Tag: Petition
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Attend the Community Board Meeting Tomorrow
Community Board 11 will be meeting tomorrow at 6:30 PM. Please attend by clicking this link to register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fMqcI36tRqK-jeXLQxX-qA (From this page: https://www.cb11m.org/calendar/ ) The full board meeting will discuss Timbale Terrace, and the plan by HPD to not set aside 99 units of supportive housing for Harlem seniors, but instead to bring in people…
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Sign The Petition!
Reject Timbale Terrace and HPD’s plan to move even more people with severe mental illness and addiction into our community. Just look at 125th Street. Does Harlem need New York City to bring more people with severe issues into our community? We asked for supportive housing for our seniors during the East Harlem visioning process.…
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Sign The Petition!
Reject Timbale Terrace and HPD’s plan to move even more people with severe mental illness and addiction into our community. Just look at 125th Street. Does Harlem need New York City to bring more people with severe issues into our community? We asked for supportive housing for our seniors during the East Harlem visioning process.…
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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…
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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…
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Sugar Hill Petition
A new community group in Sugar Hill is protesting the oversaturation of Harlem. Their petition link and petition statement is below: Petition Link: https://chng.it/kJLBQFyw Petition Statement: Harlem should not have to bear the burden for the city homeless, mentally ill and drug addicted population. All communities in NYC should bear their fair share of services. …
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Caribbean New Yorkers
The largest wave of immigrants from the Caribbean came to Harlem during the Harlem renaissance. Indeed, many of the greatest artists, luminaries, and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance were Caribbean-born. Claude McKay, Marcus Garvey, and Arturo Schomburg. Almost a quarter of Harlem’s Black population was foreign-born in the 1920s. Earlier, however, in 1880, the distribution…
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Just Looking Down
Walking past the Fred Moore School with it’s great (sanctioned) graffiti: I looked down and noticed, stuck in the concrete of a window well, a geodetic bench mark from the US Coast and Geodetic Survey: Locating a survey marker in a window well seemed a poor choice, given that the wall of the school restricted…
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Petition for a Better Harlem and Sample Free Food
Jordan Pie Cafe on 116th and Madison is now offering an expanded full menu of vegan food. They are so generous to host a community event for all neighbors to sample their food. Come out on Friday, 3 – 5:00 PM to sign petitions for a Harlem tax abatement, reduce the overconcentration of drug treatment…
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International Women’s Day Petition
Get Ready! International Women’s Day (March 8) will be here before we know it! What better way to celebrate and honor the women in your life than to make International Women’s Day a New York State holiday! The Red Carpet for Justice Coalition needs your help in the campaign to get the New York State Legislature to adopt…
