Marcus Garvey Village — Local services in New York

I had two fires in the same apartment in the same ROOM as a result of faulty wiring in their heating system - meaning there was no grounding wire or controller, the system overheated and caused a fire. The first thing to catch a blaze was my curtain and these worthless pathetic inhumane people blamed the CURTAIN 😒 they are disturbed fr the management is a disgrace literally the apartments are riddled with mold, rats, roaches and everything else .. the rats play double Dutch in the court yard with the cats .. and people get shot in broad day light - usually small children and they do nothing to stop these mfs from loitering. Don’t ever move here it will be your biggest regret .. constant water shut offs because the pipes at ALL deteriorating and even tho they got 1.7 million to fix the apartments all they did was put new numbers on the buildings and a couple plots of dirt and trees and I guess they went and thru a diddy party with the rest of the money. I called C&C management directly because they are supposed to management the property and oversee these people but there is no accountability period

The heater had no grounding wire and no controller - it started a fire, me and my kids were burned out and could have died they said it was my fault because I had a curtain. I guess curtains mysteriously burst in to flames these days the fire report states it was their faulty heater tho and a year later they still had open violations for the same issues .. meaning they moved us back in and...

My elederly mom has lived her for over 23 years and I can truly say that since the new ownership took place it looks a whole lot better. They made some renovations inside and out. My issue is when you call the office you can never get anyone. You have to go in person to complain about water leaking. I reported it over the weekend, called maintainance on Monday, Wednesday and go in person today (Thursday) and maintenance guy comes in the office doing nothing. He new I was going to complain The woman says someone will be there at 1pm it is almost 3pm and we are still waiting. This is ridiculous!! I was trying to locate a corporate office but to no avail. This is considered an emergency yet no one shows up. The apartment upstairs always has plumbing issues. They need a real plumber to fix the work correctly! I would have my mom live somewhere else to be honest, but she doesn't like change and does not want to move so I've accepted it. I had to write this honest review. I didn't not even mention the roach es and mice. I clean and bleach down the place daily. I've managed to reduce the vermin but it does not totally eliminate them. Get a cat keep the mice away and glue traps, boric acid and raoch spray for the roaches. I've killed about 6 or more waterbugs. Anyone that knows me knows I am a neat freak and germaphobe so I want my mom's environment to be clean...

I like it here, the people are great, but Maintenance is horrible. This global health pandemic has been very stressful on it's own and not being able to come in after a long day and just take a shower and feel clean again is a bit overwhelming. I've complained several times over the past two weeks the the water on Bristol is extremely Cold and unbearable to shower with and still there is no change. When you call the maintenance office it either goes straight to voicemail or rings out until no one answers. When you go in person, they just brush you off and tell you they'll work on it soon. And it's not that Marcus Garvey Apartments need a whole new staff of maintenance people because some are great, the problem lies with the head of maintenance. He is extremely lazy! Nothing will get better...