Lucy Block

Senior Research and Data Associate

Lucy Block (she/her) was a Senior Research and Data Associate and worked at ANHD from 2017 until 2024. She was responsible for data analysis, research, and policy to support the tenant organizing movement and end displacement in New York City’s communities of color and low-income neighborhoods. Lucy managed ANHD's Displacement Alert Project. She received a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from Hunter College in 2017 and was a Morgan Stanley Community Development Fellow placed at Cypress Hills LDC from 2016-2017. She also teaches courses in data analysis, visualization, and storytelling at NYU Wagner. Lucy grew up in Stuyvesant Town and later moved to Elmhurst, Queens. She loved New York City most in the summer and begrudgingly tolerated New York City in the winter.