Chelsmore Apartments

The Chelsmore is a great building to live in short term or long term in Manhattan. The location can’t be beat as the ½/​3, A/​C/​E, F/​M, and 7 trains are all within a 5 minute walk. There is a fantastic supermarket right across the street with great shops and restaurants close by. The building is very clean, well maintained, and has very responsive, friendly staff. Suneil at the front desk is fantastic and the super Kumar who lives in the building handles repairs quickly and efficiently. Building management is in an office off the lobby which is very convenient. Many of the apartments (including mine) have recently been gut renovated and the hallways have recently been renovated as well. There is a nice laundry room in the building which was also just renovated with new washers/​dryers a few years ago. You have the benefit of a quiet, well constructed pre-​war building with modern renovations, full time doorman, elevator, and everything else you could ever need. I was a tenant here for 5 years and was always happy here.

I have stayed several times at the Chelsmore over the past ten years. When my wife and I first moved to NYC, we rented an apartment for a month while we looked for a longer lease. When we got married we had our extended family staying in various apartments.
It’s a great place with a great management team. The apartments are clean and big and the furniture is nice and comfortable. The staff are super friendly and helpful. The location is perfect. 5 stars!

I love the Chelsmore!
When I used to live in NYC, I had all of my friends and family visiting from LA and beyond stay there. You can’t beat the location and the cost. It isn’t fancy, but it is more than fine. The décor is a little funny (at first I thought that it was run by a consortium of old lady’s who had moved to Florida). And the apartments are large! I only wish that my old NYC apartment had a vestibule and a walk-​in closet.
Now when I come to NYC for work, I stay at the Chelsmore myself. The staff is always courteous. The night doorman printed out my boarding passes for me. And I love the location. It is so close to the highline and the Chelsea Market, not to mention Union Square and most major subways.
I always recommending the Chelsmore to my friends, when they are looking for a reasonable place to stay in NYC.

Bed bug infestation! Horrible experience in my life! 253 west 30^th street apt D1! These people were rude and cruel. They tried to blame the problem on me. I moved in without knowing of the bedbug problem. I moved right out. They didn’t disclose anything to me. My next door neighbor had a huge infestation! Thousands he said. Called lawyers because they did not want to returm my rent back. Stay away from these people. You have been warned!

I lived at 359 W 29^th St. This management company does a horrible job in terms of maintenance! Any work that was done on the building was always left in a state of disrepair. The facet in my unit was not attached to the sink and would flip flop when I used it. There was a large gaping hole (probably 6 – 8 inches across) that had been left around the sink pipes that a mouse used to climb through. The toilet was not attached to the floor (if you leaned over the toilet would come with you) and a large gaping hole had been left in the wall behind it that large roaches would crawl through. Due to water damage, the ceiling over the shower had developed a crack. After the person upstairs would shower, it would literally rain cold water down on your head. After several weeks of complaining to the management company, they sent the super over to «fix it». Apparently, «fixing it» meant nailing a piece of sheet rock into the cieling to hide the damage.
I had a terrible roach problem in my unit despite not keeping any food or standing water out. One of the neighbors had told me that the exterminator would spray the hall ways but refused to go into the units. I spoke to the management office about this but they didn’t do anything about it. Not to mention the super would never do anything until you had spoken to him about it at least 4 times over the course of several weeks and potentially called the management office to follow up on your request — not even anything as simple as slipping a copy of the shower key under my door.
Its really a shame. The apartment could be fantastic. The area is fantastic. The price is right. The thing that completely ruined the place is an apartment management company that is totally apathetic and unprofessional.