Category: On The Board

A fire in an condo unit on the 50th floor of Trump Tower that killed one resident on April 7th has drawn attention to the issue of installing sprinkler systems in older, larger residential buildings. In 1999, the City passed a law re…

It was a bizarre story that generated local media attention last fall, including from The Cooperator : Neal Milano, property manager of a 47-unit condo in Sunnyside, Queens, was arrested in September 2017 for allegedly accosting a 43-y…

Living in a co-op or condo community is a social arrangement as well as a business and residential one.  You are part of a community, and that community should feel ‘organic.’ It is also perhaps the purest form of representative democracy.…

Co-op and condo owners often make assumptions about who can serve on the board of their corporation or association -- and one of those assumptions is that any owner of shares in a co-op, or a unit owner in a condominium is eligible to run f…

If you're on the board of a small, tight-knit building were everyone knows their neighbors, it may be tempting to make decisions on the fly, or conduct building business in a more informal, handshake-based way than a board in a larger, more…

In late January (as has been reported elsewhere ), six residents of the St. Tropez condominium located on Manhattan's Upper East Side, filed a lawsuit against two board members of the association stemming from a rooftop facade co…

Smoking, dogs, and bedbugs: either one or all of those issues can affect you as a co-op or condo owner. Many residents have experienced a cloud of cigarette smoke in the hallway, the loud bark of a noisy dog in the middle of the night, or e…

Picture this: at some point, your parents would like to move out of the co-op or condo apartment in the city that they’ve owned for decades and now want to live out their remaining years at their Columbia County single-family home in upstat…

One of the most unforgettable events of 2012 was the arrival of Hurricane Sandy, which, according to the National Hurricane Center, resulted in approximately 147 deaths in the U.S., the Caribbean, and Canada, and at least $50 billion in pro…

There’s an old adage that goes along the lines of, “You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your relatives.” That’s true of the people you serve with on your co-op or condo board. Board politics, like all politics, can get uncomfortab…