The 2011 Manhattan Community Board application is currently available and ready for you to apply!  Join your local community board and get involved in the decisions that make a difference in your community every day. 

Click here for the 2011 Manhattan Community Board Application.  Not sure if Community Board is for you?  Click here to find out about information sessions being held over the next several weeks where you can get the answers to your questions. 

New applications are due by January 14^th, 2010.

If you want to RSVP for an info session, call  212-669-4465 or email conference@manhattanbp.org and specify which information session you plan to attend.

• Can accommodate more than one restaurant or café on a block
• Are considered public space, i.e. they can be used by anybody, not only the restaurant/café clientele.
• Cafe hours are customarily limited for early evening closure (e.g. around 8 p.m.), and the furniture must be stored each night inside or locked up outside.
• People may order food from the food establishment inside and bring out their food/drinks themselves.  They also can order inside and have someone bring out the fare when ready, but there's no order taking, i.e., no waiter service, outside.  
• No alcohol can be served.
• Must provide a barrier on the street side, which provides safety from passing traffic.

Tonight, Tuesday, November 23^rd, Hudson Guild will feed more than 200 of Chelsea's neediest residents at their 8th Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner. 

Each year, individuals and Chelsea-area restaurants and businesses have donated enough food to feed a crowd of more than 200 Chelsea residents in need. This is truly an event that highlights the generosity of not only the volunteers, donors, and staff involved with the Guild on a regular basis, but of those in the Chelsea community like you. 

Hudson Guild has been working hard to provide needed social services to the Chelsea community since 1895.  They serve more than 14,000 people each year through programs like daycare, hot meals for senior citizens, low-cost professional counseling, community arts programs and recreational programming for teens.

Please consider making an in-kind or monetary donation to help put together a great Thanksgiving meal for the community.

Interested in lending a hand or donating? Click here.

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