The cherry on top, Desrosiers said, was that the movers Brookfield hired quit in the middle of the day, forcing him to take off work to finish the job.
While barred from commenting on the signed agreement, Desrosiers said that his new apartment had non-functional outlets and internet, which was provided gratis by Brookfield, when he arrived. Desrosiers’ leak ruined a pair of his girlfriend’s Hermès shoes among other valuable possessions. The agreement shared with The Post includes a stipulation that he will owe $6,000 on the same unit if he stays past Oct. However, emails between McAdams and Brookfield’s attorney Todd Nahins shared with The Post prior to the final agreement reveal that Desrosiers was offered a smaller unit in the building, listed for $3,262, with lower ceilings that don’t accommodate his belongings. McAdams would not comment on the terms of the agreement.
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They are trying to blame him for things they are responsible for, which is typical.”īrookfield eventually relented and offered an additional free month to Desrosiers (due to pandemic-era incentives, three free months were built into his lease) - but only after The Post reached out to Brookfield with his accusations. “He just wants to be treated decently, humanely, fairly. “My client isn’t trying to make a profit here,” said Desrosiers’ attorney Jeffrey McAdams, when asked if they are considering suing for damages. Christian Desrosiersĭesrosiers said he was then forced to hire an attorney for the first time in his life. The mold the leaks created caused Desrosiers, who’s asthmatic, to cough throughout our interview. Brookfield responded by offering to break his lease on the condition that he remove social media posts (he posted videos of the leaks on YouTube) and sign an NDA. He was only able to occupy the unit in July and part of August. At that point, Desrosiers said his relationship with management dissolved and became unworkable.ĭuring that time Desrosiers stopped paying rent, and asked that his unit be comped until it became habitable. After moving back into the apartment he originally rented, three more leaks occurred. It was nearly a month before he could move in.ĭuring that time, Desrosiers, who works from home, said he was placed in a temporary apartment where he lived out of boxes.
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There is a leak and we don’t know how to solve it.’ ” ”I showed up on the first day of my lease with my stuff to move in and they say, ‘You can’t move into your unit. “I saw the leak when I was touring the unit originally - the wallpaper was warped from the water but the leasing agent said it was a minor thing that would be fixed before I moved in,” Desrosiers said.
Christian Desrosiersĭesrosiers, who coughed through an interview with The Post while in the building, suffers from asthma and added that the constant leaks caused mold to grow in his home. Freaky leaks: Water pours from the ceiling in Christian Desrosiers’ apartment at Two Blue Slip. It ruined valuable possessions like designer clothes and a pair of his girlfriend’s Hermès shoes.
Units currently listed at the tower range from $3,642 for a studio to $14,390 for a two-bedroom.īut since the start of his lease, on May 28, his apartment has suffered from four leaks that poured from his ceilings, down his walls and into his floors, videos shared with The Post show. Working from home and “spending 110% of time” in his apartment meant that he wanted to “splurge,” he said. “After Florida, yeah, I’m not gonna give these guys the benefit of the doubt.”ĭesrosiers is new to luxury living, adding this is the most he’s ever agreed to pay in rent. “I am concerned for my safety,” said Two Blue Slip resident Christian Desrosiers, 33, who was renting a $3,590 L-shaped studio on the 36th floor of the 39-story building, which opened last year. Several residents of Two Blue Slip - a 421-unit slice of Brookfield Properties & Park Tower Group’s Greenpoint Landing development at Commercial Street, on the East River, which is transforming an industrial eyesore into a 22-acre, multi-building master-planned neighborhood - are up in arms over alleged shoddy construction, constant leaks and dysfunctional management. The Brooklyn waterfront is a washout, according to roiled residents of a new residential mega project there. The shortage of judges in NY’s Housing Court is causing massive pain for both tenants and landlordsĭeveloper files plan to demolish Papaya King flagship restaurant Students creeped out by landlord’s ‘big brother’ move Times Square Applebee’s aims to move after judge rules it owes landlord $7M
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