Like many of the writers I have lived in Co-op City since 1978. Yes things has changed, and changed drastically. I don't know if we can honesty blame it totally on Marion Scott, because years before Scott came in Co-op City was deteriorating. Gradually the shareholders started to move out. As the buildings, grounds and services got worst shareholders moved out in great numbers. Yes, I have raised a well adjusted, self supporting college graduate right out of Co-op City. Yes, the families of the 70s and 80s were much more stable. Families that had great morals, values and raised their children with the same. Hard working families that took pride in where they lived, from the outward appearance to the insides of their apartment. How many of the current residence can remember the days when our floors were waxed also once a week, Riverbay made apartment checks for unregistered washers & dryers, and dishwashers. Oh yes, before you ever moved in Riverbay did a thorough background check; your job, income, family, friends and a check of your present place of habitat. It is easy to understand the need to make sure that every vacant apartment was filled after the rush of move-outs. But at what price' Undesiresable who don't care about where they live, all they want is a roof over their heads. Adult moving in with grown children, especially males, who don't work, but stand grouped in front of the building all day during nothing, while the parents go out to work. People who don't understand that waste receptacle are strategically place for trash. They perfer to drop the waste on the ground, in front of the buildings where you invite friends and family to pass through when visiting you. Elevators that stink and or often filled with urine, litter and the likes. Gunshots, filling the air from time to time, and has become an acceptable way of life. Almost every apartment has swing out windows, not by choice, just that they have deteriorated so that you dare not open them, not even to clean them. Bottom-line, we have families of thugs, hoodlums and riff-raffs living within our community. Many of us are too afraid to travel out at night, never knowing what you may encounter coming home. One residence told the story at a building association meeting of coming home from work one night to be met with gunshots flying over her head. She had to take cover behind a tree. Things have not changed. BE FOR REAL. Our Board of Elective Officials are "Jokers" all by themselves. I can assure you many of the them already have homes in a very nice State and area to retire in. REMEMBER, Elliot Engels' He hasn't retired, but moved out of Co-opCity, maintained his Townhouse (right behing my building 18 for several years), purchased a flabous house in the Maryland-DC area (Dual-residence). PLEASE NOTE, many of Riverbay Board Members never had any real power or status until they were elected to the Board of Directors. Again what do we expect' Just what we get, fighting of the Board members, as with any Corporation or Structure, if you don't know how it should be managed, have no answers, can't intelligently or professionally resolve situations; then fight. Shift the blame from one member to the other. Cause inner commotions. This will confuse the people on the side lines who seeks a positive resolution, but never get one. It is like calling a Company to place a complaint, what you get is a list of automated instructions adising to press (1) for this, or (2) for this, etc; but never reaching a party who can assist you and address the problem with resolve. That's our Board, all mouth, no answers. Forget, where is the money. Thievery and non- accountability is the norm at Riverbay. I could go on and on, but the real problems are (us) the shareholders (renters). We won't attend meetings. We waited until we were displaced with the garages before coming out in large numbers. Riverbay came with the same NONSENSE because they know that most of us are people with limited concern, and short-term memory. Their motto is "feed them a biscuit and they will forget there is a batch). Batch (Lot): there are major problems in our structural, decaying buldings, out-dated elevators, falling apart windows, death-trap garages and ofttimes laws that looks as if Lawnmowers are no longer around. There are some Porters who strives to do the job that is assigned them despite the behavior of the uncaring Shareholders and their children. I commend them. There are other that has taken the mind-set of the uncaring, just enough to get by, it really doesn't matter. Yes I am on a soap box. I hope I have reached a real concerned and honesty audience, not people in denial. I leave you with this, why is it that most minority (not just ------) or not welcome in certain communities' Why is it that our boys (12-30) stand in front of our blgds draped in white T-shirts, pants below there butts, some with bandannas around their heads and think that any self-respecting younglady who is going some place would invite or welcome their attention. GET REAL. Lobby attendants are a joke in many buildings. I see them hanging out with the crew. Security, has been explained thorough in the last meeting I attended by Mr. Mulgrew, they are ther to protect Riverbays Property. Not the keep the peace, oversee drug areas, or noise complaints. Unfortunately, security is not faithful to the job. Stop, Stop, someone please tell me to stop. Yes, at the few meeting held by Riverbay I am one of a few yelling the loudiest and refusing to settle for MUMBO-JUMBO. Remaining in Co-op City is no longer an option, it's time to leave. All I can say is thanks for the memories; a once quiet beautiful place. A place where the quality of life once was priority, and familes came for the mixture of city and suburban life. I think the only real happy beings in Co-op City now are Skunks who roam freely without fear.

Is Marion Scott the real problems. I think not. He is doing what he does best, take over low-income and failing property and carry it ill-repairable levels, then abandon it.

Let us all be honest, the truth doesn't.

User Responses
From: xnox	Date: 09/10/2008
YES. BEST REVIEW OF THE DAY.
From: CoopLiving	Date: 10/08/2008
Marion is not the only problem but a huge part of it. I was part of the Board that voted him out of Rochdale Village. I witnessed Board members and their families that received the benefits of being one of his people. Even after leaving Rochdale, he still plays a role in the political structure and I was most recently a victim of an unbelievably nasty personal attack I believe (very strongly) was orchestrated by him.

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