THE DAILY NEWS

By Holley Drakeford

The de Blasio administration has big future plans for East Harlem. But before ushering in new development, officials must do more to improve quality of life here on East 125th St., right now.

While some efforts have been made, the problems still linger: homelessness,K2 drug use and an unfairly high density of methadone clinics, to name a few. Uptown, we never got a highly touted “multi-agency task force” like Times Square did.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

By Matt Chaban

When Eric Gonzalez started working as a custodian on East 125th Street in Harlem for a local merchant’s association earlier this year, the hardest part was not hauling trash or sweeping gutters. It was dealing with the K2 addicts.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

By Melanie Grayce West

At the 1997 groundbreaking for East Harlem’s Pathmark, well-wishers in attendance included the governor, the mayor and the neighborhood’s U.S. congressman, as well as a sea of businessmen, philanthropists and Latino and African-American community leaders.

THE NYC FOOD POLICY CENTER

By Ashley Rafalow

We caught up with Carey King, Project Director at New Harlem East Merchants Association, to learn more about NHEMA’s mission, core programs and food-related initiatives:

THE NEW YORK TIMES

By Nicholas Casey & Al Baker

About a week ago, 125th Street in East Harlem had been the site of a sprawling homeless population that converged between Park and Lexington Avenues to pass the afternoons, often deep in the haze of cheap drugs.

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

NYC ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

PRESS RELEASE

NYCEDC is uniting community stakeholders, business and property owners, and public agencies around a shared vision and implementation strategy that transforms public space and improves walkability around this important uptown transit hub.

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.

THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

By Frank Green

This probably isn’t what they mean when they talk about the greening of New York.

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.