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20 Years of Hester Street

Featured News Apr. 18, 2024

Founded 20 years ago by Leroy Street Studio, Hester Street is celebrating 20 years of advancing racial and economic justice through community-based planning and design. Our video captures those who built the organization, including Leroy Street Studio, our founding executive director Anne Frederick and our previous co-executive directors Betsy MacLean and Nisha Baliga, as well as […]

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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Project 2023 – Present

In June 2023, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) launched a participatory planning and public engagement process to reimagine the Amsterdam Avenue side of their iconic campus. To carry out this comprehensive visioning project, LCPA partnered with Hester Street (HST) and architecture/urban design firm NADAAA to gather input from the local community on how […]

District 35 Land Use Planning Framework

Project 2022 – 2024

In New York City, community stakeholders remain siloed from much of the City’s current land use decision-making process. Under the existing Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), it is difficult for New Yorkers to contribute meaningful input for newly planned development in their neighborhoods. These conditions often fail to incorporate the community’s long-term needs and […]

Environmental Justice for All: EJNYC

Project 2022 – 2024

Beginning in March 2022, Hester Street collaborated with the NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice (MOCEJ) and engineering and design firm Buro Happold to support research and development for the New York City Environmental Justice for All (EJNYC) Report and the EJNYC Mapping Tool. The report and mapping tool, which were published and […]

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Eva Neubauer Alligood

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Eva Neubauer Alligood is the Executive Director of Hester Street and a social justice leader with three decades of experience supporting community-led efforts to create more equitable and inclusive New York City neighborhoods. Prior to her work with HST, Eva served as Senior Director for Partnerships and Programs at LISC NY, where she created and […]

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Hester Street is an urban planning, design and community development nonprofit working so that neighborhoods are shaped by their people.

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News Dec. 11, 2023

20th Anniversary Gala Recap

Hester Street’s 20th anniversary gala November 14, 2023 On November 14, 2023, Hester Street hosted nearly 200 friends, partners and allies to celebrate our 20th year and honor the people and organizations who founded and built our organization. We were delighted to pay tribute to our honorees – our founding architecture firm Leroy Street Studio, our […]

News Dec. 6, 2023

Meet Our 2023 Radical Imagination for Racial Justice (RIRJ) Cohort

Since 2020, through the Radical Imagination for Racial Justice (RIRJ) Initiative, Hester Street has partnered with the Surdna Foundation to provide grants and in-depth technical assistance to creative programs that advance racial and environmental justice through the lens of arts and culture. We are excited to announce our new cohort of RIRJ grantees for the […]

News Oct. 10, 2023

Council Member Julie Won Announces Comprehensive Community Planning For District 26

Queensbridge Park – On Tuesday, October 10, Council Member Julie Won was joined by Speaker Adrienne Adams, Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, Assembly Member Steven Raga, a representative from Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez’s office, the Department of City Planning, labor unions, and community partners to announce the launch of two holistic community planning processes across District 26. These […]

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