555 Ovington Ave Apartments

decorations. This is a pre-war building with all the architectural charm and infrastructure challenges that you would expect with a building this old. Considering the age of the building, the current Super has done an excellent job learning the nuances of maintaining the building. The building has old plumbing, old electrical, and old walls. In order to maintain the building the Super often has to hunt down specialty / non-standard parts and find work around solutions that are unique to individual units. To make it harder on the Super, parts that are standard across units, tend to have the same shelf-life which means that when something breaks for one unit, it breaks for everyone else soon after inundating him with service calls. In the last year alone, I've had 2 major plumbing requests (toilet and bathroom sink) and 1 window repair request, all of which were responded to within hours and completed in the same day. The personal attacks against the Super in the one review that caught my attention are also unwarranted in my opinion. It has been my experience and the experience of most of my neighbors that the Super is friendly and responsive. Unfortunately, the expectations of some tenants is unrealistic. While at least one individual who I have spoken with (and suspect authored the negative review) has a personal vendetta against the Super that pre-dates his time working as the Super. The Super isn't a daily miracle worker, but maintaining this building means he regularly pulls off his shares of miracles. My experience is that if you treat people with decency and professionalism they will often respond in kind. The Super has consistently shown me that he is a decent human being, a professional and someone willing to do more when he can. I encourage anyone reading these reviews to trust their instincts to help identify which reviews were written by individuals with too much time on their hands.

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management about installing cameras in the lobbies. Do you know what they said? "package theft is not our responsibility". yup..Safety must not be a priority for this building management. The neighbors are taking it upon themselves to help each other out, but dont depend on management to keep you and your belongings safe. AND I highly doubt the super will accept packages for you while youre out. Hes not the neighborly kind of man...

communal washing machines stayed broken for months and months. The front gate stayed broken for weeks. Why? He had to call in help because he couldnt fix these things. If you need a nail put in the wall-im sure he is great. For real, legit handy work-not this guy. And he isnt the kind of guy who will do you any kind of favors...terrible man for this Super position. And he gives me the impression that he is lazy. The "courtyard" is so overgrown that I wouldnt be surprised if mice/rats lived in there. There was a robbery here recently. It could have been prevented with security cameras..but they wont install them even though the residents have shown a big interest in getting these. The space of the apartment is nice. The neighbors are mostly good. The bad part is mainly the super.