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Gateway Battery Park City


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anonymous

Resident 2010 - 2016

2/22/2017

We had many happy years here -- but they were largely in spite of the building, rather than because of it. It has a great location, certainly--improved all the more over the last five years with new commercial development in the area. But don't think the management company hasn't noticed this. Rather, management has been on a price-gouging tear in the last several years, inflating rents for the oldest building in the district well over comparable buildings nearby. Given the incredible high turnover rate we witnessed on our floor, new tenants are getting the gist quickly. The management has made little more than cosmetic improvements over this time; the public spaces remain embarassingly shabby. Apartment windows are uninsulated, and the expensive, inefficient climate-control units mysteriously register charges back to the landlord -- not ConEd. (It's small wonder they've not been improved...) A solid on-site fitness center and indoor lap pool have given way to a small pathetic workout room (separate charge) and an outdoor wading pool for neighborhood children ($25/day). Hallway carpets have likely not been replaced since the 1980s, festering in stale, un-airconditioned stasis. The laundry rooms are a swampy nightmare, with machines that so routinely mis-read credit cards, or fail to clean/dry, that they feel like an intentional, cheap money-making scheme. If so, it would be in keeping with the aggressively incompetent state of the management office. I have rarely encountered such a well-balanced mix of cupidity and ineptitude. It was a pleasure to move on.

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