Zeckendorf Towers

I used to live in this apartment building. It was a great experience. A nice rooftop deck overlooking Union Square, a passable gym with an olympic sized pool! open 7 days a week, and a nice, grand lobby.
It has one of the most spacious lobbies I’ve seen in Manhattan. Lots of hall space. Nice building style and design.
Relatively solid construction (a rarity in NYC) where the walls weren’t completely paper-​thin.
The neighborhood was truly awesome. Union Square on one side, Gramercy on the other.
A few minor gripes — the building charges you a hefty move-​in and a move-​out fee just for the pleasure of using their service elevator.
The bar across the street on 15^th street was often dragging bottles and creating noise at very late hours of the night. That’s NYC I guess.
Man do I miss living there…

Nice looking apartment building. The doormen are nice and it’s always clean. It’s located right across the street from Union Square Park, so if you go up to the terrace, you get really nice views of the city. Really convenient, as there are grocery stores, clothing shops, and lots of restaurants within walking distance.

I lived in Zeckendorf for one year, renting apartment P7Q from its individual owner. This was the worst rental experience I have ever had in six years of renting apartments in DC and NYC. As there was no remedy for me in dealing with the horrible landlord but to wait until my lease expired, I hope any possible future tenants will find this review and think carefully before they take on a lease of this apartment.
Although I will not go too much into detail, my reward for paying my rent on time every month and being polite and professional, was to get a landlord who never fixed any of the major things going wrong with her apartment (a/​c out for 3 mos, re-​tiling job that was to be finished before I moved in took 4 months to complete after I moved in, door to apartment didn’t close properly). I never bothered to ask for her to fix any of the less important things. The landlord thinks she is an amazing landlord and the nicest woman, but she will not fix anything, she will blame you for things going wrong in the apartment even if you are a good tenant who has never had problems before, and she will nickel and dime you on every point. **Read the lease before you sign it — she includes provisions where she can raise your rent mid-​year (she told me she’d never invoked it and it wouldn’t come up, but she did raise my rent mid-​year by approx. $ 50/​mo) and provisions where you, the tenant, are responsible for paying her GE service contract on her appliances.
The nightmare of living in this apartment (which is old and dingy for an apartment with rent over $ 2300) and the horrible experience of working with the landlord of this apartment is NOT worth living in this nice building. I left Zeckendorf and moved to Chelsea to a newer building where I am paying only slightly more and having such a wonderful experience. When I have problems and request that they are fixed the building staff takes care of it immediately with no questions asked. The landlord understands that when you pay this much for an apartment, things should be in working condition. Every day that I deal with any issue or contact anyone in the entire building from maintenance all the way up to the management company, everyone is pleasant to deal with. This is a breath of fresh air after my horrible landlord experience at Zeckendorf.
Do not rent from this landlord!