Our sustainability initiatives are designed to maintain our streetscape and improve the resiliency of our neighborhood trees for a greener and healthier Carnegie Hill.
Clean Streets
For more than a decade, our Clean Streets initiative has been improving the beauty and quality of life for residents of Carnegie Hill. Our Clean Streets manager walks the neighborhood daily looking for damage, graffiti, potholes and other nuisances that need repair.
CHN regularly sees to the repair of all municipal property – from lamp posts to benches – and we work with building managers and property owners to facilitate repairs to private property. Examples include 3 new trees planted on 95th Street between Fifth and Madison avenues, repainted lamp posts and mailboxes and new tree guards and sidewalks installed along the south side of 90th Street between Fifth and Madison avenues.
If you see an issue that needs resolving, please contact us. Also, you should contact 311. From there, you will be directed to the appropriate agency and will receive a code number for the relevant issue. Please call us with that number and we will work on a resolution.
Robisson Santos, is CHN's 2022-2023 Clean Streets Intern
Street Tree Care
Pruning and Maintenance:
The Street Tree Care Committee Co-Chairs are CHN bard member Virginia Pitman and Julia Bradford and Suzanne Goldstein. Carnegie Hill residents see them and their volunteer committee on Saturday mornings, twice in the spring and twice in the fall, pruning street trees and cultivating tree beds. These volunteers also report empty tree beds and dead trees to the Parks Department and request new trees as needed. In the past two years, through various sources, close to 50 new trees have been planted in Carnegie Hill.
CHN partners with Trees New York to offer a course in tree care and pruning so you can become a licensed pruner. You can join the Street Tree Care Committee without a pruning license - just the desire to help street trees live long, healthy lives. For more information click on the Quick Link below.
2022 Green Initiative:
Through a partnership with District 4 Council Member Keith Powers and Greener NYC, Hunter College Campus Schools (HCCS) now has 26 revitalized tree beds on the footprint surrounding Hunter High School.
The block's 26 tree beds, home to many mature street trees, and a few young trees, were enlarged for optimal hydration, and to promote root growth. Each bed was fitted with a custom HDPE tree guard designed and fabricated in New York City, by City Tree Guards, a local small business dedicated to improving the environment by producing an affordable product line using renewable materials.
Hunter High School is a publicly funded pre k - 12th grade school, serving approximately 1,500 students on site since 1977. Formerly home to Squadron A of the Eighth Regiment Armory, the building's Madison Avenue façade was landmarked in 1966.
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Quality of Life Ambassadors
Lynden Miller
A public garden designer, parks advocate and author.
Mark Goldsmith
Co-Founder, President, and CEO Emeritus Getting Out and Staying Out
Ginger Pitman
Co-Chair of the CHN Street Tree Care Committee
