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The PARK SLOPE CIVIC COUNCIL? Fall 2011 SPECIAL ISSUE What Is Civic News Fall 2011 The Newsletter of the Park Slope Civic Council | www.parkslopeciviccouncil.org SPECIAL ISSUE What is the PARK SLOPE CIVIC COUNCIL? Atlantic Yards Community Grants Fourth Avenue page 11 page 8 page 7 Grand Army Halloween Historic District Plaza Parade Expansion page 3 page 4 page 6 House Tour Livable Streets page 9 page 3 Sustainability Scholarships page 5 page 4 Toys for Tots page 8 Take a new look at your community’s advocates and get involved! Coming Together for the Community A while back, a few Park Slope Civic Council trustees table to propose locations for the city’s upcoming bicy- had the idea to devote an upcoming issue of Civic News to cle-share program. We are forming a business advisory Comment the question, “What is the Park Slope Civic Council?” No council to bring the Civic Council and local businesses doubt many of you who are reading this publication know together, to see how we might help each other, all for the what the Civic Council is, but it never ceases to surprise me benefit of the community. And more is on the way, all that many others around the community do not. In this edi- run — you guessed it — by volunteers who comprise the torial, I embrace the opportunity to reach out, to talk about Civic Council. what we are and what we do, and to take stock of ourselves. Today’s Park Slope Civic Council looks to build commu- One could well ask not only “What is the Park Slope Civic nity throughout the area sloping westward from Prospect Council?” but also “What is Park Slope?” Park. Civic Council Trustee Lyn Hill remembers a long-ago The Civic Council has been around a long time, starting House Tour that was considered revolutionary because it life in 1896 as the South Brooklyn Board of Trade, a body included houses south of Ninth Street. We have come a long that functioned much as a chamber of commerce. South way from that, actively engaging the whole Park Slope com- Brooklyn, a useful term even today, referred to the many munity and its amazing diversity of people and businesses. communities south of Down- We are not content to sit back and watch the change that Look all around town Brooklyn, including Park occurs in our community every day, in plain sight. We are Slope. After several waves of part of shaping that change. Our September 2011 “season the neighborhood, and change for South Brooklyn, by opener” meeting welcomed new members and welcomed you’ll see evidence of the 1950s the Board of Trade back longtime ones. More than a few new members came had become “repurposed” as an up to me amazed at all that the volunteers who comprise the Civic Council’s work. advocacy organization called the Civic Council do. I had to say that what they heard that the Park Slope Civic Council. By night only scratched the surface. 1959, the Civic Council had organized the first Park Slope This is the first time that Civic News has been devoted House Tour, the first step on its new mission to preserve to one topic. In this issue, you will hear many voices, long- and restore Park Slope. timers and new arrivals, people from all walks of life, talk- Look all around the neighborhood, and you’ll see evi- ing about what we are. I hope you like what you see. Be dence of the Civic Council’s work. Perhaps most obvi- part of what the Civic Council and the community will be. ous are the thousands of “No Flyers” signs here (and, I’m Join the Park Slope Civic Council. pleased to say, in neighboring communities). The Hallow- — Michael Cairl is president of the Park Slope Civic Council. een Parade is a safe activity for children in our community, fun for all ages, and run by our volunteers. The twice-yearly continued on page 8 Civic Sweep gives people the tools and Civic News motivation to clean up around the neighborhood, plant flowers, and more The newsletter of the PARK SLOPE CIVIC COUNCIL — and this is run by Civic Council volunteers, with the generosity of lo- Fall 2011 | Volume 74, No. 1 David Herman, Civic News Editor/Designer ([email protected]) cal businesses. Toys for Tots provides Judith Lief, Copy Editor presents for needy children every year Civic Council Trustees Cover photos: David Herman — and this is run by volunteers of the Michael Cairl, President Lauri Schindler, First Vice President 02 Civic Council, with assistance from Gilly Youner, Second Vice President CIVIC NEWS (ISSN 0031-2169) (USPS 114-740) is published local businesses and institutions. In Robert Gilbert, Treasurer quarterly, for $40 per year including membership, by the Park May 2012, we will have the 53rd annual Judith Lief, Recording Secretary Slope Civic Council Inc. (founded April 14, 1896, as the South House Tour, run by legions of Civic Josh Levin, Membership Secretary Brooklyn Board of Trade), 729 Carroll St., Brooklyn, NY 11215. Council volunteers. We provide schol- Periodicals postage paid at Brooklyn, NY. POSTMASTER: Send arships for local high school students David Alquist, S.J. Avery, Robert Braun, change of address to Civic News, c/o Josh Levin, 729 Carroll and grants to community organiza- John Casson, Darryl Cook, Robert Eidelberg, Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215. tions. We pushed long and hard for Joan Emerson, Carole Gould, Craig Hammerman, David Herman (appointed), Isabel Hill, Lyn Hill, We welcome submissions. Articles, images, and suggestions the reopening of a long-closed subway Nelly Isaacson, Kyle Johnson, Josh Levy, submitted become the property of the Park Slope Civic Council entrance on Fourth Avenue between Daniel Meeter, Cathy Sokil Milnikiewicz, upon acceptance for publication. Send unsolicited materials and Ninth and Tenth Streets; by the end of Melinda Morris, Sarah Murphy, Chandru Murthi, photos to Editor, Civic News, 729 Carroll St., Brooklyn, NY 11215; | Fall 2011 2011 | Fall 2011, that will be a reality. Greg Sutton, Rebeccah Welch or [email protected]. Tel.: 718.832.8227. The Civic Council is also involved in issue advocacy, from calmer streets Thanks to our supersponsor for to Atlantic Yards to being out in front of changes along Fourth Avenue. We supporting Civic News Civic are organizing a community round- the Park Slope Civic Council: www.nym.org www.parkslopeciviccouncil.org Improving Our Public Spaces In March 2006, the Park Slope Civic Council devoted its devoted to the Greenmarket. The redesign also added sev- annual community forum to issues of traffic and transpor- eral new bike routes that make cycling through the plaza tation. More than 200 audience members gathered in the easier and safer. Old First Reformed Church’s sanctuary to listen to panelists A similar process, with similar results, has played out on discuss traffic calming and placemaking, residential parking Prospect Park West. Community Board 6 told nycdot in permits and Atlantic Yards, and more. Given a chance to June 2007 that the roadway needed serious traffic calming, weigh in on the challenges they found on local streets, resi- suggesting that one of three vehicular travel lanes could be dents cited Grand Army Plaza’s inaccessibility and speeding replaced with a two-way protected bike path. Local advo- on Prospect Park West cacy group Park Slope Neighbors picked up the ball as two of Park Slope’s in March 2009, sending nycdot 1,300 signatures most pressing transpor- on a petition asking for much the same thing. The Streets + Livable GAPCo tation-related problems. agency responded not long after, presenting a plan Before the night had removing excess capacity and adding the bike route ended, the wheels of that is there today. Over the next year, the plan was positive and potentially refined, then implemented in June 2010. Almost life-saving change were overnight, the changes had the intended traffic- already in motion. Af- calming effect, reducing speeding by 75%; soon, the ter the event officially amount of bike traffic more than doubled, while ended, a group of newly the presence of bikes on Prospect Park West’s side- energized Brooklynites walks dropped by 90%. sat down in Old First’s Input from the community and GAPCo has Like the newly accessible Grand Army Plaza, the pews and started bat- made a big difference in how people get new Prospect Park West is just one more example ting ideas back and around Grand Army Plaza. that a little vision and a lot of community engage- forth. Before they left, ment can make a complete street out of chaos. the outlines of the Grand Army Plaza Coalition (gapco) Also arising from the 2006 forum was the Livable Streets were born, with the Civic Council as a charter member. Committee, which has initiated a broad spectrum of events Two months later, members of the nascent gapco took and projects that focus on street life — from the way pedes- to the plaza to survey traffic, pedestrian, and cycling condi- trians, cyclists, and motorists interact to the semi-annual tions, noting what worked and what didn’t. The next spring, Civic Sweep (see page 5). gapco convened a workshop at the Brooklyn Public Library, The committee has been included in important con- overlooking the plaza. More than 50 residents, local activ- versations on larger initiatives, most recently with nyc- ists, elected officials, and transportation experts brain- dot’s exciting Bike Share program, which will launch stormed ways to make the space more inviting and safer for next year. Bike sharing will benefit local businesses and pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers. institutions like schools and hospitals.
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