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DO NOT LIVE IN THIS APARTMENT!!! IT IS INFESTED WITH MICE!!!!!! Management is horrible. And unresponsive. The entire building had mice and no one did anything. After numerous reports. And 311 claims. Homeless people would often break into the building and steal packages throughout the year. Horrible experience!!

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The Super (Superintendent) is very racist to those who aren’t jewish, or white people, including white passing latinos, this apartment building is in a very immigrant community, and he should be used to having immigrant residents, but he’s not. He’s rude to the kids, and rude to the men who go to the mosque nearby. He WILL throw out scooters and bikes and expensive strollers if you are not a white or white passing person. I have had dozens of my stuff and other kids have had their stuff thrown out and visibly with intent broken to the point it is unusable by him. It is permitted that you can put your stuff in the lobby under the staircase, there is no sign whatsoever telling you cannot. He is always visibly annoyed and makes loads of microagressions when he’s called for repairs, only to non white people. The super however, is a very chill orthodox jewish man, no problems whatsoever with him. He isn’t rude to immigrants, doesn’t mind pets in hallways or stray cats that wander inside through the junkyard. Hes nice to kids, doesn’t mind pets. There are lots of trash cans neatly pressed against the wall of the entrance, with some trash not even inside it, but in bags, the trash cans can hold two bags max, that is why there are a lot of trash cans outside. There is no composting— will have to call 311. There are 4 floors, and there are only 7 different layouts, on apartment builds, walls are medium, not thin, not thick, occasionally you can hear bass music from neighbours, the floor is very thin, you can hear repairs from above or anyone below can hear you jump or repairing anything like a shelf. This building, despite being built close to 100 years ago, has pretty average/modern interior builds in the lobby, it’s not cramped whatsoever, and doesn’t really give off a 100 year old building. There are two “junkyards”, you cannot enter, and it’s just an empty walled off yard. The entrance has a modern call screen system, with a second door, that doesn’t have any security due to it being outdated, the mail “room” is just a wall in the lobby, it’s very safe, with no incidents regarding package stealing, although, some fedex drivers leave the package on the doorsteps outside the apartment building.

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