THE CITY OF NEW YORK

NEXT MEETING WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 20, 2019 6PM HOPE GARDENS MULTI-SERVICE CENTER 195 LINDEN STREET (CORNER WILSON AVENUE) , NY 11221

COMMUNITY BOARD 4 1420 BUSHWICK AVENUE, SUITE 370 ROBERTO CAMACHO BROOKLYN, NY 11207 CELESTINA LEON Chairperson WWW.NYC.GOV/BKCB4 District Manager

P: (718) 628-8400 • F: (718) 628-8619 E: [email protected] Regular Board Meeting Wednesday, February 20th, 2019 Hope Gardens Multi-Service Center 195 Linden Street (Corner Wilson Avenue) Brooklyn, New York 11221 6:00 PM

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1420 Bushwick Avenue, Suite 370 Public Hearing Item(s) Regular Board Meeting Brooklyn, NY 11207 www.nyc.gov/bkcb4 1) Street Co-naming Request of Cornelia 1. FIRST ROLL CALL P: (718) 628-8400 Street at Evergreen Avenue (Akeal Christopher 2. ACCEPTANCE OF THE AGENDA F: (718) 628-8619 Way) – Natasha Christopher, the mother of 3. ACCEPTANCE OF PREVIOUS MEETING MINUTES E: [email protected] Akeal Christopher, is requesting a co-naming in 4. CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT:

ROBERTO CAMACHO honor of her son. MR. ROBERT CAMACHO Chairperson • INTRODUCTION OF ELECTED OFFICIALS 2) Asher Freeman, Legislative Director, (REPRESENTATIVES) CELESTINA LEON District Manager Office of Council Member Antonio Reynoso – • INTRODUCTION OF AGENCY presenting on land use reform proposals for the REPRESENTATIVES –– City Charter Revision Commission. • 83RD PRECINCT COMMANDING OFFICERS (2018-2019) OFFICER—D. I. DANIEL DOOLEY JOSHUA BROWN 3) Boris Santos, Chief of Staff, Office of 5. DISTRICT MANAGER’S REPORT: 1st Vice Chairperson Senator Julia Salazar – presenting on the MS. CELESTE LEÓN VICTORIA FERNANDEZ upcoming expiration of the rent laws. 6. COMMITTEE REPORTS: 2nd Vice Chairperson • Health, Hospital, Human Services, CIRILO NUNEZ Senior Citizens & Veterans Recording Secretary COMMUNITY BOARD 4 MARY MCCLELLAN ELISEO RUIZ • Housing & Land Use Financial Secretary welcomes back WNET LIVESTREAMING. MARTHA BROWN & JOSHUA BROWN RAUL RUBIO Treasurer • Parks & Recreation ANNETTE SPELLEN & AUSTEN MARTINEZ ELVENA DAVIS Correspondence To view the livestream, go to • Public Safety Secretary www.youtube.com and search for BARBARA SMITH & JERRY VALENTIN ODOLPH WRIGHT ‘Brooklyn Community Board 4’. • Youth & Education Parliamentarian Check out January 2019 CB4 meeting here: VIRGIE JONES & ACIRE POLIGHT https://youtu.be/ayT7HtyuC7k –– 7. RECOMMENDATIONS 8. OLD BUSINESS REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING 9. NEW BUSINESS 10. ANNOUNCEMENTS (1.5 MINUTES) Wednesday, Feb. 20th, 2019 SAVE THE 6PM 11. SECOND ROLL CALL 12. ADJOURNMENT HOPE GARDENS DATE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER THE NEXT 195 LINDEN STREET Brooklyn, NY 11221 COMMUNITY BOARD 4 MEETING IS Cover Photo: Community Board 4 Google Search WEDNESDAY, Newsletter Design & Print: shavedheadmedia.com MARCH 20th, 2019

2 | COMMUNITY BOARD 4 • February Newsletter www.nyc.gov/bkcb4 Community Meetings Mental Hygiene, Nancy Morisseau, MPH – Project Officer, NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene. Plus a Panel featuring 83RD PRECINCT women who have been on PrEP. COMMUNITY COUNCIL 374 Stockholm Street, Conference Rooms MEETING B/C, Brooklyn, NY 11237 Workshops & Services provided at Tuesday, February 19, Right outside DeKalb Avenue Train Station The North Brooklyn Coalition 2019 • 6:30pm (L line) LUNCH INCLUDED! Against Family Violence 83rd Precinct RSVP by Feb. 8 2019, Call 929-432-3490. 480 Knickerbocker Avenue Case Management and Counseling Services If not answered, just leave a message. (Corner Bleecker Street) Psycho-education about Trauma and Recovery Or by email to andgonzalez@ Muster Room Crisis Intervention wyckoffhospital.org and/or acusigli@ Brooklyn, NY 11237 Trauma-Informed Individual Therapy wyckoffhospital.org (no insurance or fee) BUSHWICK COMMUNITY Support Groups PARTNERSHIP Community Notices Case Management including but not limited to: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 Assisting victims reach their goals and navigate systems such as: 10am – 12pm • Housing Assistance and/or Assistance Finding Shelter GROW BROOKLYN NYCHA Hope Gardens Community Center • Emergency Services such as clothing, FREE TAX PROGRAM 422 Central Avenue transportation, or other emergency assistance The program runs from (Between Palmetto & Woodbine Streets) • Personal Development (GED, Training Programs, etc.) January 22-April 22nd • Social Services (Public Assistance, HRA, etc.) Anyone interested must make an 83RD PRECINCT • Criminal Justice Advocacy (Orders of Protection, appointment via by phone or schedule CLERGY COUNCIL MEETING • Legal Assistance, Police, etc online at (347) 682-5606 or Wednesday, February 20, 2019 • Workshops on topics such as: www.growbrooklyn.org/taxes. 10am For Community members: Who is Eligible? If your income is under 83rd Precinct • Facts and How to Help Victims $64,000 (with dependents), or under 480 Knickerbocker Avenue • Sexual Assault Facts and How to Help Victims $35,000 (single), if you’re self-employed (Corner Bleecker Street) • Elder Abuse Facts and How to Help Victims with expenses of $5,000 or less. Muster Room • Healthy Relationships 101 What to Bring: Brooklyn, NY 11237 For Service Providers: issued photo ID (passport, IDNYC, driver’s We have a 40-Hour Training Module Series which license, etc.), COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL can be accessed 2 times a year in full, or in 2 hour • Original Social Security (or ITIN) cards for (CEC) 32 MEETING increments, including: yourself & all individuals on your return, Thursday, February 28, 2019 • Domestic Violence History, Facts and • All wage statements (W-2 forms, 1099-R, Calendar Meeting at 6:00pm Basic Concepts of Domestic Violence etc.,) Business Meeting at 7:00pm • Intervention Skills for Working with Victims: • Last year’s tax return, P.S./I.S. 384 Client Centered Practice and Trauma-Informed Care • Documentation of higher education 242 Cooper Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237 • Risk Assessment & Safety Planning expenses, including tuition paid, loans • Abuser Profile & Batterer Intervention Services received, student loan interest payments, HOPE GARDENS TENANT • Child Advocacy Basics & student fees, - Child care expenses, ASSOCIATION • Teen Dating Violence Basics provider information & tax ID numbe Thursday, February 21st, 2019 • Race, Privilege and Cultural Consciousness • Bank account number/routing (ABA) 6:30pm • Elder Abuse Basics and Advocacy number for direct deposit. 160 Menahan Street, Brooklyn, NY 11221 • Unique populations Bushwick Location: Brooklyn Coop FCU Rear of 120 Menahan Street LGBTQ and Immigrant Victims, Prostitution/Trafficking 315 Grove Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237 (entrance is on Central Avenue) • Domestic Violence, Mental Health, Monday 6 PM – 8 PM Substance Abuse Issues Wednesday 6 PM – 8 PM Community Events • Domestic Violence, STD, HIV/AIDS Saturday 10 AM – 4 PM • Legal Issues Related to Domestic Violence SUNDAY 10 AM – 4 PM • Advocacy, Referrals and Domestic Violence Ethics ONE WOMAN FOR ALL • Self-Care and Vicarious Trauma PREA AT RISEBORO AND ALL WOMEN FOR Advocacy in the Community: COMMUNITY ONE Join us at the following community meetings to PARTNERSHIP Wyckoff Heights Medical Center ensure survivors and their families’ interests are The Puerto Rican Evacuee Assistance Join in this exciting event at Wyckoff represented: (PREA) at RiseBoro Empowerment Hospital about women and their right • 83rd NYPD Precinct – 3rd Tuesday of every month provides assistance for individuals and to access PrEP in NYC, regardless of • 90th NYPD Precinct – 2nd Wednesday of every month families who evacuated Puerto Rico or the race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, • 94th NYPD Precinct – 1st Wednesday of every month U.S. Virgin Islands as a result of Hurricane immigration status, ability, gender identity/ • Community Board 4 – 3rd Wednesday of every month Maria and are in need of assistance in expression and sexual orientation! • BMCI/CPP (Bushwick Making Children Important) obtaining permanent, stable housing. For Guest Speakers - Dr. Sarit Golub - Director, 3rd Tuesday of every month information about eligibility and enrollment: Hunter College HIV/AIDS Research Team Email: [email protected] (718) 366-4300 (HART), Dr. Julie Myers - Director of HIV If you or someone you know needs support or to make an 90 Beaver Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206 Prevention, NYC Department of Health & appointment, please reach out to: (718) 302-4073 or [email protected] www.nyc.gov/bkcb4 February Newsletter • COMMUNITY BOARD 4 | 3 Community Notices

LIFE-AUDREY Fund Grant. These grants are up to $3000 JOHNSON LEARNING and are to help build your capacity as a CENTER group, and can include things such as BRING YOUR CHILD TO LIFE events, tools, websites, outreach materials, Free NYC DOE Prek for All Program Early and many more. More can be found here, Learn and Head Start. ACCEPTING ALL along with the application This is an important update as of January 18, CHILDREN 2.6 Through 4 years old https://cityparksfoundation.org/grants- Programá GRATIS Prek for All 2019 regarding the administration of SNAP resources/ ACEPTANDO A TODOS LOS NIÑOS benefits in . Please note that the 2.6 HASTA LOS 4 AÑOS DISTRICT 32 information below replaces any communication Free NYC Prek for All Program Family Leadership you might have received previously. Please 272 Moffat Street, Brookyn, NY 11207 Suite disregard that communication. Telephone: 718-574-0130 • Children’s Play Area FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT • Computer Access The administration of the Supplemental Nutrition MS. CERI or MRS. KAWALICK • Family Workshops Assistance Program (SNAP) here in New York City Parent Coordinator Support in the context of the ongoing federal government SAFE HORIZON 100 Irving Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237 shutdown. As you are aware, the administration Is the largest non- Open Mon-Fri From 9 AM – 4 PM of this program is managed by the New York City profit victim services 718-574-1100 agency in the United States, providing Department of Social Services (DSS). compassionate and expert support for COURT INNOVATION survivors to pave a path of hope and Project Reset Like you, DSS share deep concerns about the healing on their own terms. Their mission Project Reset is a diversion program that shutdown, and in particular, its impact on our is to provide support, prevent violence, seeks to forge a new response to low-level city’s most vulnerable residents, including and promote justice for victims of crime offending that is proportionate, effective, those facing poverty and hunger. We have been and abuse, their families and communities. and humane. It’s a program that will help carefully monitoring the situation and have We offer assistance to victims that teens who are 16 or 17 years old to avoid a been in close contact with our state and federal includes shelter, advocacy, counseling, court appearance, if they are eligible such partners regarding the administration of SNAP legal services, and more. Their programs as if it’s a first time arrest, a non-violent benefits. welcome survivors of all ages, genders and misdemeanor and have no open cases. backgrounds in the New York City area. You can go to the website for more Safe Horizon envisions a society free of While the situation is fluid and information information www.courtinnovation.org/ family and community violence. project/project-reset continues to arrive daily, please find a brief They will lead the way by empowering overview regarding the administration of SNAP victims of domestic violence, , NEW YORK benefits as of today below. sexual assault and human trafficking to RESTORATION move from crisis to confidence. PROJECT • Current SNAP recipients who are eligible to They’re here to support you with their 24- Citywide Job Opportunities receive February benefits will be receiving this Hour Hotlines and Emergency Help: Come Work with NYRP! Passionate about • The New York City Domestic Violence open space and community development? benefit. Hotline: 800-621-HOPE (4673) We want to hear from you! • For most New York City SNAP recipients, their • The Rape and Sexual Assault Hotline: NYRP has an exciting opportunity to offer February benefits will have posted to their 212-227-3000 11-month positions with our Operations accounts yesterday, Thursday, January 17, 2019. • The Crime Victims Hotline: 866-689- and Community Engagement teams • For the remainder of New York City SNAP HELP (4357) through the AmeriCorps program. recipients, their benefits will post on their • TDD for all hotlines: 866-604-5350 Candidates must be 17-24 and not be regularly-scheduled benefits availability date. To meet with an advocate in person at currently in work or school. Work will be • We advise recipients that if they see a larger- one of our Community Programs, call our delivered citywide with special focus on than-anticipated benefit amount posted to their Helpline at 855-234-1042 the South Bronx, Northern , and accounts, this amount includes their February If you are homeless and under the age of Central Brooklyn. benefit. An additional benefit will not be 24, contact the Streetwork Project at 800- Questions? Email [email protected] 708-6600 Learn More: nyrp.org/americorps available in the calendar month of February. If you or someone you know may be the • We strongly encourage recipients to check their victim of trafficking, call the Anti-Trafficking balances carefully and budget wisely. Program at 718-943-8652.

In New York City, SNAP recipients can manage CITY PARKS their account by downloading ACCESS HRA FOUNDATION app or by going online to nyc.gov/accesshra Happy 2019, it’s My Park Awards and creating an account. If you have additional and other fun deadlines! questions, you can call the February 15th is the deadline for submitting an application for the Capacity Human Resources Administration’s (HRA) InfoLine at 718-557-1399. 4 | COMMUNITY BOARD 4 • February Newsletter www.nyc.gov/bkcb4 Employment Opportunities Agency Notices

NYPD CIVILIAN COMPLAINT Traffic Enforcement REVIEW BOARD Special Offer for Agents (CCRB) Keeping the streets of New York City safe As you may know, the CCRB is a City Small Businesses in and moving Agency, independent from the New York Benefits include: Police Department, which investigates Brooklyn & ! • Potentially earn over $38,000 after 1 year and mediates complaints against NYPD • Competitive benefits officers in a neutral and unbiased manner. • Promotional opportunities The CCRB investigates allegations of • Various assignment levels excessive force, abuse of authority, • Retirement plan discourtesy, and offensive language. For more information about becoming an The goal of their outreach efforts is to NYPD Traffic Enforcement Agent, please inform New York City residents about the visit the website: NYC.GOV/NYPD agency. Every year they give presentations 212-RECRUIT to educational institutions, libraries, and government and community organizations THE TWA HOTEL to offer information to community The TWA Hotel at members, students, staff, and concerned JFK Airport is Hiring! parents about their agency’s services. 800 Exciting Roles! Openings for Through their interactive tabling events and management roles will be posted in workshops, they will provide the following January and early February. Openings for information: hourly roles will be posted starting in mid- • Structure and authority of the CCRB February. Interviews will occur in March. • Civilian rights and responsibilities during Apply at TWAhotel.com/careers police encounters such as “Stop & Frisk” • How to file a complaint Agency Notices • Highlight de-escalation • Explain the processes of investigation Upgrade Your Lighting on and mediation NEW YORK STATE A full presentation takes 30-45 minutes but us and Save $$$$ Get FREE HOMES AND may be abbreviated to accommodate the LED lighting upgrades for COMMUNITY allotted time. To have a presentation set RENEWAL up at your location please reach out to the your small business and Homes and Community Renewal Brooklyn Outreach coordinator Mr. Jahi save big. Brooklyn Borough Rent Office is Rose, Outreach Coordinator, NYC Civilian Moving Complaint Review Board (CCRB) Why LEDs? Effective Monday, January 28, 2019 100 Church Street 10th FL. HCR’s Brooklyn Borough Rent Office will New York, New York • They can last up to 15 years be located at: [email protected] • They use up to 50 percent less 55 Hanson Place, 6th Floor (was 7th) Phone:(212) 912-2081 energy and produce less heat than Brooklyn, New York Cell: 917-208-9320 incandescents and CFLs New Floor. Same great services for • They give off a warm light that makes owners and tenants, including information NYC HEALTH your building look great. on: DEPARTMENT • Rent Overcharges Releases 2018 LED lighting will save you money, and • Lease Violations Community Health Profiles help us keep our system more reliable. • Lawful Charges for Rent, MCI, Air The Health Department is pleased to Conditioners, and Appliances release the 2018 Community Health Are you eligible? • Maintaining Services Profiles, https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/ 718-722-4778 data/data-publications/profiles.page, These FREE lighting upgrades are nyshcr.org/rent analyzing health in all 59 community available in select neighborhoods in districts (CD) across the city. Featuring Brooklyn and Queens. NYC DEPARTMENT OF over 50 health measures for each city CONSUMER AFFAIRS neighborhood, these Community Health If you earned $66,000 or Profiles provide comparative information at less in 2017, use NYC Free Tax Prep to file the community district (CD), borough and Call 1-844-316-4288 for free and keep your whole refund. citywide level for major health issues such to confirm your eligibility. File online at nyc.gov/taxprep as HIV, smoking, and health insurance, and Income of $66,000 or less in 2017. serve as a critical resource for highlighting The online service is quick, easy, and inequities in order to improve the health of Schedule your FREE energy secure. assessment at ManageEnergy.conEd.com/Contact www.nyc.gov/bkcb4 February Newsletter • COMMUNITY BOARD 4 | 5 Agency Notices communities. Since the profiles renovation and repairs to prevent energy in your home or business. Smart meters communicate over were last published in 2015, the lead exposure. What is the difference a secure wireless communication Health Department saw citywide Stop Buggin’ Me – covers how between my current meter network using the same type of improvements in several high to control pests safely and how to and a smart meter? extremely low-frequency radio priority areas, including declining prevent and get rid of bedbugs. Traditional meters and automated signals that allow you to use your rates of uninsured New Yorkers, Safety First – covers poison meters record total energy smart phone, listen to the radio, teen births, sugary beverage control information, medicine consumption, which we collect or watch TV. Your meter transmits consumption, smoking, new safety, preventing carbon on a monthly basis. Smart meters data to a system of access points HIV diagnoses, and premature monoxide poisoning and record and transmit your energy on utility poles, which send your mortality. preventing child injuries in the consumption regularly throughout usage information to us. To create a broader picture home. the day (via a secure wireless My smart meter was of neighborhood health, the Mode and Moisture – covers network) and will help us create a installed. Why can’t I see agency also included new facts about mold. smart grid for the New York City my usage information? positive indicators that look at Watch Your Step – covers area. It takes about two weeks for your a community’s wellness and fall prevention for older adults, Smart meters will give you access detailed energy usage information social connections, such as keeping safe in cold/winter to detailed information about your to begin to show on your account on-time high school graduation, weather and where to find data daily energy use and customized dashboard. helpful neighbors, and homes about environmental health information to help you conserve What if I don’t want a smart with air conditioning. While issues in NYC. energy and save money. meter? the profiles show that there Understanding Indoor Smart meters will alert us Residential customers can are many neighborhoods in Air Quality (IAQ) – covers immediately about problems, choose to not have a smart meter very good health, significant effects of steam radiator heat, so we can get to work restoring installed. By opting out you will health inequities persist among gas from stoves, air fresheners/ power even faster. miss out on all of the benefits, many New York City (NYC) chemicals that impact air quality If you use solar energy, a smart including the ability to save neighborhoods, such as the and so much more meter will help us manage these money and energy by managing 11-year gap in life expectancy Get Ahead of Lead, Mold and renewable resources more your energy usage. between Upper East Side and Moisture, Stop Buggin’ Me – efficiently. If you choose not to have a Brownsville. Data show that 54 Presentation 02/21/19 Do I still need to call Con smart meter, Con Edison will % of deaths in Brownsville could 10 am – 12 pm/ English Edison to report an outage? be required to send a meter have been averted if it had the Get Ahead of Lead, Safety First, Yes. Smart meters will alert us reader to your home. You same income as the wealthiest Mold and Moisture, Stop Buggin’ about most outages in your will be charged for this and may neighborhoods. Me – Presentation 02/14/19 neighborhood. But it is important also incur the following additional Their aim is to share this 1– 3 pm / Spanish that you continue to tell us about charges: information with partners who are Watch Your Step, Stop Buggin’ any problems you are having so We will attempt to read your working to advance health equity Me, Understanding IAQ – that we can address them as meter on a bimonthly basis and in NYC neighborhoods. Presentation 02/12/19 / 10 am – quickly as possible. you will be charged a monthly fee If there are other ways that the 12 pm/ English How are you protecting my of $9.50. Health Department data can Get Ahead of Lead, Safety First, privacy? If you choose to have your smart support your work, please let Mold and Moisture, Stop Buggin’ We take cyber security seriously, meters taken out, you will be them know at profiles@health. Me – Presentation 02/26/19 / 2-4 so all information is transmitted charged $104.74 for each electric nyc.gov. pm / English through an encrypted network. meter and $93.81 for each gas To RSVP: call 646-632-6023 or Our cybersecurity measures meter. NEW YORK email [email protected]. follow standards for smart meters Additionally, Con Edison has CITY gov. set by the National Institute of the right to install an automated DEPARTMENT Standards and Technology and meter-reading device or smart OF HEALTH AND MENTAL CON EDISON are comparable to those used by meter at our discretion if HYGIENE Healthy Homes Smart Meters financial institutions. we are unable to obtain access Program Are Coming! Smart meters do not collect, on four consecutive bimonthly The New York City Department What’s a smart meter? store, or transmit any personal meter-reading dates. As an of Health and Mental Hygiene It’s a digital meter that information. Like a traditional alternative, you may agree to Healthy Homes Program is communicates between your meter, the only information install and maintain equipment offering FREE Winter Session residence or business and Con collected is the amount of necessary to provide for outdoor Workshops for community Edison through a secure wireless energy you use, and all your metering. residents to attend. Workshops communication network. energy usage information is If you change your mind at a later are conducted in English and What’s so smart about it? kept confidential by Con Edison date, we will install smart meters Spanish. Think of a smart meter as your and our vendors. Con Edison at no cost. Workshops will be held at: NYC tool for more choice, convenience adheres to all New York State If you don’t want a smart meter: Department of Health- 125 Worth and control. Smart meters laws that regulate the use of 1. Call us at 1-800-576-2005 to Street, New York, NY 10013. provide detailed information personal information for business get more information about your Get Ahead of Lead – Covers about your energy use so you can functions, such as billing and options and costs associated Local Law 1 of 2004, lead in make informed choices about customer service. with opting out. cultural products, performing how and when you use How do smart meters work? 2. After that, you can download

6 | COMMUNITY BOARD 4 • February Newsletter www.nyc.gov/bkcb4 Agency Notices and fill out the Smart Meter Opt- community education programs, and hunger. We have been available in the calendar month of Out form. Email the completed please email Lauren Schwartz at carefully monitoring the situation February. form to: customerservice@coned. [email protected] and have been in close contact • We strongly encourage com with our state and federal partners recipients to check their balances 3. Or mail it to SNAP regarding the administration of carefully and budget wisely. Con Edison Quality Assurance BENEFITS IN SNAP benefits. In New York City, SNAP 30 Flatbush Avenue, 6fl NEW YORK While the situation is fluid and recipients can manage their Brooklyn, NY 11217 CITY information continues to arrive account by downloading This is an important update as of daily, please find a brief overview ACCESS HRA app or by going NYC POISON January 18, 2019 regarding the regarding the administration of online to nyc.gov/accesshra CONTROL administration of SNAP benefits in SNAP benefits as of today below. and creating an account. If you CENTER (PCC) New York City. Please note that • Current SNAP recipients who have additional questions, you Community Education Programs the information below replaces are eligible to receive February can call the Human Resources Community Education Programs any communication you might benefits will be receiving this Administration’s (HRA) InfoLine at target a variety of groups and have received previously. Please benefit. 718-557-1399. topics. Educational workshops disregard that communication. • For most New York City SNAP are offered free of charge The administration of the recipients, their February benefits NEW LIQUOR LICENSE throughout the boroughs of NYC, Supplemental Nutrition will have posted to their accounts APPLICATION(S) REQUEST: Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester Assistance Program (SNAP) here yesterday, Thursday, January 17, • Halsey Ale House, Inc. – countries. Workshops are in New York City in the context of 2019. 1204 Halsey Street – Full Liquor available in English, Spanish and the ongoing federal government • For the remainder of New License Chinese. Topics covered: shutdown. As you are aware, the York City SNAP recipients, • The Stanhop – 269 Stanhope • Poison Prevention in the Home. administration of this program is their benefits will post on their Street – Wine, Beer & Cider • Prevent Carbon Monoxide (CO) managed by the New York City regularly-scheduled benefits Any complaints about Poisoning. Department of Social Services availability date. establishments with liquor • Medicine Safety for Older (DSS). • We advise recipients that if they licenses should be sent to Adults. Like you, DSS share deep see a larger-than-anticipated Community Board 4 in writing. • Medicine Safety for Parents/ concerns about the shutdown, benefit amount posted to their You must also include your Caregivers of Young Children and in particular, its impact on our accounts, this amount includes address and telephone number. To request a workshop or find city’s most vulnerable residents, their February benefit. An out more about the NYC PCC including those facing poverty additional benefit will not be

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Health/Hospitals/Human Service/Senior Citizens/Veterans Arts and Culture Meets: First Monday of the month 3pm Meets: Second Monday of the month 6pm Environmental Protection/Transportation/Sanitation Civic and Religious Meets: First Thursday of the month alternating 10am/6pm Meets: Second Tuesday of the month at 6pm Public Safety Parks and Recreation Meets: First Tuesday of the month 6pm Meets: Second Thursday of the month 6pm Youth and Education Housing and Land Use Meets: Third or Fourth Monday of the month 6pm Meets: Last Tuesday of the month 6pm Economic Development District Office Meets: Second Wednesday of the month 6pm Meets: Last Thursday of the month 6pm

Committees are comprised of a majority of board members, as well as, other community representatives. Non-board members interested in joining a committee, can contact the District Office at (718) 628-8400 or [email protected] for more information. The term of appointment is for one year effective September 1st. All committees meet monthly or as needed. VISIT US ONLINE AT: www.nyc.gov/brooklyncb4