Accessibility
I had a wonderful 3 month stay at this Murray Hill apartment. I use a mobility aid called an “Alinker”. It's about the same size as a standard wheelchair and I met one other standard wheelchair user in the building.
There are elevators and a single ramp from the sidewalk to the building. In my three months there, there were four times when someone parked in the driveway in a way to block the ramp. I AM able to get off of my Alinker and move it over the curb myself, but if you were more mobility challenged than am I, and alone, that might have been a problem. There ARE doormen in the building 24/7 and when the ramp was blocked, they were very willing to help me get over the curb.
The bathroom does not have a space next to the toilet to park your wheelchair for transfer or grab rails, if you need those things. For myself, I can stand and walk short distances, so this apartment worked very well for me.
The Vibe management company was very responsive to my needs. I enjoyed working with them. The apartment was quiet with one exception... the TV shares a wall with a neighboring apartment. The way televisions are made these days, the speaker is on the back and as much sound went into (and through) the wall to the next apartment as landed in mine. My neighbor was REALLY rude about it and pounded on the wall incessantly! The management company purchased and installed a sound bar for the TV that points the sound into the apartment rather than into the wall and the problem was solved! I recommend continuing to use the sound bar for good neighbor relations!
The location was very good. Midtown and close to several bus stops... with my mobility aid, the bus system was a better choice than subways, which don't all have elevators and even those that DO, they are often not working. The buses always had functioning ramps!
I recommend the apartment!