The Initiative was created to get local businesses and residents to come together and help clean up Lenox Avenue. This promotes a sense of unity and pride in giving back to the community.
Leader
DJ McDonald
Location
245 Lenox Ave New York, NY 10027
An initiative based around sustainability, preservation, pollution control and health management of the local tree beds, planter street boxes and flower-beds along Lenox Avenue.
The League: DGM has partnered with The Lenox Ave Business Alliance and MMPCIA for beautification, preservation and revitalization initiatives of Lenox Ave. and Central Harlem, including the Historic & Landmarked Mount Morris Community Park District from 118-125th streets.
“The "Greener Lenox" was a joint mention of the “The LEAGUE: Gentlemen’s Group”. We felt the idea is a direct way to build personality and character with our younger (and older) generations of brothers, while spending time mentoring and sharing OUR care in their "being".
The Impact - We hope as “The League” constantly strives to give our brother the will be to showcased at their best throughout...starting with our community.” Louis Johnson | “The LEAGUE: Gentlemen’s Group”
To maintain the trees and median flower planter-boxes by watering, weeding, removing trash & dead shrubbery, mulching, planting flowers and bulbs in tree beds, creating tree bed signs and building protective tree guards on a consistent basis.