Tag: The Greater Harlem Coalition
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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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Mount Sinai Morningside to open $78.5M facility in Harlem
A new facility combining and expanding services for Mount Sinai Morningside and the Mount Sinai Hospital will open during the fall, the hospital system announced Thursday. After years of protesting, organizing and collaborating, The Greater Harlem Coalition got Mount Sinai to not place even more drug treatment programs in this new facility, nor to send children with…
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GHC Meeting Tonight
Join the Greater Harlem Coalition’s look at the intersection of Harlem and East Harlem’s quality of life issues and the 2021 NYC elections. Click here to learn more tonight. City Comptroller The person who oversees City Hall’s wallet is called the comptroller, a position currently filled by Scott Stringer. Four contenders are vying to replace…
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Greater Harlem Coalition Meeting on Wednesday
Join the Greater Harlem Coalition for an Election 2021 conversation about what candidates have said they would do about the quality of life issues that impact you, your family, your guests, and your neighbors, on Wednesday at 7:00 PM. Register by clicking on this link: https://fordham.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yW9VWS-8QtivypY6O6olWA The ‘Final’ List of City Council Candidates The New…
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Manhattan Borough President’s Harlem Forum Tonight
Join the Greater Harlem Coalition in a forum for Manhattan Borough President candidates, focused on Harlem issues and concerns: https://fordham.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7Mv7N2a1SA-S2fPY_KvokA Saturday: Graffiti Cleanup Day Wanted to invite you to Saturday’s Graffiti Clean-up. (See the flyer below). As a reminder, we are offering our youth community service hours for participating. I will need names for those…
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Greater Harlem Coalition Meeting Tonight
Join the Greater Harlem Coalition meeting tonight to learn more about Mount Sinai’s plans for new security at its Park/125th Street methadone programs and its plans for their new facility being built on West 124th Street. Register here for the 7:00 PM Harlem Town-Hall The Crown While I’m not watching The Crown on Netflix, the…
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Meeting With Mount Sinai, Tomorrow
The Greater Harlem Coalition will have a town hall meeting tomorrow night at 7pm. You are welcome to join by registering here: https://fordham.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6UAWpErMRkuvGvMDgjQ_4w Mount Sinai will present on new security measures at their Park/125th Street methadone programs in the Lee Building. To hear more about their plans to address hanging out before and after treatment…
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Mount Sinai Methadone Program Conversation
Join The Greater Harlem Coalition on Thursday next week for a conversation with Mount Sinai who runs the methadone programs in the Lee Building (125th Street and Park Avenue). The Zoom Town Hall will be at 7:00 PM. Click here: To Register East Harlem Vaccination Site Coming Patch’s Nick Garber reports that the Mayor has…
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Manhattan DA Candidates’ Forum
There are 8 candidates vying to replace Cy Vance as Manhattan’s DA. The Greater Harlem Coalition – GreaterHarlem.nyc – is hosting a virtual forum for residents of Harlem and East Harlem. To attend the forum, go to this link: Attend the DA Candidates’ Forum To submit a question to the candidates, go to this link:…
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A Call for LegislationThe Bronx is Building
The Greater Harlem Coalition has recently written to our elected officials to ask them to begin the work of enacting legislation that will stop and then reverse the oversaturation of drug treatment programs in our community: The Bronx is Building A new rental building has been proposed for the Bronx waterfront between the Madison Avenue…
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CBS News Coverage of Oversaturation and the Explosion of Illegal Drug Dealing in Our Community
CBS News had a great piece last night on how Harlem and East Harlem are oversaturated with substance abuse programs which has attracted unprecedented numbers of illegal drug sellers who prey on the men and women seeking treatment. Harlem residents showed the CBS reporter evidence of illegal drug sales and use – all concentrated around…
