West 71st St Block Association: July 2022

Neighbors Working Together for a Safer and More Beautiful Block!

Please join us for our next meeting Saturday January 25th at 4PM!

at Grace & St. Paul's Church at 123 West 71st Street

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

123 West 71st Street

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! Come and meet our co-leaders Katina Ellison and Karen Raschke.

Current issues we are working on: Improving safety and reducing chaos at the pedestrian plaza outside McDonald's following the shootings there on Halloween 2024. 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, Community Board 7, 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.

Monday, July 18, 2022

Hello Friends & Neighbors,

We held our first in-person West 71sty Street Block Association meeting on Sunday June 26th at 4pm at our usual meeting place, Grace & St. Paul's Chruch at 123 West 71st Street. Thank you to Pastor Martin and the church for working with us and welcoming us for all these years.

We are continuing to focus on beautifying and cleaning our block and we welcome your donations to buy mulch, signs, etc. Please let us know of your concerns and ideas!

Please let us know if any of your concerns and we will keep you posted as to our next meeting.

Meantime, continue to enjoy the Summer, including free activities at Lincoln Center, in our Parks, and other nearby spots.

Lincoln Center Plaza on a Summer evening

The West Side Rag has a consistently great weekly events listing here.

Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City programming continues; check this link for calendar. Every Wednesday from 8 – 10pm on Jaffe Drive, Comedy Underground presents new standup comedians. Film at Lincoln Center screens several movies outdoors each week.

NYC Parks and the Riverside Park Conservancy sponsor hundreds of free events in the park all summer (PDF). Follow them on Twitter, especially for cancellations due to weather: @summeronhudson.

Hudson River Park events can be found here; sign up at the top of their webpage to receive their weekly newsletter with dozens of free events listed.

Sunday Open Streets on Columbus Avenue!

https://www.columbusavenuebid.org/openstreets

Parks

For weekly emails on events in our parks: manage your NYC Parks newsletter subscriptions.

Kind wishes,

Katina and Neighbors