East 80s Yorkville Alliance
BID Formation Effort
The East 80s Yorkville Alliance BID Formation Effort is a community-led project spearheaded by a diverse group of residents, commercial property owners, tenants, and advocates. Our group has been working to create a Business Improvement District along the bustling East 86th Street corridor–and adjacent streets–for the purposes of improving sanitation, safety, horticulture, and overall beautification throughout the district. These improvements will benefit ALL residents, as well as creating a more welcoming, vibrant visitor experience. We look forward to showing you what we can do together, as a unified neighborhood group, to make the East 80s into one of New York’s cleanest, safest, most vibrant neighborhoods.
About The District
The East 80s Yorkville Alliance BID Formation Effort was created by a Steering Committee made up of a broad spectrum of local residents, commercial property owners, and members of other local partnerships, including Carnegie Hill Neighbors and the East 86th Street Association, with additional participation and support from the New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS).
The Steering Committee’s goal is to create a Business Improvement District (BID) which would provide additional sanitation, safety, and horticultural services to the district, as well as create a marketing and social media arm that would help to promote and support the retail and other business merchants within the district. The BID’s proposed boundaries can be seen in the map.
Where we are with the BID
Throughout 2024, the Steering Committee conducted SBS-mandated Needs Assessment Surveys, both residential and commercial, garnering feedback from hundreds of residents as well as from many of the retail businesses within the district. These surveys were a key factor in determining the scope of services the BID will provide, as well as determining the operating budget of the BID–which in turn created the “contribution formula” that the BID proposes to evenly assess on all eligible property owners within the district.
Currently, the BID is in the “Balloting Phase” of BID formation, shown on the roadmap.
Proposed map of the district
Vote
Vote YES for the East 80s-Yorkville Business Improvement District and Support the Neighborhood!