eeeww!  :laugh: from curbed blog:

 

 

 

CHELSEA—Midwesterners don't quite understand that much of Manhattan's housing stock is infested with wildlife and incredible shitty. Hence:

 

"I just finished a semester as a student intern at GLCA's New York Arts Program. The program is run by Ohio Wesleyan University and they charge us big money to come here and do a 15 week internship. I liked the program and all, but SOMEONE has to tell what's going on there. We all (and there's about 50 of us) live at 305 West 29th Street in Chelsea. The house is cramped, very dirty, full of mice and rats, and spiders. The girl across the hall from me woke up with a bite from a recluse spider on her face and her eye was shut closed.

 

There is mice feces all over the houses stoves and nobody will bother to cook there anymore. Sitting on the couch in the basement lounge to watch TV is a like being at a horror flick. Mice scurry over you and jump from the couch to the floor. When you fall asleep at night you can hear the mice surrying as soon as you turn off the lights. They make holes in your sweaters and cereal boxes.

I know some people have bedbugs because lots of other kids wake up to bites all over them.

 

The program does hire a cleaning lady, but she only comes in once a week for 50 kids??!!! Besides, the rats, mice, spiders, roaches, and bedbugs, there's mold and mildew on everything. The filth would amaze you. I'm back at my home campus now, but if I was still in NY, I'd send you pictures.

 

I'm from the Midwest and I'm not from NYC, so I don't know who the reporting agency should be. But if NYC housing departments ever investigated this place, they would surely close it down for repairs and rodent elimination."

 

Comments (6 extant):

 

guest

 

I too was on the GLCA program - and when I was on the program the students were assigned chores (like cleaning the kitchen to make sure there were no mice) each week as part of their living agreement.

 

THe housing agreement is set up so the student pays their dorm fees (in the midwest) and then live in Chelsea for three months. When I was in school that was roughly $2,000 - for 3 months in Chelsea.

 

One cleaning woman can not clean a house such as that - which is why the chores were assigned. If there is a mouse problem - perhaps the students were not living up to their end of the agreement?

 

Comment #1, left at 05:43 PM. guest

 

The big secret for not having pests in your residence: (drumroll) don't live like a dirty slob. Oh, and occasionally, maybe once or twice over the course of 15 weeks, CLEAN.

 

Comment #2, left at 05:47 PM. guest

 

Yikes. As if that experience isn't enough, some leech broker is going to separate this kid from 15% of his first year's rent when he moves here after college. It's a hard knock life for transplants, I suppose.

 

Comment #3, left at 05:48 PM. Olde Skool

 

"But if NYC housing departments investigated this place, they would surely close it down for repairs and rodent elimination."

 

I highly doubt that.

 

Welcome to NYC bitches!!

If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. (or make more money)

 

Comment #4, left at 05:51 PM. Olde Skool's stats.

Olde Skool: 8 comments, 0 followers, 0 ignores. guest

 

And the kicker is....that slumlord is Ohio Wesleyan University, not some ny shyster! Take it up with the college, not the dob or anyone else for that matter. Why should taxpayers have to foot the bill for inspections and such when your tuition money should?

 

Comment #5, left at 06:08 PM.

guest

 

the city would actually make money off of the fines but that besides the point. preventative maintenance is always better and cheaper.

 

Comment #6, left at 06:14 PM.

That's one reality show I'd love to see. Lets take 50 suburban white kids from a small private university in Ohio and shove 'em in a craphole in Manhattan and see what happens. Ratings would be through the roof!

This sounds like these kids are a living experiment.  Ewwwwwww

Yuk.  Those kids should be calling HPD and making raking their school over the coals.

Dammit, as the resident Ohio Wesleyan alum, I'm frustrated that in two days I haven't managed to come up with an appropriate joke about this.

 

Therefore it is with a heavy heart that I relinquish my Bachelor of Arts degree along the rights and privileges thereof.