Category Archives: Events

Who Will Take the (Cup)Cake?

April 24, 2013 – 2:46 pm

Is your cupcake the best in North Brooklyn?  Then time is now to throw down your best cupcake and earn bragging rights! Just love to eat them (cuz ya know, who doesn’t?) Come taste some of the best baking Brooklyn has to offer for a good cause–supporting grassroots environmental & social justice activism!  NORTH BROOKLYN [...]

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Save the Date: “North Brooklyn Takes the Cake” Cupcake Bakeoff

April 15, 2013 – 3:38 pm

Is your cupcake the best in North Brooklyn?  Or do you just love to eat them (who doesn’t?) Join NAG and our friends at the Brooklyn Kitchen for a cupcake cook-off! Come to compete or just to eat & drink! Register and/or get tickets online! Categories include Best Overall, Best Presentation, and Best Savory! Judges [...]

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Last Weekend to VOTE in Participatory Budget

April 5, 2013 – 2:53 pm

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members decide how a portion of a public budget will be spent. Councilmember Stephen Levin, who represents the 33rd District, has allocated at least $1 million of his discretionary funding for capital projects to PB. Community members have been working to flesh out ideas generated [...]

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NAG Action: Domino Community Forum

March 13, 2013 – 1:04 pm

NAG would like to invite you to a community meeting about the proposed new development at the Domino Sugar Factory Domino Community Forum w/ Two Trees Thurs March 14th The Woods – 48 S4th 6-8pm RSVP via FB Event Jed Walentas and the Two Trees team will be walking us through their whole plan, providing you [...]

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NAG Action: CB Speak UP!!

March 7, 2013 – 1:15 pm

Have you ever been so fired up about a neighborhood issue that you have spent hours ranting about it , either online or over drinks with friends? Well, this is your chance to speak out for 2 minutes about a neighborhood issue dear to your heart… In the upcoming months, there will be several public [...]

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NAG Action: How to ULURP!

February 21, 2013 – 12:14 pm

We had the great pleasure of co-hosting an event with CUP & El Puente–A Citizen’s Guide to Land Use Review. Through this amazing game invented by CUP, we sent a sandwich through the ULURP process. By role playing the process, we educated ourselves on the players and the process, discussed the timeline for developing development, [...]

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Interactive Workshop: A Citizen’s Guide to NYC Land Use Review

February 20, 2013 – 2:59 pm

What is ULURP anyway? Ever wondered how the City’s land use review process works? Wanna know who decides what development happens in our neighborhood? How can regular people plug in to that process and make their voices heard? Join NAG, El Puente, & the Center for Urban Pedagogy for an interactive workshop about ULURP, the City’s [...]

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Beers at the Office – Cheers to Volunteering in ’13

February 5, 2013 – 6:03 pm

Been looking for a good way to volunteer in the neighborhood? Always wanted to understand how to address a problem in the Williamsburg & Greenpoint neighborhoods?  You can learn to do both when you join NAG for our first ” Beers at the Office” in 2013. We will be gathering at –-you guessed it–- our office [...]

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NAG Gala is On

November 2, 2012 – 8:39 am

Saturday evening is the NAG Gala – a celebration honoring community engagement and the NAG career of our founding executive director, Peter Gillespie. Obviously, it has been a rough week for a lot of people, and we all have a lot more on our minds, but we hope you can join us, Brooklyn Brewery and [...]

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Cancelled: Newtown Creek Bike Tour

October 28, 2012 – 12:20 pm

Today’s Newtown Creek Bike Tour – cruising the Queen’s side of the creek – has been cancelled due to the weather. Stay tuned for information on a rain (hurricane) date.

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