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Farmer’s Market

Harvest Home Farmer’s Market comes to Co-op City every Wednesday through Nov. 22, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

The Market is held at Asch Loop & Aldrich Street, next to

For more information, visit www.HarvestHomefm.org.

Assemblyman Benedetto 2023 Lobby Visits

Assemblyman Michael Benedetto’s next lobby visits in Co-op City will be:

• Wed., Aug. 2, 120 Benchley Pl.

• Wed., Aug. 9, 120 Debs Pl.

• Wed., Aug. 16, 120 Asch Loop

Lobby visits are from 5:15-7 p.m.

Lobby visits provide Co-op City homeowners an opportunity to discuss a broad range of topics with their elected official in a special one-on-one setting just steps from their front door.

Assemblyman Benedetto invites shareholders to meet with him in their respective lobby to hear key highlights of the Legislative Session and to discuss their own concerns on local and personal matters.

For more information, contact Assemblyman Benedetto’s Co-op

Bartow Mall Parking Alert

Shareholders, guests and shoppers are reminded that there is a two-hour parking limit in the Bartow Mall. Parking is for the exclusive use of customers while shopping within the Bartow Mall, with a posted two-hour limit. Vehicles will be towed at the owner’s expense.

Subletting Co-op City Apartments Violates Occupancy Agreement Violators Could Face Eviction

BY ROZAAN BOONE

Shareholders who cease maintaining their Co-op City apartment as their primary residence or sublet their apartment face eviction in accordance with the terms of their occupancy agreement and state regulations.

From time to time, ads show up online advertising Co-op City apartment for rent. The Riverbay Legal department advises shareholders that their apartment cannot be rented to someone else or sublet because it must be used as their primary dwelling.

According to the occupancy agreement of the Riverbay Corporation, which is signed by every new incoming shareholder, the shareholder agrees: “Not to sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, encumber or create any charge upon this Agreement, nor sublet the leased premises or any part thereof or cause the leased premises or any part thereof or suffer the same to be used for any business, commercial or professional purposes or for any purposes other than as a private dwelling apartment of the primary residence of the Member and his immediate family. Section “FOURTH,” Subsection 10.

Furthermore, the New York State Division of Homes and Community Renewal (DHCR), the state supervisory agency for Mitchell-Lama developments such as Co-op City, in Section 1712-5.3 (a) of its regulations, itemizes several grounds for termination of a lease by the housing company, one of which is item #12 which states, “Tenant, cooperator, or other individual does not occupy the dwelling unit as his or her primary residence;” and item #14, “The dwelling unit is used for illegal or immoral purposes, including but not limited to the unlawful trade, manufacture, distribution, storage, and/or sale of marijuana or any controlled substance

Law, Section 220.00.” contain as many details as possible. Helpful information, if known, include approximate date the shareholder moved out, where the shareholder moved to, names and family composition of illegal subletters or any other information that may help establish that the shareholder has moved out of the apartment.

For the most part, vigilant neighbors report abuses to the occupancy agreement to their CSO. They oftentimes report when the shareholder of record has moved out, and is illegally and out of an apartment at all times of the day and night.

Riverbay investigates complaints of possible illegal subletting or an illegal business operating out of an apartment evict the shareholder. Should it become necessary to evict a shareholder for violating the primary residence provision of the occupancy agreement, the shareholder faces costs and fees, including loss of equity; attorney fees, court costs, marshal fees, locksmith fees, moving and storage costs and possible adverse credit ratings.

Restroom Alert

Utilizing the Restroom Alert management system, each plaque, such as the one number listed on the plaque for text messages to be directed to, patrons can submit comments or compliments.

For instance, on the plaque at left, the bathroom’s unique 4-digit code is “5410.” which will be directed to the phones of community centers and all eight garages, with the goal of eventually making the system more widely available in other areas of the department’s operation. laundry rooms only were closed from 4-6 p.m.

Department, along with a message, such as, “5410 needs soap.” Messages can be sent for replacement of or swept, garbage bin emptied, light replacement, etc. out to address the request.

Similarly, compliments can be sent to supervisors to provide feedback on the quality of services being provided.

Restroom Alert does not disclose the sender’s name or phone number so comments/compliments are completely anonymous. Once a text is sent, the system generates an automatic acknowledgement and apology to the sender. In addition, the system sends a separate with periodic reminders until the issue is resolved. If the condition is not resolved in a timely manner, there is an option to escalate the reminders and warnings up to supervisors. The Restroom Alert system also allows for actionable metrics that helps to hold staff accountable and provides supervisors with up-to-date data to ensure requests are handled in a timely manner.

“Under the program, Riverbay exported an excess capacity of 17.1 megawatts to ConEd during last Friday’s test,” said Anthony Ligato, Senior Director of Utility Assets at the Riverbay Power Plant. “ConEd’s demand response programs are in place to reduce the risk of brown- and blackouts to the New York City area and are an essential part of ConEd’s reliability program. In addition, ConEd reimburses Riverbay for its reliability with substantial capacity and energy payments. Last year, the program netted the corporation $4.5M for the summer reliability calls.”

CPower Energy Management is an approved demand response aggregator and also a New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) interface party. cogeneration plant from different programs available to the facility.

ConEd’s Distribution Load Relief Program (DLRP) rewards Riverbay that is called when there is a critical need on a local network, and in this case, it’s the Parkchester Network.

The DLRP program runs from May 1 to September 30 each year. These load reduction events last a minimum of four hours and can be called with up to a 2-hour notice. They generally occur anytime from 6 a.m.–12 a.m.

The second ConEd demand response program that Riverbay is enrolled in is the Commercial System Relief Program (CSRP), which is a peak system relief program, and upon request, provides load relief for ConEd on the hottest days.

CSRP events are generally called when the system peak forecasted for the next day is 96% or higher than what the peak forecast is for the summer. For such as the Co-op City cogeneration plant. CSRP events last a minimum of four hours and can be called between 11 a.m.-3 p.m., 2 p.m.-6 p.m., 4 p.m.-8 p.m., or 7 p.m.-11 p.m. Thursday’s call was a CSRP event.

This is the tenth year that Riverbay has participated in these ConEd demand response programs. The Power Plant can export up to 19 megawatts of energy to the ConEd grid during these events.

“With the commitment that senior staff, Riverbay Management and the Board of Directors have made to the Power Plant, we are able to realized payments of reliable power to shareholders and these programs add the ability to recover revenues,” said Ligato.