Opera House Lofts

I lived in this building for 3 years, and I’d have no problem recommending it to friends. The management are honest and fair. If you can find a unit that works for you, take it. Just look all around the building and be aware of what it is, a loft building in Bushwick with all the good and bad that implies. But it actually has a real sense of community, and you’ll make friends from all over the world.

I lived here for a year. As an artist/​musician, the dance room and sound proof rehearsal rooms were immediately attractive.
My time here was far too short. I loved it! My loft was huge. Yes, the building can appear a bit rough around the edges but this is Bushwick. Management did a great job at securing the property by installing a buzzer system for the main door and basement (where the gym, billiard room etc) are… in only a year these improvements were made. It made the building very safe.
The building is compromised of a lot of interesting individuals. Some more eccentric than others but generally very nice. I made friends here. My apartment never had bed bugs. Yes, there will be rats outside but this is New York! As long as they don’t get inside I could care less.
Tony, the super, was very kind and attentive to any issues I had with my toilet or locking myself out, etc. Management always very responsive via email.
Just be responsible, mindful of your surroundings and follow building rules. You’ll have a blast. Thanks OHL!

went to a party here with a friend and came home with bedbugs from the building’s ‘communal space.,’ a basement full of old furniture, visible cob webs, and a very obvious smell of mildew and body odor. I should have known better because when I walked through a security gate that was held open by a chain– a scared rat literally ran towards me from behind a pile of soaked old furniture and garbage bags, which is odd because there were a number of scrappy looking feral cats in housing made of discarded objects in some bushes about five feet away.
It doesn’t end there – a friend of mine went upstairs to the host’s apt. and I went with out of curiosity. The fluorescent lit hallway wreaked! of pot smoke and there was a very wasted man in the hallway banging on someones door, yelling, ‘let me the fuck in!’ All I can say is… Scary! This went on for the entire hour I was in the nearby apt. I normally wouldn’t even bother to write this review but there are alot of party’s at this place and bedbugs are expensive to deal with. In addition– another friend of mine who is moving to NY for college in the fall asked me if I knew about the Opera House Lofts. She said that she thought it looked good from the website and articles and the first thing that came to my mind is that this place is seriously misrepresenting itself and that it’s dangerous in addition to gross.