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LATEST INITIATIVES Borough President Adams unveiled his recommendations program launch was part of the larger kick-o of the Eagle Heights; it will also be traveling to sites such as Bedford on Wednesday, April 4th for a proposed rezoning along Project, a partnership championed by Borough President Atlantic Shelter in Crown Heights, Kingsboro Star Men’s portions of Hanson Place, South Elliott Place, and South Adams between the Mayor’s Young Men’s Initiative, DOE Shelter in East Flatbush, and Linden Avenue Men’s Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, as part of a Uniform Oce of Equity and Access, and EAF that aims to develop Shelter in East New York. Borough President Adams has Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) response to and support a network of young men of color from grades championed a variety of innovative approaches to serving approve with conditions applications submitted by South 6-12 to excel as future leaders committed to community at-risk populations, including plans for a mobile shower Portland LLC and Randolph Haig Day Care Center, Inc. service, scholarly excellence, and strong character. service that will serve homeless Brooklynites, day laborers, to facilitate the redevelopment of the property at Borough President Adams, who secured $3 million in City sex workers, and runaway LGBTQ+ youth, which he 142-150 South Portland Avenue into a 13-story funding for the Eagle Project, highlighted the importance announced in January through a partnership with mixed-use building with 100 dwelling units that are all of eectively engaging young men of color and schools Brooklyn Community Services (BCS), and Turning Point designated as aordable housing. The response was issued learning from each other on educational models that make Brooklyn. Last November, the Coalition for the Homeless following months of dialogue with local stakeholders and the most impact on the borough’s future young leaders. estimated that there were more than 63,000 people in community activists, highlighted by a public hearing he EAF’s network of public schools stands as a national model homeless shelters every night across the five boroughs, hosted at Brooklyn Borough Hall on Tuesday, February of academic excellence and socioemotional development including more than 15,700 families in Brooklyn. The 20th. Borough President Adams recommended advanc- for urban young men of color. In addition to JHS 292 Homeless Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE) street ing the development jointly proposed by the Hanson Margaret S. Douglas, the Eagle Project will pair EAF with survey conducted by the City last February found nearly Place Seventh Day Adventist Church and MDG Design + Mott Hall IV in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville Collabo- 4,000 homeless individuals on the street that night. Construction, in keeping with his groundbreaking rative Middle School and Kappa V in Brownsville, MS 394 Borough President Adams took a tour of a new barber Faith-Based Development Initiative. Concurrently, he Mary McLeod Bethune Academy and Ronald Edmonds In an eort to highlight minority entrepreneurship in mobile at Bergen House Shelter in Crown Heights, a called for restricting the proposed rezoning to exclude any Learning Center II in Crown Heights, Highland Park Brooklyn, Borough President Adams has launched a non-contextual development, in keeping with his Community School in Cypress Hills, JHS 218 James P. #BLKCoeeInBK tour of black-owned coee shops in the venture started by local entrepreneur Kareem Kennedy administration’s standing policy and supporting the calls Sinnott in East New York, and MS 246 Walt Whitman in borough, aiming to highlight the power of local businesses, to provide haircuts for homeless neighbors in need. of Brooklyn Community Board 2 (CB 2). Flatbush. particularly those owned by African-Americans, in Photo Credit: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s Oce revitalizing communities that have experienced decades of On Saturday, April 14th, Borough President Adams Borough President Adams hailed a first-of-its-kind economic stagnation. He kicked o his tour on Friday, joined newly appointed New York City Department of empowerment partnership with Kennedy Conglomerate April 20th at Bushwick Grind, a coee shop and commu- Education (DOE) Chancellor Richard Carranza, Eagle Inc., a venture started by local entrepreneur Kareem nity gathering space in Williamsburg that also serves Academy Foundation (EAF) President and CEO David Kennedy, for a mobile barber service to which he allocated handcrafted drinks, pastries, and sandwiches, and at BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT Banks, and hundreds of students and mentors at JHS 292 $3,000 in discretionary funding to provide free haircuts Bittersweet, a coee shop and ice cream parlor in Fort Margaret S. Douglas in East New York to launch the Eagle for homeless neighbors in need across the borough. He Greene. To date, his tour has also taken to him Corner Academy Mentoring Program, a groundbreaking joined New York City Department of Social Services Grind and Mixtape Club in Bedford-Stuyvesant, as well as multi-year initiative connecting hundreds of sixth-grade (DSS) Commissioner Steven Banks in kicking o this pilot Sol Sips in Bushwick. Follow the #BLKCoeeInBK tour on male students of color at middle schools across central project on Wednesday, April 18th at Bergen House, a social media and, as Borough President Adams said, “Don’t ERIC L. ADAMS’ and eastern Brooklyn with positive male role models. The 104-bed shelter for men over the age of 62 in Crown just post about them, patronize them!” MESSAGE OF THE MONTH UPCOMING EVENTS EVERY MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SECOND THURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH FRIDAY, MAY 4TH WHAT’S UP AT BROOKLYN BOROUGH HALL? 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM Brooklyn Borough Hall – Brooklyn Borough Hall – Room G-80 Brooklyn Borough Hall – Courtroom trainings on how to recognize and Constituent Assistance Center FREE Legal Services for All – Housing Matters, Trusts Cinco de Mayo Happy Financial Education Empower- April 5th, they held a fashion show to Constituent Assistance Center Walk-In and Estates, Elder Law, and Government Benefits ment Month! Borough President reverse an opioid overdose, as well as open Fashion Week Brooklyn, showcas- MONDAY, MAY 7TH VARIOUS DATES Adams kicked o a serious of financial restore breathing using the lifesaving ing an array of local young designers and 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EVERY MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY VARIOUS TIMES medication naloxone. Hundreds of Brooklyn Borough Hall literacy events with his Financially Savvy models. They also partnered on a survi- VARIOUS TIMES Various Locations Plant-Based/Vegan Meetup attendees came out to the Brooklyn Brooklyn Borough Hall – Room G-80 FREE Overdose Prevention Training Youth Conference on Wednesday, April vors’ ceremony for Denim Day, an SCORE NYC Small Business Mentoring 4th at Brooklyn College in Flatbush. On Public Library’s New Lots Branch in annual international campaign to TUESDAYS, MAY 1ST TO MAY 22ND WEDNESDAYS, MAY 9TH TO JUNE 13TH East New York on Thursday, April 5th, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Wednesday, April 18th, he teamed up combat sexual violence that took place EVERY TUESDAY Brooklyn Borough Hall – Community Room Brooklyn Borough Hall – Plaza and subsequent trainings have taken 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM with NIA Community Services Network on Wednesday, April 25th, which led Brooklyn Crochets for a Cause School Lunchtime Concert Series Brooklyn Borough Hall – Room G-80 and Operation HOPE to begin a place on Tuesday, April 10th at the into a march over the Brooklyn Bridge. FREE Legal Services for All – Veterans’ Issues TUESDAY, MAY 1ST WEDNESDAY, MAY 16TH three-week “700 Credit Score Club” Sheepshead Bay Branch in Sheepshead 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM Bay; Wednesday, April 18th at the Cen- Brooklyn Borough Hall – Community Room course at PS 247 The New York City Make your voice count! Voting for this FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH Brooklyn Borough Hall Brooklyn Borough Board Meeting tral Branch in Prospect Heights; 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM Older Americans Month Celebration Partnership Elementary School in Ben- year’s participatory budgeting (PB) Brooklyn Borough Hall – Room G-80 WEDNESDAY, MAY 2ND sonhurst. Capping o the month was his Wednesday, April 25th at the Bedford cycle occurred from Saturday, April 7th FREE Legal Services for All – Family Law 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM WEDNESDAY, MAY 16TH Financial Education Expo outside Branch in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and to Sunday, April 15th, empowering Brooklyn Borough Hall 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Thursday, April 26th at the Coney THIRD MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH Senior Tech: Innovations for the Digital Age Brooklyn Children’s Museum Brooklyn Borough Hall, featuring an Brooklynites in participating council- 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Fighting Back Against The Opioid Epidemic interactive discussion on financial well- Island Branch in Coney Island. manic districts to pick community-de- WEDNESDAY, MAY 2ND Brooklyn Borough Hall – Room G-80 signed projects for funding. Brooklyn FREE Legal Services for All – Domestic Violence 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM ness hosted by News 12 Brooklyn’s Kris- PS 247 The New York City College Partnership If you have an interest in any of these events, please contact tie Reeter and financial expert Jamila Borough President Adams and the BK Borough Hall once again served as a Elementary School/700 Credit Score Club us by visiting brooklyn-usa.org for more information or by SECOND WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH Sourant. Style Foundation teamed up twice last voting site and, on Thursday, April 12th, calling our event hotline at (718) 802-2328. Additionally, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM WEDNESDAYS, MAY 2ND AND MAY 23RD to stay up-to-date with the oce, visit brooklyn-usa.org to month at Brooklyn Borough Hall to Brooklyn Borough Hall – Room G-80 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM sign up for Borough President Adams’ paperless notifica- Borough President Adams has harness the power of the borough’s FREE Legal Services for All – Brooklyn Botanic Garden tions, like his Facebook page, and follow @BPEricAdams Foreclosure Intervention and Prevention Free Workshop: How To Green Your Block on Twitter.