Welcome to the Mulberry NYC Community Action Group

Hello,

Thank you for your interest on how to be engaged in a wonderful community and neighborhood!

This is a group of citizens and community members in or around the Mulberry Street/Prince in NYC, who love the neighborhood and want to come together in a united effort and voice to preserve its essence and quiet beauty.

All actions of this group will operate under the general objective of our tentative motto:

"Creating a neighborhood of well-being and general beauty,
because beauty is the soul of a person."

Next meeting:
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
6:30 PM at the Parish House of Old St. Patrick's
263 Mulberry - across the street from Old St. Patrick's Cathedral
NYC 10012

A few general objectives of the group --and items to discuss at the May 11th meeting-- can and will include:

• GREENING AND PRESERVATION/PROMOTION OF NEIGHBORHOOD FOLIAGE
  
  
• ADD BIKE RACKS AND REMOVAL OF DISCARDED/ABANDONED BIKES
  
  
• EASING OF PEDESTRIAN CONGESTION ON NARROW SIDEWALKS
  
  
• REMOVAL OF EXCESS ABANDONED SCAFFOLDING IN LOCAL AREA
  
  
• MONITOR OVERALL NOISE LEVELS AND ILLICIT ACTIVITY IN AREA
  
  
• SUPPORT LOCALE BUSINESSES WHICH ARE SENSITIVE TO THE HISTORIC NATURE AND BEAUTY OF OUR NEIGHBOHOOD
  
  
• WORK TO BETTER THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF ALL THOSE LIVING AND WORKING IN OUR COMMUNITY

-Posted by current group Chair Person on 4.21.2010

News coming soon!

The corner stone of Old St. Patrick's, on 263 Mulberry Street in Soho, was laid on June 8, 1809. The cathedral was dedicated on May 14, 1815, and served as the seat of New York City's diocese until 1879.

Beneath the church lies a catacomb of mortuary vaults, opened only once a year, the resting place of many former St. Patrick's Cathedral bishops and Tammany Hall politicians. Buried underneath the front entrance way is Bishop John DuBois.

He was forced to leave France by the French Revolution in May, 1791, and fled in disguise to America. He opened a school on the mountain in Emmittsburg, Maryland, founding the present Mt. St. Mary's College. Father DuBois became bishop in 1825, and served until 1839, passing away at the age of 84 in 1842.