As you may be aware there is a significant (currently “4 alarm”) fire burning at the former NYSC tennis bubble building. Please ensure all widows are shut at Skytrack in the hopes of limiting smoke getting in to our building.
Category: Announcements
Cooking Gas Work Completed Successfully
Please contact the Super if you have any issues. Thank you.
Reminder: Gas used for cooking and clothes dryers will be shut off on Tuesday, Feb. 15, from 9:30 AM to about 3:00 PM. If afterwards, you smell gas in your unit, call the Super immediately.
While the work is being done, there will be no gas to any units in the buildings – meaning no stoves can be used and if you have a gas dryer – it will not be able to be used.
Gas used for cooking and clothes dryers will be shut off on Tuesday, Feb. 15, from 9:30 AM to about 3:00 PM.
If you have a constantly burning pilot flame on your stove and oven, access to your unit will be required once the work is completed. Your pitot flames will have to be re-lit, to avoid the chance of leakage.
You need to advise Val if you will be home or you are giving Val permission to enter your unit.
The plumbers will begin between 9:30am – 10:00am, and they expect the work to take 4-5 hours to complete.
While the work is being done, there will be no gas to any units in the buildings – meaning no stoves can be used, and if you have a gas dryer – it will not be able to be used.
Composting Bins go out on Friday
On Friday afternoon, the brown compost bins will be placed outside, at the curb. Please place your composting materials in the bins. The contents are picked up by the DSNY on Saturday.
Put Out Compost Recycling On Sunday
The composting scraps will be picked up by the Dept. of Sanitation on Monday instead of Saturday.
Place your food scraps and other compostable materials in the brown bins on Sunday afternoon.
Survey re Natural Gas to Units
In connection with our scheduling a temporary (~2 hour) shutdown of the natural gas supply to each of our Skytrack Units — which is necessary so that a valve can be replaced — please follow the link below which will take you to a Google Form with questions regarding whether your appliances have pilot lights which will have to be checked by the plumber.
Please contact Val or EM Holding with any questions.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHtJznwltjfdYCxDJfp5s5pJomRY5Lcf8qGXixgcs9QHL8VQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
Water Shutoff Friday 11/19 at 12 PM
So that Unit 1F can install water shutoff valves, the Condo water will be turned off at approximately 12 PM this Friday, November 19. The shut-off will be as brief as possible. Please contact EM Holdings with any concerns.
E-Waste Collection Event
Dear Skytrack Community,
We are pleased to announce the first of what we hope to be many Skytrack e-waste collection events. For this trial, we will be allowing residents to leave their unwanted items listed below from this Sunday 10/3 through the following Sunday 10/10 in collection boxes in the lobbies of 134 Boerum and 15 Bergen, next to where recycling is deposited, and in the recycling area at the 1st floor of 120 Boerum (upstairs residents must go down to first floor at 120). For larger items that will not fit in the collection boxes, please reach out to Val in advance, and he will assist in getting them to the proper spot for collection by the City.
Acceptable items:
- TVs
- VCRs, DVRs, and DVD players
- Cable and satellite boxes
- Video game consoles
- Computers: including small servers; monitors; laptops and their peripherals (such as keyboards, hard drives, mice, etc.)
- Printers/scanners
- Fax machines
- Small electronics: including tablets; mobile phones; MP3 players
NOTE: Appliances, batteries, and light bulbs are NOT accepted.
Assuming this goes well, we intend to continue with periodic collection events, which will be announced in advance. This first event was scheduled for these dates because it works for those who are coordinating the collection with the City, including the Super.
Foreign Materials in Drains
With the assistance of professionals, we have determined that in certain instances recent sewage backups that have caused significant damage at Skytrack have at least in part been the result of items that should never be allowed to go down toilets/drains — including “wipes” — which became lodged in sewer pipes, causing partial or complete blockages. Out of respect to all of our neighbors, please ensure that no foreign materials other than toilet paper ever go down our toilets/drains. This includes items that are purportedly classified as “flushable,” which in reality, are not.
In addition to causing severe backups in residents’ apartments and preventing drains from working properly for some, allowing objects and materials like wipes down drains also costs all of us financially, as we collectively have to pay for totally unnecessary emergency plumber service calls to clean drain lines when they become clogged because of these materials.
The Board is continuing to work to take all feasible steps to prevent flooding during heavy rainstorms. While we cannot control mother nature or fix the deficiencies of the NYC sewer system, we can control what goes into the drains in our apartments. Ensuring we all do our part with respect to this matter will unquestionably only help the situation. Thank you for your careful attention to this.