Join us as we premiere two new short films on health and environmental injustices produced by students from the Educational Video Center, a media arts organization helping NYC youth make their voices heard and change the world — one documentary at a time. In one film, teens explore their own Lower Eastside and Upper Eastside neighborhoods to investigate the impact of alcohol on their communities with support from the Manhattan Coalition at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Partnership for a Healthier New York City. In another film, youth producers bring the camera into their homes as they partner with WE ACT for Environmental Justice to expose poor indoor air quality conditions that affect the health of residents throughout Northern Manhattan and beyond.
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Join us as we premiere two new short films on health and environmental injustices produced by students from the Educational Video Center, a media arts organization helping NYC youth make their voices heard and change the world — one documentary at a time. In one film, teens explore their own Lower Eastside and Upper Eastside neighborhoods to investigate the impact of alcohol on their communities with support from the Manhattan Coalition at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Partnership for a Healthier New York City. In another film, youth producers bring the camera into their homes as they partner with WE ACT for Environmental Justice to expose poor indoor air quality conditions that affect the health of residents throughout Northern Manhattan and beyond.


ThirteenNY posted a complete guide to helping and getting help in the aftermath of Sandy.  Our hearts and thoughts are with folks across the city - Get better, New York.  thirteenny: How to help and where to get help after Sandy, our complete guide: http://bit.ly/VfOIXZ Photo: Members of New York National Guard transfer bottles of water at the 1st Battalion, 69th Regiment Armory, in New York. AP Photo/Richard Drew. http://on.fb.me/QaQpo5
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ThirteenNY posted a complete guide to helping and getting help in the aftermath of Sandy. 

Our hearts and thoughts are with folks across the city - Get better, New York. 

thirteenny:

How to help and where to get help after Sandy, our complete guide: http://bit.ly/VfOIXZ

Photo: Members of New York National Guard transfer bottles of water at the 1st Battalion, 69th Regiment Armory, in New York. AP Photo/Richard Drew. http://on.fb.me/QaQpo5

Stay Safe!

Hello everyone,

The last few days have been rough in NYC.  If you have the time and energy to spare, VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: If you are free tonight or in the next few days,the Park Slope Armory on 15th and 7th ave desperately needs volunteers who can do 6-8 hour shifts. They are caring for elderly people displaced from nursing homes in The Rockaways and others with special needs.

Best,

CTG

Food Day 2012 Event! Join us!

The New York Academy of Medicine has partnered with Mount Sinai’s Manhattan Community Transformation Grant Coalition to commemorate Food Day 2012 by hosting a Healthy Food Walking Tour in East Harlem. On the tour, we will learn about eating behaviors and healthy habits for wellness while visiting some great places to find a healthy bite along Madison and Lexington Avenues. A tour guide from El Museo will discuss the historical and cultural significance of food in the community. Let’s unite behind the food movement on Food Day!

When New Yorkers have places to play… they play.  When New Yorkers have places to be healthy… they’re healthier.  We are all for vacant lots being converted into active space — and this plan calls for more than 6 acres of underutilized land in the Lower East Side to become a mixed-use, mixed-income oasis.  We’ll be watching closely as developments happen!  nycedc: Historic Passage of Mixed-Use Development Plan for Seward Park on Manhattan’s Lower East Side Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Quinn announced the historic passage of the Seward Park Mixed-Use Development Plan, which will transform more than six acres of underutilized land on the Lower East Side into vibrant, mixed-use space in one of New York’s most dynamic, diverse and historic neighborhoods. Unanimously approved by both the City Council and Manhattan’s Community Board 3, the Seward Park Mixed-Use Development Plan grew out of an unprecedented level of grassroots community leadership, consensus building, and partnership with the City. The guidelines for the plan were forged over the past four years, with monthly meetings led by the Community Board, in coordination with a team of representatives from the Bloomberg administration, in order to come to a consensus on this historic plan.  As a result of this extensive collaboration, sites that have largely sat vacant for more than four decades – the largest parcel of under-developed City-owned land in Manhattan below 96th Street – will finally be reintegrated into the vital, urban fabric of the Lower East Side. Located along Delancey and Essex Streets, the nine sites will be transformed into 1.65 million square feet of permanently affordable and market-rate housing, commercial space, and new open space, with the potential for a school and other community space. The development will create approximately 1,000 permanent jobs and 5,000 construction jobs.  Read more about the plan on NYC.gov.
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When New Yorkers have places to play… they play.  When New Yorkers have places to be healthy… they’re healthier.  We are all for vacant lots being converted into active space — and this plan calls for more than 6 acres of underutilized land in the Lower East Side to become a mixed-use, mixed-income oasis.  We’ll be watching closely as developments happen! 

nycedc:

Historic Passage of Mixed-Use Development Plan for Seward Park on Manhattan’s Lower East Side

Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Quinn announced the historic passage of the Seward Park Mixed-Use Development Plan, which will transform more than six acres of underutilized land on the Lower East Side into vibrant, mixed-use space in one of New York’s most dynamic, diverse and historic neighborhoods.

Unanimously approved by both the City Council and Manhattan’s Community Board 3, the Seward Park Mixed-Use Development Plan grew out of an unprecedented level of grassroots community leadership, consensus building, and partnership with the City. The guidelines for the plan were forged over the past four years, with monthly meetings led by the Community Board, in coordination with a team of representatives from the Bloomberg administration, in order to come to a consensus on this historic plan. 

As a result of this extensive collaboration, sites that have largely sat vacant for more than four decades – the largest parcel of under-developed City-owned land in Manhattan below 96th Street – will finally be reintegrated into the vital, urban fabric of the Lower East Side. Located along Delancey and Essex Streets, the nine sites will be transformed into 1.65 million square feet of permanently affordable and market-rate housing, commercial space, and new open space, with the potential for a school and other community space. The development will create approximately 1,000 permanent jobs and 5,000 construction jobs. 

Read more about the plan on NYC.gov.

(via nycgov)

Source: nycedc

Last night, WhyHunger hosted the fourth annual Food Sovereignty Prize celebration honoring inspiring movements across the world “fighting for the right to food for all people and dignity for those who put food on our plates.” Congratulations and thank you to Korean Women’s Peasant Association, National Fisheries Solidarity Movement, Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan Region for all of the incredible work you each do to protect the health and rights of communities and farm workers. It was a great evening ushered in by the devoted and passionate Karen Washington, community activist and gardener, and complete with Tom Morello performing as The Nightwatchman and an eye-opening keynote address from UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter. Incontrovertibly, the night acted as a strong reminder that food and justice go hand-in-hand.
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Last night, WhyHunger hosted the fourth annual Food Sovereignty Prize celebration honoring inspiring movements across the world “fighting for the right to food for all people and dignity for those who put food on our plates.”

Congratulations and thank you to Korean Women’s Peasant Association, National Fisheries Solidarity Movement, Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan Region for all of the incredible work you each do to protect the health and rights of communities and farm workers.

It was a great evening ushered in by the devoted and passionate Karen Washington, community activist and gardener, and complete with Tom Morello performing as The Nightwatchman and an eye-opening keynote address from UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter.

Incontrovertibly, the night acted as a strong reminder that food and justice go hand-in-hand.

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