A terrible bill in the state senate. Just say NAY!

Go to https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S6352 and click NAY.

Sen. Leroy Comrie's bill would eat into the 2019 tenant protection law, ending

• the caps on IAIs,
• the ban on longevity increases, and even
• vacancy deregulation.

Rent Guidelines Bd proposing 16% increase! Take Action!

Email the Staff/Board/Chair of the Rent Guidelines Board to let them know

• You can't afford the double-digit increases that the Rent Guidelines Board is talking about right now. 

• Stellar obviously doesn't need the increase: It's already forgoing rents from the roughly 13 empty rent stabilized apartments it's refusing to offer for rent. 

• Stellar is getting a lot of money from its 65 market-rate apartments. Their rent seems to be higher than the city-wide median (half tenants are paying more, half less) of $4,175. 

Do it today!

Image from Wikimedia Commons

 

Bring Back Mitchell-Lamas! (NY Daily News Op Ed)

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-restart-mitchell-lama-to-generate-more-housing-20230328-zblt2ptlhjcbvklldxkv56y7i4-story.html

OPINION

Restart Mitchell-Lama to generate more housing: 

No new legislation is needed to create homes for New Yorkers

By Gary LaBarbera

New York D allows for the creation of thousands of good paying union careers.

The article points out these new developments would be 

• built with 100% union labor 
• on vacant land, so no one would be displaced
• with existing financing mechanisms
• without changing existing zoning.] 

 

TONIGHT at 8 PM: CM Shaun Abreu at our tenant meeting! COME

Thursday, Mar. 16, 2023: Council Member Shaun Abreu at our meeting

Our next General Tenant Meeting will be

8 PM

THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2023*

in the COMMUNITY ROOM

to vote for treasurer and 2 board members 

and

to hear

OUR COUNCIL MEMBER SHAUN ABREU

_________

*This is a change from the original date of March 15, 2023.

Thurs., Feb. 23: Learn basic CPR

The tenant association presents a one-hour 

CPR class 

taught by 

The FDNY Mobile CPR Training Unit

THURSDAY, FEB. 23, 2023

at 1 PM 

in the Community Room

FREE to all tenants and building staff

Information  & image from the FDNY page. 

The FDNY Foundation is proud to partner with NYC Service to fund the Be 911 Compressions Only CPR program.

The program equips New Yorkers with the skills to act in the event of cardiac arrest by offering free instruction across the five boroughs. The program, taught by certified FDNY EMS personnel, has successfully trained more than 50,000 New Yorkers in compressions-only CPR.

CPR, or Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation, is a life-saving technique that helps increase survival rates for victims of cardiac arrest. It works by maintaining blood flow to the heart and brain until help arrives.

CPR Training is free and convenient. You can register online for one of our session across the five boroughs. The FDNY Mobile CPR Unit will host bystander CPR Training sessions at your location for groups of 15 or more.

What we offer:

• Basic instruction on how to use an automated external defibrillator (AED)
• Certified FDNY EMS instructors
• Compressions-only mannequins and “watch-while-practice” DVD instruction
• Convenient locations throughout the New York City
• Parting gifts: key fobs with CPR instructions and access to the Life Saver app, which guides users through the CPR process, locates nearby AEDs, and keeps beats for 105 compressions per minute (available for Iphone & Android)

Want to collect your compost but don't know how?

We have compost collection in our very own building!

On the ground floor in the trash room on each side of the building (just next to the elevators as you head to the side door) there are brown bins.

Click on the image below to see how to open and close the bin to lock in the odors that attract vermin. 

Keep your food scraps in the freezer in a plastic bag or container.  When it's full, empty the bag into the "organics collection" bin on the ground floor. Throw the plastic bag into the regular trash bin next to it.   Or bring the same bag bag upstairs to reuse for food scraps. 

IF we can make this work, perhaps we can persuade Stellar to put a brown bin on each floor to make things even easier.  But we have to show that we'll CLOSE THE LID properly.