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November 2009 Vol. 29, No. 11


The November 2009 issue of The Cooperator newspaper focuses on Building Maintenance.

In this issue, you can read about maintenance deferred, keeping NYC buildings safe, life spans of building systems, installing & maintaining laundry facilities and Chinatown.

Visit our archives to see other articles that were published in 2009.

News Briefs

  • 11.20.09 The snooty co-op board of a luxury Upper East Side building is trying to evict one of its high-class residents for marrying one of its lowly porters [The NY Post]
  • 11.13.09 What was once the workplace of tellers and loan officers is being recycled into street-floor commercial space with 12 income-restricted condominiums above. . [The NY Times]
  • 11.13.09 ERICA FRIEDMAN had a checklist. She knew exactly what she needed in her new home, and the importance of every feature. [The NY Times]
  • 11.13.09 THE entrance to the building on Anderson Avenue at 167th Street in the Highbridge section of the Bronx looks like something out of Hansel and Gretel. [The NY Times]
  • 11.13.09 A TWO-BEDROOM apartment on the Upper West Side is listed at $1.595 million and sells within two weeks. [The NY Times]
  • 11.12.09 It’s bumpy all around, but if you’re self-employed, buying new construction or trying to secure a jumbo loan (anything above $729,750), getting a mortgage is downright nightmarish. [The NY Post]
  • 11.10.09 The Long Island Board of Realtors (LIBOR) announces the signing of fair housing legislation for co-ops. [Real Estate Rama]
  • 10.30.09 A member of her co-op board for six years and the president for nearly two, Helen Pearlstein is deeply involved with local affairs.[NY Times]
  • 10.30.09 Fixer-Uppers are not the darlings of the New York City real estate market right now. [NY Times]
  • 10.23.09 She shopped for co-ops in the Long Island communities of Floral Park, East Rockaway and Bellmore, among others, and also in Bellerose, Queens. [NY Times]
  • 10.23.09 Roofs and windows that leak whenever it rains. .[NY Times]
  • 10.23.09 Their view is the main reason that the Gisslers, who are both 74, are so enamored of the place where they live.[NY Times]
  • 10.18.09 The names of New York neighborhoods are not carved into the sidewalk. As an area begins to gentrify, a new label often pops up to match the rising property values. A southern piece of Harlem was recently rebranded SoHa, and Park Slope, Brooklyn, keeps creeping south into territory once known as Sunset Park. [NY Times]
  • 10.16.09 On Fort Hill Circle in St. George, Staten Island, nestled amid an assortment of shingle style, Italian Renaissance, Dutch colonial and Tudor houses, there sits an unassuming red-brick split-level. [NY Times]
  • 10.09.09 As many co-op and condo owners can attest, ownership has its drawbacks. [NY Times]
  • 10.09.09 And so, brokers say, Steven Mnuchin, a former executive vice president at Goldman Sachs, is giving up the comfort and lordly status of his five-bedroom duplex co-op at 740 Park Avenue, one of the most prestigious addresses in New York, for the suburban wilds of Pasadena, Calif. [NY Times]
  • 10.09.09 L+M Development Partners is taking a classroom-packed 1906 building in Harlem and making it into a mix of market-rate and moderate-income apartments. [NY Times]
  • 09.25.09 The economic downturn is giving renters a break. [NY Daily News]
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