QUESTION
What new grant opportunities are available for enhancing commercial corridors in NYC?
0:56:31
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Deputy Commissioner Calvin T. Brown introduces the new commercial district lighting grant among others, designed to brighten and identify commercial corridors.
- Grants like Avenue NYC and Neighborhood 360 support commercial corridors and small businesses within them.
- The new lighting grant aims to provide more than just holiday lights, focusing on neighborhood identity and attraction.
- This grant saw the highest application rate, marking it as one of the most popular for fiscal year 2024.
- All neighborhood development grants are aimed at building capacity and supporting commercial corridors and the small businesses they house.
Oswald Feliz
0:56:31
So we talked about the small bid support grant, also the bid development program, any other grants that are very popular that we're gonna talk about today.
Calvin T. Brown
0:56:39
I would I would keep going our avenue in YC, our neighborhood 360.
0:56:45
These these are grants that really support commercial corridors, we had the opportunity to have a new grant to share with with the commercial district lighting grant, which you know, provide an opportunity for those organizations to bring additional light into their commercial corridors, not just the typical holiday lights, but lights that may speak to the identity of a neighborhood, lights that will bring people to those commercial corridors, and it was one of our most popular grants, Nina, that in the application process we had, the largest number of people apply for.
0:57:21
So it's it's been one of our popular grants for FY 24, but all of our grants in neighborhood development are, you know, geared towards building a capacity and support in commercial corridors and the small businesses within them.
Oswald Feliz
0:57:38
Yeah.