Protecting and improving the community for the people who live and work here

Housing Help & Listening to Thoughts on Sara Roosevelt Park Upgrades

The Offerings:

Beautiful accurate Map of this section of the Park via NYC Parks Department to write our thoughts about.

and

“Housing court help”, “keep  your families home” “voter rights” “civic engagment” “Avoiding eviction” “ways to reduce rent arrears”, “Know your rights – tenant protections”, Tenant repair rights, “What is Fair Housing?”!

 

The Community

some wandered through, others came full of purpose, small business owners, residents, sports players, gardeners, passersby, martial artists.

The Elected Reps, our Community Organizations and all our volunteers and staff!

For lending their weight, know-how, minds and hearts and tons of information on housing rights, test kits, masks and more!!

Senator Brian Kavanagh, Assembly Member Grace Lee, Council Member Chris Marte and John Blasco representing Congressman Dan Goldman.

 

The Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit: Staff & Volunteers: (thanks Jude and Louise for organizing your team) Paul, Brian and 

University Settlement: Housing Staff: Rohan and Salina! 

The Parks Department: Max Goodstein, Ricardo Hinkle, Crystal Xing, Jamil Phillips, and staff

Chinese Progressive Association: Mae Lee

Sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition: K Webster, Debra Jeffreys Glass, Sandy Pliego, Edward Shalala, Steve Elson, Carinna) Translations: Kim Fong, Sandy Pliego.

and

This neighborhood’s volunteers, residents, park users, gardeners who’ve been supporters for decades.

The behind the scenes work of:

Emily Leng (Senator Kavanagh’s Office) flyer/logistics, Jamil Phillips (Parks Manager) and staff,  Fannie Ip (Assembly Member Lee’s Office), Caitlin Kelmar (Council Member Chris Marte’s Office), Sara Roosevelt Volunteers: K Webster, Debra Jeffreys Glass, Sandy Pliego, Edward Shalala, Steve Elson) Translations: Kim Fong, Sandy Pliego.

 

Thank you to all who made this day work!!

 

and a lovely martial arts display in The Pit!

 

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Biden administration passed CLIMATE bills: The Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.

HOW DO WE IMPLEMENT THESE TOOLS?
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A conversation with NYTimes Ezra Klein with Bill McKibbon 
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” the Biden administration…passed a huge series of climate bills. The Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act. It’s about $450 billion in climate investment…
 
 
“new agencies, and standards, and mandates and goals. And even more than that, those bills and that politics has been a signal to the private sector which is investing here, to lots of young people who are going into climate tech and climate activism, to all kinds of members of the building trades who are reorganizing and retooling and retraining to know how to build everything we’re going to need to build, to electrify, to weatherize. It’s big. What has to happen in the coming years is big. And we can’t just expect that it’ll happen on its own.”
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This Saturday, September 16th, 12pm- 4pm, Join Elected Reps Offices!!

Inside Sara Roosevelt Park btwn Forsyth/Chrystie @ Broome (map by GreenMapNYC)

Learn more about upcoming and very welcome Sara Roosevelt Park NYC Parks Department renovations and learn how we can protect our local tenants!!

Join Congressman Dan Goldman‘s, Senator Brian Kavanagh‘s, AssemblyMember Grace Lee‘s, Council Member Chris Marte’s Offices and the Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit and University Settlement House

With Sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition and Community.

 

Congressman Dan Goldman’s Office Joining!

 

 

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