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SOUTH SLOPE – Council Member Carlos Menchaca [https://council.nyc.gov/district-38/] hosted a Town Hall with Mayor Bill de Blasio last Thursday, December 14, at MS 88 located in South Slope, seven blocks away from the Mayor’s Brooklyn home. Menchaca kicked off the meeting listing off recent successes in
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SUNSET PARK – The driver of a BMW struck and killed a 14-year-old delivery boy as he was cycling in Sunset Park Saturday afternoon. 5th Avenue & 23rd Street via Google MapsAt approximately 5:45pm on Saturday, November 25, police say Edwin Ajacalon was riding his bicycle eastward on 23rd Street
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Photo: Liena Zagare/BKLYNERHere are the winning candidates of the 2017 General Election [http://www.nyccfb.info/nyc-votes/vgwelcome/general-election-2017/?officetype=6&languageType=English&electionCycle=2017] . Mayor [http://www.nyccfb.info/nyc-votes/vgwelcome/general-election-2017/meet-the-candidates/Mayor?officetype=1&languageType=English&electionCycle=2017] : Bill de Blasio (D,
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CARROLL GARDENS – Join neighbors this Friday, October 13 at a rally to show support for the B71+ bus, an improved version of the cross-Gowanus B71 bus that the MTA took out of service in 2010 due to budget cuts and low ridership. The proposed B71+ bus service would connect Crown
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Polling booths at Agudath Senior Center. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal)In a nutshell – Voter turnout was abysmal, polling stations were poorly sited, and the results favored incumbents. According to NYC Board of Elections [https://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/enrollment/county/county_apr17.pdf], as of April 2017, there were exactly
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RED HOOK – At a groundbreaking event Tuesday morning, New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) officials were joined by Congress Member Nydia Velazquez, Assembly Member Felix Ortiz, Council Member Carlos Menchaca, and NYCHA residents to kick off a $63 million roof construction project at the Red Hook Houses. The project entails
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Council Member Carlos Menchaca (center); Eric McClure, Executive Director of StreetsPAC (left); NYC Council Transportation Chair Ydanis Rodriguez (right). Photo courtesy of the Office of Carlos MenchacaRED HOOK – At a press conference in Red Hook on Thursday, City Council Member Carlos Menchaca (who represents Red Hook, Sunset Park, and Windsor
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District 20 Superintendent (Photo by Sylwia Jasinski, District 20 Family Support CoordinatorSUNSET PARK — Monday morning, August 28, ground was officially broken on P.S./I.S. 746K, a new school that will be home to both, an elementary school as well as a middle school focused on arts. The new
Education
36th Street and 5th Avenue, Sunset Park via Google MapsTo help ease the overcrowding in classrooms in School District 15 [/new-sunset-park-developments-offer-luxury-rentals-medical-facilities-much-needed-classrooms/] (which spans from Cobble Hill to Sunset Park), NYC Council Member Carlos Menchaca has announced the opening of a new school on the corner of 36th Street and 5th
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Rent Justice Coalition via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/RentJusticeCoalition/photos/gm.1404707306288858/1512825928775149/?type=3&theater] Despite protests last week by affordable-housing supporters before the Rent Guidelines Board and NYC City Council Members Jumaane Williams and Carlos Menchaca, rents for New York City’s approximately one million rent-stabilized
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NYC Council Member Carlos Menchaca helping to cut the ribbon at Rebuilding Together NYC’s new Gowanus headquartersElected officials and community leaders attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Rebuilding Together NYC [http://rebuildingtogethernyc.org]‘s new Gowanus headquarters on Wednesday. The facility provides a space for the nonprofit to continue their
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Photo by BKLYNERLast Thursday, President Trump announced [http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/01/530748899/watch-live-trump-announces-decision-on-paris-climate-agreement] his withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement is a 2015 climate deal made by 195 countries around the world with a goal to reduce greenhouse gas
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> Tonight CM @cmenchaca [https://twitter.com/cmenchaca] announced the winners for Cycle 6 #PBNYC [https://twitter.com/hashtag/PBNYC?src=hash]. Thank you #District38 [https://twitter.com/hashtag/District38?src=hash] Volunteers and Staff for another successful PB year. pic.twitter.com/Dgwo8IcIeU [https://t.co/Dgwo8IcIeU] — CM Menchaca
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Louis Valentino, Jr. Pier in Red Hook (Photo by Eddie Cheaz via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205353122345978&set=br.Abq4yba1hYwK3czo1s7hVEgPokIwS2VHlfhTREoxDHJqY8olUUG7Nm5lG1Oke9hftEaPrECCzgaFyUzz8TwOhIvU1AC7bBFtrYah0Gh40i3FawdL4w7iAuWIQ0jBUQGhwbn3CMliVqmpiMvJaiMvviKXOyY9CMwZdzqcT39zJHIuViOPiMZus9g73lpF2eG-Pbly9a0GwTyohx7RdsvONkh7Wk_lva2MY9pjtR74XLPtChC5bDchAqtEb_U-BVNUJo4&type=3&theater] )Dust off your portfolios and CVs, Brooklyn creatives! The NYC Department of Cultura
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Voting for Participatory Budgeting [/tonight-see-participatory-budgeting-projects-flatbush-midwood/] begins this Saturday, March 25. Below is a list of the 12 project proposals on the ballot for Council Member Carlos Menchaca’s District 38 [http://council.nyc.gov/carlos-menchaca/pb/6/] (Red Hook, Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace). With new online voting [http://council.nyc.
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(Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)The City Council passed a package of legislation last Thursday, requiring police to report use of force as well as officers’ civil infractions in order to increase transparency of the NYPD. The bills — Intro. 606 [http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=2103615&