Monthly Archives: September 2010

Election 2010 – Candidate Endorsement #1

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To All Shareholders:

Luna Park’s annual election is just around the corner which means, once again, it’s that time of year when people come out of the woodwork to tell you how the board is filled with criminals and only these new candidates can save you from further catastrophe…then next year someone else will appear to call those new people criminals! It’s a decade-long tradition we’d like to break.

Faced with difficult facts we’ve had to make some tough choices, and we take responsibility for them, but this past year has also brought a lot of progress and change to Luna Park. The eight directors signed below have repeatedly worked past our own differences to deliver results instead of arguments and we’ve done it again for the election. If you agree that we’ve brought positive change to your lives and would like to see our home keep getting better, please help us elect Gennady Rotberg, Irina Zeltser, and Mark Tsalner. We have in mind ways for Luna Park to earn money and a lot of improvements we’d like to make but need a united board and the time to see them through to completion.

We would also like you to vote YES on the proposed by-law amendment. Luna Park’s commercial spaces are open to misuse. Directors should be forced to avoid sweetheart deals for themselves and their friends or that simply don’t benefit Luna Park appropriately.

There will be voting booths in every lobby all day on October 28th. Please, don’t give away your vote or let it go to waste. Get your neighbors and friends involved. Get the facts instead of the gossip. Don’t let an obnoxious manipulative minority rule and ruin this place! We can have much more luxury and modern amenities if you’re willing to stand up for us.

We are hopeful of your continued support,

Keith Murphy – President, Anna Treybich – Vice President
Sally Stein – Treasurer, John Shkolnik – Assistant Treasurer
Gennady Rotberg – Secretary, Eugene Lyubronetsky – Assistant Secretary
Irina Zeltser – Director, Sherrie Rozinsky – Director

Thoughts on the 2010 Election

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Election notices have gone out to everyone and already at least one candidate has begun going around spreading the same poison that’s infested this place for at least a decade. The real shame is it’ll probably be effective; too many LP residents seem susceptible to it.

Board Meeting – 9/21

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Some highlights from tonight’s meeting:

  1. We’re still awaiting the implementation dates for the fence and key fobs.
  2. We approved rubber flooring and equipment bids for the new gym.
  3. We’re going to remove the corner benches at the southeast corner of the picnic area. They are a constant trouble spot for security; drugs, rowdy groups, etc.
  4. We’ll be adding more lighting to areas identified by Coordinator Perez.
  5. As mentioned before, we’ll be publishing our parking list online so anyone interested can monitor it. The entire list process will be simplified to avoid confusion and eliminate opportunities for improper behavior. There will be no more extensions or preference lists and, once you’re assigned a number, that’s your number until you get a spot. It will work like a deli counter where you take a ticket and the “now serving sign” changes. There will be an official letter explaining this soon.

Free Trees Coming To Luna Park October 2, 2010

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Million Trees NYC in an effort to green Coney Island will be planting  free trees at Luna Park. We are looking for volunteers to participate in this wonderful event. The agenda for the day is as follows:

1) 9:00 am – Volunteer registration

2) 9:45 am –  Remarks

3) 10:00 am – Planting/Green activities begin

4) 12:00 pm – Volunteer Lunch

5) 1:00 pm – Community tree giveaway (this is an opportunity for community members to pick up a free tree to plant on their own property)

To register as a volunteer, please visit the MillionTrees NYC web site.

Read the flier in English or Russian.

October 2nd = Free Trees & Garden

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It’s been mentioned in our minutes and blog how we reached out to the New York Restoration Project in hopes of arranging some free trees for our property. With Keith Murphy enthusiastically spearheading the effort, we’ve established a long-term relationship with NYRP that will result in a series of plantings over the coming years. The first planting, on October 2nd, will include a perimeter of trees around our picnic area and a garden within the grass triangle created by parking lot #2. Future plantings will follow the construction schedule so we can add beautiful trees and gardens near the buildings once they’re fully renovated.

Luna Park’s New Gym

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Aside from an in-ground pool, nothing has drawn as much interest as the possibility of a gym. While at first we didn’t think it was feasible, the tireless work of Eugene Lyubronetsky and Gennady Rotberg (along with our awesome management and staff) showed us that a gym wasn’t only feasible, it would likely pay for itself in just over a year! Once convinced, we spent months striving to make this gym a reality. A lot of time, research, and legwork have gone into figuring out our options and getting the best prices…and then driving them even lower! We saved a lot of money by having our own maintenance do what work they could and we’re very lucky to have such skilled people on hand.

The gym will occupy the space in building #2 formerly used by the Men’s Club. It will include their whole space plus some of the adjacent room. It’ll have new equipment, its own bathroom, rubber floors, and some wall sections will be mirrored for gazing at your own rapidly improving appearance. We’re still working out whether we can put lockers there or in the next room but we won’t let that hold up our grand opening. We’ve included a tentative layout of the gym although, as always, everything is subject to change.

Membership will be on an individual basis at a cost of $100/year and only tenants can join. Our soon-to-be-introduced key fob system will restrict access to paid members and it will be under surveillance by cameras and security personnel. There’ll be some sort of picture ID requirement as well but we’re still working out the fine points. We haven’t finalized the hours but it’ll open very early and close very late to accommodate most time schedules.

The work is proceeding well and we expect the gym to be ready end of October/early November. We’re unable to set a firm date because we have to roll out the key fobs simultaneously but we wanted you to know what’s coming. There will be another announcement prior to the grand opening which will go into further detail on how to sign up and what the gym policies will be.

Our goal in this, as in all things, was to make the best use of Luna Park’s property for the benefit of its shareholders. We don’t stop working when the meetings adjourn; this gym is one more example of that. Next up…saunas? We’re looking into it.

Sincerely,
Luna Park’s Board of Directors

A/C Size Limit in New Windows

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There will be an official letter sent out in the near future with a lot more information but I thought I’d share this with those of you smart enough to read the blog:

As per Ecker’s (our window installer) field dimensions, the daylight openings will be as follows:

Single Window: 25 1/4″ wide x 22″ High
Twin Window: 21 3/4″ wide x 22″ High

These dimensions represent the maximum sized AC unit that may be installed in each window type.

Building #5 Window Update

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We picked out two different frame colors at our last board meeting which they will use when installing samples in the next couple weeks. Based on the sample install we will decide the final color and the rough estimate is mid-November for the window installation to begin for the newly-renovated wings.