Arts & Culture
BOERUM HILL – The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/lpc/about/pr2018/062618.page] (LPC) approved the expansion of the Boerum Hill Historic District [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/lpc/downloads/pdf/maps/HistoricDistrictMaps/Brooklyn/boerum_hill.pdf] earlier today. Bergen Street between Smith & Hoyt, Boerum
Downtown Brooklyn
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – Early Saturday the New York State Senate passed a bill which includes allowing NYC to expedite the design-build phase for much-needed repair work to the BQE. Via NYC DOT’s “BQE Atlantic to Sands Project Update” presentation [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/bqe-atlantic-to-sands-nov2016.pdf] Senator
News
(courtesy of the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President.)As New Yorkers prepare to vote in the presidential primary election tomorrow, April 19, several local elected officials are teaming up to push for reforms to improve voting access and voter experiences.Our own Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon [/?s=jo+anne+
Business
Rendering of new development at 120 7th Avenue via YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/02/park-slope-key-food-developers-unveil-details-for-120-fifth-avenue-at-contentious-public-meeting.html] After a meeting in early February marked by both impassioned pleas and extreme exasperation by hundreds of community members [/blog/business/its-a-bodega-and-more-outcries-as-developer-presents-plans-for-5th-avenue-key-food-site/] in response to developer Avery Hall’s future plans for
Neighbors
Left-Right: Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon, Senator Kevin S. Parker, BP Eric Adams, Senator Jesse Hamilton, NYPD 78th Precinct Commanding Officer Frank DiGiacomo. In background, hidden, Community Activist Tony Herbert. (Courtesy of the Office of BP Adams)Standing across the street from 551 9th Street, where Elizabeth Gioino, the 91-year-old
Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon
Brooklyn Borough President announce Code Brooklyn with (from left to right) PS/MS 282 fifth grade student Mishka Braswell, PS/MS 282 Principal Rashaun Hoke, Community Corps Director for NPower Mary Ellen Sullivan, Cornell Tech K-12 Education Senior Director Diane Levitt, State Senator Jesse Hamilton, Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon,