View 34

Insane how horrible the building is. The elevators are ALWAYS down. Right now 2-4 elevators are down and the funniest part is that one of them was being fixed for 6 months and then a month later, its broken again. DO NOT LIVE HERE
Mar 8th, 2024

Lived here for 6 years and finally biting the bullet to leave a review. The elevators are the absolute worst. Theyve never worked well, and recently we had to put up with 1 of 3 being down due to upgrades. Waiting well over a year for these upgrades to be carried out on each elevator and its done nothing. If anything theyre worse now than before. The laundry rooms are also awful, between one of them going on fire last year and recently another having to close for an undocumented reason. The building absolutely cannot handle the number of people that live here. You can sometimes expect to wait 10 minutes for an elevator to come when its busy (6pm). Theres a lot more you could complain about; noise, management not caring about much, rooftop space poorly maintained and often closed, etc.
Feb 25th, 2024

They don't let my deliveries to be delivered through the door so they cancel all the time.
Feb 24th, 2024

Hello, I live in view 34 in New York City. I work overnights in the emergency department. Every single day there has been drilling that is so loud I am not able to sleep. The drilling is happening above my apartment. There has been flooding as well ln the apartment above mine and the only reason I know is because I physically walked up to the floor above mine to see construction and asked the workers. The staff at view 34 has never given me notice or cared for how it distrusts my well being. I have asked to move out before my lease and they will not let me and requesting I pay in full until May. I refuse to live here it has been the worst experience of my 7 year New York City span of apartments in New York. I have also had several mice as the drilling is constant distribution to the walls and am told to deal with it . I can not wait to never live here again. The worst apartment and the worst leasing office I have ever experienced. The building just responded to this post as if they are accommodating and saying there is no record on file of pest control. I did have a request in for pest control and was told its New York City there is only one Forman and it would be done after the holidays ( two weeks). The building is a joke.
Feb 15th, 2024

So far the "newly modernized elevator has broken down at least 4 times that I know of since it was put back into service. Dates as follows; 12/10, 12/11, 12/14 and 12/15. Basically UDR stuffs 4 residents in a one bedroom as %90 of the tenants are post graduates who are roommates. As such, the building infrastructure cannot handle the number of residents as it was never designed to handle that amount. This is evident in the elevator breakdowns. It's clear that UDR management does nothing to mitigate this inconvenience on the tenants. The service elevator is used by the staff during morning rush exacerbating the issue. Many times I have taken the elevator up, simply so I am assured I can fit on the way down. By the time the elevator gets to my floor, there's just no more room. Furthermore, the amenities are never in full operation but the residents are charged a fee every year. The grill hoods have been broken for over a year. The media room has been closed for months with no indication of when it's to re-open (amenities fee has not been reduced or waived). When inquiring about an elevator part that enables the service elevator floor to be shown in the lobby area, I was told it was on order. That was in March, it is now December! As it stands now, tenants have to guess what floor the service elevator is on from the lobby, run to the back, where the service elevator is in the hopes that it's on a near floor. Lastly, the management should be able to come up with strategies to help ease the disruption to residents. Make the service elevator available during peak times, put in place the panel that indicates where the service elevator is when in passenger mode, instruct tenants that during peak hours, food deliveries should be picked up from the lobby. These can all help reduce the trouble placed on tenants. I understand it's tiresome for the management to hear all the time that the elevators are an issue, think of how it is for the tenants who have to actually live through it. BTW, most elevator modernizations take 10-12 weeks, for some reason when UDR does it, it takes 12-20 weeks. Thats over a year to modernize 3 elevators.. Please also note, there are roughly 1200 residents that at any given time are being moved by only two elevators. Please send help, for the love of all that is holy, please send help! UPDATE: 1/06; As of today, the service elevator has been out for two days. So now there are roughly 1200 residents being moved by 2 elevators only. Workmen are using the resident elevators tying them up so it's even more of an inconvenience to the tenants. Furthermore, multi-family complexes should have one elevator for every 60 90 units for convenience and to reduce wait times. Currently, View34 has roughly 350 units on this side of the building being served by 2 passenger elevators and one service elevator (currently broken). This is woefully below the number of elevators that are needed to efficiently move the residents. But I understand, it's obvious where the residents fit on the priority scale here, at the bottom. Gotta get our trusted vendors to complete there vital work, residents be dammed. Gotta get those vacant apartments filled ya know. Oh, and yes, I'm sure my comments will be taken into consideration, like all of your tenants needs. UDR needs to treat it's tenants like clients. As of now I firmly believe they view us as a nuisance. And now you have to pay $70.00 a month to use their internet provider, whether you want to or not, whether or not you already have an internet provider thats cheaper, oh no. You have to use their internet provider. This place is really unbelievable. Thanks for nothing Madison.
Feb 13th, 2024