Doyou like your super?
I was just curious as to peoples opinions of the supers in their respective buildings. I kind of like the guy in my building (on Park right off washington) because he keeps a collection of wooden bats right next to the inside of his door. When I moved in, he shook my hand, pointed to the bats and said, "If anybody gives you a problem, you just knock." I'm a sucker for old school approaches to security like that. The only issues with loitering in the entry alcove I've encountered has been the occasional throng of older people (like 60 yrs and up) who hang out drinking E & J out of plastic cups. I found it kind of cute, so it doesn't even bother me. 
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my super is a 60 year old puerto rican grandma. she has no bats
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quijibo wrote: my super is a 60 year old puerto rican grandma. she has no bats
I bet nobody fucks with her though
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I don't have a super, but my landlord is the coolest guy in the world.
BTW the first floor of my building (corner of vandy and bergen-- used to be the Miracle Church of Christ) has been rented to a restaurant people. They left a note saying hi, but failed to mention what the business is (I found out later from my downstairs neighbors) or what kind of eatery it will be.
Obviously, I am hoping for ethernopian. -
we have 2 supers. if i say "hello" to either, they have nothing to say to me in response - not even "hello". so i always greet them and they just look at me and say nothing.
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Yes. He's awesome. Keeps an eye on everyone's property and safety, and can either fix anything, or point you in the right direction.
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On a slight side note, does anybody know the deal with the older black guy...graying hair, very few teeth, usually has a hat and one black crutch. I saw him arguing with a guy outside Cepeda the other night, telling him that he would never use drugs, he "just has a taste" from time to time. I'm guessing he has more than just a drink, but I was wondering if he's been around the area for awhile.
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my super is super-duper.
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My super is awesome, although the building's management is something of a mess.
Did any of you catch the episode of This American Life about supers a few weeks ago? Hilarious. -
remybklyn wrote: On a slight side note, does anybody know the deal with the older black guy...graying hair, very few teeth, usually has a hat and one black crutch. I saw him arguing with a guy outside Cepeda the other night, telling him that he would never use drugs, he "just has a taste" from time to time. I'm guessing he has more than just a drink, but I was wondering if he's been around the area for awhile.
He's been hangin' by my place since I moved to this block a year and a half ago. He's stopped asking me for coffee/change, and now our conversations consist entirely of "where's my dog?" when I'm not with my dog, and "there's my dog!" when I am with my dog... -
apollonia666 wrote: My super is awesome, although the building's management is something of a mess.
I didn't. Did they profile any from NYC?
Did any of you catch the episode of This American Life about supers a few weeks ago? Hilarious. -
remybklyn wrote: [quote=apollonia666]My super is awesome, although the building's management is something of a mess.
I didn't. Did they profile any from NYC?
Did any of you catch the episode of This American Life about supers a few weeks ago? Hilarious.
There were two from NYC. Here's the synopsis from the This American Life website for those two parts:Prologue. Host Ira Glass visits an Upper East Side building in Manhattan where Peter Roach has been the super for about ten years. Peter has a small apartment in the building, and sole access to a large courtyard – the kind of courtyard most New Yorkers would kill for. But for complicated reasons, Peter never, ever uses it. (3 1/2 minutes)
The other stories in the remainder of the show were also good, but not stories from NYC.
Act One. The Super Always Rings Twice. Reporter Jack Hitt tells the story of how he helped organize tenants and threaten a rent strike in a New York City building back in the 1980s. Before long, Bob, the building super, became his enemy. The situation got pretty ugly. Mobster ugly. Bob began to brag about how important he was in his native Brazil, how he could kill a person and be immune from prosecution. Only many years later did Jack find out how dangerous Bob really was. (21 minutes)
You can buy past episodes on iTunes now, if you're interested. The Act One story is a *trip*! -
I think I'm gonna be doing alot of buying stuff on iTunes or waiting until dvd release...I opted for the "basic antenna" package with Cablevison so I pretty much get the standard 2-13 channels, plus the lunacy that is BCAT
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I have never met my super.
I used to think that the dude that takes out the garbage was the super ...but he is not. I think the super pays him to do the cleaning and stuff.He does a good job , I like him , nice guy.
One day I was heading out for a nice stroll , and as I opened my door I got a nice whiff of funk , lol , it was stanky , I was like Ooooh nooo , must be that one ladies snoop doggy dog , I think it went poo somewhere in the hallway , and maybe the owner didn't clean it properly , anyhoo , I managed to keep walking without fainting , came back home and what do I see? My supers assistant mopping the hallway! =D>
Ooh , pine-sol spic and span Mr. Clean it smelled great
I said thank you , flashed him a smile , went into my apartment and did the happy dance...what what! -
apollonia666 wrote: The other stories in the remainder of the show were also good, but not stories from NYC.
you can get the podcast here for free:
You can buy past episodes on iTunes now, if you're interested. The Act One story is a *trip*!
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awesome! Thanks quijibo
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To clarify, you can only get the podcast free the week after broadcast. That particular episode is from three or four weeks ago so you can't get it as a podcast anymore. You can listen to archived episodes online (streamed in RealPlayer, I think), but if you want the MP3 you'll have to buy it on iTunes.
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my "super" lives in new jersey. he sucks. i see him around twice a year. he sucks at fixing stuff.
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apollonia666 wrote: To clarify, you can only get the podcast free the week after broadcast. That particular episode is from three or four weeks ago so you can't get it as a podcast anymore. You can listen to archived episodes online (streamed in RealPlayer, I think), but if you want the MP3 you'll have to buy it on iTunes.
you can stream the episodes whenever you wish.
if you want to save it as an mp3 file then it'll cost you 95 cents
i streamed the "super" podcast on sunday
--the story about the brazilian-death-squad super was awesomer -
quijibo wrote: [quote=apollonia666]To clarify, you can only get the podcast free the week after broadcast. That particular episode is from three or four weeks ago so you can't get it as a podcast anymore. You can listen to archived episodes online (streamed in RealPlayer, I think), but if you want the MP3 you'll have to buy it on iTunes.
you can stream the episodes whenever you wish.
if you want to save it as an mp3 file then it'll cost you 95 cents
Well, yeah, if you have an hour to sit at your computer and listen.quijibo wrote: i streamed the "super" podcast on sunday
Isn't it nuts?! I tried to find the website that was mentioned in it (trying not to do a spoiler here, because it's a GREAT story) but the site is apparently is expired, and I couldn't find any more info on the whole online. It's worth listening to either way!
--the story about the brazilian-death-squad super was awesomer -
My super's OK, about a million percent better than his (incompetent, compulsive liar, lazy) predecessor. He's not what I would call a 'motivated self-starter', but if you ask him to do something or tell him that something needs attention, he gets on it.
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Not from the nabe, sadly, but my super is a psychotic bitter woman who held in all her complaints for six months, then went balisitc and screamed at me - twice, about a month apart - for all the noise I was making (she live directly below me).
The "noise" she was comlaining about was not the complainable stuff: high heels, large parties, dancing, tap dancing, running in place, loud music, percussion or barking dog.
No, she was complaining about the sounds of us walking upstairs, on our rugs (in every room). The first screaming harassment took place at 11 am on a Friday (I was home sick).
The second, at 6 pm on a Tuesday, as soon as I got home, when I lowered my futon to change the sheets. She starts by banging on her ceiling with a broom or somerthing, then ran upstairs and, in front of another tenant, screamed at me for about five minutes. I apologized and explained that we do nothing out of the ordinary and that we have rugs in every room -- she called me a liar. When I invited her in to see for herself, she refused. The litany ended when -- still in front of the poor other tenant who was caught between me at my door and her -- she told me to go fuck myself.
Lovely, huh? -
my super is actually pretty cool
and he does amazeing repairs.
about a year ago a pipe broke above my bathroom cielling and after the plumbers got done with it there was a huge hole right above my tub.
my super came in and fixed the ceileing better then it was before, i mean its amazeing. everytime i take a shower and look up i think to myself "damn thats a good looking cieling"
things might be a little different in a coop because we vote on how much his sallery will be. when i used to rent my supers were apathetic at best. -
josseleen wrote: The second, at 6 pm on a Tuesday, as soon as I got home, when I lowered my futon to change the sheets. She starts by banging on her ceiling with a broom or somerthing, then ran upstairs and, in front of another tenant, screamed at me for about five minutes. I apologized and explained that we do nothing out of the ordinary and that we have rugs in every room -- she called me a liar. When I invited her in to see for herself, she refused. The litany ended when -- still in front of the poor other tenant who was caught between me at my door and her -- she told me to go fuck myself.
Yeah...I have a lady downstairs from me who is a bit old and daft, and believes that throbbing drum and bass music (which is actually coming from an apartment across the whole from me...it's THAT loud) is coming from MY apartment. Couple that with the fact that when I moved in, a broken dishwasher that leaks into her apt. was included with my apt. I just know she loves me. I'm starting to realize that my super is not a handyman type, since the few repairs that have been done since I moved in were completed by a company employed by the management co.
Lovely, huh? -
For the first 3 or 4 years of my 10 in this apt my super used to be on-point but he seems to have just given up since. I dunno...Anyway, even though he lives in our sister building next door, he has his wife's uncle doing the actual day-to-day maintenance and the super does random repairs. He's OK I guess, but not stellar by any stretch. I suspect he has another job and has has uncle-in-law doing the work in exchange for room and board.
He IS a cool enough dude AND is very hands-on when it comes to building issues, like talking to tenants that are TOO loud late at night, and such, so that we--the other tenants--don't have to. He prefers it that way. Fine by me. -
Subject: seriously?
am i really the only one with a bad super? i can NOT get him to do repairs, even after dozens of calls to him and the landlord. he doesn't answer his phone, ignores messages, and refuses to engage in conversation when i see him in person. he always has to take a phone call immediately when i see him, and says something along the lines of "i'll get back to you" when i try to ask him for anything (which he never does).
finally after months of trying not to pick a fight, i gave in and called the HPD to file complaints, and that day he showed up to do one of my repairs but hasn't been back about the rest since.
i love my apartment and don't want to move, but my roommates radiator is leaking buckets, there are tons of building security issues that need to be resolved, and i've been feeling pretty helpless about the whole situation lately.
should i just move? -
Esmith, how many tenants are in your building? Do you think others are as concerned about maintenance and security issues as you are?
The tenants in my building and a couple of other adjoining buildings all managed by the same company recently got together and formed a tenants' association to petition our landlord for security improvements after several incidents in all the buildings were repeatedly ignored by management. We sent the petition, signed by about 30 tenants, directly to the owner (not the management company, since it was apparent that they weren't telling the owner about the problems), and cc'd HPD and the 77th Precinct. We haven't gotten all of our demands met yet, but the owner was on the property the next day inspecting things we'd complained about and a LOT of improvements got made right away.
So if you think others in your building are also concerned, and/or if there are other buildings owned by the same people where tenants have similar problems, maybe you could try organizing? -
apollonia666 wrote: Esmith, how many tenants are in your building? Do you think others are as concerned about maintenance and security issues as you are?
Oh dear, Apollonia...your building isn't Jalen mgmt, is it?
The tenants in my building and a couple of other adjoining buildings all managed by the same company recently got together and formed a tenants' association to petition our landlord for security improvements after several incidents in all the buildings were repeatedly ignored by management. We sent the petition, signed by about 30 tenants, directly to the owner (not the management company, since it was apparent that they weren't telling the owner about the problems), and cc'd HPD and the 77th Precinct. We haven't gotten all of our demands met yet, but the owner was on the property the next day inspecting things we'd complained about and a LOT of improvements got made right away.
So if you think others in your building are also concerned, and/or if there are other buildings owned by the same people where tenants have similar problems, maybe you could try organizing? -
My super is Abysmal! I cannot even get into how horrible and in how many ways because thinking about it makes my blood pressure go up. Today he came to fix leaking radiators--repairs took approximately 20 minutes. If he had done them a year ago when we first complained, we would not be walking all over rotted wood floors and our downstairs neighbors would not have rotting ceilings. That's just one incident of so many--i could go on with buzzers that don't work, locked gates over fireesapes, roaches, tiles falling off of bathtub walls, leaks everywhere...the list goes on and on. On top of all of it he (with the management co.) swindled us but good when we moved in. Oh crap, my blood is boiling now.
He is impossible to deal with no matter how much we complain to him or the management company. In the end, it is not worth the torment. This summer, we move. -
Ugh...I'm dealing with a little of the floor rot myself. It's compounded by the fact that my cats keep grabbing chunks of the rotten wood and running around with it in their mouths.
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