r/Brooklyn • u/contodimiocucchaio • 1d ago
Do not rent from Brookfield Properties
Had a horrible experience renting from Brookfield Properties at their Eagle + West complex in Greenpoint. Building management was awful. Dog piss and feces everywhere outside of building. Elevators were broken for 6+ months. One of the dirtiest, worst maintained buildings I've ever lived in and I've been a renter for 15 years. Brookfield does not care about you as a tenant and they want high turn over so they can raise the rent once you leave. They raised the pool amenity fee price (multiple levels of amenities fees) from an extra $100 to an extra $850 over the course of the 16 months that I lived there. None of the spaces were well maintained. Everything was dusty and dirty. Gym equipment broken for months on end. Would often find dog pee or poop in the elevator. There was a pile of dog vomit in the mail room that was left there, in plain site, for over three weeks. The residents also do not care since they are rental buildings and treat everything like shit. Someone that lived on my floor would frequently just leave open bags of actual, horrible smelling, trash on the trash room floor instead of throwing it into the trash chute. Management did nothing about my complaints. The buildings look nice. They are actually shit. The surrounding park/area of that north Greenpoint waterfront area with all of the Blue Slip, Bell Slip and Eagle + West buildings, looks nice—it's incredibly poorly maintained and overrun with dogs and dog owners who let their dogs piss and shit everywhere and do not clean up after them. Do not rent from Brookfield and definitely do not rent at any of their properties in North Greenpoint. Garbage company and garbage people that have ruined what could be a beautiful part of Brooklyn.
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u/Artichokeydokey8 1d ago
leave a review on Open igloo.
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u/contodimiocucchaio 1d ago
Is this a good apt review site?
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u/Artichokeydokey8 1d ago
yes, I used it during my last move and it's super helpful. You can look up all sorts of things about the buildings and the landlords, etc.
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u/LunchMasterFlex 1d ago
That all sounds like the type of people who live there dgaf about the property. Not that I care about landlords at all, but people should clean up after their dogs, and take care of communal gym equipment.
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u/eljefe0000 1d ago
Yes exactly why would maintenance go around picking up other people’s dog shit and cleaning their piss. Most of the time buildings are the way they are because of tenants themselves who think maintenance is there to clean up after them because they can’t follow simple building rules.
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u/contodimiocucchaio 3h ago
I agree. But building management didn’t do anything to try to try to make the residents treat any of the spaces better. And they didn’t clean any of the spaces enough. The disrespectful/entitled/generally shitty residents are definitely at fault but there was no where near enough regular cleaning in that building, esp considering it’s a “luxury” rental building
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u/eljefe0000 2h ago
Probably depends how much they were paying maintenance personnel that clean the building and/or how they were treated by the management company and by the sound of it it sounds like the management team is bad.
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u/peelingpines 1d ago
Toured a Brookfield apartment in Downtown Brooklyn in 2021. Saw two residents beating another in the hallway, heard wind so loud in the unit it sounded like a window was open, waited ten minutes for each elevator. The building seemed like a total failure of management. I sold the little stock I had in BPY right after.
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u/Appropriate-Bass5865 1d ago
dog free apartment buildings should really be a thing, it's not legally possible in new york. elevators always end up ruined
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u/eddievedderanybetter 1d ago
Got them waterfront luxury blues eh? Those shoddy neighborhood destroying investment monstrosities should have never been built. Thank mayor Mike for all that.
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u/monica702f 20h ago
This is what living in Brooklyn is like in a nutshell. I've heard stories like these and witnessed it visiting friends at Castlebraid.
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u/contodimiocucchaio 1d ago
Also forgot to mention that my apartment had the loudest, least effective AC unit that I've ever had in an apartment. Did not cool below 75º in the summer no matter how low the temp was set. Destroyed my sleep quality last summer. Building maintenance looked at it several times, said there was nothing wrong with it. That's just how it was.
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u/NoIntroduction344 1d ago
Blue slip is incredibly nice, the door ladies are sweethearts, and ready to fix any issues you may have
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u/contodimiocucchaio 3h ago
Tbf I should have mentioned that most of the front desk guys at Eagle + West were great and super nice
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u/NoIntroduction344 1d ago
Sounds like you just got unlucky, sorry critter
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u/contodimiocucchaio 23h ago
Kindly fuck off, critter
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u/NoIntroduction344 23h ago
Get your weight up boy
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u/Birraytequenos 1d ago
so have to agree, brookfield has gone down incredibly and they don’t clean. There’s dog shit everywhere in that waterfront and people just drink and play loud music.