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NyWriterdude, I agree with you. When I said it is not always feasible to get keys and change locks so quickly, that was my point: he/she didn't even get a chance to install new locks. I also agree that, in Gaius' case, it was an inside job. However, I was speaking generally - the risks of not changing or adding locks can come from more than one direction. Hopefully there will be some real recourse for Gaius to take, especially since the burglary took place almost immediately upon his moving in.
NyWriterdude, I agree with you. When I said it is not always feasible to get keys and change locks so quickly, that was my point: he/she didn't even get a chance to install new locks. I also agree that, in Gaius' case, it was an inside job. However, I was speaking generally - the risks of not changing or adding locks can come from more than one direction. Hopefully there will be some real recourse for Gaius to take, especially since the burglary took place almost immediately upon his moving in.
Putting on a new lock or changing it would certainly help protect against former tenants, but if management employees are that corrupt they likely have tools to just break in the apartment.
Lefrak City though privately owned basically became the housing projects. For years it was a terrible place to live and the fact that this happened to the OP and another person around the same time shows that Lefrak is still a dump.
Don't move into a building complex that has a bad reputation. Lefrak City needs to be sold to someone who basically buys everyone out, fires all the employees and starts from SCRATCH.
Here are the reviews from Yelp. A couple mention thefts, but who knows, maybe the OP already made a review on Yelp to mention his/hers.
I glanced through the reviews and the saddest/most telling one I found was one that sounds all glowing and gives the place 4 stars. Unfortunately, the reviewer mentions two things he thinks are great, when in fact it sounds bad to me.
One is that the security guards are so friendly including "Mario who guards my dryer when I run back up to my apartment." The other is saying how the "people are good" -- so good that they won't steal packages off your doorstep. I find it depressing that two of the positive stories about this place are about (1) having to guard the clothing in your dryer while it is running and (2) being surprised and happy that your package didn't get stolen from outside your door.
It defacto became the housing projects. Originally it was middle class housing and nice. Predominately white but there were Blacks and Hispanics there. The screening process was said to disproportionately affect Blacks and Hispanics so Lefrak was SUED. As a result they ended up taking in welfare people on Section 8 who weren't working (this was in the 70s). Lefrak quickly became as ghetto as any NYCHA building.
And ironically the earliest NYCHA's where the same way. You had to be working, and they verified employment. Moses decided to dump poor people into NYCHA (from slums he cleared) and at this time you had easy welfare money from the government.
It's not always the landlord, nor the management but often it's the tenants that define a housing complex.
One would be hard pressed to find a nicer place to rent than Newport in Jersey City which is of course the jewel in the LeFrak crown. I loved living there but if I was going to buy it was going to be in Manhattan.
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