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Our Neighborhood Conversations with and Honors for Park Slope Leaders of Today and Tomorrow Civic News Summer 2011 The Newsletter of the Park Slope Civic Council | www.parkslopeciviccouncil.org The People in Our Neighborhood Conversations with and honors for Park Slope leaders of today and tomorrow Joe Holtz: Good Food, Cooperation, and Comment Community Service Getting Our Voices into Atlantic Yards Mort Fleisher: Four Decades of News & Notes Working for a Better Slope inside ... inside General Meeting Showcases Major Successes in the Community Emily Lloyd: A New Leader for Prospect Park United for a New Megaproject Model Comment Getting Our Voices into Atlantic Yards The Atlantic Yards project is the single most transfor- project, likely to be built over the span of two decades. The mative construction in the Downtown/Brownstone Brook- project sponsor, the Empire State Development Corporation lyn area in more than 50 years. The project is in the same (ESDC), is a state agency and at present is accountable only league as the clearing of many blocks of Downtown Brook- to the governor. There is no formal process for public in- lyn starting in the late 1930s to make way for the Civic volvement, only the fig leaf of a community outreach office, Center and Cadman Plaza, the construction of the Brook- whose liaison position is vacant as this is written. lyn-Queens Expressway, and the development of huge pub- On the legal front, BrooklynSpeaks, Develop Don’t De- lic housing projects to the west and south of the Brooklyn stroy Brooklyn (DDDB), and others have filed a lawsuit Navy Yard. They all drastically changed the face of Brooklyn against the ESDC over the modified project scope and sched- in their time, and Atlantic Yards stands to do the same. ule issued in 2009. A decision in this case is imminent. How should the community — and by “community” I Activism continues. On June 15, DDDB unveiled — and mean the residents of Park Slope the Park Slope Civic Council co-sponsored — a plan for For anything of value to and our neighbors in Gowanus, the Atlantic Yards site called Unity 4. It is not a highly de- be realized at Atlantic Boerum Hill, Downtown Brook- tailed, “down-in-the-weeds” set of specifications as much as lyn, Fort Greene, and Prospect it is a set of principles and guidelines. Meanwhile, Brook- Yards in the foreseeable Heights — respond to and live lynSpeaks sponsors have introduced Atlantic Yards Watch with this project? (atlanticyardswatch.net), where the public can keep track future, the project has In fact, the community is of project developments and report online how the project to be rethought. very active, pursuing legislative, construction is affecting them. legal, and activist approaches. A multicommunity task force, which includes the Civic BrooklynSpeaks, a working group that counts the Park Council as a member, has urged the institution of residen- Slope Civic Council as an active sponsor, has been working tial permit parking (RPP) in the neighborhoods surrounding with our elected officials for accountable and transparent the Downtown Brooklyn commercial core and the Atlantic governance of the project. Significant progress was made Yards project site. RPP would not guarantee on-street park- this year when the Atlantic Yards governance bill, spon- ing to neighborhood residents but would give them the first sored by Assemblymember Hakeem Jeffries, passed the shot. The New York City Department of Transportation now state Assembly. (Unfortunately, time ran out in the Senate seems interested in RPP; in 2008, they coupled it to the May- for its passage this year.) or’s congestion-pricing proposal, and when congestion pric- The bill puts forth a structure for governance around the continued on page 8 The newsletter of the PARK SLOPE CIVIC COUNCIL Civic News Summer 2011 | Volume 73, No. 4 Trustees The Park Slope Civic Council is one of the oldest civic as- CIVIC NEWS (ISSN 0031-2169) (USPS 114-740) is published quar- Michael Cairl, President sociations in Brooklyn. We identify and address quality- terly, for $40 per year including membership, by the Park Slope Lauri Schindler, First Vice President of-life issues important to the community; create and Civic Council Inc. (founded April 14, 1896, as the South Brooklyn Gilly Youner, Second Vice President support projects geared to improving and protect- Board of Trade), 729 Carroll St., Brooklyn, NY 11215. Periodicals 02 Robert Gilbert, Treasurer ing the neighborhood; and assist local nonprofit or- postage paid at Brooklyn, NY. POSTMASTER: Send change of ad- Judith Lief, Recording Secretary ganizations that benefit those living and working in dress to Civic News, c/o Josh Levin, 729 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, Josh Levin, Membership Secretary Park Slope. Our many ongoing programs include the NY 11215. Halloween Parade, the Civic Sweeps, community fo- David Alquist, S.J. Avery, Robert Braun, We welcome submissions. Articles, images, and suggestions rums, and a holiday toy drive. Our annual House Tour John Casson, Darryl Cook, Robert Eidelberg, raises thousands of dollars for neighborhood initia- submitted become the property of the Park Slope Civic Council Joan Emerson, Carole Gould, Craig Hammerman, tives. All are welcome to join. To learn more about us, upon acceptance for publication. Send unsolicited materials and photos to Editor, Civic News, 729 Carroll St., Brooklyn, NY 11215; David Herman (appointed), Isabel Hill, Lyn Hill, go to www.parkslopeciviccouncil.org. Nelly Isaacson, Kyle Johnson, Josh Levy, or [email protected]. Tel.: 718.832.8227. Daniel Meeter, Cathy Sokil Milnikiewicz, Melinda Morris, Sarah Murphy, Chandru Murthi, Thanks to our supersponsor Greg Sutton, Rebeccah Welch | Summer 2011 2011 | Summer for supporting David Herman, Civic News Editor/Designer www.nym.org ([email protected]) the Park Slope Civic Council: Judith Lief, Copy Editor ON THE COVER : From left: Joe Holtz, Lovgren Award winner, and the Park Slope Food Coop; Emily Lloyd, new Prospect Park Contributors: Michael Cairl, Bernard J. Graham, administrator, and the Bailey Fountain in Grand Army Plaza; and Clayton Armstrong, Mary Laverne Allman Scholarship recipient Civic News Civic Sarah Murphy from the Secondary School for Law at John Jay High School. Armstrong photo by Jonathan Lief; others by David Herman. www.parkslopeciviccouncil.org Good Food, Cooperation, and Community Service The last but certainly not least of the International Prin- ciples of Cooperation that guide the actions of cooperatives worldwide is concern for the community: “Cooperatives try to improve their communities by setting policies that ben- efit the neighborhood at large.” It’s a quality that the Park Slope Food Coop takes very seriously, and it’s one of the reasons why general manager Joe Holtz received this year’s Lovgren Professional Award for community service from the Park Slope Civic Council. “The fact that we get an award from a community orga- nization like the Civic Council means that we’re doing our job,” said Holtz, who with nine colleagues helped establish the Food Coop in 1973. “It was an honor for me, and it was an honor for the Coop.” Holtz received the award at the Civic Council’s general meeting in June. (Read more about the event and other honorees on page 9.) In 1975, just two years after the Coop took shape, Holtz Joe Holtz became its first paid employee, in the role of general coordi- nator. Two decades later, he added the title of general man- `Cart walkers — perhaps the most visible job to the public ager, working with the coordinators to “make sure the Coop because of their work outside, their day-glow vests, and the moves forward, especially if we’re deadlocked on an issue,” noisy carts they haul — illustrate how the Food Coop strives said the native Brooklynite and longtime Park Slope resident. to help its neighbors. The need for this task “boils down to Today, there are 68 staff members of the Coop, including two words: fire safety,” Holtz said. Shoppers who drive to nine general coordinators. the Coop would often double-park to load their cars. That The goal of the Food Coop has always been to “get good made it difficult if not impossible for emergency vehicles to food and make it affordable, and let’s get people to work to- leave Squad 1’s firehouse, located next door. “We were go- gether and cooperate, and help build a community,” Holtz ing to be responsible eventually for the fire truck not saving noted. “And let’s try to do that really well.” someone’s life,” he said. “We told members who chose to That philosophy has helped the Coop thrive. After all, it’s drive not to bring their car out front.” Workers walk shop- not just the full-time staff that has grown — membership pers to their cars with their groceries, “and then we’ll bring has reached about 16,000 (up from 5,000 just a decade ago), your cart back. Eventually, we made it both a car-delivery 3 all of whom are required to work a 2 ⁄4-hour shift every four and home-delivery program. weeks so they can shop the well-stocked, often crowded “We try to be responsible. Hopefully any business would store. Average sales per square foot at the Coop are 12 times figure that out, especially if you’re a busy business.” the national average for a grocery store. The Food Coop was founded with two main purposes: First 03 The local institution has been a strong force for a bet- and foremost, was to help people afford really good food by ter neighborhood: encouraging environmental responsibil- using member labor to bring down costs. “We also felt that ity (its produce, for example, is often organic there was a lot of effort in our society to focus and locally grown; it offers recycling for usually on individual success.
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