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Image via Councilmember Carlos Menchaca’s office.Good news for participatory budgeting (PBNYC) fans: an extra $100,000 is coming our way for Fiscal Year 2017, thanks to a pledge by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. The money is actually one-tenth of Adams’ total pledge of $1 million for all
City Kid Corner
Photo via Baby Carrier Drive – Brooklyn [https://www.facebook.com/babycarrierdrive/photos/pb.542141842621611.-2207520000.1455039457./554709694698159/?type=3&theater] While baby carriers are relatively common in our neighborhood, refugees fleeing violence from the civil war in Syria are lacking basic necessities when needing to walk great distances with
Business
Community members raise their hands when asked if they shop regularly at Key Foods. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)With vitriol and a huge helping of old-fashioned chutzpah, members of the community stuffed an auditorium at PS 133 – William Butler School [http://ps133brooklyn.org/] to weigh in on
Business
Photo via Baby Carrier Drive – Brooklyn [https://www.facebook.com/babycarrierdrive/photos/pb.542141842621611.-2207520000.1455039457./554709694698159/?type=3&theater] BY HEATHER CHIN AND DONNY LEVIT While baby carriers are relatively common in our neighborhoods, refugees fleeing violence from the civil war in Syria are lacking basic necessities when
Arts & Culture
Photo via Toni Morrison [https://www.facebook.com/OfficialToniMorrisonAuthor/photos/pb.175462542465962.-2207520000.1454302227./669137663098445/?type=3&theater] With a writing career as expansive and dynamic as that of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-Winner Toni Morrison, it would be more than understandable for her to slow down a bit. “I
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Image via iamtonyang [http://iamtonyang.com/1007/ticket_machine.jpg].Would you ride the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) if there were a discount between Atlantic Avenue, Nostrand Avenue, and East New York? If so, that is what Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, the New York City Transit Riders Council
Kids & Family
Photo courtesy of NYC ParksEnnis Playground [http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/ennis-playground] has a much-needed renovation on the horizon, and Councilman Brad Lander [http://bradlander.nyc/] is reaching out to the community for design suggestions. Located on 11th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, the quiet Gowanus playground has garnered
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Start the new year by starting a new volunteer role as a Brooklyn Community Board 2 member. Fortunately, the application process is made even easier now that Borough President Eric Adams has brought it into the 21st century — bringing it online. You can still apply via mail, but the new
North Western Brooklyn
Photo via Flickr | Governor’s office.Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that he will take a “lead role” in national anti-gun violence initiatives via the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence [http://www.bradycampaign.org/] “in an as-yet-unannounced effort demanding that the Justice Department more closely scrutinize so-called bad apple
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Medical marijuana (Photo by dankdepot/Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/dankdepot/5457588074/])New York just took a huge step towards making medical marijuana accessible to patients across the state — just not in Brooklyn or Staten Island. Five organizations licensed by the State Department of Health to manufacture and dispense
Auburn Family Residence
Auburn Family Residence. (Photo courtesy Fort Greene SNAP)Homeless advocates and local politicians are optimistic over Governor Andrew Cuomo’s decision to work with city agencies to reverse his plan to withhold $2.9 millionevery month from 16 homeless shelters [http://www.wsj.com/articles/state-withholds-funds-from-some-new-york-city-homeless-shelters-1431482602] — including Fort Greene’s
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams
Standing in front of a poster that read “the smallest coffins are the heaviest,” neighbor Tahir Rajput glanced at the sea of candles behind him and, like so many others at yesterday’s vigil for the victims of the horrific attack in Peshawar, Pakistan that killed at least 132 school