When the going gets tough, the tough get walking.

The residents of Village View have learned some valuable lessons from Hurricane Sandy these past five days. 1) A.M. radio is not obsolete, and belongs in your home not a museum. 2) Water may cover 71% of the earth, but if it's not fresh and stored in your apartment it's useless. 3) The only emergencies cell phones are good for are when you run out of pizza on Superbowl Sunday. Most importantly heroes don't look like James Bond, wear a tux, or rappel down from helicopters.They are your neighbors, and the volunteers who worked to make sure our residents were safe, and had the basic necessities during this disaster. A great deal of thanks goes to Board President Adam Silvera who was able to secure supplies from local businesses, and mobilize hundreds of volunteers. Also many residents helped with the distribution, and walked up 21 floors to deliver them. It reminds me of that saying, "when the going gets tough, the tough get walking." It's important that we acknowledge; J&S Construction, J Corp, Tompkins Sq. Gospel Fellowship, and Russ and Daughters for their enormous contributions. A special thanks to the Village View crew is in order as many traveled up to 3 hours to get to work, and will have the immense job of cleaning up in the aftermath of Sandy. We are extremely grateful to all those who helped during this crisis.

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Office Party

On Oct.3 while visiting the Community Room I was startled to hear loud noises coming from the management office. A group of people had swamped the small waiting area, and were conducting what I thought might have been a protest. In fact it was a birthday celebration for John Blackman our assistant superintendent. Best wishes to John, and to all of our employees family here at Village View..

Armed and dangerous

Village View Senior Services will be sponsoring the annual flu shot on 10/25 between the hours of 9:30 and 11:00 A.M. Please check with your doctor for allergies or other conditions that may disqualify you as a good candidate for immunization. It is requested that you sign up in advance in the community room. 

!@#$ That hurts!

The Mooncake Festival 10/3/12

Village View Senior Services sponsored it's annual mooncake festival on Wed. Oct. 3. This year the dumplings were especially delicious, and the community room was beautifully decorated with Chinese lanterns. There is a legend that secret messages were hidden in the cakes, and it resulted in the overthrow of the Mongols during the Ming Dynasty. At nearly 1,000 calories per cake the only thing you'll be overthrowing are your pants that fit too tight.

Patience is a virtue

Finally our laundry rooms are being updated with newer machines. David Baron the President of Metro Management said that out of all the properties he manages Village View had negotiated the "best" laundry vendor agreement. Special thanks to Liz Rybkin who spent many long hours going over the contract, Luis Ruiz who monitored the progress, and Board President Adam Silvera who kept his sanity during the constant back and forth, and never threw in the towel. So to speak.

Bldg. 6 washers

Bldg. 6 dryers

Don't forget to pick up your new Coinmach laundry cards in the office when your building is being renovated.

2nd annual playground party.

Behold the miracle of cotton candy.

You may remember that last year we renovated the playground between buildings one and two, and celebrated by throwing a party for the children. This year the party was even better with more refreshments and an inflatable bouncer. No franks were expelled in the bouncer despite the enthusiastic gymnastics of the children.

The kids just keep getting bigger.

Maintenance increase update

Thanks to efforts of our treasurer Frank Gardner, and finance committee member Richard Ropiak an agreement was reached with H.P.D. to lower the increase to 2% for each of the next two years.