Nos Quedamos Way (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the intersection of Melrose Avenue and 158th Street
Honoree: WE STAY/Nos Quedamos (NQ) is a South Bronx-based Community Development Corporation. NQ began its work in 1992, when NYC proposed a Melrose renewal plan that designated 35 blocks to be developed for middle-income New Yorkers. This site, however, was already home to roughly 6,000 low-income Melrose residents. Outraged by the injustice of their proposed displacement, the local community banded together to create the We Stay/Nos Quedamos Committee in 1993. This Committee drafted and passed an alternative proposal, the Melrose Commons Urban Renewal Plan, resulting in the development of affordable housing for over 4,000 families and seniors and nearly one million square feet of commercial real estate space. NQ was the first nonprofit to successfully utilize the City’s 197a process to create a plan for our own community that preserved all that was valuable to long-time residents. (Salamanca)
LL:2022/54