“After City Lifts Deed Restriction, Rivington House Building Sold For $116 Million to Luxury Developers”

Lousy news for this neighborhood.

Rivington House sold for $116 million dollars. The city “lifted the deed restrictions without any guarantees that the property would remain a community asset”.

At the same time that Cuomo and de Blasio are frantic to find housing for people with HIV AIDs this building, a former AIDs hospice, was let go for $16 million to the Allure Group (who just flipped a nursing home for condos in Bed Sty).

To read more detail: Lo-Down.

Thanks to the Lo-Down for their thorough reporting.

 

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Two -way bike lane on Chrystie Street proposal: CB3 Transportation Committee Meeting

Transportation Alternatives Manhattan activists would like to remind the neighborhood about their Chrystie Street bike campaign.

For those members who are able make this meeting please do attend and lend your expertise.

On March 8th, the Community Board 3 Transportation Committee will see a redesign proposal from DOT (supported by Transportation Alternatives) for a two-way protected bicycle lane alongside Sara D. Roosevelt Park.

The Coalition was also promised by DOT that an accessible, local, daytime meeting (with translation?) for the affected neighborhood to weigh in would be held! We will keep you posted.

Manhattan Community Board 3 Transportation Committee Meeting

When: Tuesday, March 8th at 6:30pm

Where: Grand Street Settlement Cornerstone, Seward Park Extension, 56 Essex St. (between Grand St. and Broome St.)

Transportation Alternative plans to call 600 constituents in the district, and recently distributed 200 bilingual flyers to advertise the event. If you would like more information about the campaign, please visit our website here: transalt.org/Chrystie

From the Transportation Alternatives website:

“Chrystie Street is one of the Lower East Side’s busiest and most traveled streets. On one side, Chrystie St. is framed by mixed-use commercial and residential space. On the other side lies the historic Sara D. Roosevelt Park, the Lower East Side’s largest green space, which serves people of all ages with space for play and events, a senior center, and seasonal vendors’ markets. A two-way protected bicycle lane can improve the streetscape alongside the park, increase flow for bicycling and improve parkside access.

People walking or biking on Chrystie Street deserve safer access at critical intersections that are the nexus with adjoining neighborhoods. Its intersections with major thoroughfares should take priority for traffic-calming measures.

 

We call on the Community Board 3 and Department of Transportation to implement the following improvements on Chrystie Street:

  • Safer and improved sidewalks and crosswalks, and the addition of pedestrian refuge islands
  • Traffic calming measures at the base of the Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges
  • A two-way, protected bicycle lane along the edge of Sara D. Roosevelt Park, and access to bicycle parking
  • Separated turning lanes and signal-phased traffic lights to facilitate direction to motorists and reduce traffic crashes by up to 58%”
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Noise survey from The New York State Comptroller’s Office

Dear New Yorkers:

The New York State Comptroller’s Office is conducting a survey on noise in New York City neighborhoods and would like you to take the survey.

You can access the survey through your Community Board. Your Community Board will email the survey weekly so make sure that you are on your Community Board’s email distribution list.

Community Boards may also choose to post  the survey links on their websites, Facebook pages, Twitter feeds and other social media.

Research has demonstrated that noise can adversely impact public health. For example, noise can disturb sleep and increase stress levels.
We want to learn about your experience of noise in your community and solicit your ideas for reducing noise.

Toward that end, we are asking all community residents take the survey by March 15, 2016.

Thank you!

State Government Accountability
New York State Comptroller’s Office

Survey Links:

English: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5B9QWY5


Chinese
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/B5DC5TR


Spanish: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8YTWYXV

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