Mayor de Blasio To Answer Community Questions at Open Town Hall Wednesday Evening June 21st at 6:30 pm

New York, NY June 17, 2017 -- All Manhattan residents, and particularly residents of the East Village, Lower East Side, Chinatown, SoHo, TriBeCa, and the Financial District are cordially invited to attend a mayoral Town Hall to be held on Wednesday evening, June 21st starting at 6:30 p.m. at University Center/Chinatown Settlement, 273 Bowery (at Houston Street). RSVP's to the event have been very strongly requested because a huge turnout is anticipated and advance plans must be made to accomodate as many people at the Center as possible in a limited space that is monitored very strictly by Fire Department regulations . Although the event is slated to begin officially at 6:30 pm, all interested in participating are being advised to arrive no later than an hour earlier, at 5:30 p.m., which would be best to potentially insure their ability to attend. See important details concerning how to RSVP at the end of this article.

Hosts for the event include Counciwoman Margaret Chin, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, and Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez; but sources indicate that many Community Board members, representatives from neithborhood organizations and other officials and the media will be in attendance.

At an earier mayoral Town Hall held at the NYC Lab for Collaborative Studies on West 17th Street in March of this year, a NYC spokeswoman for the Mayor stated that: "The Town Hall is a great oppportunity for New Yorkers to ask their questions and bring their concerns to the Mayor and his administration"; and at that time [they expected] ". . . homelessness, affordable housing, education and quality of life issues to be discussed".

For this upcoming session on Wednesday, it's very possible that subjects for this Town Hall may also well be aimed at topices of much more locaized concern to downtown residents such as: the effect of skyscrapers under construction in the Chinatown area; the highly contested future for Rivington House after the removal of its deed restrictions without community input; plans for major zoning changes in Greenwich Village with respect to the Tech Center planned for that neighborhood; issues raised by community action organizations -- respectively: the CWG (Chinatown Working Group); the Neighbors to Save Rivington House and GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side); and the GVSHP (Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation) -- as well as other important matters effecting neighborhoods in NY City Council and Community Board Districts in lower Manhattan.

Everyone planning on attending on June 21st must either email their RSVPs to townhallrsvp@cityhall.nyc.gov or telephone (212) 748-0281 no later than noon on Monday June 19th; and for all, arrival as early as 5:30 or earlier at the Center is also very strongly advised in order to be admitted.