environment
GOWANUS – During Monday morning’s intermittent rain, EPA Regional Administrator Peter Lopez, Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon, and Dan Wiley from Congress Member Nydia Velázquez’s office marked the final phase of the dredging and capping pilot project [https://semspub.epa.gov/work/02/503424.pdf] at the Gowanus Canal’
Arts & Culture
The black-tipped reef shark is just one of the new species featured at the aquarium’s new exhibit (Via NY Aquarium)CONEY ISLAND – The sharks are almost here, and just in time for summer… The long-awaited Ocean Wonders: Sharks exhibit at the New York Aquarium opens this Saturday! The state
Announcements
RED HOOK – Council Member Carlos Menchaca [https://council.nyc.gov/district-38/] (District 38) has released a statement regarding Thursday night’s two-alarm fire at the historic S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse [/fire-tore-through-historic-s-w-bowne-grain-storehouse-thursday-night/] located at 595-611 Smith Street. S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse, 595-611 Smith Street (Photo taken June 15, 2018,
Animals
MARINE PARK – Infant mosquito killing will commence in select areas across the city on Tuesday, June 19, and continue through Thursday, June 21 between the hours of 6 a.m. and 7 p.m., weather permitting. The city will apply a larvicide called VectoMax® FG, which contains naturally occurring bacteria
Announcements
There were an estimated two million rats [http://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-rats-are-there-in-nyc-2014-11] living in New York City in 2014, and according to a recent study released by RentHop [https://www.renthop.com/studies/nyc/rats-continue-to-thrive-in-new-york-city-especially-during-summer] the number of sightings have been increasing each year. Via brooklyn-usa.org [http://www.brooklyn-usa.
Announcements
PROSPECT PARK – Last week the Prospect Park Alliance [https://www.prospectpark.org/news-events/news/name-weed-harvester/] unveiled the newest addition to its fleet—a new aquatic weed harvester—and they need the public’s help in naming it. Prospect Park’s new aquatic weed harvester via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/
environment
[UPDATED: Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 11:15am] This post has been updated to include additional photographs provided by Jonathan Bream, an archeologist with AHRS [http://ahrservices.com/]. GOWANUS – On Monday afternoon, the EPA [https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0206222] presented some of the debris construction
Borough Park
Kensington/Borough Park – It is amazing what a lot of determination and a bit of money can accomplish. When Kensington neighbor Jole Carliner started advocating for improvements to Dome Playground [/tag/dome-playground/] back in 2010, it was rather neglected. Situated on the edge of Kensington and Borough Park, where Cortelyou
Announcements
Last year, there were 21 cases of West Nile virus in the city, and two deaths were attributed to the disease. There were 1,083 reports of Lyme disease among New Yorkers. The following is from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene: As summer nears, the Health Department reminds
Bushwick
Volunteers worked to plant, build and paint the new community farm on Gates Avenue last Friday (Paul Stremple/BKLYnER)BUSHWICK – On a sunny Friday, volunteers were hard at work on the lawn outside the RiseBoro Youth Center on Gates Avenue, putting together a community garden in the heart of Bushwick
bath beach
An aviation bill could help homeowners previously ineligible for disaster relief funds. After Superstorm Sandy, some homeowners received FEMA emergency funds. Once those emergency funds maxed out at $32,000, FEMA instructed homeowners to apply for low-interest, federal-based Small Business Administration (SBA) loans. Soon after some homeowners qualified for and
Announcements
Think your block is the greenest and most beautiful in Brooklyn? Prove it by entering the Brooklyn Botanic Garden [https://www.bbg.org/]‘s Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest [https://www.bbg.org/community/greenestblock#apply]. Stuyvesant Avenue between Bainbridge and Chauncey Streets. (Photo via Brooklyn Botanic Garden)The contest