Activistas, personas de la comunidad y una artista hispana se unieron para combatir juntos la delincuencia y la marihuana sintética que afecta tanto ese sector.
TELEMUNDO
By Luis Alejandro Medina
Park Avenue / 125th Street Public Realm
NYC DEPARTMENT OF SMALL BUSINESS SERVICES ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF FISCAL YEAR 2016 AVENUE NYC GRANTS
NYC DEPARTMENT OF SMALL BUSINESS SERVICES
PRESS RELEASE
$1.5 Million Awarded to 48 Community-Based Organizations To Help Fund Commercial Revitalization Projects in Low to Moderate-Income Neighborhoods In All Five Boroughs
New York City — The Department of Small Business Services (SBS) today announced the 48 recipients of $1.5 million in Avenue NYC funding for Fiscal Year 2016. Avenue NYC is a competitive grant program that provides funding for economic development and non-profit community-based organizations to implement commercial revitalization efforts in low and moderate-income neighborhoods across the five boroughs.
Weed it & reap: Overgrown lot at 125th St. still a Harlem eyesore
NYC DEPARTMENT OF SMALL BUSINESS SERVICES ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF FISCAL YEAR 2015 AVENUE NYC GRANTS
NYC DEPARTMENT OF SMALL BUSINESS SERVICES
PRESS RELEASE
$1.4 Million Awarded to 39 Economic Development Organizations To Help Fund Commercial Revitalization Projects in Low to Moderate-Income Neighborhoods Across NYC
New York City – The Department of Small Business Services today announced the 39 recipients of $1.4 million in Avenue NYC funding for FY15. Avenue NYC is a competitive grant program that provides funding for non-profit economic development organizations to implement commercial revitalization activities in the low and moderate-income districts they serve. Avenue NYC also offers a number of capacity building initiatives to support the efforts of organization staff and Board Members throughout the City. Capacity building trainings include topics such as financial management, program evaluation, fundraising and strategic planning. In FY14, organizations that received Avenue NYC funding attracted 53 new businesses to their corridors, recruited 355 new merchants to new and existing merchants associations, and improved 12 storefront facades.
Harlem's Metro-North sketchy underbelly slated for $6M facelift
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
By Jan Ransom
The city is looking to lift up a seedy East Harlem stretch that has long seemed to suffer from terminal malaise.
The sketchy, poorly lit intersection under the Metro-North Railroad viaduct at E. 125th St. and Park Ave. appeared to have been forgotten in the midst of Harlem’s renaissance, but now it’s been slated for a serious makeover.
East Harlem Group Using Homeless to Tackle Trash Problem Wins $100K Grant
DNA INFO
By Jeff Mays
HARLEM — The merchant association that is using homeless people to help clean the streets of El Barrio won a $100,000 grant from the city Department of Small Business Services Wednesday to help turn the area near the Metro-North station into an "Uptown Grand Central."
Kwanza Smith, executive director of the New Harlem East Merchants Association, said the money will be used to fund the group's collaboration with the Association of Community Employment Programs for the Homeless. A group of 6 to 8 men will clean between Fifth and Second avenues, between 124th and 126th streets Monday through Friday.
DEPARTMENT OF SMALL BUSINESS SERVICES ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHALLENGE
NYC DEPARTMENT OF SMALL BUSINESS SERVICES
PRESS RELEASE
Neighborhood Challenge Encourages Business Improvement Districts and Local Development Corporations to Strengthen Neighborhoods Through Creative and Innovative Initiatives
SBS Commissioner Robert W. Walsh announced the six winners of the Neighborhood Challenge during an awards breakfast held at the Roosevelt House in Manhattan. Launched in September 2013, Neighborhood Challenge is a competitive grant initiative designed to encourage Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), Local Development Corporations (LDCs), Merchant Associations, and other local economic development organizations to find innovative ways to improve services, generate economic activity, and attract more jobs and investment to their local commercial corridors. Grants ranging up to $100,000 were awarded to organizations that presented the most creative and impactful economic development and revitalization projects.
