NYT Opinion Page Letter – From Neighbors to Save Rivington House

As longtime residents of the Lower East Side, we share your concern about the sale of Rivington House (“How Did a Nursing Home Become a Condo?,” editorial, Aug. 2). We, too, have been asking the mayor to explain how this vital neighborhood resource came to be sold to a luxury condo developer under his watch. Like the editorial board, we have yet to receive a satisfactory response.

If the Lower East Side keeps losing services and homes like Rivington House, the aging and the sick in our community will soon have no option but to leave the neighborhood entirely, and with it the network of trusted friends and neighbors, community gardens and parks that have been built over many decades.

This kind of rupture is a loss to all New Yorkers, rich and poor, young and old. We hope that the mayor will see this and choose to help saveRivington House rather than simply managing the controversy surrounding it.

K. WEBSTER

TESSA HUXLEY

New York

The writers are members of Neighbors to Save Rivington House.

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NYT: Want to Relax in a New York City Park? Join the Crowd

Photo: Benjamin Norman for The New York Times

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“A stretch of Sara D. Roosevelt Park on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The sprawling New York City public park system, which includes 2,000 parks, has never been busier, according to park officials, volunteers and conservancy groups. “

“Across New York City, outdoor time used to be the perfect antidote to the bustle and frustration of urban life.

Not anymore. Today, it can just add to the stress.” Read more article ….

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Chinese Progressive Association Presents: Candidates Forum & Get Out the Vote

65th New York State Assembly district (includes parts of Chinatown, Lower East Side, Battery Park City, Soho, Financial District, Soho, Seaport, Little Italy) 

DATE/TIME: Sunday August 14, 2pm-4pm

Place: 62 Mott Street (CCBA auditorium)

(bet. Canal & Bayard St.)

 

This summer, join The Chinese Progressive Association to make sure that our voices from Chinatown and the Lower East Side are heard in September and November. 

  • Register new voters
  • Visit or make phone calls 
  • Chinese language skills welcome but not necessary.
  • Training provided. Learn about voting and community empowerment, how to have a conversation to help more people participate and vote!
  • Community service credits provided
  • Activities are non-partisan

Upcoming volunteer days:

Saturday, August 6

Tuesday, August 9

Wednesday, August 10

Thursday, August 11

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GreenThumb Job postings

For more details go to the website: GreenThumb Job Postings

 

 

Full–Time Jobs

Position Title File Size Date Posted
Outreach Coordinator/GreenThumb [PDF] (Community Associate) (PDF, 158 kb) 07/29/16
Project & Design Coordinator [PDF] (Community Coordinator) (PDF, 159 kb) 07/29/16
Special Programs Coordinator [PDF] (Community Coordinator) (PDF, 121 kb) 07/29/16
Team Leader [PDF] (Administrative Project Manager, MII) (PDF, 110 kb) 07/29/16
Thermostat Repairer [PDF] (Thermostat Repairer) (PDF, 159 kb) 07/29/16
Green Infrastructure Project Manager [PDF] (Landscape Architect, I) (PDF, 170 kb) 07/22/16
IT Project Manager [PDF] (Community Coordinator) (PDF, 154 kb) 07/22/16
Contracts Associate [PDF] (Community Coordinator) (PDF, 170 kb) 06/10/16
Project Development Coordinator – Innovation & Performance Management [PDF] (Community Coordinator) (PDF, 169 kb) 05/13/16
Capital Projects Estimator [PDF] (Construction Project Manager, II) (PDF, 126 kb) 05/06/16
Capital Projects Estimator [PDF] (Landscape Architect, I) (PDF, 157 kb) 05/06/16
Capital Projects Estimator [PDF] (Senior Estimator) (PDF, 157 kb) 04/29/16
Resident Engineer [PDF] (Construction Project Manager, II) (PDF, 129 kb) 04/29/16
Deputy Director of Survey [PDF] (Surveyor, III) (PDF, 115 kb) 04/22/16
Consultant Project Manager [PDF] (Landscape Architect II) (PDF, 172 kb) 04/15/16
Specifications Writer [PDF] (Landscape Architect Intern) (PDF, 142 kb) 04/15/16
Landscape Architect [PDF] (Landscape Architect, II) (PDF, 197 kb) 04/08/16
Borough Team Leader [PDF] (Administrative Project Manager, MII) (PDF, 104 kb) 04/01/16
Chief of Policy and Long-Range Planning [PDF] (Administrative City Planner) (PDF, 175 kb) 04/01/16
Electrical Engineer [PDF] (Electrical Engineer, I) (PDF, 156 kb) 03/25/16
Structural Engineer for Waterfront Projects [PDF] (Civil Engineer, II) (PDF, 161 kb) 03/25/16
Environmental Resident Engineer [PDF] (Civil Engineer, II) (PDF, 125 kb) 03/18/16
Resident Engineer [PDF] (Construction Project Manager, II) (PDF, 127 kb) 02/26/16
Architect [PDF] (Architect, II) (PDF, 115 kb) 02/19/16
Senior Specifications Writer-Structures [PDF] (Assistant Architect) (PDF, 159 kb) 02/19/16
Civil Engineering Intern [PDF] (Civil Engineering Intern) (PDF, 91 kb) 01/29/16
Senior Designer [PDF] (Landscape Architect, III) (PDF, 157 kb) 01/29/16
Stationary Engineer [PDF] (Stationary Engineer) (PDF, 111 kb) 01/29/16
Assistant Landscape Architect [PDF] (Assistant Landscape Architect) (PDF, 155 kb) 01/15/16
Parks Enforcement Patrol [PDF] (Urban Park Ranger) (PDF, 167 kb) 12/11/15
Forester [PDF] (Forester, II)

 

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Third Workshop: Land! Money! Power!

We of the Stanton Building Task Force are grateful for the community response and look forward to working even more effectively in concert with all of Community Board 3’s Park and Green Space activists, leaders (that’s YOU!) and stewards.

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We thank *NYCommons, all of our interpreters last night, (Jina Porter, Francisco Miranda, Tony Zheng, and Lai Chung) the BRC Center, Dee Myers, Bob Humber, our interns Chyna Krouse, Tony Deyao Zheng, Michael Pimentel, and Eddie Glass.

We also thank Christine Datz-Romero of the Lower East Side Ecology Center,  Susan Stetzer District Manager of CB3, Leah Worrel of Partnerships for Parks, and Emily Walker from NYers for Parks for generously sharing their hard-won, hands-on, decades-in-the-making knowledge.

We thankBorough President Gale Brewer and Assembly Member Alice Cancel for sending their representatives. We thank the facilitators whose mission was to ensure that everyone’s voice was heard. Tremendous expertise and experience was shared by our communities with one another!

And thank you to the DOE Fund and Danny for providing the delicious food!

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The Steering Committee of the Stanton Building Task Force (Green Map System, University Settlement House and the Sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition) again wish to thank our partner’s *NYCommons (Common Cause/NY, 596 Acres and Urban Justice Center) for all their support and assistance.

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