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20 Years of Hester Street

Featured News Dec. 6, 2023

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 […]

Rise Ravenswood

Project 2023 – 2023

Ravenswood Generating Station is New York City’s largest power generating facility, producing up to 25% of the city's electricity at peak times. Through an initiative called Renewable Ravenswood, Rise Light & Power is planning to convert Ravenswood into a clean renewable energy hub

The Comprehensive Plan for Brooklyn

Project 2022 – 2023

In August 2022, Hester Street (HST) began a partnership with the office of Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, along with the Regional Plan Association and the New York Academy of Medicine, to produce a long-term, boroughwide plan aimed at guiding land use decisions and address public health and housing needs in the borough of Brooklyn. […]

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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

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 […]

News Oct. 4, 2023

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso Releases “The Comprehensive Plan for Brooklyn”

The Comprehensive Plan for Brooklyn Addresses Dual Crises of Housing and Public Health Through Data-Driven Land Use, Policy, and Budgetary Recommendations Almost Every Major City in the World Has a Plan to Guide Growth and Development – Except New York City BROOKLYN, NY – Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso today released “The Comprehensive Plan for Brooklyn,” a vision to address the borough’s dual crises of […]

News Aug. 2, 2023

Hester Street hosts The Future of Our Field panel

On Wednesday, July 26, Hester Street partnered with Next City and the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment at Pratt Institute to present The Future of Our Field, a conversation on fighting anti-Blackness and embedding racial equity in the fields of architecture, planning, and design. Over 40 people attended the in-person event and networking reception […]

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