Neighbors Working Together for a Safer and More Beautiful Block!

Stay tuned for our Spring Celebration!
at Grace & St. Paul's Church at 123 West 71st Street


at Grace & St. Paul's Church at 4pm

123 West 71st Street

Our next meeting: Saturday March 23rd at 4M. Come meet your neighbors and share and your concerns for our block!

Join us for refreshments,

Block Association T-shirts,

literature, and more.

Children are welcome!


The West 71st St Block Association covers the blocks between Central Park West and Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

West 71st Street is a great place to live and we are working together to make it even better!

Current issues we are looking into are: Stopping the proposed e-bike charging station for the bow-tie intersection (sign petition below!), beautifying the tree wells,
rats, trash/litter on the sidewalks, scaffolding, nighttime noise and illegal behavior, working with the 20th Precinct and outreach groups to help the homeless, and replacing the newspaper bins with newer and fewer ones.

We work on the above issues by collaborating with local legislators, city agencies, police, both churches on the block, local businesses, outreach to the homeless, Sanitation and Health Departments, landlords, neighbors.


How to help:

1. Tell your neighbors about our block association and have them e-mail us to add them to our list.

2. Call 311 or e-mail 311 at http://www.nyc.gov/apps/311/about.htm to report block issues. Or call the 20th police precinct at 212.580.6411.



Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Spring Spruce Up

On Sunday, April 1st, from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm, please join us as we spruce up tree pits on both sides of the block from Broadway to Columbus. 

Come by to help or just to say hello.

Monday, March 26, 2012

Trees

Bartlett Tree Experts pruned street trees on our block in March 2012, as part of the city's street tree maintenance program.  They cut branches that were too far out onto the street or too close to buildings. 

Tree tips:
Its so great to see the daffodils and tulips popping up in the tree pits along our block.  Now is a great time to start thinking about planting spring flowers like violas or pansies in your tree pits!  If you do so, remember to remove the tree branches and old leaves and add some new soil and compost beforehand. 

As we are getting into the warmer weather, be sure to water your trees once a week if there is no rain that week.