Announcements
Two town hall meetings this week offer Brooklynites a space to engage with elected officials before the year’s end. Residents of Councilmember Laurie Cumbo’s 35th City Council District and parents with kids attending schools in the 13th School Board District will have meetings in their neighborhoods starting this
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The Edwards, Deme, Ellis and Blakney families at a rally to save the Fort Greene Day Care & Senior Center in April, 2015. (Photo: Fort Greene Focus)The lease for 966-972 Fulton Street, which houses the Young Minds Day Care and Grace Agard Harewood Senior Center, has finally been signed
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Participatory budgeting in action. (Photo: Corner Media)The participatory budgeting process gives New Yorkers the power to decide [http://labs.council.nyc/pb/] how to spend tax dollars in our neighborhoods. Every year, the participatory budgeting (PB) process begins with an idea collection phase, which is facilitated by participating City
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Carmel Cato lit a candle in his son’s honor. (Photo: Elizabeth Elizalde / Fort Greene Focus)On the 25th anniversary of the 1991 Crown Heights riots Sunday, Brooklynites gathered to commemorate the events that transpired more than two decades ago — when the community witnessed the deaths of a black child
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> “Our vision is to make life easier for families.” – Mayor @BilldeBlasio [https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio] #LactationStations [https://twitter.com/hashtag/LactationStations?src=hash] #BillSigning [https://twitter.com/hashtag/BillSigning?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/MxdO0oQoGb [https://t.co/MxdO0oQoGb] — NYC Mayor’s CAU (@mayorsCAU) August 11, 2016 [https://twitter.
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Councilmember Laurie Cumbo knows where to go for news.Gentrification and affordable housing dominated the discussion Monday night at Council Member Laurie Cumbo [http://council.nyc.gov/d35/html/members/home.shtml]‘s second annual [/blog/2015/03/02/cumbo-emphasizes-community-teamwork-state-district-address/] “State of the District” address. Cumbo updated her constituents in
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A renovated basketball court. Stairwell lighting at Ingersoll and Whitman Houses. New security cameras and paint at Farragut Houses. Bathroom and technology upgrades at local schools. Real-time bus signs along the B44 and B65 routes. These are just a few of the 19 projects that have made it to the
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Photo by Fort Greene Focus.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 10 council
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Photo by Fort Greene Focus.The debate around traffic, pedestrian, and street safety is a constant in Brooklyn, with changes large and small happening almost daily: new bike lanes and pedestrian islands added, left turns banned, and extended crossing times for pedestrians are just a few examples. But there’s
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President Barack Obama’s announcement that he is taking executive action to strengthen gun control laws [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-to-unveil-new-gun-restrictions-slams-congress-for-inaction/2016/01/04/81d539e8-b2fb-11e5-a842-0feb51d1d124_story.html] , increase background checks, and provide financial and human resources to implementing these new rules, along with existing rules, has been met with
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Image via M.S. OneBrooklyn [https://www.facebook.com/msonebrooklyn].BY MEGAN MCGIBNEY The need for a middle school in Prospect Heights serving the entire School District 13 community is so great, say parents and educators, that the city’s plan for a combination K-8 elementary-middle school [https://www.dnainfo.
35th Council District
Councilmember Laurie Cumbo’s State of the District address was easily one of the most vibrant versions of the annual tradition to take place this year in Brooklyn. Held in an auditorium at the Brooklyn Museum, the event featured guest speakers such as David Ehrenberg of the Brooklyn Navy Yard