’t gonna take it anymore…so they’re blogging about the offending edifice. The blog’s name, 10 Midwood Sucks, pretty much sums it up: The writers say they impulsively signed a lease at the beginning of the summer and want to portray…
A couple Prospect Lefferts Gardens are fed up with the condition of their building and aren’t gonna take it anymore…so they’re blogging about the offending edifice. The blog’s name, 10 Midwood Sucks, pretty much sums it up: The writers say they impulsively signed a lease at the beginning of the summer and want to portray a poorly managed, under-maintained, out of date, dirty, smelly, bunker which makes the worst college dorm seem like the Governor’s Mansion. The posts mostly document waste of uncertain origin left in 10 Midwood’s hallways, which ranges from urine (If piss were oil, 10 Midwood would be Saudi Arabia) to feces (a nice steamy dog turd) to weaponry (Free rusty knife + shady neighborhood = crime). The bloggers claim they set up the site to warn potential renters away from the building and its landlord, Lincoln Five Realty. Any readers have first-hand experience with these hands-off owners?
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This guy is a piece of work! He takes pictures of neatly wrapped trash bags waiting for garbage pick up and calls this evidence of some horror! His picture of an empty plastic bag out in front of the building is priceless, and proof that he is an uptight obsessive compulsive mess.
If one of his neighbors has a dog with urine and poop retention problems I’m sure his little blog goes a long way to help out with that problem. Blaming the entire neighborhood is interesting.
12:55 so after the LL finds out who is doing this – what do you think he/she can do about it?
No you can’t “not-renew” the lease – it is a RS building and by law you have to give them a new lease….
Take the offender to court?…That will cost thousands and thousands of $ and in the end – even if you have a photo of the tenant shitting on the floor, all the judge will say is “don’t do it again”.
“Other punitive action”? Like what????
The problem is the LL is powerless (except to continue to clean up the mess) against tenants like this – as long as the tenant makes some attempt to pay rent (and alot of times it is some Govt program paying anyway) it is near impossible to (legally) do anything about such tenants (or there family members)
If you actually had READ what this guy says in his blog, you’d know that the FRONT DOOR is usually UNLOCKED. This means that anybody can come into the building and use it as a latrine, not necessarily the other tenants.
It *is* the landlord’s responsibility to fix and maintain the locks on the front door.
Although why these people chose to rent here in the first place is beyond me. That building is scary.
– guest 12:10
Brownstoner did feature that Park Slope landlady from hell blog. I don’t think he is picking on PLG, this building just happens to be there.
As to said building, I think the bloggers have a right to be repulsed by animal and other waste. No excuse for that. If the super is on site, I’m sure he/she knows who has pets, and probably who else is known for other activities in the common spaces. It is their responsibility to report that to the landlord, and unfortunately for them, also their responsibility to clean it up. I would imagine cleaning it up a few times would give anyone incentive to complain to management, and see if those people could have their leases not renewed, or some kind of punative action taken. I agree that some of the tenants, as well as the landlord have a great deal of improvement to make.
The trash from the parade was covered by guest 11:49’s answer. The blogger’s quote from Wickipedia regarding the parade is rather one sided, not to mention dated. The parade is not a violence filled event.
Much of the other trash and graffitti are unfortunately par for the course. It shouldn’t be that way, but cheap rent is cheap for a reason. They aren’t going to shame the landlord, or the tenants, into change. They will more than likely piss them all off, and it will get worse. I think moving is the best alternative. You gets what you pay for, sad, but true.
Wait a minute, I thought PLG was such a “nice” neighborhood.
The best thing that could happen is gentrification. Only when poor people are priced out will this area begin to improve.
I agree that the above logic is twisted. If someone pisses on the floor, then that is the fault of the pisser, not the landlord. Place blame where blame is due.
instead of blaming the landlord/super…why not call out the animals disguised as human beings who create this mess?
no matter what your income level, ther eis no excuse to behave like that. and until these “people” change their mentality, they will remain poor for generations.
“aren’t gonna take it anymore…so they’re blogging about (it)”
Ohhh, real productive. Either do something that would actually improve the situation or STFU and move.
The problem with this guy is that he is placing the blame on the WRONG party (possibly out of fear??).
Every single complaint/picture proves that the issue isnt so much the landlord but the TENANTS.
It isnt the LL fault that the tenants piss, shit, throw garbage and generally act like animals – and while (unfortunately) it is up to the LL (through the porter/super) to clean up this mess – this blog doesnt make the case that this filth isnt being cleaned regularly – it simply makes the case that virtually every day his disgusting neighbors continue to foul the building.
Not once in this blog does the tenant question WHO is acting like such an animal; maybe because if he found out – he’d be to afraid to try to shame the culprit – so like most people in NYC he blames the LL, who is probably doing all he can to keep the building up despite having rented to (at least some) people who belong in cage more then an apartment.
I looked at a place in this building and ran away screaming.
There are better choices, for the same price, in this neighborhood.