The Arias Cuts Its Doorman Service
The Arias, the Park Slope rental building located along 4th Avenue, has cut back its doorman service and residents are not happy. A tenant writes in to explain: On Wednesday, we received an email from management informing us that they would be scaling doorman service back from 24 hours to 12 hours, between the decidedly…
The Arias, the Park Slope rental building located along 4th Avenue, has cut back its doorman service and residents are not happy. A tenant writes in to explain:
On Wednesday, we received an email from management informing us that they would be scaling doorman service back from 24 hours to 12 hours, between the decidedly un-NY compatible 8am to 8pm. This has elicited an aggressive response from residents — many of whom, like myself, just renewed our leases with rent increases (note: 2 days prior to the doorman email I received an email asking me to confirm I was staying, which hardly seems like a coincidence) — concerned about safety, convenience and, frankly, getting ripped off.
The management sent an email that said during nighttime hours, the Arias would utilize the building’s CCTV system which allows residents to see and speak to their visitors before letting them in. The building is also considering a “virtual doorman” which which would allow tenants to screen visitors and gain entry through an offsite command center. Our tipster has a few suspicions about the cutback. The building management received some heat this spring after firing two concierges for trying to organize their workplace, but it’s unclear if this dispute directly ties into this action. Our tipster also wonders if the management is considering selling condo units at the building, and may be trying to get renters to pack up.
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the rent stabilization thing – THEY ARE CHARGING MARKET RENTS, AND CAN INCREASE THE RENT EVERY YEAR ACCORDING TO MARKET. It is rent stabilization in name only. NY law allows this because it is very landlord friendly. i wont explain the legal mechanics to those like halvewit because he wont understand. the important thing is it is rent stabilized, as between the OWNER AND THE CITY, this dictates that they pay lower taxes TO THE CITY. IT IS NOT RENT STABILIZED as between the OWNER AND RENTER (and it is not advertised that way and renters don’t rent there expecting that, no one here is complaining about that we are complaining they are taking away services they charge a lot for). It is not rent stabilized AS BETWEEN THE OWNER AND RENTER because of loop holes in the law that permit the Owner of Arias i to charge market rents and increase them by market amounts every year, despite their tax status on file with the city.
I raised the point of rent stabilization because it makes their fraudulent representations more problematic in my mind: this is a company that through legal acrobatics gets to charge market rates and get a tax freebie, and is now lying to the public and prospective tenants. this seems like a massive perversion of the rent stabilization laws.
my old bldg had tax abatements/stabilization and they didn’t increase anymore than the city stab %. infact, when their abatement got approved we all had to resign standard stabilized leases. sounds like they might be skirting the laws.
No one is missing your point; you’re just failing to make one. Other than the fact that you don’t understand what “entitlement” means.
There’s no such thing as a safe neighborhood. Anywhere. Even the rock under which you seem to leave, dashr.
I think you just described 3/4 of brownstoner’s readership, Halve.
yikes! people are paying 3K for a studio and $4K for a one bedroom in an area they don’t feel safe in?????
” but it’s not so insanely expensive that the price would demand a ton of amenities either.”
really? pretty sure most large bldgs getting 60/psf are full service.
Take a gander at streeteasy…
… Look it up on streeteasy!
So looks like they’re paying about 3K for a one bedroom and 4K for an 800 square foot two bedroom. I mean, that’s depressing, but it’s not so insanely expensive that the price would demand a ton of amenities either. That being said, yes, it sounds like the tenants and the workers got a raw deal–but again, this is true everywhere I look these days in Brooklyn. That’s the problem with a hot real estate market–it’s hot. No need to retain tenants, or workers, or do anything at all.
please, dave, you are notorious for telling people in subsidized / rent stabilized housing to move when they bitch about something.