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Message from the Chair

April 2008 

Spring is here and East Harlem is in full bloom. Community Board 11 has been busy this year with many initiatives and projects. In order to keep the community updated on what has been happening we have launched a monthly newsletter and this brand new website. Please continue to visit us and let us know how we can be of assistance and how we can improve this website.

The 125th Street Corridor Rezoning has now gone through yet another phase of the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) process. The City Planning Commission has voted to accept the rezoning with some modifications. Since then the Zoning & Franchises Committee voted to approve the rezoning with more substantial modifications and they are have now sent it to the Land Use Committee for approval and then off to City Council for final review.

Community District 11 is bounded by 96th Street to the south, 142nd Street to the north, Fifth Avenue to the west, and the East and Harlem Rivers to the east, including Randall’s and Ward’s Islands.

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Manhattan Community Board 11

Planning Assessment 

At the request of Community Board 11, the Urban Technical Assistance Project performed a
planning assessment and analysis to help delineate key issues to be addressed in a strategic
planning process. This planning assessment was conducted for Community District 11, bounded
by 96th Street to the south, 142nd Street to the north, Fifth Avenue to the west, and the East and
Harlem Rivers to the east, including Randall’s and Ward’s Islands. This report also provides
detail data on the current economic conditions of the four major commercial corridors (Third
Avenue, 125th Street, 116th Street, and 106th Street).

Community District 11 has a history of multiculturalism. In the 1930s, East Harlem was home to
a large Italian immigrant community, as well as Jewish and Irish communities. During the 1940s
and 1950s, after World War II, there was turnover in the immigrant communities. Italian and
Eastern Europeans were benefactors of post-war housing growth in the suburbs, while a
significant Puerto Rican immigrant population settled in East Harlem. The East Harlem
community remained predominantly Puerto Rican and African American throughout the 1950s.
At the same time that the Federal Housing Administration was providing mortgages for middle
income families, East Harlem was slated by the Federal Housing Act of 1937 for major slum
clearance. Over a period of thirty years, old tenements and whole neighborhoods were torn apart
to make way for 15,657 public housing units.