Central Brooklyn
Screenshot of map showing some of the Participatory Budgeting projects on this year’s ballot in the 39th, 40th and 45th Councilmanic districts.Participatory Budgeting [http://council.nyc.gov/html/pb/faq.shtml#what-is-participatory-budgeting] (PB) Vote Week is March 26th to April 3rd! Residents of the 39th (Brad Lander), 40th
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Photo via PBP [https://vimeo.com/71975359]In just a few weeks, you’ll be able to vote for projects involving schools, libraries, parks, streets, and other shared spaces throughout the neighborhood. Between Saturday, March 26 – Sunday, April 3, you and your neighbors will be able to choose which projects
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Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz. (Photo: Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz [https://www.facebook.com/AssemblymanStevenCymbrowitz/photos/a.465589220131458.107581.465589086798138/465633266793720/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz has once again dipped into his campaign funds to finance a European excursion, the Observer reports [http://observer.com/2016/03/globetrotting-lawmakers-blow-campaign-cash-on-travel/] . Filings with
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(Photo: Ted Cruz For President 2016 [https://www.facebook.com/TedCruzPresident2016/photos/a.674588642602433.1073741825.660810660646898/674588652602432/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)It appears Ted Cruz has built a stronghold in Sheepshead Bay. Data collected by Renthop [https://www.renthop.com/study/new-york-city-ny/new-york-donors.html], the apartment-hunting website, shows the
fort greene
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. (Photo: Nick Solari. Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons)It appears that Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Wallabout are “Feeling the Bern” pretty strongly. This observation comes courtesy of a cool new dataset [https://www.renthop.com/study/new-york-city-ny/new-york-donors.html] that was just released by Renthop [https://www.
Central Brooklyn
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Photo: Nick Solari. Courtesy: Wikimedia CommonsYour neighbors’ political views may surprise you — or maybe not! An interesting new dataset [https://www.renthop.com/study/new-york-city-ny/new-york-donors.html] has just been released by Renthop [https://www.renthop.com], which looks at contributions to presidential candidates — by zip
Bensonhurst
Photo via FacebookThis Mob Wife wants Trump to make America great again — for her jailbird dad. Karen Gravano — whose father Sammy “Sammy the Bull” Gravano escaped 19 murder charges by helping the FBI take down numerous local gangsters including Gambino crime boss John Gotti — said she hopes her father’s
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Photo by Buck Ennis.The rumor mill continues as regards Brooklyn’s struggling hospital and health care systems. The latest: Northwell Health (formerly North Shore-LIJ Health System” is considering either buying or taking over four financially struggling Brooklyn hospitals, and several local hospitals and clinics and other providers are receiving
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Photo by Alex Ellefson / Fort Greene Focus.Congressmember Hakeem Jeffries is one of 44 co-sponsors of a bill pushing for police reforms regarding officer training, data collection about traffic stops and deadly force uses, police misconduct investigations, and wait periods that allow cops under investigation in a shooting to avoid
Neighbors
Left-Right: Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon, Senator Kevin S. Parker, BP Eric Adams, Senator Jesse Hamilton, NYPD 78th Precinct Commanding Officer Frank DiGiacomo. In background, hidden, Community Activist Tony Herbert. (Courtesy of the Office of BP Adams)Standing across the street from 551 9th Street, where Elizabeth Gioino, the 91-year-old
Police & Fire
Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein holding petitions opposing the Bragg Street halfway house. (Photo provided by Weinstein’s office)Local lawmakers announced Tuesday that they had collected more than 1,000 of signatures opposing a proposed halfway house on Bragg Street. Community leaders were blindsided in December [/local-pols-outraged-over-planned-halfway-house-near-schools-senior-centers/] when they received a
Bensonhurst
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanDrug dealers, beware: You may serve more jail time if you are arrested selling narcotics to children under 14 or if you are caught at a park or a playground. The State Senate passed two drug-related bills yesterday, the first sponsored by Senator Jack Martins and the