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
Central Brooklyn
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
community
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
News
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
community
> 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
Announcements
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
community
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.
Nonsponsored
(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&
Police & Fire
(Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)The City Council passed a package of legislation 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, Intro. 539, and Intro. 0824 — require the NYPD to issue quarterly
Nonsponsored
Nydia Velázquez, winner of the congressional primary for district 7. Courtesy of Velázquez’s Facebook.As expected. Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez [http://velazquez.house.gov/index.shtml] won the Democratic congressional primary for New York District 7 on Tuesday against banker Yungman Lee, [/politics/yungman-lee-looks-bring-new-face-congressional-district-47/] and lawyer Jeff Kurzon [/politics/unconventional-campaign-congressional-district-7/
Events
(Courtesy Fort Greene Focus)Community leaders at a vigil for those who lost their lives in Orlando made clear that they would not allow that loss to be in vain, calling for strict new gun control laws as well as a renewed effort to promote LGBTQ+ equality. Public Advocate Letitia
green
(photo via katerha / flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/katerha/])The City Council’s controversial plastic bag fee legislation — which passed on May 5 [http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=484894&GUID=B22E7F6F-30CC-4A14-9BF8-A6F55432642E&Options=&Search=] — is being held up in Albany thanks to opposition from