“She would get stuck if she was surrounded by a bunch of little kids.”
who reports on housing in New York City. She has been at New York magazine since 2019.The robot egg looks friendlier than the robot dog. The four-legged “Digidog” from Boston Dynamics prowls with an unsettlingly insect-like crawl. But the K5, an “autonomous security robot” made by a California tech-company called Knightscope, comes across like a child-size marshmallow that sort of glides.
Not all tenants were charmed. “It was all about the property,” says one former resident, who left the complex in 2020. “They did all these renovations and the landscaping, and added all these rules about keeping off the grass and not being there after hours and that’s what she was there to enforce.” Rosie, the tenant alleged, primarily roamed the courtyard near the library where teenagers often hung out.
Mostly, Rosie watched, beaming data from her egghead back to the Mid City Security offices at LeFrak. “I felt like the Robot was invading our privacy when we were sitting in our park with our kids,” another resident told me. Her shining, high-tech presence also felt like an affront to some tenants facing rent hikes or asking for basic repairs.
Similarly, some New Yorkers are struggling to see the logic behind a a surveillance Roomba that will cost $12,500 just for a seventh-month lease, plus Digidogs for $750,000, while public-service budgets are increasingly being cut. The NYPD and Adams maintain that these are worthy investments, and that the Times Square K5’s job will be to send “real-time incident notifications to first responders” .
Rosie ultimately lasted less than two years at LeFrak. Tenants say that just as abruptly as she arrived, she was gone. A representative for the tenants association told me that LeFrak could no longer afford her during the pandemic. Some people heard she broke and they never fixed her. Neither Knightscope LeFrak’s management did not answer questions regarding Rosie’s fate. A 44-year-old tenant and lifelong LeFrak resident told me he used to see Rosie’s light roaming the courtyard at night.
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