Community Board 1 recently approved a proposal by the Department of Transportation to create a new pedestrian plaza at Broadway and Bedford. The plaza would be located on the little triangle that is created where South 6th Street branches off from Broadway. “This is one of the areas with the least open space in all [...]
This DNA article about the nuisance of ongoing construction in Williasmburg resulted in a fair amount of online snark, but the issue is a real one, and can be illegal. While some disruption is inevitable (and it is impossible to make pile drivers quiet), excess dust, debris and other detritus can be unhealthy and dangerous. [...]
Unless you are a local political junkie (or got those robo-calls from Chuck Schumer and Bill Clinton), you may have missed that today is a primary day for Federal elections in NY state. Locally, there are two very important contested elections in our area – the 7th and 8th Congressional districts. Since both districts are [...]
Assembyman Joe Lentol wants to have speeding cameras installed on McGuinness Boulevard to cut down on out of control drivers on Greenpoint’s boulevard of death. NAG has partnered with Transportation Alternatives and others to document the excessive speeding and other infractions that occur regularly on McGuinness, and we welcome Assemblyman Lentol’s support for our efforts [...]
On Thursday, the City Council is holding a hearing on Parks funding for the coming fiscal year. As you may know, the city made a lot of promises to our neighborhood in terms of parks acquisition and construction – most of those commitments have not been met. NAG has been following up on these (and [...]
The Daily News reports today on why things have not improved since NYC moved from mechanical to electronic voting machines. Despite the introduction of computerized scanners, it turns out that votes are still tallied pretty much by hand, unlike in other jurisdictions, where, as the News points out, they use the new computers as computers.
Bad weekend for subway travel. There is no service on the L train this weekend, and the C train does not run from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Clearly the MTA wants you to stay in Brooklyn and go to TASTE Williamsburg Greenpoint instead. And you have the misfortune of living in Manhattan, remember that the East [...]
Friends of East River State Park is sponsoring a volunteer day this Saturday to weed and clean up the park. Come out, meet your neighbors and help make our parks a bit nicer.
Over the years, NAG has been one of North Brooklyn’s leading voices for environmental justice and public access to the waterfront. For many years now we have been talking about creating a public waterfront park on the City-owned property below the Williamsburg Bridge. Just as DUMBO and Fulton Ferry have great waterfront open spaces, we [...]
This month our topic of action will be about getting some neighborhood energy behind the Northside Townhall. NAG & the People’s Firehouse (PFI) were awarded the rights to re-develop the former Engine 212 firehouse at 134 Wythe Avenue into the Northside Town Hall Community & Cultural Center (the Townhall). The main goals of the project [...]
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