Excerpted from the story on WCPN (Cleveland NPR affiliate)

One model for how to do that safely, and with limited resources, comes from New York City. There, two nonprofits — the Van Alen Institute and the Urban Design Forum — have teamed up to help low-income neighborhoods reopen their public spaces safely with small grants and free technical support from architects, engineers and lawyers.

“The services they need are holistic; it’s not one vector of services,” said Deborah Marton of the Van Alen Institute.