Hester Street
Hester Street will sunset after 20 years
Featured News Jun. 22, 2025
August 27, 2024 After an extraordinary 20+ years, Hester Street is sunsetting its current operations. Since 2003, Hester Street has worked to ensure that neighborhoods are shaped by the people who live in them, innovating approaches to community engagement, design, planning, and economic development that center low-income communities and communities of color. In partnership with […]
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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 […]