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FORT GREENE – Come discuss the future of Fort Greene’s second-biggest green space at a community visioning session for Commodore Barry Park tomorrow night, Wednesday, November 28. Hosted by the NYC Parks Department and local Councilmember Laurie Cumbo (D-35), the event will be held at the Ingersoll Cornerstone Community Center,
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Majority Leader Cumbo visited Medgar Evers Prep yesterday to announce results and present oversized checks for winning projects (Via @NYC Council [https://twitter.com/NYCCouncil] Twitter)CROWN HEIGHTS – City Council Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo paid a visit to a Crown Heights high school to announce the winning projects from Participatory
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The panel, titled A Century of Striving, will be held tonight at the YWCA in Boerum Hill (Flyer via YWCA)Tonight, some of Brooklyn’s leading women politicians will hold a talk at the YWCA designed to engage with young women from the local community on the importance of women
Education
Photo via Councilmember Laurie Cumbo’s office.Schools and seniors were the biggest priorities for neighborhood voters in Councilmember Laurie Cumbo’s inaugural round of participatory budgeting (PBNYC), with these projects winning a combined $1 million in funding for the coming year. Specifically, the winning projects are as follows: 1.
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Image via NYC.gov [http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/plans-studies/zqa/profiles/bk02.pdf] .The City Council voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday, March 22 in favor of two controversial zoning changes proposed by the mayor to spur the construction of affordable housing. The proposals, Zoning for Quality and
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We all know that Primary Day is coming up soon (Tuesday, April 19) as part of this big presidential — and Congressional — election year, but what about super local politics? We can’t forget to #GetOutTheVote for participatory budgeting (PBNYC), too! In case you don’t already know, participatory budgeting is
Events
Let all the senior citizens in your life know: next Wednesday, March 23, from 11am-2pm, at the Cumberland Gotham Health Center (100 North Portland Avenue, at Park Avenue) is the first annual Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Senior Resource Fair. At least 30 vendors — representing city agencies and community providers of everything
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Image via iamtonyang [http://iamtonyang.com/1007/ticket_machine.jpg].Would you ride the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) if there were a discount between Atlantic Avenue, Nostrand Avenue, and East New York? If so, that is what Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, the New York City Transit Riders Council
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Photo courtesy of Councilmember Laurie Cumbo’s office.Last spring, Councilmember Laurie Cumbo introduced a bill known as Int 762 that would “require all taxicabs, hail vehicles, liveries, black cars, and luxury limousines to have a panic button installed that would allow a passenger to send a distress signal to
Arts & Culture
Photo by Heather Chin/Fort Greene Focus.“Change the law so that people who are sober and take lives are prosecuted like the drunks.” Those words were the first out of Elsa Nicodemus’ mouth at the vigil held Tuesday night (December 22) for her daughter Victoria at the spot where
Arts & Culture
Campaign poster featuring Staten Islander Katora Jones, on display with a Life Camp member. (Photo by George Goss/Fort Greene Focus)BY GEORGE GOSS Several New York City Council members and dozens of activists are seeking to raise awareness—and money—for a program to end gun violence through art,
Business
Photo by Kristy Leibowitz.History. Internships. Expanding horizons. Hands-on experience. Small businesses. Learning about the real world. All of these things/lessons and more were cited by this year’s “Teen Innovators [http://teeninnovatorsbldg92.tumblr.com/]” as things they learned and wanted to learn from the annual program sponsored by
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Photo by Fort Greene Focus.In the wake of the evening rush-hour shooting death of 16-year-old Armani Hankins [/blog/2015/10/27/17-year-old-killed-by-bullet-to-the-head-in-rush-hour-shootout-at-flatbush-and-dekalb-avenues/] this past Monday, October 26, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Councilmember Laurie Cumbo have issued a call for collaboration between the state, city, and community groups.
Auburn Family Residence
Auburn Family Residence. (Photo courtesy Fort Greene SNAP)Homeless advocates and local politicians are optimistic over Governor Andrew Cuomo’s decision to work with city agencies to reverse his plan to withhold $2.9 millionevery month from 16 homeless shelters [http://www.wsj.com/articles/state-withholds-funds-from-some-new-york-city-homeless-shelters-1431482602] — including Fort Greene’s
African Americans
35th District City Councilmember Laurie Cumbo. (Photo by The Nabe)Councilmember Laurie Cumbo [http://council.nyc.gov/d35/html/members/home.shtml]issued an apology on Thursday (March 26) for remarks made during a City Council Public Housing Committee hearing where she asked whether the New York City Housing Authority