As an endorsing member of the New York City Community Land Trust Initiative (NYCLI), the A. Philip Randolph Square Neighborhood Alliance is developing the Community Land Trust Opportunity (CLTO), a program designed to created CLTs in distressed, low-income, working class, and gentrifying neighborhoods and communities throughout New York City and Read More »
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The A. Philip Randolph Square Neighborhood Alliance, the parent organization of the Friends of the Harriet Tubman Memorial appreciates the generosity of New Yorkers for Parks for donating daffodil bulbs planted at the Harriet Tubman Memorial last fall. The gift of thirty-five hundred bulbs was made possible through the advocacy Read More »
While attending a meeting of the Parks and Recreation Committee of Manhattan Community Board 10, the A. Philip Randolph Neighborhood Alliance (the Alliance) became the beneficiary of a serendipitous act. The then vice chairwoman of the committee, Ms. Karen Dixon, recommended to her committee that the Alliance would be a Read More »
The Community Visioning Survey consisted of 35 questions that were organized into three categories: Physical and Programmatic Preferences, Quality of Life, and Demography of the participants. A total of 244 people were interviewed from various zip codes within and outside of Harlem.
In order to gather the broadest swath of data representative of our community, we understood from the onset that we would have to go to the community rather than expect the community to come to us. We also knew that the community visioning survey would best serve our needs because Read More »
Formation of Visioning Steering Committee The A. Philip Randolph Square Randolph Square Expansion is the first community-driven capital improvement campaign in Central Harlem in recent history. Usually local governments and governmental planning agencies will lead the visioning process, often as part of a larger comprehensive planning process or neighborhood rezoning; Read More »
The Partnerships for Parks (PfP) Visioning Cohort was a multi-year program focused on building community engagement skills in NYC community groups who support and advocate for their local parks. The annual program trained a small cohort of groups from each borough with a special focus on parks identified by NYC Read More »
