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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PARK SLOPE – The city will spend $261 million over nine years [/city-will-pay-over-261m-for-two-4th-avenue-family-shelters/] to operate two new homeless shelters in Park Slope—scheduled to open on 4th Avenue in September and December of this year. However, not much more information can be found on the facilities from the draft contracts available
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PARK SLOPE – On Friday, June 14, the NYC Administrative Services released some details [https://a856-cityrecord.nyc.gov/RequestDetail/20190607103] from the contracts between the Department of Homeless Services [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dhs/index.page] (DHS) and Women In Need [https://winnyc.org] (WIN) for the two homeless shelters
community
PARK SLOPE – Following a heated meeting on two homeless shelters planned for 535 and 555 4th Avenue [/heated-meeting-about-two-4th-avenue-homeless-shelters/], a group of neighbors has united in an effort to get answers from the city. 535 4th Avenue & 555 4th Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)“We care deeply about how best
Bensonhurst
The intersection of Neptune Avenue and West 23rd Street. (Photo: Google Maps)A shelter for homeless families may be coming to Coney Island. A proposal for a family homeless shelter, to be located at the corner of Neptune Avenue and West 23rd Street and operated by non-profit Women In Need
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End of summer. (Courtesy: leaf**/Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/leaf2011/7990360163/])Keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week — follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/sunsetparkvoice], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/sunsetparkvoice], and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/sunsetparkvoice/], and sign up for
Bensonhurst
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanFor the second consecutive year, the Rent Guidelines Board voted last night to approve a rent freeze on one-year leases for over one million tenants in rent stabilized housing. The news was bittersweet for local tenants rights advocates, who were fighting for more this year — a rent-rollback.
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(Photo: nicolaitan [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicolaitan/61444999/] / Flickr)A group of local elected officials announced a new effort Wednesday to expand youth homeless services to more New Yorkers. Two bills, introduced by Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein [http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A10145&term=
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
dinner volunteers
Photo via CAMBA [https://www.facebook.com/CAMBAinc/photos/a.10152812439989732.1073741846.20055334731/10152812440584732/?type=3&theater] .If you’d like to help out a neighborhood organization that does amazing work, from running a food pantry [/blog/politics/at-camba-food-pantry-council-members-kick-off-program-to-battle-youth-unemployment#prettyPhoto] that provides meals to thousands of neighbors every month