MANHATTAN
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NYC Community Cleanup is a new citywide initiative designed to address neighborhood hot spots and eye sores. NYC Community Cleanup is putting low-level offenders to work repairing conditions of disorder throughout New York City. The goal is to create meaningful community service work projects that emphasize the values of immediacy, visibility, and accountability. Offenders sentenced in the Criminal Court at 100 Centre Street to perform community service are assigned to restitution projects organized by NYC Community Cleanup. Cleanup is currently working in Harlem. The average sentence is one to ten days, and approximately 10-12 participants work on Cleanup each day, Monday through Friday. RECENT PROJECTS October 2009 NYC Community Cleanup addressed conditions of disorder at the following locations: 126th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, 124th Street and Lenox Avenue, 117th Street and 5th Avenue, 116th Street and Lenox, 112th Street and Manhattan Avenue, 118th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, and 146th Street to 149th Street on Frederick Douglass Boulevard. RESULTS December 2009 The Manhattan crew has handled over 200 community service mandates so far. The crew has cleaned up and removed over 848 bags of trash so far, working in Community Boards 3, 4, 9, 10, and 12, and contributing labor worth over $12,000 to improving conditions in Manhattan neighborhoods. November 2009 The team has collected and removed over 550 bags of garbage and leaves and worked with over 300 clients. Having covered a portion of west Harlem extensively, the crew coordinated with the Department of Sanitation to continue visiting the worst trouble spots in that area on a weekly basis while expanding their efforts into new areas further uptown, in Inwood and Washington Heights. October 2009 Starting October 19 through the end of the month, NYC Community Cleanup clients completed 73 days worth of community service, and removed 129 bags of garbage. Community members expressed their appreciation. One resident on W. 127th Street said that he was "very impressed with the work that you do" and thanked the crew for its hard work. |
