Exactly the same as my experience with them. Poor color rendering, poor tint, dimmer, and horrible for actually seeing stuff. It's a shame because when NYC put in the 4300K lights my first reaction was the city actually did something right for a change. Since you live in NYC, you know how rare that is. We've taken screwing up to an art form here. Of course, they had to keep their track record going by installing the 3000K lights. Honestly, if they insisted on going to lower CCT, 3500K would have been fine, and not too objectionable.