August 2019

The two boilers	have arrived

Repairs under the 1 train.

January - March 2018

On March 5, I was standing up putting on my pants. Left leg in, lifted right leg and then I fell to the left. I couldn't stop the fall. Crash! I broke the neck of the head of the femur. Dr. Pope at Wakefield Montefiore, the former Our Lady of Mercy, gave me a new ball. The operation was a left hip hemiarthroplasty. After Wakefield, I went to Burke Rehabilitation for 12 days. Here is a view from the cafeteria of Burke.

View of Burke from the Cafeteria

I'm on the mend.

November - December 2017

November 3, 2017 gas and electrical repairs on the corner of Sedgwick and Gouverneur, on the P.S. 95 side of the street.

Excellent article on nonconsensual physician shadowing

Public Citizen says it's time to ban olmesartan

Amalgamated Houses wants another multi-million dollar loan

November 15,2016 The management and board of directors once again want to take out a multimillion dollar mortgage and increase carrying charges to pay for it.

July 22, 2013 The 30 million dollar loan, 20 million of which will be used to repair balconies, windows, the Gale Place garage.  The other ten million will be used to pay off debt.  Previous debt was at a higher interest rate than this loan.  The lender is the National Cooperative Bank.

Lobby Restoration, The Towers

Lobby, November 27, 2015 finishing touches to bottom of seating

October 30, 2015 Lobby almost finished

August, lobby is starting to get the paneling.   Waiting for the updated notice.

July 3, 2015 lobby still unfinished.  No explanation given.

Intercom keypad

The glyph for the bell is hard to decipher.

Aug 24, 2015 I contacted Elvox and learned that the display can be customized.  Instead of showing date and time we could have another instructional panel telling people how to get into the building.  It could be in Spanish.  Management needs to look into how to make the display more meaningful.

FUBU

This did not happen.  The main intercom panel was not installed, no apartments were visited.  Cooperators were not notified of the change in plans.

When you can't access your balcony

Here is an account of one person who sued when they didn't have access to the shared terrace space they were paying for
Access Denied

Here's another article featured in the Brick Underground that gives you even more insight into what a co-op board can and can't do.
More legal judgments

My reason for providing links to this information is that these stories imply that Amalgamated Cooperators who have lost access to their balconies have little or no legal recourse.  The work is progressing, it does not appear that these repairs will last more than a couple of years.

Balcony Restoration, continued

A Trip to JoAnn's should not have been advertised in this bulletin

No one got permission from Phyllis, who organized the trip to Jo-Ann's, before someone asked the Co-Op to post the message.  This caused a big screw up.

Amalgamated Houses, balcony railing

Mr. Zsebedics, the manager, showing the new railing.

Last night, I like the other cooperators of Park Reservoir and Amalgamated learned that Patricia Goldwater is no longer the General Manager.  No explanation was given for the change.