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A Community Board committee wants to study ways to reduce car traffic cutting through the UWS en route to somewhere else.

The plan calls for 50 studio apartments, the majority for formerly homeless adults and the rest for low-income individuals.

CB7 does not believe the hardship application should be granted for the West-Park Presbyterian Church.

“And thus, the Landmarks Preservation Commission should not grant a hardship application."

A pair of UWSers are working to create a Business Improvement District for the neighborhood's Broadway corridor.

"It’s messy, dirty and loud."

"I'm not interested in a fight," Gary Barnett, the founder and chairman of Extell Development, told CB7 on Wednesday.

Gale Brewer on Extell's chairman: "He always wants tall, he always wants condo, and he always hates affordable."

Three of the Upper West Side secondary street namings were approved, while one was not.

Locals filled a Community Board 7 meeting Tuesday night to learn more details about the incoming West 74th Street women's shelter.

This was the first live in-person meeting for the full board since March 2020.

Things have been heating up lately, what with the safe haven, the dock house, the deliverista hub, and crosstown bike lanes on the agenda.

"A community board is an advocacy organization that can elevate community concerns to the attention of city, state and federal government in ways individuals cannot."

Community boards allow people to participate in government at the most grassroots level.

That observation turned out to be an accurate lead-in to what came next.

Community Board 7 tackled a whole range of issues, from school construction delays to street improvements to smoke shops.

Community Board 7 on Tuesday will consider the future of the landmarked West Park Presbyterian Church at Amsterdam and West 86th Street.

Applications to join Community Board 7 (CB7) are being accepted now through March 1st,

Community Board 7 will host a hate crime forum on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. with officials from New York law enforcement to address the rise in hate crime incidents in the city.

More than 200 people logged in to the Community Board 7 meeting on Tuesday night to talk bike lanes, liquor licenses, smoking laws and the most heated topic