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Bethany Crystal
@bethanymarz
So last night was kind of a big deal because I got to visit City Hall in /new-york for the first time and receive an awards for a micro-grant on behalf of my block association, The Manhattan 75! Some of you probably know I’ve been pushing reactivating hyper-local community on my block for the past year or so. I started bootstrapping my own block association last summer, with the help and encouragement of @cabin (h/t @savannah and @hillis!) and despite a lot of slow starts and long pauses, I’ve somehow managed to become President, rebrand, and recruit a half-dozen eager volunteers to get engaged. One of those volunteers got so empowered by rat mitigation that he recruited NYC’s Rat Czar to our block (via cold email) and at her encouragement we applied for this grant. We will set out to create a street-wide “rat pack” with “rat squads” per block, and some mitigation efforts. Part of this grant award is being included in a community of 15 other block association, tenant association and community garden orgs in the city. In other words, I’m in another neighborhood accelerator. 😜 The cycle continues. This is what it feels like to learn and build with community.
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hillis
@hillis
Congrats!! So cool to see the compounding progress
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