Clean Streets

Noticed that the neighborhoods been a bit cleaner lately? In 2007, the Community Journal was selected as a recipient of the highly-competitive NYC Clean Streets program, an initiative of the City of New York’s Department of Small Business Services, which provides two years of seed funding to community-based groups wishing to manage a street cleaning and maintenance program in their commercial district.

In line with the Community Journal’s commitment to engaging Jackson Heights’ diverse communities, the Community Journal is concentrating Clean Streets funding on “The Gateway”, a highly-frequented intersection and entry-point to the neighborhood because it is traversed and “owned” by all residents.  The Gateway, located at 74th and 73rd streets between Roosevelt and 37th Avenues, is the only area with over a dozen subway and bus lines and a nexus where the East Asian, South Asian, Latino, Caucasian, Gay, Straight, under-resourced, and young professional communities intersect.