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JACKIE ROBINSON PARK PLAYGROUND IMPROVEMENT
Volunteers Needed

Join the New York Junior League's Playground Improvement Project (PIP) as we set out to beautify and improve Jackie Robinson Park in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan.

The Playground Improvement Project is in its 15th year and once again the New York Junior League is partnering with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation to create safe, beautiful, well


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CU STUDENT APPOINTED TO CB9M
STRINGER SELECTS 16 NEW MEMBERS TO JOIN BOARD

After three months of recruitment and applicant interviews, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer announced the members of Manhattan's 12 community boards yesterday.

Community Board 9, which serves Morningside Heights and West Harlem had 12 vacancies


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PUBLIC FORUM: EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS - WHAT YOUR HOUSEHOLD NEEDS TO KNOW & DO NOW!

The Housing Committee of Mahattan Community Board 8 is sponsoring a free informational forum to help individuals and families be prepared for any emergency. This program, Ready New York, is sponsord by the NYC Office of Emergency Management and adopted by the American Red Cross.


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OPEN APPEAL: PROPOSED FITNESS PROGRAM IN ST NICHOLAS PARK

Hello,

My name is Nancy Bruning and in partnership with the NYC Department of Health, I am planning a new, free fitness program in St Nicholas Park.  The program will be similar to a program I have been leading in Fort Tryon Park, in Washington Heights.

Classes will begin in mid-May ad be conducted three times a week in the early morning.  Each class will last one hour and be a complete workout.


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COMMUNITY RESOURCE & VISITORS CENTER FOR HAMILTON HEIGHTS WEST HARLEM

After more than a year of planning and fundraising, the West Harlem Community Preservation Organization (the CPO) will celebrate the opening of a community resource centre at 502 West 142nd Street, between Amsterdam and Hamilton Place, the end of May of this year.  The facility will be opened to grassroots community groups, for example, tenant and block associations in Hamilton Heights


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10th YEAR ANNIVERSARY: CELEBRATION OF ACTIVISM & PRESERVATION

The Hamilton Heights West Harlem Community Preservation Organization (CPO) was founded in 1996 as a volunteer member organization comprising tenant, block, homeowners, business and local institutions residing or doing business in West Harlem.  Celebrating it's 11th year of activism, the CPO continues to strengthen the fabric of the community by contributing to the preservation of West Harlem's significant sites and historic structures while marketing and promotion the loca
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BUILD A BRIDGE ON DYCKMAN STREET - SUNDAY, MAY 21, 3:00pm

As part of the Uptown Arts Stroll, the community needs your help to create a human bridge along Dyckman Street on Sunday, May 21.  A human line will form from the Hudson River to the Harlem River.  At a designated time, volunteers at either end of the human bridge will dip containers into each river.  The containers full of water will then be passed from hand to hand from one end of the line to the other, then poured into the opposite river, symbolically bridging communities.&n
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State Begins Conditions Study For M'ville Area
Possible Blight Finding Would Allow Eminent Domain Use
By Erin Durkin, Columbia Spectator

New York state has initiated a study that could result in a blight finding for the area of Manhattanville where Columbia is planning to expand, officials confirmed Wednesday.The study, which is being conducted by Empire State Development, began in August. It is not a blight study-it is better defined as a neighborhood conditions study. But ESD spokeswoman Deborah Wetzel confirmed that "the study could support a finding of blight."

A blight finding would allow the state to use the power
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Rethinking P.S. 36
By Andrew Lyubarsky, Columbia Spectator
Issue date: 11/28/06 Section: Opinion

The opening line of the "Neighbors" section of our university website proudly declares that "we at Columbia University take pride in our community and embrace opportunities to give back to the neighborhood we call home." Delving deeper into the website, we find a statement from President Bollinger on the Manhattanville expansion that states that "we have sought to work with our neighbors and community leaders to build a broad consensus on a shared future that will guide us in the decades ahead."
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Manhattanville Task Force/Zoning Meeting - City Planning to Provide Answers
The Zoning/Task Force will meet tomorrow, Monday, Dec. 18, at Community Board 9 (565 West 125th St.) at 6:30PM. The Dept. of City Planning will be  returning to answer questions that were raised at the last meeting.
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