SEPTEMBER 2012 VOLUME 34, NO 7

DISTRICT MANAGER’S REPORT GOOD NEWS! EMERGENCIES HAPPEN. ARE YOU PREPARED! Community Board 8 has been approved September is preparedness month. Don’t for two benches as part of the City wait until the threat of a natural disaster Benches program. The benches will be like Hurricane Irene or Isaac to prepare. placed at 699 and 703 Washington Avenue near Sterling Place. September, National Preparedness Month is a nationwide effort co-sponsored by the ~~~~ U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the American Red Cross to encourage SOCIAL SECURITY CARD CENTER HAS individuals to take simple steps to prepare MOVED! for emergencies in their homes, businesses and schools. The Brooklyn Social Security Card Center has moved from 625 Fulton Street. The Despite the 11th anniversary of the new address is 154 Pierrepont Street, September 11, 2001 attacks, New Yorkers Downtown Brooklyn. must be more vigilant than ever about preparing for all types of emergencies. ~~~~ Being prepared for any emergency whether a house fire, power outage, Atlantic Avenue Water Main Installation Project hurricane or terrorist attack is as easy as planning ahead. Take the time to work Beginning on or about Tuesday September out a disaster plan, gather supplies to 11, 2012 Monday – Friday continuing for keep in your home and put together a Go approximately two weeks at the Bag. A few simple steps can go a long way intersection of Atlantic Avenue and when disaster strikes. Washington Avenue, night work will be performed. These impacts are associated For more information about Ready New with the installation of a new distribution York a guide and National Preparedness water main, being performed by the NYC Month in , call 311 or visit OEM’s Department of Design and Construction website at www.NYC/gov/oem. (NYCDDC) for the Atlantic Avenue Water Main Installation Project. Please note this

1 work will be performed at night during Advisory signs will be posted in advance the hours of 8:00pm and 6:00am. of the changes.

Community Impacts: The NYCDDC will For more information, see monitor operations and work within the www.esd.ny.gov/AtlanticYards or DEP Noise Code regulations. www.atlanticyards.com.

If you have any questions, concerns, or Questions related to this project may be would like to learn more about the addressed to: ESD Office of the Atlantic project, please contact Kamala Questel, Yards Ombudsman (212) 803-3766 or the Community Construction Liaison at [email protected]. 718-789-1464, [email protected], or visit the ~~~~ NYCDDC web site at www.nyc.gov/ddc. During non-construction hours please The following is a summary of the year- contact York City Government Services to-date F.D.N.Y Emergency Statistics and Information Hotline at 311. through August 2012.

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PERMANENT CHANGES TO THE ROADWAY Structural Fires 22 261 NETWORK ON CARLTON AVENUE AND PACIFIC Non-Structural 17 121 STREET Total Fires 39 382 Suspicious Fires 3 29 As part of the transportation Non-Medical Emergencies 200 1661 improvements related to the Atlantic Medical Emergencies 273 2044 Yards project, beginning on or around Total Incidents 542 4257 September 24, 2012, weather permitting, ~~~~ the following permanent changes will be made to the roadway network: The following is a summary of the year- to-date CompStat Crime report Carlton Avenue (between Atlantic covering the week of 09/03/2012 Avenue and Pacific Street only) will re- through 09/09/2012. open to vehicular traffic as a two-way roadway. Year-to-Date

Vehicles will be able to access this block 2012 2011 %Chg from eastbound and westbound Atlantic Avenue and will be able to make left and Murder 6 7 -14.2 right turns from Carlton Avenue onto Rape 16 15 6.6 Atlantic Avenue at this location. Robbery 221 237 -6.7 Felony Assault 230 252 -8.7 Directly following the reopening of Burglary 226 248 -8.8 Carlton Avenue, Pacific Street (between Grand Larceny 273 260 5.0 Carlton Avenue and Sixth Avenue only) Gr. Larceny Auto 64 75 -14.6 will change from one-way westbound to a two-way roadway. The overall change year to date is -5.3%.

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The Scorecard rating for the month of SCHOOL’S OPEN August for clean streets in District 8 was 86.0 and for clean sidewalks 89.7. schools open this month it is important for residents to know the hours of We continue to encourage you to their local libraries. The Central Library at maintain the cleanliness of the Grand Army Plaza will be open from 9:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. on Monday-Thursday. It will sidewalk area adjoining your property close at 6:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. and sweep 18 inches from the curb into Sunday hours are 1-5 p.m. The Central Library the street. All sweepings must be is located at 10 Grand Army Plaza. For more bagged and disposed of properly. information, call 718-230-2100.

The Department of Sanitation is The Brower Park Branch located at 725 St. enforcing daily routing times between Marks Avenue is open late one night per week 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM and Noon to 1:00 on Wednesday until 8:00 p.m. Mon, Tues, PM. Remember to Sweep!! Thurs and Friday until 6:00 p.m. For more information, call 718-773-7208. ~~~~ ~~~~

COUNCIL MEMBER GALE BREWER WANTS TO BROOKLYN ADULT LEARNING CENTER HEAR FROM YOU! The New York City Office of Adult and As the Chair of the New York City Council Continuing Education (OACE) is the Committee on Governmental Operations, largest provider of adult literacy she have held numerous hearings education services in the state. They are examining issues with the Board of an integral part of the New York Elections and the electoral process in New City Department of Education's District 79 York. As a result of those discussions, and – Alternative Schools and Programs. in preparation for a hearing they will be holding in October, she knows that the They offer over 900 classes for adults age only way to get a true assessment of the 21 and over. They operate four Adult voting experience is to go straight to the Learning Centers located in Brooklyn, source: The voters. That is where you Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx. They come in. Please, share your anecdotal offer day and evening classes Monday voting experiences with her on what went through Saturday at more than 175 sites right or wrong at the polls on Thursday, in all five boroughs, including public September 13, 2012 so that they can schools, community centers and faith- continue to work with the Board of based organizations. Students can take Elections to improve the voting classes at any of the sites, regardless of experience in New York City. I encourage which borough they live in. All classes are you to email your stories to taught by certified teachers and are [email protected], and/or share offered free of charge. them on the New York City Council’s

Facebook page at Ongoing registration for classes in Adult http://www.facebook.com/NYCCouncil. Basic Education, High School Equivalency (GED), English for Speakers of Other ~~~~ Languages (ESOL) and Career and

Technical Education (CTE) is held

3 regularly at schools and offices around the BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL! city. On Sunday, September 23, 2012, from The Office of Adult and Continuing 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., a record 280+ top Education’s mission is to empower adults national and international authors and in their roles as parents, family members, participants will join bibliophiles, workers and community members. They booksellers and literary organizations on promote lifelong learning and the 14 stages at Brooklyn Borough Hall development of problem solving skills located at 209 Joralemon Street and Plaza, through a continuum of services, including Columbus Park, St. Francis College, Adult Basic Education, English for Brooklyn Heights Public Library, Brooklyn Speakers of Other Languages, High School Law School, the Brooklyn Historical Equivalency, and Career and Technical Society and St. Ann & The Holy Trinity Education. Church for the seventh annual Brooklyn Book Festival. The Festival is supported The Brooklyn Adult Learning Center in by AT&T, which is providing an exciting central Brooklyn is located at 475 new app to help guide Festival-goers. For Nostrand Avenue. For more information, more on the Festival, visit call 718-638-2635. www.brooklynbookfestival.org

~~~~ The Brooklyn Book Festival, one of the premier literary events in the country, is BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM an initiative of Brooklyn Borough President presented The Brooklyn Children’s Museum will be by Brooklyn Tourism and the Brooklyn closed to the public from September 10, Literary Council. 2012 thru September 21, 2012 for regularly scheduled maintenance and All Festival events on Sunday, September repairs. It is set to re-open on Saturday, 23, are Free. September 22, 2012 with the new visiting exhibit, Global Shoes. ~~~~

Please note: The Museum will be free on YOUTH RESOURCE FAIR Every Third Thursday from 4:00-7:00 p.m. and on the first full (non-holiday) The NYPD and the Brooklyn Borough weekend of every month from 2:00-5:00 President’s Office are teaming up to host p.m., except on holiday weekends. (Does a Youth Resource Fair on Thursday, not apply to school, camp or other September 27, 2012 from 5-8 PM at organized groups. Brooklyn Borough Hall located at 209 Joralemon Street. For more information BCM is located at 145 Brooklyn Avenue at or to reserve an information table, contact the corner of St. Marks Avenue. For more Sgt. Kerrissa Michael at information, call 718-735-4400. [email protected].

~~~~ The Resource Fair will include the NYPD Explorers, PAL, Educational Workhops, After School Programs, Health Programs, Mentoring, and Job Opportunities. 4

If you would like to bring youth from the ECB’s Ticket Finder system at community, please register them at www.nyc.gov/ecb. You can also pay www.surveymonkey.com/s/brooklynsummit tickets via the site or learn the status of or call 718-802-4488. tickets that have been filed with ECB.

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NEW STATE EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS JUMPSTART NEW BUSINESSES!

New NYS Educational Standards have The NYC Council is excited to announce been implemented for students in all the launch of a new initiative in grades. To help inform parents of the new partnership with Kick-starter that state standards, Common Core State will help jumpstart new businesses and Standards Awareness Sessions have been creative projects in targeted communities scheduled. Session dates are Saturday, across New York City. September 22, 29, and October 6, 2012 from 8:30 AM to 1 PM at Boys and Girls Kick-starter is a New York City web-based High School, 1700 Fulton Street. Are technology company that provides an sessions are free. online platform for creative projects to raise money through crowd- Session topics include: How are the new funding. People post projects and receive standards important? How will classroom funding from supporters in exchange for instruction change? How will required "rewards" determined by project tests change? How you can help your child creators. Kick-starter has facilitated the be successful; and how you can help your funding of more than 27,000 creative child prepare for college and career projects since its launch in April 2009, and planning. more than two million people have pledged over $300 million in support of Pre-registration is ongoing. Contact your these projects. child’s school principal or parent coordinator to register or visit To leverage the tremendous power of www.sandforinstitute.org. crowd-funding to transform our communities, the City Council has ~~~~ created its very own page on Kick- starter's website highlighting small ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD TICKET businesses and projects based in targeted FINDER low-income neighborhoods across the five boroughs. Through the Council's Kick- Approximately 700,000 tickets are filed starter page, New Yorkers will have for hearing at the Environmental Control the opportunity to invest in and help bring Board annually. These tickets are filed by to life new businesses and civic projects in 12 different enforcement agencies, their communities and beyond. including Sanitation, Dept. of Buildings, Fire, and Environmental Protection among The Council's page will serve as a others. place where people can pledge their support for local projects that have the You can now find violations issued to you, potential to yield a variety of benefits to your property, or your business with 5 underserved communities. With projects For more information, contact Lisa ranging from neighborhood urban farms Daglian at 212-383-7241 or email at to public art installations and [email protected] performances to co-ops and cafes – the potential for positive community change, ~~~~ civic engagement, and urban renewal is immense. However, your help is needed LIVABLE NEIGHBORHOODS TRAINING to identify new projects that can be posted to the page. Please spread the word and Join the Municipal Art Society for its encourage others to visit the Livable Neighborhoods Training on Kickstarter page at Saturday, September 22, 2012 from 10 http://www.kickstarter.com/NYC. Any AM to 4:30 PM to be held at Pratt inquiries or potential projects can be sent Institute, Higgins Hall, 61 St. James Place, via email directly to Brooklyn, NY. The Livable Neighborhoods [email protected]. For your Training is a few day-long workshop convenience, a list of targeted series offered by MAS and Pratt Institute’s neighborhoods can be found Programs for Sustainable Planning and here: http://council.nyc.gov/html/action_ Development, and is designed to provide center/pdf/kickstarternabes.pdf. communities with the resources needed to transform local vision into effective plans. ~~~~ ~~~~ 2040 NYMTC REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN BEDFORD ATLANTIC ARMORY RFP RELEASED

Help Plan the region’s transportation New York City Economic Development future! Join the NY Metropolitan Corporation (“NYCEDC”), on behalf of the Transportation Council (NYMTC) at the City of New York (the “City”) and the Brooklyn Open House to share ideas that Department of Homeless Services (“DHS”) could help shape the transportation plan; is seeking proposals from qualified provide comments on the existing trends developers for the ground lease, and issues related to the plan, proposals, development, and operation of and studies; review the regional goals and approximately 50,000 square feet of their outcomes; and learn more about available space within the historic NYMTC’s shared vision. “Bedford-Atlantic” Armory. The Armory is located at 1322 Bedford Avenue in Crown The Brooklyn Open House will be held on Heights, Brooklyn. Through this request Wednesday, October 3, 2012 from 4-8 for proposals (“RFP”) NYCEDC is seeking PM at National Grid Conference Center users or developers who (i) enhance the located at One Metrotech Center, surrounding community’s access to the Downtown Brooklyn. You can also share Drill Hall through potential neighborhood- your comments, ideas, and suggestions on serving uses, (ii) cause minimal impact to NYMTC’s interactive website at DHS’s active operation within the Armory http://ideas.nymtc-rtp.org and learn more Head House, (iii) ensure that future Drill about the plan by visiting www.nymtc- Hall uses are community-serving, iv) rtp.org. create a financially feasible and economically viable project, (v) complete

6 necessary capital improvements, and (vi) Ideal YCLC applicants are high school contemplate and preserve the historic sophomores, juniors, and seniors; character of the facility. passionate about long-term volunteerism and advocacy; eager to engage others; NYCEDC plans to select a qualified excited about leadership development; developer or user on the basis of factors and interested in local government and stated in the RFP which include, but are public policy. not limited to: economic impact on New York City, experience of key staff Ten sessions will be held Monday identified in the proposal, the proposed afternoons from October 15 through project’s financial feasibility, December 17. All sessions run from 4 PM demonstrated successful experience in to 7 PM. Community service credit is performing services similar to those available for students’ active and regular encompassed in the RFP, and the participation (students who miss more proposed lease terms. than 2 sessions are not eligible for community service credits). Respondents may submit questions and/or request clarifications from Application materials by be downloaded NYCEDC no later than 4:00pm on Friday, from www.cccnewyork.org. Completed October 5, 2012. Questions regarding the applications and permission slips can be subject matter of this RFP should be faxed to 212-979-5063 or emailed to directed to [email protected]. [email protected]. For all questions that do not pertain to the ~~~~ subject matter of this RFP, please contact NYCEDC’s Contracts Hotline at (212) 312- EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES 3969. Answers to all questions will be posted by Friday, October 12, 2012, on the Staten Island Railway Conductor webpage. Applications are being accepted for a job Please submit ten (10) sets of your with a salary of $17.42/hr for a 40-hour proposal to: Ms. Maryann Catalano, Senior work week (after a rate of $7.25/hr Vice President, Contracts, NYCEDC; 110 during the initial training period) thru William Street, 6th Floor; New York, NY September 25, 2012. Multiple choice tests 10038. Responses are due no later than will be scheduled based on hiring needs of 4:00 PM on Friday, October 19, 2012. the Staten Island Railway. The exam will be administered to the first randomly ~~~~ selected 200 candidates during the week of February 4, 2013. There is a $54 non- YOUTH ACTION NYC COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP refundable application fee. COURSE To apply, visit www.mtabsc.info/. The Citizens’ Committee for Children’s Applications cannot be submitted in (CCC) Fall 2012 Youth Action NYC person or by mail. Community Leadership Course (YCLC) begins October 15, 2012. The deadline ~~~~ for students to apply is September 19, 2012. 7

Campus Security Assistants ~~~~ CUNY is planning to hire Campus Security Assistants. There is no deadline for We would like to wish the happiest of application submissions. The filing fee is birthdays to Mary Aikens-Reed, Desmond $30. Atkins, Helen Coley, and Robert Matthews. We would also like to wish a happy Campus Security Assistants starting salary belated birthday to Kim Albert, who is $23,968 with an increase to $28,000 in celebrated her birthday in July. 18 months. Security Guard License and High School Diploma are required. To ~~~~ apply, go to www.cuny.edu, click on Employment, then Classified Civil Service, ACROSS THE BOARD is a monthly then Upcoming Civil Service Exams, the publication: Campus Security Assistant Exam No. 2041. Nizjoni Granville, Chairperson ~~~~ Michelle George, District Mgr/Editor Julia Neale, Comm. Assoc. Sales Store Checkers in Military Facilities Valerie Hodges-Mitchell, Comm. Service Aide The U.S. Defense Commissary Agency is looking for Sales Store Checkers for its Community Board No. 8 facilities around the country, including 1291 St. Marks Avenue those at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, For Brooklyn, N.Y. 11213 Drum, West Point, Watertown, Saratoga Springs, and Mitchell Field in Nassau 718-467-5574 County. The application deadline is 718-467-5586 October 31, 2012. There is no filing fee. 718-467-5620 www.brooklyncb8.org The jobs, which are part-time, are paid at the base rate of $21,840 to $28,392/year and in NYC, pay is between $28,112 to $36,546. Schedules are irregular and may include nights, weekends, and holidays.

There is no exam; your resume is your primary hiring tool. Visit http://goo.gl/Istre for more information. You will be evaluated on ability to operate a cash register, knowledge of store operations, and ability to communicate. Veterans are given preference. To apply, go to the online announcement at http://goo.gl/ThBGZ. You will find instructions for applying online or via fax. The job announcement number is DECA- 12-695582-DE.

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