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Redlining of East Harlem, Especially close to the Park Avenue Viaduct

In an area that has excessive density of social services, adding more vulnerable individuals can worsen the condition of open-air drug use and drug dealing.  (Note: The population to be added is in the 15/15 program is described by the government as "Chronically homeless single adults with a serious mental illness (SMI), a substance use disorder (SUD) (including those who are actively using or have started their recovery process within the last 12 months), or those who may have a co-occurring SMI and SUD". See original document here).

The city is perpetuating a long history of putting social services undesirable to other districts to the area near the Park Avenue Viaduct.  More broadly,  East Harlem is over-saturated with social services, which led the community board 11 to pass a resolution to ask the government to stop adding more (see here)

In the area near Timbale Terrace are Prospero Hall and Schafer Hall, two Supportive Housing, managed by Lantern is placed there, so as 5 other SRO (Single Residential Occupancy) Supportive Housing funded by Department of Mental Health (see below).

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Newly added is Castle III, a building for formerly incarcerated individuals managed by Fortune Society. Up a few block is the Lee Building, which is New York City's largest drug treatment program, next to which is the Nation's first Drug Consumption Site, OnPoint.

Children of color in the over-saturated area have rights to a safer environment. Hear testimonies from a long-time neighbor about the current conditions and his concerns for his 12 year old daughter

1. The specific location of the lot for Timbale Terrace is over-saturated 

7 SRO supportive housing funded by Department of Mental Health are concentrated in zip code 10035, of which 6 of them are within 1 to 5 blocks from the proposed Timbale Terrace. The intersaction of 118th and Park Avenue is an open-air drug use scene. See some videos taken by the neighbors here : 

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2. East Harlem is over-saturated 

See data from the Greater Harlem Coalition at www.greaterharlem.nyc for more 

It is being used as New York City's containment zone to put people others 58 districts don't want to see

Quotes from Community Board Meetings

Below are Public hearing of Timbale Terrace project.

 

2022 Jan 19th: HPD present the Timbale Terrace Project. Full video here 

(1) Our neighbors Steve Travis expressed concerns of the Timbale Terrace development

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2023 Feb: Public hearing of complaints of overdoses and safety issues inside Prospero Hall by tenants and nearby gardeners

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2023 July Pre-ULRRP hearing: on 

  1. July 6th Housing Committee: full video (start 11 minutes)

  2. July 12th Human Services Committee: full video (start 23 minutes)  Notable clips:

    1. Chair of CB11 explain there are many ways to fund permanently affordable housing. ​

    2. Long time resident near Prospero Hall and Timbale Terrace expressed safety concern for his daughter

    3. Lantern Org confirmed 97 units of studio apartment is expected to service those with mental health and substance abuse issues.

  3. July 14th LandUse Committee: full video. Notable clips:

    1. HPD said there is little room to change the project

    2. The previous chair of CB11 Nelsa Orama expressed the same quality of life concerns as one neighbor 

    3. Our neighbor Omar eloquently expressed our concerns

  4. July 20th Economic Development Committee (listen to the chair who expressed concerns of oversaturation, ilsten to the small business owners next to the site voice concerns)

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