Banana Kelly CIA Inc

Combating Business Displacement: NYC Rezonings
2017-02-18 11:00 - 13:00 UTC
Join us for a workshop to learn about public land in your community and how this can be leveraged in rezonings. This workshop is being facilitated by Banana Kelly, the Urban Justice Center, and the Association for Housing and Neighborhood Development.
Free food and Live Spanish Translation available. To RSVP email Anna Burnham at aburnham@bkcianyc.org or call 718-328-1064 ext 218. Can’t attend this date? The workshop will be offered again so email Anna for more information!
Workshop Description:
When it comes to rights and protections, commercial tenants have few resources available outside of their lease. As part of a broader effort to support and protect small businesses, United for Small Business NYC successfully pushed for the passage of legislation that allows commercial tenants who have been harassed by their landlords to take them to court. It’s a step in the right direction, and more needs to happen. Come learn about how businesses can protect themselves and what other steps can be taken to empower neighborhood commercial tenants.
Current studies and rezonings the City is undertaking in the Bronx:
http://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/bronx.page

Public Land in Your Community
2017-02-16 18:00 - 20:00 | 830 Fox St, Bronx NY, 830 Fox St, Bronx, NY, 10459, United States
Join us for a workshop to learn about public land in your community and how this can be leveraged in rezonings. This workshop is being facilitated by Banana Kelly, the Urban Justice Center, and the Association for Housing and Neighborhood Development.
Free food and Live Spanish Translation available. To RSVP email Anna Burnham at aburnham@bkcianyc.org or call 718-328-1064 ext 218. Can’t attend this date? The workshop will be offered again so email Anna for more information!
Workshop Description:
What public land is in your community and what should it be used for in future? How can you ensure that the community retains control over these spaces? This training describes the rules that apply to the disposition of City-owned land and how community members can find what publicly owned lots are in their community. Also discussed are environmental justice concerns, infrastructure needs, and big picture concerns when deciding how public land should be used.
Current studies and rezonings the City is undertaking in the Bronx:
http://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/bronx.page

Healthy Initiatives Meeting
2017-02-15 12:00 - 13:00 | 928 Kelly St (Basement), 928 Kelly St, Basement, Bronx, NY, 10459, United States
Committee meeting on the implementation for the Healthy Foods Initiative. For more information, contact Javier Medrano at jmedrano@bkcianyc.org or 718-328-1064 ext 217

Public Land in Your Community: NYC Rezonings
2017-02-11 11:00 - 13:00 | 830 Fox St, Bronx NY, 830 Fox St, Bronx, NY, 10459, United States

Race and Displacement: NYC Rezonings
2017-02-09 18:00 - 20:00 | 830 Fox St, Bronx NY, 830 Fox St, Bronx, NY, 10459, United States
Join us for a workshop to learn about Race and Displacement and the future of the South Bronx. This workshop is being facilitated by Banana Kelly, the Urban Justice Center, Pratt Center for Community Development, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy.
Free food and Live Spanish Translation available. To RSVP email Anna Burnham at aburnham@bkcianyc.org or call 718-328-1064 ext 218.
Workshop Description:
The history of New York City has taught us that if there is one constant in New York City, it is change. People come, people go. Some settle and stay for generations. Others do not. But history has also taught us when government makes that change, the most vulnerable and most politically disenfranchised among us suffer. Urban renewal destroyed neighborhoods, displacing countless numbers of people, including over 100,000 African Americans. Redlining deprived neighborhoods of financial resources, causing the deterioration of hundreds of neighborhoods. Planned shrinkage deprived those same and other neighborhoods of essential government, including emergency response, services, promoting disinvestment, abandonment and arson. And now rezoning is working it way into the Bronx, on many fronts, threatening again to potentially cause massive displacement in communities of color.
Current studies and rezonings the City is undertaking in the Bronx:
http://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/bronx.page

Chinese New Year
2017-01-28 | Chinese New Year, China Town, New York, NY, 10002, United States
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