Comments by "Joe R M" (@joermnyc) on "Cash Jordan" channel.

  1. They put the kitchen undercabinet lights under the wrong cabinets. And leaving the ceilings and walls bare concrete seems like an odd choice.
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  2. Really odd they put in a second full bath upstairs, but didn’t extend the loft for a second sleeping space option. (It would make more sense to sleep up there since that’s where the closet is.
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  3. 3:21 that platform barrier that rises up when the train arrives would be perfect for the NY subway with all the doors in different locations!
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  4. That’s a bass, a really nice Schecter bass.
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  5. Common space is really limited by the layout of the doors, why double swing out closet doors instead of something that slides or accordions?
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  6. That’s not really “4 baths” though, it’s 2 full baths and 2 1/4 baths (a toilet with no sink… eww.)
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  7.  @fredflintstone2234  yeah, there will never be a new rent controlled building in NYC, only old units and if you’re not a descendant of the previous tenant you aren’t lucking into one.
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  8. Double suite bedrooms (walk in/through closets to a bathroom)? Don’t see that very often.
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  9. MTA claims it’s not possible because different train models have their doors in different places, and to make them all the same would require replacing the entire fleet… the Metro in Copenhagen has full height platform screens and the trains are fully automated.
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  10. Manhattan Mall used to be cool, but then they shrank the number of floors down a ton… just went to the Queens Center Mall with my little one yesterday… she doesn’t care about the shopping, just about the all the food we bribe her with to not complain about how long shopping can take sometimes. (Aka, “okay sweetie, we’re checking out, and then we’ll get whatever you like.”) At least she’s tired by the time we get home.
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  11. “Billionaires row” south of Central Park has one listed for $250 million, it’s 3 entire floors and has “staff bedrooms.”
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  12. You can run laps around your apartment if you leave all the doors open! Honestly, you’re paying for the great subway access, you can get the 6 down on 68th Street, and the Q at the 3rd Avenue end of the street. I would ask to have that backyard cleaned up though.
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  13. It was weird because sometimes it smelled like a pizzeria, sometimes it smelled like a casino in Vegas (aka a giant ashtray), and sometimes it smelled like someone was smoking meat for a barbecue.
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  14. That much for no closets and no laundry? They’re banking on this being a roommates set up.
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  15. This looks like a new building… and I believe anything over a certain number of floors must have an elevator.
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  16. If your hotel is close to Newark Airport, that 3:30am alarm could have been someone catching one of the first flights out that day… but yeah, I’ve had an alarm go off at like midnight in a hotel and it was blasting the radio at full volume… not cool!
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  17. That giant bathroom definitely goes to 11, and it’s in a (quite expensive) rental!
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  18. In Sofia, Bulgaria we rented an apartment for 2 weeks, it had the (tiny) clothes washer under the kitchen counter (next to the tiny dishwasher) like you find it many places in Europe. To dry we had to pull a big rack out from the closet, unfold it and leave all the wet clothes in the corner next to the radiator (it was December, it was freezing most of the time we were there). Interestingly, all the heat was steam district heat from a main plant like they have in most of Manhattan below a certain point, but there was a backup hot water maker in the bath that we needed to use when the street lost it’s connection for a few hours (thankfully our unit came with this big instruction manual in several languages for how to work everything, including the backup system), the heat wasn’t connected to it though, so we had to hunker down with extra layers… and somebody (who was, and still kind of is very small) didn’t want to keep her socks on, so we got out some extra blankets.
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  19. That dumbwaiter in the big closet could have been used to move clean laundry upstairs.
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  20. Maybe get a rolling kitchen cart to expand the usable counter space, you can always roll it into the kitchen when you’re not using it.
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  21. If it wasn’t this tower it was one nearby, but part of the deal they made to build this was to install an elevator on the Court Square-53rd Street E train platform to Manhattan… the MTA is working on the elevator for the other side.
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  22. The loft is the place to hide your mother-in-law when she visits.
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  23. Paying that much just to be like the Hulk “SO MANY STAIRS!” No thanks.
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  24. Odd layout with back to back bathrooms, two of the bedrooms are off of the hallway with a kitchen in it.
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  25. This place will be great when they finally extend the Q train uptown in about 20 years.
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  26. Really interesting, the upstairs is almost like two wings, you can have the kid’s wing with the two bedrooms and bathroom, and then the parents can take the back suite.
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  27. No basement? Looks like there is one, unless that’s a rental unit?
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  28. I believe that is an egress hatch (looked like there was a latch on it from the inside.
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  29. Bail reform makes it like a GTA game, got busted? No worries just get out a few hours later to keep terrorizing the city. Edit: the Port Authority actually controls the entire World Trade Center, not just the mall, so while their cops liaise with the NYPD for problems on the street, inside all of the buildings it’s their jurisdiction. Same at the airports.
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  30. Cold sponge bath with clean snow. 🤷‍♂️
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  31. Those back to back radiators in the shared space tell me that there was once a wall between the living room and kitchen prior to a renovation. (Relocating radiators isn’t the easiest thing, so many places just leave them as is (as long as they aren’t in the middle of the room.))
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  32. I’d say Amazon prime is worth it since it gives you free shipping… shipping fees add up quickly. Also Amazon subscribe and save is great if you have things you use all the time (especially for parents, get discounts on diapers, wipes, baby food, etc.)
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  33. They need to have a set of double gates,that work like an airlock, the first gate has to close before the second one opens. In both directions. The kids that drove the train in Jamaica Yard (which is actually in the south end of Flushing-Meadows Park), the cops did catch one of them so far.
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  34. Or Saruman yelling spells!
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  35. That wall with the pocket doors might be structural (the studs are doubled up and turned 90 degrees, so the pocket door slides between them)… if you really wanted to remove it, check with an engineer or a contractor first.
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  36. Wait, was the little trike talking when it goes in reverse?
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  37. Brand new, but the apartment lower levels are already being torn out… flood damage?
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  38.  @vincentgoupil180  yeah, that decorative wall looks like a ladder.
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  39. The Super must’ve gotten a discount on really tiny closet doors.
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  40. Do I know too much when I immediately recognized that as a ship’s compass? (It’s on a gimbal so it always stays level no matter how rough the sea gets.)
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  41. Really nice, but a hike to the subway, which might hinder finding a renter for the lower levels. (It does look like you could configure this so the basement only can be accessed by the owner’s unit (just lock that door, and move the tenant laundry up to the unit somehow.)
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  42. LAX is confusing, we wound up having to get out and walk along the road to switch terminals once (Qantas to Virgin America), though I think they’re finally working on connections between the terminals. Not too long ago, there was really not much connecting aside from busses that ran between the planes, and I had to change busses in the middle of nowhere next to really loud regional turboprop planes (I was going from a very delayed American flight to an Alaska Airlines flight (which had left by the time I got there… I had an hour long connecting time to do this… on paper… thanks American, Alaska was able to switch me to a later, but stuffed to the gills, flight) That little bus area was demolished to expand the international terminal.)
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  43. That’s kind of a long hike to the subway (the 1 train), so you’re paying for the views of the Henry Hudson bridge, and the rivers here.
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  44. Those orange tubes just cover leaks in the steam system… it’s only steam… it smells odd because it’s super hot so it’s kind of cooking the air around it.
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  45. That much in rent for the first would be better served paying down the cost of the 2nd one (with a rental income from the garden apartment supplementing your giant salary that you can afford $4.5 million!
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  46. Our entire apartment’s rent in Forest Hills is less than double that, and we have 2 bedrooms, a decent kitchen and a private full bath! No way.
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  47. Well it’s a crazy price, but it’s because of the location. There’s apparently a $25 million place on 11th ave and 23rd Street that has 5 beds, 5.5 baths, and a massive outdoor space that’s almost the size of the inside of the apartment! Gotta win the lottery to buy that one.
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  48.  @hewitc  I think his name is still on the building, but Cash just couldn’t say it (or didn’t want to) That street is called United Nations Plaza.
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  49. Closets that narrow make me wonder what’s taking up the rest of the wall space there… 🤔
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  50. I think a walk up past the 2nd floor with 1 kid is bad, with 2 (since you announced you’re expecting) it’s much worse.
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