The Electra

We lived in a building for 2 years. The short of it — it is a good deal for young single people with dogs. You can’t live there with a family. Here is why: constant laud construction on each floor as they preparing building to be sold by single units in few years. Tiny, just tiny rooms. No service elevator — so average wait is 10 minutes to get downstairs (longer in the morning) as you share elevator with construction and cleaning crews. Always some issues with water and heat. But if you in your 20’s and have large dog — this building will be just fine.

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We lived in this building for 2 years and recently moved. The building management and ownership are very invasive, lack any empathy to residents and have a reputation to jack up price upon lease renewal. The last 2 years there have been a series of construction projects and broken elevators. They have hired inexpensive contractors that have turned many of the apartments and they are in the process of building a gym and game room which is behind schedule. They are also building laundry closets in each apartment although there is laundry on the floor with limited usage (there isnt a good reason to install them). In addition, during the renovations, we did receive a concession, though the process was quite adversarial leading to residents boycotting paying rent. Rose Associates says they appreciate residents, but they are generally inflexible, dont return messages and jack up rent. If you are considering this building, please reconsider. There are plenty of other options that would save you pain. This is one of those nightmare buildings that you hear stories about and hope to God it doesnt happen to you. Additionally, they plan to go condo in a couple of years.

The management company changed a few months ago (to Cooper Square Realty, LLC.) and last post is irrelevant. The Electra is now your typical manhattan management firm that drives up rent $ 400-​$ 1000/​year with no negotiation. Prices are the same as buildings much closer to subways and with better amenities. I would recommended choosing a building closer to the trains since it will cost you the same now.
Also there is a homeless woman who sits in the couch in the lobby (some resident told her she could stay there all day and night as her «guest») and a crazy man from apartment 905 who talks to the doormen in the lobby all day and yells at people with pets who walk by him mumbling about how his family was attacked by German Shepards. There are crazy ppl in every building but several residents complained about both these instances and nothing was ever done.
Bad management + increased prices make this building not worth the 15 minute walk to the trains (also there is a garbage dump being built on 91^st next to asphalt green– lots of garbage trucks on 91^st st)