Gothamist: Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village's Environmental Issues

PCV Dweller

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:46:13 -0500

To Not Amused- I don't think the apartments were ever offered for sale in the past. It has always been a rental community. And actully, it's those people that pay $500 a month for an 800 square foot Manhattan apartment that are protected by laws, while us market-rate people are at the mercy of the management. I'm not complaining though, it still is a fair value for the amount of space compared to the rest of the available rentals in the city. As for the environmental issues...should I be concerned if there is an enormous hole in the courtyard in front on my building--and construction workers are wearing white plastic suits that they need to wash off when the come out of the hole? At least they are putting the strange-looking dirt that they are digging up on to plastic tarps. Should I believe the signs on the fence (which is a wooden fence because they obviously didn't want passers-by to see through a chain link fence) that says they are fixing the plumbing? It definitely smells of tar and chemicals around the site.

Not Amused

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:10:40 -0500

To all the residents of Cooper Village: DEAL WITH IT ! So the nice folks at Metlife decided to sell the property that you all enjoy . Big deal, This sort of thing happens on a regular basis . Did anyone living their think to purchase there apartments when they moved in ? Some on these people have been living there for years decades . It's the same thing that the poor folk have to go through in the real middle class neighborhoods . Buck up and move to another neighborhood . Those owners want to sell that property to the highest bidder and the new owners want to jack up the rents to support the surrounding area . Gentrfied to the extreme!

question

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:43:17 -0500

amazing that it taken so long for the environmental issues to surface if Peter Cooper Vill/Stuy Town was built, so long ago, on these former gas plants. i guess it is of course only now that there are billions to be made that MetLife / ConEd / whoever actually expresses some interest in the well-being of the generations of those who have lived in these buildings. and what impact will environmentals have on the marketability of PCV-ST to a buyer? probably not much -- especially if the public doesn't hear much about them.

Banana

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:47:03 -0500

Jay -- Who is this J. Chung and why were you not amused to find out she was the poster? Also, where did it say who the poster was?

Jay

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:18:00 -0500

Now, as I am a daily Gothamist reader I hate to do this, but please, please, have someone read over what Ms. Chung writes at the least. I frequently have to re-read what she has written countless times to my ire, and it was not amusing to find that it was indeed J. Chung who posting this article.