Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, representative of New York's 8th Congressional District (stretching from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Coney Island in Brooklyn), announced $11.8 million in funding for high-priority projects in the district. These projects are included in the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009, which is expected to pass today in the House of Representatives.
“I am pleased to be able to help secure federal funding for these excellent local projects,” said Rep. Nadler. “This funding will go toward cancer screenings, asbestos remediation, job training and adult education, the construction of parks, schools, museums and green facilities, beach erosion prevention, and other vital infrastructure initiatives.”
The 17 projects supported by Rep. Nadler to be awarded grants in FY2009 are:
$428,000 for Project Chernobyl, the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary’s large-scale preventive thyroid cancer screening of immigrants exposed to radiation following the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 (New York City-wide)
$237,500 for Construction of the High Line (Chelsea)
$350,000 for the Doe Fund Ready, Willing and Able program (New York City-wide)
$250,000 for the Hudson Guild Teen Program (Chelsea)
$475,000 for the National Parks New York Harbor Docks Upgrade (Governors Island)
$475,000 for Construction of the Italian American Museum (Little Italy)
$196,514 for the Consortium for Worker Education (New York City-wide)
$3,924,000 for the Atlantic Coast of New York City, Rockaway Inlet to Norton Point Project, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Coney Island/Sea Gate)
$1,903,000 for Construction of the New School’s Green Building (Greenwich Village)
$1,350,000 for Asbestos Remediation at Castle Williams (Governors Island)
$175,000 for Career Gear’s Prisoner Re-Entry Program (New York City-wide)
$95,000 for Arts Education Programs at the Kaufman Center (Upper West Side)
$95,000 for Electronic Health Information Technology and Family Planning Programs at the Callen-Lorde Center (Chelsea)
$522,500 for the Lincoln Center Corridor Redevelopment Project (Upper West Side)
$250,000 for the NOAA Environmental Education Project, American Museum of Natural History (Upper West Side)
$381,000 for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Educational and Community Programs (Upper West Side)
$714,000 for the New School’s Institute for Urban Education (Greenwich Village)