This Thursday: Mayoral Forum in our Community Room

NEW LAW: EVERYONE MUST COMPOST FOOD SCRAPS

Starting April 1, 2025, everyone in NYC has to compost their food scraps.

What should I compost?

All the food scraps that you usually throw in y our kitchen trash should be separated for compost collection.  That includes food as well as greasy paper plates and pizza boxes.  

All plant waste like dead plants or leaves should also be composted. 

Hair and nail clippings too!

What should I NOT compost?

REGULAR GARBE: Pet waste, dead animals, and used cooking oil, medical waste, wrappers, hygiene products, and most other things that didn't grow from the earth. 

RECYCLE SEPARATELY: Paper, softcover books, glass, and plastic go in their regular recycling bins.

Where do I put my compost material?

Store it in a bag in your freezer till you're ready to bring it downstairs to one of the brown bins in the two compactor rooms next to both sets of elevators on the ground floor.   It's ok to use a plastic bag - but not a black one - to store your compost. 

Thurs., April 3 - Hear MAYORAL CANDIDATES on tenant issues!

Tenant Meeting TONIGHT with Councilmember Shaun Abreu

6 PM Tonight : Call to Freeze the Rent

This weekend NYS Tenant Bloc, its sister organization Housing Justice for All, and many other groups were out ALL OVER the city knocking on doors to talk to neighbors for a RENT FREEZE!

There are 2.4 million rent stabilized tenants -- we make New York, New York. And we deserve to stay.

Can you join NY Tenant Bloc for our February 12 6 PM mass call for renters across the city to learn more about how you can join the fight to win a rent freeze?

RSVP NOW

(Pre) Valentine's Day Fundraiser this Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025 in the Lobby

(Source of image is not clear. I'll happily add credit if anyone knows the source.)

Summary of the Jan. 22, 2025 meeting

The meeting began with a moment of silence for Lydia Pitsirilos, Lavina Edwards, and Mae Eversley, all three a big loss to our community.

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LOTS of people brought delicious desserts: Thanks to Elsa Gonzalez for her guava and dulce de leche cupcakes, to Joan Browne for her brownies, to Letty Orellano for her bread pudding, to Namita Prasad for her pakoras, to Steve Koulish for mixed fruit, to Sekhar Ramakrishnan for clementines, to Laurie & Nicole Barton and Alan Fox and others for cookies, and more!  So we had a sweet meeting to go with our coffee & tea (thanks Denis Hayward!).

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Save the date: OUR VALENTINE FUNDRAISER will be on Saturday, February 1, 2025, in the lobby, thanks to Rosa Delgado and Debbie Gonzalez.  

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Please donate individually-wrapped sweets to Rosa in 2T.    As usual, we'll have great information for tenants, good music and good company.  Plan to pick up some sweets for your sweetie - and you can even pay your tenant association dues ($10/year). 

Get a ticket for the March 14, 2025 benefit performance of Augusta by playwright/actor Renée Flemings for the Emma L. Bowen Community Service Center, which provides mental health and related services in Harlem. The Bowen Center is chaired by Patricia Jordan, of our tenant association executive committee, and its treasurer is Ray von Dohren, who is also on our executive committee. When a tenant is performing a great service for the community, others hop on that bandwagon.  The Bowen Center has also helped some of our tenants.