Fiscal Year 2023
1. Project Name: American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Space Show
Request Amount: $1,500,000
Intended Recipient: American Museum of Natural History
Street Address of Intended Recipient: 200 Central Park West, New York, NY 10011
Rep. Nadler’s Financial Disclosure(FILE: AMNH Financial Disclosure)
Purpose of Request: The project will help create the Museum’s next Space Show in the AMNH Hayden Planetarium. This new show will leverage a powerful visualization tool called OpenSpace, a next generation opensource software for visualizing data in real-time that AMNH developed and continues to enhance and expand on in close partnership with NASA. Using accurate NASA mission data, OpenSpace renders three-dimensional models of the cosmos that will harness interest in STEM fields for the next generation of scientists.
2. Project Name: AAPI Health & Outreach Initiative
Request Amount: $760,000
Intended Recipient: Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC)
Street Address of Intended Recipient: 166 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013
Rep. Nadler’s Financial Disclosure(FILE: CPC AAPI Financial Disclosure)
Purpose of Request: The project will enhance and expand an AAPI Health Outreach Initiative in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, New York. This project will address the increased needs brought about by the pandemic, including the growing health and mental health needs of Asian American families and the rise in anti-Asian violence facing Asian American women and seniors.
3. Project Name: Educational and Arts Programs at Chinese American Social Services Center
Request Amount: $105,000
Intended Recipient: Chinese American Social Services Center, Inc. (CASS)
Street Address of Intended Recipient: 124 Avenue O, Brooklyn, NY 11204
Rep. Nadler’s Financial Disclosure(FILE: CASS Financial Disclosure)
Purpose of Request: The project will set up an after-school program for students. Additionally, it will provide an ESL program for newly arrived immigrants to learn basic English skills and daily conversations. It will also set up a U.S. citizenship class to help residents prepare for their U.S. citizenship application examinations.
4. Project Name: Addressing Climate Challenges to Agriculture and Water Quality in the New York City Watershed
Request Amount: $2,950,000
Intended Recipient: Columbia University
Street Address of Intended Recipient: 208 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011
Rep. Nadler’s Financial Disclosure(FILE: Columbia CPF Financial Disclosure)
Purpose of Request: The project will enable Columbia University’s Agricultural Modeling Intercomparison and Improvement Project to work with New York City’s Watershed Agriculture Council to develop a climate action plan for agriculture that clearly defines potential impacts on NYC’s drinking water, proposes actions to mitigate those impacts, and devises an adaptation strategy.
5. Project Name: Center of Peoples Organization Inc. Senior Center
Request Amount: $3,550,000
Intended Recipient: Council of Peoples Organization Inc
Street Address of Intended Recipient: 4802 10th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11219
Rep. Nadler’s Financial Disclosure
Purpose of Request: The project would be a valuable use of taxpayer funds because it will fund a parenting center to provide support and care for the first 1,000 days of life. It will provide supportive services for families and individuals, the vast majority of whom are covered by Medicaid, from pregnancy to a child’s second birthday, which experts have identified as the most critical time for interventions to improve health outcomes, educational achievement, and economic productivity.
6. Project Name: Harborview Terrace Elevator Repair
Request Amount: $4,000,000
Intended Recipient: New York City Housing Authority
Street Address of Intended Recipient: 250 Broadway, New York, NY 10007
Rep. Nadler’s Financial Disclosure
Purpose of Request: The project would modernize and replace five elevators in the Harborview Terrace development, which is a 15 story building home to nearly 1,000 low-income residents, many of whom are seniors, who have face inconsistent elevator service for years.
7. Project Name: NYU Prison Education Program Community Research Project
Request Amount: $306,501
Intended Recipient: New York University
Street Address of Intended Recipient: 655 Broadway, New York, NY 10012
Rep. Nadler’s Financial Disclosure
Purpose of Request: The project would be a valuable use of taxpayer funds because it will provide formerly incarcerated students valuable skills in social science research and reintegrate them into New York City while also engaging them in knowledge-creation to improve research methodologies, engage a wider range of subjects, and develop higher quality social science data.
8. Project Name: Tri-State Regional Transit Planning Initiative
Request Amount: $1,400,000
Intended Recipient: Tri-State Transportation Campaign
Street Address of Intended Recipient: 213 W 29th St, Suite 904, New York NY 10001
Rep. Nadler’s Financial Disclosure
Purpose of Request: The project would bring together Amtrak, New Jersey Transit, Long Island Rail Road, and Metro-North Railroad together for coordinating planning efforts to facilitate the implementation of through-running service at New York Penn Station.
9. Project Name: High School Training Program for Small Business Accounting
Request Amount: $134,000
Intended Recipient: Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
Street Address of Intended Recipient: 615 W 131st St, 6th Floor, Mail Code 8725, New York NY 10027-7922.
Rep. Nadler’s Financial Disclosure
Purpose of Request: The project would launch a new summer training program in accounting for low-income, first-generation, college-bound high school students from all over the Manhattan to meet small business owners’ need for accounting services and to provide students the skills to become accountants.
10. Project Name: Ryan Health Mental Health Facility Expansion
Request Amount: $2,247,000
Intended Recipient: William F. Ryan Community Health Center, Inc.
Street Address of Intended Recipient: 110 W. 97th St, New York, NY 10025
Rep. Nadler’s Financial Disclosure
Purpose of Request: The project would be a valuable use of taxpayer funds because constructing the new clinic would more than double the current space from 1500 square feet to 3600 square feet, thereby increasing the number of offices from seven to 10, adding two group therapy rooms, and a private registration area. This would dramatically increase mental health services access for the 50,000 low-income, medically underserved patients they serve each year.