52 Clark Street Going Condo?
Something’s afoot at 52 Clark Street, the 141-unit prewar apartment building in Brooklyn Heights. The building is currently a rental, with some of the apartments still covered by rent stabilization. All that may start to change very soon, if an email we received from a resident turns out to be on the money. According to…
Something’s afoot at 52 Clark Street, the 141-unit prewar apartment building in Brooklyn Heights. The building is currently a rental, with some of the apartments still covered by rent stabilization. All that may start to change very soon, if an email we received from a resident turns out to be on the money. According to the email, the tipster has received a couple of notices from the landlord (who’s owned the building since 1999) that her lease would not be renewed. Upon calling the management office, she was told that none of the leases in the building were being renewed. The only possible explanation we can think of? You guessed it, conversion. GMAP P*Shark
DO NOT MOVE INTO THIS BUILDING!!! I live on the 8th floor and have been living a nightmare since August. The roof is right above me, and so is a drain that apparently gets clogged everytime it rains. It has leaked in my apartment so many times I’ve lost count. The management company is a farce, and have done little to help the situation. I’ve had clothes damaged, rugs stained, bathmats discolored, books drenched. You name it. The management company has consistently told me the problem was fixed, only for me to wake up in the middle of the night during a heavy downpour and find puddles of water in my room and closet and a quarter inch of water in my bathroom.
You should see the state my walls are in; it’s awful.
I’m looking to rent a 1-bedroom apartment on the 8th floor of this building, so the comments below were really helpful. Are the apartments really scary as some people commented below? Would love to hear more about this building and neighborhood. Thanks!
There is also a blog discussing the whine at http://homeofthewhine.blogspot.com/. These posts: http://homeofthewhine.blogspot.com/2008/10/whines-now-on-youtube.html and http://homeofthewhine.blogspot.com/2008/10/whine-as-heard-from-from-7c.html
include audio of the earpiercing, high-pitched scream that you will be subjected to should you move into any of those (A-E) apartments.
If you are considering moving into an apartment numbered B through D in this building, please be advised that the whining from an electric motor situated in the building basement will be audible from your apartment at all hours during the colder months. This is true even of apartments on the upper floors. Indeed, a stone courtyard amplifies the noise as it travels upward. The management company steadfastly refuses to fix it, and it will wreck your life. Audio/visual PROOF of this condition is on YouTube, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwyKozRf-Ao and in other videos posted by the same accountholder, and also is accessible via the newsgroup referenced above.
Note, this condition also affects bedrooms of the E-numbered apartments, and bathrooms of the A-numbered apartments.
Clark Kent:
Go to my discussion group at http://groups.google.com/group/52clarkdiscussion?hl=en. There you’ll find links to the forms and instructions you’ll need to apply for a rent reduction, as well as other resources. See you there!
I think I might be a bit late to this but I’m also a tenant. A few days ago there was a notice (using the word lightly) about writing the landlord a letter requesting a rent reduction for a decrease of services, then applying for it with the state. Does anyone know anything about this? The notice wasn’t there when I got home yesterday.
The apartment management also apparently fired the superintendent last week and have cut the 24-hour front desk attendance back to about 12 hours per day (with absolutely no notice to the tenants). I am a tenant of this apartment and I haven’t been able to get any information from the management company about what is going on with the construction or the front desk service. The management is either incompetent or is trying to hide something from the tenants.
It doesn’t solve the mystery, but a slew of apartments in the building have been vacated and are being renovated. I checked out a few, and the workers were building enclosures around the kitchens or adding partitions. This is a terrible idea: subdividing a small apartment makes it still smaller.
I should say that the apartments WERE being renovated until last week, when the Department of Buildings shut down the work because of various code violations. YAWN. The management is a claque of scofflaws and constantly on the outs with the authorities. If they were hauled off to prison tomorrow I would register muy surprise by rolling over and going back to sleep.
Uh, 10:29, not so silent when your upstairs neighbor is walking back and forth in her heels and then decides to take them off and throw them on the floor just as you have finally fallen asleep!