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535 4th Avenue & 555 4th Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)PARK SLOPE – After much delay and controversy, one of the two large family homeless shelters announced for 4th Avenue, the Shirley Chisholm Family Residence at 535 4th Avenue, officially opened its doors last month. The other is expected to
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PARK SLOPE – Officials took a grilling from Park Slope residents at a Community Board 7 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb7/index.page] meeting Tuesday regarding two homeless shelters planned for 4th Avenue [/city-will-pay-over-261m-for-two-4th-avenue-family-shelters/]. Christine Quinn at the Community Board 7 meeting on the two planned 4th Avenue shelters (Photo:
Announcements
PARK SLOPE – Brooklyn Community Board 7 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb7/index.page] (CB7) has scheduled a meeting to discuss the two homeless shelters planned for 4th Avenue in Park Slope. CB7’s Committee on Homelessness Issues has scheduled the community forum for Tuesday, July 23, from 6:30pm
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PARK SLOPE – Opponents of two planned Park Slope homeless shelters alleged at a public contract hearing on Thursday that the city, the homeless services provider Women in Need (WIN), and the developers Slate and Adam America have inflated the contracts’ value by approximately $73.7 million, money they said was
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PARK SLOPE – The city will spend $261 million over nine years [/city-will-pay-over-261m-for-two-4th-avenue-family-shelters/] to operate two new homeless shelters in Park Slope—scheduled to open on 4th Avenue in September and December of this year. However, not much more information can be found on the facilities from the draft contracts available
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PARK SLOPE – On Friday, June 14, the NYC Administrative Services released some details [https://a856-cityrecord.nyc.gov/RequestDetail/20190607103] from the contracts between the Department of Homeless Services [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dhs/index.page] (DHS) and Women In Need [https://winnyc.org] (WIN) for the two homeless shelters
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[UPDATED: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 5:45pm] Committee for 4th Avenue has indicated that the petition does not state overcrowding at P.S. 124 as a concern but rather notes with the limited number of parents able to assist the school’s P.T.A., “a large influx of
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PARK SLOPE – Following a heated meeting on two homeless shelters planned for 535 and 555 4th Avenue [/heated-meeting-about-two-4th-avenue-homeless-shelters/], a group of neighbors has united in an effort to get answers from the city. 535 4th Avenue & 555 4th Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)“We care deeply about how best
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PARK SLOPE – The John Jay auditorium was packed Wednesday evening with locals eager to learn about the two homeless shelters coming to 535 and 555 4th Avenue. 535 4th Avenue & 555 4th Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)The two facilities, opening this fall, will be operated by WIN [https:
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PARK SLOPE – The community is encouraged to attend a meeting scheduled for Wednesday, May 1 at the John Jay Educational Campus (237 7th Avenue) to discuss two new homeless shelters planned for 535 and 555 4th Avenue in Park Slope. Council Member Brad Lander is co-hosting the community meeting with
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541-555 4th Avenue. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)The developers for two 4th Avenue projects are have received a massive fiscal shot in the arm this year in the form of multiple loan. Pricy residential projects continue to move south towards (and past) [/blog/real-estate/big-development-goes-south-4th-avenue-literally/] the Prospect
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A partial floor collapse took place at 535 4th Avenue on Sunday, April 3 after high wind gusts. (Photo by Thom Widmann)A building currently under construction at 535 4th Avenue (between 14th and 15th Streets) sustained damage on the top floor this morning, according to the FDNY and several
535 4th Avenue
Demolition is now underway on 4th Avenue between 14th and 15th Streets, where a tall new rental building will soon rise in place of the former auto shop. The new development [/blog/real-estate/large-residential-building-coming-to-former-strauss-auto-site] , announced in April, will be built on the former site of Strauss Discount Auto at 535
4th avenue development
It looks like demolition is about to get underway on 4th Avenue between 14th and 15th Streets, where a tall new rental building — one of many on the street [/?s=4th+avenue+development] — will soon rise. The new development was announced back in April [/blog/real-estate/large-residential-building-coming-to-former-strauss-auto-site] , to be built