Constituent Services

Appropriations Requests

Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez is fighting to secure vital federal resources that expand access to health care, bolster education resources, create new jobs, and benefit the diverse communities in New York’s 12th Congressional District. 

She supports bringing greater transparency to the appropriations process.  Continuing on these reforms, in compliance with House Appropriations Committee rules for the 111th Congress, below is a list of appropriations requests the Congresswoman’s office received for fiscal year 2010.

The requests are sorted by the relevant Appropriations Subcommittee that would consider each item:

Agriculture Requests
Commerce, Justice and Science Requests
Defense Requests
Energy and Water Development Requests
Financial Services Requests
Homeland Security Requests
Interior and the Environment Requests
Labor, Health and Education Requests
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Requests

Agriculture Requests Back to top

  • Added Value & Herban Solutions, Inc., 370 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231: $250,000 to promote sustainable development, healthy nutrition and job creation in the Red Hood community.

Commerce, Justice and Science Requests Back to top

  • Asian American Federation, 120 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005: $200,000 to organize the Asian American community to promote awareness of and participation in the 2010 Census.
  • Boricua Festival Committee, 539 59th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220: $100,000 to help finance a community festival to promote cultural advancement and community development. 
  • Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11213: $578,500 for the Museum Team educational after-school and job training program which serves kids from 2nd grade through high school. 
  • City Parks Foundation, 830 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10065: $250,000 for sports, cultural and educational programming and community building initiatives.
  • Dance Theatre Etcetera, 480 Van Brunt Street, Suite 203, Brooklyn, NY 11231: $125,000 to provide in-school and after-school programs combining arts with job training, tolerance education, leadership development and higher education preparation. 
  • El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029: $100,000 to expand bilingual arts education programs in schools in the 12th Congressional District.
  • Girl Scouts of the USA, 420 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018: $600,000 to train adult volunteers in the VIVA Tri-State Initiative to understand the needs of girls in the Hispanic community and to expand the mission of the Girl Scouts in this community. 
  • Good Shepherd Services, 305 Seventh Avenue, 9th floor, New York, NY 10001: $250,000 to support year-round, after-school programs for at-risk youth to promote individual, family and community development. 
  • Kentler International Drawing Space, Inc., 353 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231: $100,000 to support and expand arts education programs for at-risk children and teenagers in Brooklyn. 
  • Lower Eastside Girls Club, 56th East 1st Street, New York, NY 10003: $150,000 to expand their after-school programs in leadership development, entrepreneurial training, financial planning, academic support, civic engagement and self-confidence building.
  • Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services, 4510 16th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11204: $250,000 to enhance the social and emotional functioning of at-risk youth in elementary and high schools and prevent at-risk behaviors that often lead to addiction and violence, as well as to train counselors and other school employees.
  • Phoenix House, 50 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201: $250,000 to provide specialized substance abuse treatment services for adult women in New York City and to expand outpatient treatment programs. 
  • Red Hook Community Justice Center, 88 Visitation Place, Brooklyn, NY 11231: $350,000 to provide youth caught up in the justice system with social services and job training skills to allow them to become productive members of society.

Defense Requests Back to top

  • Atair Aerospace, 499 Van Brunt Street, Suite 3B, Brooklyn, NY 11231: $3,890,000 to manufacture precision-guided parachute systems for the U.S. Army for airdrops of medical supplies and other cargo.

Energy and Water Development Requests Back to top

  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY 10278: $500,000 for a feasibility study to assess environmental problems and identify potential solutions for Newtown Creek. 
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY 10278: $300,000 for a feasibility study to assess environmental problems and identify potential solutions for Gowanus Canal and Bay.

Financial Services Requests Back to top

  • Brooklyn Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, 2359 86th Street, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, NY 11214: $75,000 to extend their “Business Incubator” programs that educate communities on how to run and manage small businesses. 
  • Chinatown Manpower Project, Inc., 70 Mulberry Street, New York, NY 10013: $200,000 to expand core business counseling and training services to reach low-income immigrants and to certify more M/WBE businesses.
  • Community Service Society of New York, 105 East 22nd Street, New York, NY 10010: $750,000 to develop a pilot program to train and mobilize senior volunteers to provide financial literacy training to low-wage earners.
  • Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation, 625 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11208: $259,000 to provide job readiness and placement services, small business technical assistance and other economic recovery services for individuals in the neighborhood. 
  • Greenpoint Manufacturing & Design Center, LDC, 1155-1205 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222: $1,000,000 to restore a 370-foot bulkhead/seawall and create a pedestrian promenade. 
  • Lower East Side District Management Association, Inc., 70 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002: $110,000 for Economic Development and Go Green initiatives, which include installing a mobile interactive kiosk to provide information to visitors about local stores, restaurants and entertainment, to install solar-powered public recycling bins, and landscaping.
  • Lower East Side Girls Club, 56th East 1st Street, New York, NY  10003: $250,000 to establish a Center for Community to train community residents and girls on the Lower East Side in business management and entrepreneurship. 
  • New York Industrial Retention Network, 11 Park Place, Suite 914, New York, NY 10007: $200,000 to provide technical assistance and financing to manufacturers who are seeking to implement energy conservation projects.
  • Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation, 241 41st Street, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, NY 11232: $200,000 to fund technical workshops that link industrial businesses with the resources they need to develop long-term plans for sustainable business growth. 
  • St. Ann’s Warehouse, 45 Main Street, Suite 315, Brooklyn, NY 11201: $200,000 to promote artistic productions to bring resources to the area and stimulate economic growth.
  • Veterans Across America, 152 Madison Ave, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10016: $1,000,000 for a veterans’ employment initiative to provide networking, mentoring, and employment training services for veterans, especially wounded, disabled and homeless veterans.

Homeland Security Requests Back to top

  • American Red Cross in Greater New York, 520 West 49th Street, New York, NY 10019: $350,000 to recruit, train and equip emergency volunteers and to acquire shelter supplies and equipment to prepare for a large-scale disaster.

Interior and the Environment Requests Back to top

  • Gowanus Canal Sponge Park, 509 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11218: $300,000 to develop a publicly accessible esplanade and open space that would also incorporate greenery to absorb and manage excess surface runoff.
  • New Partners for Community Revitalization, 11 Penn Plaza, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10001: $200,000 to provide technical and financial assistance to Brownfield redevelopment projects and provide training to community organizations on technical and regulatory issues.
  • Open Space Alliance for Brooklyn, 79 North 11th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211: $1,000,000 to develop Bushwick Inlet Park, an urban waterfront park on the East River. 

Labor, Health and Education Requests Back to top

  • Ali Forney Center, 224 West 35th Street, Suite 1102, New York, NY 10001: $200,000 to serve LGBT youth to deal with mental health issues, family rejection and homelessness.
  • AMDeC Foundation, 10 Rockefeller Plaza, Suite 1120, New York, NY 10020: $2,000,000 to implement infrastructure for translational genomic research for biomedical innovation.
  • American Red Cross in Greater New York, 520 West 49th Street, New York, NY 10019: $350,000 to recruit, train and equip emergency volunteers and to acquire shelter supplies and equipment to prepare for a large-scale disaster.
  • Asian American Federation, 120 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005: $200,000 for an outreach and educational campaign in the Asian American community on suicide prevention.
  • Asian American Federation, 120 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005: $200,000 to provide capacity building support to Asian American community-based organizations.
  • Boricua College, 3755 Broadway, New York, NY  10032: $80,000 to renovate the faculty housing facilities on the Brooklyn Campus.
  • Boricua College, 3755 Broadway, New York, NY  10032: $105,000 for the College Prep Program to provide 50 students in North Brooklyn with tutoring services to prepare for college entrance exams.
  • Boricua College, 3755 Broadway, New York, NY  10032: $200,000 to renovate science laboratories on the Brooklyn Campus.
  • Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A, 256-260 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211: $250,000 to implement a Neighborhood Stabilization Initiative to defend homeowners and renters from foreclosure, displacement and predatory lending.
  • Center for the Urban Environment, 1687 Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215: $250,000 to expand educational programming to create and implement a green jobs initiative, provide professional development, business partnership creation and curricula/program design to extend the work they do in schools and develop a sustainable youth workforce. 
  • Chinatown Manpower Project, 70 Mulberry Street, New York, NY 10013: $300,000 to provide bilingual and culturally-sensitive workforce development services to recent immigrant and refugee/asylee populations with an emphases on the Chinese immigrant community.
  • Chinese Staff and Workers Association, 55 Chrystie Street, #201, New York, NY 10002: $100,000 for a national outreach and education campaign to organize workers to fight against sweatshops.
  • Cobble Hill Health Center, 380 Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201: $5,000,000 to renovate their facility and create a new dialysis center for clinics and residents.
  • Computers for Youth, 322 8th Avenue, Floor 12A, New York, NY 10001: $150,000 to provide home computers for students in middle school and to provide family-focused training to students and parents on how to work together as learning partners.
  • Coalition for the Homeless, 129 Fulton Street, New York, NY 10038: $2,041,000 to provide emergency services and assistance in accessing social programs, including programs on housing, job training, emergency food, crisis intervention and youth services.
  • El Puente, Inc., 211 South 4th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211: $500,000 to develop a community health institute and wellness center and to develop a program to reduce the neighborhood’s carbon footprint and improve the environment.
  • Friends of the Congressional Glaucoma Caucus Foundation (FCGCF), Inc., 1983 Marcus Avenue, Suite 111, Lake Success, NY 11042: $25,000 to expand free glaucoma/vision screenings, follow-up, and treatment services for high risk populations including Hispanics, African Americans and senior citizens.
  • Gay Men’s Health Crisis, Inc., 119 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011: $2,000,000 to launch an HIV prevention campaign for at-risk youth. 
  • Glenridge Senior Citizen Multi-Service and Advisory Center, Inc., 59-03 Summerfield Street, Ridgewood, NY 11385: $267,000 to renovate and equip the Senior Center Facility to provide wellness programs and other services to seniors.
  • Good Shepherd Services, 173 Conover Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11231: $500,000 to operate mentoring programs for its Brooklyn Transfer School for students who have been truant or have dropped out of high school.
  • Gouverneur Healthcare Services, 227 Madison Street, New York, NY 10002: $1,000,000 to redesign the existing nursing facility operations.
  • Grand Street Settlement, 80 Pitt Street, New York, NY 10002: $200,000 to support a College Career and Discovery Center to provide access and opportunity for young low-income students to learn how to get into college. 
  • Hamilton-Madison House, 50 Madison Street, New York, NY 10038: $104,000 to provide senior services in monolingual Asian languages for Chinese and Korean families.
  • Harlem Children Society, 536 82nd Street, Suite 5F, New York, NY 10028: $140,000 for education and mentoring for students in low-income public high schools.
  • Harlem United Community AIDS Center, 306 Lenox Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10027: $250,000 to purchase and operate a mobile medical and health van to deliver services to hard-to-reach and at-risk populations in greater Harlem and South Bronx.
  • Institute for Student Achievement, One Hollow Lane, Suite 100, Lake Success, NY  11042: $150,000 to improve education opportunities for at-risk youth including professional development for school employees, instructional materials and program advocacy.
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011: $5,000,000 to provide 25,000 square feet of additional space for youth and family counseling and mental health and social support services. 
  • Long Island College Hospital, 339 Hicks Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201: $450,000 to establish a Breast Imaging Center for screening and follow-up diagnostic tests.
  • Lower Eastside Girls Club, 56th East 1st Street, New York, NY  10003: $150,000 to provide STEM education focusing on the green economy for girls in science, technology and communications.
  • Lower East Side Tenement Museum, 91 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002:  $500,000 to support the museum’s Connecting to History K-12 education programs.
  • Lower East Side Tenement Museum, 91 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002: $200,000 to expand the museum’s capacity for three new exhibits.
  • Lower East Side Tenement Museum, 91 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002: $500,000 to expand the Museum’s capacity by renovating a building to serve as an Immigrant Heritage Center.
  • Make the Road New York, 301 Grove Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237: $500,000 to target youth aged 14-21 living in low-income, primarily immigrant communities to organize, provide arts and media programs, improve in-school programming and expand access to higher education.
  • Make the Road New York, 301 Grove Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237: $500,000 to provide English and economic literacy training in low-income, primarily immigrant communities.
  • Make the Road New York, 301 Grove Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237: $500,000 to provide legal representation and support services to low-income, primarily immigrant communities when it comes to employment, public benefits and programs, and civil rights.
  • Nuyorican Poets Café, 236 East 3rd Street, New York, NY 10009: $300,000 to expand programs for artists and students of the arts, including apprenticeships and partnerships with local schools.
  • Old Stone House of Brooklyn, PO Box 150613, Brooklyn, NY 11215: $50,000 to provide history and environmental-based education programs for K-12 students at the interpretive center focused on the colonial and Revolutionary War eras in Brooklyn.
  • Older Adults Technology Services, 1713 8th Avenue, #8, Brooklyn, NY 11215: $250,000 to provide intergeneration technology training for youth and senior citizens on computer skills, health information and research, and social engagement for isolated seniors.
  • Our Firefighters Children’s Foundation, 1695 Madison Avenue, Suite 8C, New York, NY 10029: $96,175 to provide fire safety education at schools and senior centers around the City.
  • Portside New York, P.O. Box 195, Red Hook Station, Brooklyn, NY 11231: $82,800 to provide scholarships for and train youth to work in the workboat industry.
  • St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201: $3,000,000 to provide tutoring and mentoring services for selected students from disadvantaged backgrounds to prepare them for college. 
  • St. Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corporation, 11 Catherine Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211: $200,000 to establish a workforce development center to provide skills training and connect employers with job seekers.
  • St. Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corporation, 11 Catherine Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211: $200,000 to provide skills training and job placement services for workers in the Brownfields redevelopment industry.
  • Sunset Park Health Council, 150 55th Street, Station 20, Brooklyn, NY 11220: $1,430,000 to acquire new radiology screening and diagnostic equipment to implement a Women’s Health Services Initiative to increase breast cancer screening and prenatal sonographic evaluations.
  • Urban Divers Estuary Conservancy, 89 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231: $350,000 for a mobile urban nature center that travels to schools and community events and centers with interpretive exhibits to inform residents about urban estuaries and urban watersheds. 
  • Village Center for Care, 603B Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231:  $20,000 to provide job training and health awareness services targeting African-American and Latino women at the Red Hook Community Service Center.
  • Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, 760 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11206: $420,000 to purchase and operate a mobile oral health clinic to increase access to care for senior citizens in North Brooklyn.

Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Requests Back to top

  • Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation, 111 Livingston Street, 4th floor, Brooklyn, NY 11206: $500,000 to preserve and revitalize the Moore Street Retail Market and to make it more energy efficient.
  • Brooklyn Heights Association, 55 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201: $500,000 to restore historic lighting on streets in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.
  • Bushwick Housing Independence Project, 144 Bleecker Street, Brooklyn, NY 11221: $250,000 to advocate on behalf of renters’ rights and to protect tenants from landlord abuses and foreclosure. 
  • Dumbo Improvement District, 111 Front Street, Suite 258, Brooklyn, NY 11201: $100,000 to reopen the Manhattan Bridge Archway for pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
  • Dumbo Improvement District, 111 Front Street, Suite 258, Brooklyn, NY 11201: $2,000,000 to reconstruct deteriorating streets in the commercial areas in DUMBO.
  • Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation, 509 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231: $100,000 to provide housing counseling and foreclosure prevention services for the residents of Gowanus, Red Hook and Carroll Gardens.
  • Grand Street Campus Arts Department, 850 Grand Street, Brooklyn, New York 11211: $471,000 to maintain and upgrade the auditorium facility and expand Arts Department faculty.
  • Greater Ridgewood Historical Society, 68-56 Forest Avenue, Ridgewood, NY  11385: $682,000 to upgrade and repair the Vande Ende Onderdonk House, a Federal historic landmark structure. 
  • Greater Ridgewood Restoration Corporation, 68-56 Forest Avenue, Ridgewood, NY  11385: $1,000,000 to restore the historic Onderdonk House, for tree planting and landscaping, and to provide foreclosure counseling.
  • Greater Woodhaven Development Corporation, 84-01 Jamaica Avenue, Woodhaven, NY 11421: $20,000 to replace faded Medallions along the commercial strip on Woodhaven’s Jamaica Avenue.
  • Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10023: $500,000 to redesign and revitalize 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues to make transportation, pedestrian safety and ADA improvements. 
  • Lower Eastside Girls Club, 56th East 1st Street, New York, NY 10003: $750,000 for the capital construction for the new Center for Community.
  • Neighbors Allied for Good Growth, 101 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211: $200,000 to develop and redesign a new building that will include exhibition space for local and cultural arts organizations, community meeting space, and space for a culinary training program.
  • New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, 830 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10065: $1,000,000 to improve paths, steps, walkways and other facilities in the Upper Part of Highland Park.
  • New York City Department of Transportation, 40 Worth St., New York, NY 10013: $2,000,000 to install or modify infrastructure to improve passenger ferry service.
  • New York City Economic Development Corporation, 110 William Street, New York, NY  10038: $11.5 million for the remediation of a 23-acre waterfront Brownfield sit in Sunset Park, Brooklyn to provide waterfront public access for the local community.
  • New York State Department of Transportation, 50 Wolf Road, Albany, NY 12232: $4,000,000 to install commercial vehicle monitoring and enforcement systems on the bridges to prevent the illegal practice of purchasing gasoline in New Jersey and transporting it to NY via commercial vehicles for resale.
  • New York State Department of Transportation, 50 Wolf Road, Albany, NY 12232: $2,400,000 to install new scenic byway projects along the may state and nationally designated byways in NY State.
  • New York City Department of Transportation, 40 Worth St., New York, NY 10013:$5,000,000 to make safety improvements to streets for kids walking to school.
  • New York City Department of Transportation, 40 Worth St., New York, NY 10013:$5,000,000 to make safety improvements in neighborhoods with high densities of senior citizens to reduce pedestrian fatalities.
  • New York State Tenants & Neighbors Information Services, 236 West 27th Street, 4th floor, New York, NY, 10001: $250,000 to provide housing counseling and assistance, organize tenants and preserve at-risk subsidized housing. 
  • Red Hook Initiative, Inc., 201 Richards Street, Suite 108, Brooklyn, NY 11231: $75,000 to renovate a warehouse and turn it into a community center providing an array of services and programs.
  • Woodside on the Move, 39-42 59th Street, Woodside, NY 11377: $30,000 to provide housing assistance and counseling for seniors.