Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday a $4.8 million expansion of New York City\u2019s Crisis Management System to strengthen violence prevention in Bushwick, Harlem and Washington Heights\/Inwood.<\/p>\n
Each area will receive $1.6 million to support trusted community workers who mediate conflicts, prevent retaliation and connect residents with jobs, education, mental health care and other services.<\/p>\n
\u201cPublic safety is strongest when it begins with prevention and when communities have the resources to resolve conflict, support young people and keep their neighbors safe,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n
The expansion builds existing programs in Bushwick and Harlem and introduces a new CMS street outreach team in Washington Heights\/Inwood, which previously lacked that coverage.<\/p>\n
In Bushwick, the funding will expand The Wick Against Violence, operated by Southside United HDFC, building its work at Woodhull Hospital and Bushwick Houses.<\/p>\n
In Harlem, Living Redemption will expand its outreach and conflict mediation, connecting more young people and families with mentors, employment and education.<\/p>\n
In Washington Heights\/Inwood, United Way’s Grow Up Grow Out Jr. will establish a team providing street outreach, conflict mediation, and ongoing support.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the key to the violence interruption work is having people with lived experience work with people with lived experience,\u201d said Juan Ramos, executive director of Southside United HDFC.<\/p>\n
City officials said they selected the areas based on crime data, unmet service needs, and other indicators.<\/p>\n
During the announcement, Mamdani also honored CMS partner Antoine Utsey, who was killed last month in Brownsville.<\/p>\n
The expansion is part of the administration\u2019s broader push to invest in community-based prevention. The money is already included in the city\u2019s budget, but a firm start date has not been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday a $4.8 million expansion of New York City\u2019s Crisis Management System to strengthen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-378403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}