Month: December 2020

Dear Res­i­dents,

On Wednes­day, April 15, 2020, Gov­er­nor Cuo­mo issued an Exec­u­tive Order requir­ing “any indi­vid­ual over the age of two and med­ical­ly able to tol­er­ate a face-cov­­er­ing shall be required to cov­er their nose and mouth with a mask or cloth face-cov­­er­ing when in a pub­lic place and unable to main­tain, or when not main­tain­ing, social dis­tance.” The face cov­er­ing should cov­er the nose and mouth by uti­liz­ing a cloth, a home­made, or oth­er face cov­er­ing, such as a scarf or ban­dana. Based on clar­i­fi­ca­tions issued, the require­ment applies to any­one in the com­mon areas of the build­ing.¹

The Cen­ter for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion (CDC) has stat­ed that the coro­n­avirus is being spread by peo­ple exhibit­ing symp­toms, as well as those who are asymp­to­matic. There­fore, local juris­dic­tions are imple­ment­ing these face cov­er­ing reg­u­la­tions to help slow the spread of COVID-19 by reduc­ing the risk of expo­sure in an effort to pro­tect the health, safe­ty, and wel­fare of those who live, work, and vis­it cities across North Amer­i­ca.

We trust every­one will con­tin­ue to do their best to try to reduce the risk of spread­ing COVID-19 by con­tin­u­ing social dis­tanc­ing of six feet and fol­low­ing the oth­er CDC rec­om­men­da­tions pre­vi­ous­ly pro­vid­ed. We also strong­ly encour­age every­one to fol­low the Exec­u­tive Order to wear a face-cov­­er­ing while in the com­mon areas of the build­ing. We do not know how long the face-cov­­er­ing require­ment will be in place.

Thank you.

J&M Real­ty Ser­vices

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Mor­ris-Jumel Man­sion
Check out their events here

Mor­ris-Jumel Com­mu­ni­ty Gar­den The Mor­ris Jumel Com­mu­ni­ty Gar­den is open for vis­i­tors on Sat­ur­days and Sun­days between 12:00 ‑5:00pm.

You may bring your com­postable food items there. The Col­lec­tion Bin is the left/east bin next to the leaf bin. Please cov­er your dona­tions with leaves.

High­bridge Park
Across the street from our apart­ment build­ing, and stretch­ing all the way up to Dyck­man Street

Wash­ing­ton Heights Library
On St. Nicholas Ave near 160th Street

Mark Levine (Our local city coun­cil­man)

http://www.marklevine.nyc/

Word Up Book Store
Word Up is a vol­un­­teer-run, mul­ti­lin­gual, gen­er­al-inter­est, non­prof­it com­mu­ni­ty book­shop and arts space in Uptown NYC.
On Ams­ter­dam near 164th Street

Harlem Hop Stop
Tour com­pa­ny that posts the next week’s worth of local cul­tur­al events on its cal­en­dar

Harlem Park to Park
HP2P is a social enter­prise rep­re­sent­ing 100+ entre­pre­neurs com­mit­ted to cul­tur­al preser­va­tion, small busi­ness and eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment in Cen­tral Harlem – NYC’s pre­miere cul­tur­al, din­ing, shop­ping, lifestyle and nightlife hub north of 110th Street.

Unit­ed Palace
Old-school the­ater on Broad­way near 175th Street that offers films, class­es and con­certs.

Stu­dio Muse­um in Harlem
Locat­ed at 144 West 125th Street, the Stu­dio Muse­um was found­ed in 1968 by a diverse group of artists, com­mu­ni­ty activists and phil­an­thropists who envi­sioned a new kind of muse­um that not only dis­plays art­work but also sup­ports artists and arts edu­ca­tion.

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The NYC Depart­ment of San­i­ta­tion is hold­ing a SAFE Dis­pos­al Events (Sol­vents, Auto­mo­tive, Flam­ma­ble, Elec­tron­ics) to pro­vide NYC res­i­dents with a one-stop method to get rid of harm­ful house­hold prod­ucts.

Mate­ri­als accept­ed include com­mon house­hold prod­ucts such as auto flu­ids, bat­ter­ies, elec­tron­ics, strong clean­ers, med­ica­tions, paint and more.

View map for this event.

What to Bring

• Auto­mo­tive prod­ucts such as motor oil, trans­mis­sion flu­id, and bat­ter­ies
• Per­son­al care items like unwant­ed med­i­cines or cos­met­ics
• Ther­mome­ters
• Syringes (clear­ly labeled and pack­aged in a “sharps” con­tain­er or oth­er leak-proof, punc­­ture-resis­­tant con­tain­er)
• House­hold prod­ucts such as pes­ti­cides, paint, haz­ardous clean­ers, com­pact flu­o­res­cent light bulbs
• Elec­tron­ics – check the list of items that are con­sid­ered elec­tron­ics, here.

How To Pack­age Items

Look for items with DANGER, POISON, or CAUTION labels. Read labels care­ful­ly for safe han­dling.

• Clear­ly label all prod­ucts.
• Tight­ly seal con­tain­ers.
• Don’t mix prod­ucts or bring open con­tain­ers.
• If an item is leak­ing, pack in a larg­er con­tain­er and use an absorbent mate­r­i­al, such as kit­ty lit­ter or news­pa­per, to soak up excess flu­id.
• Place con­tain­ers upright in a stur­dy box to trans­port them.
• Pack­age syringes and lancets in a “sharps” con­tain­er or oth­er clear­ly labeled leak-proof, punc­­ture-resis­­tant con­tain­er.
• Place TVs and com­put­er mon­i­tors with bro­ken glass in sep­a­rate sealed bags or box­es.

What Hap­pens to Col­lect­ed Items

• Mate­ri­als col­lect­ed are either recy­cled, blend­ed for fuel, or sent to licensed haz­ardous waste treat­ment facil­i­ties for safe dis­pos­al.
• Elec­tron­ics are respon­si­bly recy­cled or refur­bished for reuse through ERI.
• Unwant­ed med­ica­tions are man­aged by envi­ron­men­tal police and incin­er­at­ed to pre­vent unin­ten­tion­al poi­son­ings or entry into the water sup­ply.

If you fol­low local news, you will have heard about the cat­a­stroph­ic fire at 775 River­side Dri­ve on 8th Jan­u­ary, which injured over a dozen peo­ple and dis­placed the own­ers and res­i­dents of 131 units in the build­ing. The full extent of the dam­age to the build­ing is still under eval­u­a­tion.

Fire mar­shals believe that the fire began with an over­heat­ing toast­er and quick­ly over­took the build­ing by trav­el­ing through a dumb­wait­er shaft and up under the build­ing’s roof. What began as a small kitchen acci­dent quick­ly turned into a cat­a­stro­phe.

This tragedy serves as a reminder to all of us about fire safety–the safe oper­a­tion of elec­tri­cal appli­ances and equip­ment, nev­er leav­ing open flames unat­tend­ed, keep­ing well-main­­tained fire extin­guish­ers in our apart­ments, and assur­ing that smoke and car­bon monox­ide detec­tors are work­ing through­out the build­ing. It is also imper­a­tive that fire escapes remain com­plete­ly unim­ped­ed, so noth­ing of any sort should ever be stored on fire escapes. We are all depen­dent upon one anoth­er for dili­gence in pre­vent­ing a fire in our build­ing and in edu­cat­ing our­selves about what to do should a fire break out. Please be dili­gent!

The FDNY has a help­ful web­site with a lot of infor­ma­tion about fire safe­ty. You can find it here.

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