Category: News

  • Your Budget.  Your Priorities

    Your Budget. Your Priorities

    The 2023 People’s Budget is asking for your input. Please use this form (link below) to submit your spending policy priorities for review in preparation for the drafting of the 2023 People’s Budget. Should you have any questions or any supporting documents, please email: bphacaucus@nyassembly.gov. Feel free to share this form with any New York-based organizations that…

  • 311 Wants to Hear From You

    311 Wants to Hear From You

    New York City’s 311 app wants to hear from you. Specifically, they want to hear about your experience using the 311 App and so are inviting you to participate in a survey To tell them how you love/hate the 311 App, click the button below. Where McDonalds Stood, A Tower Grows If you remember the…

  • Mayor Adams Continues to Back Injection Site Opening 24/7

    Mayor Adams Continues to Back Injection Site Opening 24/7

    Mayor Eric Adams voiced support for extending Harlem’s safe injection site’s hours to a 24/7 operation in May on Twitter. Since then, OnPoint (the provider that runs the Harlem injection site) has maintained a steady lobbying effort to operate around the clock. 10 months later, while there is still no data showing any decline in…

  • Tito Puente

    Tito Puente

    Uptown Grand Central does it again. Another great mural on E. 124, between Madison and Park. Allison Ruiz and BC1 created this mural of the mambo king Tito Puente. Uptown Grand Central’s Grandscale Mural Project is located on 125th & 124th streets from Third to Madison, and along Third, Lexington and Park avenues. Hashtag #GrandscaleMuralProject.…

  • 125th Street BID and Columbia University to Look at a Digital Rethink of West 125th Street

    125th Street BID’s Partnership with Columbia UniversityWins $26M NSF Grant to Develop Center for Smart Streetscapes New York, NY—August 10, 2022—The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that it is awarding a $26 million, five-year grant to a team led by Columbia Engineering, together with Florida Atlantic University, Rutgers University, University of Central Florida, and Lehman College, for a new Gen-4 NSF…

  • Bathrooms

    Bathrooms

    As we all know, New York is a terrible place when it comes to finding a public bathroom that you’d actually want to use. This ‘situation’, coupled with the decriminalization of public urination – spearheaded by East Harlem’s Melissa Mark-Viverito – https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-will-soon-be-filled-with-public-pee-ers-according-to-ny-post – has led to a noticeable increase in people (admittedly, almost always men)…

  • The Slowest Bus in NYC

    The Slowest Bus in NYC

    Every year The Straphangers Campaign ranks and rates the slowest and most unreliable bus routes in NYC. This year’s “winner” of the dreaded “Pokey” award — given to the slowest ride in the city — was Harlem’s M102 bus. The M102 “beat” the next slowest lines (Bx19, B35, Q32, and the S38) by achieving a…

  • City Surplus

    City Surplus

    A while back the sale of a “Redbird” (a 1950’s model subway car that was replaced by stainless steel-covered ones in 1963) generated some notice of a little-known site that sells NYC Government Surplus. The site – Public Surplus – deals with offloading stuff that NYC Government no longer wants – maybe they bought too…

  • Harlem Armory’s Time Capsule

    Harlem Armory’s Time Capsule

    On May 27, 1923, almost 100 years ago, a ceremonial cornerstone was laid in Harlem by New York City Mayor John Francis Hylan, who had also broken ground for the new Harlem armory in November 1921. William Hayward, who commanded the 369th in France and was then the U.S. attorney for New York, spoke at…

  • Affordable Housing

    Affordable Housing

    The conversation surrounding affordable housing so often focuses on the distorted nature of New York City’s AMI calculations, what percentage of a given project will be affordable, and what an affordable rent really is. Much less common is a conversation with the developers who build affordable housing. The Commercial Observer has a great interview with…

  • Join U.S. Kirsten Gillibrand’s Town Hall on Thursday August 25th at the Schomburg Center

    Join U.S. Kirsten Gillibrand’s Town Hall on Thursday August 25th at the Schomburg Center

    Join United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand for a public Manhattan Town Hall on Thursday, August 25th at the Schomburg Center in Harlem. Senator Gillibrand really wants to hear from you! She will give brief remarks and answer questions on the topics and issues you care about most. The Senator’s staff will also be available to…

  • Polemical Mapping

    HNBA’s Vice President, Shawn Hill, presented at NYC’s Open Data week this past winter. The presentation is now up on NYC Open Data’s YouTube channel. The video looks at how the De Blasio administration obscured the inequitable distribution of shelters in New York City and compares the distribution of family shelters vs. single adult shelters.…