For the sake of your health, do not rent this apartment! I moved in on April 15th of this year. First week: Noticed that the only 3 windows in the apartment did not open. 2 of them sealed shut w/paint and are so incredibly old that the wood pane on the outside is rotting and the glass is coming loose. One window is broken, and the vines growing outside of the house are coiling into the broken window. The 3rd window facing the front of the house doesn't stay open & doesn't have a screen. I propped the window open a couple of times just to air out the apartment and later noticed mosquito bites all over my body. The 2nd week: Experienced a flood that further damaged the already damaged & peeling vinyl floors in the kitchen. Flood occurred because of a poorly installed pedestal sink in the moldy bathroom. I was blamed for that, and in turn did not receive my security deposit back because according to the slumlord "the kitchen floors need to be repaired and the arches in the basement need to be fortified". The slumlord's "handyman" admitted that there had been a flood during the previous tenant's stay in this apartment, which flooded the ENTIRE apartment. It's been 2 months since this flood, and the floors still have not been fixed & are moldy. Told the slumlord the 1st week about the windows, my severe environmental allergies, a HUGE leak in the back room of the apartment that is wearing away at the back wall of the house. He covered that area with a bunch of plastic containers so as to not raise suspicion. I removed all those containers (filled with what the slumlord called "catering supplies" .. AKA plastic forks, knives, cups). When I tried removing the two bottom containers, I noticed they were extremely heavy. They were filled to the rim with water. Water that had collected from MONTHS of rain pouring through a pipe that was broken. This pipe purportedly leads from the roof of the house to this back room and into the ground. YES! THE GROUND. This "room" was an addition to this shitty brownstone, and cement was never laid down. The room is essentially built right on top of the soil. All types of insects crawl out of this GAPING HOLE in the floor of this "room" and make their way into the kitchen & the rest of the apartment. In the 2 months I've lived in this rat's nest (yes, there are mice too), I've experienced flooding of a portion of the apartment, have seen cockroaches the size of a human adult thumb (the slumlord likes to say they're "water bugs"; I did my research .. call them what you like, they're COCKROACHES), thankfully I haven't SEEN mice but I've HEARD them and I've seen their droppings on the kitchen counters day after day. Which reminds me, before moving in I specifically asked the slumlord if there were any problems with rats/mice/bugs. He said no. He also said that once a month during the winter season, he'd be coming into the apartment to allow the oil company in. Since I've been living in this dump, people have come in & out of my apartment without my permission. Slumlord's friend will stop by to "store his belongings in the basement". Since the basement can only be accessed through my apartment, slumlord gives my apartment keys to his friend to mosey on in. He lists this apartment as a "garden apartment" on Craigslist. Says the tenant has access to the backyard. The backyard is nothing but a junkyard where he keeps old rusty toys that his children no longer use, as well as toxic chemicals that are sitting in metal cans just outside the back door. The one patch of grass that hasn't seen a lawn mower ever, is the family dog's toilet. There is dog feces laying around like land mines all over the grass. This is NOT a garden apartment and it certainly is NOT worth the $1,100 per month that slumlord's charging. This place is falling apart, DO NOT BE FOOLED!