Living in the building for (5) years. The building use to have a neighborhood feel. Everyone knew each other. The former building manager, Marni, was difficult to get along with. However, she was a professional. She kept the building clean and the rent increases affordable.

Brian, the new building manager, has allowed this building to take a complete nose dive. Most of the long time tenants have moved out. He's renting one bedroom apartments to three and four young people. This was a high end building which Brian has turned into a dormatory. The hallways are loud and you don't know your neighbors. Most importantly, it has become very transiant.

I use to look forward to coming home and now I can't wait for my lease to expire so I can move out. Brian is completely unprofessional. He sent a notice with many items listed (don't throw cigarette butts off the balcony, don't let your dogs urinate on the balcony, make sure everything is tied up on your balcony, etc). This notice with these items are sent and listed on the elevators repeatedly (so you don't really take too much notice to them after a while). Especially because we don't smoke, we don't have a dog and we don't have anything on the balcony. In a recent memo, along with the dog pissing, cigarette butts, etc. - in small print, the last thing listed was that he was closing the entrance to the parking lot. THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A MEMO OF ITS OWN. When we arrived home we couldn't get into the parking garage.

One of the perks for choosing this building was the Crunch Gym within the building (you have to pay for the gym, but it is in the building). When Brian became manager, he closed the entrance door from the building to the Crunch Gym. His reasoning was security. I don't know if anyone else noticed, but there is a rear entrance to the building with a swipe key - WHY COULDN'T HE INSTALL A SWIPE KEY SO IF YOU ARE IN THE GYM AND YOU WANT TO ENTER THE BUILDING, YOU WOULD USE YOUR SWIPE KEY.

Brian is inconsiderate, arrogant and defies logic. You don't realize any of this until your lease is up. He will try and get a 25-30% increase - when you try to negotiate for maybe a 15% increase - this is when Brian's true colors come out. With blinking an eye, he will throw you out of your home.

His newest adventure is that he shuts the heat daily without notice. This is a high end residential building where they are getting $3,000 for a one bedroom apartment. This is not Section 8 housing. You go to bed comfortably at 68 degrees and wake up freezing.

As long as Brian is the manager of this building, I would have to agree with other reviews I have read - AVOID THIS BUILDING.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 01/02/2009
I agree with this review 100%! We have an infant and have had to complain on a daily basis to get the heat turned on so the nursery doesn't become freezing. I even had to turn on NY1 in front of a maintenance man to show him that it really was 38 degrees out to get the Super to turn on the furnace! The are violating NY City housing codes!
From: jmcvetta	Date: 01/04/2009
You folks who still live in Riverbank -- I got out last spring, thank god -- really ought to write to the COO of the property management company (Roseland, if I recall) and try to get some satisfaction from them. They might be more receptive to tennant concerns now that the real estate crash is on.
From: Anonymous	Date: 01/15/2009
They will just enter your apartment without your permission to fix something you didn't ask to be fixed and steal your stuff. Stay away from this DUMP!!!

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