Neighbors Working Together for a Safer and More Beautiful Block!

Please join us for our Summer Celebration on Saturday June 22, 2024 from 11-2!
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 22, 2023

  Please sign the petition to stop an e-bike charging station on our subway island at   71st and Broadway!   You can sign the petition here! 

 We have been working hard with our Community Board, elected officials and West 72nd and 73rd Street Block Associations on this!   This is a very unsafe proposal - dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists alike. 

 

Here is an update: 

On Tuesday, March 7th, Community Board 7 voted 27 to 8 to reject a plan to create an e-bike charging station at the south plaza subway stop at West 71-72nd Street and Broadway. For more information, please see below our joint letter with W71 and W73 Street Block Associations.   You can also read more about it in the following articles:

·       West Side Rag 

·       ILoveTheUpperWestSide.com

https://gothamist.com/news/upper-west-side-votes-against-proposed-rest-stop-for-delivery-workers-at-72nd-street


As a next step, we encourage you to sign our petition - SIGN HERE - to urge local officials to think creatively to identify another location suitable to build this hub. The W71st, 72nd and 73rd Street Block Associations will continue to work closely with local officials on this matter and will keep you all informed. Our primary concern in this matter is the safety of pedestrians. 

 

Please share this petition with others who share our concerns

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