461 Dean Street Log Numbers
Posted 11-24-2016 at 04:22 AM by boerumhillbilly
dollyplove@yahoo.com
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Originally Posted by boerumhillbilly
I just got my "waiting list" letter and I'm livid. Why did they not let me know this sooner? I need to move by January, and have crazily been dealing with the "no news is good news" for two months. I've been holding onto false hope for me and my daughter this whole time.
I've lived in the neighborhood (exact same zip code of Dean St) for 21 years. I had to move from my old apartment which was right around the corner from Dean st. on Pacific when they tore my building down to build Barclays Center in 2005. I used to work at the bar that once was located at the very site of 461 Dean St. before it got torn down. But others are "more qualified" than I am the letter says? I only qualify for the wait list.
I'm just so disgusted, and so unhappy with how this has unfolded. If I had been interviewed for a "wait list" spot-and been told as much, I'd have been less angry, but I kept being told that my chances were good and that everything looked great. So much for hoping that karma will finally be fair. I can no longer afford my neighborhood after 21 years. My landlord is right here in my apartment as I write this (the quintessential slumlord) because all my electrical circuits blew during the storm last weekend and I haven't had heat or electricity since Saturday. That's four days with no light or heat in the freezing cold while he finally gets around to dealing with the problem on a Wednesday night before Thanksgiving at 8pm. And while he is trying to instruct the budget repair men (who speak no English and you can bet aren't certified electricians) to try to deal with the current situation, he is also telling them to "install granite counters" and new appliances when I end up moving out after over seven years of NO REPAIRS. So he can jack the rent up another 1000 for a place that is always below code and never passes inspection. Yet I had to tell him that Dean St was a possibility. He's never given me a rent receipt in my entire 8 years here of paying him rent. No. I had to get him to write a letter which let him know I wanted to move. And he just admonished me for calling 311 to report no lights and no heat. "That's not going to look good if you want to move" he said.
I'm so sick of this. I'm not even sorry for this rant. I can't believe this. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, I have only partial electricity (they just figured out how to fix half of my apartment but I have to wait until friday to get the rest of the apartment up to speed) and no heat whatsoever. At least can plug in some space heaters but not in the bedroom where I need them because that is not where the electricity is now. At least kind friends will have me and my daughter over tomorrow (even though we haven't had hot water to shower with in days). I haven't even been able to go away because I've been waiting to get this all fixed. My dad died last year and my mom's alone--but though I wanted to visit her for the holiday-I had to make sure this was all resolved first.
It is only now that I know that MAYBE the heat and electrical repair people will come on Friday to try to patch everything up with a quick, temporary fix. And if you think I'm going to be compensated in any way for no heat since October or electricity for days due to the infrastructural problems of the apartment, think again. This is hardly the first time this has happened. My landlord don't play that game. Letting him know I wanted to move was the final nail in my coffin here. He was ecstatic. He can get a lot more from some unsuspecting Ivy League grad for a while than have to deal with a single mom with a kid who insists on having heat when it goes out, and he'll end up getting a lot more rent than I've been paying from a new Ivy League grad too. Or their parents........
I've already been paying more than I can afford for a sub-standard apartment for years to stay in a neighborhood that I moved into in 1995 before anyone wanted to live here. My daughter grew up here, goes to school here, and this is the only home she's ever known. She has frequented all of the local playgrounds and businesses here since she was a baby. I have worked here for years but now I'm being "wait-listed" for Dean St. (at the very location I used to work that was torn down to build it) after holding onto the edge of my seat because they kept letting me think everything was on the up and up. But the part that gets to me the most is this letter saying that other applicants are "more qualified" and I want to know how? Why did they not just reject me outright if I'm so under qualified? How exactly are others more qualified? Did they have to give up their apartments so that Barclays Center could go up? And then get kicked out again for luxury apartments to go up on Bergen st. before I moved to my current apartment 8 years ago? The same address that the landlord wants to raise the rent to market rate even though all that means is slapping some paint on the walls and putting in a granite counter? And that's not to even mention the last 2 years where I've had to deal with non-stop construction right next door to my building so another luxury can go up and obscure all of my natural light, with non stop noise,rodents and workmen outside of my window 12 hours a day. Have the "more qualified" been paying taxes here since then? Have they been volunteering at schools and working in community gardens since then? Have they watched the whole place change and go from a neighborhood where nobody would even come to visit to being a neighborhood that is kicking me out with all of the same people who wouldn't come to visit before it was fashionable?
This IS worse than the election, because now not only is the country screwed, I am on the most personal level ever. A wait list is worse than a rejection. You can at least appeal a rejection. A waitlist is just the rejection without the appeal process really. If I don't stay angry, I'm just going to start crying.
I've lived in the neighborhood (exact same zip code of Dean St) for 21 years. I had to move from my old apartment which was right around the corner from Dean st. on Pacific when they tore my building down to build Barclays Center in 2005. I used to work at the bar that once was located at the very site of 461 Dean St. before it got torn down. But others are "more qualified" than I am the letter says? I only qualify for the wait list.
I'm just so disgusted, and so unhappy with how this has unfolded. If I had been interviewed for a "wait list" spot-and been told as much, I'd have been less angry, but I kept being told that my chances were good and that everything looked great. So much for hoping that karma will finally be fair. I can no longer afford my neighborhood after 21 years. My landlord is right here in my apartment as I write this (the quintessential slumlord) because all my electrical circuits blew during the storm last weekend and I haven't had heat or electricity since Saturday. That's four days with no light or heat in the freezing cold while he finally gets around to dealing with the problem on a Wednesday night before Thanksgiving at 8pm. And while he is trying to instruct the budget repair men (who speak no English and you can bet aren't certified electricians) to try to deal with the current situation, he is also telling them to "install granite counters" and new appliances when I end up moving out after over seven years of NO REPAIRS. So he can jack the rent up another 1000 for a place that is always below code and never passes inspection. Yet I had to tell him that Dean St was a possibility. He's never given me a rent receipt in my entire 8 years here of paying him rent. No. I had to get him to write a letter which let him know I wanted to move. And he just admonished me for calling 311 to report no lights and no heat. "That's not going to look good if you want to move" he said.
I'm so sick of this. I'm not even sorry for this rant. I can't believe this. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, I have only partial electricity (they just figured out how to fix half of my apartment but I have to wait until friday to get the rest of the apartment up to speed) and no heat whatsoever. At least can plug in some space heaters but not in the bedroom where I need them because that is not where the electricity is now. At least kind friends will have me and my daughter over tomorrow (even though we haven't had hot water to shower with in days). I haven't even been able to go away because I've been waiting to get this all fixed. My dad died last year and my mom's alone--but though I wanted to visit her for the holiday-I had to make sure this was all resolved first.
It is only now that I know that MAYBE the heat and electrical repair people will come on Friday to try to patch everything up with a quick, temporary fix. And if you think I'm going to be compensated in any way for no heat since October or electricity for days due to the infrastructural problems of the apartment, think again. This is hardly the first time this has happened. My landlord don't play that game. Letting him know I wanted to move was the final nail in my coffin here. He was ecstatic. He can get a lot more from some unsuspecting Ivy League grad for a while than have to deal with a single mom with a kid who insists on having heat when it goes out, and he'll end up getting a lot more rent than I've been paying from a new Ivy League grad too. Or their parents........
I've already been paying more than I can afford for a sub-standard apartment for years to stay in a neighborhood that I moved into in 1995 before anyone wanted to live here. My daughter grew up here, goes to school here, and this is the only home she's ever known. She has frequented all of the local playgrounds and businesses here since she was a baby. I have worked here for years but now I'm being "wait-listed" for Dean St. (at the very location I used to work that was torn down to build it) after holding onto the edge of my seat because they kept letting me think everything was on the up and up. But the part that gets to me the most is this letter saying that other applicants are "more qualified" and I want to know how? Why did they not just reject me outright if I'm so under qualified? How exactly are others more qualified? Did they have to give up their apartments so that Barclays Center could go up? And then get kicked out again for luxury apartments to go up on Bergen st. before I moved to my current apartment 8 years ago? The same address that the landlord wants to raise the rent to market rate even though all that means is slapping some paint on the walls and putting in a granite counter? And that's not to even mention the last 2 years where I've had to deal with non-stop construction right next door to my building so another luxury can go up and obscure all of my natural light, with non stop noise,rodents and workmen outside of my window 12 hours a day. Have the "more qualified" been paying taxes here since then? Have they been volunteering at schools and working in community gardens since then? Have they watched the whole place change and go from a neighborhood where nobody would even come to visit to being a neighborhood that is kicking me out with all of the same people who wouldn't come to visit before it was fashionable?
This IS worse than the election, because now not only is the country screwed, I am on the most personal level ever. A wait list is worse than a rejection. You can at least appeal a rejection. A waitlist is just the rejection without the appeal process really. If I don't stay angry, I'm just going to start crying.
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