Borough President Adams met some of the students at Small World Day Care Center in LATEST INITIATIVES Williamsburg, guided by St. Nicks Alliance Executive Director Michael Rochford.
Photo Credit: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s O ce Borough President Adams joined Council ties to more than 1,000 public school recommended the City to consider a Zoning Members Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., Laurie A. students, taught hundreds of parents to Text Amendment that will encourage the Cumbo, and Corey Johnson on Friday, better support their children’s education, and development of commercial properties in February 5th to introduce legislation that facilitated professional development training Downtown Brooklyn. He also called for the would require the City to create dedicated to teachers and school leaders in partnership City to convene a task force that would space for nursing moms in municipal govern- with more than 80 schools across the revisit local infrastructure needs, including a ment o ces open to the public. Should Intro borough. To support the Pipeline, Borough fully built-out Brooklyn Strand, additional 1063-2016 become law, New York City President Adams has allocated more than $3 school seats and transit options, safer pedes- Human Resources Administration (HRA) million in capital grants to 14 participating trian and cycling connections, as well as job centers and Supplemental Nutrition schools, funding STEM educational infra- improved access to health care facilities. Assistance Program (SNAP) o ces, New structure, and he has committed to dedicat- York City Administration for Children’s ing additional capital dollars to Pipeline Smart gun technology has been a major Services (ACS) borough o ces, New York schools that apply for and have high need for focus for Borough President Adams. He City Department of Health and Mental STEM infrastructure. Since the launch of raised the issue nationally during a recent trip Hygiene (DOHMH) facilities, and other Pipeline programming in summer 2014, the to Capitol Hill, and on Tuesday, February public-facing locations associated with City percentage of MEC freshmen required to 23rd, he announced an initiative to energize agencies will be outfitted with private, non- take remedial coursework has decreased to innovation in this emerging field, pledging $1 bathroom spaces where mothers can relax fewer than 68 percent. million from his capital budget for a design BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT and nurse their babies or pump milk. Borough competition that will advance existing President Adams opened a “lactation lounge” Borough President Adams released “A research into building a safer gun. Several of at Brooklyn Borough Hall last year to support Decade Later in Downtown Brooklyn” on Brooklyn’s higher education institutions have the health of mothers and newborn children. Monday, February 22nd, a report analyzing agreed to participate, including the New York ERIC L. ADAMS’ the impact of the Downtown Brooklyn Plan, City College of Technology, New York OF THE On Wednesday, February 17th, Borough a rezoning initiated in 2004 by the Bloom- University Tandon School of Engineering, President Adams unveiled a joint e ort with berg Administration. The analysis shows that and the Pratt Institute. In addition to MESSAGE MONTH Medgar Evers College (MEC) to expand the the rezoning, which was intended to reinforce partnering with the Mayor’s O ce of Crimi- Brooklyn Pipeline at Medgar Evers College, the position of the neighborhood as a regional nal Justice, Borough President Adams has which assists local students from disenfran- central business district and create jobs, has received support from the New York City WHAT’S UP AT BROOKLYN BOROUGH HALL? chised communities in and around Central contributed to a dramatic increase in residen- Police Department on this e ort, agreeing to Brooklyn to succeed in college and careers. tial rather than commercial development, have their range o cers test this technology The program has already delivered enrich- straining the capacity of currently existing to determine the viability of smart gun Bon appétit! Borough President Adams Welcome to Brooklyn! On Thursday, at PS 133 William A. Butler to discuss ment and developmental learning opportuni- infrastructure. Borough President Adams innovations. joined the New York City Economic February 4th, Borough President the proposed redevelopment of the Key Development Corporation and Dinner Adams announced a revamped Brooklyn Food supermarket on Fifth Avenue in Lab on Wednesday, February 3rd in Tourism Visitors Center and Gift Shop Park Slope. Alongside other elected Bedford-Stuyvesant for the grand in Brooklyn Borough Hall, where visitors o cials who represent the neighbor- UPCOMING EVENTS opening of Brooklyn FoodWorks, a will have access to information on what hood, he made it clear that access to shared kitchen and culinary incubator to do and see in the borough and an reasonably priced healthy food, such as designed to provide a ordable space opportunity to purchase Brooklyn- fresh produce, is a community priority, 2ND WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH FRIDAY, MARCH 11TH for aspiring local food entrepreneurs to Made products created by local artisans stating that he wants to work toward 2:00 PM-5:00 PM 8:30 AM–4:00 PM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30TH develop their businesses. Located in and small businesses. This interactive ensuring the area maintains a large Brooklyn Borough Hall – Room G-80 Brooklyn Borough Hall 1:00 PM–5:00 PM the former Pfizer manufacturing plant, information hub, a partnership with the grocery store and a ordable housing Access to Legal Service – Foreclosure the 10,000 square-foot facility will Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and opportunities. Intervention/Prevention Services Brooklyn Alzheimer’s Conference Brooklyn Borough Hall – Community Room All-in-One Resource Clinic allow chefs access to commercial- One Brooklyn Fund Inc., features iPad SECOND THURSDAY grade cooking equipment for a wide stations, historic photographs of Brook- Brooklyn is for lovers! To honor the OF EVERY MONTH MONDAY, MARCH 21ST 2:00 PM–5:00 PM 6:00 PM–8:00 PM If you have an interest in any of these events, variety of food production, as well as a lyn landmarks, memorabilia related to relationships that define the lives of Brooklyn Borough Hall – Room G-80 Brooklyn Borough Hall – Courtroom please contact us by visiting brooklyn-usa.org for co-working and classroom space for the Brooklyn Dodgers and other impor- many senior citizens, Borough President Uniform Land Use Review Access to Legal Service – Elder Law/Housing Law more information or by calling our event hotline entrepreneurs to collaborate and learn tant local institutions, and guides to Adams hosted a catered reception at Pension Law Services Procedure Public Hearing at (718) 802-2328. Additionally, to stay up-to- skills. Borough President Adams’s places of interest throughout the Brooklyn Borough Hall on Friday, Feb- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9TH date with the o ce, visit www.brooklyn-usa.org o ce contributed a total of $1.3 borough. ruary 12th, in advance of Valentine’s 8:30 AM–10:00 AM TUESDAY, MARCH 29TH to sign up for Borough President Adams’s paper- million from its capital budget to build Brooklyn Borough Hall – Courtroom 9:00 AM–8:00 PM out the site and to develop programs in Borough President Adams sponsored a Brooklyn Information Session on the New York Brooklyn Borough Hall less notifications, like his Facebook page, and Continued on next page State Regional Council Process and Funding Women’s History Month Celebration follow @BPEricAdams on Twitter. the next several years. neighborhood meeting on February 9th
MARCH 2016 WWW.BROOKLYN-USA.ORG WWW.BROOKLYN-USA.ORG MARCH 2016 Borough President Adams, sporting some Brooklyn gear, demonstrated one of Borough President Adams recognized Dr. Robert Gore, as well as animal activist Borough President Adams, wearing one of the baby carriers donated as part of his Borough President Adams took a selfie with Joseph and Marion Broxton of Crown the new tablet computer stations in the revamped Brooklyn Tourism Visitors Sean Casey and good Samaritan Jennifer Williams, as “Heroes of the Month” for collection drive to aid refugee families with infants who are fleeing from violence in Heights, married 67 years, at his Golden Couples celebration in Brooklyn Borough Hall. Center and Gift Shop inside Brooklyn Borough Hall. January and February of 2016, respectively; the honorees were joined by their war-torn parts of the Middle East, spoke inside Brooklyn Borough Hall with families and friends in the rotunda of Brooklyn Borough Hall. BirthFocus Executive Director Elizabeth Mangum-Sarach. Photo Credit: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s O ce Photo Credit: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s O ce Photo Credit: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s O ce Photo Credit: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s O ce
Day, for Golden Couples who have been included a visit to an Israel Defense Forces on handling and understanding the e ects COMMUNITY ALERTS together more than 50 years. Hundreds of (IDF) base in the Golan Heights, a counter- of stress and anxiety. couples, representing more than 10,000 terrorism briefing with intelligence o cials To date, the civil war in Syria has killed more Recovery and Resiliency, and Amy Peterson, transfer granted to riders on the Upper East combined years of love, enjoyed lunch, jazz in the Israeli National Security Council, a In recognition of Black History Month, than 250,000 people and displaced another director of the Mayor’s O ce of Housing Side. Those interested in signing the petition music and dancing, a photo booth, and a meeting with the chair of the Tel Aviv Stock Borough President Adams held a clergy four million people in camps throughout the Recovery, on urging Brooklyn landlords to created by Borough President Adams and the sparkling wine toast. Exchange, and a tour of the Yad Vashem breakfast on Thursday, February 25th at region. Borough President Adams has shown provide available apartments to Build it Back Riders Alliance are encouraged to visit Holocaust Memorial and Museum. Weeksville Heritage Center in Crown deep concern for the welfare of these homeowners needing to temporarily relocate. ridersny.org/freetransfer. To protect pedestrians and cyclists at Times Heights, a museum dedicated to preserving impacted children and families, including by In addition, Borough President Adams has visiting refugees last December at a site in mobilized his Brooklyn Resiliency Task Force Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic Plaza in Fort Greene, Borough President On Tuesday, February 23rd, Borough Presi- the history of the 19th century community, Turkey near the Syrian border. Furthering this and his O ce of Faith-Based and Clergy process in which local residents directly decide Adams participated in a rally on Saturday, dent Adams announced Brooklyn’s support which was among the first of free African- commitment, Borough President Adams Initiatives to find vacant units and secure how to spend part of a public budget, popular- February 13th with Transportation Alterna- for authorizing regulated, professional mixed Americans in the United States. Later that joined maternal health advocates and several housing for every family that has been tempo- ized locally by the City Council. On Friday, tives, a non-profit organization that martial arts (MMA), the fourth-most day, hundreds joined him at Brooklyn local businesses at Brooklyn Borough Hall on rarily displaced. Brooklyn landlords interested February 12th, Borough President Adams supports street safety initiatives such as popular sport in the United States, in New Borough Hall for his Black History Month Monday, February 8th to launch a collection in helping can call Build it Back at (212) became the first local elected o cial or agency Vision Zero. They urged the New York City York State. He made the announcement at celebration as he honored the achievements drive for baby carriers that will aid refugee 615-8329; more information is available at head outside of the City Council to commit to Department of Transportation (DOT) to Barclays Center, one of the world’s of community leaders such as actor/activist families with infants who are fleeing from nyc.gov/builditback. PB, pledging to allocate $1 million in Fiscal construct features such as curb extensions highest-grossing sports and entertainment Jamie Hector of Crown Heights and violence. In addition to Brooklyn Borough Year 2017 (FY17) capital funding, apportioned at the intersection of Atlantic, Flatbush, venues, alongside Brooklyn Sports & Enter- nine-year-old author Anaya Lee-Willabus Hall, there are several small businesses Borough President Adams and the Riders equally to winning projects from the votes and Fourth avenues, which would contrib- tainment CEO Brett Yormark as well as of Mill Basin. collecting donations for soft-structured baby Alliance, a grassroots transit advocacy organi- conducted by the 10 council members in carriers with clasps or harnesses that are new zation, have launched a petition drive urging Brooklyn who are participating in the process ute to Borough President Adams’s CROSS former UFC middleweight champion and or gently-used, including baby/mama in Bay the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) to this year. Additionally, he will be opening (Connecting Residents on Safer Streets) New York native Chris Weidman. Brooklyn’s latest Heroes of the Month Ridge, Copy Cottage in Boerum Hill, Clem- o er a free out-of-station transfer between Brooklyn Borough Hall as a universal voting Brooklyn initiative to redesign streetscapes were celebrated by Borough President entine Bakery in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn the Junius Street station on the 3 line and the site for Brooklynites living in participating for improved safety. #ShattertheStigma. Borough President Adams at a ceremony on Friday, February Farmacy in Cobble Hill, Wild Was Mama in Livonia Avenue station on the L line, stops that council districts, working in partnership with Adams hosted more than 350 people at 26th in Brooklyn Borough Hall. Dr. Robert Greenpoint, and Lulu’s Then and Now in Park are within a block of each other but currently Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito’s o ce. To Honoring the friendship between the Brooklyn Borough Hall on Wednesday, Gore, an emergency room doctor at Kings Slope. For more information, please visit require two fares for a transfer. Last Novem- learn more, please visit council.nyc.gov/pb. United States and Israel, Borough Presi- February 24th for “Promoting Mental County Hospital Center in East Flatbush, carrythefuture.org. ber, heeding the calls of Borough President dent Adams led a five-day mission begin- Wellness in a Diverse Community: Brook- was declared January’s “Hero of the Month” Adams and local advocates, the MTA promised ning on Sunday, February 14th focused on lyn Mental Health Summit,” a conference for his dedication to ending gun violence Build it Back has now raised more than 100 to fund a station connector, but there has been Our Constituent Assistance Center is developing transatlantic partnerships in in which participants learned from health through his mentoring program Kings homes citywide, started construction on no commitment to eliminate the double fare here to serve all of Brooklyn. If you or 2,441, and finished construction on 1,496 — before construction is scheduled to begin in public safety and economic development, care experts and accessed critical wellness Against Violence Initiative (KAVI. someone you know are having any issues, including 815 starts and 503 completes in 2018. On Thursday, February 11th, as they traveling with an 11-person delegation of resources. The summit included a sympo- February’s “Heroes of the Month” were Brooklyn. As the City continues to accelerate handed out palm cards and collected petition or if you have questions about issues like current and former NYPD o cials as well sium in which medical professionals and good Samaritan Jennifer Williams and construction toward the goal of completing the signatures during the morning rush hour in alternate side parking, sidewalk pickup or as local community leaders. The visit, spon- health care providers discussed the e ects animal activist Sean Casey, who joined program by the end of 2016, Borough Presi- Brownsville, he made the case that the more other community matters, such as the sored by the Jewish Community Relations of trauma in communities and coping strat- forces to rescue a malnourished dog in Pros- dent Adams is working with Council Member than 5,400 riders a day who use these stations matters in this month’s update, call the Council of New York, Inc. (JCRC-NY), egies, as well as a community forum focused pect Park that was left chained to a tree. Mark Treyger, chair of the Committee on are being denied the same free out-of-station Center at (718) 802-3777.
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