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Dangerous, decrepit sheds left over from MTA Construction.

Hiding spots, trash/rat infested, hide sight-lines into Park.

ConEd, MTA, DOT, 5th Pct and /or Parks – can we please get these removed?

Call 311 to file a complaint then send that number to the Community Board office:

Community Board 3, Manhattan 59 East 4th Street New York, NY 10003

Phone: 212-533-5300
Email: mn03@cb.nyc.gov
File a Complaint Online

August 29th 2025

Photos by April Xu

A look back at University Settlement’s ROAR Festival 2023:

Press Conference led by the Settlement’s CEO Melissa Aase

with Tommy Ong American Legion, K Webster Sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition, Wellington Chen Chinatown Partnership our 5th Pct, and Faye Qiu Project Manager and Adam Black, Gabe and many others.

Above Team with former Manhattan Parks Commissioner Perez and Jamil Phillips Manhattan Deputy Chief of Operations and team.

Veronica Wong, former Advocacy Director for University Settlement, Wendy Brawer (ED GreenMap) Ryan Gilliam (FABnyc) Chynna Krouser and K Webster SRPCC and Faye Qiu Project Manager for ROAR.

K Webster SRPCC with Chynna and with Faye and with former Manhattan Park Commissioner Perez.

Gabe and Tommy American Legion

Perez with Tommy Ong and Veronica Wong, Ian Wang, Mrs. Perez, and baby and former Man Commish Perez

Thankful for our sports and for Bellevue’s Jeff who with his crew is out here every week.

Gardens in front of the BRC: Homeless Memorial, Bette Hubbard, Rivington House and (soon to be) temporary home of the Hua Mei Birders during south of Delancey park reconstruction.

Tessa’s Gardens Stanton to Houston.

South of Delancey Gardens: Ribbon, Center, Hua Mei and de Britto. And more side gardens further south.

Thank you MKGardeners, Tessa Rob, Kate, K, the Alliance and all the volunteers here.

MKGarden Flowers and People at Rivington and Tessa’s Garden Houston

And two Gardens South of Delancey

Con Ed? MTA? Contractor?

These spaces are not safe to have on the edges of this park.

Sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition, Congressman Dan Goldman, Chinatown Partnership,  University Settlement,  5th Pcts’ Youth Officers and the Youth Explorers, University Settlement, Community Board 3, Think!Chinatown, Sing Tao Daily, The American Legion, NYS Environmental Conservation, and many others!

Youth Explorers!!! With their devoted 5th Pct Officers PO Chan and PO Smith! The hard working team helps out the park and beyond – they are all standing on solid ground leading to solid futures.

With their fans: K (SRPCC) and Lisa and Yvonne (American Legion/PS130)

Sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition’s Debra Jeffreys-Glass and K Webster with long time partner and foundational organization University Settlement. Thanks Penelope Hernandez Gonzalez, Niki Liao, Barbara DiGangi and Nate Markov!

Community Board 3 In the House!!

Karlin Chan, Mollye (Zijia) Liu, DM Susan Stetzer, and Mae Lee (on her way to the 7th Pcts Night Out!)

Always good to see Congressman Dan Goldman!

Amy Chin Board President of Think!Chinatown here too!! With information on the LAST Night Market! – FRIDAY August 15th

NYS Environmental Conservation team! The Bronx and Manhattan’s own Tyler Ableson (who may have copped a  fully preserved Puffer Fish)

And the ever present Wellington Chen (Chinatown Partnership), Chinatown’s ubiquitous and well-respected Reporter Lotus Chau of Sing Tao Daily and the hardest working women we know: Lisa Wong and Yvonne Moy!

And New Paint for Rivington Playground Benches. Thank you 4TP!

Hester to Grand Bball Courts and Handball Courts.

Tessa, Volunteer Gardener in Sara Roosevelt Park for Decades.

Now “Guardian Gardener” of the new MTA Forsyth Plaza, with a common sense proposal for relocating the CitiBike Stand. 

To: DOT’s Scherer:  (Excerpt-See full letter below)

“We very much want to be sure that the Citibikes are moved to a close location but NOT on our new found plaza. We suggest that they be moved into the new pedestrian portion of Forsyth Street just north of Rivington Street.  This would be in keeping with the other Citibike stations below Delancey and Grand Streets.

Please let me know your thoughts or whether you would like to walk the area with me, and possibly others, to look at the situation.  I look forward to meeting you and appreciate your assistance in this matter.”

How the new Plaza looked after completion.

How our community is enjoying this space!

Tessa’s work:

Now:

Dear Ms. Scherer:

I am writing to you today to begin a conversation about the eventual relocation of the Citibike station currently in the Rivington Street transverse of Sara D Roosevelt Park. I am sure you are either actively in conversation with Steve Simon at the Parks Department or at least aware that our Community Board (#3) has been working on a redesign of the Rivington Street Playground and the transverse with Parks.

As a 40+ year resident of Forsyth Street between Delancey and Rivington Streets I have watched many scary interactions between vehicles and pedestrians on that particular transverse.  As a result I am very pleased with the proposal to move the bikes elsewhere and to install permanent tables and chairs in the transverse as obstacles/traffic control as well as to separate adults from children within the playground.

As a volunteer I have taken on the care of the 22 new street trees that our block has received post the MTA’s construction of the Emergency Fan Ventilation Plant.  These trees, and the “plaza” that the MTA has created, are a “reward” for the 6 years of construction we had to endure.  We, the residents of the block, and others in the community, are really enjoying our new plaza and are looking forward to a MUCH greener streetscape and better air.

The Proposal:

That said, we need your assistance.  We very much want to be sure that the Citibikes are moved to a close location but NOT on our new found plaza.

Below you will see my photographs of the proposed area we hope you will consider (maybe you already have).  Steve Simon (Parks Dept. Landscape Architect) gave me no indication of what DOT has in mind.  We suggest that they be moved into the new pedestrian portion of Forsyth Street just north of Rivington Street.  This would be in keeping with the other Citibike stations below Delancey and Grand Streets.

Please let me know your thoughts or whether you would like to walk the area with me, and possibly others, to look at the situation.  I look forward to meeting you and appreciate your assistance in this matter.

Sincerely yours,

Tessa Huxley, president
152 Forsyth Street HDFC