CIVITAS_OHNY 96StTour_09-BusDepot and EnvironmentalJustice.MP4
Channel: gil lopez
Date: 15/10/2011

I recently went on a walking tour of the East 96th Street Corridor through the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The tour was organized for the Open House New York weekend event and facilitated by CIVITAS NYC. CIVITAS's executive director, Hunter F. Armstrong lead the tour and provided a wealth of information about how the urban environment has been shaped and formed by city policy and neighborhood advocacy for both the Upper West Side and East Harlem.

Among some of the high points for me was info about sliver buildings, facadectomy, community advocacy actually forcing the removal of twelve stories from atop an illegally approved building at 108 E96th St, zoning variances and additional FAR given to "community facilities" and some environmental justice issues surrounding a bus depot and other city facilities inequitably located in East Harlem.