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Participatory Budgeting* (what IS participatory budgeting? – see below)

For Stanton Building Area.

Start with Renovations that make the area safer RIGHT NOW!

D1. Here’s the link to vote for this project.

“My Project Idea is:

Renovations for the windows, doors, and exterior lighting of the northernmost building in Sara D Roosevelt Park, the Stanton Parkhouse

So that people can:

Better enjoy the park and feel safe while walking through the park. The Stanton Parkhouse is uniquely situated to be an anchor for SDR Park at its north end, but its current underuse can make it feel abandoned and unsafe. By revitalizing the exterior of the building, we can create a safer park environment for neighbors and parkgoers. The improved lighting can address safety issues in the area, and along with the exterior repairs, will encourage more foot traffic. By encouraging more neighbors and visitors to use SDR Park, these repairs will benefit nearby businesses and enhance the feeling of community and safety in the neighborhood.”

Our Council Member Christopher Marte Our Council District is District 1

CM Marte and Amal

*This year, 30 Council Members across New York City are asking residents how to spend at least $30 million in capital funding. Between September and October, you can propose ideas that would improve public spaces such as schools, parks, libraries and public housing in your community.

Submit your ideas via our online, digital map here. Let the participation begin!

We could have this:

*What is PBNYC?

In 2011, four New York City Council Members – Brad Lander, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Eric Ulrich, and Jumaane D. Williams – launched a PB process to allow residents in their district to allocate part of their capital discretionary funds. Over the years, the process has grown to include a majority of Council Members, giving communities real decision-making over more than $35 million in taxpayer money on an annual basis.

Participatory Budgeting in New York City (PBNYC) plays an important role in giving communities the ability to directly impact the capital budgeting process. It motivates New Yorkers to engage the civic process and make decisions by sharing ideas, developing proposals, and voting on community projects. Since 2011, PBNYC has strengthened our communities and made our city stronger over the last few years.

PBNYC funds physical infrastructure projects that benefit the public, cost at least $50,000 and have a lifespan of at least 5 years. Local improvements to schools, parks, libraries, public housing, streets and other public spaces can be funded through this process.

What is Participatory Budgeting?

Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. The process began in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 1989. Today, there are more than 3,000 participatory budgeting processes around the world, most at the municipal level.

Solid days work by gardeners led by Colleen!

All photos by Jane Barrer.

Hi Gardeners,

It’s My Park Day! Stanton Task Force

October 30^th 12pm – 3pm Stanton Area of Sara Roosevelt

University Settlement, FABnyc, GreenMap, Partnerships for Parks, Partnerships for Parks, and Sara Roosevelt Coalition and It’s My Park Day!

Help advocate for the Stanton Buildings return – Halloween and art projects, planting bulbs, advocacy for the park, FreeStore, and more.

Volunteers welcome to come plant bulbs!

Council Member Chris Marte Seeks Suggestions for Allocating Capital Funds to Local Projects

Let’s hear your voice!

“My Project Idea is” http://ideas.pbnyc.org/14/40.71441/-73.99854

From the Stanton Task Force:

Renovations for the windows, doors, and exterior lighting of the northernmost building in Sara D Roosevelt Park, the Stanton Parkhouse

So that people can:

Better enjoy the park and feel safe while walking through the park. The Stanton Parkhouse is uniquely situated to be an anchor for SDR Park at its north end, but its current underuse can make it feel abandoned and unsafe. By revitalizing the exterior of the building, we can create a safer park environment for neighbors and parkgoers. The improved lighting can address safety issues in the area, and along with the exterior repairs, will encourage more foot traffic. By encouraging more neighbors and visitors to use SDR Park, these repairs will benefit nearby businesses and enhance the feeling of community and safety in the neighborhood.

https://sdrpc.mkgarden.org/updated-return-stanton-parkhouse-to-fdrs-intended-use-for-this-community/

Draft Proposals for Delancey South to Grand North & Petition to Save the Pit https://sdrpc.mkgarden.org/petition-to-save-the-pit-and-draft-proposals-for-delancey-st-south-to-grand-st-north/

Sara Roosevelt Park From NY4P in the News Friday morning parks news round up.

“Study after study and our own practice has shown that the only way a park truly becomes safer is when the public uses it–Jane Jacobs’… “eyes on the street.” Anchors of positive use are needed…they have been offered, requested and consistently stonewalled: small business’ kiosks staffed by high school teens, parkhouses as bustling multi-use hubs, accessible entryways, popular sites upgraded, water sources…infrastructure, and an incentivized, job-secure park staff.” – K Webster Pres SRPCC

Op-Ed | Local communities have been fighting for our parks — it’s time for the city to help (amNY, September 22, 2022)

5^th Precinct’s Build a Block Meeting Sector B (Sector B is Sara Roosevelt Park and nearby)

Wednesday November 16 at 6:30

Talk directly to local patrol officers. PO Tsering Dhundup, PO Jasim Mia, PO Daniel Au, PO Fei Dong, DET William Campaign, PO Lucian Velazquez

Location: BRC Senior Center 30 Delancey Street (inside the park – north Delancey side)

More info https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/5th-precinct.page

Clean Up Broome Street Area! with Sokie and Ken’s “Clean Up NYC!” Saturday October 15^th 11:30am to 1:15am Volunteers are welcome!

M’Finda Kalunga Garden IMPD October 15^th! Halloween October 30^th!

Rivington House Memorial Plaque installed

In memory of the residents and workers, the neighborhood, and the institution that stepped up to welcome in this state-of-the-art HIV/AIDS nursing home facility.

Volunteer gardeners are welcome to help maintain this plot. Please contact this email address to be put in touch with Rob, the Gardener who has been caring for it.

Little Amal, an international symbol for immigrants and refugees, visited Sara Roosevelt Park on September 28. (Alex Aron -Remote Theater Project/Tenement Museum/Wellington Chen- Chinatown Partnership, etc)

https://sdrpc.mkgarden.org/little-amal-walks-into-sara-roosevelt-park/

Commemorated: the 11^th Anniversary of Pvt. Danny Chen’s Death– after weeks of hazing and racial harassment while serving in Afghanistan. Danny Chen Way.

Alexander Hamilton Immigrant Awards Ceremony: Honored Wellington Chen ED Chinatown BID/Partnership, Michael Arad Twin Towers Memorial, Commissioner Manuel Castro MO Immigrant Affairs!

A bit of Indigenous land history here:

“About sixty -five hundred years ago…this environment attracted small-game hunters and foragers..most spoke Munsee, a dialect of the Delaware language which their name for themselves was Lenape- “People”. Their land was Lenapehoking “where the Lenapes dwell”

Within the five boroughs…archeologists have identified about eighty Lenape habitation sites, more than two dozen planting fields, and the intricate network of paths and trails that laced them all together” – Gotham

African Heritage Land History Here

Broome Street and Forsyth land once owned by African formerly enslaved men and used as a buffer between the Dutch to the south and the Lenape to the north. More to come from our local researchers.

Sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition
https://sdrpc.mkgarden.org/

https://www.facebook.com/StantonBldg

@SaraRPCC

The Lower Manhattan Historical Association & Trinity Church Wall Street

Honored:

Wellington Chen ED of Chinatown BID and Chinatown Partnership

NYC Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs Manuel Castro

Michael Arad – Architect/Designer for the 9/11 Memorial

Some of the clearest and most generous talks on democracy anywhere, ever.

Welcoming or Presenting or Recognized Former Recipient: CM Gale Brewer, Tina Lee (World Journal), MBP Mark Levine, Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, Former CM Chin, Senator Brian Kavanagh, CM Chris Marte, Vicar Michal Bird, President of Lower Manhattan Historical Society Ambrose Richardson, and Peter Feinman.

Chinatown’s long-time advocates/newer advocates, old friends/colleagues honor Danny Chen.

PS130‘s students and Principal Fong and former teacher Mrs. McConnell, former Council Member Margaret Chin, tireless advocates Ed Ma, Rocky Chin, Wellington Chen, Current Council Member Chris Marte, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (with Harold Moy advocate for PS130), Danny’s cousins, Minerva Chin and so many more.

“From the Syria-Turkey border all the way to the UK, The Walk brought together celebrated artists, major cultural institutions, community groups and humanitarian organisations, creating one of the most innovative and adventurous public artworks ever attempted, all in support of refugees.”

Remote Productions: video link and project website: Walk With Amal

Little Amal with Pace students, Council Member Marte, and the neighborhood.

Thank you to Partnerships for Parks for hosting this meet-and-greet event at the Arsenal on 5th Avenue.  Good to hear from our umbrella organization City Parks Foundation ED Heather Lubov and Partnerships for Parks Director Sabina Saragoussi and our own local Coordinator Rene Cuenca!

Wonderful to meet many new Parkies as well as (some of us very) old ones!

Great to meet, in person, both our new Deputy Parks Commissioner Iris Rodriguez-Rosa (who understands what working in some of our struggling parks means) and to our new Manhattan Parks Commissioner Anthony Perez (who has already done a LOT of homework as he comes into this job).

We already appreciate their enthusiasm, fresh perspectives and open joy in the job, the people and the parks.

Dep Parks Commish Rodriquez-Rosa, SaraRPCC: VP Debra Jeffreys-Glass, Pres K Webster

Manhattan Parks Commish Anthony Perez (not from last evening – no photo came out at the party!)

Essentially Sector B is Sara Roosevelt Park and two or three (East/West) streets beyond it.

Find out more here (including a map)

With appreciation to Farmer Ted, The Stanton Community Supported Agriculture or CSA and the M’Finda Gardener Chicken Caregivers.