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East Harlem in Conversation 1 Office of City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito Manhattan Community Board 11 Community Voices Heard Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer FEBRUARY 2016 WWW.EASTHARLEMPLAN.NYC PREPARED FOR Buro Happold 2 Manhattan North Management Spanish Manhattan Church The East Harlem Neighborhood Caribbean Cultural Center Co. Inc. Youth Dept. African Diaspora Institute Mayor's Office of Long-Term Office of City Council Speaker PROJECT PARTNERS Carter Burden Center Planning and Sustainability Melissa Mark-Viverito Office of City Council Speaker Center for Sustainable Cities at Medianoche STRIVE Melissa Mark-Viverito Hunter College Metro North Houses TA Taller Boricua Manhattan Community Board 11 Children’s Aid Society Metropolitan Waterfront Tenants & Neighbors Community Voices Heard CIVITAS Alliance Tri-State Transportation Manhattan Borough President Clinton Houses TA Mt. Sinai Hospital Union Settlement Association Gale A. Brewer Community School District 4 Museum of the City of New York Upper Manhattan Empowerment Superintendent Mutual Housing Association of Zone STEERING COMMITTEE Community Service Society New York Urban Garden Center Community Voices Heard New Economy Project Urban Homesteading Assistance 32BJ Service Employees Coquito Masters New Harlem East Merchants Board International Union Corbin Hill Farm Association Urban Justice Center’s Artimus Construction Crack is Wack Playground New York Academy of Medicine Community Development CIVITAS DDM Development & Services New York Restoration Project Project Community Voices Heard Deep Water Wind New York State of Mind Washington Houses TA Construction & General Building East Harlem Age-friendly New Yorkers for Parks WE ACT for Environmental Laborers Local 79 Neighborhood Advisory Northside Center for Child Justice Councilmember Inez Dickens Committee Development Young Buck Sports El Barrio’s Operation Fightback East Harlem Chamber of NY Academy of Music Youth Action YouthBuild Elmendorf Reformed Church Commerce NY Communities for Change El Museo del Barrio East Harlem Community Alliance NYC Administration for Technical Assistance Harlem RBI East Harlem Community Health Children’s Services Providers: Johnson Houses Tenant Committee NYC Climate Panel Association Association for Neighborhood East Harlem District Public NYC Community Garden Lott Community Development and Housing Development Health Office Coalition Corporation Center for Urban Pedagogy East Harlem Preservation NYC Council Economic and Manhattan Community Board 11 Community Development East Harlem Restaurant & Bar Community Development Manhattan Borough President Project at the Urban Justice Association Division Gale Brewer Center East Harlem Tutorial Program NYC Department for the Aging New York Academy of Medicine Pratt Center for Community East River Houses TA NYC Department of City Planning New York Restoration Project Development Ebony Society NYC Department of Cultural Office of City Council Speaker El Barrio’s Operation Fight Back Affairs Melissa Mark-Viverito D21 El Museo del Barrio NYC Department of Education Renaissance Charter High Hunter College Enterprise Community Partners NYC Department of School for Innovation Kate Milford Faith in New York Environmental Protection Union Settlement Association George Janes Associates Fierce Nail Spa NYC Department of Health and Union Settlement Business Friends of Art Park Mental Hygiene - Center for Development Center KEY CONSULTING Friends of East River Esplanade Health Equity WE ACT for Environmental Girls Inc. NYC Department of Parks & AGENCIES AND Justice GreenThumb Recreation ORGANIZATIONS Grid Alternatives NYC Department of Sanitation ACS - NYC Administration of FACILITATORS Harlem Community Development NYC School Construction Children's Services Hester Street Collaborative Corporation Authority DCLA - NYC Department of WXY Harlem RBI / DREAM Charter NYC Department of Small Cultural Affairs School Business Services DCP - NYC Department of City REPORT PREPARED BY Harlem River Park Task Force NYC Economic Development Planning Harvest Home Corporation WXY with DEP - NYC Department of HOPE Community Inc. NYC Food Policy Center Hester Street Collaborative Environmental Protection Hostos Community College NYC Health and Hospitals DOB—NYC Department of GRAPHIC DESIGN Hot Bread Kitchen Corporation Buildings Hunter College NYC Hispanic Chamber of Yeju Choi / Nowhere Office DOE - NYC Department of Renaissance Charter High Commerce Education School for Innovation NYC Housing and Preservation This report was produced with DOT - NYC Department of Isaacs Center Department Transportation funds provided by the City of Johnson Houses TA NYCHA New York and the Neighborhoods DPHO -District Public Health La Casa Azul Bookstore NYPD - 25th Precinct Office First Fund for Community-Based Legal Aid Society NYPD - 23rd Precinct Planning. DPR / NYC Parks - NYC LES Ecology Center/NYC NYPD - PSA 5 Department of Parks & Compost Project NYU ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Recreation Lettire Construction Open Sewer Atlas NYC DYCD - Department of Youth and Corporation Park East High School Community Development Subgroup member LISC Partnership for Parks organizations: EDC - NYC Economic Little Sisters of the Assumption Picture the Homeless Development Corporation 596 Acres Living Lots NYC Placeful HPD - NYC Department of ABC Local 79 Plumbers Local 1 Housing Preservation and Africa Center Lott Community Development Popular Community Bank Development Art for Change Corporation Pratt Center for Community HRA - Human Resources Artimus Construction LSA Family Health Service Development Administration Artspace 109 Manhattan Borough President PRDream NYCHA - NYC Housing Authority Association for Neighborhood Gale Brewer’s Office Puerto Rican Institute for the NYPD - New York City Police Housing Development Manhattan CB11 Housing Development of the Arts Department Blumenfeld Development Group Committee Randall’s Island Park Alliance SBS - NYC Department of Small Bonifacio Senior Center-IPR/HE Manhattan CB11 Public Safety & Regional Plan Association Business Services Boriken Neighborhood Health Transportation Committee Sanchez-Polanco SCA - NYC School Construction Center Manhattan Community Board 11 SCAN Authority Boys & Girls Harbor ManhattanEAST Neighborhood HARLEM NEIGHBORHOOD Search and PLAN Care Boys Club of New York Network SEIU 32BJ CONTENTS 3 FOREWORD 5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 10 INTRODUCTION 16 HISTORY 20 INTRODUCTORY COMMUNITY FORUM 22 COMMUNITY VISIONING WORKSHOP #1 24 Arts & Culture 32 Open Space & Recreation 40 COMMUNITY VISIONING WORKSHOP #2 42 Schools & Education Pre-K, Daycare & Afterschool 52 COMMUNITY VISIONING WORKSHOP #3 54 NYCHA 62 Housing Preservation 70 COMMUNITY VISIONING WORKSHOP #4 72 Small Businesses, Workforce & Economic Development 80 COMMUNITY VISIONING WORKSHOP #5 82 Affordable Housing Development 90 Zoning & Land Use 102 COMMUNITY VISIONING WORKSHOP #6 104 Transportation, Environment & Energy 110 Safety 116 Health & Seniors 124 FINAL COMMUNITY FORUM 126 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT 128 ACTION PLAN 134 APPENDICES 2 3 FOREWORD The changing communities of New York City are frequently shaped by broad economic and social trends, which in turn impact local residents and small businesses who often struggle to remain. Forces of gentrification are negatively impacting our city and our communities, often leading to the displacement of existing residents, who are unable to reap the benefits of these changes. Mom-and-pop shops close because they can't afford increases in rent; the empty lot next door is suddenly developed into luxury housing; a school loses funding for an arts program; the supermarket that used to serve the community exits and a more expensive one enters. Communities must advocate for their own needs amidst changing environments. And we must do this together. When East Harlem was announced as a neighborhood for a possible rezoning, with the goal of creating new affordable housing, we collectively sprang into action. The Office of City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Manhattan Community Board 11, Community Voices Heard and the Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer came together to host an informational forum at El Museo del Barrio, to inform the community about the rezoning proposal and kick off a robust neighborhood planning process. We recognized that through engagement and organization, utilizing a community-driven process, we could develop a plan for the neighborhood’s future that would place the needs of the community front and center. The creation of the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan Steering Committee brought together and empowered local stakeholders to craft a plan that identifies broad community development goals and specific needs, all informed through rich community engagement. For the first time, a neighborhood has come together on its own initiative, prior to the Mayor’s announcement of a neighborhood rezoning, to create a roadmap for future success that prioritizes the needs of existing residents, in addition to preparing for anticipated development and growth. This Neighborhood Plan is the culmination of months of engagement, research, analysis, organizing, and consensus-building. Through the hard work and thoughtfulness of community “The Second Conquest” mural by Ever at 109 P.S. (MonumentArt Festival) © Kate Milford 2016 residents and Steering Committee members, in partnership with several organizations and City agencies, we have created a comprehensive vision for our community, which should direct City policy and resources for years to come.
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