515 Edgecombe Cooperative

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.

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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Instead of let­ting organ­ics rot in land­fills, you can help DSNY turn your food scraps, food-soiled paper, dead flow­ers and house plants into com­post and clean ener­gy. By plac­ing organ­ics in the latch­ing brown bin, you help deter pests in and around our build­ing, and keep our side­walk and street clean­er.

Just three simple steps!

What Goes In the Brown Bin?

Food

• Cooked, baked and oth­er­wise pre­pared foods
• Cere­al, flour, grains, pas­ta, and rice
• Spoiled and expired food
• Eggs and eggshells
• Dairy prod­ucts
• Meat, fish, bones, seafood shells
• Nuts, seeds, pits, and shells
• Cof­fee grounds and tea leaves
• Pet food

Food-Soiled Paper (Uncoated)

• Paper tow­els and nap­kins
• Paper plates
• Paper cof­fee fil­ters and tea bags
• Paper bags
• Uncoat­ed food ser­vice paper trays and box­es
• Any oth­er food-soiled paper

Other Organic Material

• Leaves
• Plants and flow­ers
• Pot­ting soil

Items NOT Accepted in the Brown Bin

• Dia­pers and Hygien­ic prod­ucts
• Ani­mal waste
• Wrap­pers and pack­ag­ing
• Foam prod­ucts
• Met­al, glass, rigid plas­tic
• Clean recy­clable paper

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Effec­tive 2015, elec­tron­ic equip­ment can­not be dis­card­ed in trash or recy­cling for DSNY col­lec­tion. Res­i­dents can recy­cle work­ing and non-work­ing elec­tron­ics through drop-off, trade-in, or mail-back pro­grams (drop-off pro­grams include Good­will, Sal­va­tion Army, Best Buy, Sta­ples, or the Gowanus E‑Waste Ware­house). Elec­tron­ics can also be brought to upcom­ing SAFE Dis­pos­al events.

Elec­tron­ics cov­ered under this ban include:

• cable and satel­lite box­es
• com­put­ers
• fax machines
• key­boards
• lap­tops
• mice
• mon­i­tors
• mp3 play­ers
• printers/scanners
• small servers
• tablets
• tvs
• vcrs/dvrs/dvd play­ers
• video game con­soles

The fine to the build­ing for non-com­pli­ance: $100

   

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Because heavy met­als are used to pro­duce elec­tron­ic equip­ment, under New York State law it’s ille­gal to throw away elec­tron­ics with oth­er garbage. Tele­vi­sions, elec­tron­ic read­ers, scan­ners, print­ers, dig­i­tal music play­ers and oth­er equip­ment must be recy­cled by the man­u­fac­tur­ers. Elec­tron­ics and oth­er spe­cial waste (see list below) can be dis­posed off safe­ly at spe­cial waste drop-off sites.

Special Waste Drop-Off Sites

The fol­low­ing items are accept­ed at DSNY spe­cial waste drop-off sites:

• Bat­ter­ies, includ­ing auto­mo­tive, recharge­able (such as small sealed lead acid bat­ter­ies, Li-Ion, Ni-MH, Ni-ZN, Ni-Cd) and sin­gle-use (such as alka­line and lithi­um pri­ma­ry). Fol­low instruc­tions below to pre­pare bat­ter­ies before arrival.
• Motor oil and trans­mis­sion flu­id (up to 10 quarts per vis­it)
• Motor oil fil­ters (up to two fil­ters per vis­it)
• Flu­o­res­cent light bulbs & CFLs
• Latex paint (up to five gal­lons per vis­it)
• Mer­cury-con­tain­ing devices (up to two per vis­it)
• Pas­sen­ger car tires (up to four per vis­it)
• Elec­tron­ics (cov­ered by the dis­pos­al ban)

Locations & Hours

• Bronx: Hunts Point at Far­ragut Street and the East Riv­er, next to the Ful­ton Fish Mar­ket. Enter on Far­ragut Street, off Food Cen­ter Dri­ve.
• Brook­lyn: Ben­son­hurst at 25th Avenue and Gravesend Bay, next to DSNY Brook­lyn Dis­trict 11 garage and the Adven­tur­ers Amuse­ment Park, for­mer­ly known as Nel­lie Bly Amuse­ment Park.
• Man­hat­tan: 74 Pike Slip between Cher­ry Street and South Street under the Man­hat­tan Bridge
• Queens: Col­lege Point at 30th Avenue, between 120th and 122nd Streets, at the north­west cor­ner of the DSNY Queens Dis­trict 7 garage.
• Stat­en Island: Locat­ed at the foot of Mul­doon Avenue, off the Mul­doon Avenue exit of the south­bound West Shore Express­way (440), adja­cent to the DSNY Stat­en Island Dis­trict 3 garage.

The sites are open from 10 am to 5 pm every Sat­ur­day and the last Fri­day of the month. Sites are closed on legal hol­i­days, and may be closed dur­ing severe weath­er.

Rules & Procedures

DSNY drop-off sites are only for non-com­mer­cial mate­ri­als from NYC res­i­dents. When you arrive at the drop-off site, you’ll be required to show a valid NYS driver’s license and vehi­cle reg­is­tra­tion. If you aren’t arriv­ing by car, you can pro­vide a pic­ture ID and proof of res­i­den­cy, such as a phone or util­i­ty bill.

The drop-off loca­tion may not be imme­di­ate­ly vis­i­ble. If you have trou­ble find­ing the loca­tion, ask a DSNY garage fore­man or super­vi­sor at the site. DSNY offi­cials will be there to instruct you, but the sites are do-it-your­self style. Wear­ing casu­al clothes and work gloves is strong­ly rec­om­mend­ed.

Special Instructions for Batteries:

To pre­vent the risk of fire, indi­vid­u­al­ly bag each non-alka­line bat­tery or use CLEAR tape to cov­er the ter­mi­nals. Do not use opaque tape and do not bag or tape alka­line bat­ter­ies.

At the drop-off site, place each bat­tery into its des­ig­nat­ed col­lec­tion con­tain­er: alka­line, small sealed lead acid, auto, and “oth­er”.

Other Disposal Options

Retail­ers and man­u­fac­tur­ers accept cer­tain items in take-back pro­grams, includ­ing elec­tron­ics. In addi­tion, DSNY SAFE Dis­pos­al Events are held sev­er­al times a year in all five bor­oughs.

The 100 year old Wash­ing­ton Heights Library final­ly reopened on Mon­day, 3 March 2014 after a four years $12.4 mil­lion ren­o­va­tion and new tech­nol­o­gy, includ­ing 65 com­put­ers and touch screens for pub­lic pro­grams.

The 17,000-square-foot library now has an airi­er design, with new fur­ni­ture, ele­va­tors and wheel­chair lifts. The library also fea­tures 24 Apple iMacs – only the third in the sys­tem to fea­ture Apple com­put­ers.

Wash­ing­ton Heights Library 1000 St. Nicholas Avenue (at W. 160th St.) New York, NY 10032–5202

(212) 923‑6054

Library Man­ag­er: Vianela Rivas

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METAL (all kinds)

• met­al cans (soup, pet food, emp­ty aerosol cans, dried-out paint cans, etc.)

• alu­minum foil wrap & trays

• met­al caps & lids

• house­hold met­al (wire hang­ers, pots, tools, cur­tain rods, knives, small appli­ances that are most­ly met­al, cer­tain vehi­cle license plates, etc.)

GLASS (bot­tles & jars)

PLASTIC (rigid plas­tics)

• plas­tic bot­tles, jugs & jars
• rigid plas­tic caps & lids
• rigid plas­tic food con­tain­ers (yogurt, deli, hum­mus, dairy tubs, cook­ie tray inserts, “clamshell” con­tain­ers, oth­er plas­tic take-out con­tain­ers)
• rigid plas­tic non-food con­tain­ers
• rigid plas­tic pack­ag­ing (“blis­ter-pak” and “clamshell” con­sumer pack­ag­ing, acetate box­es)
• rigid plas­tic house­wares (flower pots, mix­ing bowls, plas­tic appli­ances, etc.)
• bulk rigid plas­tic (crates, buck­ets, pails, fur­ni­ture, large toys, large appli­ances, etc.)

CARTONS

Emp­ty and rinse con­tain­ers before recy­cling. Place all togeth­er in CLEAR bags, or in any bin labeled with BLUE recy­cling decals or marked “METAL, GLASS & PLASTIC”.

Recy­cle caps & lids.

Note:

Wrap knives or sim­i­lar sharp met­al objects in card­board (such as a piece of cere­al box) and secure with tape. Label the pack­age “CAUTION: SHARP” and place with oth­er des­ig­nat­ed met­al, glass, plas­tic recy­clables. For Home Sharps/Hypodermics, see House­hold Med­ical Wastes.

Place bulk met­al or plas­tic next to recy­cling bins or bags.

Call 311 before dis­card­ing appli­ances that con­tain CFC gas.

5¢ deposit: Take deposit bot­tles and cans back to the store for refunds.

Don’t include the following with your metal, glass, plastic & carton recycling:

• plas­tic foam items (foam cups, foam egg car­tons, foam trays, foam pack­ing peanuts, foam sport­ing equip­ment, etc.)

• plas­tic bags, wrap­pers, show­er cur­tains, and all kinds of plas­tic “film”

• con­tain­ers that held dan­ger­ous or cor­ro­sive chem­i­cals

• lighters (plas­tic, met­al, or any mate­r­i­al)

• plas­tic tubes (tooth­paste, lotion, and cos­met­ics, etc.)

• sin­gle-serve food and drink squeez­able pouch­es (juice pouch­es, baby food squeeze pouch­es, yogurt to go pouch­es, etc.)

• cas­sette and VHS tapes

• pens & mark­ers (plas­tic, met­al, or any mate­r­i­al)

• dis­pos­able razors

• 3‑ring binders (if sep­a­rate the met­al rings, can recy­cle the met­al)

• umbrel­las

• gar­den hoses

• lug­gage (plas­tic or tex­tile)

• sponges

• sports balls (bas­ket balls, bowl­ing balls, soc­cer balls, foot­balls, yoga balls, etc.)

• any glass items oth­er than glass bot­tle & jars (mir­rors, light bulbs, ceram­ics, glass­ware, etc.)

• bat­ter­ies (take bat­ter­ies out of toys before recy­cling)
• elec­tron­ics (com­put­ers, TVs, and relat­ed devices)

• exten­sion cords and Christ­mas tree lights

• dia­pers

These items list­ed above are not recy­clable and can cre­ate prob­lems in pro­cess­ing the mate­r­i­al that is recy­clable.

You can take plas­tic bags and recharge­able bat­ter­ies to many retail stores in NYC to be recy­cled. For more info on this and oth­er take-back pro­grams, see: Take it Back NYC.

If an item is in good cond­tion, see reuse it nyc for reuse options.