As already mentioned, the residents who started their blocks on rBlock have taught us much of what we know. But they’ve also inspired us to build something more valuable than

Every block in the United States has 3 to 5 residents who reach out to their immediate neighbors to cajole, inspire and enlist their participation in matters relating to their

From the beginning, rBlock realized that our email inboxes were inundated with too much to handle, leave alone read and digest. And this trend has only further deteriorated. So despite

More frequent than alerts are the hundreds of discussions that happen each year on blocks that use rBlock. These now aggregate into the tens of thousands since our beginning. From

When residents who are not yet on rBlock first hear about Alerts, they often say, “Those sorts of things hardly ever happen on our block”. But there are many types

We started rBlock to make it easy for block captains to form and sustain effective neighborhood watch programs.   The idea was simply that if a small enough number of residents could share