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A Bay Ridge super is looking for a new job and place to live after new building owners ousted him following some bad press. The Daily News deemed Richard Martin "the crankiest super in New York" earlier this year after he would leave his building's garbage cans on the roof to teach tenants a lesson about improper sorting. He was also known for the angry signs he would leave up calling residents of the building "morons" and "retarded." (When not making colorful signs, Martin also decorated his door with a poster of infamous DA, now TV's "Judge" Jeanine Pirro.) Some residents stick up for Martin despite his antics as a good super and a nice guy who people like to rile up. Martin blames his firing on the News for painting him in such a bad light that the new owners (of Russian descent) let him go. "Fourteen years, 9-1/2 months. The new landlord figured I was too much trouble. You know, Russian people don't mess around," he told the paper.
'Cranky' Super Gets Tossed Like Trash He Tried to Protect
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I'm torn. It seems like he was a little too cranky, but.....he's a senior citizen! After all those years he lost his job.
I used to live at a very expensive shoebox on Upper East Side, and the super....oh boy! He would clean the hallway maybe every three months!!! It got on my nerve so bad that a couple of times I got windex, papertowels, mop, etc and did the job myself. He never got fired.
Seems like the guy had it coming to him...
I don't know, if I lived thee I think I would be scared of that guy. Still, he's an old guy and that seems harsh at this time of year.
"Russian people don't mess around"
And for some reason, like many Chinese, they don't get the concept of waiting in line. What's up with that?
Used to live near this guy's building in Bay Ridge. I remember he had a sign taped to the glass, berating the idiot tenants, and warning them that if they didn't close and lock the front door, they were "asking to be raped and killed".
Never forgot that. What a nut job.
#4, it's the communist mentality. When you have to fight for food to keep your family alive, manners and decorum go out the window.
What are you, stuck in the '80s? Communism has been dead in Russia for close to 20 years. Communists wouldn't own property in NYC, mainly because they can't afford it and private ownership of property the antithesis of communism anyway. These are obviously wealthy capitalists.
The guy had a point. I'd be pissed off at people leaving the front door open, too. Some of my belongings got stolen from a building storeroom once because idiot neighbors often didn't lock the front door, so a burglar had a clear shot at the room. Tenants have such a sense of entitlement. As long as they pay their rent, they feel they can do anything they want in the building.
Yeah, he seems a bit irritable but "The crankiest super in NYC"? I think the guy with a baseball bat headed upstairs to nudge that lone rent-stabilized tennant surely qualifies as "crankiest".
#7, 20 years is not that long so that people don't remember what it was like.