stuy-town-wedding.jpgDear Stuyvesaont Town Residonts,

Boy have we got exciting news for you today! You know that we your most valuabile conceirges are always cocking up new things for you and great ways to bring value to your stuyvesant town expeerence. Thanks to faithful conceirges you already dont have to do your laundry, clean your aparmtents, or mop the vomit and urine from the stairwels. And now yous wont even have to plan your wedding!

It's that season again which is Spring. Time for the stuy town flower to bloom, the little girls to capture buterflies with a net and crush the beautiful creatures into cranberry juice bottles, and time for you to seal the deal with your fiansay and get hitched. And what more of a romantic place for you to do that than in Stuyvesant Town?

Now we know what you are thinking. 'Ugh, manny. When I pictured my special day it did not include Stuyvesant Town. In fact, Id rather be any place but!' Manny hears you girl. After all it can be tricky having a wedding in a place busling with life. Afterall you wouldnt want to get dog poop on your magestic dress, you wouldnt want your bridesmade to get hit by unsupervised children on skooters, and you woodint want your hubbies eye to wonder on to the greased up sexy abercrombee and fitch sunbather guys in the oval.

Chillax. We'll take care of all the detals too make sure your day is the most monumental of events in your life. How you ask? We can hire a limo to pick you up from your spacouis Stuyvesant Town apartment and drive you to the beautiful Oval Amentities space of your choice. Working with the citiees best flower makers we will transform the steril and unprivate space into a wedding wonderland. Need a phomographer? We can hire that for you too so you will always have special photos of your fantastick day.

So please come stop by Oval conceirge and see for yourself what a unforgetible day your stuyvesant town wedding will be. And guys, dont forget to ask manny about his Avenue C Bacheleor party special! It will be a tran-sforming experience!

Manny
Oval Amenito / American losure
Newark Airpot
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Stuy Town's new influx of self-absorbed suburbanites continue to make nice with the New Yorkers. Tired of stepping over other people's garbage in the halls, this mad-as-hell resident leaves a love note on a paper plate taped to the wall which reads:

"Are you kidding? Who do you think should pick up after you? Clean up your mess!"

Stuy Town could have used this vigilant resident last week when this mess was left on the sidewalk!

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avenue-c-accident-may-2010-2.jpgStuyvesant Town, everyone's favorite tabloid backdrop, continues to make Law & Order-esque ripped-from-the-headlines, well, headlines. Crashing your car into the exterior of Stuy Town is no longer just for ex-NBA stars! Civilians are also having a hard time not plowing into the Avenue C side of the prison-like housing complex. 

Last night around midnight a car jumped the curb on Avenue C at the Peter Cooper Village Road exit, anihilating two mail boxes in its path. If there is a plus side to this car accident, its that it took place late at night when the sidewalks were not full of residents.

The Avenue C side of the complex is extremely hazardous due to an increase in traffic caused by the closure of the 16th Street exit off the FDR and the 23rd street bus which idles at the corner of 20th street causing huge traffic backups.

To make matter worse - yes, they always get worse here - the traffic island that was recently constructed at 18th and C forces traffic into a 'turn only' lane and a 'go straight ahead' lane, causing even more traffic to back up.

And since we are on the subject of Avenue C, let's talk about the infamous Avenue C dumpsters which were finally moved after their daily midnight emptying tortured residents for years. Road crews came into the Avenue C loop and repaired the roadway where the dumpsters formally sat. Rather than giving back the space to the residents to use as desperately needed parking spots, they painted yellow crosshatch lines and created an ever-so-useful 'no standing' zone. 

stuy-town-plant-uprooted-jackhole.jpg"Hey man, you will never guess what Steve did last night! After we got thrown out of Dropoff Service because Adam dared him to grab some lady's tit we came home to smoke a bowl. He, like, toootally pulled up the plants outside and threw them around. Stephanie thinks he's a total douche jackhole but that guy kills me"
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Via NY Post

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Tenants of the financially embattled Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village are pressing the nation's largest pension fund to put its money where its mouth is and back the property's residents in a bid for the property.

City Councilman Dan Garodnick, who's also a StuyTown resident, yesterday faxed a letter to Anne Stausboll, CEO of the $206 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System (Calpers), asking her to follow through on a promise to forgo real estate deals that seek to oust rent-stabilized tenants by joining StuyTown's tenant-led restructuring plan.

Calpers was an original investor in the now-busted deal to purchase the massive Manhattan apartment complex in 2006 for $5.4 billion.

The leaders of that transaction, developer Tishman Speyer and money-management giant BlackRock, walked away from a $3 billion mortgage on the property in December amid plummeting property values and a court battle over whether the owners could raise rents.
Calpers lost $500 million in the StuyTown deal and was criticized for backing a plan to boot rent-stabilized tenants in exchange for higher-paying renters. Pensioners in the California-based fund are mostly teachers and other public-sector workers.

"We want to give Calpers a fresh start in New York and an opportunity to invest in a plan that protects middle-class people," Garodnick told The Post.

Continue reading "Stuy's Fund Plea" @ NY Post
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Via Crains' New York

Tenants aiming to buy the vast lower Manhattan residential complex turn to the huge California pension fund for assistance; rub is that it lost $500 million last time around.


The tenants in the sprawling Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village residential complex in lower Manhattan are seeking an ally in their attempt to buy the property, which is threatened with foreclosure.

The Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association is requesting a former investor in the 11,000-unit complex to join their cause.

The California Public Employees' Retirement System had previously invested $500 million in the $5.4 billion acquisition of the buildings by a group led by Tishman Speyer four years ago, a deal whose success hinged on getting rid of many tenants and de-regulating rents on their units. Last month, CalPERS--which lost its entire investment in the deal when the buyers defaulted on their mortgage--announced that from now on it would commit to avoiding any type of investment plan where displacing residents was a component of the strategy.

The Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association is now asking the huge Sacramento-based pension fund to prove its change of heart. On Wednesday, New York City Councilman Daniel Garodnick sent CalPERS Chief Executive Anne Stausboll a letter inviting the fund to formally join the tenants' bid on the property.

Continue reading "Stuy Town residents seek CalPERS' help" @ Crains
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Via NY Post

A worker installing a fire-safety door sparked a massive three-alarm blaze that ripped through five stores in Stuyvesant Town yesterday.


esteban--300x300.jpgThe building housing the five stores at 500 E. 14th St., across from the Stuyvesant Town complex, was gutted. Buildings Department inspectors were on the scene last night to check the stability of the structure's remains.

An employee of Ideal Fire Safety Systems said he was working on a fire-access door in the kitchen of Pete's-A-Place, a pizza joint, at around 10:15 a.m. when his welding torch apparently set some grease on fire.

 The blaze spread "like wildfire," said the worker, who gave his name as Esteban.

"I had three fire extinguishers, and it didn't help any. By the time I put one section out, another went up," Esteban said.

"Of course it happens to me," he said ruefully. "But I tried to stop it. I really did."

Esteban, who has worked for Ideal for 10 years, said he feared the accident would cost him his job.

He was expecting to spend his workday on another assignment when his boss told him to install the pizza-shop door at 8 a.m. The door was supposed to be finished by yesterday afternoon, in time for a Fire Department inspection.

Workers at Stuyvesant Convenience learned they were in danger when a customer ran into the store and warned everyone to "get the heck out," said employee Adal Murshed, 35.

Essa Assabahi, 29, another store worker, watched helplessly from across the street as the business went up in flames. "That's my job right there," he said. "Now I'm unemployed."

Flames shot up through the building's roof, and smoke was visible from blocks away. It took 140 firefighters to extinguish the blaze. Two were treated for smoke inhalation.

Stuy Town Biz Up In Smoke
[NY Post]

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ST-PCV-pizza-floor.jpgStuy Town and Peter Cooper Village residents know that just because you have cocktails, panties, and dregs, it's not quite a party until you have pizza on the lobby floor. A Sty Spy writes:

"Your latest post reminded me that I forgot to send you this photo of what greeted me when I came home the other night. I picked up the pizza and threw it away, then came back downstairs to mop up as much of the oil and grease as I could. I'm dumbstruck--how can somebody do this and walk away?"

Perhaps Stuy Town should hire back those vacuum-friendly spokes-skanks.
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random-people.jpgDeer Ovil Concerirge Members,

We know it's been a whole too days since we have had correspondince with you but we just cant contane ourselves! ! Winter is over and that meens the weather is no longer cold becuase it is warm and that can only mean one thing. Time to enjoy warm nites and many frisky outdoor activities in the big apple. Spring is sure to bring some fantestical advenchures just looks at the Times Square!

Unlike previous activity suggestions where we send you to the four corners of the burrows to partake in bizare activityies like the winter Coney Island Clam Bake this time we are going to keep you in the manhattan where all the cool stuff happens. And whats have we cooked up for you? Playgrounds. Water Taxis. Juice Bars. Pretzels. Like we said, all the cool stuff you moved to NYC to dos.

So please read for yourselvesthe actiivities we your mosst layal cconseirges have crooked up for you and ladies feel free to stop by the Oval Conceriege and say hi to manny!

Manny
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