STABBING DURING ROBBERY TODAY AT 18TH AVENUE F TRAIN STATION

A man grabbed another man's iPhone as he was on the steps leaving the station, stabbed him in the chest, and ran away from the 18th Street F train station at 1:45 or 2:00 a.m. this morning (Sunday). The victim was listed in stable condition at Lutheran Hospital. 

You can protect your electronic gadgets. Activate the “Find my phone” app so police can track your phone and return it. Keep a record of your cell phone’s IMEI number, its serial number. Check the Internet for information on how to locate it.

More importantly, protect yourself. It isn't worth it to argue or fight or struggle to hold onto your electronics. They're replaceable. You aren't.

SEARCH CONTINUES FOR MISSING TEENAGER

Hundreds of volunteers are continuing to search for seventeen-year-old Tzvi Stolzenberg, who has been missing from his home by Foster Avenue and E. 9th Street since Wednesday at about 10:50 p.m.. He was last seen near Marlborough Road and Foster Avenue.

Tzvi has been described as suicidal, and he doesn't have the medication with him that he needs to take. If you see him, don't approach him and don't speak to him. Instead, call 911 immediately. 

Tzvi is a white, Orthodox Jewish, seventeen-year-old boy who is about 5'5" or 5'6" or 5'7" tall, weighs about 120 or 140 pounds, has a thin build,was last seen wearing a brown and white striped T-shirt, blue pants or blue jeans, and black Crocs, isn't wearing a yarmulke, and has dental braces.

Anyone with information is asked to either call the Crime Stoppers Hotline at (800) 577-TIPS, submit it online at www.NYPDCrimeStoppers.com, or text it to 274637 (CRIMES), then TIP577.

Flatbush Shomrim and Hatzolah would also like to be called: Flatbush Shomrin at (718) 338-9797 and Hatzolah at (718) 230-1000.

Assemblymember Helene Weinstein, Councilmember David Greenfield, and Flatbush Shomrim have each contributed $1,000 toward a $3,000 reward for information about Tzvi.

HAMILTON'S SETS OPENING DATE

co-owner Kevin Read

The interior. (not blurry in real life.)

The bar (also not blurry in real life!)

Thursday, October 11th--that's the date scheduled for the opening of Hamilton's, a restaurant and bar, on the corner of Fort Hamilton Parkway and E. 4th Street. The time: 5:00 p.m.

Owners Georgia and Kevin Read describe Hamilton's as "a casual, neighborhood restaurant with 20 tap beers and wine. An internationally inspired menu created by Joseph Bayley (formerly of Littleneck and Boqueria)." Joseph was the sous chef--the second in authority, right below the head chef--at Boqueria and also at Cobblestone. He was a winner on "Chopped."  

The Reads are still hiring servers and bussers (see their ad on craigslist), and they're also hiring bartenders. Anyone interested in any of those jobs should send them an e-mail at hamiltonbkny @ gmail.com. Experience is a necessity.


Hamilton's
2826 Fort Hamilton Parkway, southeast corner of E. 4th Street
In Windsor Terrace, by its border with Kensington.
Convenient to the F and G trains and the B16, B67, B69, and B35 buses.

(718) 438-0488

hamiltonbkny @ gmail.com

https://www.facebook.com/hamiltons2826?ref=ts

http://hamiltonsbkny.com

COOKING CLASS DISCOUNT

Attend an Indian cooking class with Mukti Banerjee and receive a discount of 20% or more off the cost of another one. If you've attended one of Mukti's classes, you'll get 20% off at the second class; if you've attended two, you'll get 25% off at the third one. And so on.

Mukti has another discount offer: if you bring a friend with you to a class, you'll get a $10 price reduction on your ticket for that class.

Mukti's Kitchen

Beverley Road near E. 9th Street, Kensington

muktiskitchen [at] gmail.com

http://www.meetup.com/muktiskitchen

http://muktiskitchen.blogspot.com

(917) 703-3998

BURGLARY ON WEDNESDAY ON EAST FOURTH STREET

A house on East 4th Street between Fort Hamilton Parkway and Greenwood Avenue was burglarized this past Wednesday when none of the residents were at home.

The residents had left a window open in the front of the house; the burglar cut the screen and gained entry. The crime was reported to the 72nd Precinct, which went to the scene and took fingerprints. Nobody could provide a description of the thief because nobody had seen anything happen.

On Friday, a suspect was arrested.

TWO LESS AGGRAVATING PARKING DAYS COMING UP

Alternate side of the street parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Monday, October 1st, and Tuesday, October 2nd, for the Jewish holiday Succoth. All other regulations, including those for parking meters, remain in effect.

WHAT DOES KENSINGTON NEED THAT COSTS UP TO A MILLION DOLLARS?

Kensington Neighborhood Assembly for Participatory Budgeting

Monday, October 1st, 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Kensington residents, what does the neighborhood need that $1,000,000 of Councilmember Brad Lander's capital improvements budget could be spent on? Does it need

• more security cameras and improved lighting in and around subway stations?
• roads paved?
• sidewalks repaired?
• street lighting improved?
• a dog run constructed?
• playgrounds refurbished?
• technology provided to schools?
• technology provided to libraries?
• tree guards installed?
• a combination of two or more from this list?

The cost of a project has to be at least $35,000 and no more than $1 million. It has to have a “useful life” of at least five years, and it must involve "construction, reconstruction, acquisition, or installation or a physical public improvement."

You might want to browse ideas already suggested on the "Participatory Budgeting in NYC District 39" website. You can submit an idea online, or you can suggest it at Monday's neighborhood assembly. 

Look here at the twenty projects that were included on last year's ballot. Look here at the seven projects that won. The top vote-getters were safety, the environment, schools, and a library. Following that are five projects that weren't winners but were funded by other money in Councilmember Lander's budget.

Location of the Neighborhood Assembly
P.S.230
1 Albemarle Road, at McDonald Avenue
Kensington

MISSING: KENSINGTON TEENAGER

Description
Name: Tzvi Stolzenberg (or Tzvi Hersh)
Mother's name: Nechama
Gender: male
Skin color: white

Age: 17 years old
Height: 5'5" or 5'6" or 5'7"
Weight: 120 or 140 pounds
Build: Thin
Distinguishing characteristics: braces; not wearing a yarmulke
Clothing last seen in: brown and white striped T-Shirt, blue pants or blue jeans, and black Crocs
When last seen: Wednesday, September 26th, 10:45 p.m.
Where last seen: Kensington, leaving his house near Foster Avenue and the lower-numbered streets

Command center established: Coney Island Avenue and Avenue J

Searchers: the NYPD and volunteers from Flatbush Shomrim, Boro Park Shomrim, Misaskim, and Hatzolah

Tzvi is delusional and disoriented. He may be suicidal. DO NOT APPROACH HIM. Follow him from a distance, call 911, and then call Flatbush Shomrim at (718) 338-9797 and Hatzolah at (718) 230-1000.

WINDSOR TERRACE, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SPEND A MILLION BUCKS ON?

Neighborhood Assembly for Participatory Budgeting in Windsor Terrace

Thursday, September 27th, 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Windsor Terrace residents, your suggestions are needed on how to spend a million dollars of City Councilmember Brad Lander's budget for capital improvement projects.

The cost of a project has to be at least $35,000. It has to have a “useful life” of at least five years. And it must involve "construction, reconstruction, acquisition, or installation or a physical public improvement."

Possible projects could be

• adding more security cameras and improving lighting in and around subway stations,
• paving roads,
• repairing sidewalks,
• improving street lighting,
• constructing a dog run,
• refurbishing playgrounds,
• providing technology to schools,
• providing technology to libraries, and
• installing tree guards.

Browse ideas that have already been suggested for District 39 on the "Participatory Budgeting in NYC District 39" website (playground renovation, solar trash compactors, speed bumps, benches, etc.).

Submit an idea online, or, better still, submit it at tomorrow night's neighborhood assembly. 

The twenty projects that were included on last year's ballot are listed here. The seven projects that won are listed here. Safety, the environment, schools, and a library got the most votes. Below that are five projects that didn't win but got funded by other money in Councilmember Lander's budget.

Location of the Neighborhood Assembly:
P.S. 154
1625 11th Avenue, at Windsor Place
Windsor Terrace

DUTCH NEEDS A HOME

This beautiful dog named Dutch needs a new home. His family recently moved from upstate New York to a tiny apartment in Brooklyn. Dutch is constantly tethered inside the apartment. The father wants to get rid of him by next Thursday.

The man's teenage sons took Dutch outside the other day. They walked around with him and offered him to strangers on the street for free, hoping to find a home for him. They offered him to a neighbor, who can't take him in, and I learned about this fella from her.

If the boys can’t find someone to take Dutch in, their father will most likely turn him over to the Center for Animal Care and Control, which is a kill shelter. Or maybe he'll put Dutch out in the street. Nobody knows for sure, at this point.

Another neighbor has been devoting time to contacting local rescues and shelters, but they're full.

The neighbor who Dutch was offered to visited him and his family at home and took the photo. Dutch is a sweet, 4-year-old, red-nose pit bull. He's good with kids and with female dogs. He’s a little "choosy" with males, but that might be because he hasn't been neutered. Our neighbor will pay for that. Dutch is up-to-date with shots. The family doesn’t know how he acts around cats.

If you can give Dutch a home or you know someone who can or might, please send us an e-mail at KARMABrooklyn @ gmail.com. Thank you.

Joy

HARVEST HOOT HELP NEEDED

Volunteers are needed to help at the Harvest Hootenanny in Greenwood Playground on Sunday, October 21st.

• at 9 a.m. to set up,
• between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. to
• sell raffle and other tickets,
• monitor lines for face painting and balloon twisting, and
• help with arts and crafts and pumpkin painting, and 
• at 4 p.m. to clean up.

Volunteers are also needed prior to that day to solicit raffle prizes from a few neighborhood businesses.

If you can help, contact Dari at greenwoodfriendsfunds  @  gmail.com and tell her which hours you'd be available to help out.

JAMMING AND BOUNCING IN THE SCHOOL YARD

The School Yard Jam
and
Flavors of 154 Food Fair

Saturday, September 29th, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

rain or shine

suggested fee: $5 per family

Live Music from local, family-friendly bands and musicians

Giant Bouncy Castle for the Kids

Cool Crafts for Kids to Create

Tasty Food prepared by P.S. 154 parents,

celebrating P.S. 154's diverse school community

Join the fun while raising money

for P.S. 154's enrichment programs.

P.S. 154

1625 11th Avenue

between Sherman Street and Windsor Place

Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn

YOM KIPPUR SERVICES STREAM TONIGHT

Tonight's Kol Nidre service at Temple Beth Emeth v'Ohr Progressive Shaari Zedek will take place at 7:30 p.m., as Yom Kippur begins. Anyone who won't be in a synagogue tonight  can click here to listen and watch as the service is streamed live online. 

Kol Nidre is the name of the evening service of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), the most important holiday--or one of the most important holidays--of the Jewish calendar.

Temple Beth Emeth is a Reform congregation on Marlborough Road near Church Avenue.

HARVEST HOOTENANNY HAPPENING IN OCTOBER

Annual Harvest Hootenanny

Sunday, October 21st, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

music performances and
dance performances and
pumpkin painting and
face painting and

crafts and

balloon twisting by Mike Gold the Ballooniac and
food and
raffle prizes and
more.

More details to come.

See photos of the 2010 hootenanny here, here, and here 
and the 2011 hootenanny here.

Greenwood Playground

E. 5th Street

between Fort Hamilton Parkway and Greenwood Avenue

organized and run by

Friends of Greenwood Playground

WHITE BIRD

White pigeon on a ledge, 16th Street, Windsor Terrace

MORE ABOUT THOSE "PEDDLERS" AT P.S. 230

B68 BUS DRIVER STABBED

This person allegedly stabbed a Coney Island-bound B68 bus driver in the shoulder from behind at about 11:00 this morning for no known reason, apparently while exiting the bus at Greenwood Avenue and Prospect Park West. The driver, Mark Anthony Salandy, age 30, was transported to Methodist Hospital. The weapon was first reported to be a syringe, but later reports declared it "a sharp object."

In case it was a syringe, and in case it was infected with HIV or AIDS, Mr. Salandy has to, for the next six months, take medication and have his blood tested.

The alleged perpetrator escaped. He is a white male, 45 to 50 years old, and approximately 5'9" in height.

Assaulting a bus driver is a felony. The police would like to receive any information that anyone has. Call the Crime Stoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS. Or text CRIMES and then enter TIP577. A third option is to visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.com.

PAVILION THEATER GROUPON DISCOUNT

The deal: Two tickets to the Pavilion Theater for a regular movie or a 3-D movie, with two small popcorns and two small sodas.

Ticket value: $42 for a regular movie; $48 for a 3-D movie.
You Pay: $18 for a regular movie; $22 for a 3-D movie.
You Save: $24 on a regular movie; $26 on a 3-D movie.

A limited quantity of deals is available. Over 630 have been bought. The deal ends Tuesday night.

Tickets have to be used by January 13, 2013.

https://www.groupon.com/deals/the-pavilion-theater?utm_campaign=UserReferral_pp&utm_medium=email&

The Pavilion Theater
188 Prospect Park West, by Bartel Pritchard Square
(718) 369-0838
http://www.paviliontheater.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pavilion-Theater/179009155479986

JOBS AVAILABLE IN NEW RESTAURANT

Servers and bussers wanted!

Hamilton's, the restaurant that will open in early October where The Oak and The Iris used to be, is now hiring servers and bussers, preferably from this neighborhood. They have to be able to work at least four or five shifts per week at lunch, brunch, and dinner, with closing being no earlier than midnight. 

Salary: minimum wage plus tips.
Benefits: health insurance options after three months.

Open calls:
Tuesday, September 25th, 2:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m.
Friday, September 27th, 2:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m.

The menu includes American food, beer, and wine.

The owners, Georgia and Kevin Read, also own the Park Slope restaurant Alchemy.

More information about the job is on craigslist (http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/fbh/3290869394.html). 

Hamilton's
2826 Fort Hamilton Parkway, southeast corner of E. 4th Street
In Windsor Terrace, by its border with Kensington.
Convenient to the F and G trains and the B16, B67, B69, and B35 buses.

(718) 438-0488

hamiltonbkny  @  gmail.com

https://www.facebook.com/hamiltons2826?ref=ts

http://hamiltonsbkny.com

"PEDDLERS" AT P.S. 230

"Peddlers"

 Friday, September 28th, 7:00 p.m. 

The Singing Winds: Storytelling from around the World

presents

the International Folk Ensemble Holubka

in "Peddlers"

storytelling, dances and songs

from Russia and the Ukraine

When the peddler visits their village, the girls dream of their wedding. Share their joy as they celebrate Ivana Kupala with dance, music, traditional customs and the shared hope of a happy, bountiful future.

Recommended for all ages.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for games, crafts, and refreshments.

Come make a flower garland for your hair.

P.S. 230 auditorium
1 Albemarle Road
between McDonald Avenue and Dahill Road
Kensington, Brooklyn

$2.00 admission
For more information, visit singingwinds.org or call (718) 564-5983.

MELT YOUR HANDS AND FEET

From Karen Zuckerman

MELT Your Hands and Feet

taught by Karen Zuckerman, LMT

Eliminate tension, pain and stiffness in your hands, feet, neck and low back, improve whole-body balance and instantly feel better.

Learn how to self-treat your body and gain immediate results and lasting changes that will help you maintain a pain-free, active lifestyle longer.

Saturday, Sept. 29
3:00-4:30pm

LARK Cafe
1007 Church Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11218

Only $15!!

RSVP: karen  @  wellbody.com 

Karen Zuckerman, LMT
www.wellbody.com
www.facebook.com/wellbodystudio
www.youngliving.us sponsor #867024

REPORT ON LAST YEAR'S PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING

The Community Development Project (CDP) at the Urban Justice Center has analyzed and evaluated last year's pilot program in participatory budgeting. It examined the process that was established to enable New Yorkers living in four City Council districts to suggest, research, and vote on the capital improvements they wanted made to the infrastructure in their districts.

The CDP also examined outcomes and made recommendations for the next participatory budgeting process, which is getting underway this week. This time, eight City Councilmembers are venturing into participatory budgeting. The projects are being paid for with $1,000,000 from each City Councilmembers' budget, money that had been collected by New York City as taxes.

This past Thursday, CDP released the report "A People’s Budget: A Research and Evaluation Report on the Pilot Year of Participatory Budgeting in New York City." The full report is here; District 39, Councilmember Brad Lander's district, is discussed on pages 50 to 58. The executive summary is here.

Part of the report explores the demographics of participants and the effect the program has had on them. Among the interesting findings about participants at Neighborhood Assemblies is the fact that "almost half had never before contacted a civil servant or elected official." Demographics for District 39 are found on page 79 of the full report.

The first step in participatory budgeting is the Neighborhood Assembly, a public meeting where everyone in the community has the opportunity to make suggestions for needed capital improvements. To qualify for funds, a project has to

"1. Cost at least $35,000
2. Have a “useful life” of at least five years
3. Involve the construction, reconstruction, acquisition, or installation or a physical public improvement."

At the meeting, attendees will be asked if they want to become delegates and work on committees. Those who don't want to are free to go home, knowing that they contributed to the process.

Windsor Terrace's Neighborhood Assembly will be held on Thursday, September 27th, 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., at P.S. 154, 1625 11th Avenue, at Windsor Place.

Kensington's Neighborhood Assembly will be held on Monday, October 1st, 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., at P.S. 230, 1 Albemarle Road, at McDonald Avenue.

FENCE AROUND SCHOOL ON CATON AVENUE

June Reich has learned from City Councilmember Brad Lander's office that the School Construction Authority will erect a fence around the future home of PS/IS 437 next week. Excavation permits may be approved within the next month, and then construction will start.

The school will be built in School District 15 on Caton Avenue between E. 7th and E. 8th streets and E. 7th Street between Caton Avenue and Kermit Place. Its address will be 701-711 Caton Avenue. When it opens sometime in 2015, it will accommodate 750 elementary and middle school students in grades pre-K through 8.

The New York City School Construction Authority bought the vacant property in December 2011 from 701 Caton Avenue Realty LLC for $8.8 million. 

*June Reich is the chairperson of Community Board 7's Education Committee.

CERTIFIED!: GOLDEN FARM VOTE FOR UNION IS CERTIFIED

In an election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board in March, the majority of Golden Farm employees voted for Local 338 of the Retail, Wholesale Department Store Union, United Food and Commercial Workers (RWDSU/UFCW) to be their collective bargaining representative.

Their employer challenged the results, but six months later, the vote has finally been certified by the National Labor Relations Board:

"Golden Farm Brooklyn Inc. d/b/a Golden Farm Grocery  (29-RC-077022) Brooklyn, NY, September 20, 2012.  Having reviewed the record and no exceptions were filed, the Board adopted the Hearing Officer’s findings and recommendations, and found that a certification of representative should be issued.  Petitioner – Local 338, Retail Wholesale, and Department Store Union, United Food and Commercial Workers." -- from Summary of NLRB Decisions for Week of September 17-21, 2012

The union is now

"entitled to be recognized by the employer as the exclusive bargaining agent for the employees in the unit. Failure to bargain with the union at this point is an unfair labor practice." -- from Conduct Elections, on the  National Labor Relations Board website

NEXT WEDNESDAY'S PARKING SITUATION

Alternate side of the street parking rules (for street cleaning) will be suspended next Wednesday, September 26th, for Yom Kippur. All other regulations, including those governing parking meters, will remain in effect.

WAY TO GO, SEAN'S RESCUE!

 

Pardon us for shouting, but

SEAN CASEY ANIMAL RESCUE

HAS WON A $50,000 GRANT

IN THE CHASE COMMUNITY GIVING CONTEST

BY RECEIVING MORE THAN 5,700 VOTES!! 

Congratulations!!

 

Sean Casey Animal Rescue

153 E. 3rd Street, between Fort Hamilton Parkway and Caton Avenue
on the border of Windsor Terrace and Kensington

(718) 436-5163

nyanimalrescue [at] yahoo.com
 

http://scarnyc.org

http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/NY637.html

https://www.facebook.com/SeanCaseyAnimalRescue

SUPPORT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BUSINESSES.

WHERE TO MAIL DONATIONS TO HELP LT. MURPHY

Anyone who can't attend the October 20th fund raiser for Lt. Brian Murphy is welcome to make a donation to aid in his recuperation. Make your check payable to Rhythm & Booze ( note that it's for the Lt. Brian Murphy Fundraiser) and mail it to Maureen Petrucci-Wertling, 230 Abingdon Avenue, Staten Island ,NY 10308.

This kid from Windsor Terrace grew up to be a member of the Oak Creek, Wisconsin, police force. He was the first to respond when a gunman was killing Sikhs inside their house of worship in August. The gunman fired fifteen bullets into the lieutenant. He's at his home in Wisconsin recuperating after spending seventeen days in the hospital.

SHUTTLE BUS AGAIN

The shuttle buses ride again--from 11:30 tonight until 5 a.m. Monday. The information below was copied and pasted from the MTA website.

No F trains between Jay St-MetroTech and 18 Av
No G trains between Hoyt-Schermerhorn and Church Av 

Free shuttle buses provide alternate service  

Weekend, 11:30 PM Fri to 5 AM Mon, Sep 21 - 24

service operates in two sections:

  1. Between 179 St and the Euclid Av station (days) or the Lefferts Blvd station (nights), via Jay St-MetroTech

 2. Between 18 Av and Stillwell Av 

service operates in two sections:

 1. Between Court Sq and Bedford-Nostrand Avs

 2. Between Bedford-Nostrand Avs and Hoyt-Schermerhorn, every 20 minutes

• Transfer at Bedford-Nostrand Avs to continue your trip.
• Transfer between and trains at Hoyt-Schermerhorn.
• Transfer between trains and buses at Jay St-MetroTech.

Shuttle buses operate in three sections:
Local service between Jay St-MetroTech and 4 Av-9 St, making stops at Bergen, Carroll and Smith-9 Sts.	Local service between 4 Av-9 St and Church Av, making stops at 7 Av, 15 St-Prospect Park and Fort Hamilton Pkwy.	Limited stop service between Jay St- MetroTech and 18 Av, stopping at Church and Ditmas Avs.

• Transfer between buses and trains at Jay St-MetroTech.
• Transfer between buses and * trains at 4 Av-9 St.
• Transfer between limited and local buses at Church Av.
• Transfer between buses and trains at 18 Av.

*This detour has taken into account additional planned service changes.

Alternate travel note: Between Jay St-MetroTech and 4 Av-9 St, take the (days/evenings) or (late nights) instead.

For additional information on the Culver Viaduct Rehabilitation Project, please click here.

This service change affects one or more ADA accessible stations. Please call 511 for help with planning your trip. If you are deaf or hard of hearing, use your preferred relay service provider or the free 711 relay.

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While Infrequent, this information may not include last minute adjustments or cancellations.