Category: Announcements

Residential Parking Permits

Residential Parking Permits
Hearing in City Council on Wednesday, November 2nd

  • According to the Empire State Development Corporation, when the Barclays Center opens in September 2012, an expected 35% of arena patrons or as many as 5,600 cars will travel to the site for each of the projected 220 events held each year. If nothing is done before to mitigate this volume of traffic, there will be an increased risk of vehicular, pedestrian and bicycle accidents that have already make Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn’s most dangerous road. This barrage of traffic is also expected to cause significant delays at more than half of the intersections within a half mile of the arena. And it will result in almost 3,000 arena patrons taking curbside parking spots in Park Slope, Boerum Hill, Fort Greene, and Prospect Heights.
  • Among all of the impacts to neighborhood character and quality of life that will come from locating Atlantic Yards’ arena within residential communities, none are of greater consequence to more residents than the unsafe conditions resulting from the traffic generated from arena events. But there is a way to reduce the demand for our local streets. It’s called “residential permit parking,” or RPP, and it’s been effective in other cities, like Boston and Chicago, where sports facilities are located in densely-populated areas. By limiting on-street parking during arena events to local residents, RPP creates a disincentive for patrons to drive, reducing congestion and making streets safer.

    However, New York City requires authorization from the State legislature before it can implement RPP. On Wednesday, 11/2 at 10:30AM, the City Council will hear testimony on legislation authorizing the City to enact residential permit parking programs in the five boroughs. The Boerum Hill Association urges you to participate in this critical hearing and make your voice heard.

  • What: Hearing of the New York City Council Committee on State and Federal Legislation
    When: Wednesday, 11/2 at 10:30AM
    Where: 250 Broadway, 14th Floor

NOTICE

Due to repairs,

the water will be shut off on

Monday, July 18,

from 10:00 AM until 1:00 PM.

 

Please keep your faucets closed to prevent damage when the water is turned back on.

 

NOTICE OF MEETING OF SKYTRACK CONDOMINIUM OWNERS ASSOCIATION

Dear Unit Owner:

 

Pursuant to Article 111, Sections 1 and 4 of the By-Laws of Skytrack Condominium, the board of managers is providing notice of the annual meeting of Skytrack Condominium Association.  Business will include an election to the board of managers, a report on financial status, and other important business concerning the future of the condominium.

 

This meeting is to be held on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 8 p.m. at the Montessori School located at 7-9 Bergen Street, immediately adjacent to 15 Bergen Street.  Please arrive and sign in between 7:45 and 8 pm so that the meeting can start on time.

 

There are two Board terms expiring this year.  Anyone who wants to run should drop a note to that effect in any of the lobby boxes for the Board of Managers.

 

If you are unable to attend in person, please delegate a representative to vote in your place by proxy.  A quorum of 50% of the ownership in person or by proxy is necessary for transaction of business. A form of proxy is being distributed to each unit for this purpose .

Sincerely,

 

 

Levi McConnell, Secretary

Skytrack Condominium Association

 

 

Board Meeting Minutes, March 23rd, 2011

Attending:  Peter Levy, Pres., Katharine Flanders Mukherji, V.P., Sec. Levi McConnell, Rose Firestein,

Terra Chalberg, Jose Perez (to present Super’s report), and Elia Malara (Managing Agent).

 

I.   Maintenance

§   Jose’s new shower body works properly, and he is very satisfied with it.

 

§   The coping on the roof at 120 Boerum has been repaired, and now Leon will be repairing a few leftover issues in the affected apartment.

 

§   The cornice on the roof at 120 Boerum Place is to be repaired in April.

 

§   When 17 Bergen was reconstructed, part of the adjoining wall between the new building and 15 Bergen was removed, and now some water/moisture issues are affecting a unit within 15 Bergen, as well as 17 Bergen.  We are encouraging the owners of 17 Bergen to have the problem rectified and the gap between the walls sealed against further moisture issues.  We will have the newly exposed portion of our wall pointed and sealed.

 

§   Stairwells at 120 Boerum are being worked on this April, including new floor coverings in the hallways near the recycling cans, as well as the stairs and landings.

 

§   Several failing door springs have been replaced, and the front door at 120 Boerum has been upgraded with a new egress handle.

 

§   More pigeon spikes are to come to the roof coping at 120 Boerum, over the front-most courtyard.  The spikes in the middle courtyard seem to have worked well enough to reduce the problems we were experiencing.

 

§   Several roofs are slated to be re-sealed over the next few months.

 

§   The ashtray cans in the stairwell at 120 Boerum will be removed, as smoking is not permitted in any indoor common area of the Skytrack buildings.

 

NOTE: Please be mindful and considerate of those living in Skytrack condo units when you or your guests are in the hallways. Excessive noise from cell-phone conversations, loud talking, children running, etc. can be quite loud inside the actual apartments, and should be kept to a minimum.

 

As always, it is against Skytrack Condo rules to smoke in any common area.

II.   Financials

The financial situation of Skytrack Condo was reviewed and continues to be in order. The board is pleased to report that there will be no increase in Common Charges for the remainder of 2011.

 

The meeting was adjourned at 8:30pm.

The next Skytrack Condo Board Meeting is scheduled for 7:30 pm, April 27th.

All residents are encouraged to register on the Skytrack website: www.skytrackcondo.com

 

Policy – Skytrack Condominium

A majority of the Board of Managers of Skytrack Condominium adopts the following policy as of October 15, 2010:

WHEREAS Skytrack Condominium (“Condominium”) has an existing policy that it is financially responsible for the extermination of vermin (rodents, insects and similar animal pests) in the common areas of the Condominium’s buildings and that individual unit owners are financially responsible for extermination of vermin in individual units; and

WHEREAS the City of New York is experiencing an apparently unprecedented bedbug infestation; and

WHEREAS bedbug infestations are both easily spread from apartment to apartment within a building and difficult to eradicate; and

WHEREAS the Board of Managers seeks to encourage the owners of units in the Skytrack Condominium to address possible bedbug infestations quickly, thereby effectively eliminating the insect’s spread within a building, it is now

ESTABLISHED by the affirmative votes of a majority of the Board of Managers of the Skytrack Condominium that hereafter, and until modified or rescinded by said Board of Managers, the policy of the Skytrack Condominium is as follows:

1.  Except as provided by numbered paragraphs two and three set out below, the policy of the Skytrack Condominium continues to be that it is financially responsible for the extermination of vermin in the common areas of the Condominium’s buildings and that individual unit owners are financially responsible for extermination of vermin in individual units; and

2.  Upon notification of the Superintendent of the Skytrack Condominium that bedbugs may be present in any building or portion of a building of the Skytrack Condominium, including an individual unit, by the owner of any unit within such building or such owner’s tenant or the Condominium staff, the Skytrack Condominium shall arrange and be financially responsible for having the possible bedbug infestation investigated to determine whether it exists, which investigation shall be made by professional exterminators or others the Board of Managers considers as having the necessary expertise to ascertain the presence of bedbugs at a location.  A unit owner may arrange for such an investigation of his/her own unit, and the Skytrack Condominium will be financially responsible for such individually arranged investigation only if the Condominium’s Superintendent approves the company or person who will undertake such investigation and such approval is obtained before the unit owner orders or contracts for such investigation.  Skytrack Condominium’s financial responsibility for an approved, owner-arranged investigation shall not exceed the cost of such investigation had the Condominium arranged for the investigation with the vendor it routinely engages for such investigations; and

3.  Skytrack Condominium will be financially responsible for the eradication of bedbugs, as with all other vermin, in the common areas of the Condominium’s buildings when bedbugs are detected in such areas, but it shall not be financially responsible for any aspect of the eradication of bedbugs, or any other vermin, in any individual unit or groups of units in the Condominium; and

4.  This policy supplants and replaces any previous policy, whether written, unwritten, formal or informal based on precedent, that pertains to the subject matter of this policy adopted by the Board of Managers on September 22, 2010.

Dated:  Brooklyn, New York

October 15, 2010

Board of Managers of Skytrack Condominium

By: Peter J. Levy, as President of the Board of

Managers of Skytrack Condominium

SPECIAL NOTICE FROM THE BOARD OF MANAGERS

Recently, a group of teenagers was discovered drinking alcohol on the Skytrack on the roof of 120 Boerum.  The teens unintentionally revealed their presence when one of them leaned over the railing and vomited, hitting a unit’s air conditioner.  This conduct was not only illegal, but potentially dangerous.  The roof, and particularly the track, are no place for inebriated people, especially youngsters who do not always display sensible behavior when they are sober.

The Board cannot emphasize enough the need for parents to ensure that their children, and their children’s friends, do not engage in risky conduct on the decks and roofs of the condominium’s buildings, including the track.  Irrespective of any possible liability issues arising from parents’ failure to oversee young people’s use of these common areas, the greatest concern is the potential for a completely unnecessary tragedy – a child falling from the deck or roof or otherwise being injured.

The Board requests that owners and tenants take steps to prevent their children and guests from engaging in inappropriate, illegal and dangerous conduct on the condominium’s decks, track and roofs.  And as the saying goes, if you see something, say something.

Thank you for your cooperation; we all have a stake in this.