West 71st St Block Association: 2016

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.

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Hello Friends and Neighbors,

On Saturday we had a very successful Block Spruce-Up Day! Every treewell was cleaned of any debris (bottles, trash, weeds, etc.), and fresh mulch was placed in them along with "Clean up after your dog and remove litter" signs (see attached). Special thanks to Mike and Debbie who did all the cleaning and mulching, along with help from some adorable youngsters!

We welcomed new members, chatted with neighbors, and enjoyed the Spring day together. We also had visits from both Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal and City Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal, both great friends of our Block Association!

Now you can help keep the street and treewells clean by asking your super to be sure to sweep out front including 18 inches into the street and tidy the treewells. The buildings are required by law to do this including cleaning bottles and litter from treewells. The cleaner the sidewalk and treewells are, the less chance of dogs and litter creating a mess. Thanks to Carol for arranging for the city to deliver many bags of mulch!

The attached flyer from the Sanitation Department can be printed out and shared with your super (if you'd like) and posted in your building.

Help us spread the word that dogs must be curbed and stay out of the treewells. Passersby must not litter on our block and dog owners must clean up after their dogs, as most do.

Thanks to all who attended and donated time, effort and funds for this project. Let's keep it clean!

Cheers,

Katina

Katina Ellison

Coordinator

West 71st Street Block Association

140 West 71st Street
Apt. 2EF
New York, NY 10023

From left: Theo, City Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal, Katina, Pastor Martin, and Maria

Mike and Debbie clean out tree pits and add mulch and signs

Our youngest helper!

Our canine friends stopped by to learn about being "curbed"!