Central Brooklyn
The FDNY has seen a rise in fires over the last year, which prompted the new call for a Brooklyn-based burn unitBorough President Eric L. Adams and the Brooklyn delegates of the New York City Council are calling on Mayor De Blasio to allocate funding for a burn unit in
Announcements
Council Member Mark Treyger in 2016 at Coney Island. (Photo by Hannah Frishberg/BKLYNER)Council Member Mark Treyger [/37630-bensonhurst/], representing Bensonhurst, Coney Island, and Gravesend, has secured major funding in the fiscal year 2018 budget for renovations to area libraries, parks, schools, senior program, and city initiatives. The council member
Arts & Culture
Thanks to a grant from the NYC Department of Education’s Arts for English Language Learners (ELL) and Students With Disabilities [http://schools.nyc.gov/offices/teachlearn/arts/Partnerships/ArtsELLs+SWD_RFP_2015-16.pdf] program, the kids of PS 124 [https://www.facebook.com/ps124pta/?fref=ts&ref=br_
Brooklyn Arts Council
Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams presented honorary checks to organizations that are helping to build the “Brooklyn brand” throughout the borough. (Photo Credit: Malcolm McDaniel/Brooklyn BP’s Office)A massive windfall in funds is coming in 2016 to dozens of Brooklyn cultural institutions and libraries thanks to an
budget
What projects would you like to see funded in our area? Something for the library? Our schools? Something else? Whatever it is, Community Board 14 [http://www.cb14brooklyn.com/community-budget-recommendations/]wants to hear from you about it! Each year, in accordance with the city charter, all 59 community boards in
BCAP
Are you shopping for summer camp on a budget? In addition to these camps, just call up the camps you’re interested in. Many have scholarship programs even if they aren’t advertised. The Fresh Air Fund [http://www.freshair.org/summer-camping-program-sign-up] The Fresh Air Fund host 5 different camps
Borough President Eric Adams
Borough President Eric Adams sponsored a town hall meeting at PS 139 last fall about safety in our neighborhood following a series of armed robberies.A series of armed robberies last fall at Ox Cart Tavern [/blog/crime/three-men-rob-ox-cart-tavern-gunpoint-last-night], Mimi’s Hummus [/blog/crime/armed-robbery-mimis-hummus-gunman-flees-foot], Lark Café [/blog/crime/lark-cafe-robbed-gunpoint-last-night]
Applications
Source: Citizens Committee for New York CityWorking on transforming an empty lot into a garden? Trying to organize tenants to advocate for better housing conditions? Hoping to get your elementary school to recycle more? If you’ve got a community or school improvement project that needs funding, the Citizens Committee
capital budget
Brooklyn schools, including our neighborhood’s P.S. 249, are receiving major funding for repairs, upgrades and improvements as part of a $3.1 million allocation by Borough President Eric Adams to education institutions across the borough. The beep this week unveiled 16 school-related capital projects that will benefit from
budgets
An attendee requested support programs for special needs families. But that’s not what the meeting was for.Councilman Chaim Deutsch has touted his “participatory governing [/council-member-chaim-deutsch-hosts-participatory-governing-meeting-constituents/] ” approach as an alternative to participatory budgeting, but his first attempt – a governing workshop held last week – provided the best argument yet for
funding
Three cheers are in order for our neighbors at PS 295 [http://www.ps295.org/] (330 18th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues). The school announced on Tuesday [https://www.facebook.com/PS295/posts/738901629487540?stream_ref=1] that they are the recipients of an anonymous donation that guarantees $47,
FEMA
Residents help with long-term planning at a NY Rising meeting.The Wall Street Journal published an interesting article last week, examining the different and competing visions of city and state administrators when it comes to using the billions of dollars received for Superstorm Sandy recovery. In short, the city wants
funding
Earlier this week, neighbor and NY Times Gotham columnist Michael Powell [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/newyorkandregion/columns/gotham/index.html] gave a glimpse inside Prospect Park [http://www.prospectpark.org/]‘s disappearing city funding with his article, Reducing Some City Parks to the Status of Beggars [http://www.
Brad Lander
As we get ready to vote on the projects that are in the running for funding [/blog/politics/expo-offers-first-look-at-participatory-budgeting-projects] through Participatory Budgeting, Neil Reilly, a District 39 Committee Member and former Transit Committee Delegate notes that one of the interesting outcomes [http://bradlander.com/blog/2013/03/21/what-starts-in-pb-doesnt-always-end-in-pb] of
3000 ave x
Sheepshead Bay High School students protesting the city’s closure attempts in the last school year. (Photo: Robert Fernandez)The third time’s the charm? New York City’s school administrators seem to hope so. For the third time in three years, the Department of Education has again set its
democracy
Photo via Eric Michael Johnson/NY Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/nyregion/for-some-new-yorkers-a-grand-experiment-in-participatory-budgeting.html?ref=nyregion] I was completely oblivious to the comings and goings of politics until my senior year of high school. Peggy McCarty, my government teacher, brought such passion to the subject and opened