Work with your immediate neighbors on Cedar St. and Lamberton St. to start a Greenspace group via Yale's Urban Resources Initiative: http://environment.yale.edu/uri/programs/community-greenspace/ It's a terrrific way to know your neighbors better and thereby make your street safer--and more beautiful. I direct a Greenspace group that did the plantings right around the corner from you on Hallock Ave. 2 years ago, and on Howard Ave, between First St. & Second St. last year. It's too late to start a new group for this summer but you're very welcome to join us this summer to see first-hand how the program works. Our plans are still evolving, but we hope to replace 2 dead trees on Second St., add more plants to last year's plantings on Howard, and initiate new plantings on Third St. (between Howard & Greenwich) and Hallock Ave (between Second & Third). We meet once a week in June & July. The past few years it's been on a Tues. or Wed. from 6 PM to c. 7:30 PM but I won't know the exact day and time until my Yale student-intern contacts me in a few weeks. Please call me at 203-668-6348 (leave message if no answer) or email me at schaeferchristopher@yahoo.com for more info.
Chris Schaefer (= the old white dude you probably have seen around, randomly pulling weeds, picking up litter, etc. with the beat-up blue Ford Escort that looks almost as old as he is...)

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How we're doing it a few blocks down from Cedar Street: http://seeclickfix.com/issues/536499-city-needs-beautification-between-first-st-and-third-st

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