Rebuild Chinatown Initiative (RCI) : resources

RCI RESOURCES

Reports and Other Printed Materials

Building Trust (Shelterforce Online , Summer 2006)
The challenge of 9/11 brought Chinatown’s organizations, long riven by deep-seated
differences, together to plan for recovery.

America's Chinatown: A Community Plan (Rebuild Chinatown Initiative, April 2004)
As a result of two years of listening and learning under the umbrella of the Rebuild Chinatown Initiative, three goals and eight initiatives are outlined in this plan.

The Community Speaks One Year After September 11, 2001 (Rebuild Chinatown Initiative, November 2002)

Results and findings from more than 3,000 voices from a broad and diverse cross-section of the Chinatown community.

Chinatown Household Survey (Rebuild Chinatown Initiative, October 2002)
Findings from over 1800 Community Surveys between August 1st and August 23rd, 2002.

Allen & Pike Streets: A Community Vision (Project for Public Spaces, April 2004)
A community-based study with a bold new vision for Allen and Pike Streets that includes median beautification and improving pedestrian safety, waterfront connections, public spaces, and historical interpretations related to an immigration theme.

Chinatown Access and Circulation Study Potential Initiatives (Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, July 2004)

Commenced in the summer of 2003 in partnership with the NYC Department of Transportation, the study focuses on vehicular and pedestrian concerns that affect quality of life in Chinatown/ Major focus ares include Park Row, Chatham Square, Coach Busses, and other Bus and Van Services Parking and Streetscape.

Chinatown: Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow (Columbia University Urban Planning Studio, Spring 2003)

The Planning Studio conducted a major study of the neighborhood, analyzing the area's economy, social, physical and housing characteristics to make a series of recommendations to help create a vibrant neighborhood, with a strong and diverse economy.

Organzations, Resources & Coalitions

Nonprofit Advocacy/Community Development Organizations

•	Asian American Federation of New York (AAFNY)
•	Asian Americans For Equality (AAFE)
	Downtown Manhattan Community Development Corporation (DMCDC) an affiliate of AAFE
	United Neighborhoods to Revitalize Allen and Pike Streets (UNRAP) affiliated with AAFE
	Renaissance Economic Development Corporation affiliated with AAFE
•	Garment Industry Development Corporation (GIDC)
•	Imagine NY
•	Labor Community Advocacy Network (LCAN)
•	National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (CAPACD)
•	New York Industrial Retention Network (NYIRN)
•	NY New Visions

Nonprofit Arts/Academic/Cultural/Community Service Organizations

•	Asian American Arts Center (AAAC)
•	Chinese Culture Center
•	Columbia University Chinatown Studio
•	Committee to Revitalize and Enrich the Arts and Tomorrow’s Economy (CREATE)
•	Lower East Side Tenement Museum
•	Museum of Chinese in the Americas (MoCA)
•	NYC Arts Coalition
•	Project for Public Spaces (PPS)
•	YMCA of Greater New York

Tourism

•	Explore Chinatown

Lower Manhattan/ September11th Organizations

•	September 11th Fund
•	Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC)
•	Lower Manhattan Info

Government Agencies/Organizations

•	NYC Department of Transportation
•	NYC Economic Development Corporation
•	NYC Gov
•	NYC Parks and Recreation

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