WHAT DOES YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD NEED? SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS IN AN ONLINE SURVEY ABOUT YOUR COMMUNITY BOARD

If you live, work, or go to school in New York City, you're invited to fill out a Community District Needs Online Survey for your local community district (community board).

 

The survey is for Fiscal Year 2028, which runs from July 1, 2027, through June 30, 2028.

 

From Community District Needs Online Survey - FY2028 - Public Input:

Your community board is gathering input for the current Statement of Community District Needs and Budget Requests (CD Needs). By completing this survey, your thoughts and perspectives on your district's biggest needs and priorities will be shared with your community board. Click here to complete the survey.

 

In this survey, you'll be asked to select your Top 3 Pressing Issues* for your district, as well as your Most Important Issue** in 7 different policy areas.

 

For more information on CD Needs, please visit the Department of City Planning's website: https://www.nyc.gov/content/planning/pages/planning/capital-planning#community-district-needs

You can also find which district you live in, access data and information about your district, as well as current and former Community District Needs Statements, on the Community District Profiles tool: 
https://communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov/ 

*The Pressing Issues that you'll be asked to choose from are

• Affordable housing
• Civic engagement (elections, participatory budget)
• Crime and public safety
• Cultural facilities & programs
• Economic recovery and development
• Emergency and disaster response
• Health care services
• Homelessness
• Infrastructure resiliency
• Land use trends (zoning, development, neighborhood preservation, etc.)
• Parks and open space
• Police-community relations
• Public health facilities
• Quality of life issues (noise, graffiti, petty crime, etc.)
• Schools
• Senior services
• Social services
• Street conditions
• Street flooding
• Traffic
• Transit (buses & subways)
• Trash removal & cleanliness
• Unemployment
• Youth and children's services
• Other - Write In

**The seven policy areas are 

• Healthcare and Human Services,  
• Youth, Education, and Child Welfare,  
• Public Safety and Emergency Services,  
• Core Infrastructure, City Services, and Resiliency
• Housing, Economic Development, and Land Use
• Transportation and Mobility
• Parks, Cultural, and other Community Facilities 

View the Statements of Community District Needs and Community Board Budget Requests for Fiscal Year 2027 (the fiscal year that'll begin on July 1, 2026, and end on June 30, 2027) for these community boards:

• Community Board 7 (Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace, South Slope, and Greenwood Heights)
• Community Board 12 (Borough Park and parts of Kensington, Sunset Park, and Midwood) 
• Community Board 14 (Flatbush, Midwood, and parts of Kensington)