Miss Louise Day: Cooperator Celebrates 111th Birthday

BY LAURETTA JAYSURA

It was indeed an historical event when on July 31, 2023 Riverbay Corporation and JASA Senior Services cosponsored a grand birthday celebration for “Miss Louise” who turned 111 years old, and to have NYC Mayor Eric Adams declare the day “Miss Louise Day” as announced by Karen Cherry, Senior the Mayor –– that was history in the making. Miss Louise is the oldest living person currently in NYC!

Held in Rm. 31 of the Bartow Center, over one hundred of her well-wishers and family members were there to celebrate with her. Upon entering, the room erupted with applause and cheers. Miss Louise looked beauwalked behind her walker and pushed her way, nonplussed, to her seat of honor.

Family members, Ms. Melissa Signore, Mr. & Mrs. Claudia and Dennisouo Santolo and son, Rajan, and nephew, Mr. Doug Caroli, looked on in awe as “Aunt D” (to them) received the adulation. “Aunt D speaks often of her activities that she participates in and looks forward to attending here in the community center. She loves to enjoy life and dance,” they nodded in agreement. Extended family members Ms. Frances Perkins, Desiree Sessons and Omari Gay also attended.

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Domestic Violence

Honored Guest, Ms. Louise Signore (L), is escorted Director of Community Relations Michelle friends, and other well-wishers who gathered

More Than 7,800 Shareholders Now Pay Monthly Carrying Charges Online Register for a Zego account at

www.coopcity.com

BY ROZAAN BOONE

Among Co-op City shareholders, the rate of utilization of the online carrying charge payment option available through Zego is now at over 50%, up from pre-Covid levels around the 20% mark.

Co-op City shareholders have been steadily registering for online accounts to pay their monthly carrying charges through the Zego.com (formerly PayLease) website and app, thereby taking advantage of one of the housing company’s initiatives to update and upgrade its business procedures for the convenience of residents.

On July 31, 2023, the Riverbay Finance Department reported that Zego processed 7,879 payments through its portal, enabling those shareholders to submit payment of their maintenance charges online and to avoid having to write and mail a paper check, or drop their payment envelopes off at one of the drop boxes located in each of the three community centers.

In addition to logging onto the Zego website at https://www.gozego.com, shareholders of record can also access a link to Zegocial Riverbay Corporation website at coopcity.com, scrolling down to the bottom of the Home page and clicking on the link, “GoZego.com (Powered by PayLease.)” PayLease is the former name of the company that Riverbay contracted with in 2016 to offer online payments of carrying charges to the development’s more than 15,000 households.

To register for an online account, either go to

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The Department of Public Safety reminds shareholders that if they are threatened or are being subjected to Domestic Violence, help is available. The City of New York maintains programs. To get help, call 1-800-621HOPE for the New York City Domestic Violence Hotline, or 311 and ask for the Domestic Violence Hotline.

National Domestic Violence Hotline, 1-800-799-SAFE

“START” to 88788.

Metro-North Penn Station Access Plan Delayed 6-9 Months

BY BRANDON ORTIZ would be delayed during a MTA Committee meeting held on July 17.

Originally scheduled for completion in March of 2027, the project is now slated to wrap up in the fourth quarter of 2027.

Project Executive Tom McGuinness explained that the 6–9-month delay is due to complications with Amtrak and went into further detail about the situation during a presentation in the MTA Committee session.

“The project continues to suffer from the lack of Amtrak force account (support), including E.T. linemen and track foremen, resulting in an estimated six- to nine-month project delay. To help mitigate this delay, Amtrak has made a number of operational adjustments and provided us with a long-term single track outage, which began this March and will run through September,” McGuinness said.

Riverbay Fund and GameOver Summer 2023 Basketball Camp Comes to a Close

BY LAURETTA JAYSURA

Saturday, July 29th, will be remembered not only for the closing session of the Riverbay Fund’s GameOver 2023 Summer Basketball Camp, but also, according to the National Weather Service, New York was under a heat advisory as extreme temperatures spread from the Midwest to the northeast.

Eric A. Hicks, president of GameOver, admitted

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“While we have been able to complete some key activities under this outage, Amtrak has been unable to provide the agreed upon level of force account to complete all planned work during this

Although the National Weather Service had issued a heat advisory, dieGameOver and Buckets & Bytes coding program came out for the closing tournaments and activities last Saturday, July 29, 2023. Photo by Lauretta Jaysura