BIDs do more than beautify

The city’s business improvement districts aim to enhance neighborhoods </br>with efforts from homeless outreach to encouraging development

From left: Tim Tompkins and Ellen Baer
From left: Tim Tompkins and Ellen Baer

From the February issue: There’s an often unseen force behind many of the changes in New York City’s neighborhoods over the last few decades. The city’s 70 Business Improvement Districts do more than plant flowers and hire people to sweep up litter: they’ve also played a big role in some of the more fundamental transformations of areas like Times Square, the Financial District and Downtown Brooklyn. [more]

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