Tuesday March 27th, 7:30 PM,
North Star Neighborhood Association inaugural meeting, Harlem PAL, 441 Manhattan Avenue at West 119th, Second Floor. A group of residents have come together to found a neighborhood association called the North Star Neighborhood Association. It is named after Frederick Douglass' abolitionist newspaper, "The North Star." North Star serves the community centralized along Frederick Douglass Boulevard from West 110th Street to West 124th Street, between Morningside Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard. North Star strives to foster community, promote a vibrant, diverse, and safe neighborhood, and hopes to achieve this by being a community voice that encourages and facilitates neighbors to work together for the common good. For more information, please visit our website at:
www.thenorthstarharlem.com
The meeting is a time for all to come together to share information and think about what should be accomplish as a neighborhood association. Speakers will include the Frederick Douglass Boulevard Alliance, Reverend Vernon Williams from the Perfect Peace Ministry Youth Outreach, and the NYPD (Chief Morris from Patrol Borough Manhattan North and Captain Kevin Williams from the 28th Precinct). Additionally, North Star will discuss the efforts to improve traffic safety along Morningside and Manhattan Avenues through our DOT Slow Zone application.
This is a great step forward for communities & neighborhoods who feel they aren't empowered. Its only when you have strength in numbers together that you can get any positive results. I congratulate the North Star Neighborhood Association and applaud their efforts in making their voices matter.
ReplyDeleteAhh...we live in a couple of houses just off of ACP. Reckon we can still join in?! This is a great initiative.
ReplyDeleteThe Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association (MMPCIA) is really the other South Harlem block organization that has a lot of influence but does not represent the lower FDB corridor. This is probably why the North Star Neighborhood Association has been formed.
ReplyDeleteIt's so nice to hear something about the broader community down in "SOHA". I'm so not into hearing anything more about the "FDB corridor." I love the name North Star, reflecting the other 99% of other residents living in the community. Don't get me wrong, but our consciousness level should extend beyond bars, lounges, and restaurants opening and closing along Frederick Douglass Boulevard.
ReplyDeleteHarlem has not been 99% anything for some time now. It sounds like diversity and inclusion of all old and new is the point here.
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