It's Condo Association Time!

Hi everyone, happy holidays!

The building is now somewhere between 90% - 100% in contract, and we are just about to hit the 1 year mark from when the first person moved into the Lineage. This being the case, I am told that we need to form our condo association right away.

From what we understand, the condo association has up to one year from when the first person moved into the building to ask the builders to make repairs to the building structure itself. (For ex. I believe #317 needs to have it's roof finished.) We also have 1 year from our closing date to ask the builder to make repairs to our individual units.

To get in on this discussion, our neighbor Danielle has set up a Yahoo Group for Lineage owners. To sign up for the list, please click here. Don't worry, it's a low volume email list.

Perhaps we should schedule our first meeting for after the holidays.

Please respond to this post if you have any trouble signing up. I look forward to finally meeting you all!

Clinton Hill Schools See Improvements - Read on for more.

The Gotham Gazette has an interesting article today on one school just a few blocks from the Lineage - P.S. 11.

Photo (C) Michael Galinsky for The Ft. Greene Local

"In recent years, Clinton Hill and Fort Greene schools have undergone the sort of transformation that eludes frustrated educators nationwide.

Area parents of an older generation made escaping the local schools into an art. Some opted for private or parochial schools; some pursued charter schools with open-district lottery admissions; and some relocated to Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights when their children came of school age. Many more relied on a time-honored tradition: forging apartment leases to assume addresses in other zones.

But now, just a few years later, parents from around the district and outside it flock to Clinton Hill and Fort Greene schools. In fact, parents now forge documents to get in to this newly desirable zone."- Eliza Ronalds-Hannon


Read the full article here