- Join our ShapeUp NYC free class on Tuesdays at 6 PM in the Community Room. All tenants welcome.
- Get your recipe ready for our annual Pot Luck on Saturday, June 1, 2024.
What to Compost
The City will pick up ALL leaf and yard waste, food scraps, and food-soiled paper. This includes meat, bones, dairy, prepared foods, and greasy uncoated paper plates and pizza boxes.
What Not to Compost
Do not compost trash such as diapers, personal hygiene products, animal waste, wrappers, non-paper packaging, and foam products.
Do not compost recyclable materials. Learn more about what to recycle.
- It's ok (though not preferred) if you throw your food scraps WITH THEIR PLASTIC BAG into the compost bins on the ground floor? The Department of Sanitation has machines that can separate plastic bags from the compostable scraps.
- The landlord can use any lidded container under 55 gallons that is clearly marked for compost scraps. So we're not stuck with the ones that are so hard to open and seal properly. We've asked for some easier-to-use containers.
- All our food and plant scraps become a substitute for liquid natural gas to heat city buildings! There's an anaerobic (no oxygen) digester in Brooklyn that turns all of our food and plant waste into fuel to heat homes and other buildings! So unlike some plastics that aren't really recycled and end up shipped elsewhere, every bit of our food and plant waste gets used.
- Many of the warehoused units are not dilapidated, and don't need huge investments to make them habitable.
- Landlords are demanding a "vacancy reset" bill S6352/A6772 - but that bill only makes the problem worse.
- It would give landlords an increase but require no repairs or upgrades at all.
- It would give big real estate and small mom-and-pop landlords the same increases, regardless of need.
- It would paint a target on the backs of all long-term tenants as landlords would want them out in order to get a big rent increase.
- "Good Cause Eviction" (to protect market-rate tenants from eviction, huge increases and refusal to renew leases unless the landlord can show good cause)
- Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) giving tenants the first right to purchase their building - with financial and other support from a non-profit organization and the government - if the landlord decides to sell
- Housing Vouchers from the state for poor people who need them (on top of the scarce federal Section 8 vouchers)
- Social Housing - like the Mitchell-Lama we once were - to build more for low- and middle-income people, and