RPA has been working with the East Harlem community to design and implement a strategy to maximize the benefits of the planned Second Avenue Subway for community residents and businesses. To insure that East Harlem fully benefits from this new service, the community needs both to be involved in planning for the project and to forge economic development, housing and environmental strategies that takes advantage of new links to the regional economy. In 2002, RPA completed a needs assessment and technical analysis and organized a Community Design Workshop that developed proposals for station design and development along the planned subway route. From 2003 and 2005, RPA and Community Board 11 convened a working group which followed up on the vision of the design workshop and promoted a mixed-use corridor along Second Avenue that will support community goals for neighborhood economic development, affordable housing and quality of life improvements. The East Harlem Second Avenue Corridor Working Group charged RPA with defining a framework for community economic revitalization through streetscaping of the corridor. The framework identifies the importance of streetscaping and outlines recommendations and next steps for implementation.
* East Harlem Second Avenue Corridor Streetscape Framework (1.2 mb)pdf
* East Harlem Community Design Workshop (1.1 mb) pdf
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