Business Improvement Districts Bronx STATS 2020
The Department of Small Busi- WHITE PLAINS ROAD
ness Services defi nes a Business
Improvement District as “a formal
organization made up of property
owners and commercial tenants
who are dedicated to promoting
business development and improving
JUSTIN LERNER
2169 White Plains Road
Phone/Fax: (718) 881-3086
Email:wprbid@pelhamparkway.com
Web: www.pelhamparkway.com
The BID was established in May
1994 by then-executive director
Larry Prospect, as a not-for-profi t
community economic development
organization with a mission
to maintain and enhance business
conditions in a four-block area of
the Bronx with over 100 stores. The
area extends from Bolton Street
east along Pelham Parkway South
to White Plains Road and south for
three blocks to Brady Avenue. After
the passing of its founder, Joseph
Thompson has taken over the reins
as executive director of the BID, an
act made offi cial through a vote by
the organization’s general board.
Services: The BID provides a street
cleaner who sweeps the sidewalks
and the curbs and empties the waste
baskets several days a week to rid
the community of litter. The BID also
contracts with a graffi ti removal fi rm
to remove unsightly graffi ti when
needed. A new plan aims to clean
several of the awnings that have
picked up dirt over the years. Plans
also call to improve the fi re safety of
the strip’s dozens of businesses. The
BID is also working on plans to root
out panhandling and street vendors.
The BID will continue to expand its
presence by advertising in various
newspapers and on television. The
BID has branded its image with banners
displaying its logo on banners,
matching garbage pails and street
cleaner uniforms. Street fairs are
also expected to boost the area’s
businesses. During the holidays,
the BID lights up the community and
welcomes Santa Claus for the boys
and girls.
3400 Reservoir Oval East
Phone Number: (718) 324-4946
Fax: 718-324-4946
Email: jcorbett@montefi ore.org
Web:http://jeromegunhillbid.org
Managed by the Mosholu Preservation
Corporation since 1996, the
Jerome-Gun Hill Business Improvement
District gives support to over
200 businesses along Jerome Avenue
between Mosholu Parkway
and E. Gun Hill Road and E. Gun Hill
Road between Jerome and Webster
avenues.
Services:The Jerome-E. Gun Hill
Road BID provides additional sanitation
services to keep the local
streets clean and attractive. The BID
also organizes the Annual Jerome
Gun Hill BID festival, which attracts
residents for all over the borough. In
addition, the organization removes
graffi ti from fi re hydrants, parking
meters and street signs, as well as
commercial buildings and roll-down
gates along the BIG. The organization
also provides seasonal street
banners and trash receptacles. During
the holiday season, it illuminates
the BID with festive lights. Moreover,
the BID gets the word out about its
businesses via the annual store and
local attractions guide.
JEROMEE.
GUN HILL ROAD
KINGSBRIDGE
5760 Broadway
Phone 718-432-6935
Fax 718-432-6937
E-mail: kingsbridgebid@gmail.com-
Web: http://kingsbridgebidnyc.org
After more than fi ve years in the
planning, the Kingsbridge Business
Improvement District fi nally opened
its doors in November 2001, serving
200 merchants along Broadway
and Services: Shopping Map, yearly
calendars, street banners, sidewalk
benches, holiday lighting and landscaping.
Street sanitation is provided
every day by three workmen. Graffi ti
removal is done monthly.
JENNIFER TAUSIG WILMA ALONSO
an area’s quality of life.”
This partnership between
property owners and their tenants
pays the city a yearly tax assessment,
every last bit of which is returned
to better the BID through
supplemental services, including
sanitation and maintenance, public
safety, marketing and promotional
programs, capital improvements,
and beautifi cation.
The Bronx has eleven Business
Improvement Districts with
budgets ranging from $110,000
to $500,000
HUB–3RD AVENUE
MICHAEL BRADY
2825 Third Avenue
Phone Number: (718) 665-3983
Email: shopthehub@yahoo.com
Web: www.thirdavenuebid.org
The Third Avenue Business Improvement
District (BID), established
in 1988, promotes the
growth, vitality and visibility of
the Bronx’s most traffi cked commercial
corridor. The organization
is the Bronx’s oldest business
improvement district and serves
over 200,000 individuals daily.
The BID’s purpose is to keep
one of NYC’s most traffi cked
shopping districts clean, safe,
and attractive to businesses,
workers, community residents,
and visitors while leading a
mission-driven campaign to demand
equity for the south Bronx.
Organizational programs include
economic development, real estate
advisory and retail services,
sanitation and security departments
that augment the city’s
own services, small business development
services, streetscape
and open space improvements,
horticulture installations, robust
public programming, event planning,
and visitor services.
The catchment area includes
over 200 businesses, expected to
grow to 900 businesses by 2019,
Roberto Clemente Plaza, Triangle
Equity Plaza, the HUB Transportation
Center, Lincoln Hospital, Metropolitan
College of New York, and
several arts and cultural institutions.
The Third Avenue Business
Improvement District also administers
merchant organizations in
Port Morris along Bruckner Boulevard
to 138th Street.
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2488 Grand Concourse, Room 413
Room 411
Phone Number: (718) 562-2104
BID Hotline: (718) 562-1269
Fax: (718) 562-6225
Email: fordhamroadbid@optimum.
net
Web: www.fordhamroadbid.org
Led by executive director of 14 years,
Wilma Alonso, the Fordham BID has
grown to be the largest budgeted
BID in the borough, with most of
those funds being allocated to seven
day sanitation, graffi ti removal,
merchant-city mediation, community
engagement events, and technological
advancement of merchants. Having
overseen the major redevelopment of
public spaces throughout the district,
they regularly make use of Fordham
Plaza and Bryan Park to offer ever
evolving experiences to the community
with the goal of promoting their
businesses. The Fordham BID has
also forged great relationships with
the colleges and universities in their
district and regularly offer internships
and mentoring to Fordham University
and Monroe College students to give
them needed real world experience
and to capitalize on their fresh talents
and potential. The BID produces an
annual festiv-l that lures more than
15,000 people to the shopping district
and promotes local arts and talent.
They also hold an annual holiday
program that offers gifts to neighboring
children during their tree lighting
ceremony and much needed discounts
to parents through their holiday discount
program. As of late, they helped
to bring about the Bronx Night Market
on Fordham Plaza from June to October,
which hosts food from all over the
world and local entertainment and has
received an overwhelming response
from the community. The Fordham
Road Business improvement district
serves over 300 businesses between
Jerome Avenue and Washington
Avenue, with some reach to the
Grand Concourse and Webster
Avenue.
SOUTHERN
BOULEVARD
1029 E. 163rd Street
Suite 201
Phone Number: (646) 785-5315
Fax: (347) 584-2068
Email: info@sobobid.org
Web: http://www.sobobid.org
The Business Improvement District
serves 134 businesses within the
boundaries of 163rd Street and
167th Street on Southern Boulevard
and Westchester Avenue between
Fox and Hoe Streets.
Services: Advertising through television,
print ads, handbills, and more;
sanitation through increased trash
receptacles and street sweepers;
security with the proposed installation
of security cameras; beautifi -
cation through the installation and
replenishment of tree pits along the
boulevard and the power washing
of pedestrian walkways; and advocacy
to its members in matters
related to the Department of Buildings,
NYPD, Department of Small
Business Services, Department
of Transportation, Environmental
Control Board, and other local government
entities.
900 Grand Concourse
161ST STREET
Ground Floor
Phone Number: (718) 590-5433
Email: carygood@aol.com
Web: http://161bid.org
Established on April 28, 2005, the
161st Street BID faced immediate
struggles as its leadership faltered
and property owners waffl ed, but
with the excitement of the new
Yankee Stadium and 161st Street
rezone, the BID was launched in
July 2009 with Dr. Cary Goodman
at the helm. The reincarnated
BID is located in the Concourse
Village section and extends along
161st Street and is generally
bounded by River Avenue on the
west and Morris Avenue on the
east. The BID includes the newly
constructed Yankee Stadium and
could include new high-rises,
professional offi ces and a hotel
after a recent rezoning of the area
by the City Council.
Services: The 161st Street BID
was actively taking part in the
rezoning efforts around Yankee
Stadium to help transform the
area into a sensible neighborhood
for young professionals
with appropriate businesses. A
Youth Ambassadors program
was also introduced to provide
high school age youth with exposure
to international issues,
personalities and perspectives.
Other enhancements planned for
the area include: improved lighting,
sanitation, security, facades
and storefronts, green spaces,
streetscapes and parking. Taking
advantage of its proximity to
Yankee Stadium, the organization
also sponsors events around
Yankee Cap giveaways and even
a Jeter Meter that allowed fans to
send messages of good luck and
best wishes to the Yankee captain
as he approaches the hit totals of
some of baseball’s immortals.
BELMONT
2369 Arthur Avenue
Phone Number: (718) 294-8259
Web: www.bronxlittleitaly.com
The district is located in the area
generally known as Little Italy in
the Bronx. The BID extends from
East Fordham Road to East 183rd
Street along Arthur Avenue and
also includes East Fordham Rd.
and E. 187th Street from Lorillard
Place to Southern Boulevard. The
district is comprised of 352 businesses
in more than 260 properties,
most of which are mixed-use
buildings consisting of commercial
use on the ground fl oor and
residential units above.
WESTCHESTER
SQUARE
YASMIN CRUZ
25 Westchester Square
Phone Number: (718) 597-4629
Web: http://wsbid.org
Email: YasminCruz@wsbid.org
Services: renovated the Owen
Dolen Recreation Center, which
serve as a centerpiece of the
BID’s efforts to spur the economic
engine of the shopping district
by having weekend events
featuring performing arts and
music. Greenstreets have also
been installed as part of a beautifi
cation effort. The Westchester
Square BID provides sanitation,
uniformed street cleaners, snow
removal, security cameras, marketing
and promotion for the
area, along with special events
aimed at attracting guests to the
shopping corridor.
FORDHAM ROAD
MILES BURNETT
DR. CARY GOODMAN
PHIL MARINO
KATHERINE L. BROIHIER
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