KARAOKE AND ITALIAN DINNER FUND RAISER FOR SEAN CASEY ANIMAL RESCUE

Sean Casey Animal Rescue's Holiday Party Fundraiser

Thursday, December 12th, 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Food, dancing karaoke, raffles, and 50/50 will be the highlights of the holiday party fundraiser for Sean Casey Animal Rescue.

The donation price of $30 includes guaranteed entrance, an Italian buffet dinner prepared by Bruno Ristorante in Howard Beach, cake, and five raffle tickets.

You must be at least 21 years old to attend.

For tickets and more information, go to https://seancaseyanimalrescue.ticketleap.com/party.

You can also buy tickets at the rescue at 153 E. 3rd Street, between Fort Hamilton Parkway and Caton Avenue, in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn.
 
If you can't attend but you'd like to support the rescue's work anyway, you're welcome to donate tickets to the rescue's volunteers. At the ticket site, write "Volunteer" in the space where you are asked to write in the name of the ticket holder.

All of the proceeds will be used to benefit Sean Casey Animal Rescue.

Event location
Shenanigans Pub
802 Caton Avenue
corner of E. 8th Street
Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, New York

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Sean Casey Animal Rescue is located at 153 E. 3rd Street,
between Caton Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway, on the border of Windsor Terrace and Kensington in Brooklyn.
(718) 436-5163
nyanimalrescue @ yahoo.com
http://nyanimalrescue.org
http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/NY637.html
https://www.facebook.com/SeanCaseyAnimalRescue
https://twitter.com/nyanimalrescue
https://www.instagram.com/nyanimalrescue

AGENDA FOR COMMUNITY BOARD 12 MONTHLY PUBLIC MEETING, NOVEMBER 2019

Community Board 12 Monthly Public Meeting

Tuesday, November 26th, 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

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Subject:	November Board Meeting Agenda
Date:	Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:58:16 -0500
From:	Community Board 12

Dear Board Members, Elected Officials, & Interested Parties 

Attached is the agenda for November's board meeting tonight Tuesday, November 26th at

Amico Senior Center - 5901 13th Avenue, 3rd floor (entrance on 59th St) at 7:00pm.

Thank you

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Community Board 12 (representing Kensington, Borough Park, and Midwood) will hold its next meeting tonight, Tuesday, November 26th, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

The board's monthly meetings are open to the public.

If you have any concerns, questions, solutions, needs, or problems that you'd like the community board to address, arrive at the meeting before 7:00 p.m. and sign up to speak during the public comment period (item 4 on the agenda). You'll have three minutes to present your topic.

Public meetings of Community Board 12 are normally held on the fourth Tuesday of the month, from September through June, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., subject to change.

Every neighborhood in New York City is represented by an all-volunteer community board, which serves as the neighborhood's liaison to city agencies. Board members are appointed by the neighborhood's city councilperson and the borough president.

Community Board 12's committees are

•         Planning, Zoning Variances and City Map
•         Education, Library, Cultural Affairs
•         Sanitation & Environmental Protection
•         Fire, Safety & Police
•         Health & Social Services
•         Housing & Buildings
•         Legislation
•         Parks, Capital Projects & Site Selection
•         Transportation & Franchises
•         Youth & Community Development

Meeting location
Amico Senior Center
5901 13th Avenue, 3rd floor
corner of 59th Street
Borough Park, Brooklyn

Enter the building on 59th Street. The meeting room is accessible by elevator.

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Community Board 12's office is located at 5910 13th Avenue.
phone: (718) 851-0800
fax: (718) 851-4140
e-mail: bk12 @ cb.nyc.gov
https://twitter.com/BrooklynCB12
https://www.facebook.com/BkCB12

LOCAL NEWS COVERAGE IS LIMITED, LEAVING US UNDERINFORMED

Reprinted from Bklyner, with the permission of the editor and publisher

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Who Pays For News In Brooklyn?

Liena Zagare is the editor and publisher of Bklyner. 

Liena Zagare

November 21, 2019 @7:56 pm

“School board and city council meetings are going uncovered. Overstretched reporters receive promising tips about stories but have no time to follow up,” Julie Bosman wrote in the New York Times yesterday on the perilous state of local news.  Truth, and not just in some small town elsewhere in America, it applies to our city too, it applies to our work at Bklyner.

What worries me most about the current state of local news in Brooklyn is that we increasingly do not know what we are missing.

Brooklyn has the population to be the 4th largest city in America, and yet we only have a dozen or two reporters across all the outlets combined. There are three independent local news outlets in Brooklyn, Bklyner and two legacy papers, along with some local cable stations. We may all purport to cover all of Brooklyn, but in reality, all of us combined don’t do it justice.

The Knight Foundation and Gallup did a poll recently that the NYT was referencing in that story above, to look at the perceptions of the state of local media – a collapsing industry despite the implications for American democracy that relies on the free press for checks and balances.

They found that folks love their local news outlets, but they don’t really want to pay for news, and they don’t think the government should subsidize news, but they do think everyone should have free access to news. Tall order.

So who pays for it in Brooklyn?

“Just one in five Americans have supported local news in the past year by subscribing to, donating to or purchasing a membership to a local news organization,” Knight report says, the rest thinking, erroneously, that the industry can survive without their support.

So, maybe you subscribe to the New York Times, though they aren’t covering day to day news in Brooklyn.  Maybe you pick up a copy of the Daily News and The Post, or the free Brooklyn Paper or The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (but I have ever only encountered it at the courthouse while on jury duty). Those are all legacy for-profit outlets. The first two lose millions each year, allegedly, and are essentially private charities, the latter are in the business of printing government-mandated legal notices – if they disappeared, I bet so would the papers. If you have cable, you are paying for NY1 and the like.

Maybe you subscribe to us – we are, somewhat surprisingly, funded only by our subscribers, our advertisers, and my credit card when there is not enough cash for payroll.

Everyone loves a free lunch. Except – while it may be “free to you,” somebody always pays for it. With traditional sources like advertising and classifieds having gone the way of the dinosaurs in the last couple of decades, how is local news to make money to pay reporters?

This year we can add THE CITY to the citywide non-profit news outlets like WNYC/Gothamist, Chalkbeat, Streetsblog and Gotham Gazette. THE CITY raised millions and seems to have one dedicated reporter per borough, or so, in addition to some veteran beat reporters. They do great stories that have an impact – but have limited reach –  something new outlets struggle with, but it seems a particular challenge for non-profit news, with the focus on just the biggest impact.  It’s also the mission of these nonprofits to focus pretty exclusively on tough accountability stories, which is a good thing – but there is more to local news and living in our communities that is worth writing about, rooting for and celebrating. If you write just about the crime, and not about the good things taking place in the community it is easy to distort reality. I want a bit of candy with my kale. I want balance.

Regardless of how a news outlet is funded, reporting is always affected by those paying the bills – be they big foundations, big corporations, eccentric billionaires or peculiarities of the legal system. I like the “thousands of small subscribers” approach because it keeps us accountable in the most direct way to our readers, and I wish we had a few thousand more subscribers ourselves. But that is on us – convincing folks like you that our work is worth paying for, something you cannot get elsewhere. Something that is worth doing.  Something that makes your life in your city better. It is hard when our stories get re-reported by other outlets without credit, for it gives the impression that others would have come across the story anyway. They may or they may not. We will not know.

Sure – by the Knight Foundation standards there is no news desert in Brooklyn, but having three truly local community news outlets with barely any reporters does not mean the coverage is comprehensive, or even competitive, and quality varies a lot – a product of time and resources available. How much quality, timely, original reporting is being created? And who, how many people read it?

Take for example local politics. We have 16 council members in Brooklyn, and there is no way right now that we or our competition or all of us together can do a semi-decent job of covering the local elections coming up in 2021. If last year’s races are any indication of how many contestants per council seat to expect, then the numbers are daunting. We have 12 council seats in Brooklyn up for election due to term limits in 2021, and if each gets 10 candidates that will result in 120 races for office to cover just in Brooklyn.   Who will cover them, with the larger outlets inevitably focusing more on the citywide Mayoral and Comptroller races? It is likely a lot more money will be spent on political ads on social media and direct mail than will be spent by subscribers and advertisers on local news in the same period of time, and there are not enough reporters. Unless something changes drastically – there will not be enough reporters.

We all make assumptions and calculations – that someone else will cover this meeting or that. That someone else will do something. And then none of us do.

We don’t know what we don’t know until something bad happens and then it is often too late. So I will end on a local story.

Just this week, we did not have the resources to cover an important traffic safety meeting about Coney Island Avenue – something we and I in particular care and have written a lot about over the almost 12 years of covering the area. But – I was exhausted, and some of our advertisers were taking their sweet time to pay, and I had no extra money to hire someone to cover a meeting that would take hours to attend and report on. So we did not. And as far as I know – no news outlet did, though it was an important meeting.

In fact – we only had someone at 1/4 of the community meetings we wanted to cover this week. Community boards, police precincts, community education councils – places where decisions get made about land use, policing and school rezoning efforts.  Community groups and grassroots organizations, charity work by neighbors. You probably don’t know they ever took place. And if we failed to cover your event – this is why.

We will keep reporting regardless of whether you subscribe or not – for as long as we can – because we care. But if you want us to be bigger and better – and if you have read this far you probably do care – please become a paying subscriber. (A $5/mo subscription will allow access for 5 devices in a household, and it is easy to cancel. For corporate/group subscriptions please email me at Liena@bklyner.com.) Or give someone a gift subscription for the holidays.

We cannot do it without you.  And neither can our competitors – don’t like us, subscribe to them. Donate a few dollars to THE CITY and GOTHAMIST and CHALKBEAT and STREETSBLOG and GOTHAM GAZETTE – they all do their bit to paint a fuller and more complete picture of what’s going on. Competition is good for everyone.

Just, please, do subscribe to your local news outlets.

PARKING REGULATIONS SUSPENDED ON THANKSGIVING

Alternate side of the street parking regulations will be suspended on Thursday, November 28th, for Thanksgiving. Parking meter regulations will also be suspended.

Parking meter regulations are only suspended on these major legal holidays: New Years Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

PHOTOS WITH SANTA, CRAFTS, GAMES, A COOK-OFF, AN AUCTION: A BUSY DAY AT THE WINTER BAZAAR

                     P.S. 130 Annual Winter Bazaar Holiday Market
                   Saturday, December 7th, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

November 25, 2019

PS 130 Annual Winter Bazaar, Saturday, December 7, 11 AM - 3 PM

PS 130 Upper School, 713 Caton Avenue

Open to the public, the free event supports local artisans selling handcrafted items for holiday gifting.

Highlights include: 

• Free Crafts & Activities from Brooklyn Game Lab, Barking Cat Art Studio, and others

•Chili/Hot Soup Cook Off with Local Celebrity Judges 

•Summer Camp Auction

• Photos with Santa & Elsa

•Scholastic Book Fair 

•Performances from PS 130 Students & Parents 

BROOKLYN, NY – The P.S. 130 PTA is excited to announce that it will be hosting its annual Winter Bazaar from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm on Saturday, December 7, 2019 at its Upper School, located at 713 Caton Avenue, between E. 7th and E. 8th streets, on the Windsor Terrace/Kensington border.

The highly-anticipated event is open to the public, supports our local artisans, and provides a place for communal gathering. From jewelry to home decor, paper goods to beauty products, families and neighbors will be able to shop local for unique gifts while enjoying a festive, inclusive atmosphere. 

Free Crafts, Games, & More
Highlights include free crafts and games, live music performances by P.S. 130 students and parents, a hot soup/chili cook-off judged by local celebs, a Scholastic book sale that benefits the school, photos with Santa and Frozen’s Elsa, a summer camp auction, and more! 

Winter Auction
Our Winter Auction gives parents the chance to snag some deals on summer camps, recess camps, and goods and services from local businesses! Bid from Monday December 2 through Saturday December 7 at 2:45pm https://tinyurl.com/s9qakoy. Bids are tax deductible! 

Chili and Soup Cook Off
Put on your chef hat and bring a pot of homemade chili or soup for a chance to win bragging rights in the annual chili/hot soup cook off. This year’s celebrity judging panel is made up of 44th District Assembly Member Robert Carroll; Oliver Rivera, partner at popular Windsor Terrace restaurant Cena; and Ms. Maria Nunziata, our school’s beloved principal. The winner will take home a very special P.S. 130 Best Chili trophy.

Cook off entries will be available for sale, as well holiday baked goods and treats.

Proceeds from the event support the PTA at P.S. 130, a diverse, Title I school community serving over 800 students in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Kensington and Windsor Terrace.

Contact

Liz Edmund & Nate Gray, PS 130 PTA Co-Presidents

info@ps130pta.org

IT'S ALL FUN AND GAMES UNTIL...4:00 P.M., AT P.S. 154'S WINTER FAIR

                                             Winter Fair
                      Saturday, December 7th, noon to 4:00 p.m.

P.S. 154 invites the public to the school's annual Winter Fair on Saturday, December 7th, from noon to 4:00 p.m.

Admission is free. $1 tickets will be sold for games, crafts, food, and treats.

Enjoy Drag Queen Story Hour with Flame at 12:30 p.m. as well as student performances, a silent auction, a teacher experience raffle (a child's one-on-one experience with a teacher), and games from Brooklyn Game Lab.

Stomping Ground Photo will offer family photo sessions for $40. Sessions will begin at 11:40 a.m., prior to the event. The last session will be at 3:50 p.m. Advance sign-up is required at https://sgp.as.me/schedule.php?appointmentType=11855980.

Location
P.S. 154
1625 11th Avenue
between Windsor Place and Sherman Street
Windsor Terrace
pta_info @ ps154.org

UPDATE: FAREWELL PARTY FOR STEVE OF SAL'S DRY CLEANERS

  

UPDATE: NO PARTY - SAL'S CLOSED EARLY.

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Thank You, Sal's Dry Cleaners! 30 Years in Kensington Celebration
              Wednesday, November 27th, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

Sal's Dry Cleaners is a known landmark in Kensington, hugged by P.S. 230, Foodtown, and Rubi Beauty Salon. After serving the Kensington-Windsor Terrace community for thirty years, Steve is retiring.

New York City Councilmember Brad Lander will honor Steve with a City Council Citation for his commitment and service to the neighborhood.

Join the free celebration on Wednesday, November 27th, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Shahana Hanif, Director of Organizing and Community Engagement for Councilmember Lander, will host the celebration.

Steve's last day in the store will be November 30th.

Location
Sal's Dry Cleaners
373 McDonald Avenue
between Albemarle Road and Church Avenue
Kensington, Brooklyn

FITNESS STUDIO OPENS ON MCDONALD AVENUE IN WINDSOR TERRACE

Update, August 3, 2022: Terrace Fitness has moved to 217 Prospect Park West, at the corner of 16th Street in Windsor Terrace.

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A fitness studio has opened in Windsor Terrace on McDonald Avenue. Mike Olivieri, who's from the neighborhood, is the owner and founder of Terrace Fitness, located at the former site of Rapid Realty.

The studio is for private and semi-private personal training.

Until he decided to go into business for himself, Mike was an Elite Personal Trainer at Town Sports International and a Master Trainer at New York Sports Club. Mike worked at New York Sports Club for thirteen years, specializing in functional training, pre- and post-natal exercise, sports rehabilitation, and nutrition.

At Brooklyn College, Mike studied Kinesiology and Exercise Science. He studied to be an NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine) Corrective Exercise and Performance Enhancement Specialist at National Personal Training Institute.

Mike is a Master Trainer, Performance Enhancement Specialist, Corrective Exercise Specialist, and Golf Fitness Specialist. He's also Pre- and Post-Natal Certified and Post-Rehab Certified.

Location
Terrace Fitness

217 Prospect Park West

corner of 16th Street

Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn
(917) 572-5504
mike @ terracefit.com
http://www.terracefit.com

GIFTS, A MEAL, COOKIES, AND HOLIDAY HELP ARE REQUESTED FOR THE FAMILIES AT THE KENSINGTON FAMILY SHELTER

Gifts for the children, gifts for the parents, a meal, and cookies--the families at The Kensington, the family shelter on McDonald Avenue near Church Avenue, will appreciate all of these. 

Before the shelter opened in December 2015, neighborhood residents Catherine and Tracy volunteered to bring the neighborhood together to support the sheltered families in any way we're able to and to serve as liaisons between the neighborhood and the shelter.

Periodically throughout the year, they send e-mail to neighborhood residents with information about what the families need. Sometimes it's clothing, sometimes it's personal care products, sometimes it's holiday gifts, and sometimes it's participation at parties or other events.

To get on the mailing list for updates from Catherine and Tracy, send an e-mail to givemeshelterbk @ gmail.com.

And now, here's the e-mail they sent today.

Happy holidays to you all!

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Hello Neighbors!

We hope everyone is having a terrific autumn. A few weeks ago we threw a Halloween party for the kids at the shelter. A local resident, Beth Boyle Machlan, coordinated a bunch of NYU students to put on the event, which featured a visit from Spider-Man. A huge hit, as you can imagine.

We are now in the thick of planning our winter events. This neighborhood has always come through in a big way to make the families' holidays super-special and we know you will do it again. Now onto the details!

As you know, we try to provide three gifts for every child at the shelter, each chosen specifically for them with input from shelter staff. We have created an Amazon wishlist for this purpose. You can order from Amazon, or buy the same item elsewhere and mark as bought on the wishlist. Please do not wrap! We will be holding a wrapping event. https://amzn.to/2KEOPLk
 

We also try to provide a gift for the adults. As in the past, we hope to collect one new bath-and-body set or perfume/cologne for each parent. We have created an Amazon wishlist for convenience — https://amzn.to/2pxjSRQ — but you are also welcome to purchase elsewhere (or regift!) and bring or ship to the shelter.

The gifts will be handed out at the holiday party (details in a future email) and on Christmas morning. On Dec. 15, we will host a wrapping event at the shelter. If you would like to volunteer for that, you can sign up here (18+ for on-site volunteers please!): https://bit.ly/2Oxs1OG

We have two more ways to help out this season:

We are providing a harvest meal the day after Thanksgiving. You can sign up here to donate a cooked dish, dessert, paper goods or beverages (details in the link as well): https://bit.ly/2qzOqmq  Shelter staff will handle serving the meal, so no volunteers are needed for this event.

And we are doing our cookie brigade again! If you would like to drop off some cookies at the shelter during the holiday weeks, sign up here: https://bit.ly/2XvUXuA

The shelter address is 385 McDonald Ave., Brooklyn NY 11218. All donations for these events should be marked attn: Uniquia Parker.

Thank you for all you do for our neighbors who are struggling. It's really a gift to the community and to us! We will send you one more email with further details on the Holiday party scheduled for Dec 22. In the meantime, stay warm!

Love,
Catherine and Tracy

CRIME-FOCUSED MEETING CALLED FOR THE 72ND PRECINCT COMMUNITY COUNCIL

Special Meeting of the 72nd Precinct Community Council

Tuesday, November 26th, 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

  
The special meeting of the 72nd Precinct Community Council that Windsor Terrace residents were promised has been scheduled for next week.

At last week's meeting, the commanding officer was caught unaware of a number of the crimes residents reported at the meeting. Some of the crimes they reported were

• group assaults,
• groups of people armed with guns and/or knives,
• verbal threats of physical violence,
• house break-ins,
• car break-ins,
• people climbing on top of garages to get access to private backyards,
• young teenagers smoking pot in the presence of younger children in parks,
• crimes by the Fort Hamilton Parkway/E. 5th Street F and G subway station due to the absence of a clerk inside and low lighting outside, and
• package theft.

Quite a few took place in the southwestern portion of Windsor Terrace--the part that's closer to Kensington and is west of the Prospect Expressway.

Deputy Inspector Emmanuel Gonzalez committed to following up on those matters and reporting back to the community at a specially-called meeting, rather than waiting until the Community Council's regularly-scheduled monthly meeting in December.

This follow-up meeting of the 72nd Precinct Community Council will be held on Tuesday, November 26th, at 7:30 p.m.

Location
Marian Center
Immaculate Heart of Mary Rectory
2805 Fort Hamilton Parkway
between E. 4th and E. 5th streets
Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn

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72nd Precinct contact information
Phone number: (718) 965-6311
web page: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/72nd-precinct.page
CompStat report (crime statistics): http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-072pct.pdf
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NYPD72Pct
Facebook page for 72nd Precinct:  https://www.facebook.com/NYPD72pct
Facebook page for 72nd Precinct Community Council: https://www.facebook.com/72nd-Precinct-Community-Council-1611883092371304

NEIGHBORHOOD POLICE WILL MEET WITH KENSINGTON RESIDENTS IN TWO WEEKS

            Kensington Neighborhood Policing and Safety Meeting
              Wednesday, December 4th, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

The Neighborhood Coordination Officers (NCOs) and the Steady Sector Officers in the 66th Precinct's Sector D (Kensington and Ditmas) will meet with residents on Wednesday, December 4th, to discuss pedestrian and highway safety and any other issues you wish to address.

At 6:30 p.m., refreshments will be served at this Build The Block Neighborhood Policing and Safety Meeting. At 7:00 p.m., the meeting will start.

The NYPD divides each precinct into four or five sectors to carry out neighborhood policing. This means that the same officers work in the same neighborhoods on the same shifts. The radio dispatchers, supervisors, and sector officers work together. Sector officers and sector cars stay within the boundaries of their assigned sectors, except in precinct-wide emergencies.

The four sectors in the 66th Precinct are Sector A or Adam, Sector B or Boy, Sector C or Charlie, and Sector D or David.

Sector D's boundaries are Fort Hamilton Parkway and Caton Avenue to the north, Coney Island Avenue to the east, 18th Avenue and Avenue F to the south, and McDonald Avenue and 37th Street to the west.

 The NCOs for Sector D are

• Police Officer Viviane Perrone (phone: (917) 863-5169, e-mail: viviane.perrone @ nypd.org)
• Police Officer Karol Smiarowski (phone: (917) 826-6569, e-mail: karol.smiarowski @ nypd.org.

The officers will update the community about public safety issues in the neighborhood.

Ask questions and express your concerns, complaints, and suggestions about assaults and robberies on the street, home burglaries, packages stolen from porches and lobbies, street safety for pedestrians and bicyclists, and any other issues that you have.

Meeting Location
P.S. 889
21 Hinckley Place
between E. 8th Street and Coney Island Avenue
Kensington, Brooklyn

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66th Precinct
phone: (718) 851-5611
5822 16th Avenue
between 58th and 59th streets
Borough Park, Brooklyn
e-mail: 66precinctcc @ gmail.com
website: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/66th-precinct.page
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/NYPD66pct/posts/?ref=page_internal
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NYPD66Pct or @66precinctcc

66TH PRECINCT COMMUNITY COUNCIL PUBLIC MEETING THIS WEEK (FREE)

66th Precinct Community Council Monthly Public Meeting
Thursday, November 21st, 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. 

The public can report crimes and other policing matters in Kensington, Borough Park, and Midwood at the upcoming 66th Precinct Community Council meeting.

The 66th Precinct's commanding officer, Deputy Inspector James King, will update residents on recent crimes in those neighborhoods, but the input of people who live within the boundaries of the precinct is also essential.

At the meeting, the public can learn about the various programs available to the community through the precinct.

The meeting will be held on Thursday, November 21st, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. It's free, and it's open to the public.

Boundaries of the 66th Precinct:

The purpose of the 66th Precinct Community Council is to provide the critical interface between citizens and police through regular monthly meetings. Meetings are normally held on the third Thursday of the month, from September through June. The Community Council does not meet in July or August.

Meeting location
Community Board 12 Office
5910 13th Avenue
between 59th and 60th streets
Borough Park, Brooklyn
(map)

To get to the meeting, take the B16 bus to 13th Avenue at 56th Street and walk three blocks along 13th Avenue to 59th Street. To return home, take the B16 on 14th Avenue (schedule).

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Contact information for the 66th Precinct:
phone: (718) 851-5611
5822 16th Avenue
between 58th and 59th streets
Borough Park, Brooklyn
e-mail: 66precinctcc @ gmail.com
website: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/66th-precinct.page
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NYPD66Pct or @66precinctcc
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/NYPD66pct/posts/?ref=page_internal

AGENDA FOR THE PUBLIC MONTHLY MEETING OF COMMUNITY BOARD 7 (WINDSOR TERRACE AND SUNSET PARK)

                    Community Board 7 Public Monthly Meeting
                Wednesday, November 20th, 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

The regular monthly Board Meeting of Community Board 7 will be held on Wednesday, November 20th, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

The following is the proposed agenda:
1. The Pledge of Allegiance
2. Opening of the meeting
3. Adoption of the agenda
4. Adoption of the Minutes of the Board Meeting of October 16, 2019
5. Presentation: Girl Scouts of Greater New York
6. Public Comment
7. Committee Reports:
    A. Personnel & Internal Budget (no vote required)
       1. Review of FY19 activities
      2. Goals for FY20: A) Budget, B) Personnel
   B. Sanitation/Environment (no vote required)
       1. Presentation from the Department of Environmental Protection on the installation of rain gardens in Windsor Terrace
    C. Ad Hoc Committee on Homelessness Issues (no vote required)
       1. Interviews with Shelter Managers
      2. Next steps
      3. Status update on the Fourth Avenue shelters
    D. Land Use/Landmarks Committee (no vote required)
       1. Public Speak Out on November 6
       2. Review of ULURP application for Industry City
   E. Joint Committee Meeting of Immigration Committee, Economic Development-Waterfront Committee, Transportation and Ability and Access Committee (no vote required)
       1. Discussion on ULURP application for Industry City
    F. Joint Committee Meeting of Health Committee, Public Safety Committee, Sanitation/Environment Committee and Housing Committee (no vote required)
       1. Discussion on ULURP application
    G. Education/Youth Committee (no vote required)
       1. Discussion on ULURP application for Industry City
       2. Second Annual Youth Recognition Award
    H. Nominating Committee (no vote required)
       1. Organizational meeting of the committee
8. Elected Officials/Representatives
9. District Manager’s Report
10. Chairperson’s Report
11. Old Business
12. New Business
13. Public Comment
14. Adjournment

Location
Community Board 7 Office
4201 4th Avenue (entrance on 43rd Street)
Sunset Park, Brooklyn

phone: (718) 854-0003
fax: (718) 436-1142
e-mail: bk07 @ cb.nyc.gov
website: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb7/index.page
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brooklyn-Community-Board-7/195263140637225
 

STREET CLOSINGS ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY FOR ROAD WORK

These streets in Windsor Terrace and Kensington will be closed for milling this week:

Monday, November 18, 2019

• E. 5th Street, from 19th Street to Albemarle Road

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

• E. 4th Street, from Vanderbilt Street to Caton Avenue

Each week, a new milling and paving schedule for streets in Brooklyn is posted on the Department of Transportation's website at https://nycstreets.net/PavementWorks/Project/WeeklyResurfacingSchedule/B. Click on the listings for details about which streets will be affected. To avoid having your vehicle relocated to another street without your knowledge, check that page for the upcoming week.

Signs indicating street closings for milling and paving are supposed to be posted on the streets in advance of the work, but that isn't always done.

From the DOT website:

Milling is the process of grinding off the top layer of asphalt or surface of a roadway. This is usually done in preparation for paving, although there are exceptions where no milling or only partial milling is needed.

Resurfacing is the process of placing an asphalt overlay on a roadway, whether or not it has been milled.

The milling process is noisy and may cause discomfort in the affected neighborhood for several days. Much of the work is done at night in order to minimize disruptions to traffic.

Although DOT takes steps to minimize the inconvenience, milling requires trucks, special machinery and portable lights. To minimize disruption, machinery is fitted with noise reduction equipment and crews attempt to keep noise to a minimum.

Schedules are subject to change due to inclement weather or emergencies.

BRING YOUR LEAVES TO THE COMMUNITY GARDEN FOR COMPOSTING

Rake up your fallen leaves and donate them to the East Fourth Street Community Garden's Fall Leaf Drive this Sunday, November 17th, between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.

The leaves will be mulched, and they'll be used in the garden's compost operation. Leaves are valuable "browns" (carbon-rich material) that balance the food scraps in compost bins.

Just bring leaves--not twigs, branches, or trash. 

People of all ages are welcome. Cider and donuts will be served.

Location
East Fourth Street Community Garden
173 E. 4th Street
between Fort Hamilton Parkway and Caton Avenue
Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn
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