Community stories

Saw a dude on my walk home checking parked bikes for locks. By ditmars/73 St. Chubby Spanish guy in his mid 30s wearing all black and a German style half helmet. He himself was on a motorcycle or scooter. While I was following him, he started peering into cars. As I approached he must’ve gotten spooked and took off. Called the cops and they were responsive. They said they’ll keep a lookout. And that they’ve had a lot of stolen scooter/motorcycle calls recently.

What’s up with the Verizon truck on 46th ave? It’s been there for almost a year it seems, taking up a huge part of the sidewalk. Worst part is people are leaving their trash on it… anyone know anything?

Block near Othellos- saw a tall slim mixed guy with shaved head, black shirt, black pants with adidas stripes trying to get into an ice cream truck and checking surrounding cars and trash. He's on a blue Citi bike. Probably going to try another block.

Over the last week I’ve noticed a SIGNIFICANT amount of roaches in my apt, the laundry room, the trash room. I was just opening the door to the garbage room and one actually fell from the top of the door as some on the ground scattered away. I understand this is common in buildings and a major contributor is the current temperature. But omg this is so disturbing. The monthly building exterminator just sprays the common areas and it doesn’t do much. I just used combat and…

I’ve lived in a basement unit apartment in Queens for the past 2 years and only once have I seen a huge roach in my home (that I knew came from outside). In recent weeks, I’ve seen two small roaches and another last night. After further research it seems like these are German roaches and I should be acting fast. As well my apartment gets incredibly hot in the summer, and due to shitty electrical we usually can only use about 1 AC unit. Like everyone else we have no…

​ I live in a small studio in and. have never seen a roach inside my apartment in the 3 years I've lived here. Over three years, I've only seen three roaches. One on the wall in the hallway most recently, one out of the elevator shaft and one in the stairwell. I woke up this morning and see it in the middle of my floor. It was moving very slowly and was able to kill it. I reported it to management and they're scheduling an…

I just moved into my very first apartment here in Manhattan, and I can’t stop crying. I did not get to see the apartment in person before I moved; my friend’s friend was leaving the city, and I trusted that the apartment would be good enough. Stupid, I know. So Ive moved into this apartment with the two other roommates that have been there for like two years. When I arrived, they mentioned that they do occasionally see a…

This has probably been posted about to death but I haven’t seen many answers about the possibility of breaking a lease/consulting a lawyer and wanted opinions. 4 months ago I moved into a new apartment and noticed roaches about a month or 2 in. At first it was just a couple a day in the kitchen and bathroom. Annoying, but nothing I thought I should do anything about. Landlord was notified and sent out a weekly exterminator that didn’t really do anything.…

There are have been countless posts on here about vendors placing their tables wherever on the sidewalks with no regard for the flow of walking traffic but enough people have not been calling out actual food trucks that are now fully right on the sidewalk. In the mornings next to Macy's, 1 or 2 large food trucks now have just decided to block an entire half of the sidewalk. Now you are dodging scaffolding,…

I tried searching for similar posts, but I did not find any, so I am posting here. This has been occurring for at least 4 months or more now, but I recently realized where the source of the smell and liquid was coming from. There is a foul liquid bubbling out of a metal plate that collects in the accessibility curb cut of the crosswalk (South East corner, it's visible even on Google street views). This is a seemingly daily occurrence, regardless…

It’s gotta stop. It’s been a year and a half of excessive bass that can be heard blocks away, last night ended around 5:30am. 311 doesn’t do anything, they come, music gets lowered for a few minutes then back up even louder. I’ve reached out the to the owner, Bob Holden and now Phil Wong as well as the Community Board and NY Dept of Nightlife and the Dept of Environmental Protection. I’m not asking for them to shut down, just to keep the music down. Whenever people come…

It’s now been about a year since composting has been “mandatory” and my landlord keeps taking the compost out of our building’s bin and mixing it with the normal trash in black trash bags. I’ve spoken to them a couple times about it and I usually just try and put all of my compost out late the night before pickup so they don’t have a chance to mix it all into a black bag. I don’t necessarily want to get them in trouble but how long before I should do a 311…

The police station cars completely block the sidewalk, and you have to squeeze through to pass. It will be impossible for someone with a mobility issue to go through unless they get on the road. This is horrible.

Both sides

Forest park Dr. intersecting Metropolitan avenue. It is in a darkly lit zone. (My photo is brightened up but it was nearly pitch dark). Please be careful! Nearly saw one of those big e-scooters collide with it at high speed. Seems to be no way around, it is a big tree. Hope this helps!

I’ve made several complaints to 311 and each time they close the report and say they’ve referred it to the local precinct. 113th precinct has not been helpful at all since I’ve been contacting them. I’ve been transferred to community affairs. They’ve transferred me back to the operator. And recently when I asked the operator to speak to a supervisor he kept me on hold for 30 minutes. Does anyone else know what steps I can take to…

Hello, I've been in a basement apt for three years now in Ridgewood (it's legal, I checked.) Earlier this month the landlord rented out the garage attached to my apt for a car detailing business. I accepted the situation until I noticed a really strong chemical smell in my apt, most likely from burning plastic or like tinting windows is what they've said. When they are there the smell takes up the whole entire block so I…

The crosswalk under the train on 31st is heinous. I called 311 to complain- let’s see if that works. The fact that the curb at Hoyt ave s doesn’t have a dip is hard for me to understand. If you’re like me with a kid in a stroller it’s suboptimal. The potholes along the crosswalk are truly awful. I spent time in Brooklyn a few weeks ago- their streets, crosswalks and bike lanes are amazing. What do we need to do to get Astorias streets into…

We're in Sunnyside, and Con Ed posted a notice saying if the landlord doesn't pay something like $200,000, they will shut off service for the building. We've reached out to building management, but they rarely respond. Does this seem like a tactic to force people out?

So there's a note on our building front door saying if the landlord doesn't pay Con Ed, the gas service for the building will be turned off at the end of August. WTF?

Hey for all the 1QPS residents out there, is there anything we can do, or are planning to do about these recurring hot water, elevator, gas, ac, heat, water leak issues? I’m able to understand some issues here and there but this recent total elevator outage is completely unacceptable. We cannot leave or enter our apartments unless physically capable of taking a high number of stairs if we’re on the upper floors. Management does not budge on rent…

did something happen on 41st street between queens blvd and greenpoint ave, like a sewage spill/burst? it looks like the streets are lined with poop and it smells like it too

Anyone else on 66th Ave (next to the hospital) dealing with a power outage right now?

Is anyone else experiencing a power outage in Queens village?

Anyone else experiencing Con Ed power outages?

Has anyone else just lost power? Mine just went out. Does anyone know what’s going on or how widespread the outage is?

Wakefield section Con-Edison said maybe we’ll get power back around 2:00.

Power Outage in Whitestone, while 88 degrees

This only a few pictures. I have ask the office nicely to stop but goes in one ear out the other. Not sure who to contact about this.