Supporting each other after last week's suicide

A grief counselor from the Emma Bowen Community Service Center came to our building and spoke with a group of tenants on October 4, 2025  after last Sunday's suicide of our neighbor Annie.  The voilent act of jumping from her balcony affected people who saw and heard it, and reminded many other people of traumas in their own lives.  

While suicide is fortunately extremely rare here, it is a desperate act and we want others to feel supported in general, and to know about resources to help.  You can go to this intake form for the Bowen Center: https://bowencsc.org/services/cis-referrals/ or call 646.340.1400. 

We've set up a chat group on Facebook attached to our Facebook group at CPG Tenants.  The chat group is for all of us to talk about how we're doing and to support each other (not just about Annie's suicide).  The link is https://m.me/ch/AbZXjdFp45fzha8N/.  Please join!  Your two cents are welcome and we want everyone in the building to feel connected, even if you can't get to other tenant activities.  You can also join our great chat & games group on Thursdays at 2 and an exercise class on Tuesdays at 6 pm, in addition to our regular meetings every other month.

Grief counselor available - Sat. 10/4 at 11:30M

Pot Luck Party postponed.

Due to the suicide of one of our tenants, we are postponing the Pot Luck Party.  

Come to our Pot Luck Party on Sat., Oct. 4, 2025!

POT LUCK PARTY

  SATURDAY, OCT 4

6– 9 PM

in the Community Room

Food, Music, Dancing, a Kids’ Table, and lots of friendly neighbors.

ALL TenAnts WELCOME!

 

COME FOR FREE IF YOU bring food/drink for 8-10 people – or sign up to help out. Otherwise $10/person or $15/household.

COME AND HAVE FUN!

 and chat with neighbors and our local elected officials.

 

*Rain date: Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025.

TONIGHT: TENANT MEETING on COVID vaccines, local politics, and building issues

COME to TONIGHT (SEPT. 17, 2025)'s 

TENANT ASSOCIATION MEETING 
8 PM
in the Community Room 

HEAR: 

The Ryan Health Center's

Jessina Carrol, Chief Nursing Officer

and

Charles Shorter, LMSW, Chief of Community Engagement and Strategic Partnerships

talk about COVID vaccines: who, how, where and why to get them, and who pays. 

Then we'll talk about politics:  

• Housing issues on the November ballot, and 
• musical chairs for our elected officials 

and building issues!  

Cake and coffee and fruit - and good conversation. 

July Newsletter

July 2025 Newsletter

It’s hot out there!  If your air conditioner isn’t working, come to the Community Room to stay cool.  (The staff use it 12-1 for lunch.) And enjoy activities: Tuesdays at 6 PM get fit with ShapeUp NYC, and Thursdays at 2 enjoy board games and conversation – all free!

Rent increases for rent-stabilized tenants. The NYC Rent Guidelines Board voted for increases for lease renewals going into effect Oct. 1, 2025 through Sept. 30, 2026:

1-year lease renewal:  3%

2-year lease renewal: 4.5%.

If mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wins, he has promised to appoint people to the RGB who will freeze the rent.  (No other candidate has made that promise.) If Mamdani wins before you renew your lease, you may decide to take a 1-year renewal. That will result in a lower increase (3%), followed by a few years of a rent freeze. If he loses, you may decide to take a 2-year renewal. (Tenants who are absent minded or very, very busy, should probably take 2-year renewals just to avoid forgetting to fill out the lease renewal every year.)

 Get rent bills by email and pay electronically – automatically.

Pay your rent bills automatically through ClickPay.

If you link it to your bank account, there’s no fee. If you link it to your credit card, there is a fee. You’ll get a monthly email in advance asking if you’d like to pay that amount. Even without ClickPay, you can get your rent bills by email. Contact Danny Hamer, 212-406-0030,  dhamer@stellarmangement.com