Mayor Zohran Mamdani tied $1.6 million for The Wick Against Violence to the April killing of 7-month-old Kaori Patterson-Moore near Moore and Humboldt streets in East Williamsburg, announcing the money October 20 at the Williamsburg Community Center.

The money is part of $4.8 million to expand the city’s Crisis Management System, its network of community violence prevention groups, into three new catchment areas. Neither the city’s announcement nor the mayor’s remarks gave a start date.

“Today I am so proud to announce that we are investing $4.8 million to expand our crisis management system across three additional catchment areas that encompass four neighborhoods,” Mamdani said, according to the city’s transcript. “These funds will support our outreach workers and violence interrupters as they tackle the cause of violence at its root. On street corners and bus stops, on park benches and at bodega counters, mediating conflicts before they become deadly.”