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Menchaca & Mark-Viverito Slam Trump For Comments About Mexican American Judge

Photo by Jeff Reed/NYC CouncilAt a press conference outside of Trump Tower in Midtown, Manhattan on Monday, Sunset Park Councilman Carlos Menchaca and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito condemned presidential contender Donald Trump’s remarks about the Mexican American judge assigned to the Trump University case, reports the New

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Carlos Menchaca: Sunset Park’s Councilman Brings A Voice To The Voiceless

New York City Council Member Carlos Menchaca at an immigration hearing at City Hall in 2014. Credit: William Alatriste / New York City Council / Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nyccouncil/15208342877/]New York City Council Member Carlos Menchaca loves to grow spices and chilies to add to his home cooked

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After 9th Street Attack On Transgender Man, Elected Officials And LGBTQ Community Respond

Photo via themegabitch [https://www.instagram.com/p/4e-SxbyIqB/?tagged=transgendersymbol&hl=en]Brooklyn elected officials and LGBTQ Community Groups have released a statement in response to last Friday’s attack on transgender male in Park Slope. According to police, a 32-year old transgender man was a victim of

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Clock is Ticking on Fate of Local Day Care’s Red Hook Location

The Red Hook location of Strong Place for Hope Day Care at 595 Clinton Street. (Photo via change.org [https://www.change.org/p/bill-de-blasio-help-save-strong-place-for-hope-day-care-in-red-hook-from-closure] )With just two days left before the fate of its Red Hook location — which for the past three years has served as many as 100

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Sunset Park Street Vendors Say They Are Forced To Black Market For Permits

Vendors Heleodora Vivar-flores and Polcarpo Cortes pleaded their case before CB 7. (Photo by Logan Frazier/Bensonhurst Bean)Sunset Park food truck vendors, who claim they are casualties of the city’s push against street business, pleaded their case before Sunset Park’s Community Board 7 [http://www.brooklyncb7.org/

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BP Adams Pledges $1 Million In Participatory Budgeting Funds To 10 Council Districts

Courtesy of Councilman Treyger’s OfficeGood news for participatory budgeting (PBNYC) fans: An extra $100,000 could be coming your 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 10

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City Council Bill Proposes Allowing Cyclists To Cross With The Pedestrian Light

Photo via lottaluggage_grace [https://www.instagram.com/p/6usYOGR-b8/?tagged=brooklynbike]A new City Council bill [http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=2564366&GUID=D4E7E09A-5B98-4C14-BAC8-A9D242408B26&Options=ID%7cText%7c&Search=menchaca] has been proposed that would allow a bicyclist to cross a street with

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Help Decide How Millions Of Dollars Will Be Spent On Local Projects At Upcoming Participatory Budgeting Neighborhood Assemblies

Photo by South Slope NewsIt’s that time of year again, where local residents are given a voice in how millions of dollars can be spent on neighborhood improvement projects in our area through the Participatory Budgeting [http://pbnyc.org/] process. Once again, both our local City Councilmembers — Brad Lander

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City Council Makes Historic Investment Into Local Day Laborer Centers

Photo by Worker’s Justice Project [http://workersjustice.org/2015/08/03/victory-new-york-city-council-make-historic-investment-in-day-labor-centers/] City Council will inject $500,000 into New York City’s day laborer job centers, announced Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, and Councilman Carlos Menchaca at Bay Parkway Community Job Center [http://workersjustice.org/](8973 Bay

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Have Your Say At The Citi Bike Community Planning Workshop

Citi Bike [https://www.citibikenyc.com/] is expanding into Community Board 6 [http://www.brooklyncb6.org/] and wants your feedback on where docking stations should be placed — although according to DNAinfo [http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150429/red-hook/citi-bike-roll-into-red-hook-park-slope-next-2-years-officials-say] , it looks like the bike share program won’t make it

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Cast Your District 38 Participatory Budgeting Vote Starting Saturday

If you’re 14 or older and live in District 38, you can vote in Councilmember Carlos Menchaca [http://council.nyc.gov/d38/html/members/home.shtml]‘s Participatory Budgeting elections [http://council.nyc.gov/d38/html/members/pb38.shtml] starting Saturday, April 11 through Sunday, April 19. Participatory Budgeting

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Registration Now Open For IDNYC

Photo via IDNYC [https://www.facebook.com/332355410282669/photos/pb.332355410282669.-2207520000.1421086229./338113149706895/?type=3&theaterg] Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito launched the country’s largest municipal identification program [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/021-15/mayor-bill-de-blasio-council-speaker-melissa-mark-viverito-launch-idnyc-country-s-most] this morning – and residents from all