WHO WE ARE

Our members are residents, businesses, and visitors to the West 80s who want to:
  •  Preserve the wonderful character that has made living in the West 80s so desirable and distinguishes our neighborhood from the rest of New York City,
  •  Make sure the construction in our neighborhood is safe and new buildings fit in with our Upper West Side  aesthetic and community feel,
  •  Protect affordable housing and keep local "mom and pop" stores in the neighborhood,
  •  Get the MTA to improve subway and bus service and safety in our neighborhood,
  •  Obtain community support for issues related to our local business,
  •  Help keep the crime rate in our neighborhood low,
  •  Join and support our effort to beautify our neighborhood (planting flowers, eradicating graffiti, reducing litter and more), and
  •  Make a difference about neighborhood issues that affect us and our families.
Together we can improve our community from the grass roots.

We are inspired by the work of Friends of West-Park, the Coalition for a Livable Westside, the West End Preservation Society ("WEPS") and other civic-minded groups.

We believe we can improve our neighborhood by meeting with elected officials, our Community Board, our local police precinct, and by networking with other non-profits, neighborhood associations, and NGO's whose missions are also to improve NYC.

PLEASE HELP BY JOINING TODAY.
      Togther we can make our fabulous neighborhood even better. 		HYDROFRACKING IN NEW YORK?

JUST SAY "NO!"

to the DEC's Flawed Regulations.

Submit a Comment Today and Every Day
until the January 11th Deadline!

It's easy. Go to Thirty Days of Fracking Regs, and tell the DEC their proposed regs don't protect the public.

There's a lot wrong with them.

Here's what Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal says:

  • "The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has issued proposed regulations on fracking before the experts have completed what many are calling an inadequate review of the impacts . . . on public health.
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  • "If the regulations don't reflect the outcome of [a] limited health review . . . , how can the public trust that fracking can ever be
    done safely?    "

Last year, the DEC issued an inadequate Environmental Impact Statement and New Yorkers submitted a record-breaking 60,000 comments that sent the agency back to the drawing board.

Now, we need to do it again!

Because the DEC's proposed regs put all of us in danger.

Send your comments to the DEC TODAY
(and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow).

A note from Dr. Steingraber.

More information on hydrofracking.

A video on ProPublica: Fracking: The Music Video.

(Thirty Days of Fracking Regs is a joint project of acclaimed ecologist and author Sandra Steingraber and Grassroots Environmental Education.)