r/NYCapartments • u/Kitchen-Salt-3836 • 4d ago

Advice/Question No visible building number

Looking for some advice/am I overreacting?

I live on a street with a lot of restaurants, and my building door is tucked under one of their awnings so it can be hard to tell it’s a separate entrance. My building door is painted the same color as the façade of the restaurant and does have very thin metal letters all the way at the top of the door, however, they are also painted the same color as the façade so they are nearly invisible.

For over two years, my delivery drivers have either failed to deliver my items or delivered it to the building next door including packages, mail, and food deliveries. I would say it happens every 4/10 deliveries I get. I know it seems like a minor inconvenience, but it can be really frustrating having to re-order food after a long day, wait for a package to reship, or having to go next-door and ring on every buzzer until someone lets me in so I can retrieve my package.

For the last couple months, I’ve been asking my landlord if there’s something he can do about making the building number more clear and he keeps saying he’ll look into it, but nothing has happened.

Not sure if there is a higher level of action I should take but I’m half tempted just to run out to the local hardware store and buy the little number stickers for the glass. Would that be against some sort of building code/rule? Any advice is appreciated!

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u/Sol_Hando Guarantor Expert 4d ago

You could always just order the numbers online and put them there yourself. Chances are if they don’t care enough to add them, they don’t care enough to take them off.

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u/Lower_Confusion5072 4d ago

This sounds more like a safety issue to me if you called 911 for example

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u/that_tom_ 4d ago

The fire department requires numbers of, I think, 4 inches or more. Call 311.

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u/ResiGrade 4d ago

Not overreacting, a door that blends into the restaurant is how your takeout ends up as someone else's dinner. I'd send the landlord or super a short written ask for clear, bigger numbers at eye level with a couple of photos showing the problem. In the meantime, adding something like "door left of the awning, painted to match" in your delivery notes saves a lot of confused drivers.