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Open Plans wins $100,000 grant to expand Clarkson Street open‑street for City Ave School; board asks for early input
Summary
Open Plans told Community Board 2 on July 29 it received a $100,000 Project for Public Spaces grant to add permanent curbside safety and play features to an existing open street at City Ave and that it is beginning stakeholder engagement and early design work.
Open Plans, a nonprofit that works with schools and neighborhoods on public‑space projects, told the Community Board 2 Traffic and Transportation Committee on July 29 that it has received a $100,000 community grant from the Project for Public Spaces to develop more permanent safety and play infrastructure on the Clarkson Street open‑street used by City Ave School and an adjacent District 75 school.
The project covers the block where City Ave runs an OpenStreets program Monday–Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and where two co‑located schools — City Ave and M721 (District 75) — have been using the open street for student activities and programs. Sabina Sethi Unni, a school planner at Open Plans, said the group is in an early engagement and research phase and intends to return with design proposals after collecting more input.
"We received one of their community grants for $100,000 to make the street safer for the entire community and easier for students across those schools to play," Sethi Unni said. "We're very early in…
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