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RED HOOK – Delayed once again [/nyc-parks-provides-community-update-on-red-hook-ball-fields-remediation/] due to the 35-day federal government shutdown which prohibited EPA employees from reporting to work, cleanup plans to remove lead from the Red Hook ball fields are back on track, with crews starting work on the site last week. NYC Parks’ Brooklyn Borough Landscape
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GOWANUS – The removal of the “black mayonnaise” from the bottom of the Gowanus Canal’s 4th Street Turning Basin resumed last week after issues with reinforcing bulkheads forced the project to a halt in January [/gowanus-pilot-dredging-project-stalled-bulkhead-installation-causes-damages/]. Dredging equipment at Gowanus Canal 4th Street Turning Basin (Photo: Nathan Haselby)The cleanup
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Volunteers worked to restore the community space and playground in between the housing buildings (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)BROWNSVILLE – A group of real estate professionals got hands on today in Brownsville, restoring a playground and community spaces at two women’s shelters. Business attire wasn’t required, but gloves and ear
Announcements
There will be a neighborhood-led clean-up in “Little Pakistan” (Coney Island and Foster Avenues) this Sunday, September 17, from 5 to 8pm. It is organized by the Pakistani American Youth Organization [https://www.facebook.com/payousaa/] (PAYO) in partnership with the Department of Sanitation in an effort to keep the
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Volunteers from the WeLoveU Foundation posing with City Councilman Chaim Deutsch. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)It’s not everyday we get visited by a group whose founder is considered to be a deity. That’s what happened Sunday when volunteers from the WeLoveU Foundation [http://eng.weloveu.or.kr/
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Join other community members this Saturday to help clean up Flatbush Avenue! Starting at 8:30am on Saturday, November 7, community members are planning to sweep up the thoroughfare from Lefferts Avenue down to Church Avenue. Cleaning supplies will be provided by the Department of Sanitation and children ages 8
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Photo by Mark TreygerCouncilman Mark Treyger joined Assemblyman William Colton to announce the allocation of more than $130,000 to clean three southern Brooklyn main streets today. The roads to get scrubbed down are 86th Street in Bensonhurst, Avenue U in Gravesend, and Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island, thanks to
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Photo courtesy Friends of the EndIf you’ve walked past the dead end where the subway tracks cut through Albemarle Road recently, you’ve probably noticed how much nicer it’s looking these days — which is thanks to a new group of neighbors who just formed the “Friends of the
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Neighbor Anne Schoeneborn and two younger volunteers work to clean up Q Gardens on Saturday. Photo via Q Gardens [https://qgardenscf.wordpress.com/2015/03/29/q-gardens-inaugural-clean-up-event/] After two and a half years of organizing [/blog/garden/q-gardens-signs-lease-mta-will-hold-inaugural-cleanup-saturday-march-28] , neighbors flung open the door (well, fence) to a new community green
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Since it opened in 2012, volunteers have spent countless hours cleaning up Kensington Plaza [/?s=%22kensington+plaza%22] (located at the corner of Beverley and Church), making sure that the relatively new public space that is regularly filled with everyone from weary travelers just getting off the subway to those
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Councilman David Greenfield (Source: Facebook)Councilman David Greenfield has allocated $20,000 to fund ongoing street cleanings and sweepings along 16th Avenue, his office announced. The cleanups will be organized by the Midwood Development Corporation, whose workers will sweep up sidewalks and remove debris from an unspecified portion of the
cleanup
From the banks of the Gowanus Canal Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency [http://www.epa.gov/region2/superfund/npl/gowanus/] announced its $506 million plan to clean up the Superfund site, one of the most polluted waterways in our country. “What this cleanup plan will do is require the removal
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Source: Donavan Mueller / FlickrThere is nothing that fosters community spirit better than rolling up your sleeves and working side by side with your neighbors to help keep your neighborhood clean. The Federation of Italian American Organizations (FIAO) is inviting community members to do just that. FIAO will be holding a
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Friends of Kaiser Park and the Alliance of Calver Vaux Park are hosting a coastal cleanup on Saturday, May 18, that will also show off some fancy shmancy robots coming out of the Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) programs at local schools. The cleanup kicks off at 11:
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Governor Cuomo recently announced the receipt of a $27.7 million dollar gran [http://www.labor.ny.gov/ui/neg.shtm]t that will allow for the employment of temporary workers to aid in the Sandy recovery efforts around NYC. Priority will be given to workers who are unemployed as
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Source: Flickr upload bot via Wikimedia CommonsFrom the offices of Assemblyman William Colton and Councilman David Greenfield: ASSEMBLYMAN COLTON AND COUNCILMAN GREENFIELD ORGANIZE MAJOR BENSONHURST NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANUP EFFORT WITH HELP OF LOCAL YOUTH GROUPS AS PART OF AN ONGOING“SPEAK-UP! & CLEAN-UP!” CAMPAIGN ACROSS SOUTHERN BROOKLYN Date: Sunday, September 23,