Neighbors Working Together for a Safer and More Beautiful Block!

Please join us for our Autumn Celebration on Saturday October 4th from 11am-2PM!
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 12, 2025

We are working hard to clean up the area outside McDonald's to reduce chaos in that area!

Article from "I Love the Upper Westside" - April 11, 2025

Read entire article here: 

https://www.ilovetheupperwestside.com/71st-street-bike-corral-bounced-from-planned-location-block-association-fights-back/

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71st Street Bike Corral Bounced from Planned Location: Block Association Fights Back

   April 11, 2025  Community

On April 3, the 71st Street Block Association sent an email addressed to Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal, City Councilmember Gale Brewer, and State Senator Brad Hoylman.

“We are writing to you because we need your help in securing our promised bike corral in the street just off the curb at the McDonald’s Plaza (at 71st and Amsterdam), which was agreed upon when we met on November 18, 2024,” it read. The message was co-signed by Katina Ellison and Karen Raschke, the co-leaders of the association.

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3 comments:

  1. breakawayfilmsSeptember 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM

    Across the street from McDonalds (71st and Amsterdam NW corner) the construction crew leaves a mess every day. How can we contact the field manager to fix this?

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  2. Katina EllisonJanuary 17, 2026 at 6:56 PM

    We are actively working with our community board and Sanitation, along with other city agencies, on improving conditions at the building you are referring to. Thank you for contacting us!

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  3. Katina EllisonJanuary 17, 2026 at 6:57 PM

    Please contact 311 with any complaints or concerns about our neighborhood. They follow up on every complaint!

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