Downtown Street Sheets are Here!

All over New York City, there are programs designed to help our neighbors, offering food, mental health counseling, warm clothes, showers, and more. NCS staff members realized that not everyone who could benefit from these services knew where to find them. We wanted to change that and decided to start in our own backyard.  

For many years, NCS Street Sheets have been a familiar site on the Upper East Side. These pocket-sized guides are full of information about neighborhood resources, including meal programs, substance-use treatment programs, free clinics, drop-in centers, legal assistance hotlines, and more. Street Sheets are distributed at these community-based organizations as well as at libraries, police precincts, hospitals, and by people in their own communities.

Originally, Street Sheets focused on the Upper East Side, where NCS first started. Several years ago, we began expanding Street Sheets by printing guides for the Upper West Side and Midtown, as well as introducing a Spanish edition.

We are excited to announce a new Street Sheet neighborhood in 2022: Downtown Manhattan! These guides to resources available in Lower Manhattan are available in both English and Spanish. Thank you to the volunteers who packaged thousands of Street Sheets for all four neighborhoods and shipped them to community partners, and to New York City Councilmember Christopher Marte for generously supporting Downtown Street Sheets!

If you would like to carry these small, pocket-sized guides to give out to people in need in your neighborhood or neighborhoods you pass through, please contact Edie Weinhardt at eweinhardt@ncsinc.org or 212-537-5141.

In honor of NCS’s 40th anniversary, we will be sharing stories about our founders, volunteers, supporters, and staff who make our work possible, and the residents and clients at the center of our mission.
Check back throughout the year as we regularly update the series with new stories from our 40 years here.