There is nothing redeemable about this deplorable company. I am a combat veteran who served over in Korea at the DMZ, and without hyperbole here, I would have been treated better by the North Koreans, LITERALLY! I've lived here 14 years, and right away management began doing the role call of sinister actions that the NYPD has told me twice, to include just this afternoon, that once management starts as follows, they want you out and you should go. WHAT?! So, I won't go into that exhaustive list, but essentially it's regular unexpected oddly only happening to you, mishaps of the building that deeply affect your home and property. Unfortunately, they also can be construed as coincidental: "sorry about the leak, sometimes buildings leak." Is the psychology of the thing, but I think all rational adults living in NYC, know authentic malice waylaid in the manner from that which occurs through natural process of building entropy, follow me here, and this malice I've endured 14 years, but ZPM has only been I think the last 8. Today, after years of them refusing to communicate with me meanwhile having all my information, since some months ago, I had finally had it, and with even our tenant organization efforts put down by ZPM just tearing down all flyers we hung, I opened my window and started barking to the neighbors. I was sane and eloquent and I told them about all the transgressions since I'd been a tenant, it took months, and I explained who I am and a little about my past. I told them I'd be "the canary in the coal mine" telling them anything untoward that they perpetrate.
This caused all 5 buildings here under ZPM to liquidate of tenants. This afternoon was reprisal for that and it's actually the worst thing that's ever happened to me as an adult. With so many vacant apts, the Super is allowed to bring in workmen to do repairs, these guys wear no ID, have no uniforms, and can enter the building as they please. Today 4 of them heavily rang my door unsolicited at 12:25p. Since I'm not working, I was resting. I went to the door and they said they were here to install a 1/2 inch pin in my door. All these apts need these pins, but I hadn't contacted ZPM to do this particular repair, the workmen had heard me say it in the hallway after an HPD inspector visit. They have been skulking about the building for months claiming to be doing repairs, randomly sneaking into apts at 7:30am then running power tools at the joists around my apt just to make noise. They never work in one vacant apt, finish, then move on, and there are usually 6 of them, yet every apt is still "needing repairs". It's been deeply suspect, so today I followed them into the hallway with pen and pad to see if they were legit doing work. It led me to follow them upstairs, totally non violent, and this all culminated in one of these big Latino adult workmen punching me in the jaw. In the hallway, right outside my apt. When police came, NYPD said when I followed them upstairs, I became the aggressor and there were no consequences. Prior to the punching I saw the Super, so I was saying "I need to talk to you Sir", and he just walked anywhere he could to not have to communicate. He said "I do not want to talk to you". He cocked his fist at me twice. Another Workman tore past 2 others trying to stop him as he aggressively bowled down on me who stood his ground in the hallway near my apt, but strategically being punched once I felt was enough for them and the building to be culpable so I retreated back into my apt. He said, "Yeah you better run!" But I'm erratic and the aggressor here... I've noticed in these reviews, that very many of the one star reviews, happen to be minorities, with this neighborhood gentrifying since 2005, it's worrisome to see this trend, perhaps it's merely coincidental, but I thought the era when a Black resident who fully pays his rent can be punched by some person, and HE is still in the wrong. I don't wanna attest that the 400 year yoke of discrimination is chaffing today, but my heart certainly feels like it. Run fast, run far, from ZPM. Living in Harlem has been my lifelong dream, and I will stand my ground here, but it's amazing that this has gone on so very long. As a Black man who loves Harlem, my heart won't allow me to scamper away under these draconian methods. I really thought that tenants had more rights than management and I've always been told that in every apt I've had in the 23 yrs I've lived in NYC. Damn sure don't feel like it today.
I'll end by saying something my good friend who grew up in the Polo Grounds, up the block says and is so poignant today, he says "Shit get real in the battlefield."
He's only about 25 or so, and he's already so very on point. I grew up in the suburbs, so when he said that to me, it was a new perspective foreign to me. His sentiment and just stalwart fortitude, helped me through this day, and all that follow. Thanks Aaron. read more