Well, I learned within the past few days that people have actually read this blog. Which means that my starting it, and then allowing it to lie fallow for 8 months, was in pretty poor form. (I especially regret that I wasn't aware people were actually commenting here; from now on I will receive emails when people comment, and I will belatedly reply to those comments shortly.) In any event, I will be bringing this site up to date very shortly. Please accept this post as a preview/teaser.
Eight months turns out to be a long time in the context of this "Harlem Renaissance". I will start out by updating many of the items previously featured, because the progress is rather stunning. Most importantly to me The Playground With The Dangerous Equipment is no more -- I will report on the exciting groundbreaking of a new playground which will replace it. (Kudos to Friends of Morningside Park, more to come.) The Harriet Tubman Memorial is COMPLETED. Many of the construction sites featured now look like they are nearly ready for occupancy.
The other item I plan to update, and I will preview it right now, is the crime outlook for the 28th precinct, which (knock wood) is enormously improved so far for 2007 over both 2006 and 2005, which is an enormous relief. On a quick glance our trend data looks better than the city as a whole, which was not true the last time I posted. I don't have time to post the pdf right now, and you will have trouble finding the statistics yourself through google (it looks like the city has recently moved the page, so the usual google search doesn't work), but you can link to crime stats for particular precincts and the city as a whole here.
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Very glad to see you posting again. We moved here in August, and was looking forward to see new info on the blog. Especially excited about the new playground on 117th, but 110th has been good to us this summer.
Thanks, lisagp. Welcome to the neighborhood. The playground at 110th really is very nice since they redid it (it wasn't awful before, just oddly ill-suited to kids older than toddlers but not yet big kids). In the next few days, I'm going to be scanning in the program from the groundbreaking, which has some interesting history of the playground in Morningside Park, written in undisguisedly derisive language. It's pretty interesting reading (IMHO). Anyway, the program also includes a small CGI of what is planned, but for a better view of it, I suggest walking by and just looking at the sign at the site -- it looks pretty exciting!
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