NY Forward

Town of Yorktown The Heights Re-Imagine Downtown

NY Forward is a grant program for downtown areas in municipalities offered by New York State.

The goal of NY Forward is to revitalize downtowns in New York’s smaller and rural communities, especially in villages, hamlets and other small, neighborhood-scale municipal centers.

  • Communities who apply must submit a vision for the downtown and a slate of projects to achieve that vision. 
  • Our Mid-Hudson Region for The Regional Economic Development Council (REDC) reviews the applications and nominates winners. 
  • NY Forward funds will either be awarded to two communities in the North Country for $4.5 million each or three communities, one of which will receive $4.5 million and two will be awarded $2.25 million, per region. 
  • The Department of State (DOS) and its agency partners then engage the winning communities through a strategic planning process with assistance from a consultant to develop a slate of readily implementable projects. 

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