Tag: Michael R Bloomberg

2013 June Butt Out? By Marie N. Auger

 In the ongoing effort to limit the non-smoking public's exposure to secondhand  cigarette smoke, municipal governments across the country are coming up with  increasingly strict bans on smoking in public places—even on public streets and …

2013 June A Mighty Wind By Greg Olear

 People living along the Gulf Coast have long accepted hurricanes as a fact of  life—one that brings with it torrential rain, howling winds, and devastating  hailstorms. The Mid-Atlantic has been hit with a few big storms over the past  tw…

2013 June Electric Revolution On the Horizon? By Ann Connery Frantz

 Whether condo associations will buy into the so-called “electric highway” has become the perennial $64,000 question.    And the answer? The electric vehicle or EV revolution is coming, albeit slowly.    ChargePoint, Inc., wh…

2013 April Benchmarking and Energy Audits By Debra A. Estock

 Little by little, the world seems to be getting greener, and the Bloomberg  administration has made greening the city one of its priorities in helping to  reduce New York City’s carbon footprint. As part of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s Gr…

2013 April Heating Oil Transition Offers Savings By Jonathan Barnes

 On July 1st, about 10,000 New York City buildings must start phasing out their  use of high-polluting fuel oil. Under the city's “Clean Heat” mandate (a part of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s Greener, Greater Buildings Plan New York initiat…

2013 April The ABC's of City Resources and Municipal Agencies By Keith Loria

 You may live in the most well-run and self-sufficient building in the city, but  no building is an island, not even in developments from the sprawling  Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan to Co-op City in the Bronx to  the s…

2013 April A Look Back to the Future By J.M. Wilson

 Thirty years ago, Cats won the Tony Award for best musical, setting it off to  secure its place as the second longest running Broadway musical in history. New  York City streets were filled with women in torn sweatshirts and leg warmers  …

2013 March The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) By Christy Smith-Sloman

 For most New Yorkers, the search for housing is perhaps the least favorite part  of the New York experience. If the size is right, the price is wrong; if the  price is right, the neighborhood’s wrong. And then there’s that hideous wallpap…

Exterior Elements By Lisa Iannucci

 When you think landscaping, you probably don’t think of a swanky New York co-op or condo building. After all, landscaping in  the usual sense is typically reserved for suburban homes where there is rolling  turf, strategically placed tree…

2012 December What the Future Holds By Raanan Geberer

 The worst of the recession—big-time failures of investment banks and mortgage companies, huge banks in  trouble, companies laying people off in the thousands—may be over. There are some signs of hope, and residential buildings that were  …