Scaffolding at The Broadmoor, located at 235 West 102nd Street (Google Maps, July 2022)
The Broadmoor is a full service co-op located at 235 West 102nd Street at the corner of Broadway. The 1927 building is home to 345 units and comes with a sundeck, solarium, doorman, and a live-in super and porters.
Amenities aside, two residents recently posted unrelated public complaints about the building on neighborhood app Nextdoor. One was concerning garbage pileups from an ongoing construction project. The other poster shared her safety concerns following an unfortunate incident.
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The first post from early August is a bit stomach turning. Four years into a construction project, trips to the basement laundry room are allegedly met with piles of rotting garbage, the stench of which reaches the upper floors of the building thanks to the warmer temperatures, “lack of ventilation, and lack of daily cleaning.”
Add a dead mouse “plastered to the stairwell for months and ignored by management.” Blech!
Though one commenter suggested giving the mouse CPR, the post was greeted with mostly helpful feedback urging the poster to contact various city agencies including the Department of Buildings, the fire and sanitation departments, and 311.
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The second post was made on September 18 by a longtime resident named Barbara who claims to no longer feel safe after a heavy package was allegedly stolen from right outside of her apartment. To make matters worse, the tenant found the empty box in the building’s garbage disposal area, neatly folded up as if readied for recycling.
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“[The Chewy box] was over $200 worth of pet food, litter and treats, and it weighed about 40 pounds, so I could not imagine someone (like a food delivery person, etc.) carrying it out of the building, especially through the front door (the only entrance/egress now, due to construction), which has a 24/7 manned desk and several cameras. On Saturday afternoon, I went to check if it had been moved to the basement, where the garbage/recycling is taken and stored until it gets taken to the curb (again through the front entrance). There, I found the empty box, folded, with the other cardboard recycling. I KNOW it was mine, as the address label was clearly visible through the plastic, and it was the Chewy box my stuff had arrived in. So, I believe someone in my building either stole the contents, or threw them out, and then very ‘responsibly’ put the box into the recycling on my floor.”
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Barbara went on to explain that the building’s front desk checked the camera recordings to see if anyone left the building with the bulky box, but that investigative path was a dead end. “I hate to say it, but I no longer feel safe in this building, after living here for decades and never having anything like this happen,” she wrote.
We reached out to both original posters (and the building’s management company) but neither were available for immediate comment.
I am a resident of this building and I think it’s really unfortunate for ILTUWS to do these “someone on nextdoor said” posts without getting comment from someone like the building manager or board. It’s insulting to a well run building that has hundreds of units, which just completed years of hard work to restore gas service to hundreds of residents.
The poster who has a package stolen is a known hoarder with pets. You can even see someone commenting this on the post! It’s an unfortunate situation but the building (like any well run building) doesn’t allow people to store packages in the halls.
Everyone stays away from the person whose posts you are elevating; once a friend of mine asked her to stop leaving her door open at night because her pets were wandering the hallways. She barked at this person and chalked threatening writing on her door. The hoarder who posted is rumored to be rent stabilized holdover from the co-op and basically untouchable.
This is the person whose post you’ve decided to elevate. It’s totally not representative of the building that has hundreds of residents.
As for debris in the basement, I haven’t seen any. Haven’t had issues or seen weird things doing my laundry.
I see you’re not one who retains what they read so lemme help. The article says they tried to contact management so there goes that part of your novelistic reply. You’re easy to ID by the way. Looks like you’re the one who commented on the site you urged people here to ignore (Nextdoor.com) and shamed an elderly woman with severe health issues. Shameful
“these “someone on nextdoor said” ” wouldn’t that make you exactly that someone?
Adding to Rocinante’s comment…
The building staff doesn’t leave deliveries outside of door. Packages are held at the front desk until you sign for them. If a package was left outside in the hallway, this dirty resident probably left it there and it was assumed to be garbage as that would make sense given what is known in the building about this resident.
As far as the garbage – yeah the building is finishing a pretty large construction project so there are dumpsters in front and there’s lots of garbage and waste as a result. How is that news, something unusual or a ‘chronic’ problem with the building?
I think this site is just desperate for content taking a random internet post to try and create a ‘story’ with no actual verification or investigation of the items they report. This is the absolute laziest form of journalism if you can even call it that.
I agree with Jenny on the block. The point of the article is to address management issues not say mean things about fellow neighbors or devalue others concerns. Many shareholders and renters are not happy with the management company.