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The Day: Community Board 2 Meetings, New Road Signs and a Baseball Shutout

emilyfield

— 1 min read
Warm temperatures arrived briefly in the neighborhood this weekend. (Photo by Francisco Daum)
Warm temperatures arrived briefly in the neighborhood this weekend. (Photo by Francisco Daum)

Good morning, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.

We hope you spent Saturday enjoying the warm weather, especially since snow is predicted for the neighborhood on Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service. It might be officially spring, but winter isn’t done with us yet.

Here’s some more local news to start your week:

  • Community Board 2 will hold its Executive Committee meeting tonight at 6 p.m. in the Jonas Board Room in the Metcalfe Hall at Long Island University at Flatbush and DeKalb Avenues. The Youth, Education and Cultural Affairs Committee will meet on Wednesday, March 26, at the same time and location.
  • Road safety activists put up more signs encouraging drivers to slow down in Fort Greene over the weekend, reported The Brooklyn Paper. The signs, which say “Twenty is Plenty,” resemble road signs and are meant to build support for reducing the speed limits in New York City neighborhoods, according Right of Way, the group behind the signs. Activists told the paper they picked neighborhoods which had been turned down by the city for a slow zone installation, adding that the death of 9-year-old Lucian Merryweather by a SUV driver in November should spur the city to lower the speed limit on DeKalb Avenue.
  • St. Joseph’s College junior Chris Cutrone pitched a complete game shutout, the first in the team’s seven-year-history, in the second game of a doubleheader with the State University of New York Institute of Technology Wildcats on Sunday. SUNYIT won the first game 7-6, but the Bears rallied in the second game to win 1-0.

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