On Tuesday, June 13th at 7:00 PM you are invited to the June HNBA meeting where we’ll talk trash!
Come out to hear from local elected officials, Community Board 11, DSNY, and others on inequity in the Department of Sanitation’s services provided to our community.
We’ll meet in the ground floor community room at the Henry J. Carter Hospital (entrance at Park Ave. and 122nd Street) and look at new research on DSNY’s litter basket distribution and budget allocation. You are welcome to share your thoughts on how we can improve community cleanliness and the look of your block.
On Tuesday, June 13th, at 7:00 PM, HNBA will hold our final in-person monthly meeting before our summer break. On June 13th we’ll be meeting at the Henry J. Carter Hospital – enter at the corner of 122/Park. We’re working on getting local elected officials and DSNY on hand to talk about what can be done about the multiple and complex issues of trash in our community.
If you’ve got an idea, a solution, an offer, or anything else to do with trash, litter baskets, and more, you are welcome to join and help us collaborate on this issue.
In addition to looking at the trash issues in our community, we’ll also have virtual tour of the amazing Carter Hospital, and discuss voting in the June 27th primaries (that will determine who is Harlem’s new city council member).
(Below is a map of litter baskets in upper Manhattan)
On May 25, Cristina Contreras, CEO of Metropolitan Hospital and District Leader Will Smith will open an exciting Environmental Justice Conference at Metropolitan Hospital
Morning Session: 10 am – noon
The order of presenters:
Steve Chiu, Representative to the UN
Ameesha Mehta-Sampath, EPA
Tyisha Smalls, We Act
Kyle Jeremiah, Energy Vision
Dr. Pellicone, Chief Medical Officer, NYC Health + Hospital
Lunch Break: Noon until 1 pm
[Congressman Adriano Espaillat. Representative Jose Serrano and Councilman Diana Ayala will be in attendance – they may give a talk in the auditorium between 12:30 and 1]
Tomi Vest, General Counsel to Manhattan Borough President
James C. Lendemer, Lichenologist at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden
Narendra Paramanand, Analyst, NYC Parks
Iris Rodriguez-Rosa, First Deputy Commissioner at NYC Parks and Rec.
Jean Kim, Executive Director of the East River Esplanade
HNBA Meeting Tonight!
Hello Harlem Neighbors,
TONIGHT at 7:00 PM HNBA will meet on Zoom with an exciting and packed agenda.
The meeting will start off with a presentation from neighbors in the 2041/5th HDFC Co-Op (5th Avenue at 126th Street) who are planning a second annual family and community block party to celebrate the children in East Harlem on 8/12/23. Lionel will answer any questions you have about the block party and hopefully encourage you to get involved.
Shawn Hill will then present on new data regarding NYC’s Shelter Distribution
To be followed by Travon Butler, who’ll tell us more about the upcoming Participatory Budgeting project that his office – Civic Engagement.NYC – is promoting.
Our District Leader for the 68th Assembly District – Sharase DeBouse – will provide a community update.
And we’ll conclude with a brief presentation from NYC’s Rat Academy representative, Martha Vernazza, Community Coordinator for Rats (what a job title…) on upcoming Rat Academies for Manhattan Community Boards 9, 10, and 11 residents.
On Tuesday at 7:00 PM I will present on new data regarding New York City’s shelter system and how the distribution of shelters has changed from pre-pandemic, into the pandemic, and to the current day. The presentation will look at how family shelters and single adult shelters are distributed differently, and at how the different distributions align with the economic and racial makeup of New York City.
We will also hear from our neighbor Lionel who along with his neighbors in the 2041/5th HDFC Co-Op (5th Avenue at 126th Street) is planning a second annual family and community block party to celebrate the children in East Harlem on 8/12/23. Lionel will answer any questions about the block party and hopefully encourage you to get involved.
The exhibit is located in the first-floor lobby of Barnard’s Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning. Currently, Barnard and Columbia community members can visit the exhibit during the building’s open hours. Sign up for a guided tour at the link below. Due to COVID-19 precautions, the building is currently closed to outside visitors. Please check back for updates, as we hope to allow visitors in the future.
OpenPlans.org wanted to thank all the HNBA members for the opportunity to present at the HNBA April meeting! Everyone is urged to reach out with any follow up questions and feel free to share the presentation (below) with anyone who might be interested.
Emily also wanted to share their white paper on parking mandates in case folks from your block association are interested in learning more. Here’s a graphic that can be really helpful as well!
Lastly, OpenPlans wanted to invite you to a book launch party they’re hosting in May. It’s for Henry Grabar’s book, Paved Paradise. The event is free, here’s the link to RSVP if you’re interested!
—Emily Chingay (she/her) Citywide Engagement Advocate Open Plans 914.523.9161
The MMPCIA Stoop Sale 2022 was a fun and successful community event. Last year eighty plus households spread throughout our MMPCIA catchment area (116th Street to 124th from Madison Avenue to Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd.) participated. We hope to increase that number this year with your participation.
The MMPCIA Stoop Sale is an exciting opportunity to bring out your gently used unwanted items to sell or give away to people in the community or passersby who love a good deal and thrifty finds.
We are excited that you are registering for our 2nd Annual Mount Morris Community Improvement Association’s Stoop Sale on Sunday, April 30, 2023, from 10 AM to 3 PM.
Date: Sunday, April 30, 2023
(Rain Date: Sunday, May 7, 2023)
Start Time: 10 AM
End Time: 3 PM
Clean-Up: 3:00 – 4:00 PM
We will spread the word in and around our community and for those who register, we will also send you digital marketing materials via email to print, post and share with your networks closer to the April 30. We will include a map showing the locations of stoop sales within the MMPCIA catchment area.
Register by Friday, April 21, 2023, we will include your location address on our map for marketing purposes.
Late Registration Closes on Wednesday, April 26, 2023.
To register, please answer the questionnaire!
If you have any questions, please email MMPCIA [email protected]. In the subject line, write “MMPCIA Stoop Sale.”
Assemblymember Inez Dickens, who is running to replace Councilmember Jordan, will be on a Zoom meeting with HNBA and the Harlem East Block Association tonight at 7:00 PM.
This is a fantastic opportunity to hear from Inez and to ask her questions about how she intends to work for a cleaner, safer, and more affordable Harlem as our next councilmember.
Here is the link to join Thursday’s conversation with Inez Dickens:
Tonight at 7:00 PM, HNBA will have our April community meeting on Zoom.
We’ve got two very interesting speakers on tap this month. First up will be Emily Chingay from Open Plans, a group that would like to help Harlem neighbors have more say in how their streets are used (playstreets for children, outdoor dining, beautification plantings, trash bins, etc.).
The second, and main speaker, will be Blandon Casenave who has done extensive work on increasing Black admissions to NYC’s specialized high schools. On Tuesday, Blandon will be speaking on the crisis of Black home ownership and the struggles of the Black middle class. He notes that although Blacks are 24% of NYC’s population, they are 60% of the homeless and have an overall unemployment rate of 15% – about triple the city average. Over the last twenty years Black New York has lost about 15% of its homeowners and 5% of its total population. This means that Black New Yorkers as a group are smaller, poorer and more vulnerable – despite the high number of Black elected officials. Blandon will focus on research he has done on causes of this slide in the fortunes of the Black middle class and have a conversation with attendees on what kinds of legislation need to be in place to reverse this trend and support the Black middle class.
Here is the Zoom link for the meeting. Please feel free to forward to anyone you think might be interested:
Join HNBA’s Zoom Meeting – Tuesday, April 11th, 7:00 PM
Assemblymember Inez Dickens, who is running to replace Councilmember Jordan, will be on a Zoom meeting with HNBA and the Harlem East Block Association, on Thursday, April 13th, at 7:00 PM.
This is a fantastic opportunity to hear from Inez and to ask her questions about how she intends to work for a cleaner, safer, and more affordable Harlem as our next councilmember.
Here is the link to join Thursday’s conversation with Inez Dickens:
