CM Mealy questions OPHC on 7 on 7 series location selection
CM Mealy questions why only Roosevelt Avenue was chosen for the 7 on 7 series, asking about the 2, 3, 4, 5, A, and C train lines with similar issues. Ramjatin explains the program was piloted due to heightened community division on Roosevelt Avenue and plans to expand to all train lines and bus routes with new funding.
Can you explain to me the 7 on 7 series?
Initial feedback, you say it's seven on seven, it's closest to the train stations.
How did you pick these seven on seven?
Just Roosevelt Island, different, why not other locations?
Do you think the two or the three train does not?
Do you think the A or the C train does not have hate crimes?
Or you just feel it was more in Roosevelt Island?
Because I had on Easton Parkway, four to five.
Vendors was...
Everywhere.
The community was mad, the vendors was mad, everyone trying to make money.
So why wasn't considered the four to five line?
Yeah, thank you for that question.
You know, I want to just highlight two things.
Within capacity, we can only do what we can.
Now that we've increased funding coming to the office, our goal is to, and this administration has made it very clear, that the investment that they're going to give to us is going to expand these programs that have been working across the city.
We piloted that program last year to get feedback, to learn what works, what does not work, and specifically Roosevelt Avenue, because we've seen a heightened sense of community division within that community.
Our PATH program partners do work across New York City already.
So now that this program has been successful, we do have intentions to exactly follow the whole of the four train, the whole of the five train, and go through each of the lines.
To the three train.
Two, three, five, A, C, one, C, E, all of them.
Z, we're going to be doing all of them over time.
And the J and the M.
J and the M.
And the hate crimes we have over there on that line, that should have been the first one.
And you'll be happy to know this, and bus lines too.
Because we know Queens don't have many trains, so we're going to bus lines as well.
The point is this.
We're going to use the natural lines that's already created where people connect.
To bring them even more close in the room, but also to bring that diversity in one room and say, hey, we are all New Yorkers.
Please remember that.
So I would definitely be looking forward to it because
So many different hate crimes that I don't know how I was just picked for Queens and Brooklyn is like the epic center.
So I look forward to making sure I get those notices.
And I'll schedule a meeting with your office to make sure we can learn and hear more about you and tell you about the work that we're doing as well.