Millions Coming To UWS From NYC's 2024 Budget: Here's Where

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — The record-high $107 billion New York City budget passed on the last day of June, and local Council Member Gale Brewer shared with Patch a breakdown of how the money will benefit the Upper West Side.

Brewer played a significant role in the budget process as a member of the Budget Negotiating Team.

"It was a difficult budget to negotiate because the Mayor cut essential programs that the Council had to restore, there is less federal money compared to last year, there are a multitude of crises facing the City, and there are key areas that need additional investments," Brewer said in a release about the budget process.

Last week, Patch detailed the Upper West Side funding Council Member Shaun Abreu helped secure, who represents a smaller chunk of the neighborhood above West 97th Street.

Here's the projects and institutions Brewer helped secure funding for on the Upper West Side in the 2024 budget.

Sanitation

• OneBlock, Inc. for Upper West Side cleanups
• Goddard Riverside Green Keepers Initiative

Parks

• Solders' and Sailors' Monument in Riverside Park: $62.3 million (Capital allocation)
• River Run Playground Reconstruction: $6.89 million (Capital allocation)
• Harlem Meer Project in Central Park: $2.59 million (Capital allocation)
• Matthew P. Sapolin Playground in Central Park: $100,000 (Capital allocation)
• Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre Renovation: $1.54 million (Capital allocation)
• Broadway Mall maintenance
• West 87th Street Park and Garden Maintenance
• New York Tree Consortium for planting and stewardship
• Riverside Park Conservancy for park care and improvements
• New Yorkers for Parks supporting the Daffodil Project
• Earth Matter for compositing in Riverside Park
• Friends of Hudson River Park for stewardship, public education, and recreation

Housing

• West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing renovating at 85th Street: $1.33 million (Capital allocation)
• Stryker's Bay Apartments for security cameras at 94th Street: $50,000 (Capital allocations)
• Funding for 10 local NYCHA tenant associations
• Funding for monthly housing legal clinics for tenants throughout the Upper West Side
• Goddard Riverside Community Center for community housing clinics
• Lantern Community Services for Fresh Food Box
• Housing Conservation Coordinators for legal service for Upper West Side tenants
• JustFix Inc. for tenant resources and rights
• Legal Aid Society for civil legal services

Cultural Institutions

• American Museum of Natural History: $5.5 million (Capital allocations)
• New LGBTQ+ Museum at New York Historical Society: $15 million (Capital allocations)
• Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center: $650,000 (Capital allocations)
• Lincoln Center Revson Fountain lighting upgrade: $309,000 (Capital allocations)
• New York City Ballet sound upgrade: $100,000 (Capital allocations)
• Symphony Space upgrade: $94,000 (Capital allocations)
• Jazzmobile for performances
• Julliard School Community Engagement Performance Series
• Bloomingdale School of Music for student training
• Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for youth education
• Art on the Avenue with the Columbus Avenue BID
• Programming for summer and holidays Lincoln Square BID
• Symphony Space for cultural literacy and heritage programming
• Vivian Beaumont/Lincoln Center theater for their Open Education Program
• WP/Women's Project Theater for season programming
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Advent to support Music Mondays programming
• Film Society of Lincoln Center to support films at Lincoln Center
• The Center at West Park

Public Safety

• Public Service Area 6 Community Council, Inc.
• Her Justice economic empowerment program
• Crime Victims Treatment Center
• Right To Be bystander intervention
• Violent Intervention Program
• NYC Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project

Education

• New York City Ballet for in school residency
• P.S. 75 after school program sponsored by the PTA
• YMCA funds for After School Folk Arts Program at P.S. 191
• Young People's Chorus to support in and after school music education
• M.S. 250 funds for field trips
• M.S. 256 funds for enrichment programming
• M.S. 258 funds for 7th grade trip and other enrichment activities
• M.S. 245 funds for artist residency programming
• P.S. 166 funds for chess residence program
• The Riverside School for Makers fund to support the Mandarin program
• P.S. 452 funds to support chess programming
• P.S. 84 funds to support interdisciplinary food production programming
• Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center/Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance - funds to support music program at Special Music School
• Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York
• Research Foundation of the City University of New York to support drama-based interactive educational workshops at MLK Campus

A total of 18 other Upper West Side local school were granted funding requests.

Youth

• Continuation of the Goddard Riverside and Positive Influence Outreach Program at NYCHA’s Amsterdam Houses/Amsterdam Addition which connects youth with education and employment opportunities.
• Teens Take the City at the YMCA (and funds for programming for teens at the West Side YMCA)
• Hetrick-Martin Institute to support services for LGBTQ youth
• New Alternatives for Children for tutoring children with disabilities
• New York Junior Tennis League for community tennis program
• Strycker’s Bay Neighborhood Council for after-school programs
• FamilyKind to support programming and services for children experiencing separation and divorce
• Goddard Riverside Community Center for youth and after school enrichment programs
• Positive Influence for basketball programs at Amsterdam Houses
• Landmark West! for Inside Amsterdam Houses program
• New York African Chorus Ensemble

Human Services

• American-Italian Cancer Foundation for breast cancer outreach
• Congregation B'nai Jeshurun for food program
• West Side Campaign Against Hunger/West Side Center for Community Life to support food access
• Homeless Services United to provide training to improve homeless services
• SHARE to provide outreach to those with cancer

Community Planning Advocacy

• Historic Districts Council for education regarding historic neighborhoods
• Landmark West! for community-led zoning project
• New York County Defender Services for community engagement
• Wild Bird Fund for rehabilitation of wildlife
• New York Peace Institute

Brewer also helped secure funding for projects and organizations outside of the Upper West Side that Patch did not include in this summary.