It’s super weird. My sister in law lives in a doorman building on the UES. We don’t have that in CA, or at least I’d never seen it. I didn’t know what to make of it at first.

Yes. Our fridge broke in my 1500 a month apt in Brooklyn when my son was an infant and I was a working mom trying to keep him in pumped milk. My landlady chose to educate me that “breast milk can be kept in the freezer” when I called to insist that she fix it after three days in 100 heat and no working fridge. And to…

In the regular rental market, you can’t get a closet in this area for $1,000/month. It’s not even cheap, it’s crazily under market value. (Obviously that is the point of this program, and $1,000 is probably still a lot of money for the people who qualify to live there. But it’s pennies compared to market value.)

Are Doormen just a NYC thing? They sound like a luxury.

Maybe not but it’s not like the aren’t options. A floor lamp with a bright bulb and transparent shade for instance.

Years ago I paid $2100 for a large studio in Midtown with no dishwasher, no ventilation, no overhead fixtures except in the bathroom, no way to see the sky, no doorman, and a robust rodent problem. So I’d like these people paying $1k for a 2 bedroom on the UWS to take several seats.

I'm used to not having a dish washer so it's weird when I realize people consider them a necessity instead of a luxury.

We don’t have a dishwasher so we wash our dishes by hand. We argue about who washes the dishes. I’m so used to not having one that I forget over people have them and use them.

Middle class in the rest of the country. 900 is, sadly, a steal for a single bedroom. Even of that type.

I’m paying double that for a walk-up apartment without a dishwasher, doorman, laundry, etc. and frankly, to pay $1,082 for a two-bedroom on the UWS is a major luxury in itself. No dishwasher, boo hoo! I would walk through a sewer, never mind a “poor door,” for that price.

For $800 a month? Why should you get the same amenities for $800 a month that you get for $1.3 million? No one forced them to move into the building.

Meanwhile:

by Manhattan standarts its a cheap rent, right??

Access to the bowling alley and gym being limited I get, even if I think it’s lousy, because use = wear and tear, which costs money, so it makes sense to require some sort of fee for use (which, here, is in the form of ridiculous rents). But lack of access to the courtyard? That’s just straight up mean girl shit,…

Seriously? A lot of people don’t have dishwashers, especially in places that are more affordable (my apartment, for example).

It’s funny, I’ve been living in places with either no or no usable overheard lights for so long that it would be weird not to have lamps now. On the plus side, it is way easier and cheaper to put lamps on a remote control.

Yeah, my one-bedroom 1500$-a-month apartment certainly doesn’t have a dishwasher. We don’t even have a ventilator in the kitchen and bathroom...

You pay more, you get more. ‘Twas ever thus.

I can’t imagine that anyone actually thinks that the lower income residents “deserve” this.

So, obviously everything in the units should be functional, but, as someone who pays $1,400 a month to live in a tiny garden (read:basement) unit, I find it hard to sympathize with complaints that $1,100 for a two bedroom in a safe neighborhood doean’t come with a doorman and a gym.