Have Complaints Or Concerns About Your Neighborhood? Attend These Upcoming Meetings

Want to learn more about your community? Or perhaps you have a specific problem that you’d like to be addressed? If you live in Windsor Terrace, you should consider attending the following Community Board 7 meetings:

• Wednesday, February 18 at 6:30pm: CB 7 will holds its full monthly meeting of the community board at 4201 4th Avenue (the entrance is on 43rd Street) in Sunset Park. There, you’ll be able to meet with community board members, police officials, area lawmakers, and more. Additionally, if you’d like to address the board, members of the public are always able to do so during the meeting – just be sure to sign up to speak when you arrive at the meeting.

• Tuesday, March 3 at 6:30pm: The CB 7 Transportation Committee, along with the neighboring Community Board 14, will hold a joint meeting at the Windsor Terrace Library (160 E. 5th Street, at the corner of Fort Hamilton Parkway and E. 5th) about the 20th Street Truck Route Area Study – which the DOT launched after more than 200 residents of 20th Street signed a petition in 2010 requesting that the DOT study the truck route on 20th Street, between 3rd and 7th Avenues, to see if the street could be chanced to one-way. The petition cited property damages and congestion due to two-way truck traffic on the narrow street. DOT is currently conducting a traffic study to develop truck route alternatives for this area.

For more information about the upcoming meetings, you can call CB 7 at (718) 854-0003.