Lower East Side Partnership Receives Over 200 Submissions for Neighborhood Changes Initiative

LOWER EAST SIDE, NY — The Lower East Side Partnership has received more than 200 submissions in just 60 days to its Make Our Street project, a crowdsourcing method for improving the neighborhood's districts and quality of life for residents, the Partnership's president, Tim Laughlin, told Patch.

The Partnership plans to collect opinions and sort data from community members to decide whether it is going to change the district's boundaries.

The Partnership made the survey process multilingual and easily accessible and sent a survey through the mail to 10,000 people who live in the neighborhood and surrounding area, Laughlin said.

"We're really trying to reach as many people as we can, in as many different types of settings as we can," Laughlin said.

Lower East Side community members are also encouraged to create their own virtual streets using the custom online street design tool, Streetmix. The program allows residents to show off the way the Lower East Side looks in their perfect dreams.

The Partnership is currently gathering some of the community members' submissions on Streetmix and will be posting them to social media soon, it told Patch.

The next community meeting as part of the "Make Our Street" community engagement process, focused specifically on Ludlow Street, will be held on Thursday, Oct. 13, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Tenement Museum. It's free and open to everyone. You can register here.

Photo credit: LES Partnership