The People's Money (2023-2024)
Decide how to spend part of the city budget!
To increase trade programming and extra-curriculum actvities to engage youth
- In which borough should your idea take place?
- Manhattan
- Do you have a specific neighborhood(s) in mind?
- Lower East Side Manhattan
- Which audience(s) does your idea help? Select as many as apply.
- Public housing residents
- Describe the challenge you want to address:
- The neighborhood has been depleted of an activities center that is more than just basketball. The gang violence has increased because there are minimal extra- curriculum activities program in the area. Drugs and violence are up in this group.
- Describe your idea and approach to address the challenge:
- We need other educational extra-curriculum programs that would focus on the young adults in the neighborhood offerring safe havens and positive distractions to drugs and crime.
- Write the zipcode that best represents your New York City community:
- 10002
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