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PARK SLOPE – Officials took a grilling from Park Slope residents at a Community Board 7 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb7/index.page] meeting Tuesday regarding two homeless shelters planned for 4th Avenue [/city-will-pay-over-261m-for-two-4th-avenue-family-shelters/]. Christine Quinn at the Community Board 7 meeting on the two planned 4th Avenue shelters (Photo:
Announcements
PARK SLOPE – Brooklyn Community Board 7 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb7/index.page] (CB7) has scheduled a meeting to discuss the two homeless shelters planned for 4th Avenue in Park Slope. CB7’s Committee on Homelessness Issues has scheduled the community forum for Tuesday, July 23, from 6:30pm
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Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City TransitSUNSET PARK – The 59th Street Subway Station is finally going to have an elevator, but that will come with street closures for three weeks. “Starting tonight at 10:00 p.m. Fourth Avenue from 58th to 60th Streets will be closed to
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[UPDATED: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 5:45pm] Committee for 4th Avenue has indicated that the petition does not state overcrowding at P.S. 124 as a concern but rather notes with the limited number of parents able to assist the school’s P.T.A., “a large influx of
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SUNSET PARK – Brooklyn Community Board 7 [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb7/index.page] approved the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml] proposal to install four miles of protected bike lanes [/4th-avenue-protected-bike-lane-project-will-start-spring-2018/] along 4th Avenue on Wednesday—a week after Community
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Photo: NYC DOT via Twitter [https://twitter.com/NYC_DOT]PROSPECT PARK – Mayor Bill de Blasio announced [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/001-18/mayor-de-blasio-prospect-park-now-completely-car-free-starting-today] on Tuesday that Prospect Park is “now completely car-free.” As of January 2, Prospect Park’s entire loop drive is permanently off-limits to private cars.
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CAMBA Park Slope Women’s Shelter, 1402 8th Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER) PARK SLOPE – “This is not a meeting about eliminating the shelter,” Barbara Barran said at the start of a meeting Wednesday night addressing recent problems with some of the residents at the CAMBA-operated women’s shelter located
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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DOT rep Quinn Kelly addressing the CB 7 transportation committee and Windsor Terrace residents, June 19 at P.S. 154. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)After a lively debate last night, Community Board 7’s transportation committee members voted to approve a Department of Transportation proposal for painted-on bike lanes
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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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The 68th Police Precinct Station House. (Source: Wikimedia Commons [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:18th_Pct_BPD_jeh.JPG])Have you ever dreamed of living in a castle? A developer plans to renovate Sunset Park’s landmarked 68th Police Precinct Station House, known for its distinctive Romanesque Revival-style, in
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DOT representatives discusses changes to Terrace Place. (Photo by Shannon Geis/Ditmas Park Corner)The NYC Department of Transportation [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml]announced several changes to Terrace Place in Windsor Terrace in order to increase pedestrian safety in the area at a Community
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Photo by Ditmas Park CornerThe intersection of Caton Avenue and East 8th Street will be getting a traffic signal, according to a letter from the Department of Transportation [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml] to Community Board 7. This stretch of Caton Avenue runs between Coney
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Neighbors discuss speed hump locations at CB7 Transportation meeting. (Photo by Shannon Geis/Kensington BK)Tempers were still high at a second Community Board 7 Transportation Committee meeting discussing the possible installation of up to 15 speed humps throughout Windsor Terrace in order to slow traffic through the neighborhood on
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Photo by Tom PrendergastAfter a crash at the intersection of 8th Avenue and Windsor Place in July [/blog/crime/collision-at-windsor-place-and-8th-avenue], we heard from many readers that this intersection is one of many problem intersections in the area. The Department of Transportation recently presented a number of locations in Windsor Terrace
66th precinct
CB 12 members at a previous meetingWant to learn more about our neighborhood? Having a problem in our area that you’d like to discuss with community leaders? Just want to meet some other civically-minded neighbors? You can do that, and more, at several upcoming meetings in our community. * Community