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Category: Buildings

Buildings Understanding What You Use Helps to Conserve
2008 Sept Understanding What You Use Helps to Conserve

With the constant rise in energy costs, the use of “peak generating plants” and increased individual energy consumption, we are seeing a direct impact on our monthly electricity bill. According to Con Ed, July 2008 set a new record of 6…

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Buildings Green Building Insurance Practices
2008 Aug Green Building Insurance Practices

One impact of climate change is being felt as natural disasters of increasing frequency and strength are causing extensive damage to homes and businesses. The four hurricanes of 2005—Katrina, Rita, Wilma and Dennis—caused more than $57 b…

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Buildings Tracking Building Energy Usage
2008 June Tracking Building Energy Usage

Recent studies of energy usage in multifamily buildings have revealed that the least efficient buildings use up to seven times the energy of the most efficient—even when those buildings are otherwise similar. It should surprise few …

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Buildings Education, Information and Invaluable Insights
2008 June Education, Information and Invaluable Insights

For over two decades, The Cooperator’s annual Co-op & Condo Expo has been a perennial save-the-date for anyone and everyone associated with the tri-state area’s co-op and condo building communities. Since 1987, vendors, service providers…

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Buildings New York City's "Grand Old Co-ops"
2008 Jan New York City's "Grand Old Co-ops"

The idea of cooperative living was hatched in the early 1900s in New York City as a way for people to either have a say in who they had as neighbors, or as a way for building tenants to band together and exert some control over their qua…

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Buildings 2007 Co-op & Condo Expo Exceeds Expectations
2007 Jun 2007 Co-op & Condo Expo Exceeds Expectations

For the past two decades, The Cooperator's annual Co-op & Condo Expo has been a destination event for anyone and everyone associated with the tri-state area's co-op and condo building communities. Vendors, service providers, board member…

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Buildings Urban Mass
2006 Dec Urban Mass

Located in the Northeast corner of the Bronx, in the area known as Baychester, sits the largest housing cooperative in the world. Co-op City is home to about 50,000 people; if it suddenly decided to secede from Bronx County, it would be …

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Buildings Glen Oaks Village
2006 Nov Glen Oaks Village

Like so many other neighborhoods and areas of the city, the Glen Oaks Village cooperative in Queens has seen its share of good times and not-so-good times. But from the bleak days of the 1970s and ‘80s, thanks to a conversion, a committe…

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Buildings Royal Treatment
2006 Oct Royal Treatment

Manhattan’s Upper West Side is a repository of striking architecture—it seems like every block features a different, breathtaking example of residential construction. One of these is the Park Royal, located on 73rd Street between Columbu…

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