Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Congressionally Directed Spending Requests for Fiscal Year 2022

Senator Gillibrand has submitted funding requests to the Senate Appropriations Committee for various state and local community projects that will benefit New Yorkers all across the state. Projects are listed in alphabetical order by location.

Under guidelines issued by the Senate Appropriations Committee, each Senator had the opportunity to submit CDS requests for their state for Fiscal Year 2022. It should be noted that only a handful of projects may actually be funded, and we cannot guarantee which those will be. Projects are restricted to a limited number of federal funding streams, and only state and local governments and eligible non-profit entities are permitted to receive funding.

In compliance with Senate Rules and Committee requirements, Senator Gillibrand has certified that she and her immediate family have no financial interest in any of the projects she has requested.

Transportation Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Bill CDS Requests:

Financial certification letter can be found here.

Project Location: Albany, NY
Amount Requested: $5,500,000
Recipient: Albany Housing Authority
Project Purpose: HUD approved demolition of three functionally obsolete 1960’s era public housing mid-rise buildings. This is the first phase of a mixed-use capital south Master Plan.

Project Location: Albany, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: Albany County Sheriff Office
Project Purpose: If awarded, grant funds will be used to expand the SHIP program from the current size of 50 bed to a 100 bed facility. This expansion will include remodeling of 50 old jail cells into 50 mini housing units for the residents, remodeling of the old jail wing and dayroom space to be less of a correctional space and more of a welcoming residential space. If awarded, grant funds will be used to expand the SHIP program from the current size of 50 bed to a 100 bed facility. This expansion will include remodeling of 50 old jail cells into 50 mini housing units for the residents, remodeling of the old jail wing and dayroom space to be less of a correctional space and more of a welcoming residential space.

Project Location: Albany, NY
Amount Requested: $1,075,000
Recipient: United Way of the Greater Capital Region
Project Purpose: All funds requested through this Congressionally Directed Spending opportunity directly support capital costs that drive critical capacity-building programmatic elements and accessibility at The Blake Annex, a nonprofit shared services center that drives innovative solutions to the Capital Region’s most entrenched issues.

Project Location: Albany, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: The College of Saint Rose
Project Purpose: The College of Saint Rose requests funding for renovations not otherwise available through the federal grant process. Saint Rose will renovate two existing classrooms to create a microbiology laboratory to support five undergraduate majors at the College: biology, nursing, biochemistry, forensic science, and public health.

Project Location: Auburn, NY
Amount Requested: $750,000
Recipient: City of Auburn
Project Purpose: The City of Auburn, NY is requesting $750,000 for capital building improvements to the c.1930 historic Memorial City Hall located in the South Street NR Historic District.

Project Location: Bellport, NY
Amount Requested: $2,613,000
Recipient: Village of Bellport
Project Purpose: Public Marina Dock System Reconstruction: This action includes: (a) Updating the long-standing public timber docks utilized by the Suffolk County Police Marine Unit, the Bellport Fire Department, and the South Country Ambulance, while also providing docks for the Fire Island Ferry Vessel and personal watercraft; and (b) Increasing the marina storm resiliency by replacing the existing fixed wave screens with a wave attenuator. Reconstruction of the Fire Island Ho Hum Beach Dock System: This action includes reconstructing the bulkhead and pier forming the docks used by First Responder vessels, the municipality’s Fire Island Ferry at Ho Hum Beach, and other personal watercraft.

Project Location: Binghamton, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: City of Binghamton
Project Purpose: The City of Binghamton seeks federal funding to help fund an unprecedented investment in the city’s youth through the construction of a new youth and community center in the city’s urban core. The new center will be approximately 15,000-18,000 square feet and include a gymnasium with one regulation basketball court, community and activity rooms, classrooms, offices, a breakroom, a locker area, restrooms, and a commercial kitchen that can be used for community events as well as a teaching space. The new center will provide youth with activities to keep them off the streets, learn to develop new skills, and provide an outlet for recreation.

Project Location: Binghamton, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: City of Binghamton
Project Purpose: In order to meet an urgent capital need and ensure the safety of its residents, the City of Binghamton seeks federal funding to relocate the headquarters of the fire department. The current headquarters for the department was recently found to be structurally unsound. The components of this proposal will create a better, safer environment for residents and staff by modernizing the headquarters and ensuring the department can safely store equipment.

Project Location: Binghamton, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: Broome County Government
Project Purpose: The Grippen Park Multi-Use Recreational Building Reuse/Renovation project involves capital expenditures to renovate an existing 36,000-SF building in Broome County’s Grippen Park for reuse as a multi-use facility for youth programming, community events, and cultural enrichment along the Susquehanna River in an underserved area of Broome County. The existing building consists of a 4600-SF enclosed portion and a 31,400-SF pavilion area in a flood prone area.

Project Location: Binghamton, NY
Amount Requested: $600,000
Recipient: Broome County Urban League, Inc.
Project Purpose: The Cameo Center for Community Engagement (3CE) is to serve as a center for job training and employment and to promote and enrich quality of life by providing diverse cultural experiences through all forms of artistic expression and to for the cultural arts, enriching the community by offering the opportunity for all ages and backgrounds to experience high quality, diverse, affordable performing arts, films, performances, movies and educational activities. And operating a community-centered radio station, to ensure the continued growth and development of the arts and other community culture within our service area.

Project Location: Binghamton, NY
Amount Requested: $300,000
Recipient: Broome County Government
Project Purpose: The BAGSAI Girls Softball Complex project involves capital expenditures to upgrade and expand the use of an existing County-owned girls’ softball complex by adding artificial turf and lighting in order to extend the playing season, the hours of operation, and the conditions of play (the use of the fields during unsettled or rainy weather). The added draw for tournaments (both regional and out of state) to this upgraded facility will create a significant positive impact to the Broome County area.

Project Location: Bronx, NY
Amount Requested: $15,000,000
Recipient: Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Project Purpose: The project will provide full ADA full accessibility at Parkchester – E 177th Street station on the Pelham Line in the borough of the Bronx.

Project Location: Bronx, NY
Amount Requested: $5,000,000
Recipient: NYC + Hospitals/Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Services
Project Purpose: Located in the South Bronx, Lincoln Hospital services will increase capacity in the following areas: Primary Care, Dental, Ophthalmology and Ear Nose Throat. This will ultimately reduce Medicaid and Medicare expenditures by reducing and avoiding Emergency Department visits and admissions.

Project Location: Bronx, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: The Bronx Community Foundation, Inc.
Project Purpose: In a borough with the highest levels of child poverty and unemployment, the lowest levels of homeownership, and limited high speed internet access, The Bronx Community Campus Project will provide affordable housing, a workforce training center, a Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation with small business support, broadband availability promoting a digital access, youth development support with career readiness and experiential learning opportunities, healthy food accessibility featuring urban farming, and a nonprofit resource hub supporting innovative and scalable models while meeting the immediate needs of residents. Funding will be used for design and development.

Project Location: Bronx, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Project Purpose: The project will make accessibility improvements at the Williams Bridge Station including platform replacement, building two new elevators, two new stairs, and new customer service amenities (shelters, canopies, PA system, customer information signs, security cameras).

Project Location: Bronx, NY
Amount Requested: $110,000
Recipient: Astor Services
Project Purpose: Federal funds would be used to support two bi-lingual family support advocates serving our Bronx communities through Astor’s outpatient clinics. The Family Support Advocate is a caregiver with personal experience raising a child with behavioral health needs, and works to address the significant increase in high-risk cases at Astor.

Project Location: Bronx, NY
Amount Requested: $650,000
Recipient: The Bronx Community Foundation, Inc.
Project Purpose: The Bronx Digital Equity Coalition Project will enable broadband internet access for the Bronx and will provide resources to eliminate structural inequity and economic disparity and invest resources within neighborhoods where they are needed, empowering a primarily Black, Latinx, mixed-race community Funding will be used for staffing the project (director, project manager, partnership coordinator, project specialist), supplies, and marketing; subgrants will support partner participation.

Project Location: Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, NY
Amount Requested: $1,200,000
Recipient: Churches United For Fair Housing
Project Purpose: This funding will support our housing related services that help families, as well as people experiencing homelessness, find and maintain affordable housing, combat landlord harassment and displacement, and access resources that help prevent and fight back against other threats to housing.

Project Location: Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond, NY
Amount Requested: $2,500,000
Recipient: Covenant House New York
Project Purpose: Covenant House New York proposes to utilize EDI funding to complete the construction of Covenant House’s 80,000 square foot shelter and service center for youth experiencing homelessness in New York City, as well as additional office, conferencing, and staff training space. Our facility will be located within Manhattan Community Board 4 and Congressional District 10 of New York, NY, in New York County.

Project Location: Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond, NY
Amount Requested: $15,500,000
Recipient: NYC & Company
Project Purpose: NYC & Company will use funding to help drive tourism to New York City following the pandemic.

Project Location: Brooklyn, NY
Amount Requested: $450,000
Recipient: Brooklyn Greenway Initiative
Project Purpose: Funds will be used to create a NYC Greenway Network Comprehensive Plan to guide planning, design, investment, and construction to complete NYC’s 400-mile 5-Borough greenway network. The Plan will collate greenway implementation plans where they exist, upgrading and updating the status of each, identify gaps and create action plans to complete right of way planning or engineering in advance of design and construction.

Project Location: Brooklyn, NY
Amount Requested: $2,200,000
Recipient: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
Project Purpose: Federal funds will support the critical first steps towards creating the Brooklyn Museum’s first-ever permanent galleries for our celebrated collection of African art, which has already been off view for more than five years. A grant will enable us to relocate the more than 13,000 collection objects currently housed in the spaces that will become our African galleries, and hire a construction manager to oversee the first stages of this vital project so that they can stay on track towards their goal of opening these world-class galleries to the public by 2025 in time for Brooklyn Museum’s 200th anniversary.

Project Location: Brooklyn, NY
Amount Requested: $2,006,000
Recipient: CAMBA, Inc.
Project Purpose: This request is for capital improvements at CAMBA’s Winthrop Street locations including 19, 23, 25 and 27 Winthrop Street, Brooklyn, New York 11225. The buildings were constructed in 1928 and are in need of extensive repairs. CAMBA operates or administers 27 direct human service programs at these locations using a combination of funding streams from New York State and New York City.

Project Location: Brooklyn, NY
Amount Requested: $911,000
Recipient: Pratt Institute
Project Purpose: Pratt Institute is requesting funding for operating expenses to launch a collaboration with Cornell University to provide technical assistance to small local manufacturers including the 1,500 manufacturers in Pratt’s Made In NYC program and 200 manufacturers served by Cornell’s Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture. The two schools will deliver workshops and one-to-one assistance to help 550-600 companies adopt robotics and other advanced technologies, transition to the use of sustainable materials and processes, and strengthen their marketing and ecommerce capacity to reach new markets and create jobs.

Project Location: Brooklyn, NY
Amount Requested: $495,000
Recipient: Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services
Project Purpose: Ohel is requesting federal funding to make needed capital improvements to Ohel’s Camp Kaylie located at 400 Mount Vernon Road in Wurtsboro, NY; the requested funding will be used to purchase and install new generators; make needed improvements to the camp’s infirmary; and install new gates, fencing and IT infrastructure throughout the camp. The capital improvements will create at least 22 local jobs in the Wurtsboro area.

Project Location: Buffalo, NY
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Recipient: Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority
Project Purpose: This project will design and construct an ADA accessible walkway for access to and from the new NFTA-Metro Rail DL&W Station and the Key Bank Center parking ramp. The direct connection will enhance access to both the new Metro Rail station and the private sector development proposed by Savarino Companies for the 2nd level of the DL&W trainshed.

Project Location: Buffalo, NY
Amount Requested: $3,440,000
Recipient: Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority
Project Purpose: This project will construct new inbound and outbound NFTA-Metro Rail Erie Canal Harbor stations at their existing location. The new stations will improve access, safety, visibility, transparency, rider comfort, and integration with the City of Buffalo’s Main Street Revitalization project as well as the surrounding Canalside development.

Project Location: Buffalo, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority
Project Purpose: The Riverline will be a new iconic, innovative, and inspiring nature trail and greenway built an unused railroad corridor that will connect Buffalo’s downtown and waterfront together. Funding will support capital improvements.

Project Location: Buffalo, NY
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Recipient: Canisius College
Project Purpose: Requested funding will be used for eligible elements of a project that will include design, engineering, deconstruction of a parking facility, environmental remediation, installation of new drainage systems, construction of a surface lot and installation of lighting, pedestrian paths, bikeways and greenspace.

Project Location: Canton, NY
Amount Requested: $4,089,000
Recipient: Canton College Foundation, Inc.
Project Purpose: SUNY Canton seeks funding for property acquisition, demolition, and construction to rejuvenate a derelict shopping center in the heart of downtown Canton by creating a three-story facility with 50,000 ft2 of residential space, 10,000 ft2 retail space, and 15,000 ft2 for an Entrepreneurship Center operated by SUNY Canton.

Project Location: Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: UCAN City Mission
Project Purpose: Start-up expenses for women and women with families’ homeless shelter including: permits, insurance, licenses, office equipment and supplies, security equipment, bedding and supplies, toiletries, kitchen equipment and supplies, food, laundry equipment and supplies.

Project Location: Cicero, NY
Amount Requested: $1,700,000
Recipient: Midstate Youth Hockey Association, Inc.
Project Purpose: The Midstate Youth Hockey Association is requesting funds for capital improvements and essential operating equipment. The scope of work for this project includes a full chiller replacement, repairing and re-grading the ice rink floors, ice rink dasher board replacement, and repairing the following building elements: Cracked masonry walls and foundations, heaved concrete floors of the locker rooms, damaged shower stalls and partitions, locker room equipment and floor/wall finishes, damaged precast plank floor and carpet in the sports bar, walls/windows/ceiling equipment/finishes of the sports bar, door frames and miscellaneous items within damaged walls, plumbing system, mechanical HVAC system, fire protection sprinkler system, and electrical and fire alarm system.

Project Location: City of Ithaca, NY
Amount Requested: $1,400,000
Recipient: City of Ithaca
Project Purpose: Funding would be used to improve existing bridge conditions and provide a transportation corridor that promotes mobility and safe travel for all transportation modes and ADA-compliant pedestrian facilities.

Project Location: City of Newburgh, NY
Amount Requested: $1,750,000
Recipient: City of Newburgh
Project Purpose: Funds would be used for a bridge replacement project that is vital to stabilizing both commercial and passenger vehicular traffic along a critical portion of State Route 32 in the City of Newburgh.

Project Location: Cold Spring, NY
Amount Requested: $4,000,000
Recipient: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Project Purpose: Supporting a portion of the architectural assessment and construction of new theater and back-of-house facilities for Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.

Project Location: Dansville, NY
Amount Requested: $105,000
Recipient: Hornell Area Family YMCA
Project Purpose: The Hornell Area Family YMCA, with local community partners, will open a branch in Dansville, NY. The Y will offer programs in the former Dansville High School. This request is to purchase essential equipment to establish Y programs for immediate start-up of branch operations.

Project Location: Erie, NY
Amount Requested: $800,000
Recipient: City of Kingston
Project Purpose: This project will design and construct bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure improvements along various public spaces near the DL&W Trainshed and Ohio Street Corridor to enhance connectivity between the facility’s surrounding multi-use trail network (i.e., Shoreline Trail, Niagara River Greenway, and Empire State Trail) and areas north/south, including the Outer Harbor and Canalside/Cobblestone Districts.

Project Location: Erie, NY
Amount Requested: $993,000
Recipient: University at Buffalo
Project Purpose: Funding will build a smart transportation infrastructure along Main St. in Buffalo adjacent to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC) to support a Connected, Automated, Resilient and Equitable multimodal transportation system. As designed, TI-CARE will heighten national awareness of the critical issue of transportation equity, accessibility and environmental justice by improving mobility and accessibility for underserved populations, people with disabilities (PWDs) and the elderly.

Project Location: Erie, NY
Amount Requested: $1,760,000
Recipient: Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority
Project Purpose: This project will design, install, and construct overhead vehicle charging infrastructure at the NFTA-Metro Cold Spring Bus Maintenance Facility to support the charging operations of a series of 10 BEBs as they enter the Metro Bus fleet.

Project Location: Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, Saint Lawrence, NY
Amount Requested: $250,000
Recipient: Jefferson County Industrial Development Agency
Project Purpose: Federal funds would be used for a new rail siding platform for intermodal logistics.

Project Location: Genesee County, NY
Amount Requested: $1,033,000
Recipient: Genesee County Highway Department
Project Purpose: The Rose Rd Bridge over Bowen Creek consists of three elliptical pipes with failing headwalls and section loss of the pipes below the water line. The bridge will be replaced with a single span to improve the hydraulic flow of Bowen Creek and widened to accommodate bicycle and pedestrian traffic.

Project Location: Genesee County, NY
Amount Requested: $1,203,000
Recipient: Genesee County Highway Department
Project Purpose: The Griswold Rd Bridge over Murder Creek consists of an open grate steel deck with steel girders. The bridge will be replaced with a precast three sided frame to avoid future corrosion issues and widened to accommodate bicycle and pedestrian traffic.

Project Location: Harlem, NY
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
Recipient: National Urban League, Inc.
Project Purpose: The Urban League Empowerment Center (ULEC) is currently under construction with L+M Development Partners, Taconic Investment Partners, and BRP Companies to develop an underutilized New York State-owned parking garage at 121 West 125th Street, Harlem, USA, into a 414,337 SF state-of-the-art mixed-use project totaling $242 million. Included in this is construction and fit-out for the Institute for Race, Equity and Justice that will contain conference space that the surrounding low and moderate income community can utilize; there will be over 15 permanent new hires for the Civil Rights Museum Experience (also included in construction and fit-out) and the conference space and we will commit to hiring 51% of low and moderate income individuals for those positions (both the Museum and the Institute will have programming and outreach to the surrounding low and moderate income community).

Project Location: Hornell, NY
Amount Requested: $400,000
Recipient: City of Hornell
Project Purpose: Funding requested by the City of Hornell would be used to design, engineer, and construct protection of two cast iron transmission mains that deliver raw water from the city’s reservoir to the water treatment plant. The NYSDOH notes that the mains should have a minimum five feet of cover, and after consulting with the NYSDEC, the preferred solution would be to install new sections of pipeline below the stream in order to reduce the potential for local environmental harm including flooding.

Project Location: Hudson Valley, NY
Amount Requested: $4,300,000
Recipient: Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail, Inc.
Project Purpose: The funds would go towards a capital project, specifically relocation of utilities and traffic calming improvements to a state highway adjacent to one of the most popular hiking trails in the country.

Project Location: Irondequoit, NY
Amount Requested: $250,000
Recipient: Town of Irondequoit
Project Purpose: The Town of Irondequoit seeks to transform a large portion of its municipal campus into public green space with new park & recreation amenities. The Irondequoit Town Campus Transformation Project would repurpose the site of the former Department of Public Works (DPW), which was relocated after a devastating 2016 fire destroyed much of the facility.

Project Location: Ithaca, NY
Amount Requested: $800,000
Recipient: Greater Ithaca Activities Center, Inc.
Project Purpose: GIAC’s Congressionally Directed Spending Request is for funds to be used to renovate a former school gymnasium to a more accessible, energy efficient, and sustainable space to house GIAC’s job training, micro-entrepreneurship, and teen afterschool programs, which serve over 1000 community members annually, helping them to meet their basic needs and improve their lives. This is more than a gymnasium it is an expansion of space for current and proposed programs that center equity, social, racial, and economic justice, and meet the constantly emerging needs of our most marginalized residents especially Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC).

Project Location: Ithaca, NY
Amount Requested: $1,235,000
Recipient: City of Ithaca
Project Purpose: The enclosure of the open air Cass Park Rink is the crucial part of a multi-phased plan to maximize the potential of Cass Park by updating and improving the 49 year old facility, to protect the significant recent City investment and serve the region for another 49 years. Capital improvement funds are needed to support the enclosure project, which has completed the Design/Development phase and is approaching Construction Drawings.

Project Location: Jamestown, NY
Amount Requested: $5,488,000
Recipient: National Comedy Center, Inc.
Project Purpose: The Hall is a capital project that is a tourism attraction and expansion of the National Comedy Center museum that will bring new economic impact to Jamestown, New York, as a tourism project. The Hall is the nation’s official new stand-up comedy hall of fame, and will attract new visitors, creating 20 direct jobs and 80 induced jobs, as well as $11 million annually in increased economic impact in the form of visitor spending.

Project Location: Jamestown, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: Jamestown Center City Development Corporation
Project Purpose: Federal funds would be used for capital investment that will equip and furnish children’s indoor recreation space, a unique and needed asset to the community.

Project Location: Kings, NY
Amount Requested: $676,000
Recipient: North Brooklyn Angels
Project Purpose: The project funding would be used to expand the North Brooklyn Angels preparation and distribution of free meals and produce to food-insecure individuals and fund projects such as the provision of thousands of meals to homebound seniors. Specifically, the funding would be used to replace the organization’s mobile soup kitchen “Angelmobile,” commercial kitchen expansion, as well as maintenance supplies necessary for expanded mobile food distribution.

Project Location: Kings, New York, NY
Amount Requested: $575,000
Recipient: Sephardic Community Youth Center, Inc.
Project Purpose: Federal funds would be used for capital improvement to the Youth Center’s community outdoor rooftop multi-purpose space for repairs and upgrades.

Project Location: Livingston County, NY
Amount Requested: $250,000
Recipient: Livingston County
Project Purpose: Livingston County is seeking federal funds to fund the restoration and expansion of a small interpretive center at the 80-acre Al Lorenz Park – the County’s only parkland – located adjacent to Letchworth State Park, the Mount Morris Dam, a village center, and regional trail systems in Mount Morris, New York.

Project Location: Mamaroneck, NY
Amount Requested: $308,000
Recipient: Town of Mamaroneck
Project Purpose: This renovation project is to update the lobby/foyer area, the activity room and the three-season porch at the Town of Mamaroneck’s Senior Center. The proposed renovation project will consist of window replacement, flooring replacement, heating and air conditioning installation, painting, lighting and electrical upgrades to these program spaces to make the building more energy-efficient and available for activities year-round. These renovations will enable better use of the space, eliminate crowded conditions and offer new programs requested by the membership.

Project Location: Manhasset, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: Town of North Hempstead
Project Purpose: A top priority in North Hempstead is the restoration of the degraded and obsolete, 60-acre Beach Park on Hempstead Harbor into a community resource for community gatherings, festivals, recreation, and waterfront access. Key project components: design and installation of pedestrian and biking trails, sidewalks, crosswalks on West Shore Road, and parking facilities; and, design & installation of green infrastructure for stormwater management.

Project Location: Middletown, NY
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Recipient: City of Middletown
Project Purpose: Project funds will be used for the interior rehabilitation of the former O&W Train Station in Middletown, NY. The first floor will be the new home for ABCD Middletown’s Head Start programs along with some of the second floor for offices, while the remaining portion and entire 3rd floor will be used for a business incubator program and a possible O&W museum.

Project Location: Monroe County, NY
Amount Requested: $2,400,000
Recipient: RGRTA
Project Purpose: RGRTA is requesting funding to replace a backlog of aged bus shelters and deploy additional shelters at additional locations.

Project Location: Monroe County, NY
Amount Requested: $12,000,000
Recipient: Town of Webster
Project Purpose: The Town of Webster intends to build a new Highway Department administration building with attached garage. The current building is approximately 50 years old and is in need of some major repairs.

Project Location: Montgomery County, NY
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
Recipient: City of Amsterdam
Project Purpose: As recommended in the 2018 Downtown Amsterdam Multimodal Center Study, the City of Amsterdam is planning to relocate the existing Amtrak station that is currently located outside of the downtown and establish a multimodal facility in the heart of the City. The main train station hall would be fully integrated into the proposed Pedestrian Connector to the Mohawk Valley Gateway Overlook (MVGO) pedestrian bridge.

Project Location: Montgomery County, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: City of Amsterdam
Project Purpose: The East Main Street Community Center Anchor Project includes rehabilitation of 149 East Main Street for use as a community center to be operated by the Boys and Girls Club of the Capital Area in partnership with Centro Civico. The Community Center will serve as a communal hub for arts, education and recreation activities an identified community need in an underutilized area of the downtown.

Project Location: Nassau County, NY
Amount Requested: $1,780,000
Recipient: Nassau County Department of Public Works
Project Purpose: Funds are being requested for the construction phase of the Sands Point Preserve Bridge reconstruction. The project will rebuild the parapet walls, repair substructure and superstructure components and to bring the bridge into ADA compliance.

Project Location: Nassau, Queens, Suffolk, NY
Amount Requested: $850,000
Recipient: Sid Jacobson JCC
Project Purpose: Requested funding would be for capital improvements, specifically for the replacement of the roof at Sid Jacobson JCC’s primary facility located in East Hills on Long Island. The existing roof is in dire need of repair, and replacing the roof will create a safer environment for all members who utilize our programs.

Project Location: Nassau, Suffolk, NY
Amount Requested: $2,500,000
Recipient: The Trust for Public Land
Project Purpose: Complete engineering studies and conceptual design for Phase 1 of the Long Island Greenway, a 25-mile multi-purpose path from Eisenhower County Park in Nassau County through several parks and communities to Brentwood State Park in Suffolk County. In addition, to start and complete final design, construction documents, and an environmental impact study for Phase 1.

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Project Location: New Rochelle, NY
Amount Requested: $270,000
Recipient: City of New Rochelle
Project Purpose: The City of New Rochelle is requesting federal funds to support the development of a Climate Justice Adaptation Plan for New Rochelle. The New Rochelle Climate Justice Adaptation Plan will use an intersectional framework to incorporate community engagement with climate science, sustainable development goals, and the best environmental and planning strategies to prioritize ongoing investments in climate justice initiatives in New Rochelle.

Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $5,000,000
Recipient: Friends of the High Line
Project Purpose: The Moynihan Train Hall Connection, which is the first phase of the larger High Line Connections project, will create a 600 linear foot, elevated walkway to connect the High Line, with its 1.5-mile-long pedestrian path, to Moynihan Train Hall via Manhattan West, a mixed use development site, which includes businesses, storefronts, and new green public space. High Line Connections will be a part of a larger New York State mobility plan that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by connecting to major transportation and public space networks.

Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $5,000,000
Recipient: Friends of the High Line
Project Purpose: Hudson River Park / Javits Center Connection will specifically complete a physical walkway connection between Moynihan Train Hall, the Javits Center, Hudson River Park, and Pier 76, redefining Manhattan’s West Side. A highlight of this project will be the connection between two of the busiest parks in New York City, the High Line and Hudson River Park. High Line Connections will be a part of a larger New York State mobility plan that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by connecting to major transportation and public space networks.

Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: The Trust for Governor’s Island
Project Purpose: Yankee Pier is near the Island’s midpoint and directly adjacent to the Development Zones, the Island’s 43-acre park, the Governors Island National Monument and Historic District. The Trust seeks funding for design and planning to reconfigure the pier to serve as a new gateway for the Island, able to accommodate the up to 9,000 passengers per peak hour generated by expanded public access and a proposed Center for Climate Solutions in the long-term.

Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $750,000
Recipient: The Trust for Governor’s Island
Project Purpose: This project will enable the Trust for Governors Island to redesign Lima Pier to support a freight pier, supporting expanded public amenities on Governors Island, and to support the Island’s ongoing development as a hub of educational, cultural and recreational use.

Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: The Trust for Governor’s Island
Project Purpose: This project will enable the Trust for Governors Island to redesign Tango Pier to support an eco-pier on Governors Island, supporting public engagement and waterfront research opportunities, and to support the Island’s ongoing development as a hub of educational, cultural and recreational use.

Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $12,000,000
Recipient: Young Men’s Christian Association of Greater New York
Project Purpose: This funding would enable the Y to continue to serve local communities through time-tested Y programs, such as aquatics, health programs, family activities, youth sports, after school care, and senior services and build back the Y’s workforce at 22 existing branches across New York City and two new Bronx branches. Funds would cover the operational costs associated with managing a community facility including but not limited to: staffing, building expenses, supplies and program equipment.

Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $400,000
Recipient: ARC XVI Washington Inc.
Project Purpose: This funding request is to equip and build the ARC Community Kitchen for the ARC XVI Fort Washington Center, which is being relocated to 516 West 181 Street, New York, NY 10033.

Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $1,585,000
Recipient: National September 11th Memorial and Museum
Project Purpose: This funding will be used to refurbish 238 light fixtures in the 9/11 Memorial Pools, which have been in operation for over 10 years and are diminishing in quality and reliability and are nearing end-of-life. This funding will also be used to replace all plaza lights from T-8 lamps to LED lighting to continue energy efficiency efforts as a LEED Gold facility, and update the lighting control systems used to manage the Museum’s intricate lighting scheme.

Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $5,000,000
Recipient: Friends of Harlem Hospital
Project Purpose: The simulation center currently requires major renovation due to its antiquated infrastructure. There is limited equipment, manikins, and supplies, which the center needs to grow to maximize the center’s full functionality. With these changes, Harlem Hospital Simulation Center will hold true to its vision of being a premier satellite center that emphasizes enhancement of quality care, improvement of patient experience, and promotion of patient safety.

Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $1,706,000
Recipient: Hudson River Park Trust
Project Purpose: The project consists of capital improvements required to restore protective fendering systems at two piers serving the public within Hudson River Park’s boundaries.

Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Recipient: Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Project Purpose: LISC is seeking FY 2022 Congressionally Directed Spending to immediately launch a second round of our Small Business Relief and Recovery Fund. With these funds, LISC NYC will deploy grants ($10,000 each) as a lifeline for up to 200 minority-owned small businesses, paired with targeted technical assistance (on topics such as marketing, business planning, and how to access additional funding) that we will provide through our partners-an established network of 16 community-based organizations and the New York City Department of Small Business Services.

Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: Bright Leaders Foundation Inc.
Project Purpose: Bright Leaders Foundation Inc. is requesting federal funding for housing space for our program. The Foundation intends to use funds to provide a space for children in the community to learn, receive tutoring and enrichment programs.

Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Recipient: Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc.
Project Purpose: The Apollo is requesting federally directed funds for capital improvements to modernize the historic Theater and transform it into a performing arts center for the public benefit of its audiences, artists, and staff of the Apollo Theater, and better provide services to all visitors through increased access to cultural programming. Apollo is a community anchor and economic driver for Harlem as well as a global touch point for African-American culture, and one of the world’s most well-known, enduring, and well-recognized theaters in the world.

Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $1,739,000
Recipient: New York Urban League
Project Purpose: The NYUL seeks to stabilize and remodel its headquarters in Harlem (three attached brownstones that were gifted to the organization more than 80 years ago) in order to provide a dedicated space to operate educational and workforce programs and services for underserved communities in New York City.

Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $1,225,000
Recipient: New York Building Foundation Inc.
Project Purpose: The funding request will specifically cover the salaries of a New York Building Foundation project manager and support staff; costs for contracted planners, designers and other analysts; and for paid internships and experiential learning programs for undergraduate and graduate students. The funding request will also cover costs to support staff and the communities that we will engage, which include technology and supplies and materials and activities related to community engagement.

Project Location: Newburgh, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: Thornwillow Institute
Project Purpose: Thornwillow Institute is seeking funds to renovate anchor historic buildings that will provide studio workshops, affordable housing, meeting, exhibition and event space, catalyze artisanal businesses, and revitalize our economically distressed community.

Project Location: Niagara County, NY
Amount Requested: $619,000
Recipient: Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority
Project Purpose: This project will purchase a new chemical spreader and replacement snow blower to preserve the safety and capacity of the Air Operations Area (AOA) at Niagara Falls International Airport (IAG) by ensuring that runways, taxiways, and aircraft parking aprons are unobstructed by snow or ice, enabling aircraft operations to continue during winter events.

Project Location: Niagara County, NY
Amount Requested: $3,100,000
Recipient: Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority
Project Purpose: This project will upgrade illuminated airfield signs, the wind cone, and control tower beacon on the Niagara Falls International Airport air operations area. The improvements will support the safety and capacity of commercial, general, and military aviation activity.

Project Location: Niagara County, NY
Amount Requested: $998,000
Recipient: Niagara University
Project Purpose: Niagara University seeks federal funding to partially offset design costs (A/E fees) associated with a 45,000 sq. ft. building expansion to the B. Thomas Golisano Center for Integrated Sciences, a facility that was completed in 2013 with Gold LEED certification. Consistent with growth in enrollment and study in biology and chemistry, the proposed expansion would bring together faculty and students in mathematics, psychology and nursing disciplines, under one roof, in state of the art laboratories that will foster innovation, collaboration, and enhanced integrated research opportunities.

Project Location: Niagara County, NY
Amount Requested: $1,100,000
Recipient: Niagara University
Project Purpose: Niagara University (NU) is a bi-national university with campuses in Vaughan, Ontario and Niagara Falls, NY. The University is committed to establishing a footprint within the Bridge District that will be a major anchor for the local community. This project proposes the renovation of the First Congregational Church on Cleveland Avenue into an academic innovation hub that will be a center for multi-disciplinary services including professional workforce training, job promotion services, urban development and planning, English as a second language programs, small business development, early childhood care, community and civic engagement, and an eSports lab.

Project Location: Niskayuna, NY
Amount Requested: $5,000,000
Recipient: Town of Niskayuna
Project Purpose: The Town of Niskayuna is requesting funds to offset cost of building a new Senior/Community Center building and pool facility at Blatnick Park.

Project Location: Ogdensburg, NY
Amount Requested: $2,100,000
Recipient: Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority
Project Purpose: The Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority is seeking federal assistance with the development of a new childcare facility in its Commerce Park in Ogdensburg, NY. Childcare is a critical need for working parents and this project will support those parents, local businesses, and general business recruitment efforts for the region.

Project Location: Oneida County, NY
Amount Requested: $2,500,000
Recipient: Visiting Nurse Association of Central New York, Inc.
Project Purpose: Federals funds would be used for capital improvement to renovate the Beeches property to address the housing needs of the aging population in the Northern Oneida County region.

Project Location: Onondaga County, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: City of Syracuse, Office of the Mayor
Project Purpose: The housing construction goal is 50 newly constructed homes for income-qualified home owners, and 150 rental units. 31 of the 50 single family owner occupied homes are funded, therefore this request will allow us to secure the balance of funding for the final 19 homes. These newly built homes will fill in the gaps created by the demolition of blighted structures, effectively re-weaving together neighborhoods currently in transition.

Project Location: Ossining, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: Village of Ossining
Project Purpose: Funds will be used to study how Route 9 could be altered via a “Road Diet” to foster better economic development, enhanced walkability and pedestrian safety, while potentially also adding parking and/or bike lanes in one or both directions where practicable. The design and construction of the road diet would balance the corridor for more modes and uses by reallocating some of the space for vehicle traffic to pedestrians, flex space, and on-street parking, correcting a community divide that was inadvertently created via Urban Renewal.

Project Location: Oswego County, NY
Amount Requested: $600,000
Recipient: Oswego County
Project Purpose: Federals funds would be used for urgently needed repairs to what is commonly referred to as the “building envelope”. This includes but is not limited to front steps, columns, windows, brickwork, soffit and roof.

Project Location: Port Jervis, NY
Amount Requested: $100,000
Recipient: Port Jervis Community Development Agency
Project Purpose: Built in 1907, this funding would be used for the engineering rehabilitation of McArthur Circle, a yellow-flagged critical transportation structure within the City of Port Jervis’ downtown and a redesign of the eight vehicular, pedestrian and railroad spans that utilize it.

Project Location: Poughkeepsie, NY
Amount Requested: $2,642,000
Recipient: Hudson River Housing, Inc.
Project Purpose: Funding is requested for construction that will complete the adaptive re-use (phase 3) of the historic Poughkeepsie Trolley Barn building, prominently located in a low-moderate income Opportunity Zone neighborhood in the heart of the City of Poughkeepsie (where HRH’s has concentrated much of it revitalization work through its nationally recognized Middle Main Initiative). Upon its completion in 2022, the Project will address local HUD Consolidated Plan priorities by transforming the Poughkeepsie Trolley Barn — once vacant and blighted — into a vibrant new community arts-programming event and gallery space to include art-based experiences, workforce training, and paid jobs for youth; the Project will also create one affordable housing unit.

Project Location: Queens, NY
Amount Requested: $17,000,000
Recipient: Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Project Purpose: The project will address state of good repair needs at the station, accessibility improvement at the Forest Hills station in Queens in the City Terminal Zone.

Project Location: Queens, NY
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Recipient: Chhaya Community Development Corporation
Project Purpose: Chhaya CDC requests funding to expand our capacity to provide housing assistance through physical relocation and/or additional staffing. This includes procuring a long term home for Chhaya that can house front line and administrative staff and create a community space will help us expand our housing assistance services, including counseling and foreclosure prevention, to reach more than the 3,000 clients per year that we currently serve. For the last two decades, Chhaya has served as one of the only pan-South Asian, HUD-certified Housing Counseling Agencies in the nation.

Project Location: Queens, NY
Amount Requested: $250,000
Recipient: Queens Economic Development Corporation
Project Purpose: The Queens Together Project will support local independent restaurants and food businesses through business education, worker education, technical and marketing skills. We are focused on supporting the underserved restaurants and food business in Queens with emphasis on those in low and moderate income communities throughout the borough.

Project Location: Richmond County, NY
Amount Requested: $300,000
Recipient: Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
Project Purpose: Funds will be used to renovate and upgrade the interior of the historic Music Hall at Snug Harbor, including safety upgrades and cosmetic improvements to enhance patron safety and delight.

Project Location: Riverhead, NY
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Recipient: Long Island Science Center
Project Purpose: The Long Island Science Center is requesting federal funding to develop educational Exhibits and Programs featuring a 12,000 sq. ft. Rooftop featuring a 100-seat planetarium, and a roof deck with functional Agritech garden & wind/solar exhibits with the end goal to repurpose a vacant blighted building centrally located in a targeted area for revitalization at the federal, state, county, and local level being centrally located in a federal Opportunity Zone; a National Register Historic District; a NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Environmental Justice Area; a NYS Department of State Brownfield Opportunity Area; as well as a NYS designated Urban Renewal Area. We are also adjacent to the Peconic River, a federally designated Estuary of National Significance.

Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $750,000
Recipient: Foodlink, Inc.
Project Purpose: The Foodlink Expansion Project comprises the purchase of our current facility, headquartered in Rochester, NY, and a cooler expansion within our current footprint: $4,500,000 is to purchase the building where our current facility is located- allowing us to further expand our operations and food storage capabilities; $750,000 will support the costs associated with the expansion of our existing cooler space. It is planned to use the requested federal funding solely on the cooler expansion, which will enable Foodlink to provide more fresh vegetables, fruits, dairy, and lean protein than ever before.

Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $4,908,000
Recipient: City of Rochester
Project Purpose: The requested funds would be used to finance a portion of design services, right of way acquisitions, construction, and construction inspection for the reconstruction of Dewey Avenue between Felix Street and Emerson Street in the City of Rochester. The project includes a realigned intersection at Dewey Avenue and Emerson Street to improve traffic flow and safety.

Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $100,000
Recipient: The Legal Aid Society of Rochester, NY
Project Purpose: The project is a collaboration between The Legal Aid Society of Rochester, NY (LASROC) and Willow Domestic Violence Center (Willow). This project supports victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking through direct legal representation, legal counseling, advocacy, and supportive services to residents of Monroe County.

Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: Goodwill of the Finger Lakes
Project Purpose: This capital improvement project would help fund converting the adjacent unused warehouse area of our Contact Center building. Expanding the current space from 75 seats to 165 seats will enable us to accommodate the additional employees hired to support the increased utilization of 211/LIFE LINE during the pandemic as well as position us for future statewide partnerships.

Project Location: Saratoga, Warren, Washington, NY
Amount Requested: $7,750,000
Recipient: Counties of Warren-Washington IDA
Project Purpose: The IDA is seeking engineering and construction funding to develop the former GE De-Watering Facility in Fort Edward into the Canalside Energy Park. Funding will be used to replace the temporary bridge at the entrance to the park; complete wastewater construction; upgrade the existing potable water infrastructure; install a natural gas line to the park; improve the current primitive internal road structure, including stormwater conveyance; and upgrading the electrical supply within the Park. This will assist the IDA with attracting new businesses to Washington County and create jobs in an area that has been devastated by the loss of manufacturing over the past 10 years.

Project Location: Sleepy Hollow, NY
Amount Requested: $100,000
Recipient: Village of Sleepy Hollow
Project Purpose: The Village of Sleepy Hollow is seeking funding to install a parklet at the intersection of Beekman Avenue and Cortlandt Street.

Project Location: Staten Island, NY
Amount Requested: $1,492,000
Recipient: St. George Theatre Restoration, Inc.
Project Purpose: The St. George Theatre Restoration (SGT) requests funding to improve its physical infrastructure, encompassing both interior restoration and exterior work, to protect the theater’s envelope and ensure its longtime viability. Scope of work includes full roof replacement, renovation of the building’s façade, asbestos remediation, and interior plaster and paint restoration.

Project Location: Steuben County, NY
Amount Requested: $280,000
Recipient: City of Hornell
Project Purpose: Funding requested by the City of Hornell would be used to repair and expand the aging municipal skate park located at Shawmut Park to ensure the safety of residents and visitors.

Project Location: Suffolk County, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: Town of Babylon
Project Purpose: The Town of Babylon is seeking funds to start the initial stages of development in East Farmingdale at an abandoned air craft finisher’s site. The Town plans to use these funds to commission environmental and planning professionals to assess the site.

Project Location: Suffolk County, NY
Amount Requested: $11,800,000
Recipient: Suffolk County Economic Development and Planning
Project Purpose: Gabreski Airport is a General Aviation airport located on 1,451 acres in the Town of Southampton on eastern Long Island. Its current air traffic control tower was built in the early 1940’s by the US government military use and is in disrepair. This project would fund the construction of a new air traffic control tower.

Project Location: Suffolk County, NY
Amount Requested: $640,000
Recipient: Suffolk County Economic Development and Planning
Project Purpose: Suffolk County seeks funding to install forty (40) charging stations to support the transition to a fully electric fleet.

Project Location: Sullivan County, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: Sullivan County
Project Purpose: This project entails construction of a planned bicycle and pedestrian bridge over the Neversink River to connect two existing segments of the Sullivan O&W Rail Trail, resulting in a contiguous 13-mile section from Mountain Dale, a hamlet in the Town of Fallsburg, to Ferndale, a hamlet in the Town of Liberty. Development of an additional on-road segment will link up with the existing Liberty Rail Trail, resulting nearly 18 miles of trail through five hamlet and village centers in the Sullivan County Catskills.

Project Location: Syracuse, NY
Amount Requested: $650,000
Recipient: The Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Tech
Project Purpose: The Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology, or MOST, has been an important part of the Syracuse community for forty years, but in that time many permanent exhibits have become outdated and obsolete. The MOST is seeking federal funding to upgrade the museum’s permanent exhibitions to bring them up-to-date and ensure they are operating at or above the industry standard.

Project Location: Syracuse, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity
Project Purpose: The requested funds will be used to support the development and initial capitalization of the Growth & Equity Fund. This Fund combines three complementary capital programs into a centrally managed Fund designed to ensure the success of and de-risk businesses and projects that fall outside the scope of traditional financing or where no market solution currently exists.

Project Location: Syracuse, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: The Good Life Youth Foundation
Project Purpose: The Good Life Youth Foundation (GLYF), a leading youth development and anti-poverty organization in Syracuse, is embarking on a capital project to build a Hip-Hop Center for Youth Entrepreneurship to expand the work of GLYF. The building has been purchased, but funding is needed to complete renovations and create this hub for youth, ages 13-24, to learn about identity, purpose, and entrepreneurship. GLYF is seeking federal funding to assist with this capital project.

Project Location: Syracuse, NY
Amount Requested: $10,000,000
Recipient: CNY Arts
Project Purpose: Funds will be used to create Arts and Entertainment & Districts, geographic sectors within communities that support and promote the creative arts industries, art production, cultural activities and entertainment, public art, and place-making to create synergy among these efforts. Examples of capital projects include facade improvement, stimulating public art, and wayfinding signage; program funds are specifically designated as “risk capital” for organizations to produce new programming and arts services for diverse and underrepresented audiences.

Project Location: Syracuse, NY
Amount Requested: $108,000
Recipient: CNY Arts
Project Purpose: Innovation Group of CNY Arts is in need of technology upgrades (computers, printers, software, servers, etc.) in order to meet the growing demand for our services through state and local partnerships.

Project Location: Syracuse, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Project Purpose: The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) is seeking federal assistance to update the western entrance to its campus. This update will make the campus more accessible for visitors, students, and staff, ensure people feel safe and comfortable as they wait for busses, and enhance the entrance to the campus that thousands of people utilize each year.

Project Location: Town of Dryden, NY
Amount Requested: $700,000
Recipient: Town of Dryden
Project Purpose: Funds will be used to complete the $2.9 million Dryden Rail Trail Bridge, a vital link in the town’s 10.4-mile Dryden Rail Trail that also will establish an ADA compliant section of the trail. It will create a safe crossing of NYS Highway Route 13 and a highly-visible, welcoming gateway to the surrounding scenic areas.

Project Location: Town of Eden, NY
Amount Requested: $2,980,000
Recipient: Town of Eden Highway Department
Project Purpose: The project seeks to mitigate traffic impacts through access management techniques that minimize curb cuts and create safe pedestrian networks to the Town’s Highschool, Middle School and Elementary School, while connecting the neighborhoods surrounding the schools to the Town’s commercial hub and Hamlet Center to create walkable access to small business and grocery needs. The project will also create road repair and storm water management opportunities for the Town.

Project Location: Town of Hillsdale, NY
Amount Requested: $1,240,000
Recipient: Town of Hillsdale, NY
Project Purpose: The funds will be utilized to rehabilitate/replace the failing West End Bridge on West End Rd. in the Town of Hillsdale, NY. The bridge has received much attention from the NYS Department of Transportation due to its highly visible points of failure. It is the only bridge structure owned by the Town of Hillsdale.

Project Location: Ossining, NY
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Recipient: Town of Ossining
Project Purpose: This project will be used for design, engineering and construction of road infrastructure to facilitate safe bicycle/pedestrian usage along New York State Route 133 in the Towns of Ossining and New Castle, connecting the Downtown Village of Ossining commercial corridor and Ossining Metro-North Station to the Empire State Trail in Millwood.

Project Location: Town of Seneca Falls, NY
Amount Requested: $2,047,000
Recipient: Town of Seneca Falls
Project Purpose: The Town of Seneca Falls will use federal funds for the replacement of the Bayard Street Culvert, improving drainage, pedestrian and motor safety, and further capitalizing on the Town’s commitment to downtown revitalization.

Project Location: Towns of Castile/Perry, NY
Amount Requested: $932,000
Recipient: Wyoming County Highway Department
Project Purpose: This project consists of making improvements to approximately 4 miles of this highway project includes a milling of the existing deteriorated road surface and replaces it with a new durable asphalt wearing surface on West Lake Road from Oatka Road to East Lake Road. Typical improvements will consist of an asphalt overlay to improve the riding surface and the shoulders along with associated miscellaneous items such as shoulder back-up and pavement markings.

Project Location: Troy, NY
Amount Requested: $750,000
Recipient: Capital Roots, Inc.
Project Purpose: Capital Roots is requesting support for construction of its Urban Grow Center Expansion. The project’s multi-faceted features will provide facilities which will support an array of public services at the nexus of food access, environmental justice, urban development and economic revitalization.

Project Location: Ulster County, NY
Amount Requested: $1,087,000
Recipient: City of Kingston
Project Purpose: This request will fill a funding shortfall for the construction of the Kingston Point Rail Trail Phase 2, which is on the NYS Empire State Trail and the Kingston Greenline. The project is a 0.4 mile paved ADA-compliant pedestrian and bicycle path section of the larger trail system. This section connects a lower-income housing complex (Rondout Gardens managed by the Kingston Housing Authority) directly to the Kingston waterfront business district on the Rondout Creek.

Project Location: Ulster County, NY
Amount Requested: $1,300,000
Recipient: City of Kingston
Project Purpose: This project will construct streetscape improvements that will improve the ADA compliance and safety for pedestrians and bicyclists on their way to the George Washington Elementary School. Improvements along the full length of Henry Street from Broadway to Wall Street will include street repaving, high visibility crosswalks, and bicycle infrastructure – concluding with a covered bike rack at the elementary school.

Project Location: Waterloo, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: Seneca County
Project Purpose: Seneca County will revitalize rural communities by transforming vacant, abandoned, unsafe, and environmentally challenged properties along its primary tourism routes. As the tourism industry in the Finger Lakes Region recovers from the pandemic, it is crucial that visitors and residents alike perceive Seneca County as a vibrant destination for travel.

Project Location: Westchester County, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: Westhab Inc.
Project Purpose: The SoYo Preservation project will deliver critically needed capital improvements and repairs to sustain 79 units of affordable housing in 9 multi-family apartment buildings in Southwest Yonkers owned and operated by Westhab.

Project Location: Westchester County, NY
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Recipient: City of Mount Vernon Department of Public Works
Project Purpose: The City of Mount Vernon requests a Federal appropriation to enable the City to consult outside engineers with expertise in MS-4 (Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System). The tasks to be completed by the consultants will include; evaluating data collected by our SL-Rat (Sewer Line Rapid Assessment Tool) and SPiDER Scanner (Manhole Inspection) devices to develop a comprehensive plan (the Planning Phase) for City-wide MS-4 Rehabilitation and completing necessary filings and reporting documents required by the EPA and DEC in accordance with the MS-4 Permit. The engineering costs are desperately needed to ensure we are efficiently completing long-term goals and will also assist in the prioritization of work to be completed in accordance with EPA and DEC protocols. The implementation of a comprehensive plan developed by outside engineering consultants with MS-4 expertise, will reduce the risk of task redundancy, overall project efficiency as well as position the City to cure issues cited in Administrative Compliance Order.

Project Location: Westchester County, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: Community Development and Conservation
Project Purpose: Direct construction funding for an approximately 2,600 linear ft. significant sidewalk gap in the Town of Greenburgh.

Project Location: Westchester County, NY
Amount Requested: $250,000
Recipient: City of Rye
Project Purpose: The Village of Mamaroneck is requesting federal funds to complete improvements at Jefferson Avenue Park. Jefferson Avenue Park is located proximal to a Village low-moderate area (Census Tract 73, Block 2), an approximate five-minute walk, and serves a large number of residents in this underserved area. This project will include the replacement of park fencing, walking paths, playground equipment & rubber safety surface, picnic tables, seating, and garbage/recycling cans, and landscaping.

Project Location: Westchester County, NY
Amount Requested: $250,000
Recipient: Village of Port Chester
Project Purpose: The Village of Port Chester is requesting federal funding to replace the original heating system in Village Hall with a geothermal heating and cooling solution. This project will provide a greener and more environmentally conscious system and result in long-term cost savings.

Project Location: Rye, NY
Amount Requested: $200,000
Recipient: City of Rye
Project Purpose: The City of Rye is requesting federal funding to properly collect, filter, and dispose of contaminated waste water from vessels utilizing the George W. DePauw Municipal Boat Basin. Located on Western Long Island Sound approximately nine nautical miles northeast of New York City, the Boat Basin is located at Milton Harbor and offers 350 boat slips, 144 kayak slips/racks, a public launching area, stationary marine pump-out services, and winter boat and kayak storage facilities. The decontamination station is highly effective in removing hazardous pesticides, other toxic materials, and reducing contaminated waste water from entering the Long Island Sound.

Project Location: Westchester County, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: Westchester County
Project Purpose: This project funds the installation of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and associated infrastructure at various County locations. The County will work with NYSERDA, NYPA and NYSDEC to explore any Non-County funding that may be available for this project.

Project Location: White Plains, NY
Amount Requested: $850,000
Recipient: YWCA White Plains & Central Westchester Inc.
Project Purpose: Until Justice Just Is, is a project to renovate the YWCA White Plains & Central Westchester’s North Street Activity Center in order to increase programming capacity to better meet the needs of the community, provide long-term sustainability, and create new space for the soon-to-be launched Westchester Center for Racial Equity (the Center).

Project Location: Woodbury, NY
Amount Requested: $250,000
Recipient: Village of Woodbury
Project Purpose: The Town of Montgomery seeks federal funding to carry out improvements to trails and other pedestrian infrastructure at Benedict Farm Park. Funding will be used to design a comprehensive trail plan, re-grade and build trails where necessary, and add amenities such as benches.