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Nadler Secures $5.3 Million in Federal Funding for Priority Projects in NY’s 8th Congressional District

Washington, DC, December 10, 2009
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, representative of New York’s 8th congressional district, announced $5,300,000 in federal funding that he has secured for 11 high-priority projects in his district. These projects were included in H.R. 3288, the FY 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which was passed today in the House of Representatives.

“Particularly now, as funding for local programs is drying up and the recession is squeezing New Yorkers of all incomes, I am proud to bring more than $5 million in key federal funding into New York for these projects,” said Nadler. “In addition to putting New Yorkers to work and spawning economic development, these funds will be used in support of senior services, HIV prevention for youths, cancer screening, job training for the unemployed, key infrastructure projects, child abuse prevention, and many other vital initiatives.”

The following projects, supported by Congressman Nadler, are included in the bill:

  • $500,000 for the Lincoln Center Redevelopment Project. This will continue the decade-long project to modernize and redesign the area around West 65th Street in Manhattan to improve the safe movement of people and vehicles in a heavily congested area.
  • $300,000 for construction of the new YMCA of Greater Coney Island.
  • $500,000 for Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) Supportive Services for Penn South in Chelsea. This program allows seniors to age in place with greater comfort and security in their own homes.
  • $200,000 for Project Chernobyl at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. This is a large-scale preventive effort of thyroid cancer screening of immigrants exposed to radiation following the Chernobyl disaster of 1986.
  • $150,000 for Urban Assembly New York Harbor High School for the construction of a Maritime and Science Technology and Training Center on Governors Island.
  • $800,000 for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s community and educational programming initiatives.
  • $1,500,000 for GMHC’s youth HIV prevention program.
  • $600,000 for the Doe Fund’s Ready, Willing and Able program. This program provides intensive job training and counseling for former drug addicts and convicts.
  • $350,000 for Ohel’s child abuse prevention programs.
  • $250,000 for GoGirlGo!’s New York City initiative to use sports and physical activity to assist at-risk girls.
  • $150,000 for the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty’s program to expand career services.

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