Danielle Lazarowitz

The neighborhood of Gramercy, in the borough of Manhattan, is located in the mid-eastern section of the island.

Borders:

North – 30th StreetSouth – 14th StreetEast – East RiverWest – Sixth Avenue

Fast Facts: Population around 100,000

69% of the population is between the ages of 18 and 65

17% of the population is under the age of 18

14% of the population is over the age of 65 71% of residents are college graduates Most residents are young professionals

56% not married

24% married 76% of residents are white as opposed to 48% of all

Manhattan residents 11% Asian

7% Hispanic

4% Black 25% of residents are foreign born Median income is $81,975 7.8% of residents are on social services Part of NYC Community Districts 5 and 6 Covered by Police Precinct #13 Covered by Engine 16 Ladder 7 Covered by Public School Region #9

Poverty Levels

Governor: David Paterson

Senators: Charles Schumer and Kristen Gillibrand

Congressional Representative: Carolyn Maloney (D-14)

State Senators: Thomas Duane (D-29) and Liz Krueger (D-26)

State Assembly: Brian Kavanagh (D-74)

City Council: Rosie Mendez (D-2)

Board Chair: Vikke Barbero

District Manager: Wally Rubin

Public meetings on the 2nd Thursday of every month

Held at First Alliance Church

Board Chair: Lyle Frank

District Manager: Toni Carlina

Elected official liaisons

Public Advocate: Tommy Lin

Comptroller: Sandra Duque

Borough President: Dan Benjoya

District Attorney: Linda Janneh

House of Reps: Dara Adams

State Senate: Sara Hale Stern and Romeo Ymalay

State Assembly: Cameron Peterson

City Council: Barbara Sherman

Meetings on the 2nd Wednesday of every month

Held at NYU Medical Center

Majority of residents rent apartments

60% rent

23% own

16% of units are vacant

The median years in residence is 2.7

Housing is a mix of older townhomes, mid-century high-rises, and newer luxury condos

1 New School and 6 NYU dorms in neighborhood

The average rental cost of a 1-bedroom in Gramercy is $3,000 a month

Cost increases west of Third Ave., especially directly surrounding parks

Cost decreases east of Third Ave.

Originally created as a housing project after World War II Known as one of the largest middle-class rent controlled developments in NYC

Bought in 2006 by developer Tishman Speyer for a record $5.4 billion

Now being converted into luxury apartments

Combined 56 residential buildings, 11,250 apartments, and 25,000 residents

12 parks in the development

Has its own newspaper “Town and Village”

Development now includes concierges, movie theater, gym, daycare, and summer concerts

69th Regiment Armory

Women’s homeless shelter

Calvary-St. George’s Church

Open since 1982

Homeless shelter open daily

Sleeps 14 men and women

30th Street Shelter

Men’s intake homeless shelter

Emergency housing

HSI Kenmore

Developed in 1999

326-unit apartment building

Permanent housing for mentally-ill, low-income, and frail, elderly single adults

3 Colleges CUNY Baruch

NYU Medical and Dental

School of Visual Arts 8 Public High Schools 5 additional public schools 5 private schools including parochial 90% student attendance rate Public school progress reports range from F (Washington Irving High School) to

A (Baruch College Campus High) with the average in the B-level vicinity

91% of residents healthy 9% of residents view themselves in fair to poor health

12% of residents are smokers

8% of residents are obese

2% of residents have diabetes Death rate 20% lower than overall Manhattan

Premature death rates are the 3rd lowest in New York City

Cancer most common cause of death (28%) 77% of residents have medical insurance 7 major hospitals

Bellevue Hospital

Cabrini Medical Center

NYU Medical Center

Hospital for Joint Disease

Beth Israel Medical Center

New York Eye & Ear Infirmary

VA (Veterans) Hospital

Since 1998 crime is down 32% and since 1990 crime is down 75% In 2008 there were 2,513 major crimes reported

1 murder

11 rapes

233 robberies/358 burglaries

The precinct is located on 21st street between 3rd and 2nd Avenues Precinct community council meetings take place on the third Tuesday of

every month

Union Square Greenmarket Largest in Manhattan

Many small community grocery stores, natural food marts, and bodegas

3 major grocery stores Whole Foods

Food Emporium

Trader Joes

▪ First in Manhattan

Every cuisine and price range represented Oldest taverns in the city

Pete’s Tavern (1864)

Old Town Bar (1892)

71 Irving and Sunburst Café the neighborhood coffee houses Neighborhood hangouts

Artichoke Pizza

Gramercy Café

Spice Thai Food

Park Ave. South home to a variety of gourmet restaurants Celebrity Chef restaurants

Bobby Flay: Mesa Grill

Tom Colicchio: Craft franchise

Mario Batali: Casa Mono

B.R. Guest Restaurants Blue Water Grill

Wildwood Barbeque

Danny Meyer Franchise: Union Square Hospitality Group Union Square Café

Gramercy Tavern

Eleven Madison Park

Shake Shack (in Madison Square Park)

Calvary St. George Episcopal Church Food Pantry▪ Serves 100 people a week

▪ Open on Wednesdays

Soup Kitchen▪ 90 meals served a week

▪ Open on Thursdays

Community Lounge Senior Center Open Monday thru Friday Offers standard services

▪ Case assistance/Medicaid

▪ Congregate lunch

▪ Education/recreation

▪ Nutrition education Stein Senior Center

Opened in 1975 Open Monday thru Friday Offers variety of services

▪ Serves lunch everyday

▪ Cyber Café and computer classes

▪ Social Day Care for Dementia

▪ Education/recreation

▪ Health and wellness programs

▪ Crime victims services

4 Movie theaters 5 Off-Broadway theaters 68 bars – all types and

price ranges Super exclusive Rose Bar

at Gramercy Park Hotel College bars on Third Ave. Wine bars on Irving Place

Blue Smoke jazz club 2 major live music venues

Irving Plaza (The Fillmore) Blender Theatre at

Gramercy

Museum of SexTheodore Roosevelt Birthplace

Flatiron Building Metropolitan Life

Insurance Building

International Toy

Center Building

Madison Square Park

23rd-26th St.

Madison to Fifth Ave

Stuyvesant Square

15th-17th St.

Second to Third Ave

Union Square

14th-17th St.

Park Ave to Broadway

Gramercy Park

20th-21st St.

Third to Park Ave

The only private park in Manhattan.

Keyed entry only to those residing directly surrounding the park

Two major shopping districts Surrounding Union Square

Best Buy Forever 21 Filenes Basement Barnes and Noble Sephora The Strand Bookstore

Lower Fifth Ave. Gap Banana Republic J. Crew Anthropologie Victoria’s Secret

Flatiron/ 23rd St Partnership Founded in 2006 Offers sanitation and security services Marketing to strengthen Madison Square Park

identity Homeless outreach program East Side Alliance

Union Square Partnership First BID in NYC Founded in 1984, renamed in 2003 Offers sanitation and security services Marketing to strengthen Union Square

identity Education Program Business Improvement Free Wi-Fi in Union Square Park

East Side Rezoning Alliance (ESRA)

Gramercy Neighborhood Associates

Gramercy Park Block Association

Bellevue South Community Association

East 22nd Street Block Association

23rd Street Association

Stuyvesant Cove Park Association

Stuyvesant Park Neighborhood Association

Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Tenants Association

Union Square Community Coalition

East 26th Street Block Association

Flatiron Alliance

The 18th Street Neighborhood Alliance

29th Street Neighborhood Association

Tilden Midtown Democratic ClubYouth Committee for PeaceNational Women’s Political Caucus

Many religions represented Episcopal Jewish Methodist First Alliance Catholic Quaker

Uses the Lexington, Broadway, and Canarsie subway lines The trains stop at Union Square The train stops at 23rd,28th, and 33rd St. The trains stop at Union Square and 34th

St. The train stops at 23rd 28th, and 34th St. The train stops at 1st, 3rd, and 6th Ave. and

Union SQ Buses include: 23, 21, 101, 102, 103, 15, 1, 2, 3, 6,

5, 9, 14A, 14D, 16 Taxis are also widely available

The neighborhood of Clinton, in the borough of Manhattan, is located in the mid-western section of the island.

Borders:

North – 59th StreetSouth – 34th StreetEast – Eighth AvenueWest – Hudson River

Fast Facts: Population around 50,000

79% of the population is between the ages of 18 and 65

11% of the population is over the age of 65

10% of the population is under the age of 18

63% of residents are white as opposed to 48% of all Manhattan residents

5% Asian

23% Hispanic

8% Black

25% of residents are foreign born

Median Income is $68,998

65% of residents have a college degree

22% of population below the poverty level

19.5% of residents are on social services

Part of NYC Community District 4

Covered by Police Precinct #18

Covered by Rescue Company 1

Governor: David Paterson

Senators: Charles Schumer and Kristen Gillibrand

Congressional Representative: Jerrold Nadler (D-8)

State Senators: Thomas Duane (D-29)

State Assembly: Linda Rosenthal (D-67) and Richard Gottfried (D-75)

City Council: Gale Brewer (D-6)

Board Chair: J.D. Nolan

District Manager: Robert J. Benfatto

Meetings on the 1st Wednesday of every month

Held at 6:30pm at Roosevelt Hospital

Majority of residents rent apartments

81% rent

20% own

60% in one person households

Housing is a mix of prewar buildings, brownstones, old tenements and recently new luxury buildings

1 Public Housing development

Harborview Terrace

2 buildings

Average rental price of a 1-bedroom apartment: $2,700

662 West 53rd Street

Holland House

West 35th Street SRO

West 46th Street SRO

Alexander Abraham

Icahn West

Aladdin Hotel

Clinton Family Inn

Gracey Inn

Lex Hotel

Parkview Hotel

Washington Hotel

1 College John Jay College for

Criminal Justice (CUNY)

8 Public High Schools

5 additional public schools

4 private schools including parochial

85% of residents healthy 15% of residents view themselves in

fair to poor health

12% of residents are smokers

12% of residents are obese

6% of residents have diabetes Number of HIV-related deaths

50% higher in Clinton than overall NYC

84% of residents have medical insurance

1 major hospital St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital

Since 1998 crime is down 58% and since 1990 crime is down 82%

In 2008 there were 1,565 major crimes reported 3 murders

6 rapes

95 robberies/161 burglaries

The precinct is located on 54th street between 8th and 9th Avenues

Precinct community council meetings take place on the third Tuesday of every month

Mostly small community grocery stores, natural food marts, and bodegas

A lot of international grocery stores

Many butchers and Italian delis

2 major grocery stores Whole Foods

Food Emporium

Every cuisine and price range represented

Large amount of inexpensive ethnic food Middle-Eastern Brazilian Latino Italian

Theater Row 46th Street between 9th and

10th Ave 11 cuisines represented

Soup Kitchen

Saint Luke’s Lutheran Church

Joint Soup Kitchen/Food Pantry

Maria’s Kitchen

St. Paul’s House

Open Door Center

Food Pantry

Holy Cross Church Crossroads

Metropolitan Community Church

Midtown Family Place

Rauschenbusch Metro Ministries

Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ

St. Clements Food Pantry

Project Find Clinton Senior Center Opened in 1969 Open Monday thru Friday 600 seniors visit a year Large Amenities

▪ Enclosed Garden

▪ Congregate lunch and dinner

▪ Education/recreation Project Find Coffeehouse

Senior Center Opened in 1969 Open Sunday thru Friday 1,100 seniors visit a year Offers variety of services

▪ Serves breakfast and lunch everyday

▪ Education/recreation

▪ Homeless In-Reach Program

24 Off-Broadway theaters

82 bars – all types and price ranges Lots of gay bars in

keeping with the growing gay population in the neighborhood

Large amount of “dive” type bars

1 major live music venue Terminal 5

Jacob K. Javits Convention CenterIntrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum

De Witt Clinton Park

52nd – 54th St. / 11th – 12th Ave

Clinton Community Garden

47th – 48th St. / 9th – 10th Ave

Ramon Aponte Park

47th St. / 8th – 9th Ave

Hudson River Park

14th – 59th St. / West St – Hudson River

May Matthews Playground

45th St. / 9th – 10th Ave

McCaffrey Playground

43rd St. / 8th – 9th Ave

47th St Playground

47th – 48th St. / 10th Ave

Not a big shopping neighborhood

Local necessities like hardware store, Duane Reade, etc.

Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market

Runs every weekend

Mix of furniture, clothes, and food

34th Street Partnership

Founded in 1992

Offers security, sanitation, public events, and tourist assistance

Times Square Alliance

Founded in 1992

Offers security, sanitation, event promotion, and community advocacy

Midtown West Business Association

Ninth Avenue Local Development Corporation

34th Street Partnership

W. 39th Street Block Association

W. 44th Street Block Association

W. 45th Street Block Association

W. 46th Street Block Association

W. 47th / 48th St. Block Association

W. 49th / 50th St. Block Association

W. 51st Street Block Association

W. 55th Street Block Association

De Witt Clinton Park Association

Hell’s Kitchen Neighborhood Association

Clinton Special District Coalition

9th Avenue Renaissance Project

Police Precinct Community Council

9th Avenue Association

Community Development Venture Capital Alliance

Hudson Crossing Tenants Association

Many religions represented Scientology Episcopal Catholic Jewish Seventh Day Adventist French Evangelical Metropolitan Community Greek Orthodox Baptist Interfaith Presbyterian

One of the largest transportation hubs in Manhattan Subway

Eighth Avenue Subway line (ACE) Ships

Cruise ships dock at New York Passenger Ship Terminal Buses

Port Authority Bus Terminal

Cars Lincoln Tunnel Outdoor parking lots West Side Highway