On the day of its 45th anniversary, with the possibility of its demise hanging over its head, the Albemarle Neighborhood Association got a new lease on life when attendees at tonight's community meeting volunteered to fill the vacant board positions.
ANA's next meeting will be the traditional June outdoor meeting. It'll be on Thursday, June 28th, at 7:00 p.m., on Albemarle Road, between E. 4th and E. 5th streets. The street will be blocked off from traffic.
If weather conditions don't permit an outdoor meeting, it'll be held at Flatbush Jewish Center, 327 E. 5th Street.
The board will meet during the summer to discuss how frequently to hold community meetings and a possible change in format.
Past guest speakers include
- Denise Lalande-Phipps, Director of The Kensington Family Shelter, Claire Harding-Keefe, Senior Vice President for Family Support, Housing at CAMBA, which operates The Kensington Family Shelter, and Dante Thomas, CAMBA's Director of Security and Operations,
- Thomas Kukla, Crime Prevention Officer at the 66th Police Precinct,
- New York State Senator Kevin Parker,
- Bert S. Matthew, Kensington Branch Manager, Vice President, Astoria Bank,
- Teresa Cunningham, Community Affairs Liaison and a sanitation worker for the New York City Department of Sanitation, and Julian Sepulveda, Division of Customer Service and Government Relations, New York City Department of Sanitation,
- Brad Lander, our New York City Councilmember,
- Barry Spitzer, District Manager of Community Board 12,
- James F. Brennan, our New York State Assemblymember,
- Nolan Levenson, Project Manager of the Pedestrian Projects Group at the New York City Department of Transportation,
- Tom Bauer, Director of Operations for the Ocean Parkway Community Development Corp., and
- Heather Jane McCormick, Community Representative to the Brooklyn Postal Service Customer Advisory Council.
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The Albemarle Neighborhood Association (ANA) is the oldest neighborhood association in Brooklyn. Since its founding in 1973, it has worked to advance Kensington's quality of life.
ANA's meetings are free. They are open to the public.
Meetings provide a place for Kensington's residents to address safety, security, and quality of life issues. ANA helps create a safe and stable neighborhood by working closely with its members, other neighborhood residents, city agencies, and elected officials to address key issues.