flu season
Source: Marvin Nauman via Wikimedia CommonsOn Thursday, September 20 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Assemblyman William Colton has arranged for representatives from Coney Island Hospital to adminster free flu shots at in a mobile van in front of his office at 155 Kings Highway, between West 12th
andrew
Gravesend Bay. Source: Jim Henderson via Wikimedia CommonsLast week, Assemblyman William Colton announced a lawsuit against the city over [/assemblyman-william-colton-fights-to-block-a-waste-transfer-station-from-moving-into-bensonhurst/] plans to build a waste transfer station at Bay 41st Street near Gravesend Bay. The location is on the site of a former incinerator that had been blamed for rising
Board of Standards and Appeals
A flier from an October march which protested the removal of parking spaces from the Calko Medical CenterThe city’s Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) has ordered the developers of a controversial new medical facility on Bay Parkway and 60th Street to include an additional 61 parking spots in
dept of environmental conservation
I’ve written before about the controversial method of “hydrofraking” [/gas-drilling-threatens-citys-water-supply/] near New York City’s watershed, and the State Legislature has finally put the brakes on business proposals until it’s been thoroughly studied [/epa-turns-eye-to-controversial-drilling-technique/]. Absent from the discussion, though, were Sheepshead Bay’s two state senators – Marty Golden
activism
It’s been a while since we updated you about the gas drilling in an area watershed [/gas-drilling-threatens-citys-water-supply/], which is opposed by Assemblyman William Colton. Locally, drillers sit in limbo. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation wrapped up its public comment period [http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/