East 106th Street Design Study

Harlem CDC's Planning Department developed a conceptual urban plan for redesigning the East 106th Street corridor from Central Park to the East River and worked with Taller Boricua and its consultant Grahame Shane, professor of urban design at Columbia University to refine it. The main theme of the plan is to recreate East 106th Street into an "arts and cultural" focal point for El Barrio, East Harlem.

The concept goes beyond streetscape enhancements, and explores ideas about how passive areas along the street can be redeveloped to provide greater revenues to their owners, improve social interaction and safety within the neighborhood, and provide new locations for arts-related businesses and cultural organizations.

These ideas have been incorporated into a planning document development in conjunction with the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone and its consultants, the City College Architectural Center. View a rendering of its conceptual plan here.