West 71st St Block Association: April 2023

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.

Saturday, April 22, 2023

West 71^st Street Block Association

Neighbors working together for a safer and more beautiful block!

Please join us for our

Spring Outreach Day!

Saturday, May 27th 11am-2pm

Grace & St. Paul’s Church

123 West 71^st Street

Children and Dogs Welcome!

Come and meet your neighbors and share your ideas for our block!

We will also be tidying the block, cleaning out treewells, and placing fresh mulch and signs.

We are grateful for the support of City Councilmember Gale Brewer, Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal, Community Board 7, Blessed Sacrament, and to Pastor Martin Hauser and Grace & St. Paul’s Church for hosting our meetings and this celebration!

West 71st Street Block Association

http://w71stba.blogspot.com/ W71STBA@gmail.com