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Stalled Development
Councilman Brad Landers (DC-3() has posted a website showing stalled developement sites throughout the 39 District. The prupose of the site is to encourage feedbqack and tracking of abandoned sites that have become, in some cases, a danger to their neighbors.
http://stalleddevelopment.com/
The
Atlantic Yards Stadium...
Still lots to say on this subject. Check out our collection of websites that chronicle the proposels
and the debates of the stadium's future at STB'S
Atlantic Yards
page
Below is where we were back in 2006....
Where does your elected representative stand on Ratner's
plan for the Atlantic Rail Yards?
Now that the Memorandum of Understanding has been signed, it
is time for the politicians who are ducking their constituents'
concerns to state whether or not they are for or against this
project and to clarify what actions they are prepared to take.
Ratner's Atlantic Yards Proposal: The footprint is 1.3 times
that of the World Trade Center site and includes: 17 tower buildings
ranging from 20 to 58 stories high; 2.4 million squ. ft. of
office and retail space; A 19,000-seat arena (800,000 sq. ft.);
4.5 million sq. ft. of housing (4,500 units). www.nolandgrab.org/politicians.php
Where does your elected representative stand on this issue today, 2009?
Once the primary architect, Frank Gehry has been thrown out; the proposed stadium now nothing more than a glorified field house at a third rate college. Still the MTA bends over backward to sell Ratner air rights for a quarter of their value...
Brooklyn
Heights/ Proposed Waterfront Development
Progressing: docks are being cleared - now if we can just hold down the Condo Development.
Brooklyn
Bridge Park Coalition
Individuals, civic,and environmental groups for the
creation of a waterfront park
www.brooklynbridgepark.org
Carroll
Gardens
Carroll
Gardens Association (non-profit)
Develop & management of low income housing
201 Columbia Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
718 243 9301
Boerum
Hill
Atlantic
Avenue Betterment Association
www.atlanticavenuebkny.com
GCCDC
Gowanus Canal Community Development
Projects related to canal rehabilitation
515
Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
718 858 0557
Progressing - now if we can just hold down the Condo Development. Didn't we just say that?
Gowanus
Dredgers & Deckhands
A community activist canoe club affiliated with the Red Hook
Waterfront Museum concerned with the future development of the
Gowanus Canal Estuary,
e-mail dredgers@excite.com
www.waterfrontmuseum.org/dredgers
Park
Slope & Vacinity
SouthSouth
Slope Community Organization
This was back in 2006....
People did come together and low & behold, "Contextual Zoning" was passed in record time - developers can not build any higher than the adjacent piece of property.
We are residents of the southwestern section of Park Slope and
Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, who have come together in opposition
to the unchecked development in our community. We're a citizen's
group advocating for rezoning changes within Community Board 7
( South Slope South of 15th Street, Greenwood Heights and portions
of Sunset Park), changes which would ban apartment construction
of significant height and bulk without relationship to the surrounding
communities. These zoning changes have the support of Assembly
person James Brennan for one.
Check their
website for upcoming community meetings.
Contact Travis
Ruse at: travisruse@hotmail.com
www.southsouthslope.com
Care
About the Slope (CATS)
Residential & Commercial quality of life advocates
488 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Director Ashley Thomas
Phone: 718 965-0567
info: Ben Meskin
Phone 718 965 1360CATS represents the interests of the residents
and retail merchants of our community. These interests include,
but are not limited to, quality of life issues, public safety,
crime, the environment, sanitation, traffic, housing, economic
development and recreation
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Develop -- Don't Destroy Brooklyn
They're still kicking, thre years later!
People in Brooklyn may want the Nets, but... NO ONE wants a destructive,
secret, taxpayer-subsidized sweetheart deal forced on the community.
We want a development plan that maximizes its benefits for Brooklyn,
rather than for a development company. We believe that Brooklyn
and New York City deserve much better than what Forest City Ratner
has proposed, which repeats the urban renewal mistakes of the
past which we must not repeat. DDDb leads a broad-based community
coalition fighting for development that unites our communities
instead of dividing and destroying them.
www.DevelopDontDestroy.org
No Land Grab
Archives of news articles and letters from the community about
Ratner's Atlantic Yards Proposal.
www.NoLandGrab.org
Keep Wal-Mart out of Downtown Brooklyn
"Wal-Mart is eager to make New York City its next retail
frontier… While we haven't finalized any agreements for
sites within the five boroughs, there are several store sites
that we are now considering." - Wal-Mart spokeswoman Mia
Maston, in a letter to the New York City Council. The New York
Daily News reports that Wal-Mart wants a store in Downtown Brooklyn.
Wall Mart backed out...
Big Cities Big Boxes
IKEA-RED HOOK is a suburban-style big box store, now in litigation,
proposed for the Brooklyn waterfront. The Red Hook site, however,
is more than one mile from the nearest highway off-ramp. Red Hook
has no subway, and it has narrow cobblestone streets. To reach
the site, thousands of cars would have to navigate the already-congested
Gowanus Expressway and then drive through Red Hook to the waterfront.
This is the most inappropriate site in New York City for a big
box store.
www.BigCitiesBigBoxes.com
Guess what? Three years later we have Ikea. Swedish meatballs, anyone?
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Garbage Crisis hits Prospect Park.
Tired and Uninspired!
According o FIDO in Prospect Park, the dog owner's group that was the model for city-wide off-leash, the current administration seems content to sit on it's haunches year after year! FIDO posts pictures of the garbage mess and offers some radical proposals - like "bag it in, bag it out". There's lots more you can do to help.
See their homepage: www.fidobrooklyn.org
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Boerum
Hill Community Dog Run
Not yet... Still to come.
Where to take your dog until then?
See FIDO In Prospect Park's Dog run list
Want to establish a dog run? NYCdog had the information you need to get started:
http://nycdog.org/NYCdogFreeserver/park.html
A community group working to establish a dog run in Boerum
Hill, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. It was founded in August
1996 by a group of dog owners, and has gained the support of hundreds
of dog owning and non-dog owning neighbors. Although there are a
large number of dogs in the neighborhood, there is no official space
for dogs to safely run and socialize. Some dog owners resort to
exercising their dogs in local school yards. However, this is not
good for the children who use the space and it's not good for dogs
who get hurt on broken glass, sometimes run out through open fences
and get lost or even injured by cars.
no contact at this time
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West
Nile Virus
Urban
Spraying...
No
Spray Coalition
388 Atlantic Avenue, 3rd floor
(between Bond St. & Hoyt St.)
Brooklyn, NY 11217
(718) 670-7110
www.nospray.org
email: mitchelcohen@mindspring.com
The No Spray Coalition is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed
in Federal Court against the City of New York seeking a permanent
halt to mass pesticide spraying. We are in serious need of funds
to support the lawsuit and the organizing work we are doing. Please
make a donation and mail to the address above. For more information,
email us at:
listserve: sprayno-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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Citizens
Union - The Gotham Gazette
Overview
of issues facing New Yorkers as well as demographic maps expressing
community concerns.
www.GothamGazette.com
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Dial 311 - Citizens action line for complains Big +
Care
About the Slope (CATS)
Residential & Commercial quality of life advocates
Director Ashley Thomas
488 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
info:
Phone 718 965 1360
Silent
Majority
An organization that campaigns against the worst aspect of New
York City life: the car alarm. Silent Majority aims to give a
voice to the thousands of New Yorkers who seethe over car alarms,
but who until now could only complain to their neighbors or throw
eggs out of their windows. As a united force, we can eliminate
car alarms for good. Please join us!
www.SilentMajorityNY.org
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F-Train
Say you saw it here...
A SmallTownBrooklyn prediction: with the extention of the G train running local to Church Avenue, look for the F Train to start running express like it did in the old days.
City
Wide
Tri-State Transportation Campaign
(212) 268-7474
www.tstc.org
An alliance of public interest, transit advocacy, planning
and environmental organizations working to reverse deepening
automobile dependence and sprawl development in the New York/New
Jersey/Connecticut metropolitan region. Working to reduce traffic,
trucks and pollution on Brooklyn's streets...
Straphangers
Campaign
a project of the New York Public
Interest Research Group Fund, NYPIRG. www.straphangers.org
Tri-State
Transportation Campaign
Transportation reform in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut
metropolitan region
www.tstc.org
Monthly
Meeting Transportation Alternatives Brooklyn
For
Information
Phone: (212) 629-8080
www.transalt.org/calendar/
brooklyn@transalt.org
Boerum
Hill
Ongoing
Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project...
Study to improve street safety
and traffic flow; Input & Ideas - attend workshops:
c/o Zerlin Communications
314 West 71st St
NY,NY 10023
e-mail: bktrfcalm@aol.com
Sunset
Park - Park Slope
Tunnel, Elevated, deep cut - still being hashed around!
Gowanus
Expressway Tunnel Project
Citizens concerned with the proposed rebuilding of the Gowanus
Expressway elevated structure when a tunnel would better serve
the local Community
Gowanus
Expressway Community Coalition
356 Fulton Street - 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11291
718 237 7928
fax 718 875 5728
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Urban Outdoors...
This one is a must if you are concerned with the always present
threat to Community Gardens and the quality of Urban living. A
monthly newsletter of Neighborhood Open Space Coalition and Friends
of Gateway. It reports on citywide public space issues and the
work of hundreds of local civic groups that take an interest in
the spaces.
To
add someone to Urban Outdoors list: visit the subscription area
of www.treebranch.com.
To be removed from the list reply to nosc@treebranch.com
with: unsubscribe urban outdoors"
Visit The Village Green
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