Bensonhurst
Courtesy of Brooklyn College/FacebookWith its sprawling ocean views, the green hills of Staten Island in the distance — the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in its future — the shores of Gravesend Bay would once have made an excellent home for a City University of New York [http://www2.cuny.edu/] (CUNY) campus.
COJO of Flatbush
Neighborhood women organizing at BRICK to find funding for Adult Literacy courses. (Photo by Shannon Geis/Ditmas Park Corner)On a recent Sunday morning a group of roughly 20 women meet at the BRICK office at 920 Foster Avenue to discuss their next steps in working to reinstate their adult
climate change study
Image courtesy of CUNY / Structures of Coastal Resilience [http://www.structuresofcoastalresilience.org].After a year of research [http://www.structuresofcoastalresilience.org/], a team led by City University of New York (CUNY) associate professor of landscape architecture Catherine Seavitt Nordenson has completed a proposal [http://www.structuresofcoastalresilience.org/locations/jamaica-bay-ny/] for
CUNY
State Senator Marty Golden. Photo by Erica ShermanState Senator Marty Golden said he won’t support the New York Dream Act, legislation that would allow undocumented residents in New York to have access to tuition assistance for higher education. Up until recently, Golden wouldn’t have even needed to address
catherine seavitt nordenson
The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Source: Howard N2GOT / FlickrThe Rockefeller Foundation bestowed a $250,000 grant to the City College of New York (CUNY) to figure out a way to stem the disastrous consequences of major flooding in Jamaica Bay, according to a CUNY release [http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/
2001 oriental boulevard
KCC (2001 Oriental Boulevard)Like many institutions in Southern Brooklyn, Kingsborough Community College (2001 Oriental Boulevard), was wrecked by Superstorm Sandy last year. NY1 is reporting [http://www.ny1.com/content/news/190602/community-college-by-the-bays-still-shoring-up-a-year-after-sandy] how the school has generally fared since the storm, tracking its recovery and progress in the
Barack Obama
Source: 10000birds.comFederal and city officials announced the formation of an ambitious new research group that will focus its studies on the area in and around Jamaica Bay. According to a press release, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the forming of the Jamaica Bay
adolpho carrion
The mayoral candidates at last Friday’s debate. Photo by Allan RosenTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: In Part 1 [/mayoral-candidates-square-off-on-the-future-of-transportation-part-1-of-3/] of this series, I reported on the candidates’ positions regarding major transit issues. In Part 2 [/mayoral-candidates-square-off-on-the-future-of-transportation-part-2-of-3/], I addressed financial issues. Now we will discuss safety, and sum up. The first
1940s New York
In 1943, the NYT and three newspaper-friends joined forces to compile New York City Market Analysis, which charted the city by the numbers. Now, CUNY Grad Center’s Center for Urban Research [http://www.urbanresearch.org/] has digitized the tome, and the result — Welcome to 1940s New York — is a
colleges
The clock is ticking! There are only 215 days left for smokers to enjoy a cigarette on the Kingsborough Community College campus (2001 Oriental Boulevard). Working alongside The Center for Tobacco Policy, the City University of New York (CUNY) has chosen to ban smoking on all of its facilities system-wide,