515 Edgecombe Avenue

515 Edgecombe Avenue was built in 1923 and con­vert­ed to a coop­er­a­tive in 1987. The build­ing is a 5‑floor walk-up with 23 units and is more than 95% own­er occu­pied. Building ameni­ties include bike stor­age for a fee and rent­ed stor­age lockers.

Situated at the cor­ner of West 158 Street and Edgecombe Avenue in the his­toric Sugar Hill neigh­bor­hood of Harlem, this well-run and main­tained coop­er­a­tive is locat­ed across from Highbridge Park where there are walk­ing and bik­ing paths,  play­grounds, and bas­ket­ball and hand­ball courts.

The coop­er­a­tive build­ing is a 4‑minute walk to the C train at W 155 and an 8‑minute walk to the 1 train at Broadway. The south-bound M2 bus stops in front of the build­ing and runs between the East Village 8 St via 5 Ave and to Washington Heights Broadway-168 St.

The build­ing is a mile from Yankee Stadium and has quick access to the George Washington Bridge. There is lots of street park­ing in the neighborhood.

Two blocks north is the his­toric Morris-Jumel Mansion and two blocks south is the new Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling.  A short 15 minute walk north takes you to the Highbridge Recreation Center with a large out­door swim­ming (fea­tured in the movie In the Heights), the High Bridge (the old­est bridge in New York City) and the soar­ing 200ft High Bridge Water Tower.

Location

Managing Agent
Mr Jerry Edelman
J&M Realty Services Corp.
2067 Broadway, Suite #68
New York, NY 10023
Mailing Address
J&M Realty Services Corp.
343 St. Nicholas Avenue, Suite #25
New York, NY 10027
212–721-0424; 212–721-0304 (fax)

 

Curbside Composting is back!

Starting October 6, 2024, the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) will expand its Curbside Composting pro­gram to include all res­i­dents in Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island! This ser­vice will allow you to dis­pose of your food scraps, yard waste, and food-soiled paper direct­ly at the curb on your des­ig­nat­ed recy­cling day.

  • Trash Pickup: Monday, Wednesday and Friday
  • Large Items Pickup: Monday and Friday
  • Recycling Pickup: Wednesday

What is Curbside Composting? Curbside Composting is a year-round, week­ly ser­vice pro­vid­ed by DSNY that col­lects com­postable mate­ri­als, which are then turned into nutri­ent-rich soil. This pro­gram is a sig­nif­i­cant step toward reduc­ing land­fill waste and sup­port­ing our environment.

How to Participate:
Collection Day: Compost will be picked up on your reg­u­lar recy­cling day. Please ensure that your com­post­ing mate­ri­als are placed in the des­ig­nat­ed bins.
Composting Bins: DSNY will pro­vide the nec­es­sary com­post­ing bins for all ten­ants. Bins will be 55 gal­lons or less, with secure lids. Please, when deposit­ing good scraps and oth­er com­posta­bles, make sure the bin’s latch is secured to dis­cour­age vermin.
Accepted Materials: The pro­gram accepts all leaf and yard waste, food scraps, and food-soiled paper, includ­ing meat, dairy, and pre­pared foods, paper plates, and piz­za boxes.
Not Accepted: Please do not include trash, recy­clable mate­ri­als, or non-com­postable items such as dia­pers, per­son­al hygiene prod­ucts, ani­mal waste, wrap­pers, non-paper pack­ag­ing, and foam products.
Fines for Failure to Separate Compostables Correctly: There is a brief grace peri­od as every­one gets used to the restored curb­side com­postable ser­vice. In ear­ly 2025, build­ings that fail to sep­a­rate com­posta­bles cor­rect­ly will be fined as fol­lows: $100 for first offens­es, $200 for sec­ond offens­es, and $400 for sub­se­quent offens­es in a six-month peri­od. These fines can add up, so please get used to sep­a­rat­ing out your compostables!

Get Informed: Join one of the vir­tu­al info ses­sions to learn more about the Curbside Composting pro­gram. These ses­sions are open to every­one are held on Thursdays through­out August and September.

For detailed ses­sion times and to watch record­ed ses­sions, please vis­it the DSNY web­site.  https://www.nyc.gov/site/dsny/collection/residents/curbside-composting.page

Reminder: Please pre­pare your com­post­ing mate­ri­als the night before your des­ig­nat­ed recy­cling day to ensure time­ly pick­up. Additionally, please ensure that the lids are shut cor­rect­ly to pre­vent pests and
odors.

Smart composting bins

The city has launched its Smart Compost pro­gram in our neighborhood. 

Forty-five “smart bins” that accept food scraps have been installed on the streets of Morningside Heights, Central Harlem, East Harlem, West Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood, includ­ing the South Bronx.

The new smart com­post bin loca­tions are marked on the NYC Compost app, and you can com­post your food scraps by unlock­ing these orange bins using the NYC Compost app.

The NYC Compost app can be down­loaded for free for Android and iOS smartphones.

Accepted items include fruit, veg­eta­bles, meat, bones, dairy, pre­pared food, food-soiled paper and plants.

The use of bags—plastic, paper or compostable—is sug­gest­ed to keep mess to a minimum.