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A Champion of Ethics Wins The Cooperator's 1999 Award
Every year The Cooperator recognizes individuals who have brought about positive change in the co-op and condo community. We're pleased to announce that P. Leonard ("Len") Jones, president of The New York Association of Realty Managers (NYARM), has been named winner of the 1999 Co-op and Condo Community's Man of the Year Award. Thanks to his commitment to promoting professionalism and ethics in co-op and condo management, residents can be assured that their property managers are meeting the toughest industry standards for ethics and moral behavior. Now is our chance to say thank you for his tremendous effort and determination. Keep up the good work! Read More
The Green Guerillas
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "The earth laughs in flowers." If that's the case, then the Green Guerillas are grinning from ear to ear. While some outreach programs spend a lot of their time working phones and crunching numbers to get work done, this New York-based organization has been brightening neighborhoods and spirits by getting their hands dirty - literally - for 30 years. The Green Guerillas, made up of over 800 volunteers, dozens of employees and generous donors, both corporate and private, have been changing the face of New York for decades using a different set of tools - vegetable seeds, flower pots, topsoil and mural paintings, just to name a few. Read More
The Fine Blue Line
When the Dutch settled in what was then called “New Amsterdam,” a man named Johann Lampo patrolled the trails and paths of the area, keeping the peace and watching for fires. Little did Lampo know that he was the first in a long, honored line of law enforcement officers of New York City. Read More
Darkness Comes to Life
In 1932, when Josephine Baldizzi was six, her mother Rosaria, used to bathe her in the kitchen’s slop sink in their five-story walkup tenement building at 97 Orchard Street. On her walk to school, she wore her father Adolfo’s size 9 shoes and hand-me down clothes. Rosaria tended to the household, and for a time worked long hours in the nearby garment factory. Adolfo was a cabinetmaker, who carried around a toolbox, and did odd jobs to support his family. Read More
Providing Housing for the New Millennium
Housing in New York City has always been influenced by a changing urban landscape, population and demographic shifts, and a class-conscious economic and social strata that determined how people lived and in what neighborhoods they chose to call home. Read More
Maintaining Housing Diversity
In 1974, a group of New York City residents banded
together to preserve affordable housing in the city and the push resulted
in the creation of the advocacy group, Tenants & Neighbors. Since that
time the nonprofit group has been working to preserve lower-income housing
by organizing and educating residents of such housing across the city and
the state.
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Retrofit and Reduce
There is a tendency among many co-op boards, building managers and developers to consider “green” building technologies as extras—or as luxuries that have nothing to do with their need to reduce costs. Read More
Communication and Optimism
There was a time when many of the city’s key
resident management/superintendent associations didn’t communicate
much. The Manhattan Resident Managers Club, Inc., the Metropolitan Building
Managers of New York, the Scandinavian-American Building Managers Guild,
the Superintendents Technical Association (STA), the New York Building
Manager’s Association, and the Hibernia Provident Society got
together about as often as Donald Trump and Billy Crystal sit in bleacher
seats at Yankee Stadium, even though they share many of the same members.
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Answering Westchester's Questions
Westchester County is known for, among other things,
its grand, multi-million dollar mansions and historic homes found in its
posh communities such as Scarsdale, Bronxville and Brewster. Many of these
homes were built in the 1950s, when the economy was prosperous. That
decade, World War II veterans returned to the job market and started
families. To answer the need for more housing for these new families, many
high-rise apartments, single-family homes and duplexes were also built.
Westchester’s website, www.westchestergov.com, coins it as “a
new era of suburbanization” for the American family.
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Knowing the Ropes
Helping veterans and newcomers alike to become certified accredited realty managers (ARMs), the New York Association of Realty Managers (NYARM) has been perfecting the skills of those in the field with their School of Property Management for nearly two years now. Read More
