Quality of Life

Our beautification initiatives are designed to maintain our streetscape and improve the resiliency of our neighborhood.

Graffiti Removal

Our unique combination of street-level maintenance, tree care, and beautification efforts delivers the extra attention Carnegie Hill needs—services beyond what the city provides.

Our Clean Streets team works diligently to remove graffiti, unauthorized stickers, and postings from public spaces, helping to preserve the neighborhood’s charm and deter urban vandalism.

Graffiti removal plays a vital role in protecting the beauty and tranquility of our community, ensuring that our historic landmarks and pedestrian pathways remain welcoming and vibrant.

View buildings who support this effort here.

Park Avenue Malls

For many years, the malls along Park Avenue were unkempt, beds of sod that residents frequently used as an ill-advised place to run and relieve their dogs. In 1980, ten years after its founding, CHN initiated improvement plans for the avenue, transforming every median between 96th and 86th streets into lush green lawns, bookended by flowerbeds boasting a seasonal flowering display at each pedestrian crossing.

For over 40 years, CHN has managed and underwritten the care and maintenance of these malls with participation from the co-ops and condos facing the avenue, as well as a few other generous donors in the vicinity that joined CHN's "Conservancy" style efforts in the late 2000s.

In addition to the seasonal plantings and flowering trees, the CHN constantly waters, weeds, and conditions the lawns and beds, manages trash pick up and repair of all guard railing and signage from the north side of 86th Street, to the south side of 97th Street where a little garden caps the mall before Metro-North takes over the midline of Park Avenue.