Tag: OnPoint

  • Sign The Petition!

    The Greater Harlem Coalition has just launched a petition on Change.org: New York State’s Assembly and Senate Members should reject The Safer Consumption Act, bill s399/a338, unless the following 6 Safety Guardrails are added to the bill. Harlem’s supervised injection site is located two blocks away from 9 schools with +4250 students and nearly 4000…

  • Sign The Petition!

    The Greater Harlem Coalition has just launched a petition on Change.org: New York State’s Assembly and Senate Members should reject The Safer Consumption Act, bill s399/a338, unless the following 6 Safety Guardrails are added to the bill. Harlem’s supervised injection site is located two blocks away from 9 schools with +4250 students and nearly 4000…

  • Tomorrow!  Meet/Walk with Al Taylor

    Tomorrow! Meet/Walk with Al Taylor

    Al Taylor is vieing to be Harlem’s next City Council member and here is your chance to meet him, and walk with him in the neighborhood. Meet him at La Marqueta – 115/Park – tomorrow at 2:30pm and walk up to 126th Street. Al Taylor is an assembly sponsor of a bill to legalize supervised…

  • Community Harm Reduction

    Community Harm Reduction

    The Greater Harlem Coalition’s Response to the Supervised Injection Site’s Partial Data For Their First Year In Harlem New York’s Nonprofit Media has released some of OnPoint’s data for year one of operation in East Harlem and Washington Heights (November 2021 to 2022): The Greater Harlem Coalition firmly supports compassionate intervention and the goal of saving…

  • A.B.C. School Armors-Up

    A.B.C. School Armors-Up

    One of the most blatant examples of recent decisions that bolstered the structural racism our community struggles with, was to locate the nation’s first supervised consumption site across the street from a Harlem Pre-K. By not engaging with the community (who would have emphatically asked OnPoint and NYC’s Department of Health not to locate an…

  • HNBA Writes to OnPoint and the Safe Injection Site

    HNBA Writes to OnPoint and the Safe Injection Site

    November 12, 2022 OnPoint NYC East 126th Street New York, NY. 10035 Attn: Sam Rivera, Executive Director Dear Sam and OnPoint Team, Thank you so much for joining our Harlem Neighborhood Block Association (HNBA) November meeting.  We really appreciate your time and now realize we should have held this meeting with you much earlier. We are very…

  • Wake Up Dems!

    Wake Up Dems!

    The New York Democratic Lawyers Council is looking for experienced voter pros to take shifts in voter protection boiler rooms. All boiler rooms will be run remotely so all you will need is a computer and wifi. All early voting days we will have one overall statewide boiler room. On election day the boiler rooms will…

  • The Safe Injection Site To Speak In A Public Forum

    The Safe Injection Site To Speak In A Public Forum

    The Greater Harlem Coalition is hosting a public forum with OnPoint – the organization that runs the safe injection site on East 126th Street – on Tuesday, October 25th, at 7:00 PM. And yes, you are invited to join. To learn more and offer your thoughts/opinions, please register here: https://fordham.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LHPGorq_RhumQX6E380BBQ Please spread the word! Forward this…

  • Join The HNBA October Meeting, Tonight at 7pm

    Join The HNBA October Meeting, Tonight at 7pm

    We’ll be discussing the future of HDFCs with Joshua Clennon, the Metro North viaduct replacement, and the 2nd Avenue Subway with MTA. All welcome. Topic: HNBA MeetingTime: Oct 11, 2022, 7:00 PM Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86007913627?pwd=YkhWa2JDaERvUnBEWVh1SS9IVktMZz09 Lenox Ave. Prepares for Halloween Join MMPCIA on Saturday, October 22nd in beautifying and decorating the central median on Lenox…

  • Assemblymember Inez Dickens Highlights The Crisis on 125th Street

    Assemblymember Inez Dickens Highlights The Crisis on 125th Street

    HNBA’s very own Hallia Baker joined Assemblymember Inez Dickens in a community conversation about the “Crisis on 125th Street” on Manhattan News Network.  The episode will air on TV this Sunday February 27th at 7pm and will repeat Wednesday March 2nd at 9pm. How to watch on TV: MNN1 (Spectrum 34 & 1995, RCN 82, FiOS 33) or MNNHD (Spectrum 1993) Or you can access the full episode via Represent NYC’s website and MNN’s…