Upper Park Condo Association

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A Site for the Condo Association of 1108 to 1112 Park Avenue, Hoboken, NJ

Welcome

Welcome to the Upper Park Condominium Association! We are pleased to have you as a part of our organization. This website is meant to help you understand how we manage the buildings and resources in the Association. If you are in need of further information, please contact our Manager.


Updates

Meeting Minutes - June 11, 2008
The board conducted a meeting on June 11. Click here for the meeting minutes.


Pool Update - May 29, 2008
The broken pool heater will be replaced on May 30 by A & D Plumbing. The new system will be a 400,000 BTU Teledyne System, which is slightly larger in efficiency than the old heater. The cost of this will be $6800.00 which will include some modifications to the floor of the pool house and will include a 5 year warranty on the boiler and a 2 year warranty on the burner. This project should be completed by the end of the day on May 30.

Also, we are having some tree work done tomorrow morning to remove some tree limbs which are extending over the pool.


Gym Update - May 29, 2008
The new gym equipment should be installed in approximately two weeks. The gym was scrubbed down and the rubber mats on the floor were removed and cleaned.


Pool Opened - May 24, 2008
American Pool Management will be managing the pool this year, their main office number is (732) 512-1900.

Greg Miller is the representative assigned to our pool, please contact him at (732) 423-6639 (cell) if you have any comments/requests/complaints. Alternatively, you can send your feedback to


Welcome Kit

Just moved in? Our welcome kit explains how we manage the buildings and puts all kinds of resources at your fingertips. In addition, the kit provides many suggestions that facilitate the smooth integration of new condo members into the existing condo community.

Welcome Kit (80 KB)

 


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History

The Upper Park Condominium Association is an outgrowth of tenant activism that surfaced in the 1980s. Around 1983, 1108 Park organized its renters to demand better upkeep of the building. Not long after rents were withheld as part of this organization, the owner of 1108 Park, Mary Alice Salvetti sold her building to Murray Connell, a condo developer who also purchased the "sister buildings" at 1106, 1110, 1112 and 1114 Park.

When Connell attempted to "buy out" the Park Avenue residents, the Upper Park Corp. was founded as a non-profit organization. The Corp. arranged meetings with Connell, watched, protested and reported to the city every unlicensed move that his company made. Even so, a number of residents accepted the buy out, but not enough to empty even one building.

Due to the delays, Connell became financially insecure and agreed to sell the three middle buildings (1108 to 1112) to the tenants. The renters then decided that they would create their own condominium association. This is one of the few successful efforts made to convert tenements into condominiums in Hoboken, if not the state, which occurred without undue amounts of relocation due to the efforts of the tenants.

The Upper Park Condominium Association is the successor and the beneficiary of these tenant efforts. It has continued over the years to be run and maintained by its residents with the same concern and care for all. UPCA has created a small community that is a worthy successor of the efforts of the renters in the 1980s.


Gallery

If you have any photographs of the building and the neighborhood, please send them to us so that we can make this website even more appealing.

Click on thumbnails to enlarge picture.