Ten members answered the call to run as candidates for the WSNA Steering Committee!
Click here to view their candidate statements.
We hope to see you on Tuesday, June 23rd… to meet other WSNA members, help elect our new Steering Committee and get updates on our campaigns and our exciting plans for the future. The all-membership meeting and elections will start at 6:30pm on the 23rd, located at Hartley House – 413 W. 46th St. between 9th/10th Ave.
Have a friend or neighbor that might want to check us out? Bring ‘em on down! There will be membership forms at the meeting.
COME MEET THE CANDIDATES AND CAST YOUR VOTE!
Any individual whose annual membership lapsed at any point during the year leading up to the election shall be qualified to vote so long as they renew their membership at or before the election forum.
CAN’T ATTEND THE JUNE 23 ELECTION FORUM, BUT STILL WANT TO VOTE?
Members unable to attend the election forum may submit an absentee ballot. Absentee ballots shall be filed with Lucas before noon on June 23rd at HCC’s office (777 10th Ave, between 52/53 St.). Click here for the absentee ballot and for full instructions.
June 23rd all-membership meeting and election flyer here.
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El boletin para la reunion el dia 23 de Junio aquí.
Haz clic aquí para saber quienes componen el Comité Directivo, quien es elegible para postularse como candidato, Quién puede votar en nuestras elecciones y cómo se llevan a cabo dichas elecciones.
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Public Forum on the Western Rail Yards Rezoning
Wed., June 10th – 6:30-8:30pm (sign-in starts at 6pm)
Fulton Center Auditorium – 119 Ninth Ave (btwn 17th/18th Sts)
It’s back! The development of the Rail Yards is moving forward and now’s our time to ensure that our longstanding concerns about large-scale buildings and a lack of affordable housing are addressed.
The Western Rail Yards ULURP application has been formally certified by the Department of City Planning. Those of you who attended WSNA’s zoning trainings will know that certification means that it’s now our time to weigh in. The application rezones the Western portion of the Rail Yards (between 30th to 33rd St. between 11th/12th Avenues). Part of the rezoning negotiations includes the development of affordable housing offsite (meaning not on the Rail Yards themselves). Two public sites at 54th/Ninth and 48th/Tenth maybe designated for affordable housing.
The public review process will start with a public forum on Wednesday, June 10th. The plan for the site will be presented, and West Siders will be able to voice their concerns and ask questions.
Join us to ensure our community priorities are heard loud and clear!
These two sites in Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen are under consideration for developing permanently affordable housing as part of the larger project.
Come out on June 10th for details and to hear the hopes and concerns that block associations and WSNA members have about them.
For more info & to RSVP for the June 10th forum, contact Lucas at: 212-716-1664 or LShapiro@hcc-nyc.org.
Click here for the event flyer.
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ILLEGAL HOTELS COMMUNITY FORUM
Thursday, May 21st 6:30-8:30pm
Hartley House – 413 West 46th St (btwn 9th/10th Aves)
All over the city, landlords are evicting tenants and illegally renting apartments to tourists to increase their profits. To protect the city’s affordable housing stock and the safety of our homes, tenants are advocating for changes that keep hotels out of residential buildings and that penalize landlords who break the law!
At the Community Forum, we will:
- Release a new report detailing the staggering amount of uncollected fines and housing code violations on these hotels in residential buildings
- Hear what our elected officials are doing to pass vital legislation to crack down on illegal hotels
- Learn what tenants can do to organize and fight back!
Invited/Attending Elected Officials:
State Senators: Tom Duane; Liz Krueger; Daniel Squadron
Assembly Members: Jonathan Bing; Deborah Glick; Richard Gottfried; Micah Kellner; Linda Rosenthal
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn
City Council Members: Gale Brewer; Daniel Garodnick; Jessica Lappin; David Yassky
For more info & to RSVP, contact Jackie at: (212) 541-5996 ext. 28 o jdelvalle@hcc-nyc.org.
Click here for the Illegal Hotels Community Forum flyer.
Haz clic aqui por el boletin en Español.
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Join your neighbors, school teachers, parents, kids, health advocates, people who suffer from asthma and elected officials for the launch of the West Side Clean Air Campaign!
The West Side Neighborhood Alliance, the Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen Pedestrian Safety Coalition, Housing Conservation Coordinators, and area schools are launching an exciting new campaign to improve air quality on the West Side… and we want you to join us for our kick-off event!
To reduce the effects of air pollution in our neighborhood, we are fighting charter buses and car service vehicles idling near our children’s schools, and are working on green initiatives to minimize air pollution from traffic and to ensure our homes are healthy and energy efficient. Over the coming months we’ll tackle other critical clean air issues beyond idling.
MONDAY, MAY 11 – the day the new idling law goes into effect (1 min. limit near schools)
RALLY AT 3PM SHARP
P.S. 111 playground – on 52nd St. btwn 9th & 10th Ave.
After the rally we’ll get drivers who idle in front of schools on 52nd St. to sign pledges to stop idling.
To RSVP/MORE INFO, contact Lucas at HCC: 212-716-1664 or LShapiro@hcc-nyc.org
Click here for the May 11th rally flyer.
Haz clic aqui por el boletin en Español.
For our kids…
For our health…
For the environment…
For a greener West Side!
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Have you ever wondered exactly why we have all these public hearings and community board meetings about development projects in our neighborhood? Well, there’s this funny thing called ULURP that all of us need to learn more about!
The Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) is a public process that gives community boards, elected officials, planning agencies and people like you the power to participate in decision making about development and zoning changes that shape our neighborhoods.
Why do some government bodies have the power to make decisions during ULURP while others can only make recommendations? How can West Siders use ULURP to ensure development serves our community needs?
WSNA is hosting an interactive, bilingual workshop on Thursday, March 26th to answer these questions and more!
This workshop training is especially recommended for anyone involved in WSNA’s P.S. 51 and 11th Ave Rezoning campaigns. We want to empower P.S. 51 parents, staff and all community members to fully participate in the upcoming ULURP processes
What: WSNA workshop on shaping community development
When: Thursday, March 26th from 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Where: 300 West 46th St. (southwest corner of 8th Ave)
The workshop is free, but you must RSVP (space is limited). Contact Lucas at: LShapiro@hcc-nyc.org or 212-716-1664.
Click here for the event flier in English.
Haz clic aqui por el boletin en Español.
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Community Board 4’s land use committee will see a revised design proposal for the P.S. 51 Affordable Housing Site, on 44th/45th Streets between 10th and 11th Avenues at its meeting next week. After much delay, this project is moving forward quicker than ever before.
WSNA has long campaigned to get what we need on that site: the 600 affordable apartments we were promised, and a new school for the P.S. 51 students, at a reasonable density that fits in our community.
This Wednesday, join P.S. 51 parents, staff, and concerned neighborhood residents to find out what the developer is proposing. Come with us to the land use committee meeting, and don’t be afraid to speak up for the community’s priorities on the P.S. 51 site.
The P.S. 51 site public presentation is on Wednesday, January 14th, at the Red Cross building: 520 West 49th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues.
We’re also having a phonebanking pizza party on Monday, Jan. 12th to invite our neighbors to attend the meeting next Wednesday. Can you help us make calls and share a slice of cheese (or two or three) with us? That will be at HCC from 6-8:30pm this coming Monday: 777 10th Ave between 52nd and 53rd St.
Please RSVP to Lucas at HCC if you can come: LShapiro@hcc-nyc.org or 212-716-1664.
Click here for the event flier in English.
Haz clic aqui por el boletin en Español.
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We’ve been hearing a lot about 2009 being a year of “change” and can feel the winds of change blowing through the West Side! We have ambitious (but very much winnable) goals for the New Year: repealing vacancy decontrol and protecting rent-regulated housing; stopping illegal hotels once and for all; implementing a community-friendly rezoning of 11th Ave; and the list goes on.
What better way to celebrate WSNA’s achievements and our ongoing efforts than by having a party?!
WSNA NEW YEAR’S PARTY
Thursday, January 22nd
6:30-8:30pm @ Hartley House
413 West 46th St. (btw. 9th/10th Aves)
* FOOD * DRINKS * MUSIC *
Feel free to bring a dish to share. Friends and neighbors that want to join WSNA are welcome too! We’ll have membership forms available at the party.
To RSVP or for more information, please contact Lucas at LShapiro@hcc-nyc.org or 212-716-1664.
Click here for the party flier in English.
Haz clic aqui por el boletin en Español.
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Mass Rally to Save Rent-Stabilized Housing… Close the Vacancy Decontrol Loophole!
Tuesday, December 9th, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Join WSNA, HCC, and a thousand other tenants and allies in demanding our state politicians end vacancy decontrol and preserve rent-regulation. Vacancy decontrol is the greatest threat to New York’s affordable housing and has had the most disastrous impact on the West Side. This winter, we can end it and save 100,000 rent regulated units on the verge of elimination. Through vacancy decontrol, landlords can take a vacant apartment out of rent regulation when the rent reaches $2,000.
Location (it’s on the West Side!):
Society for Ethical Culture - 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West
1 train to 66th St; A, B, C, D to Columbus Circle
Let us know if you can attend or if you want help reaching out to your friends and neighbors. RSVP to Lucas at LShapiro@hcc-nyc.org or 212-716-1664.
Click here for more info about the rally and what’s wrong with vacancy decontrol.
Click here for the English version of the rally flyer.
Haz clic aqui por la version en Español.
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Over the summer and into the fall a group of WSNA leaders came together to craft the second edition of our spiffy newsletter. Many of you already got your copy–8 pages packed with neighborhood news and campaign updates–in the mail.
For those of you who missed a copy or would like to share the WSNA newsletter with your friends and neighbors, click here for the on-line version (PDF).
The newsletter is a great tool for educating our community and highlighting what we can do when we work together. It’s also an easy way to sign-up new members. Click, view, print, and spread the word!
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A developer called Two Trees intends to build a 30 story building on the huge parking lot on 11th Avenue between 53rd and 54th Streets, just behind the Verizon building. To do so, they must get City Council approval to modify the zoning and got through a formal public review process. The first step in the formal process will be a presentation to the community board on Wednesday – NOW it’s our time to demand lower building heights!
What: Community Board 4 – Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen Land Use Committee public meeting
When: Wednesday, November 12th – 6:30pm
Where: John Jay College – 899 10th Ave., 6th Floor, Room 630T (between 58th / 59th)
Why: This is the first step in the formal public review process. Neighborhood residents will be given the opportunity to voice concerns over the massive scale of the development. HCC and the West Side Neighborhood Alliance have endorsed a comprehensive rezoning of 11th Avenue to prevent just this type of scenario: developers trying to rezone the avenue, one building at a time, for huge buildings with no guarantee for affordable housing.
Tell the Two Trees developers and Community Board 4: 11th Avenue is part of our community and we need development that will keep it that way.
Can you come on Wednesday? RSVP to Lucas Shapiro at HCC: 212-716-1664 or LShapiro@hcc-nyc.org.
Click here to view the letter WSNA sent the Department of City Planning about the Two Trees development along with 150 signatures.
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