Support CIVITAS and Become a Member Today

Since 1981, CIVITAS has worked to improve the livability and character of the Upper East Side and East Harlem neighborhoods. We count on your membership support to continue to serve you and the future residents of our community in improving streets, public space, and environmental quality. Please renew your membership or become a member today by visiting our website.

You can help make the East River Esplanade a truly enjoyable park where the community can appreciate the waterfront. We don’t need to have West Side envy over the Hudson River waterfront.

It continues to be up to all of us with other community partners to push for improving the Esplanade park and to encourage the City to create a more ambitious long-term vision for our stretch of waterfront. We are especially eager for your help to build on CIVITAS’s Reimagining the Waterfront initiative to improve the East River Esplanade from 63rd to 125th Streets.Our design ideas competition and companion exhibition were well received, generating ideas and drawing international attention to the state of the park. CIVITAS is focused on the next phase to zero in on specific areas for exciting upgrades and programming. Over 200,000 people live within a short walk of our waterfront in areas that have among the lowest open space per person in the city. With improved access and better design, the waterfront could be a great park—please help to make this possible with your contribution.

Did you know that the Upper East Side has poor air quality resulting from high levels of sulfur dioxide? East Harlem has among the lowest recycling rates in NYC. Education is the answer to both of these issues, and CIVITAS is stepping in to fill gaps in awareness.

This air pollution results from the burning of No. 6 heating oil. Through community meetings and door-to-door outreach, CIVITAS has reached hundreds of residents, co-op board officers and apartment building managers to educate them about switching heating oil to improve our air quality. Similarly, we’re organizing outreach to increase recycling awareness and educate residents about available training and support for building staff. We are also working on programming in schools to educate children and teens about recycling and the city’s initiatives.

Do you want community-driven land use policies for your neighborhood? Care about the state of trees and sidewalks in your neighborhood?

Thanks to your support, we’ve been able to provide the technical analysis necessary for therezoning plan for 60 blocks in East Harlem, including the blighted upper Park Avenue corridor.Passage of this rezoning, which is being considered by the NYC Department of City Planning, will help ensure that changes benefit the neighborhood and reflect community priorities. This builds on our earlier successful efforts that resulted in a major rezoning in 2003.

We’re also working with residents and community groups to advocate for best planning outcomes for our neighborhood. Our efforts are focused on developing visionary strategies for growth, development, streetscapes and parks access.

You may wish to learn more and engage further with the issues CIVITAS works on by joining us at one of the high-level panel discussions we are jointly presenting with the National Academy on December 4, and January 8, 2014. We are excited to bring our core themes to an even larger audience and into dialogue with artists, thought leaders, and policy makers. We very much hope to see you there! Admission will be free for our members.

In other news, we are so pleased to wish our outgoing executive director, Hunter Armstrong, all the very best as he has accepted an exciting new role with a national non-profit. We thank Hunter for his outstanding service to our community. Deputy director Lauren O’Toole, who has worked closely with Hunter for some time, will be interim executive director.

Please help CIVITAS this year by joining or renewing your current membership. Thank you very much.

Genie Rice, Chairman Felipe Ventegeat, President Jeanne McAnaney, Membership Chair

P.S. Your support makes a very real difference - CIVITAS is the only community-based non-profit working on these issues in both the Upper East Side and East Harlem, and we can’t do it without your help. Please join or renew your current membership at our website. P.P.S. We hope you enjoy reading our newsletter; please contribute today so that we can continue sending this to you! And don’t forget to join us at the National Academy – free admission to the panel discussions for CIVITAS members.

City Atlas Writes about the 10/2 Esplanade Panel Discussion

The original article by Jason Diaz covering the CIVITAS and National Academy panel discussion "Water and the East River Esplanade" is available online at 
http://newyork.thecityatlas.org/lifestyle/reimagining-waterfront-dialogue-comprehensive-plan-east-river-esplanade/

Designing a new water’s edge for the Upper East Side and Harlem

“Reimag­in­ing the Water­front” com­pe­ti­tion, First Prize: Joseph Wood, designer. Click to expand (via CIVITAS)

The East River Esplanade, a 2-mile-long city-owned pub­lic park that runs from 63rd to 125th Street, was already being crit­i­cized by res­i­dents as being a bleak and poorly main­tained pub­lic space when Hur­ri­cane Sandy hit, expos­ing the vul­ner­a­bil­ity of the entire water­front. Swollen har­bor waters swamped the upper sec­tion of the park and washed into East Harlem; now, atten­tion turns to a com­plete reimag­in­ing of the shore­line along this neglected stretch of Manhattan.

Pre­lim­i­nary plans for ren­o­vat­ing the Esplanade were actu­ally in the works before the storm; the Depart­ment of City Plan­ning drew up a pro­posal for rede­vel­op­ment of the East River Esplanade as a part of Vision 2020, which aims to improve access, enhance pedes­trian con­nec­tiv­ity, and cre­ate water­front ameni­ties for pub­lic enjoy­ment and recre­ation, while bol­ster­ing the city’s resilience in the face of extreme weather events.

CIVITAS pan­elists, from left to right: Gregg Pas­querelli, Charles Birn­baum, Michael Mar­rella, Cecilia Ale­mani, and Al Apple­ton; (Photo: Jason Diaz)

To add momen­tum to the pub­lic drive for a new park, CIVITAS, a community-led orga­ni­za­tion focused on neigh­bor­hood qual­ity of life in the Upper East Side and East Harlem, recently held an exten­sive panel dis­cus­sion on the future of the East River Esplanade; the talk was pre­sented at the National Acad­emy on Fifth Avenue.

CIVITAS has long been an advo­cate for a bet­ter water­front park, host­ing sev­eral com­mu­nity vision­ing events and, dur­ing 2012, a notable design com­pe­ti­tion, for which the win­ning entries were exhib­ited at the Museum of the City of New York. (Detail from the first place con­cept, by Joseph Wood, is shown at top of this page.)

The group on stage at the Octo­ber panel included archi­tects, plan­ners, design­ers, artists, and envi­ron­men­tal­ists, who shared some­times com­pet­ing ideas for ways a new pub­lic space can serve the city and the nat­ural environment.

Con­tem­po­rary bar-stool seat­ing look­ing out over the East River at Pier 15 (SHoP Architects)

The CIVITAS panel dis­cus­sion began with a pre­sen­ta­tion by SHoP Archi­tects found­ing part­ner, Gregg Pas­querelli. SHoP has water­front projects in two loca­tions—Mitchell Park and its Cam­era Obscura sculp­tural instal­la­tion (in Green­port, NY), and the East River Esplanade South and East River Waterfront/Pier 15 (South Street Sea­port in Man­hat­tan)— which were shown as exam­ples of how a water­front site can pro­vide social and recre­ational space and be adven­tur­ous at the same time.

Pier 15 double-decker green space. (SHoP Architects)

SHoP’s work shows clever space uti­liza­tion in the double-decker green-roof piers at Pier 15, as well as attrac­tive light­ing strate­gies and seat­ing arrangements—red ceil­ing light­ing which help to cre­ate a more roman­tic space at night, and water­front bar-stools that appeal to patrons who may wish to read, eat and drink, or sim­ply con­verse with friends over a stun­ning view of Brook­lyn and down­town Manhattan.

In Green­port, NY, a new town park encour­aged com­mu­nity inter­ac­tion and par­tic­i­pa­tion, added res­i­den­tial appeal, and fos­tered a real-estate boom. SHoP’s work relies on mixed-use design strate­gies to help attract a wider audi­ence, fit­ting the recre­ational needs of a more diverse pop­u­la­tion. The exam­ples also showed smart fund­ing strate­gies, specif­i­cally in the East River Esplanade South project, where air rights located under the FDR Drive are being sold in order to help pay for project development.

Pan­elists praised exper­i­men­ta­tion, and cul­tural awareness

Charles Birn­baum, Founder and Pres­i­dent of The Cul­tural Land­scape Foun­da­tion, fol­lowed SHoP’s pre­sen­ta­tion by ask­ing: how do we mea­sure suc­cess in a post-Sandy sit­u­a­tion? There is always an empha­sis on envi­ron­men­tal­ism and aes­thet­ics, but Birn­baum argued that cul­ture should have an equally impor­tant place in the con­ver­sa­tion; that peo­ple should be look­ing at devel­op­ment with the goal of turn­ing a project into a “new ‘World Her­itage site”; and that atten­tion to cul­ture in devel­op­ment is the dif­fer­ence between a suc­cess­ful project and just an aver­age project.

Homoge­nous design becomes dull; shown on the East River

Birn­baum warns us of the homo­gene­ity of land­scapes and devel­op­ment, but also praises the level of exper­i­men­ta­tion that seems to be occur­ring in the last decade where devel­op­ers, design­ers, and archi­tects are increas­ingly mov­ing away from homo­ge­neous designs and con­cepts. He asks design­ers, archi­tects and plan­ners to incor­po­rate cul­ture and his­tory into their projects, as to teach peo­ple “how to see and value land­scape and land­scape archi­tec­ture in a way that they are hard­wired to look at archi­tec­ture in the built environment.”

Birn­baum ended his com­ments with the “Four – C’s”—Collections, or the liv­ing and non-living in a given area; Com­mu­nity, or the con­text in which these col­lec­tions work and play with each other; Con­tain­ers, the build­ings in these spaces; and Con­text, the phys­i­cal and his­tor­i­cal setting—the ele­ments he believes are impor­tant for suc­cess­ful land­scape developments.

Com­mu­nity involve­ment and par­tic­i­pa­tion became the next area of focus as the Direc­tor of Water­front and Open Space of New York City’s Depart­ment of City Plan­ning, Michael Mar­rella, took the floor.

“Do we have the water­front that we want going for­ward?”  In order to get the right answer to this ques­tion, accord­ing to Mar­rella, com­mu­nity par­tic­i­pa­tion is com­pletely nec­es­sary. And as a result, the Depart­ment of City Planning’s Vision 2020: New York City Com­pre­hen­sive Water­front Plan was cre­ated from a year-long pub­lic plan­ning process that entailed going out to each com­mu­nity in prox­im­ity to a NYC water­front and invit­ing them to par­tic­i­pate in orga­nized work­shops, where the com­mu­ni­ties were not only asked what they want out of the water­front, but also what it would take to get there.

Why does it take so long to build a park inNYC? Mul­ti­ple agen­cies, but also pub­lic review.

Mar­rella empha­sized that pub­lic out­reach works to chal­lenge the plan­ning process to serve the com­mu­nity best, rather than assem­bling the pub­lic for the pur­pose of cre­at­ing lengthy, impos­si­ble wish lists. Mar­rella also brought up the thicket of envi­ron­men­tal and water­front reg­u­la­tions and the “hor­ror sto­ries” that come with them, where 6-month projects on paper turn into 8-year projects in real­ity due to per­mit wait times and other delays, and how there needs to be a more pre­dictable, reli­able, and effi­cient process that avoids these unwanted set­backs while mak­ing sure not to lower our envi­ron­men­tal standards.

An exam­ple of the Vision 2020′s plan for the NYC water­front; (NYC Depart­ment of City Planning)

As in all well-rounded panel dis­cus­sions, Al Apple­ton, for­mer Com­mis­sioner of the New York City Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and Direc­tor of New York City Water and Sewer sys­tem, pre­sented con­trast­ing view­points on how to man­age the East River Esplanade. Instead of focus­ing on build­ing and devel­op­ment, land­scape archi­tec­ture and hous­ing (part of the City’s mas­ter plan for the water­fronts also includes water­front hous­ing), Apple­ton urges that we reclaim the water­front; but that we reclaim it not to serve real-estate pur­poses or improved apart­ment views, but rather to rein­tro­duce nature to the waterfront.

A call for rein­tro­duc­ing nature to the water­front along the Upper East Side.

Apple­ton believes that, if resiliency is a pri­or­ity, plan­ners will rec­og­nize that reestab­lish­ing nature at the water’s edge is the most effec­tive method avail­able. Apple­ton sub­mits three man­dates on how to deal with the East River Esplanade (and the rest of the city’s water­front, for that mat­ter): 1) there should be absolutely no new high-rise devel­op­ment on the water­front, 2) nat­ural areas on the water­front should be repro­duced and restored, such as Jamaica Bay and the Rock­aways, and 3) the FDR Drive should be trans­formed and retro­fit­ted in order to make way for a more nat­ural coastline—he even sug­gests get­ting rid of it all together, which is a remark­able sug­ges­tion as most plans take the Robert Moses-era road­way as a given.

Apple­ton also cri­tiques Marrella’s ref­er­ence to the “hor­ror sto­ries” of the reg­u­la­tory process, where 6-month projects turn into 8-year projects. Apple­ton argues that the polit­i­cal process is nec­es­sary; added wait times usu­ally include more com­mu­nity par­tic­i­pa­tion and involve­ment, and that com­mu­ni­ties should be wary and skep­ti­cal of fast, steam-rolled devel­op­ment projects, as they tend to ignore civic consensus.

As the last pre­sen­ter, Cecilia Ale­mani, Cura­tor at High Line Art, spoke of the impor­tance of art in pub­lic spaces. She updated the audi­ence on the mul­ti­ple types of media that are cur­rently cir­cu­lat­ing in the High Line Park, as well as how the High Line is cre­at­ing new con­cepts for parks and rein­vent­ing the art space. Along with com­mis­sioned work, the High Line has intro­duced a num­ber of per­for­mance works, as well as inter­ac­tive and engag­ing video pro­jec­tions — all of which, Ale­mani sug­gests, should be taken into con­sid­er­a­tion in the new East River Esplanade. And with the incor­po­ra­tion of art into the park, the esplanade can bet­ter address the cul­tural needs that Birn­baum men­tioned ear­lier in what truly makes a suc­cess­ful water­front space.

To wrap up the entire panel dis­cus­sion into one coher­ent mes­sage, it might sound some­thing like this: In order for the East River Esplanade that runs from 63rd to 125th Street to become a truly suc­cess­ful pub­lic space that serves the needs of the com­mu­nity, it must have a dar­ing yet smart design that inte­grates art and cul­ture, and meets the con­cerns of the com­mu­nity and the envi­ron­ment. Given the new real­i­ties of cli­mate change, this space must play a role in coastal pro­tec­tion, but also should simul­ta­ne­ously attract and appeal to all peo­ple in a social and recre­ational context.

The vital­ity of the dis­cus­sion and the depth of the ideas on the table show how New York con­tin­ues to enjoy a renais­sance in the con­fi­dent and inven­tive design of pub­lic space.

If these weights and mea­sures are taken dur­ing the rede­vel­op­ment of the East River Esplanade, it seems that the Upper East Side and East Harlem will have a new, vision­ary way to get to the water’s edge in their neigh­bor­hoods, with a pub­lic amenity that will stretch for miles up the East Side, per­haps even restor­ing a glimpse of the nat­ural land­scape, and habi­tat, that graced the island once upon a time.

CIVITAS Community Announcements: October 14th

It's My Park Day at the East River Esplanade

Sunday, October 20th 10:00 am – 3:00 pm East River Esplanade 96th Street and FDR Drive (east of First Avenue) Volunteer to scrape and paint the railings along the East River Esplanade and plant bulbs that will bloom in the spring.  For more information, please visit: http://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2013/10/20/its-my-park-day-at-east-river-esplanade or call Upper Green Side at (212) 759-6895. Save the Date:  Urban Revitalization and East Harlem Rezoning Wednesday, December 4, 2013 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Admission is FREE for CIVITAS members. Find out how to join. CIVITAS's discussion series continues this December with an investigation of Urban revitalization through the lens of East Harlem rezoning and updated land use policies. This panel will look specifically at projects currently under way in East Harlem, including the renovation of the former P.S. 109 into affordable live-work space for artists, and the transformation of La Marqueta, a marketplace under the Metro North railway tracks between East 111th and East 116th Streets that was once the economic and social center of the neighborhood. Moderator: Karrie Jacobs - Contributing Editor, Metropolis; founding editor-in-chief, Dwell Panelists: -LaShawn Henry - Chairperson, Land Use, Landmarks & Planning Committee, Community Board 11 -Peggy Shepard - Co-founder and Executive Director, WE ACT for Environmental Justice -Gus Rosado - Executive Director, El Barrio's Operation Fightback All discussions in the series will take place at the National Academy 1083 Fifth Avenue at East 89th Street. map Admission: CIVITAS members: FREE General Admission: $15 Seniors and Students: $10 For tickets, visit the National Academy online or call (212) 369-4880 x 201. CIVITAS members can RSVP by calling the museum at the above number. NYC Clean Heat Webinar on No. 2 Heating Oil Conversion NYC Clean Heat, a city government initiative to encourage the use of cleaner fuels, is holding another webinar to raise awareness of incentives and programs for buildings switching to ultra-low sulfur No. 2 fuel oil and/or biodiesel. The NYC Clean Heat ULS 2 Conversion Specialists, their incentive providers, will be on hand to explain their services and connect with your building. When: Thursday, October 17th, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm How: All you’ll need is a phone and/or internet access to participate. Find out more at http://nyccleanheat.org/content/uls-2-conversion-specialists. Please RSVP by clicking “Attend Event” on the link above by 5pm on October 16th and NYC Clean Heat will send you the phone number and online log-in details.

Water and the East River Esplanade Panel Discussion: October 2

Join CIVITAS and the National Academy for the first of three panel discussions in our Art, Design, and the Urban Environment series.

Admission is FREE for CIVITAS members. Find out how to join.

The first panel titled Water and the East River Esplanade examines the revitalization of waterfront spaces within the context of the East River Esplanade from 63rd to 125th Streets. Through community visioning events and an international design competition, CIVITAS has been advocating for a better waterfront park along the East River that will serve the recreational and environmental needs of the East Side community. This discussion of the Esplanade is an opportunity to explore both the history of the waterfront along the Upper East Side and East Harlem, as well as the potential in urban waterfronts to add value to our neighborhoods. Read more about our Reimagining the Waterfront Campaign here.

Moderator:
Gregg Pasquarelli - Principal and Founding Partner, SHoP Architects
Panelists:
Cecilia Alemani - Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Curator & Director, High Line Art
Al Appleton - Former Commissioner, NYC Department of Environmental Protection and former Director, NYC Water and Sewer System
Michael Marrella - Director, Waterfront and Open Space, NYC Department of City Planning
Charles Birnbaum - Founder and President of the Cultural Landscape Foundation 

All discussions in the series will take place at the National Academy:
1083 Fifth Avenue at East 89th Street
New York, NY 10128

Admission: $15
Seniors and Students:$10
CIVITAS members: FREE

For tickets, visit www.nationalacademy.org or call 212.369.4880 x 201

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Save the Date for Additional Discussions:

Urban Revitalization and East Harlem Rezoning
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
6:30 - 8:00 pm

Transportation and the Second Avenue Subway
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
6:30 - 8:00 pm

September 19: Esplanade Exhibition Opening Reception at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House

Join CIVITAS for a opening reception celebrating the new Reimagining the Waterfront exhibition location at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House.

Thursday, September 19, 2013
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House
331 East 70th Street (between First and Second Avenues)
New York, NY 10021

Light refreshments will be served.

Reimagining the Waterfront is a CIVITAS-sponsored initiative to improve the East River Esplanade between East 63rd and 125th Streets. The exhibition is open through November, and features the eight winning proposals from the 2012 design-ideas competition, as well as historic images of the East River Esplanade and photographs of the site today.

Reimagining the Waterfront: Manhattan’s East River Esplanade was organized by the Museum of the City of New York. It was curated by Andrea Renner, the Museum’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, and was on view at the Museum from June 6 through October 28, 2012.

For more information on the project, please visit: www.reimaginethewaterfront-civitas.com or call CIVITAS at (212) 996-0745.

Rockefeller University eyes platform over FDR

By Matt Chaban - Reprinted from Crain's New York Business

In a proposal to be formally unveiled Wednesday night, the Upper East Side school will unveil plans to build a two-story research building with a landscaped green roof and a conference center over the highway.

Rendering of a deck Rockefeller University would build over the FDR Highway.
Photo by Rafael Vinoly Architects.

Rockefeller University on the Upper East Side is preparing plans to grow, but with no space left on its campus, the school has come up with a tried and true solution: building new facilities on a deck the school would build over the FDR Highway.

The university, which stretches from East 62nd to East 68th streets along York Avenue, will unveil plans Wednesday night to build two small buildings on a platform over the highway along the East River. There will be a two-story research building measuring 160,000 square feet with a landscaped green roof and a conference center. The platform will extend roughly from East 64th Street to East 68th Street.

"The new building is critical to maintaining the university's excellent standards for research and teaching, by allowing for the recruitment of new faculty to replace those lost by attrition, and for the renewal of laboratory space that is outdated and poorly suited to modern science," said a spokesman in an email.

He stressed that the small buildings would not impede views of or from Manhattan, nor would they expand the university's size "in terms of personnel or activities." This is thanks to an innovative design from local architect Rafael Viñoly, where the two-story building will actually be built into the platform, so that the roof is level with the rest of the campus. This will create a larger quad without taking up space on the expanded campus. Whether the older research buildings will be replaced or redeveloped is still being determined.
This is the not the first time the university, established by John D. Rockefeller in 1901 to champion medical research, has expanded over the busy highway below. In 1987, a dormitory building opened atop a platform over the southbound lanes of the FDR between 62nd and 63rd streets. Five years later, a new research building was finished over both lanes of the highway at 64th Street. The new platform will extend from there all the way up to the northern edge of the campus.

The university is not the only institution to take advantage of cantilevered real estate: both the United Nations to the south, and Weill Cornell Medical Center directly to the north overhang the highway.

On terra firma, the university also has plans to convert a parking lot on the northwest corner of the campus, at East 68th Street and York Avenue, into a new athletic center, which will consolidate facilities from across campus. 

The project does not yet have a price tag or a firm timeline, though it will need zoning approvals before it can move forward. Wednesday night, the plans will be presented to the local community board's land-use committee, which will eventually vote on the project. The university already owns the air rights over the highway, so once it has the city's blessing, building should not be a problem. 

Hunter Armstrong, executive director Civitas, an Upper East Side advocacy group focused on open space issues in the neighborhood, said the idea was interesting, but it raised cause for concern over impacts on the adjacent East River Esplanade. “We’re trying to rescue the esplanade, which has long been neglected, so we have to be careful of the impacts of these cantilevers on our park,” Mr. Armstrong said.

The Rockefeller spokesman noted that it would be proposing improvements to the esplanade along the length of the campus as public benefit from the expansion, though it would require city support and planning to do so. One dream of Mr. Armstrong’s, that the university would open up its 14-acre campus to the public—a space that will grow larger with the new platform—remains unlikely.

“The nature of some of the work we do here, it’s not appropriate to the public coming onto the campus,” the spokesman said.

Mr. Armstrong feared the expansion could set a dangerous precedent, or accelerate one already under way. “I don’t want to see these cantilevered buildings becoming a model for all future development on the east side of the East Side,” he said. “They’re quite uninviting spaces and they can become echo chambers.” 

View the original article at Crain's New York Business.
and "Space-Starved East Side University Wants To Expand Over FDR" on Curbed NY.



 

 

Upcoming Environmental Activities on the Upper East Side and in East Harlem

July 16: "Green" Meeting at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House

Attend an information session with the NYC Department of Housing, Preservation & Development in partnership with Council Member Jessica Lappin. Topics include: green financing, water & energy conservation, recycling, weatherization, and utility incentives.

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House
331 East 70th Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenues), 1st Floor Auditorium

July 20: City Of Water Day Festival  

Saturday, July 20

10 am - 4 pm 

Locations include:

Harlem River Park at East 135th Street. For the activity schedule, click here

Liberty State Park, New Jersey

Governor's Island

Sponsored by the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance

All details are available at: www.cityofwaterday.org

July 14: Paper SHRED-A-THON at the 92nd St Greenmarket

Sunday, July 14

10 am - 2 pm 

First Avenue (between 92 & 93rd Streets)

Shred documents for free at the 92nd St Greenmarket. Other items to recycle include: eyeglasses, corks, batteries, Britta filters, DVDs/CDs, jewel cases, cell phones and cords.

Updated Information on Neighborhood Greenmarkets

Summer is here and our community's greenmarkets are thriving. Go early for the best produce!  Read the recent CIVITAS newsletter piece and updated details provided by Upper Green Side on the CIVITAS blog. Visit one of the following greenmarket locations:

East 67th Street Market at P.S. 183
East 67th Street (between First & York Avenues)

East 82nd Street, St. Stephen’s
East 82nd Street (between First & York Avenues)

East 92nd Street Market
First Avenue (between 92nd & 93rd Streets)

Mt. Sinai Greenmarket
99th Street (between Madison & Park Avenues)

Harvest Home East Harlem Market
East 104th Street at Third Avenue

Harvest Home Metropolitan Market
99th Street at Third Avenue

• Many of the markets offer merchandise and services beyond farm-grown food.

Click here for more details about locations, hours and services.