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Dec 10: Party Like Your Neighborhood Depends On It

Join North Brooklyn advocacy organization Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG) for a holiday party and Fundraiser on Thursday, December 10 from 7-10pm at The Woods.

No cover (but we'll be happy take your donations!)

Come meet your neighbors, listen to some music, drink some cheap drinks, and bid on a silent auction, featuring great stuff from neighborhood spots, including:

-Third Ward
-Word Bookstore
-The Brooklyn Kitchen
-Alter Clothing
-The North BK Compost Project
-Three Kings Tattoo Parlor
-Charm School Design
-Transient Pictures

... and more to be announced!


NAG is a volunteer-based community planning and environmental justice organization that has been performing grassroots organizing, advocacy and outreach/education to the North Brooklyn waterfront community of Williamsburg/Greenpoint since 1994.

This past year, NAG guerrilla gardened, fought for the creation of new waterfront park space, lobbied for more bike racks in the neighborhood and safer and better transportation options, improved street tree maintenance, sponsored Williamsburg Walks, recorded oral histories from the neighborhood's longtime residents, held an educational forum on housing rights for tenants, counseled tenants one-on-one in landlord disputes, and began plans to turn the former Engine 212 building into the Northside Town Hall. Whew!

Next year we have even more exciting plans in store, but we can't do it without YOU!

Join Us Nov. 22 for a Bike Rack Roundup!

The NAG Transportation Working Group is a co-sponsor of the FixCity Bike Rack Roundup, Sunday November 22. Join us to put the finishing touches on a bulk order of bike racks for North Brooklyn!

FixCity Bike Rack Roundup!

A tournament to get more bike racks in Williamsurg & Greenpoint! Join us for this lively competition and win awesome prizes like a B's Bikes gift basket, NY Transit museum multi-tool, and goodie (tote) bags from Transportation Alternatives!

Sunday November 22nd, 2009
2:00- 5:00 PM

Meet at The Change You Want to See gallery
84 Havemeyer St. (@ Metropolitan Ave.), Brooklyn
RSVPs to info@fixcity.org appreciated

BRING A CAMERA (or camera phone). Come by bike or on foot, with friends or solo. Bike Rack Round-Up is the culmination of this fall's campaign to compile a bulk order of 300 bike racks for Brooklyn Community District 1--the pilot effort for the fixcity.org Bike Racks project. Contestants will "verify" spots previously suggested and search out new ones. Prizes will go to the team who finds the most spots!

See prizes here, and learn how to find a valid bike rack spot in this fun Streetfilm!

Brought to you by The Open Planning Project, Livable Streets Initiative, and NAG. Thanks to our partners Not An Alternative!, Transportation Alternatives (& the Brooklyn Volunteer Committee), B's Bikes, and the New York Transit Museum.

Story Project Meeting Tonight

The North Brooklyn Story Project is meeting tonight at the NAG office (110 Kent Ave, 2nd Floor) at 7pm.

Join the story project and learn how you can make history happen in your neighborhood by simply getting out and interviewing your neighbor.

Leaf Composting @ McCarren Park Next Two Saturdays

A note from our friends at the North Brooklyn Compost Project:

Year round, you, the fabulous members of the compost project, work hard to reduce the amount of trash produced in our neighborhood. You know that composting your food scraps is a great alternative to out-of-state garbage export and a simple way to improve the health of our neighborhood. Please help us take that message to your landlords, neighbors, and home owning friends and acquaintances.

NBCP is taking part in NYCLeaves: Project Leaf Drop a rocking effort to collect leaves from residential properties and turn them into valuable mulch. For the next two Saturdays, we are going to be accepting leaf donations from your yards and raking up more leaves in McCarren Park.

The fine print:

What do we accept: Leaves - leaves only, no twigs, branches or other yard debris

How: Bagged in paper bags, if possible, but we'll take clear and black trash bags, too

Where: At the compost site - McCarren Park at North 12th and Driggs

When: Saturdays, 11/7, 11/14 and 11/21 between the hours of 11 am and 1 pm.

What else: Volunteers! Come out to help rake, bag, collect and jump into leaf piles
If you are planning to join us, drop a line at northbrooklyncompost@gmail.com

Learn How to Get Involved at Beers At The (NAG) Office

Tuesday, Nov 10, 7-9pm

Join Neighbors Allied for Good Growth for the first-ever Beers at the Office at--you guessed it--our office (110 Kent Ave, 2nd floor).

Come learn more about what NAG does and collaborate, conspire, and commiserate with your friends and neighbors and other NAG volunteers. And beer. (We will provide some, and would love it if you brought some too!)

RSVP to michael@nag-brooklyn.org

Saturday Nov 7: Help Improve Tree Beds on Franklin Street

Saturday Nov 7, 3-6pm

Meet @ Franklin & Greenpoint for a day of fun, friends and hands-on gardening for the good of our neighborhood! We will be digging up tree beds, planting daffodil bulbs for spring, adding fresh mulch and fences to protect our little slices of wildlife in the concrete jungle!

Bring your friends, your gloves, and your spades to help us renovate as many tree beds as you feel up to! We will be working along 3 blocks of Franklin Street in Greenpoint. If you're sorely missing your small backyard plot that you had back in the day, digging up dirt with us is a great way to fulfill that urge!

This is the first step in our neighborhood improvement pilot program sponsored by Neighbors Allied for Good Growth and Open Space Alliance as well as local businesses along Franklin Street.