West 71st St Block Association: October 2020

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.

Sunday, October 25, 2020

Hello Friends!

Despite the current crisis, the West 71st Street Block Association remains active behind the scenes, working on issues of safety, beautification, rat control etc. Soon we will clean out the treewells that are neglected and place fresh mulch and then Christmas tree branches after Thanksgiving.

We continue to monitor conditions on our block and call 311 when appropriate for sanitation and safety issues as they arise. We are working with OneBlockUWS on keeping our neighborhood clean!

Our members work to see that scaffolding, sidewalk sheds and dumpsters are removed as soon as work is finished.

We will resume Zoom meetings shortly and will send out an invitation.

We welcome your ideas!

Kindly,

Katina and Friends

Treewells at Blessed Sacrament, when beautifully planted;

we have plans to spruce up all the treewells, as we do each year