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ORGANIZING GROUPS ACROSS NY STATE New York State Tenant Organizing Groups Organization Region Phone Website Citizen Action of NY Buffalo, Rochester, Utica, 518-465-4600 www.citizenactionny.org Binghamton, Albany, Kingston Citywide Tenant Union Rochester 585-653-8352 www.rochestercitywidetenantunion.org Community Voices Heard New York City, Hudson Valley 914-514-7632 (Newburgh) www.cvhaction.org 845-541-1122 (Poughkeepsie) 914-314-2018 (Westchester) Make the Road NY New York City, Long Island, 631-231-2220 (Long Island) maketheroadny.org/contact Westchester County 914-948-8466 (Westchester) 718-418-7690 (New York City New York Communities New York City, Nassau 347-410-6919 www.nycommunities.org for Change County PUSH Buffalo Buffalo 716 884-0356 www.pushbuffalo.org Nobody Leaves MidHudson Hudson Valley 845-481-0703 United Tenants of Albany / Albany and some surrounding 518-436-8997 www.utalbany.org Housing For All areas Troy DSA Troy [email protected] capitaldistrictdsa.org (no phone number available yet) Mount Vernon United Tenants Mt Vernon 914- 699-1114 mvut.org Syracuse Tenants Union Syracuse No Phone Yet www.facebook.com/ SyracuseTenantPower New Paltz Tenants Union New Paltz No Phone Yet newpaltztenantunion.com Kingston Tenants Union Kingston, NY kingstontenantsunion.org PLOT Binghamton Binghamton, NY 516-743-5698 www.facebook.com/ BingPLOT Kites Nest Hudson, NY 518-945-8445 www.kitesnest.org Legal Services of Central NY Utica, NY 315-703-6500 www.lscny.org 29 NYC, Neighborhood Specific This isn’t an exhaustive list, for more resources go to www.evictionfreenyc.org. Organization Borough Region Phone Website Northwest Bronx Community Bronx Norwood, Fordham, Northwest 718-584-0515 northwestbronx.org and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC) Bronx, Mount Hope, Morris Heights, Tremont Community Action for Safe Bronx Southwest Bronx 718-716-8000 casapower.org Apartments (CASA) Banana Kelly Community Bronx Longwood, Hunts Point, 718-328-1064 www.bkcianyc.org Improvement Association Morrisania, Mott Haven, Melrose Los Sures Brooklyn South of Williamsburg 718-387-3600 www.southsideunitedhdfc.org Crown Heights Tenants Union Brooklyn Crown Heights 212-479-3358 www.crownheightstenantunion.org Neighbors Helping Neighbors Brooklyn South Brooklyn, Sunset Park, 718-686-7946 www.nhnhome.org Bay Ridge, Park Slope Borough Park Carroll Gardens Association, Brooklyn Red Hook, Gowanus, Columbia 718-243-9301 www.cganyc.org www.swbtu.org Inc./ Southwest Brooklyn Waterfront, Carroll Gardens, Tenant Union Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights St. Nicks Alliance Brooklyn Williamsburg, Greenpoint, 718-388-9190 www.stnicksalliance.org Bushwick UHAB Brooklyn East Harlem, Inwood, Crown 212-479-3389 www.uhab.org Heights Flatbush Tenant Coalition Brooklyn South Crown Heights, Flatbush, 718.635.2623 www.flatbushpower.org East Flatbush Cooper Square Committee Manhattan East Village, Stuyvesant Town, 2122288210 coopersquare.org Lower East Side Goddard Riverside Law Project Manhattan SRO-Westside of Manhattan 212-799-9638 www.goddard.org/grcc/ from 14th Street to the tip of programs/goddardlawproject Manhattan. Apartments from 91st-116th Street Good Old Lower East Side Manhattan East Village, Lower East Side, 2125332541 www.goles.org (GOLES) Chinatown, Two Bridges Housing Committee of Manhattan Harlem, Washington Heights 2122342285 www.facebook.com/ Riverside RENAorganization Edgecombe Neighborhood Association (RENA) Tenants & Neighbors Manhattan Inwood, Washington Heights, 2126084320 tandn.org Harlem, East Harlem Housing Conservation Manhattan Hell’s Kitchen, Chelsea, 212-541-5996 www.hcc-nyc.org Coordinators Manhattan Valley, Parts of Harlem Met Council on Housing Manhattan/ Inwood and Washington 212-979-0611 metcouncilonhousing.org Citywide Heights, Other large complex Citywide Woodside on the Move, Inc. - Queens Jackson Heights, Maspeth, 7184768449 www.woodsideonthemove.org Western Queens Rego Park, Kew Gardens, Elmhurst, Corona, Flushing, Forest Hills, Kew Gardens Hills Catholic Migration Services Queens Long Island City, Sunnyside, 347-472-3500 www.catholicmigration.org Woodside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Corona and Jamaica Chhaya CDC Queens Jackson Heights, Jamaica, 718-478-3848 chhayacdc.org Richmond Hill CAAAV Queens/ Queensbridge Houses/ 2124736485 caaav.org Manhattan Chinatown 30.
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