Winter is worst here, no heating, hot water issues, roaches everywhere. Management is worst; they hardly know what they are doing in here. Super never picks up the phone nor reply or ever in his office. So, you create a service request, you wait, take a day off and wait for them to come, they hardly make a visit or in my case they never did make a visit and it was marked as resolved, i had to fix it on my own. Management transfers you to 1000 other people and yet the issue is never resolved and you waste your time again. I am still not sure why i am in here, but i have no other options. read more

I just moved out February 25th, 2013 and here is a run of this middle class project. I repeat do not move into this section 8 project. I moved out after only 1 year! Pros' - 99th Street Melbourne building scenery. (The Met's and Corona Park) Spacious rooms. New Charter School CAO opend this past September, 2012. Apartments- Are expensive consider no carpet in the bedrooms, no updated amenities and no hardwood floors. Deposit takes approx. 6-8 weeks to process. Billing - Moved in February 2012 and received a rent notice that I owed back rent, even though I just moved in 2 week prior. Processing of your rent takes 11 days to process and accounting division is horrible. Maintenance - The worse in the business. No computerize systems and if you stay home for the appointment, no one NEVER shows up. Con's- Apartments tile floors are the worst in the building, the pipes jump every time someone above/below flushes the toilet. Definitely mice, peeling of the plaster, old wash machines, hallways dark and gloomy, trash thrown all over the place. Dogs probating, however most of all the tenants have dogs. 95% of my neighbors smoked weed. (you can smell it each time you walk down the hallway, which was upsetting considering I have a daughter. Security- Useless! Car was vandalized twice and illegal towed. Security didn't even know where my car was located. Oh, the security cameras do not work at all. (An huge issue) Took 4 days before security arrive back to take a report and they offer no monies on break-ins. (They assume your insurance carrier will handle expenses) Break-ins of tenants car windows and your air being taken out of your tire. Gates can be lifted to come in/out of the parking garbage. Parking - The worse in the business. 15 minute walk to my car every day. Too many people walking on the Streets. Overcrowded supermarket and schools. Lobby - Cleaned every morning, however gloomy and old looking. No decor at all. Playground area - No new amenities, old playground, trees from the hurricane still on the ground and have not been removed. Day care- Very difficult to find/locate. read more

Was in section 2 on 57th Avenue. Rent went up $200 for a 1BR. Moved to section 4 also on 57th Avenue, in a studio. So far, so good. The building is being renovated which is nice. New York Public Library is in the complex. To my surprise, it's real quiet and clean. My floor is quiet as well. What a difference a building makes :). No roaches or rodents at sight yet. The super of the building (Juan) is nice and helped me with a few issues. Moving in and out is a hassle but you have to go through it. I would prefer another color than brown for the walls and carpets but I can live with it. I have to say that Management is trying... 30 minutes commute to work is awesome, walking distance to the trains is also a big plus, lots of shopping within walking distance and public transportation is reliable. At this point I am glad that I'm here. All the best! read more

I lived in Le Frak City for 1 year. When I had to sign for the leasing they asked me so many qualifications that I thought they would give me a royal palace, but the first night I realized that it was just a mouse hole. First night after entering I had to kill over 100 roaches all around the apt, and this situation last for at least one week. After having sealed all the possible slots was a bit better, but still unacceptable. After another week a pipe of the toilette exploded and we had the first flooding. After several months because of a building roof reparation during two thunderstorms we had other two major flooding and all the food into the cabinet was destroyed by the water. I just couldn't wait to leave at the lease expiration, and they also tried to make me sign for another year, with a price increasing, but according to them was still a big deal. It seems also that in NYC all those are ordinary issues. I left not only Le Frak City but NYC. Good Bye never see you again. read more

HEY. I actually like it here. OK, so I must have grown up in a bad place? A normal blue-collar family in the Midwest. We had the same house my whole life and a dog and a yard. So, nope. OK... so I must have lived in really terrible New York places or my parents' basement? Poplar Street in Brooklyn Heights, Williamsburg, 12th and A, and 36th and 10th. So, try again. OK... so I must be one of those unemployed liberal arts kids who can't afford anything else? Three strikes, amigo. You're out. I have been here for a half a year now. I wanted to wait a while to review it so that I could properly assess it, and I feel as if a good amount of time has passed. I came out here because after almost three years of the hopping transient New York life, I was ready to get more comfortable here... make this city MY OWN. Long story short: last year, I had the normal quarter-life crisis, didn't show up to my LSAT, changed my career path, broke up with (and out of the apartment of) my seventh-year WLRK boyfriend, and moved to LeFrak City. And let me say, LeFrak City was by NO MEANS a last resort. I spent a long time searching and deciding, and knew the city backwards and forwards. Let me dispel some myths. LeFrak City is not "privately owned projects." The people here are nice. They are from all different nationalities and backgrounds, so get over yourself if you equate that with subsidized housing. This is the most diverse building I've ever been in-- even more diverse than the international dorm at college. There are a lot of older folks, too, who keep to themselves. I have NEVER encountered people hanging out sketchily in the halls or lawn or anything. In fact, I have never been approached, and I usually work until 1:00 AM. I frequently make friends in the laundry room, in the halls, and with all of the maintenance workers. One new friend is a retired NYPD officer. Another is a staff sergeant in the Army. Another is just some dude named Mario who guards my dryer when I run back up to my apartment. Then there are the Lebanese high schoolers who always sign for my packages when I'm not home and knock on my door later that evening, presenting me with my UPS goodies. Once it was a flat-screen TV, and it was my first week there, before I had even met them. They could have kept my TV and I would have NEVER known! People here are good people-- I want to reiterate that. Often, my Soap.com order gets delivered while I am off galavanting, and sits in the hallway for eight hours. The box is CLEARLY a Soap.com box and it is huge. Obviously, it's full of brand-new stuff. I returned home two Fridays ago to find that it had not been touched, after eight hours of sitting in the hallway. Since my New York Times was stolen off my doorstep every morning when I lived in the East Village, you can understand how flabbergasted this makes me. Rent is A THOUSAND DOLLARS for a studio. Did you hear me? Do you know what that buys you in Manhattan or Brooklyn? Or rather, what that doesn't buy you? It DOESN'T buy you 500 square feet, brand-new appliances, a ceramic electric stove, a remodeled bathroom, an alcoved kitchen, a fresh paint job, three closets, new floors, two huge windows, laundry in the building, elevators, a swimming pool, tennis courts, or basketball courts. Also, no, I have never heard gun shots, seen members of the Latin Kings, or heard even a domestic dispute. (I am sure that domestic disputes happen, though -- 1 in 4 women!!) But seriously, I don't even see drug deals, guys. But do you know what I heard underneath my East Village apartment two years ago? Purse-snatching, screaming, fights, and sirens. And that was a lot more than a thousand dollars. Whenever anything is broken, the super sends a maintenance person within the hour. (Usually within ten minutes. I am not joking you.) The ONLY downfall (yes, I am serious, the ONLY downfall) is that it's a good 45-60 minutes to downtown Manhattan. And I mean deep downtown, like south of Wall Street. But 20 minutes to Lex. And it's 10 full minutes to walk to the R/M stop. But get Dunkin Donuts on the way and deal with it. You're paying a thousand dollars; you're overlooking Flushing-Meadows Corona Park, not Gramercy Park. What do you expect? By far the best bang for your buck in any of the five boroughs-- better than Midwood, Bay Ridge, and much safer than Flatbush or Crown Heights. Will I renew my lease? You bet. And after that? Yup. Unless, of course, some three-letter agency calls me and tells me that they love my Yelp reviews so much that they are going to waive the application and security clearance time and hire me on the spot to go on an international tour, effective immediately. Or unless I get a $500,000 raise. In that case, Gramercy Park doesn't look half bad. But then I won't have a pool. Or those awesome Lebanese kids to sign for my packages. read more

Moved to Lefrak about a year ago. Appears clean since they've been upgrading but the construction seems to get worse and worse every month. When are they going to stop??? Upset because the amenities which they raved about are not available because they are still renovating. I hate the winter because it is ALWAYS cold in my apt. It's like they skimp on the heat. However, it's Quiet on my floor and no hassles. I feel safe which is the most important thing for me. read more

As a resident from many decades ago (1965 - 1975), I enjoy occasionally reading the comments from present tenants. My family was one of the first tenants in the Melborne building. The apartments were relatively spacious with dishwashers and air conditioning. Of curious concern, we had roaches from day one (and never got rid of them). This was a brand new building. We had 3 swimming pools and it was a kid's paradise of a self contained city. There was nothing like trick or treating through the 16 buildings. Each kid made out like a bandit with shopping bags full of candy. We stayed in the playgrounds till the wee hours on weekends. This was all before the days of play dates and cell phones and kids were allowed to explore and not be tied to their parents. Lefrak wasn't just a place to live but a state of mind, one that will never exist again. For those of you living in Lefrak, accept that the roaches will always win. I sometimes wonder how all those years of inhaling RAID has affected my health. Oh well. read more

If you plan on moving to Lefrak City, please stay far far away from this apartment complex for your own good. They recently remodeled the entrances, so it looks really nice from the outside, but this is a bait to get you to live here. When it comes to the management, it is a nightmare any time you have an issue. First of all, getting in contact with the managers is IMPOSSIBLE. Just to pretend they care, they send you to their assistant (Anastasia) who takes the notes but nothing gets done. Sorry, but I pay a lot to live here and have the right to the person who is actually in charge, and not your puppet. Talking to the building managers is impossible (they are always in a "meeting"). I don't know who hired these people who do not do their job. It is also impossible to get the contact information to the upper management that goes above the building managers to make a complaint. I literally emailed the building supervisor, Peter, for over a month asking for the information, and never got it, instead he sent me an email to his manager, Gerald, and with each email he never responds back. Also the receptionist, refused to give me her full name. What kind of service is this? Please, do your job and I won't care about your name. Now the issues I've had in the past year. Issue 1. The person who lived next door passed away, his body wasn't discovered until the smell spread throughout my apartment (April). The smell was spreading to our apartment for the next few days, finally we had to paint our walls, wash all clothes, bleach the walls, and when I wanted to talk to the managers to get some kind of refund, couldn't reach anyone who could help me. In around August we had mice biting through the walls into our apartment, so you can imagine what was happening in there. They didn't clean that apartment up until this week (December), well on Monday my apartment smelled like bleach, and after that it smelled like a combination of what it smelled before and trash. I emailed them to do something about it, did I even get a response? No. I literally got sick physically and mentally, and went through a trauma from the entire experience, and I couldn't even talk to the managers in person. Issue 2. With the renovations they changed locks to the main doors. I was very pro this change but the way they went about it, is more of a nightmare than something to help the tenants. There are two people who signed the lease, I went to get the key with the person who is listed as second, and they wouldn't allow me to get the key, because the person who is first on the last has to be there with me. How does it make sense? I still don't have a key. I'm sorry but they should be sending the keys, or walking from door to door to deliver them. Especially that on my ID I have this address listed. Not only this, but only the first person on the lease has an access to the doors in the basement that leads to the garage. So if 2 people are driving, but you only have one car, the second person won't be able to enter the building from the basement. How does it make sense? My mother has a heart condition and cannot walk uphill, but she cannot enter the door from garage to the building, she has to walk uphill, to the second floor to get to the building, even though she is one of the people who signed the lease. When I tried to get the contact information to whoever deals with it, the receptionist didn't give it to me, and she also didn't want to give me her name. Wow, the worst customer service I have experienced. Do not move here. If you decide to because you got lured in with what they tell you, then first get the contact information above the general manager (Gerald), also sort out the key situation first, but make it in writing, make them sign it, otherwise good luck. To the management and the employees: please start doing your job. read more

Moving in August!! Do yourself a favor and don't move here. I can tell people a thousand times not to move here but you wont listen. Dont be fooled by the aesthetics on the outside. I am finally moving and I don't care if I can't afford to eat I just have to get out of this place. I have a little water running in my kitchen and I have reported it to all the supers and the managers who I believe are sexing each other because they sure as hell are not doing anything else. The management office took my complaint and noted in the system that it was completed the same day. It wasn't. Unless you are a drug dealer don't move here. The tenants here have been here since their teens and they are retirement age now. They pay next to nothing in rent but you will pay to cover their rental costs. My rent went up even though the Mayor said I wasn't supposed to get an increase. I have had the inspector come out to my apt and still nothing has been done. Call these numbers and let me know if you get an answer Manager David Galabya 718 575 4633 super Edison Canga 7185754894 super Juan Toribio 7185754955 read more

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The living Standard is very poor. Its not worth paying such high rent. The building complex looks good from outside but don't let it fool you. I live here with my wife and its very uncomfortable for her due to random guys hangout in the lobby and hall ways harass young women. The management is very poor you can never get a hold of anyone. No one answers the calls ever or will call you back. The super is soooo unrelaible dont expect any help from them will never do any repairs on time. I have been living here for 2 years in Bali building i am still unable to get my name on buzzer. If you are looking to move in corona neighborhood i strongly suggest look elsewhere. read more

I am a long term resident - I have lived in Lefrak City for 18 years. The apartments are large and spacious. The market rate rent for them is a bit too high though. Lefrak City has a major problem with rats/mice/waterbugs. They recently beautified the exterior of the buildings, it looks much nicer than when we first lived here. They made all of the tenants in Lefrak City pay for the renovations with specific increases in our rent. They are going overboard with security, by locking a lot of entrances we originally had access to and now we have a security robot! (Think Dalek from Doctor Who, not R2D2). Access to the three malls within walking vicinity is a plus. All in all, it's a decent place to live - with rents increasing as they are, it may still be an affordable place to live. read more

I just moved in 2 months ago the apartment size is very spacious but they are infested with roaches and Maintance doesn't respond to your calls or messages. They only have a exterminator come one time a week during 12-4 when hard working people have to work they don't make any exceptions they give you the number to the building manager who never returns your call. You spend $1800 a month to deal with infestation it's not worth the money especially when most people in the building are on section 8. The lease says no dogs but everyone has one which would be much of an issue if they picked up the dog pop outside on the side walk or cleaned the side walk daily which they don't so your constantly looking down to make sure you didn't step in anyone's poop and it's not even cute little dogs it's pitbulls and huge dogs these tenants have on the balconys everyone puts storage it's crazy I don't see any chairs and tables. I wouldn't recommend it if you don't have section 8 like myself you'll be paying to live with roaches. I spray roach spray at my door and in the vents every night, take out my trash 3x a day ( yes just to avoid roaches I do this) and they still come. Also no parking at all! The waiting list for Parking is over a year. Street parking no way you will not get a spot I have to pay to park at the mall and walk up and if your coming home late the mall parking is closed you have to call security and wait for them to walk over and open the gates.... read more

LeFrak City is trying to market itself as a new up and coming Apartment complex in NYC, BUT STAY AWAy! your better off spend your money somewhere else. This place SO MANY FLAWS I'm going to list them one by one. 1) MANAGEMENT- they are the ones trying to market this place as new and a nice place to live, but it will never be that way mostly because of them. If you ever have a problem they are no help. From the first day, when I was moving in, it was horrible. THE STAFF LEAVES EARLY even if you have scheduled a appointment with them. I was supposed to pick up the key from the super but when I arrived the super had left early for the day, and took the key with him despite the fact that I was scheduled to meet with him. GLORIA (from the management office) LAUGHED AT ME, over the phone when I called to let her know the exterminator never showed up to my apartment. I'm constantly emailing with CATHY (from the management office) and have not recived help. I let her know about my ROACH INFESTED A/C in the fall (it is now summer) and she has yet to help with changing it outfor a new one, THEY JUST DONT CARE! 2) ROACHES - THE ROACHES ARE EVERYWHERE, they are in the A/C, closets, inside all the cabinets, in the HALL, in the vents and everywhere. I had to tape close the bathroom vent because THE VENTS ARE INFESTED WITH ROACHES. The worst part is that THE EXTERMINATOR ONLY COMES between 12 AND 4 on WEEKDAYS AND (even if you have an appointment) SOMETIMES NOT AT ALL. I scheduled a visit from the exterminator and he never came. No knock or any thing, I had to take another day off and make a second appointment to have this person to come. I missed TWO days of work because they cant get their pest problem under control. 3) LIES TO MAKE YOU MOVE IN - They say that all new apartments get renovated but THEY DONT RENOVATE, they said they would change the cabinets in my apartment but they didn't THEY ONLY PAINTED THE CABINETS WHITE, they still had roaches in them when we moved in. THERE ARE SO MANY MORE PROBLEMS with living here, you should just avoid it at all cost. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED! read more

This building is disgusting and full off mold and led poisoning !!! Don't get fooled from the pictures! U will see once you move in give it a month for the mold to go all over your apartment ! read more

the reality is that the place long ago evolved into a privately owned public housing project. if you are willing to trade cheap rent for quality of life and can deal with all the warts of the place go for it. read more

Worst place to live in, infested with roaches and mice, stairwells smell like piss and are full of graffiti. People smoke weed in the stairs and not an overall safe neighborhood To live in anyway. read more

i have friends who live here but i wouldnt live here at all ; its so hood and thats not my style of living at all.

i moved 1 month ago and so far its great!!!, clean, spacious with lots of closet, my apt is on horace harding and is very quiet. Apts on 57th st are a bit noisy to me. close to everything, queens mall, century 21th, post office, supermarkets, subway and buses..... They have a branch of queens library, swimming pool, barbecue area, playground, tennis and basketball courts, laundry room in each building... so far everything better than I thought read more

I live there. 1 bedroom with parking outside and i pay almost $1500 meanwhile when something breaks they dont want to fix it. Its the hood but right now i cant afford anything else and its closer to my job with 2 small children. They have the WORST BILLING DEPARTMENT. They are just useless to say the least. Takes them forever to process payments and they always send notices on your door. Inside The building is falling apart but they are making the outside new.....GREAT!!!!! read more

I have a love and hate feeling for leaving here. The room is very spacious and there are a lot of closets. Everything looks new. However, there are also a lot of gaps and holes on the walls and everywhere else, which make perfect homes for coaches. The rental is affordable, but if you need to go to Manhattan from time to time it is not very convenient. it takes at least 15 mins to walk to the subway station(maybe for the closest and more expensive building of lefrak city, it wont take that long). Due to "planned work", local trains sometimes doesn't stop here. At those times, if you want to go to Manhattan, or you need to get off at this station from a queens bond train, you have to go to forest hill, then, take a train to Manhattan back. On the one hand, there are two big supermarket just around the corner. There are a lot of small shops just across the street: nail beauty, 99 cents store, Chinese food stores, pizza stores and etc. Within 20 mins walk you can get to any of the below JC Penny, Century 21, Costco and the Grand Ave Chinese Supermarket. Dental office, some banks, and IRS office are all pretty near. On the other hand, to be frankly, from time to time, I feel scared to walk near of the shops when there are some men hanging there. In the cold weather, it become better. Our bedrooms are towards Manhattan, and we live pretty high. You can never get tied of the window view, day or night, show or sunset. Just super! However, in the summer, these rooms become pretty hot in the afternoon. When, in the windy winter days, there would be a little chilly in the room. We have used a lot of staff to stop the wind from blowing in from the windows and the air-conditioners: blankets, papers, packing tapes. Still when it's windy, we have to move our desk to living room and spend the day time outside of the bed rooms. Corridor, It is touching place where our neighbors said "welcome to 15" to us, where we feel the warm of nod greetings, see the genuine smiles and get used to say night-night in the elevator. However, most of the time, I have to hold my breath until I get into my apartment. it is too smelly in the corridor where I would never tell the color of the old old carpet. read more

I am writing this review so the prospective tenant know the exact situation if they are thinking to move in. This review is based for the building complex towards 57th ave. 97th st. Hallway specially the basement is extremely smelly (smells like rotten garbage. Customer care training for the supers is extremely encouraged. Their behavior is rude. Unattending and ignoring attitude of the supers and staff should be checked. Its getting increasingly difficult to get simple household repairs done, due the rude and uncaring supers. One of the super and another lady I interacted with is extremely rude and will continuously try to ignore your presence when you go to his office. If somehow I am able to get his attention he will talk to me as if I am there to beg something and he is the king. well he writes the complaint in some loose paper and send me home assuring that he will send somebody but weeks pass by and nobody shows up. there is no transparency as for as the repair complaints and there redressal is concerned. The buildings are old and every now and then it needs some repairs such as clogged basins, toilet flush not working, toilet flush not stopping, Extremely slow shower flow, closet doors coming out, paints chips coming out, cupboards doors falling down and doors not opening in rainy season etc. One more thing if you call the supers to their office phone and if you are fortunate that it is picked up then don't expect they are going to send somebody to repair. Only one mantra works for getting things repaired and that is go at least 10 times to super, keep bothering keep wasting your and their time by going to their office (calling does not work) and finally one day may be somebody will come and repair. Ta daaa. But wait they will not do it in one go. so again call, wait and keep calling. Good thing is that now a days some lobby renovation is going on but to really change the face of Lefrak city from bad to good you need to change the attitude of your staff. I feel like they act as gang. only very few staffs are good and sober. read more

Worst place for the amount of rent you pay. This past winter there was 2 seperate occasions were there was no heat. It wasn't until I called 311 and they sent someone out that the heat was finally turned on. And now as I type there is no hot water. I've been waiting over an hour and have to be up by 5am. Don't move here unless you want to pay luxury type rental price while living in a projects style and run building. If I could choose zero stars I would. One is being to generous. Looking to move out as soon as the lease is up!!!!! read more

Rent is High $1400 for 1 bedroom and you share your APT with ROACHES!! Super doesn't respond to calls promptly as they want their rent. Dirty place and they are renovating the outside instead of the inside which are falling apart. I can't wait for another year for my baby to start Pre-k so i can move out because babysitting is great because you can pick who you want. And you pay for everything (repairs) they do in the building. Windows, roof, you name it. You get charged ($25)for Carbon monoxide detectors installed. read more

I'll try to limit the length of my review. We lived in the Canada building on 57th Avenue and I can definitely attest there is TOO MUCH going on throughout the avenue!!! We happened to view the apartment during the winter so we were under the impression it was a "quiet" neighborhood. When we moved in there was a police tower on the corner of 97th street and 57th avenue. Apparently someone was killed a week prior. Drug related? More than likely. During the 12 months we've been here I have witnessed numerous incidents (i.e. police car chases, police helicopters, foot pursuits, shootings, etc,), not to mention ghetto-fabulous video shoots along with gatherings inside the parking lot, cars blasting music throughout the summer and pleasant weather days AND nights! If you want peace and quiet stay off of 57th Avenue!!! And if you at least manage to do that...you better hope and pray you get decent neighbors!!! GOOD LUCK, YOU'LL NEED IT!!! Renewing MY lease?...I think not! read more

This review will be filtered via the yelp standards, as this is my fist time using this, but i feel people should know.....The security at the front door is useless. as a female i feel uncomfortable when there is a group of people waiting at the door waiting for people to let them in. especially when it's after 12AM. The security doesn't bat an eye. When i first moved here a 21yo was murdered outside in the parking lot then they implemented a new security system to only allow people who have access to cars into the parking lot. I feel like they are waiting for a similar situation to happen within the apartments...and it will happen..... This is a dangerous place to live and i thank god i only signed 1 year lease.... read more

First off let me start off by saying this lefrak has been home for 20+ yrs n family 30+ the reviews I'm seeing here are mostly true but I beg to differ about the ones claiming ppl that live here r on section 8 or low income housing because the longtime residents are paying close too if not the same high ass rent as newcomers n they r tryna push out the old residents raising their lease every year and was always working n middle class people living here u wanna complain about it being hood n ghetto there r 10x worse places u can live con's of living here dealing with infestation from roaches mice was even a bedbug epidemic a few yrs back n if your neigh neighbors had em they sent the exterminator to spray your apt as well to prevent them from spreading since its been under new management things get done on they time n u constantly gotta call them to get things as opposed to old management call n maintenance comes right away or the next day a lot of the new Tennant's are very nasty as far as placing the garbage inside the incinerator n placing it in the incinerator room floor which is why there is a major pest problem another problem is that the renovations and them placing the gates between sec. 2 n 4 3 n 5 have made it very inconvenient to get to the 57 ave side where the stores n restaurants r and u have to walk all the way around the rent is way too high n when u don't have you're key to get into the building its hell to get in because they have trained the new security to not open the doors for anybody n parking is hell to find if u have a car pros I can say is the apartments are very spacious the area is very convenient because everything u need is in walking distance literally from supermarkets to 3 big malls n two train stations putting u in the city in minutes LGA is about 5-7 mins away n JFK is about 15-20 mins depending on traffic and the LiE is right in front of the complex can easily get to midtown in 10 mins maybe less plenty of religious places of worship around the area schools for kids arent that bad overall though its what you make it I notice the new people are not friendly lack manners nasty habits as far as cleanliness n I don't think its worth what they charging newcomers unless they have no problems paying damn near 1400 for a studio to 2400 for a 3 BDRM read more

Somehow randomly came across these Lefrak reviews and i'm amused. I lived here for 15 years before moving to a nicer neighborhood 3 years ago. Many people are lured to Lefrak by the lower rents and the ever increasing number of nearby shopping centers. Yes, they did renovate the lobbies, the apartments are rent stabilized and spacious, and there is a lot of shopping and public transportation in the area. Yes, they did arrest a lot of drug dealers over the years, but unfortunately, there is still way too much crime. I managed to survive there for 15 years, until I was attacked one day while walking home. I immediately looked for another apartment, and sadly, moved out of my low rent studio apartment. Lefrak Management wouldn't give me back my security deposit because I broke my lease, even though I paid my rent on time for 15 years and explained to them what happened. I stayed there so long because I was paying low rent and saving money, and even the grocery stores were cheap. Like others have said, it's worth it to pay more money and/or be broke to not have to live there. A couple of years ago, a pregnant mother who also had 2 or 3 kids was killed in her own hallway in Lefrak, and a lady on the news said "i just moved here last year and it's such a nice neighborhood." I could not believe the naivity of newbies who live there, and no, it was not an isolated incident. Every so often you will see signs and a picture of someone who got killed and they couldn't find who did it. Do you want to live somewhere, where people literally get away with murder on a regular basis? Perhaps in 10 or 20 years it will be a great neighborhood to live in, but at this point, I do anything to avoid it, unless I want to go to Joe's Crab Shack or the Queens Center Mall. read more

PLEASE DONT MOVE HERE. As some of the other comments said. It is impossible to get help from the manager. You're better off fixing things yourself because they will send you through loophole after loophole. You'll wait weeks to get a response. Then there are the pests. I keep a very clean home, I mop, sweep, don't leave dishes or food out, take garbage out every night and ect and I have seen mice and ROACHES in my apt. One time I went to throw out my garbage and opened the door to the chute and someone left their trash on the floor and roaches were crawling out of it which I don't know how you can live like that. This place if for junkies and welfare lowlifes. If you have children stay as far as possible. Also within four months of living here both my sink and toilet leaked and the paint in the bathroom is cracking and rust from pipes is dripping down the walls. A disgrace I pay so much to live in an absolute crap hole. Oh but if you're a person that likes to live in a roach and mouse infested home, have the staff ignore your pleas for help, love amongst welfare junkies who don't say thank you when you hold the door or let the door close in your face when you have full hands, and pay 2500 for a "luxury" apt, then this is the place for you! read more

This has to be the worst place to live. Their motto is "live a little better" and I say "live a little better than homeless". This place is invested with bugs!, So much so that when I moved I had to trash all my furniture because in the cracks where eggs upon eggs that I had never even know was there. I filled numerous work order about repairs, and roaches I saw crawling everywhere. NEVER did I know they were imbedded in my furniture! I was locked into a lease for a year and I couldn't wait to get out! I was tired of the nasty workers, lazy management, dirty urinated elevator floors, hallways full of garbage, Rotten odors. Like others, I was suckered in by the pictures and the brand new "clean" apartment they gave me, but two weeks in and I found 2 bedbugs in the crack of the bedroom wall, I bagged them and brought them to the super who insisted that I brought them! Since then, it's been a night mare living here. So bad,that I decided to just terminate my lease and deal with them in court. They are renovating everything but understand the walls are rotten from within. The pipes are moldy. The place should honestly be condemned,I have no idea how it passes a health/building inspections read more

I have lived here for the past year and I cant wait to move out. The apartment itself is spacious and the price was affordable but constant noise from the long island expressway took a lot of getting used to. I was on the top floor of the building and had to keep my bathroom doors closed due to the sound of running water in the pipes behind the walls which maintenance could do nothing about. Or the waterbugs that crawl out of the pipes at night. Parking is horrible in the area, you are forced to pay them for a parking spot which wouldn't be bad accept that you have to navigate past all the buildings garbage bins and cars that are illegally parked in the lot and hope that someone hasn't taken your numbered spot. We have had 3 fires in the building in the past year alone. The Laundry room was burned in one of the fires and has been closed indefinitely for most of the past year. I can count 6 water shutdowns in the past year alone. Security itself is very lax.. The door locks are constantly broken, The security guards are indifferent and complacent towards the problems in the building and are just ineffective. Calling them is a waste of time after hours. When I 1st visited the property it was a sunny school day and you had a presence that it was a nice complex that was beginning a major renovation. However after dark it changes.. There are days where it seemed like i was in the projects. There are unsupervised kids loitering and blocking entrances. I've seen drug use happen in the parking lot, by the mailboxes and down by the laundry room corridor. The elevators work well when there isn't Urine on the floor. With swimming pools, tennis courts, courtyards, and shopping areas you would think that it would be a nice place to live but I can honestly say that 99% of the time I found myself going from the car directly to my apartment. I couldn't enjoy any amenities and wouldn't recommend this place to raise a family. read more

We recently moved out of here after living for only a year. This place is the next big gentrified project. They're kicking out as many ghetto and section 8 people they can to raise the rents and move in the yuppys. What we were sold on is that the area had improved but the first month there the porter's son got murdered in the Panama basement. So it's not safe and the late night security guards are not very attentive. They did upgrade their security before we left so it may be a bit better now. What they do have is big beautiful apartments. So if it's space you need then you are home just becareful with the area and your rent sky rocketing. Basically you should expenct a $100-$150 increase in rent each year because it's based on what the actual rent would be vs. the promotional rate which is what is online. It's the fine print in the lease you bettter analzye so you're not surprised. Honestly if you can afford this type of rent or any rent higher than $1800 a month you should look into buying an apartment for yourself and your family. If it's a roommate situation then this is perfect because all the rooms are a decent size. Local to everything, buses and trains close which is always a good thing for a busy new yorker to get around. No parking though in the area. We rented our spot but they do a poor job of cleaning when it snows and if someone is blocking you tough luck getting them towed. Hope you find something better :-) read more