The new management has ruined a nice building...and its not the money..this was, is and always will be an expensive building in an expensive area...the doorman, building porters and maintenance staff are all wonderful hard-working people who would easily run a tighter ship than the jokesters running the place now. The culture has changed, it is nothing more than a glorified hotel, you can't go 10 seconds with being reminded that it is ARCHSTONE 180. Renovation projects routinely run long, maintenace requests are slower now that Archstonce contracts out to their cronies and worst of all the two jackasses who kindly "welcome comments" do not respond to phone calls and e-mails and had the audacity to tell me that there are NO apartments in Brooklyn to which they can compare 180 Montague to so they compared the rates to LOWER MANHATTAN when raising rents several hundred dollars. Now, I don't care if I you are trying to rip me off, its NY, I expect it, but don't tell a native New Yorker something so wrong, I love Brooklyn but so long as one molecule of water seperates the boroughs Manhattan will demand a premium. I have heard building management outright lie to people i.e. the parking in the building is much more expensive than indicated, the noise from garbage trucks is a nightly occurence. As for the building, the elevators are slow and inadequate, their is no freight elevator, people move in and out CONSTANTLY at all hours of the day every day of the week, some crap company called MDU is the only cable service provider and will rip you off, Verizon is the only internet provider (DSL), the pleasant door men get treated like dirt by new mgmt. yet still remain pleasant, rents are raised based on legal max, not actual rate meaning a 4% cap is much higher and worst of all, their is no tenants association and Archstone, according to my efforts and other online publishings indicate that they do everythignt o prevent one from forming. Yes, it is a nice building however I expected my living experience to get better for several thousand dollars more a year...and it has not.

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