Upper West Side city council members are drumming up ideas for how to spend $1 million in each of their districts on capital projects. Meetings about the “participatory budgeting” process are continuing through the next couple of weeks.
For Helen Rosenthal’s district (most of the neighborhood below 96th street), the meetings are at the following times and places:
Wednesday, October 22nd
6:30pm to 8:30pm
General Neighborhood Assembly
Marseilles Senior Center
230 W 103rd Street
(between Broadway and West End Ave)
Tuesday, October 28th
6:30pm to 8:30pm
General Neighborhood Assembly
John Jay College
524 W 59th Street
First floor new building
For Mark Levine’s district (above 96th) meetings are set for these times and locations:
Upper West Side Assembly
Location: The Children’s Aid Society, 885 Columbus Avenue @104th Street
Date: Wednesday, October 22nd
Time: 6:30-9:30 PM
RSVP here!
Washington Heights Assembly
Location: Church of Intercession, 550 West 155th Street
Date: Saturday, October 25th
Time: 1:00-3:30 PM
RSVP here!
Below are two videos about the process:
Helen Rosenthal PSA from Manhattan Neighborhood Network on Vimeo.
Take the $1mm and use it as down payment towards a project to build overpasses for pedestrians in the park. Saving lives from avoidable accidents is worth more than any other capital improvement project that the UWS currently needs.
Spend a million dollars on punishing the people who think they are too good to clean up after their dogs. You will make double the money back in just fines.
Build a monorail!
ha!! i’ve always been a monorail fan since the 1964 World’s Fair but i thought i was the only one.
Of course it would mean basically bringing back the El — which way back when ran on 9th ave, i think including up Columbus. someone will know the exact route.
the 9th Avenue El: it ran up Columbus to 110th, then turned east and ran up 8th to 155th. Fascinating pictures in the link.
https://www.mta.info/news/2011/10/26/remembering-9th-avenue-el
MONORAIL!!!!!
Agreed on spending the money on increased enforcement and ticketing of folks that don’t curb their dogs. And that means making dog-walkers have their pooches relieve themselves at the curb (and not in the middle of the sidewalk).