The Day: Community Board 2 Meetings, an Alleged Fort Greene Building Thief and a Controversial Street Naming

Good morning, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.

Locals woke up to another inch of snow on the ground this morning. Not so bad when compared to previous snow storms this winter, but the National Weather Service warns that another six inches might be on the way later this week. Don’t put that snow shovel away quite yet.

If you happen to be out today despite the cold, don’t forget to take some pictures and upload them to our Flickr pool.

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

• The Community Board 2 Parks Committee will meet today at 6 p.m. at Dining Rooms A and B in The Brooklyn Hospital Center, 121 DeKalb Street. The meeting was rescheduled from the third Monday of the month to avoid conflict with President’s Day.
• Community Board 2 will vote on a proposal to establish a slow zone between Washington Avenue, Lafayette Avenue, Bedford Avenue and Fulton Street and other transportation measures at its general meeting on Feb. 12 at the Founders’ Hall at St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street.
• A blind homeless man is on trial for allegedly stealing a Fort Greene building from a man with the same name, reported The New York Post and Gothamist. Ralph Baker, 64, allegedly transferred ownership of the property belonging to a different Ralph Baker, 47, into his name in 2010. Prosectors also said Friday that Baker convinced the Brooklyn Borough President’s Office of Topography to change the building’s address and asked the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office to prosecute the younger Baker in 2009 for real estate fraud.
• A street in Fort Greene was renamed after a late local religious leader, without the required recommendation of Community Board 2, reported DNAinfo. Former City Council Member Diana Reyna and local church leaders presented their proposal to the board to co-name the corner of Adelphi Street and Park Avenue after Monsignor Walter C. Murphy, who died in April 2012. He was a Brooklyn native who had worked with the homeless. The board denied their proposal because it has rules that a candidate for street-naming must have been deceased for at least three years. However, signage with the monsignor’s name appeared in late January.