About Neighborhood in the Nineties

Founded in 1971, Neighborhood In The Nineties now represents more than 10,000 Upper West Side residents covering approximately 80 buildings, from Broadway to Riverside Drive, south of West 96th Street and north of 92nd Street. Neighborhood In The Nineties is a New York State-chartered, non-profit 501(c)4 corporation, with officers and directors who live in our neighborhood. Our organization is dedicated to improving the quality of life and safety of the community. Our purpose is also to ensure that the neighborhood receives its share, and the proper delivery of, government services as well as proper representation by those elected and appointed to serve the community. We are one of the largest grass roots oriented neighborhood-oriented organizations serving a Manhattan community.

As your community advocate since 1971, Neighborhood In The Nineties has successfully helped unite the residents of the West 90s to fight drug dealers, slumlords and dumping of inappropriate, socially demanding facilities by City and State governments.

This included:

Working with West 90s Neighborhood Coalition to defeat a poorly planned facility that would have placed pedophiles across the street from PS 75
Fought get proper development for the Symphony Space site, which today is The Lyric, 255 West 94th Street, but was once a block of empty storefronts with a burned out building shell that stood for 25 years.
Making the slumlords of West 94th Street spend millions to cleanup the violations in the SRO Hotels and give their residents working bathrooms and a safe place to live.
Raised $60,000 annually for much of the 1990s for a private security service that help sweep the drug dealers out of the area
Worked with the city and building owners to increase outdoor lighting to discourage drugs and other criminal activity—which made the streets safer at night.
Worked with the West 90s/West 100s Neighborhood to get the “Wild Man of 96th Street,” Larry Hogue off the streets, ending a reign of terror that spread havoc between West 86th to 106th Streets

Neighborhood In The 90s is continuing publication of BLOCKWATCH, now a part of this new N90s.com website. It was in its original format a print newsletter that we published monthly.

Neighborhood In The 90s, is now taking on its next challenge, the illegal Homeless Shelter at the Mount Royal, 315 West 94th Street aka The Apple. We know that we can continue to count on a tremendous well of community grassroots support and financial backing to defeat a facility that clearly violates the city’s own housing laws while threatening to destabilize the fabric of the neighborhood and diminish property values.

Please keep informed by keeping an eye out for this website, which we hope to constantly update with vital news and analysis that cut through the fog of elected official and bureaucratic mendacity.

Please also free to contact us at info@N90s.org with your story ideas, suggestions and view on what is happening in our community. Volunteers are always welcome. Help us help our neighbors make our Neighborhood In The Nineties a better place to live, with safer streets and a stronger community fabric.