Borough President Adams joined T.E.A.L. CEO Pamela Esposito-Emery as well as Council Members Laurie A. Cumbo and Rafael l. Espinal, Jr., along with a score of LATEST INITIATIVES local advocates, to kick o ’s observance of Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month in the rotunda of . Photo Credit: Stefan Ringel/Brooklyn BP’s O ce Following a spate of bloodshed in the borough, between Brooklyn and the Üsküdar district of nents of his $8.8 million capital budget plan on including nine people shot at a party in East Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, in a Wednesday, August 19th. He made the , Borough President Adams launched ceremony held at a cultural center in Üsküdar’s announcement at STREB Lab for Action a weeklong awareness campaign on Monday, Bağlarbaşı Cultural Complex. The establish- Mechanics (SLAM), a school in Williamsburg August 3rd. Along with anti-violence ment of this exchange, intended to further that teaches disciplines for adults and youth, advocates, he staged a co n outside Brooklyn collaboration in cultural, economic, educa- including acrobatics, dance, trampoline, and Borough Hall, resulting in thousands of onlook- tional, and municipal aairs, was a highlight of trapeze arts; the location received $250,000 ers viewing their reflection from a mirror inside his five-day visit to Turkey, organized to help in funding for renovations that will allow for the open casket, alongside provocative imagery advance cultural exchange and transatlantic expanded and enhanced public usage and of victims and the message, “These people commerce with Brooklyn. During the trip, he programming. The greatest allocation was made didn’t have to die this way. Neither should you.” met with local leaders in Istanbul and the to the Brooklyn Public Library, which received The campaign raised attention for his “Take Five central Anatolian region of the country to $3,225,000 to fund much-needed upgrades to to Stay Alive” plan of action, which asks New discuss Brooklyn tourism, relationships six of the borough’s in-need branches. Yorkers to help reduce the impact of gun between young people of dierent cultures violence in their community; his steps include through digital platforms, as well as strategies to Borough President Adams unveiled his $3.3 ending the “stop snitching” culture, searching battle terrorism and radicalization. The borough million capital budget plan on Thursday, one’s surroundings for guns and gun parapher- has a growing Turkish population, with signifi- August 20th to construct and preserve BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT nalia, pushing for state and federal legislation to cant populations in , Midwood, hundreds of aordable housing units across cut o the “iron pipeline” and increase gun and Sheepshead Bay. Brooklyn. He shared the news outside 442 safety measures, and calling for the City to Logan Street, an aordable housing develop- make a $10 million emergency infusion of funds “Culture is what makes Brooklyn; our diver- ment in East New York owned and managed by ERIC L. ADAMS’ to support on-the-ground organizations doing sity, our creativity, and our unique blend of Mutual Housing Association of New York, Inc. OF THE critical anti-violence work. lifestyles have birthed a quality-of-life that is (MHANY), which will receive part of a second-to-none.” Borough President Adams $500,000 allocation in funding for needed MESSAGE MONTH On Wednesday, August 12th, Borough Presi- made those remarks at the announcement of renovations to 77 total units. dent Adams signed a sister city agreement the cultural institutions and libraries compo- WHAT’S UP AT BROOKLYN BOROUGH HALL?

UPCOMING EVENTS Wingate Park is the hot summer International Day of Friendship is When Brooklyn 'greens' it, it spot for cool entertainment and free celebrated around the world, as means it! The Greenest Block in Looking for a job over the holiday season? PM until 3:00 PM to apply for a reduced- Get your “om” on, Brooklyn! To further the fun in Central Brooklyn! Borough countries partake in a variety of Brooklyn contest is a great legacy Borough President Adams and Kings Plaza fare Metrocard. Transit wellness of Brooklynites, Borough President President Adams hosted New Yorkers events to promote peace and unity. that Borough President Adams is Shopping Center are hosting an employment representatives will be on hand to assist seniors Adams is hosting his second annual Yoga Day of all ages at the 2015 Martin Luther Nearly one million Brooklynites were proud to continue in the borough assessment and recruitment fair at the mall and those with qualifying disabilities to obtain on Monday, September 28th at Brooklyn King Jr. Concert Series, the 33rd born abroad and 47% of the borough alongside , on Thursday, September 17th from 11:00 this important service. Borough Hall. Events will include yoga, guided season of weekly performances held meditation, tai chi, Zumba, and more. speaks a language other than English getting Brooklynites closer with their AM to 6:00 PM. in East Flatbush, beginning on at home. On Sunday, August 2nd, neighbors and beautifying communities The Autumn Moon Festival is a highlight of Monday, July 27th with Morris Day ¡Viva la cultura Latina en Brooklyn! In part- Borough President Adams hosted his along the way. On Tuesday, August Welcome to Book-lyn! The Brooklyn Chinese culture, and Borough President nership with the Brooklyn (Kings County) and the Time. The Annual Gospel Book Festival’s tenth anniversary is on Adams invites you to celebrate with him on second annual International Day of 3rd, he joined GreenBridge, the Saturday, September 26th from 10:00 AM Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Ponce Night was on Monday, August 3rd, Sunday, September 20th, and a range Friendship celebration, starting with community environmental horticul- to 5:00 PM at Pier 1 of Brooklyn . de Leon Federal Bank, Borough President with performances by Ricky Dillard of activities and locations can be found a Unity Parade of Flags, featuring ture program of Brooklyn Botanic Traditional food and performances will be Adams will present his Latino Heritage & New G, Mike Willis & The Called, at www.brooklynbookfestival.org. As part of the colors of all the member states of Garden, to announce the winners of featured, along with a children’s lantern parade Celebraton on Tuesday, September 29th and the Christian Cultural Center the events, Borough President Adams will be from 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM at Brooklyn and calligraphy demonstrations. Choir. On Monday, August 10th, VP the United Nations, from the Brook- the 21st annual competition, including speaking on a panel titled “New York Review Borough Hall. lyn Bridge to Park. Bainbridge Street between Malcolm of Books Presents: Civil Rights & Policing” at Records Presents Reggae Night The Antic is back! On Sunday, September Hundreds of participants and patrons X Boulevard and Stuyvesant Avenue 11:00 AM in the moot courtroom of Brooklyn included Freddie McGregor, Chris- 27th, Borough President Adams is joining the If you have an interest in any of these events, please also enjoyed an array of cultural in Bedford-Stuyvesant, which took Law School. Atlantic Avenue Local Development Corpora- contact us by e-mailing [email protected]. topher Martin, New Kingston, and performances, highlighting the artis- top honors for residential blocks. tion to host the 41st annual Atlantic Antic, the Additionally, to stay up-to-date with the o ce, Ikaya. Old School Night closed out Take the "A" train - or any other mode of largest street festival in New York City; the visit www.brooklyn-usa.org to sign up for Borough the series on Monday, August 17th tic expression of various nations, as President Adams’ paperless notifications, like transportation - to Brooklyn Borough Hall on festivities will stretch from Hicks Street to well as complimentary tastes of his Facebook page, and follow @BPEricAdams with Doug E. Fresh, Kurtis Blow, and Continued on next page Wednesday, September 23rd from 1:00 . on Twitter. Special Ed. global cuisine.

SEPTEMBER 2015 WWW.BROOKLYN-USA.ORG WWW.BROOKLYN-USA.ORG SEPTEMBER 2015 Borough President Adams and Della Ellis, a resident of recovering Borough President Adams, joined by local hip-hop legends and music fans, from an addiction to K2, held up a poster displaying examples of colorful packaging used presented a citation to Kurtis Blow, one of the first commercially successful Borough President Adams congratulated Wayne Algenio as the winner of the first to wrap the drug at a press conference in Brooklyn Borough Hall, where he issued a call rappers, during Old School Night at the 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Borough President Adams hit the grill to flip some burgers with members of the to action to address synthetic marijuana’s impact on public health and safety. Series, which he hosted at Wingate Park in East Flatbush. NYPD's 84th Precinct at the National Night Out celebration at annual Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill National Jamaican Patty Eating Contest, which he hosted at the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Heights. Photo Credit: Ron Ricardo/Brooklyn BP’s Oce Photo Credit: Stefan Ringel/Brooklyn BP’s Oce Park in . Photo Credit: Stefan Ringel/Brooklyn BP’s Oce Photo Credit: Jesus Marshall/Brooklyn BP's Oce

Happy National Night Out, Brooklyn! In advance of the start of the school bookmark outlining the “5@55” essen- COMMUNITY ALERTS Tuesday, August 3rd marked the 32nd year, Borough President Adams proudly tial legal documents for seniors. year of the e ort to bridge police and partnered with Kings Plaza Shopping The use of K2, or synthetic marijuana, People dressed in costumes as popular information to Brooklynites, included communities throughout America. Borough Center in Mill Basin on Wednesday, ¡Viva la cultura Dominicana en Brooklyn! has been on the rise, particularly in children’s characters, including Disney the announcement that Brooklyn President Adams, a 22-year veteran of the August 19th to distribute over 1,500 Borough President Adams served as Central Brooklyn; Woodhull Medical and Marvel favorites, have become an Borough Hall will be lit the color teal New York City Police Department, took part new backpacks to hundreds of in-need Grand Marshal for the 15th annual and Mental Health Center in Bedford- increasingly common feature in tourist through Saturday, September 12th, the in celebrations across the borough; events students across the borough. The bags also Brooklyn Dominican Parade and Festival Stuyvesant has recently seen a spike of centers like Times Square and, more date of the annual Brooklyn T.E.A.L. he visited included the 76th Precinct’s in contained various school supplies to get on Sunday, August 30th, an event three to six related emergency room recently, the in Walk/Run organized by Tell Every Amaz- Red Hook’s Co ey Park, the 83rd children ready for work in the classroom. attended by hundreds along Graham visits a day. On Tuesday, August 25th, . Local residents and small ing Lady about Ovarian Cancer Louisa Precinct’s in Bushwick’s Maria Hernan- Avenue in Williamsburg. In advance of Borough President Adams sounded the business owners alike have expressed M. McGregor Ovarian Cancer Founda- dez Park, the 84th Precinct’s in Brook- According to the New York City the celebration, he raised the Dominican alarm to the public alongside Della Ellis, concerns that some have used aggressive tion (T.E.A.L.), a Brooklyn-based grass- lyn Heights’s , the flag over Brooklyn Borough Hall to com- a resident of Downtown Brooklyn recov- and harassing panhandling tactics to get roots organization. The most common Department of City Planning, Brook- 88th Precinct’s in Fort Greene’s Fort memorate the importance of the culture ering from an addiction to K2, and issued tips from potential photo opportunities. symptoms of ovarian cancer are bloating, lyn has the largest population of people Greene Park, the 90th Precinct’s in to Brooklyn’s greater diversity. a multi-level legislative call to action to Expressing public safety and quality-of- pelvic or abdominal pain, trouble eating , which is Williamsburg’s Roberto Clemente Park, 65 and older in the city address this public health crisis. Males life concerns, Borough President Adams or feeling full quickly, and urinary symp- and the 94th Precinct’s on Lorimer projected to grow to 410,000 seniors in The Jamaican patty is to Labor Day have accounted for 90% of citywide announced on Wednesday, August 26th toms like urgency or frequency. More Street in Greenpoint. 2030, up 45 percent from 2000. He what the hot dog is to the Fourth of visits to emergency rooms, with the that he will be working with City Hall and information on ovarian cancer is available continued his focus on the borough’s July. To expand Brooklyn’s celebration median age of patients being 37 years area lawmakers on a working group to at tealwalk.org. On Thursday, August 6th, Borough elders when he hosted about 400 senior of Caribbean culture and highlight one old. K2 has been sold in bodegas, smoke look into the public performer issue in President Adams joined the New York citizens for his second annual Senior of New York City’s most popular shops, and online for less than ten dollars Coney Island. City Department of Design and Con- Day, celebrated at Kingsborough Com- street foods, Borough President a packet, wrapped in colorful packaging struction and the Mayor’s O ce of munity College in Beach on Adams launched the first annual that may refer to it by one of its other Ovarian cancer is the 5th leading cause Our Constituent Assistance Center Contract Services to host a Construc- Wednesday, August 26th under the Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & many street names. E ects of usage of cancer-related death amongst women include, but are not limited to, anxiety, is here to serve all of Brooklyn. If you tion Contractors’ Open House at theme of “Seniors by the Sea.” Those in Grill National Jamaican Patty Eating and the deadliest of all gynecologic hallucinations, high blood pressure, cancers. In an e ort to raise awareness, or someone you know are having any Brooklyn Borough Hall. The networking attendance enjoyed lunch, dancing, an Contest on Sunday, September 6th at increased heart rate, loss of conscious- Borough President Adams kicked o issues, or if you have questions about event for locally-based construction interactive photo booth, and a spirited the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Heights. Wayne Algenio of Jamaica ness, paranoia, sedation, seizures, and Brooklyn’s observance of Ovarian issues like alternate side parking, contractors and subcontractors was round of Brooklyn trivia conducted by designed to highlight new contracting (!), who consumed a winning 7 vomiting; craving and withdrawal are Cancer Awareness Month on Thursday, sidewalk pickup or other community Borough President Adams. Attendees processes and procedures to assist in 1/3 Jamaican patties in five minutes, additional risks for regular users. Those September 3rd. The launch, which took matters, such as the matters in this left with copies of his “Cut the Salt, seeking more information on K2 can visit creating greater diversity and opportu- received a trophy and Golden Krust place during his cancer awareness expo month’s update, call the Center at Curb the Sugar” cookbook as well as a nity for businesses in the borough. gift certificates as prizes. nyc.gov/doh. that o ered resources, support, and (718) 802-3777.

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