It’s time to get our Condo Association together! We are holding our first informal meeting this Saturday 1/21 at 2pm at Brooklyn Tap House (590 Myrtle Avenue at Classon.)
On the agenda:
Meet your neighbors
Discuss common issues and repairs your building has encountered
Discuss what issues remain to be fixed building-wide
Set a date for the first formal “board meeting” where board elections will take place
Sign up to be a point person for your building – to help inform neighbors about upcoming building events and meetings.
Grub Street has a new post that offers a sneak peak at Speedy Romeo, opening on Classon/Greene in the coming weeks. We have now completed the healthy-eating trifecta: Tacos, Cuban Sandwiches & Pizza all on one corner (with some killer donuts a few blocks away!) They say it's opening next week.
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!
"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
As winter sets in, I am sure there will be lots of little growing pains as we all settle in to our new homes for the winter. Feel free to use this blog to ask each other questions here and compare notes.
After having our first get together in the new place, and after having some beet juice stain our white granite countertop - I thought I would share what we learned about getting red wine/beet juice stains off of the counter. We learned through this experience that we should be sealing our granite counter tops every few months to prevent oil and wine stains from seeping in.
As granite is a stone, acidic fruits (lemons, orange, blueberry, grape), vegetables and wine will permanently stain the counter if left sitting for too long. As new homeowners, we didn't realize this and thought that because the granite has a polished finish - that it would be sealed and impervious to stains. We scrubbed and scrubbed to no avail. That beet juice was not going to come out.
That's when we found this website and used their method of combining flour with dish soap and water to make a paste, or "poultice" and let it sit overnight. It worked for the beet juice stain and I would imagine it would do the same for red wine.
You might also want to check out these (cheesy, but informative) videos online for taking stains out of granite.
How to get oil stains out of granite. (We have not tried this one yet.)
This morning's Wall Street Journal describes the "college town feel" of Clinton Hill, and mentions The Lineage. It states that not only are 90% of the units in the building sold - that the Lineage 2 is scheduled to be released for sale this month. Read the article here.
Photo (c) Krisanne Johnson for The Wall Street Journal
Walking down our block in the evening, it has been exciting to see so many lights on in the Lineage. With our building almost at 87% in-contract (roughly 40% sold) it's about time we get to meet each other!
Is anyone else interested in organizing a building-wide meet and greet in October/November? Maybe we can meet up for a happy hour drink at Nero D'Oro on Greene/Classon?
If you're interested in helping to set this up, please leave a comment below - or message me on twitter @lineagegreene.
