Parker Towers

The apartments have nice new flooring and the doormen are really pleasant.
That being said, insulation is terrible. You can hear the people above you unlocking their door, the people next door taking a bath, etc. Despite the money spent on lobby renovations, the doors on residential floors are almost all broken– the doors to the outside blow open, even during blizzards and hurricanes, making your apartment freezing, loud, and windy. The doors to the trashrooms are broken and the floors smell like trash. When they don’t, they’re sure to smell like the many residents who smoke in their apartments (the smoking ban is totally unenforced). At least one of the elevators is almost always out of service, and maintenance complaints are largely ignored

Honestly, one of the worst apartment complexes I’ve lived in to date. The noise is ridiculous, we couldnt even open the windows without the sound of ambulances and fire trucks blaring 24/​7, not to mention the subways that blast their horns at all times of the day and night. The management looks for every reason to screw you out of your money. They made our moving out process as difficult as possible, concocting ridiculous claims of damages and refusing to give us our security deposit back. They raise the rent $ 100.00 every year. If I could give this place 0 stars I would. I would seriously advise those looking to move to Forest Hills to look somewhere else.

My husband and I have lived in the 40 building, now the Gramercy for almost a year. We have a breathtaking city view and very large closets! The doorman are always friendly, and as soon as we put in a service request it gets fixed right away. When we first moved in there were some problems due to the renovation of the elevators. Since that has been done all four elevators work and we haven’t had any problems. Everyone is friendly, and we haven’t had any issues with noise. The email service when you have a package is very convenient. We are close to Austin street, the subway and LIRR the location could not be better! We just hope they don’t hike our rent to much come lease renewal so we can stay here. By the way I have lived on the upper east side as well as a luxury building in Kew gardens and I am happier here than any place I’ve lived.

This place has one of the worst service ever, mostly because of the unfriendly doormen. Whenever I got a package arrived downstairs, I wouldn’t feel happy but tremble with fear because I have to deal with the doorman. One of them will never smile and just staring at you directly, and won’t even say «You’re welcome» when I say «Thank you very much». Once I tried to pick up a package, one of the doorman closed his record book loudly and almost shout at me that I only have one package instead of two. I know everybody may have a bad day, but is it really appropriate to shout at a tenant like that? Later he found my packages and made apologies to me, but it really ruined half of my day.
I am not saying all of them are not friendly. I lived here for almost a year. I met 5 different doormen in this building (104 – 40), and 4 of them are extremely unfriendly. The doormen in 104 – 20, however, are awesome.
Another thing you might need to know is that they have a really bad maintenance in the building. The exhaust fan in my washroom has stopped working for nearly two months even I have sent several emails to the resident manager and got replies like «we are still working on it». Without the exhaust fan, the steam of the shower will make the roof bleeding a weird painting drops, and also ugly smells, definitely bad for health.

Hands down the most unprofessional experience I’ve ever had with a leasing agent. I called two weeks in advance to schedule a showing and when I get there, the leasing agent Stephanie Diaz says there is nothing to show. Why wouldn’t you call me to tell me that? Instead, I left work early and rushed to get there for nothing! Then you offer to show me floor plans which I’ve already seen online. What a joke! Learn to have some courtesy of other peoples time. Trust me you’re not doing anyone any favors. Needless to say, we will not be returning for a 2^nd appointment. Maybe others will have better luck!

Run from this place! The superintendent is terrible at 104 – 20. He’s always walking around complaining about something like a old senior citizen woman. Giving dirty stares are residents. He definitely abuses his authority. The staff is terrible as well and always staring at the residents and talking spanish which is very disrespectful. The place is like a prison. Completely opposite of luxury but they charge just as much as one so you don’t have to be a genius to figure this out.
I have no words for the management office. Management is not the right word for them if you catch my drift. They have sales women that lie to you just to sign the lease so don’t get caught in this trap. Good luck everyone!

By far — the absolute worst buildings in Forest Hills. There is nothing about parker towers that’s warrants it being called «luxury» — they are the closest thing to projects in the neighborhood.
You’ll go to the rental office in «the Bryant» which is completely redone and they’ll show you an apartment in one of the other buildings and say that they’ll be renovated soon. Don’t believe them. I moved in 4 years ago and they haven’t done anything to the lobby. When you walk in — note the stop work order on the front door.
They just poorly and cheaply «renovated» the basement. They basically put a bandaid over a bullet wound.
The elevators NEVER work — it’s no exaggeration. I have sometimes waited 20 minutes to get in a single working elevator when 3 others are broken.
The playground is like a prison yard. The see saws are old — the slides are rusted. People use it as a dog run and sometime don’t pick up after their dog.
The people in the rental office are thieves. With that said, the maintenance men and 2 of the 3 doormen in my building are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

I would give 0 star if I could! Worst building I’ve ever lived. The management company trying to make everything difficult. There supposed to be 4 elevators in each building, but usually only 1 works. We tried to book a moving out elevator 2 weeks before, they said they were all booked out and would charge $ 1000 for a non-​schedule moving out!!! Crazy! Ask current tenants before you decide to move in!

The Good: Large rooms, very nice doormen.
The Bad: Horrible elevators that are constantly breaking (you will get stuck in one sooner or later). Elevators are also occupied by people trying to move out of this place, and people who have been fooled into moving here. People are lured in here with cheap rent for the first year, and then are hit with high rent hikes once they are settled in. The elevators are also used for garbage here. There is often a line in the lobby of people waiting to get into the elevators. You need to take the elevator down to the basement if you hope to get in, otherwise it’ll fill up and you’ll have to wait again. There is a lot of wildlife here. You will have mouse problems and gigantic cockroach problems. The management is just awful and they tell lots of lies and are very rude and disrespectful. There is very little heat provided in the winter (sometimes no heat at all) and they often don’t provide hot water. The building also has paper thin walls and since it is pet friendly, you will hear dogs barking at 2am. Please don’t move in here!
Also, the reviewer below me is clearly a plant from management. They only have 1 review, and take a look at the tons of reviews all saying the same thing about Parker.

Ok, so almost two years here. This building has it’s negatives, as all buildings do, and in this case it’s the really thin walls and crazy rent hikes. But I have to give MAJOR credit to the management company. While I know some people do not have a good relationship with the mgmt company @ Parker Towers, I think you get what you give. We’ve had some horrible problems with our neighbor and against all odds, Samir was able to help us out the best he could. And if you don’t want to pay a broker’s fee or go through a ridiculous co-​op board interview and want an apartment in a renovated building that’s not 100 years old, this is the place to be. Yes, rents are higher than average. But you pay for the amenities: gym, concierge, laundry, dry-​cleaners in the building, and the little shop downstairs, which is a blessing.

I lived here for about 7 years or so and recently moved out. Our experience here was positive for the most part. From the employees that had to come by to fix things, and the doormen as well, everyone was very friendly and professional, and made staying in the building a pleasure. On the management side, everyone was professional, and lease renewals were always reasonable. They were very understanding when I changed my move out date twice, and extended my lease for me as well. When I signed earlier leases I was also able to do early termination riders, which gave me some peace of mind. I also got my deposit back in full in the 1.5 month timeframe they said it would take.
The negative side is the elevators (I lived on a higher floor) which are being renovated as we speak and are taking longer than expected. Once done, I figure that a major source of complaints will vanish. I’m guessing that they haven’t been able to renovate them as quickly as they would like because of the age of the building, high resident turnover (frequent move-​outs and move-​ins causing increased wear and tear on the existing elevators), and cash flow issues from a decent number of rent-​controlled residents. I never got stuck in the elevator, btw.
The other negative is noisy neighbors from time to time, which I guess you could have anywhere.
To take the place to the next level, management may want to consider adding soundproofing to the walls between apartments, and upgrading kitchens, etc (already being done in one of the properties). On the whole, I was happy with the place, and more so with all the staff and management that worked there.

I would give less than 1 star if possible. If you are looking to move here, DONT! There is nothing «luxurious» about this building.
The management is poor, the maintenance is poor, the overall experience is poor. Ask any tenant how they feel about the place and you’ll get the same offer from all, AWFUL!

What a complete dump!!! I read the reviews on
and others and they were all ⁵⁰⁄₅₀. Trust the Unilocal reveiws. The lady showed us one apartment before I just told her I would never live in such a dump and left. The lighting was terrible, elevators were broken, carpet torn up and left that way everywhere, holes in the hallway walls, etc. The leasing office was amazing though. Maybe they should spend that money on the buildings.
Long story short, this place is a rape tower. Don’t even look here, run. Run in the other direction as long and hard as you can. Pay for the broker, it’s much better and you’ll find a place you won’t get raped in…

i should come up here and check out reviews first, the apartment has nothing related to luxury except price in that neighborhood.
Doormen are nice.
Maintenance request usually takes a week and more to be fixe, unless, the request is a easy job, like I asked them to fix the broken window blinder when I moved in a month ago, it still haven’t been fixed yet, the super said he is going to replace the old medicine cabinet, but at the end, they just put a new knob on the mirror, due to this, I cancel the other half dozen problems I found when I moved in.
elevators are only better then MTA’s. always broken and slow.
the management is unprofessional, they told me I can only use «service elevator» in weekdays to move in, so I took a day off for moving, but later I found out, people can move in in saturdays, and there isn’t such a thing called «service elevator» in the building also, they won’t actually reserve the elevator for moving, and when they collect garbage they occupy the passenger’s and cause service delay.
I asked them if I could move in and start lease on 4^th of the month, they say ok, and later I found out they can’t end lease in the middle of the month, so according to their rules, they added one month to my one year lease, but I found out their payment system counted on unit of date.
except the super of the building, I can’t feel any care from the lease director or general manager’s emails, they just like some DMV cynical officers.

All of the reviews I’ve read for Parker Towers Management so far are spot on. This place is so unprofessional. Rent increases, small elevators, lousy doormen, lack of amenities, the list goes on. I’ve been here a few times to show clients available units and every time I’m here, my clients walk out with utter disappointment. It’s not a prime location. It’s not located in the heart of Austin St and Continental Ave. Walking distance to the 71^st Continental Station is about a 5 – 10 minute walk. During winter snow, a lot of the sidewalks around this building isn’t cleared. The biggest and most frustrating problem to have here is finding parking. The police precinct is right across the street and they reserve 4 – 5 blocks of street parking for police only. if you’re looking to rent or buy, I highly recommend you look elsewhere because you’ll end up miserable living at Parker Towers.

I lived there for one year, wasn’t luxurious living but it wasn’t all bad. I moved out because they increased my rent by 22% I couldn’t see any reason for that whatsoever. I wasn’t the only one moving out that day either.
As for laundry room, infestation, doorman service, repairs etc. I would say is C+ maybe. In addition, noise from LIRR is very annoying.
Rent in my current building went up by $ 10 /​year after first year and I can live with that. I have no idea what was behind the PT’s increase, but my neighbors told me no one lived in that apartment for more than 2 years, so I guess that’s what they do.

This place is a complete and utter waste of time. If you have any sense of self-​respect and dignity, do not even bother looking at this place. You might fall for their bag-​o-​tricks, but TRUST ME you’ll be disappointed beyond belief.
I’ve been walking up MANY flights of stairs because the elevators are under repair –and way far past their estimated time of completion. I’ve been embarrassed to have people over because of the vast construction and repair that has been taking place. It is taking forever. No picture of what they hope to accomplish, no letter about how long it’ll take place. They make decisions and we suffer. But the best part is that even though I don’t have access to the elevator, I don’t feel good about having people over, I don’t have an updated apartment, they have limited the laundry room hours, etc. etc. etc. They have decided to up my rent again:
2010: $ 2500
2011: They wanted $ 2700, I negotiated to $ 2600
2012: They want $ 3200.
NO WAY! It’s not even worth what I have been paying. No gym, no pool, limited laundry, constant repairs (turning off of water), paper-​thin walls where you can hear your neighbors singing Beatles tunes all day and night, scary garbage rooms. etc. etc.
GET A CLUE, PARKER TOWERS!
Feel free to message me if you want more details.

I wish I can give O rating to this piece of crap. Thank God, you saved me. I never lived here but Once upon a time… When I was looking for an apt, I saw 3 similar building and they said Luxurious apt for rent. Really??? Luxurious???
Anyway I made an app with lady who handle their office. Don’t remember her name. Apt which I saw was on 17^th floor. Elevator was so small barely 4 ppl can stand and making so much of noise while operating. I felt like it will broke down right now. Corridor was sticking and so dark. Felt like some horror movie scene. Ok finally reached to apt, it was spacious big but kitchen and appliance was too old. Wall was paper thin but lots of closet space. Now it’s time to see laundry room which was in basement all the way. Not appealing. She quotes rent for one bedroom was 1700 $. For this crap you want 1700 are you kidding me? No way!!!
I said to myself I am ready to commute for 2 and half he everyday for work instead of staying in this…
I was surprised to see that many ppl were living there. Why? how?
They have 24 hrs doorman and I like their mail service. They have tv screen which tells you that you have package or your mails are ready to pick up. I wasn’t to live in concierge, I came to see an apt where I am going to spend most of my time after office. It is also near by public transportation and austin street which is very famous in this area still I don’t know why. Anyways Parker Tower: thanks but no thanks.

I am moving out of Parker Towers after almost 30 years. I remember about 10 years ago, a group of friends drove me home one night and said «You know, this would be the projects if white people didn’t live here.» I didn’t know whether to be upset or not. Now, it couldn’t describe this place better. If you enjoy paper thin walls between apartments, jackwagons for neighbors, and elevators that breakdown all the time, then this is the place for you!
Positives:
— 24 hour doorman
— Largest apartments in the area with huge closets
Negatives:
— Paper-​thin walls: You can really hear normal level conversation from the next apartment. Come into play now, more than ever, due to all the kids in their early 20’s moving into the building. If you want a peaceful sleep, look elsewhere.
— Elevators break down every week: When I first moved in, if the elevator was not working, someone would be here in an hour fixing the problem. Now, it is not uncommon for an elevator to be out for over a week.
— Management: Good luck contacting them. You have to go to the management office to get any sort of response. Good luck getting your security deposit back. They will use any excuse not to give it back to you. Make sure you have copies of every single agreement.
Don’t move here if you value your sanity.

They call themselves ‘luxury rentals’ but the reality of the situation is that most of the staff has bad attitudes. I usually try to say hello to the doormen and ask how they are doing, and receive grunts in response, if at all.
Turnover is very high, most of the neighbors I’ve spoken to (as well as myself) are not planning to renew their leases.