In honor of our organization’s 30th anniversary, we’re walking through 30 memories from across our organization’s history and formation effort. This is not a list of all of our accomplishments, but a few highlights from our work spanning three decades of service to our community.
From the BID’s ArtWalk, to the organization’s predecessor group the Concerned Citizens of NoHo, the BID’s formation effort, and our supplemental sanitation and beautification work – we cover it all on this list. Take a trip down memory lane with us as we reminisce over the BID’s work.
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- 1989: The NoHo BID’s predecessor group, the Concerned Citizens of NoHo, is formed to improve quality of life in the neighborhood.
- October 1992: The first public outreach to kick off the BID formation effort that ultimately led to the NoHo BID takes place.
- March 1993: The first public meeting for the NoHo BID formation effort takes place.
- November 28th, 1995: The New York City Council voted to approve the formation of the NoHo BID after more than three years of outreach.
- July 23th, 1996: The NoHo BID is signed into law by Mayor Rudy Giuliani and officially formed.
- Fall 1996: The NoHo BID implements the District’s supplemental sanitation program, beginning with a two week long blitz to remove graffiti and clean up years of trash and neglect in our neighborhood.
- June 24th, 1997: The NoHo BID holds its first ever annual meeting, hosted by the Public Theater.
- July 9th, 1998: The NoHo BID begins a study of the area’s zoning and how it impacted the neighborhood.
- July 1999: The NoHo BID collects its 100,000th bag of trash. Did you know when we started, we averaged about 36,000 bags per year, and now we remove over 80,000 per year! Thank you NoHo BID Clean Team.
- May 2000: After a fundraising campaign, the NoHo BID was able to purchase 43 trash cans that replaced city-owned cans on our corner. These cans are mostly the same ones we use to this day on the streets of the neighborhood. They’ve held up really well since then and have held so much garbage over the years. This began the process of putting cans on every corner of the neighborhood.
11. November 8th, 2002: The NoHo BID received 53 planters from our friends at the 34th Street Partnership. This began the start of our modern planter program, and was the second big beautification project the BID did. They replaced the original wooden tree planters installed by the Concerned Citizens of NoHo more than a decade prior. The BID continues to find more ways to add greenery and trees to the neighborhood.
12. 2003: The NoHo BID hosts its first ArtWalk event. This annual event was a neighborhood wide celebration of arts and culture that exhibited art in storefronts, brought cultural activations, and helped showcase the vibrant community of creatives that call our neighborhood home.
13. 2006: After NoHo became a landmarked district, the NoHo BID began installation of 21 Bishop’s Crook Lightposts to help restore the beautiful historic nature of the neighborhood after years of fundraising.
14. Spring 2006: The NoHo BID commissions the “Welcome to NoHo” mural at 627 Broadway, sponsored by Renaissance Properties.
15. March 2006: The NoHo BID, after ten years of service, achieves the organization’s goal of placing a trash container on every street corner in the neighborhood.
16. August 2006: The NoHo BID hosts the “Sculpture Symposium” in Mercer Playground, the first live-sculpture public art event of its kind in New York City.
17. Summer 2010: With advocacy from the NoHo BID, cobblestones on the block of Bond Street between Broadway and Lafayette Street are restored and improved.
18. June 14th, 2012: The BID hosts an art parade through the streets of NoHo as part of the organization’s 16th Annual Meeting, featuring dancers, walking models, and musicians.
19. Summer 2014: After 18 years as inaugural Executive Director of the NoHo BID, Harriet Fields retires.
20. May 2015: The NoHo BID announces a major brand refresh, with our current logo and brand unveiled.
21. January 22nd, 2016: The NoHo BID Clean Team responds to the biggest snowfall in NYC history, ensuring streets and sidewalks are safe and passable.
22. December 1, 2016: Our current Executive Director, Cordelia Persen, joins the NoHo BID.
23. November 2018: The BID begins our modern NoHo Business Mixer series at Selima Optique on Bond Street. This flagship program has since led to dozens of mixers featuring hundreds of businesses with the goal of building community and camaraderie and elevating our neighborhood identity.
24. March 2020: As the City shuts down, the work of the NoHo BID is deemed essential and our Clean Team stays hard at work to keep the neighborhood clean, sanitary, beautiful, and ready for people to return. Little did we know it wouldn’t be two weeks after all.
25. November 14th, 2020: The NoHo BID, with the help of property owners, commissions artist Frank Ape to create a mural that helped spread positivity in a dark time. Eventually, the mural grew to cover two full blocks of boarded windows and was a bright light.
26. December 2020: The NoHo BID begins participating in a pilot Store-to-Store COVID Testing program with the City’s Department of Health. For more than a year, we were able to bring free COVID testing in-store to our businesses to help them manage COVID as they navigated the reopening process.
27. August 2021: The NoHo BID’s current website, www.noho.nyc, is unveiled with a fresh look and improved capabilities to better serve our neighborhood.
28. May 22nd, 2023: The NoHo BID becomes one of the first BIDs in the City to install a CitiBin. This began our trash containerization efforts, and the NoHo BID is proud to be an early adopter on the forefront of the NYC trash revolution.
29. May 2024: The BID hosts the NoHo Art Nexus with local artist Sonya Sklaroff, featuring a month long art installation in 17 stores, featuring more than 70 pieces of art, and 8 tie-in events and activations.
30. June 17th, 2026: The NoHo BID hosts our annual meeting to celebrate 30 years of the NoHo BID.
