The FCBID conducted a survey
of the 110 plastic news boxes in the district and found that 35 were
not listed as having been registered with the city. Those boxes have
been reported to NYCDOT in the hopes that the regulations will be enforced.
In addition to this survey, daily and weekly checks of street furniture
and infrastructure conditions continue to be performed by the FCBID
infrastructure intern, and problems are routinely referred to 311,
property owners or the appropriate department within the BID, as necessary.
Urban Pathways, a homeless
out-reach and housing prgram, and district tenant, honored the FCBID
at its June fundraising event. The FCBID has served on the advisory
board of Urban Pathways for ten years. The organization honored the
BID for all the work it has done to improve the district, and for its
efforts on behalf of the homeless in the district.
During the overnight of
January 29 - 30, the FCBID again took part in the city’s
annual Winter Count of Homeless on the streets of the city. David Baker, of the
Partnership for the Homeless, represented the BID and served as team leader for
the group that counted the homeless in the Fashion District. A total of six homeless
people were found that night. This amount was the lowest number of individu-
als found outside at night in the Fashion District during the last six years
of the count.
Following
the FCBID’s
successful results of 2006, first quarter ratings by the Mayor’s
Operation Scorecard indicate that Fashion District Streets were 95.3
% clean and sidewalks 95.2 % clean during January through March of
2007.
In April,
all FCBID public safety officers attended the annual training seminar
required by New
York State law in order for them to maintain their security licenses.
The officers learned of new developments in the statutes that affect
their duties, and they were provided with updates or changes in civil
and criminal law. This yearly instruction is held in addition to the
ongoing training conducted at daily roll calls by the public safety
supervisors.
The FCBID morns the loss
of Allen Bates who passed away suddenly in April. Allen was a sanitation
supervisor who had been with the BID nearly since its inception.
He is greatly missed.
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