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Stuyvesant Town is inviting its rent stabilized tenants to join them at their First Annual 4th of July Spectacular in Stuyvesant Oval for free food, live music and a fireworks display that is being hyped as “breathtaking.” Tishman Speyer hopes the event will demonstrate they are committed to servicing their meat and potato tenants. So committed, that market rate tenants are not invited to the event. Instead they will have to endure the lousy panoramic view of the so-so Macy’s fireworks from t... Read Full Story
As details about Manhattan’s most controversial “luxury” housing complex and its new plague begin to see the light, it’s becoming apparent that their interiors don’t. In another embarrassment for Stuyvesant Town and their clueless management company, Tishman Speyer, the complex has shut down the production of their pressurized walls because of a tuberculosis epidemic sweeping the complex.The pressurized wall system was the earthworm on the hook of the Stuyvesant Town leasing office who lured ... Read Full Story
It seems the flimsy, pressurized wall system Stuyvesant Town had used as a major selling point in pushing their overpriced, market rate apartments will no longer be offered. All of the information regarding the wall system has been removed from the Stuyvesant Town website.A Stuy-Spy contacted Lux Living this morning after being informed by Stuy Town that the pressurized walls are no longer available to new tenants in Stuyvesant Town or Peter Cooper Village, though the tenant was offered "... Read Full Story
Undocumented day laborers created quite a spectacle Tuesday morning after breaking several water mains in a Stuyvesant Town building, causing millions of gallons of water to spill onto First Avenue.Three apartments were secretly being combined on the thirteenth floor to make a lusty bachelor pad for Tishman Speyer’s President, Rob Speyer, so he could secretly entertain his rotating group of male “friends.” The clandestine project had been underway for several weeks and was problematic from t... Read Full Story
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This week The Center of Health, Environment and Justice will release a frightening report detailing how Stuyvesant Town’s ongoing landscaping project is unearthing toxic remnants of the old gas house district that once occupied the land. The airborne toxins are believed to be responsible for a dramatic increase in various types of cancers and respiratory problems for Stuyvesant Town residents.The report examines the New York State Department of Health’s medical records from 2004-2008 and noti... Read Full Story
The New York Times ran a well orchestrated, (yet utterly uninteresting), article yesterday presenting Stuyvesant Town as a semi-OK place to live. Aside from that, we’re not quite sure what the point of the PR blunder was.To save you from reading the dry-as-toast piece.Maggie Weber and Joey Arak. Maggie is a school teacher. Joey is an editor at Curbed.com, a website we love, whose online advertisers include Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. Maggie and Joey lived in the East Village but... Read Full Story
"I wonder why us rent stabilized tenants received a notice from Tish Spy that we're supposed to close ourselves in our bathrooms and thoroughly seal the windows and doors with duct tape, since our "special" air (as they refer to it) will be pumped in through the shower heads?- Girl, in response to "Life on the Inside: Air" Read Full Story
