Category Archives: News

Domino — Thoughts from the NAG Board & Staff…

April 19, 2013 – 1:49 pm

Just a few short weeks ago, we hosted a community forum on the new proposed development plan for the Domino Sugar Factory property by the current owners, Two Trees. We have been engaged in a lot of thought, a lot of discourse, and a lot of good conversations with forces both in favor and against [...]

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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: Plugging into the Community Board

March 21, 2013 – 12:09 pm

Notes from the March CB#1 Transportation Committee Meeting Last night was an action-packed Transportation Committee meeting. The meeting was held at the local CB offices on Graham Avenue with 3 CB members (Wilfredo F, Karen N, & Ryan K) and 1 staff member (Marie) in attendance. With so many items on the agenda, the meeting was [...]

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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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Grassroot Garden Project: 61 Franklin St Community Garden

February 28, 2013 – 6:36 pm

 Thanks to a lot of legwork by the fab folks at 596 Acres and our hardworking CM  Stephen Levin, an empty lot owned by the City could become Greenpoint’s newest green space. Very exciting right!! Want to get involved? Of course you do. Well, mark this Saturday down in your calendar for some serious brainstorming fun. [...]

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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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Know Your Zone

October 28, 2012 – 11:10 am

Hurricane Sandy is meeting up with a few friends out over the Atlantic, and they are all headed more or less in our direction. Hurricanes have a tendency to over-promise and under-deliver when it comes to NYC (Irene last year, Gloria a couple decades ago), but it is worth remembering that New York is a [...]

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Check out the new mural at PS 84, “NurtureNature”

September 21, 2012 – 3:40 pm

Have you taken the opportunity to explore and discover the amazing new mural by El Puente in the neighborhood? We joined El Puente a few weeks ago when they dedicated their latest community mural, “NurtureNature”. Located on the corner of Berry & S 1st,  it was created by Los Muralistas de El Puente in collaboration with [...]

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Participatory Budgeting comes to Greenpoint & Williamsburg!

September 18, 2012 – 1:08 pm

What would you do with $1 Million? There’s $1 million available in our community for improvements like parks, school repairs, transportation, and more. Best of all — we decide how it will be used! Community members from the 33rd District can propose projects and vote on which ones get included in the City budget. It’s [...]

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Rally Tonight in Support of Tenant Rights

July 25, 2012 – 3:10 pm

Join NAG and our sister community groups as we rally tonight against landlord arson, demolitions, and vacate orders being used to force out long-tern, low income tenants of Williamsburg & Greenpoint. Williamsburg-Greenpoint tenants and community leaders will rally in front of buildings in the epicenter of gentrification in the neighborhood to protest a shocking pattern [...]

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