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Benefit 2007
The CIVITAS Benefit Committee requests the pleasure of your company at a cocktail reception, celebrating another year of achievement and honoring Horace Havemeyer III, Publisher, and Susan Szenasy, Editor, of Metropolis magazine for 25 years of excellence on Thursday, March 1st 2007 fro six to eight thirty pm at The Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 East 79th Street. Music by Alex Donner. Business attire.
You may view the invitation and RSVP with the response card.
This is CIVITAS
We are a union of citizens dedicated to improving neighborhood quality of life in the Upper East Side and East Harlem since 1981.
CIVITAS promotes urban planning, zoning and land use policies that are sensible and
sensitive to residential life in our neighborhoods.
CIVITAS supports environmentally sound development, vibrant retail activity at street level, uncluttered sidewalks and access to good public transit.
CIVITAS opposes overbearing towers that are non-contextual and cut off light and air from surrounding buildings and the sidewalk below.
CIVITAS commissions urban planning studies, speaks out at public hearings, issues reports and keeps its members informed on current issues impacting on urban life, including traffic congestion, historic preservation, zoning variances, water quality and public access to parks and the waterfront.
Mission Statement
In 1981, when CIVITAS was founded, August Heckscher, its first chair, hearkened back to the Roman Republic to find a name that would express the spirit of the new community organization. The name chosen, “CIVITAS” referred to that quality of a citizen that made him deeply involved in the life and fate of his city. Such has been the guiding spirit for CIVITAS ever since.
The mission of CIVITAS is to foster, mobilize and coordinate civic concern in the community of Manhattan’s Upper East Side and East Harlem. To that end, CIVITAS seeks to promote, preserve and protect residential neighborhoods that are lively and livable.
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Current Initiatives
1. Engineering study for 125 th Street Randall’s Island pedestrian bridge
The east end of 125th Street terminates at the Triborough Bridge ramps—access to the river esplanade is difficult and dangerous.
2. Trees on East 86 th Street
This year 51 tree pits on East 86th Street between First and Third Avenues, are being rebuilt to standard size, provided with covering and, most importantly, the trees will be protected by tree guards.
3. Community Facilities
As a part of a citywide coalition, CIVITAS continues to work on community facilities reform.
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