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NYC Ferry (Photo via James Littlewood/twitter)This week, Coney Island residents started a petition, aimed at Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYC Economic Development Corporation, for a stop on the newly opened NYC Ferry [https://www.ferry.nyc] that could save locals more than an hour each commute.
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Photo via WikipediaAbout a month ago, Andrew Gounardeslaunched a petition [https://docs.google.com/a/bklyner.com/forms/d/1g7i6Pw5QK5X0qw203i2wRVzy_rT0g3coa1bnUHqqvpI/viewform?edit_requested=true] to be submitted to Governor Cuomo to increase the bus service for the Bay Ridge Avenue R stop while it undergoes renovations which will close
Nonsponsored
Photo via Flickr.On the morning of Friday, December 9, at around 8:30am, a nine-year-old boy was hit by a car [/marine-park-child-hit-car-morning/] after two vehicles collided and one jumped the curb on the corner of Avenue P and Ryder Street. The boy was in stable condition but neighbors are
Neighbors
A memorial for Sean Ryan at the Gerritsen Beach ballfields. Photo by Jon Farina. After Sean Ryan, 17, was hit head-on and killed by an allegedly speeding drunk driver on the night of July 17, locals of Gerritsen Beach are imploring the city to install more traffic lights Gerritsen Avenue,
Central Brooklyn
A group of concerns parents in Ditmas Park and Flatbush have launched a petition [http://www.thepetitionsite.com/161/761/448/petition-to-make-ps-is-338-exclusively/] to limit enrollment for the upcoming PS/IS 338 at 510 Coney Island Avenue [/blog/education/todays-mud-tomorrows-school-councilman-eugene-community-leaders-break-ground-psis-338/] to middle school grades only. The petition is addressed to NYC
Bensonhurst
If the owners of Sunset Park’s Fei Long Market [http://www.yelp.com/biz/fei-long-supermarket-brooklynhttp://www.yelp.com/biz/fei-long-supermarket-brooklyn] were trying to keep their bid [/owners-of-sunset-parks-fei-long-market-bids-on-waldbaums/#.VqjXvJMrLe0] on the shuttered Bensonhurst Waldbaums supermarket under wraps, their plan has failed. Another Asian grocer — identified as “JMart Group Inc.” — has
petition
Map of potential speed hump locations via Brad Lander’s office [http://bradlander.nyc/]Council Member Brad Lander [http://bradlander.nationbuilder.com/] is urging community members to support the proposed installation of 15 speed humps throughout Windsor Terrace. The humps, which were initially announced by the Department of Transportation [http:
ban on cars
It’s been a debate for some time, but with a new petition making the rounds, some neighbors are once again pushing for a total ban on cars in Prospect Park [http://www.prospectpark.org/]. Currently, drivers are allowed to access the loop inside the park northbound along East Drive
bike path
Neighbor Olgierd Bilanow has launched a petition [http://www.change.org/p/prospect-parks-alliance-make-it-legal-to-walk-and-bike-through-the-parade-grounds] to make it legal to walk and bike through the Parade Grounds after sunset, a move that comes on the heels of other neighbors reporting receiving tickets for being in the area at dark [/blog/crime/neighbor-ticketed-for-walking-home-through-prospect-parks-parade-grounds-at-night]
petition
When you head out to enjoy a nice afternoon in Prospect Park, does the smoke from barbecues bother you? For one 14th Street neighbor, it’s been getting to be too much, so she’s started a petition calling for an end to barbecuing in the park by 2015 [http:
cuts
Assemblymember Jim Brennan has set up a petition [http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/James-F-Brennan/story/50906] asking Governor Cuomo to “restore the money cut from the school budget and give our children back $250 million in funding that is being taken away this school year and insist that there
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This came in via email: > Dear Friends, > On Sept 7, the closing day of Coney Island’s historic Astroland Park, I was part of a grassroots effort by the Save Coney Island group which distributed 10,000 flyers to visitors. City Hall must have gotten a gazillion emails