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Send your items for sale or to give away and performances, lectures, meetings or resources of interest to the community to webeditor310rsd@gmail.com. The page will be monitored for appropriateness.
Save on groceries at Garden of Eden
Who doesn’t want to save some of the escalating costs of groceries? Garden of Eden, 2780 Broadway near the corner of 107th, offers 10% discounts to college students, and to seniors 55 and older on Thursdays. Get an ID from the store manager and start to save! By the way, Garden of Eden is well-known in culinary circles–TV celebrity cooks Rachel Ray and Rocco DiSpirito are known to shop there.
The New MasterApts.com First Anniversary: A Progress Report, Community Support Needed
The new MasterApts.com web site just celebrated its first anniversary, so it’s time for a quick review of the goals and accomplishments of this project. We designed the site to provide easy access to resident information resources, foster a stronger sense of community, and project a positive public impression of The Master. In each of these areas we’ve made progress, but we need further resident support to continue this progress.
Traffic on the site has gradually increased over the past year. We’ve received 9,872 unique visitors since the site was launched. The site now regularly receives over 900 read more…
MasterApts.com Banner Contest: Submit Your Entry by May 24
The new MasterApts.com web site just celebrated its first anniversary! We’d like to feature more art work by the talented residents of the Master, so we’re holding a contest to replace the current Website Banner (the image at the top of this page). Submissions should highlight the unique qualities of the Master Apartments, its residents and our neighborhood. All types of media are welcomed: Photograph, drawing, painting, collage or other. Download complete information: MasterAptsBannerContest. Please send your read more…
The Master Gallery: A Renaissance in Art Exhibition
With the launch of The Master Gallery in the newly renovated main lobby, Master Apartments returns to its original mission of fostering and supporting the arts. The first exhibition in the Gallery’s Renaissance in Art series displays the paintings of Alex Zwarenstein, a one-time resident artist of the Master. The exhibition features six of Zwarenstein’s oil paintings
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The Gallery hopes to rotate works of art quarterly. Two other artists are in line already to exhibit their work through the end of the year. Phase two of the Renaissance in Art project will transform the Riverside lobby into a gallery exhibiting historical artifacts of The Master and reproductions of the Nicholas Roerich paintings that once hung in the now defunct Roerich Museum.
The Master was designed in 1928 by Harvey Wiley Corbett for financier and philanthropist Louis Horch. The building, a 28-story skyscraper, housed the Master Institute of United Arts, a creation of Nicholas Roerich, a Russian painter, architect, and set designer. The Institute was previously housed in a mansion at 310 Riverside Drive. The mansion was razed and the Roerich Museum was installed in the The Master upon its completion in 1929. In addition to the museum, the building once contained galleries, conference rooms, a theater, exhibition halls, a restaurant and two libraries.
‘Round the Hood….Gershwin House
George Gershwin lived across from our front door for four years between 1925 and 1929. On September 22nd, 1925, just four days short of his 27th birthday, he closed on 316 West 103rd Street. With two mortgages $20,500; George owned 50%, his brother and lyricist Ira 25%, and their mother contributed the remaining 35%. He was investing his new wealth, the estimated $250,000 proceeds from his copyright on Rhapsody in Blue, which he had finished early the previous year, then performed at Carnegie Hall and read more…
Monday Night at the Master — May 20: Dr. Francis Lopez
Monday Night at the Master
Riverside Lobby, May 20, 8:00pm
Francis J. Lopez, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
“Do I have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?”
Disorders of the Hand, Wrist, and Elbow
Disorders of the hand, wrist and elbow are among the most common conditions seen in the doctor’s office. One challenge for many physicians and patients alike is that a number of these ailments have many overlapping symptoms.
Please come join me and your neighbors to discuss many common disorders of the hand, wrist and elbow.
Among the conditions that will be discussed will be arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, trigger finger, tennis elbow and ganglion cysts.
RSVP: MondayNightattheMasters@gmail.com or sign up at the Front Desk.
Inviting Contributions to the Website
Help make The Master’s website informative, interesting and fun! Make www.masterapts.com reflect the variety of our residents and in our local community.
Tell us about:
- Activities of our residents in business, work, education, and the community.
- Our residents’ achievements, awards and recognition.
- Your travel to unusual places, or
- Your travel ‘finds’ – tips on hotels, restaurants, things to do, near and far.
- Your memories of the Master’s and the local community; we want to document our very special history.
- Local activities – lectures, performances, displays, classes.
- Any tips on discounts or special offers at local shops
- Your special skills and interests —
- Cooks and foodies can get together for a roving dinner
- Jam with fellow jazz musicians—or join a baroque quartet
- Practice your French—or Italian or Chinese or Icelandic
- Have a game of bridge or discuss a book
Contribute ideas, information, or comments so that our website can be a useful reference for our Master’s community. Be assured that you will be able to review your contribution before posting.
Please contact our Resident Profiles Editor with your contribution:
Dr Joyce Burcham, Apt 1902, jlburcham@aol.com, 917 621 5021
Join the Hospitality Program
Shareholders and residents join our Outreach Hospitality Program
Meet your neighbors, get to know each other.
We want to hear your ideas for your floor and building.
The intent of the program/committee will be to coordinate resident outreach to address quality of life issues and concerns in the building.
- Hallway and refuse issues
- Lobby suggestions
- Service problems
- Noise and other quality of life issues
- Be more efficient in resolving problems
- Submitting ideas in an organized manner
- Establish tenant representatives for each floor or every couple of floors. The representative would be the liaison between the board and the tenants.
If you would be interested in participating or wish to have more information on the resident outreach program, I would be happy to speak with you. Please feel free to contact me by email at rvento2@aol.com or you can leave your name and number at the front desk and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Rosa Vento, apt. 311
We Need Your Photos For MasterApts.com Website
My name is Heath Hurwitz, and I have agreed to manage the Photo Gallery section of the Master Apartments website. I am an amateur photographer, and enjoy making photographs around the neighborhood. You can find the current photo gallery here. As you can see, we need more photos. And this is where you come in. We are current looking for photo submissions that relate to the building and the neighborhood. read more…
Revision to Sublet Policy re:Longterm Subtenants
June 26, 2012
Dear Residents,
This is a reminder that effective July 1st 2012 the Board will begin enforcing the ten year old shareholder approved sublet policy. However, the Board, in considering the position of subtenants in the affected apartments, has decided to allow all subtenants with a current sublet lease in effect prior to July 1st 2012 to remain a subtenant in their current apartment subject to the owner’s consent for a maximum of 4 years commencing July 1st 2012 and terminating June 30th, 2016.
The sublet fees are based on the current sublet policy in effect at the time of renewal. The most recent update as approved by the Board of Directors was at a Board meeting on April 25, 2012 and sent to shareholders on April 27, 2012.
We expect that this revision will alleviate the concerns expressed by several shareholders and current subtenants, many of whom have been at the Masters for several years.
Shareholders and non-current subtenants with leases commencing July 1st 2012 or later will be subject to all the provisions of the sublet policy in effect at that time according to the sublet history of the apartment they sublet.
We are exploring various methods for assisting long term residents in remaining in the Masters, if they so desire, once their current subtenancy is at an end. As this develops, we will let you know.
Finally, we appreciate the input of the Masters’ community in the sublet process and believe that the foregoing represents a fair and balanced response to the many letters, questions, and comments we received in the past few months.
The Board of Directors
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