In the past, developers would throw a few chairs and tables into a large room and call it a common area or a recreation room and leave it at that. Today, however, there's more to designing, maintaining and upgrading a successful common area…
One universal truth on which we all can agree is that kids like to play. They love little more than getting together and having a bang-up good time. And in almost any cooperative, condominium or homeowners’ association, there is likely to b…
The Cooperator’s Expo, the largest Co-op & Condo Expo in the New York metropolitan area, brought together over 300 exhibitors and more than 4,000 attendees. The Expo kept three floors of the New York Hilton Midtown buzzing with board member…
The average unit owner or shareholder is well aware of the differences between living in a single-family home and a condo, co-op, or HOA. There’s no stampeding children upstairs in a single-family home that you can’t yell at to quiet down, …
The Real Estate Board of New York’s Upper Manhattan Residential Committee talked Washington Heights at a recent seminar panel event, providing a glimpse into how the neighborhood has changed, the financial lending strategies for co-ops and …
With the 2016 presidential primaries in our rear-view and the general election just a few short (read: long) months away, New York City is another victim of the presidential circus. Bernie Sanders alone recently whipped leftists into a fren…
Lying in bed, in the dark quiet before you fall into that much-anticipated slumber, a soft scratching sound finds its way to your ears and you bolt upright. You don’t want to turn the light on, you don’t want to look, it could just be the h…
In an age when many young people have never signed a paper check in their lives, property managers are starting to follow the lead of commercial banks by handling transactions digitally. Just as one example, Concord Management of NY in Hunt…
New York's tabloids have gotten hold of a lawsuit filed by Madonna against her Manhattan co-op board for refusing to allow her children to stay in her unit when she is not occupying the unit herself. For those not familiar with the unique w…
Earlier this month, as reported by Barbara Ross in the Daily News , a condominium board at 400 Central Park West on Manhattan's Upper West Side saw fit to file suit against residents Josefina and Charles Berman, alleging that the woman a…