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Gramercy Row


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anonymous

Resident 2008

8/9/2008

Decent Value

While I have only lived here since April, my husband has lived here since Jan. '07. The location is great--Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Jewel, Walgreens, Blockbuster, Berry Chill, Starbucks, Fedex/Kinko's, tons of banks, USPS, etc. all nearby. However, with Excalibur and the Joynt along the block south of the building on Dearborn, it definitely gets loud on the weekend nights (not to mention all street parking is taken up by valet then). We can't sleep with the windows open. There isn't much noise from neighbors (though the wood floors are rather creaky), just from outside. There is no charge for gas, since the heat is a radiator, and it's plenty warm in the winter (the only control you have is to open a window if it's too hot). There is rarely a breeze coming in the south side of the building, but often sunshine coming in--the buildings around are pretty short. There is no exhaust fan in the bathroom. Worst of all, anyone who uses electricity like most Americans will trip the breaker very often. Each apartment has one 15-amp circuit and another 20-amp circuit. The 20-amp is used for our window A/C unit in the summer, so everything else runs off of 15 amps. You can't use the microwave or blow-dryer at the same time as anything except a couple lights. The apartments are a little old, obviously painted over several times (even all of the wood trim and outlet covers, and dripped all over the bathroom), but everything works fine and we've never had problems with bugs or anything. Painting our apartment a color besides white made it look way better. The bike room is full of bikes that are never used, and you have to walk down a flight of stairs to the basement to use it, and they store huge appliances (fridges, stoves, A/C units) in there, so it's almost a joke. Plus it smells pretty often because the A/C from the workout room sucks the air out of the bike room and it doesn't have any ventilation. (The building doesn't provide any parking for cars.) The only staff around on a regular basis is the maintenance guy. TLC relocated the woman who used to work from the basement, so now you have to go all the way to their office on Fullerton to talk to anyone face-to-face. And if you get packages delivered by anyone besides USPS when you're not home, there's no one to hold the packages for you. The elevator is small for moving in furniture. Plenty of closet space! The kitchen has very little counter space, no drawers, and 1 small sink. This is pretty typical for studio apartments. We bought a microwave cart and baker's rack, which has worked out just fine. The warm water pressure is much lower in the kitchen than in the bathroom, and the cold water pressure is low in the bathroom. We haven't asked TLC to try to fix it, so it might be something that's adjustable. There is no roof top access or balconies or lobby or anything of the sort for lounging outside of your own apartment. Fortunately they replaced the obnoxious pink paint in the hallways and stairways with much nicer green paint and replaced the broken intercom system at the front door (though our number still doesn't work). The apartments with the curved block glass windows look great and have plenty of space. For the location, we find this apartment worth the price... for short-term.

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