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Formed in 2003, the Queens Community Cleanup is a community restoration program for the greater Long Island City, and Jamaica, New York, area designed to improve local quality of life by repairing conditions of disorder and promoting economic renewal. Community leaders, residents, community-based organizations, and neighborhood businesses have long expressed their concerns about the presence of graffiti, noise, and garbage in Queens. By removing graffiti, cleaning streets and sidewalks and generally making the greater Queens Plaza area a better place to live and work, the Queens Community Cleanup program seeks to attract new investment to the neighborhood. The overall goal is to bring the community and government agencies together to address chronic problems in Long Island City and Jamaica. |
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The program consists of two principal components:
Community Service: Offenders sentenced in Queens Criminal Court for quality-of-life crimes will perform community service in Long Island City and Jamaica—removing graffiti, picking up trash, and maintaining public parks. In this way, offenders will be held accountable for their actions while simultaneously paying back the community they have harmed.
The Clean-up sponsors neighborhood volunteer projects.
Community Enhancement: AmeriCorps volunteers will organize neighborhood beautification projects where community members work together on service projects, such as painting a school or planting a garden. Americorps members will also be responsible for performing targeted community enhancement projects such as surveying community needs, repairing broken windows and locks in public housing developments.
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg launches the Clean Up
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FEATURED PUBLICATION
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Op Data, 2003: Long Island City
By Amanda Cissner, Michael Freedman-Schnapp, and Liz Bracco
A community survey, coordinated by staff of the Queens Plaza Community Clean-up and the Center for Court Innovation, that measures the opinions of community members on issues of quality of life, safety, and community services.
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