Month: April 2025

515 Edge­combe Avenue was built in 1923 and con­vert­ed to a coop­er­a­tive in 1987. The build­ing is a 5‑floor walk-up with 23 units and is more than 95% own­er occu­pied. Build­ing ameni­ties include bike stor­age for a fee and rent­ed stor­age lock­ers.

Sit­u­at­ed at the cor­ner of West 158 Street and Edge­combe Avenue in the his­toric Sug­ar Hill neigh­bor­hood of Harlem, this well-run and main­tained coop­er­a­tive is locat­ed across from High­bridge Park where there are walk­ing and bik­ing paths,  play­grounds, and bas­ket­ball and hand­ball courts.

The coop­er­a­tive build­ing is a 4‑minute walk to the C train at W 155 and an 8‑minute walk to the 1 train at Broad­way. The south-bound M2 bus stops in front of the build­ing and runs between the East Vil­lage 8 St via 5 Ave and to Wash­ing­ton Heights Broad­way-168 St.

The build­ing is a mile from Yan­kee Sta­di­um and has quick access to the George Wash­ing­ton Bridge. There is lots of street park­ing in the neigh­bor­hood.

Two blocks north is the his­toric Mor­ris-Jumel Man­sion and two blocks south is the new Sug­ar Hill Children’s Muse­um of Art & Sto­ry­telling.  A short 15 minute walk north takes you to the High­bridge Recre­ation Cen­ter with a large out­door swim­ming (fea­tured in the movie In the Heights), the High Bridge (the old­est bridge in New York City) and the soar­ing 200ft High Bridge Water Tow­er.

Man­ag­ing Agent Mr Jer­ry Edel­man J&M Real­ty Ser­vices Corp. 2067 Broad­way, Suite #68 New York, NY 10023

Mail­ing Address J&M Real­ty Ser­vices Corp. 343 St. Nicholas Avenue, Suite #25 New York, NY 10027 212–721‑0424; 212–721‑0304 (fax)

Start­ing Octo­ber 6, 2024, the New York City Depart­ment of San­i­ta­tion (DSNY) will expand its Curb­side Com­post­ing pro­gram to include all res­i­dents in Bronx, Man­hat­tan and Stat­en Island! This ser­vice will allow you to dis­pose of your food scraps, yard waste, and food-soiled paper direct­ly at the curb on your des­ig­nat­ed recy­cling day.

• Trash Pick­up: Mon­day, Wednes­day and Fri­day
• Large Items Pick­up: Mon­day and Fri­day
• Recy­cling Pick­up: Wednes­day

What is Curb­side Com­post­ing? Curb­side Com­post­ing is a year-round, week­ly ser­vice pro­vid­ed by DSNY that col­lects com­postable mate­ri­als, which are then turned into nutri­ent-rich soil. This pro­gram is a sig­nif­i­cant step toward reduc­ing land­fill waste and sup­port­ing our envi­ron­ment.

How to Par­tic­i­pate:
Col­lec­tion Day: Com­post will be picked up on your reg­u­lar recy­cling day. Please ensure that your com­post­ing mate­ri­als are placed in the des­ig­nat­ed bins.
Com­post­ing Bins: DSNY will pro­vide the nec­es­sary com­post­ing bins for all ten­ants. Bins will be 55 gal­lons or less, with secure lids. Please, when deposit­ing good scraps and oth­er com­posta­bles, make sure the bin’s latch is secured to dis­cour­age ver­min.
Accept­ed Mate­ri­als: The pro­gram accepts all leaf and yard waste, food scraps, and food-soiled paper, includ­ing meat, dairy, and pre­pared foods, paper plates, and piz­za box­es.
Not Accept­ed: Please do not include trash, recy­clable mate­ri­als, or non-com­­postable items such as dia­pers, per­son­al hygiene prod­ucts, ani­mal waste, wrap­pers, non-paper pack­ag­ing, and foam prod­ucts.
Fines for Fail­ure to Sep­a­rate Com­posta­bles Cor­rect­ly: There is a brief grace peri­od as every­one gets used to the restored curb­side com­postable ser­vice. In ear­ly 2025, build­ings that fail to sep­a­rate com­posta­bles cor­rect­ly will be fined as fol­lows: $100 for first offens­es, $200 for sec­ond offens­es, and $400 for sub­se­quent offens­es in a six-month peri­od. These fines can add up, so please get used to sep­a­rat­ing out your com­posta­bles!

Get Informed: Join one of the vir­tu­al info ses­sions to learn more about the Curb­side Com­post­ing pro­gram. These ses­sions are open to every­one are held on Thurs­days through­out August and Sep­tem­ber.

For detailed ses­sion times and to watch record­ed ses­sions, please vis­it the DSNY web­site.  https://www.nyc.gov/site/dsny/collection/residents/curbside-composting.page

Reminder: Please pre­pare your com­post­ing mate­ri­als the night before your des­ig­nat­ed recy­cling day to ensure time­ly pick­up. Addi­tion­al­ly, please ensure that the lids are shut cor­rect­ly to pre­vent pests and
odors.

The city has launched its Smart Com­post pro­gram in our neigh­bor­hood. 

Forty-five “smart bins” that accept food scraps have been installed on the streets of Morn­ing­side Heights, Cen­tral Harlem, East Harlem, West Harlem, Wash­ing­ton Heights and Inwood, includ­ing the South Bronx.

The new smart com­post bin loca­tions are marked on the NYC Com­post app, and you can com­post your food scraps by unlock­ing these orange bins using the NYC Com­post app.

The NYC Com­post app can be down­loaded for free for Android and iOS smart­phones.

Accept­ed items include fruit, veg­eta­bles, meat, bones, dairy, pre­pared food, food-soiled paper and plants.

The use of bags—plastic, paper or compostable—is sug­gest­ed to keep mess to a min­i­mum.