Q. We are a small Manhattan co-op of not-well-informed owners and renters. Our management is primarily a rental company, and often does things contrary to our proprietary lease, bylaws, and business corporation law. I often email my concerns and state the regulations governing an issue. I address the emails to “Board of Directors,” but the only address I have been given is the management company. I am not confident that they are passed on to board members. Am I entitled to the email addresses of the board and shareholders? When I request them, I am told by the manager that it is personal information.

            —Looking to Bypass Management

A. Slava Hazin, partner at New York law firm Warshaw Burstein and president of his condominium association, replies, “The board members are residents of the building. If management refuses to provide email addresses for the board members, write a letter to the board or print out the emails and deliver them to each board member individually; or, if there is concierge, give the letters to the concierge to deliver to the board members.”