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Lots of potential, mediocre execution
From: -Anonymous-Date posted: 9/6/2008
Years at this apartment: 2008-01-01 - 2008-01-01
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I recently moved into a large 1 bedroom unit at 88 Greenwich, and I have some reservations about the decision.
At first blush, the building seemed like exactly what I wanted; a condo building with good amenities and top quality furnishings.
And while the building amenities are indeed very impressive (the common areas are beautiful and the staff is very friendly), and the apartments have Viking/Subzero appliances, there are some things that bring the experience down for me.
For one thing, I've discovered that while this building is indeed a condo development, most of the units are studios or small one bedrooms, which are used as rentals.
This inevitably attracts a set of people which are not what you'd expect from an upscale building (college kids, first year i-bank associates, frat boys doing shares), and this hurts the image greatly.
There are also a few apartments used as model dorms, and while that provides great eye candy on occasion, the girls are usually loud and obnoxious european children with little or no consideration for the other residents.
On the weekend evenings, the harbor room (main common area) is usually packed with immature fratty kids drinking cans of PBR and being generally obnoxious.
Not the upscale scene described by the real estate people.
There also seems to be an inordinate number of europeans in general, which is fine, except they all seem to absolutely refuse to speak english in the common areas.
It is beyond rude and extremely antisocial.
Overall, I'm happy with my apartment, but wish the building was not populated as it seems to be.
Unfortunately, it seems to be in danger of becoming a more upscale 2 Gold Street, which should be something that the owners and management company should be very, very concerned about.
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| From: Anonymous | Date: 07/24/2009 |
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Interesting, as that was my impression when viewing. I was concerned too many renters that don't make good neighbors. Has it gotten any better since this post?
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| From: KnowItAll88 | Date: 10/12/2009 |
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The picture painted above is bleak indeed. It's much better, believe me. There are an awful lot of young people around the common areas, but they are uniformly a) part of some considerate-to-a-fault group (study group? Mormons?) or b) alone and studying, earphones in, like a statue. Shockingly, I've never seen or heard any partying in the billiards room, and I keep late hours. Weekends, there's always an unruly group on the Harbor Room terrace, but it's as likely to be a couple of model families into their second bottle of Pouilly-Fuissé as a knot of boorish Wall Street pups playing at alpha dog. It's a giant building -- all new construction -- and, with the exception of the motley pastiche of tenants, it delivers on its promise of top-shelf NY living.
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