•  HKNA addresses concerns about open space, traffic, pedestrian safety, air quality, density, affordable housing, and sustainable development while striving to enrich the unique urban character of the neighborhood. Local participation is central to HKNA's mission. It established and maintains liaisons with Community Board 4, the Jacob J. Javits Convention Center, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

•  Since 1995, HKNA has planted 50 trees throughout the area, contributed by HKNA and the NYC Parks Department. Every year at our "Celebrate Spring" festival children and adults sign up for our "Adopt-A-Tree" program.

•  In 1995, HKNA started an urban planning process in collaboration with the Design Trust for Public Space. HKNA sponsored local envisioning sessions culminating in an urban planning conference in June, 1999. The conference was followed by public symposia, exhibitions, and invited design proposals generated by 18 multi-disciplinary teams.

•  In 2001, HKNA published Hell's Kitchen South: Developing Strategies , the culmination of a three-year community planning effort. This document offers goals and strategies for future development here synthesized from the community planning process described above.

•  In 2002, HKNA, Publicolor, and the Port Authority of NY and NJ collaborated on a dynamic 900-foot long wall-painting project incorporating the retaining walls and steel bridge enclosing the Port Authority's bus ramps and bus parking area on West 39 th Street between 9 th and 10 th Avenues. The mural, which was painted by residents and Publicolor's Paint Club of NYC high schoolers, was inaugurated in June, 2003.

•  In 2004, HKNA joined the Hudson Yards Alliance to form HK/HYA.The Alliance's goals are to promote sensible growth and planning in our neighborhood and to defeat the proposed Jets football stadium.