QUESTION
Are there any grants specifically for safety and quality of life in NYC's commercial areas?
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Deputy Commissioner Brown discusses non-grant efforts by the NYC Department of Small Business Services to address safety and quality of life issues, including a retail theft task force and community links initiative.
- Mayor Adams has initiated a retail theft task force to address safety and quality of life concerns in commercial districts.
- The Department of Small Business Services holds monthly calls with business improvement districts (BIDs) to gather concerns and connect them with relevant agencies.
- Through community links, chronic issues in districts are addressed by coordinating NYPD and other agency responses.
- The focus is on collaborative approaches and task forces rather than specific grants for addressing these issues.
Oswald Feliz
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One of the biggest issues that we hear from small businesses and commercial corridors is a quality of life and safety general issues.
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Are there any grants specifically on those issues?
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Safety, quality of life, not including, of course, sanitation until they were separate, but general safety.
Calvin T. Brown
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So even outside of our grants and our cons speak on it.
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You know, Mayor Adams has convened a a a a a retail theft task force Many of our bids are part of the task force, helping to, you know, develop and think about best practices or ideas that can approach these quality of life issues.
0:55:45
Our division, neighborhood development, we convene a monthly bid call, and we, you know, we hear from the bids directly about some of the concerns they have on new corridors.
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If it relates to a particular agency, we make those connections.
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We also direct this to community links, which is a a a process that comes out of the of first deputy mayor's office, and, you know, mayor Adams has a task NYPD to work with other agencies to address any chronic issues that are happening in these districts.
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So a lot of our bids submit concerns to the community lanes.
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And in a community links would then support whatever those concerns are.