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 the new plan.  A lot of people have been asking our opinion and while it is too early to put out an official statement since we tend to do that during the hearings that are a part of the official ULURP process, we would like to share our thoughts on the plan so far.

NAG calls on the City to work with Two Trees and bring the new new Domino plan forward for formal public review. We believe that the Two Trees proposal is an improvement on the existing approval in many ways, and we encourage Two Trees to continue to work with the community to make further improvements. The City should pursue these changes, working with the developer and the Williamsburg community to ensure that all promises to the community are enforceable and transferable to any future owners.

In 2010, NAG opposed the Domino rezoning because the proposed density was an unsustainable burden on our community and because the developer’s promises were not backed by sufficient guarantees. The density proposed in 2010 was higher than that approved for the 2005 Greenpoint-Williamsburg Waterfront Rezoning and could cause a series of unmitigated community impacts, including a reduction in per capita open space, year-round shadow impacts on our local park, excessive waivers to provide additional parking, large-footprint neighborhood-unfriendly retail, and added burdens to our already over-taxed public transit system.

Despite our opposition, the rezoning was approved. The primary community benefit, 660 units of affordable housing, was not guaranteed – a fact that became sadly relevant when the previous developer ran into financial trouble and was forced to sell the property.

Now, a new developer – Two Trees Management – has acquired the property and proposes to change the zoning. The choice presented to the community is the previous flawed zoning with its unenforceable promises, or a new plan that, in our view, addresses some of the flaws of the previous zoning. The Two Trees plan does not correct the central flaw of the density of the 2010 approval, and it does add considerable height to the development as a trade-off for improvements in other areas. However, based on what we have heard to date, these trade-offs could lead to a better plan for the community. In our view, the Two Trees proposal appears to make significant improvements over the existing zoning in the following areas:

Commercial use: Two Trees proposes eliminating 116 residential units from the approved zoning, in favor of creating more than 530,000 additional square feet of commercial space.  This includes using the landmarked refinery building entirely for commercial (and possibly community facility) purposes.  This proposal is consistent with Community Board 1’s position on the 2005 rezoning; at that time, they envisioned North Brooklyn as a vibrant, mixed-use community.  As the rezoning has reshaped the neighborhood, we’ve seen a dramatic decline in commercial space, and the accompanying decline in opportunities for local employment.  Although Two Trees’ proposal will bring in an entirely different kind of work opportunity than was previously available in this space, we are encouraged that Two Trees shares the community’s position that a mix of uses creates a more dynamic and interesting neighborhood.

Retail: The new construction on Kent Avenue built since the 2005 rezoning has generally provided large retail footprints, attracting corporate, big-box retail outlets to the neighborhood.  NAG’s and CB1’s recommendations in 2005 included the promotion of locally owned small businesses, as job creators, entrepreneurial opportunities, and a strategy for keeping money in the local economy.  Two Trees has verbally expressed its support for small retail footprints to encourage local businesses.  We hope to see this guaranteed through their revised zoning proposal, and encourage Two Trees to go a step further by subsidizing the location of locally owned small businesses within the development if necessary.

Open Space: One of the main pieces of feedback generated in the community meetings that NAG hosted about the Domino redevelopment was that open space is a priority for North Brooklyn, especially for the Southside, which is the most underserved portion of an underserved community when it comes to public green space.  The trade-off of taller buildings allows for an interesting open space plan that not only provides more than two additional acres of open space to the neighborhood, but also creates an improved per capita open space ratio as opposed to that proposed by CPCR.  Reintroducing the street grid to the site will make this open space feel like a true community benefit, rather than just a large backyard for the development’s tenants.  In addition, the planned reconfiguration of the buildings on the site creates a less direct shadow impact on Grand Ferry Park, and Two Trees has verbally committed to working with the community to advocate for the creation of a new Williamsburg Bridge Park on the waterfront south of their site.  Both contribute to CB1’s vision of a continuous, publicly accessible waterfront.

Affordable Housing:  The most dire need in community district 1 today is affordable housing.  We appreciate Two Trees’ verbal commitment to building the 660 affordable units promised by CPCR, although we stress the community’s need to see the numbers, including affordability levels, committed to in writing.  We are pleased that Two Trees is integrating all the affordable housing into its developments, with no difference between the affordable and market rate units.  (The separation, shoddy construction, and lack of access to amenities for affordable housing tenants in the new waterfront developments has frankly been an embarrassment to the neighborhood).  We also applaud Two Trees’ verbal commitment to front-load the development of 300 affordable units in the upland site, which will be built first.

Shift in Height:  In 2010, NAG was concerned with the precedent that the large-scale upland site would set for future development on the neighborhood’s low-rise side streets. Two Trees’ proposed tiered design of the upland site (“Site E”) addresses this concern by shifting height away from Wythe Avenue toward Kent.

Parking and Transportation:  Traffic is a major issue in North Brooklyn, and so we are pleased to see that Two Trees has proposed only the minimum amount of required parking in the new development, to be included in two of the new buildings.  Our 2010 concerns about transportation have been alleviated somewhat by the proposed introduction of the new Kent Avenue bus line, which will connect the site with the J, 7, E, and M trains.  Still, we remain concerned about the impact of density on our transit systems, and hope that Two Trees will explore alternative solutions, such as a new ferry terminal on site, and maintenance and support of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway.

In conclusion, this is not an endorsement of the Two Trees plan – that plan is still in formation, and there are many details yet to be worked out. An endorsement of the plan itself is something that can only come with more information and a clear idea of the commitments behind their plan. However,  we do recognize that Two Trees has proposed significant and meaningful changes to the existing approval, changes that we believe the City and the community should give full and careful consideration to.

We encourage our neighbors to continue to engage in the process and make their voices heard.

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 at a series of neighborhood assemblies in the fall into fundable project proposals.

Check out the sample ballot here!

Check out projects in Greenpoint/Williamsburg here!!

Want to hear more about PB? Check out this interview on WNYC with CM Brad Lander, one of the leading sponsors of PB in NYC.

In a list of amazing proposals, there are a few from our Greenpoint/Williamsburg part of the district.  Here is some press about some of the projects and the process:

Participatory Budget Vote Begins This Week

A Dog-Run for East River State Park?

Williamsburg Dog Run Proposed as Public Votes on How to Spend $1Mil

PB Voters!

Come out and vote. In light of the recent issues with politicians and bribes and public money, PB is getting a lot of press as a good way for the public to watch dog how our public funds are spent. However, participation is the key. Any resident of the 33rd District who is at least 16 years old is invited to vote for up to 5 projects from a number of locations throughout the district. VOTING ENDS ON SUNDAY!!

Friday, April 5

* PS 31 7:30 – 9:30 am
75 Meserole Ave  New York, NY 11222

* MS 8 8-10am
105 Johnson Street, 4th floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201
* District Office 10 am-5 pm
410 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn, NY 11217
* Independence Towers Senior Center  10 am – 4:30 pm
114 Taylor St. Brooklyn NY 11211

Saturday, April 6

PB Ballots! VOTE!

* Greenpoint Public Library 10am – 5pm
107 Norman Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222
* The People’s Firehouse 10 am – 6 pm
113 Berry St. (between N 7th and N 8th St), 11211

* El Puente Community Center 10am-5pm
80 Clymer Street Brooklyn, NY 11211

Sunday, April 7

* The People’s Firehouse 10 am – 6 pm
113 Berry St. (between N 7th and N 8th St), 11211
* Independence Towers Senior Center  10 am – 4:30 pm
114 Taylor St. Brooklyn NY 11211

 

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 fast-paced and got down to business from the get-go.

The first item was a presentation from MTA on the new bus route through the Navy Yard. It is technically not a “new” route but an extension of the B67. Instead of stopping in Downtown Brooklyn, the bus will continue on from Jay St through the Navy Yard, circling around over on Division. The route will start with Mon-Fri 5am-7pm running time. There will be a joint public hearing on this extension and for the new B32 bus route up Kent Ave.

The second item was a presentation by the DOT on 3 new bike corrals being proposed for the neighborhood. More about the bike corral program here – Bicycle Parking. Each of these bike corrals has a neighborhood partner who is in charge of maintenance. The 3 locations and partners are: Kingbird @ Frost & Meeker, Williamsburg Cinemas @ Driggs & Grand St, and Marlow & Sons/Diner @ Broadway & Berry.

The third item was a new pedestrian plaza at Broadway & Bedford/S6th. To be called the George B Post Plaza , there is a facebook page with lots of info. There will be a presentation of the plaza to the full board. If/when the full board votes to recommend (the transpo comm voted in favor), then construction will begin on April 15th with completion in less than a week.

The fourth item was another presentation about a proposed plaza at Frost & Meeker. This application is similar to the Post Plaza in theory, but has some differences. The owners of the bar who are opening in the old Lorely space were informed of the pedestrian plaza program during their SLA committee hearing. They were too late to put in an official application but if they were willing to shoulder more of the building costs with limited DOT resources, the idea could move forward.  In a spot that is mostly used by illegally parked trucks, this idea got support from the committee. Both pedestrian plazas presentations will be shown to the full board at the April Public meeting.

The last item was the announcement of the DOT’s Weekend Walk/Summer Streets program coming to the Southside. El Puente & the Southside Merchants are teaming up to sponsor the neighborhood’s third Weekend Walk’s event. Joining Williamsburg Walks in June & the Grand Street Weekend Walk Block Party in July, Southside Connex will be taking to the streets–  Havemeyer St to be exact–in September.  Anusha, from the El Puente Green Light District is just getting started on all the planning. Contact her for more ways to plug into the event.

That was the meeting in a nutshell. The transportation committee meets typically on the third Tuesday of every month (that there are agenda items). The board is always looking for community members who would like to get further involved and join the committee. Tune into any committee meeting to join up.

]]> http://www.nag-brooklyn.org/2013/03/nag-action-plugging-into-the-community-board/feed/ 1 http://www.nag-brooklyn.org/2013/03/nag-action-domino-community-forum/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nag-action-domino-community-forum http://www.nag-brooklyn.org/2013/03/nag-action-domino-community-forum/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:04:37 +0000 ryan la chica http://www.nag-brooklyn.org/?p=4947 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 an opportunity to learn about the proposal and get answers to your questions.

The proposal is pretty big — with lots of details that involve affordable housing, open space, increased commercial space, bringing back River Street, flood zone planning, and much much more. This will be a great opportunity to look at the model, hear the whole plan in detail,  and then ask questions from the developer. We are very interested in your input on this new plan, and encourage your attendance at this meeting.

Forum Schedule: 
6-630: Meet, greet, grab a drink, check out the model of the Two Trees proposal, say hi to your neighbors, and then grab a spot for the powerpoint.
630-715: Domino presentation.
715-8pm: Questions & Discussion

http://vimeo.com/61254689

Links to Lots of Press about the New Plan

A Skyline for Williamsburg? The Brooklyn Waterfront Gets a Radical –and Terrific — Re-Design

How Much More Williamsburg Development Can the L Train Handle?

Two Trees Unveils Sweet Plan for Domino Site

Sweet or Sour? Redevelopment Plans for Domino Sugar Plant released 

Oo0h, Williamsburg

Battery Park on Beijing-Dubai Steroids

Domino "Today"

Current approved plan from the 2010 site rezoning

Very exciting right!! Want to get involved? Of course you do. Well, mark this Saturday down in your calendar for some serious brainstorming fun.

Community Outreach Meeting

Good Yoga    2pm   Sat March 2nd

Check the FB event here!!

All are welcome; green thumbs not required;)

Help make this space what the community wants it to be! Band together with the groups of community activists and dedicated citizens who are hell bent on converting the vacant lot at 61 Franklin Street into a garden for the neighborhood.

The best way to get involved is plug into the first community outreach meeting. On the agenda is discussion of  community involvement and brainstorming ideas for the site. Can’t make the meeting (man — you are BUSY BEES Brooklyn!!), LIKE the FB page (linked below) and be a part of the conversation, planning, and fun…

GO GO GO 61 Franklin Street Garden!!!

Can’t wait to hear all those big ideas, great dreams, and to begin to build something together…

We were super honored to be able to have CUP in the house, participating in their amazing activity, and having these discussions with our neighbors and future planners of the City. So, when’s the next Land Use Committee meeting?

North Brooklyn evacuation zone map

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 coastal town and has not always gone unscathed. It is also worth remembering that much of North Brooklyn sits on lowlands, landfill and old waterways. If you live on or near the water, you may be in a high-risk zone; residents of Greenpoint and parts of the Northside may be in areas of moderate risk.

For the latest information on the storm, check out nyc.gov’s severe weather page.

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 students, parents, and teachers from PS84 Jose de Diego Elementary School.

The mural is absolutely amazing in its color and detail, as it integrates themes of the environment and the diverse cultural community of the Southside of Williamsburg. Images featured in the mural include families gardening together; native birds, trees, and flowers; neighbors caring for their streets; and some  powerful imagery reflecting the neighborhood’s identity, vibrancy, and commitment to sustainability. This mural is the first project of a growing partnership between PS84 and El Puente’s Green Light District, which is helping to nurture sustainability and equity in education throughout the community.

The dedication ceremony featured the leaders at El Puente, several local politicians, and the staff and family of PS 84, but was highlighted by  the words of the main artist Joe Matunis and the other participating artists in Los Muralistas de El Puente. Be sure to take some time to delve into all the aspects of the mural. Designed with the help of the students, parents, and staff of PS 84, there are so many hidden lessons embedded within the piece.

Learn more:

PS 84 Jose De Diego. Greenpoint Gazette. Sept 2012

“Art Tells Of Asthma Curse Williamsburg Kids Create Bldg. Mural”  Daily News. Oct 1999

“Murals With A Mission” Brooklyn Ink. Feb 2012

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 a new way to make decisions about publicly funded projects, and it’s called “Participatory Budgeting”.

Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. PB gives ordinary people real decision-making power over real money. The process was first developed in Brazil in 1989, and there are now over 1,000 participatory budgets around the world, most at the municipal level.

               In 2011, four New York City Council Members – Brad Lander, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Eric Ulrich, and Jumaane D. Williams – launched a PB process to let residents allocate part of their capital discretionary funds. In 2012, Council Members David Greenfield, Dan Halloran, Mark Weprin, and our very own Council Member,  Stephen Levin,  are all  joining PBNYC, giving the community real decision-making power over at least $10 million in taxpayer money.

Discretionary funds are resources that the Council Members can allocate as they desire. Capital funds can only be used for physical infrastructure projects that benefit the public, cost at least $35,000 and have a lifespan of at least 5 years. Through PB, residents in each participating district will decide how to spend at least $1 million capital dollars.

In PBNYC’s pilot year more than 6,000 New York City residents proposed and voted on local infrastructure projects, such as improvements to schools, parks, libraries, and housing. The Council Members submitted the projects receiving the most votes – totaling more than $5 million citywide – to the City for implementation.

Come out to a neighborhood assembly in September or October to learn more and submit project ideas. See http://pbnyc.org/ for the schedule of assemblies.

The first Neighborhood Assembly in our part of the district is this upcoming Wednesday Sept 19th. 6 – 9 pm. Taylor-Wythe El Puente Leadership Center. 80 Clymer Street.   (También en Español! Food provided )

“Levin to Open Budget Process” Greenpoint Gazette. July 2012

“Revolutionary Participatory Budget Process Doubles in Size in 2nd Year”. Community Voices Heard. Jul 2012

“Putting in Their 2 Cents”  NYT. March 2012

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 of arson fires, unauthorized demolitions, and Building Department vacate orders that help voracious landlords remove the remaining residents ot buildings they Want to complete emptying in order to bring in much higher paying young émigrés from Manhattan.

The rally will take place TONiGHT (Wednesday, July 25th) at 6pm in front of 193 Bedford Avenue, between North 6th and North 7th Streets in the Northside of Wiliìamsburg, one of the sites where illegal landlord demolition went unpunished and indeed was reinforced by a Building Department vacate order that got the last two tenants out.  MAD is a coalition that includes Southside United (Los Sures), St. Nick’s Alliance in East Williamsburg-Greenpoint, Peop|e’s Firehouse and Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG) in the Northside, North Brooklyn Development Corporation in Greenpoint, Churches United for Fair Housing (“CUFFH”) and Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A (Brooklyn A).

Domingos Fialho, a former tenant at 193 Bedford, who has a Court case pending to have his apartment reconstructed so that he can return to it, described what happened to him and his family:

“After the landlord got most of the tenants out of the building, leaving only me, my wife and our baby, plus our neighbor, Tranquilina, the new landlord, Isaac Jacob, started demolition and construction in the building creating horrendous conditions which I believe caused my wife’s current hospitalization and semi­coma. With the help of the People’s Firehouse, we began a Housing Court action to require the landlord to remove the conditions that were violations of the Housing Maintenance Code. When the Court ordered the City to inspect to confirm the existence of violations, the landlord met with and went in with them, and instead of ordering the landlord to correct the conditions, the inspectors issued a vacate order, requiring us to move out of the building because of the supposed danger of the building collapsing, but the vacate order indicated that the business on the ground floor did not have to move. Total corruption causing massive suffering for me and my baby, and Tranquilina as we have had to put our stuff in storage and find temporary housing far away even though I work in the neighborhood near the building. PS My wife is near death in the hospital, and the landlord is gut rehabbing the building in order to rent out the apartments for much, much more than was allowed by the Rent Stabilization Law while we were there! So who got punished? We –not him! But we are continuing our fight, despite the Housing Court’s indifference, we won’t give up, and  with the help of Brooklyn Legal Services and People’s Firehouse – will returnll”

Other buildings Where tenants were forced out or are in danger include 202 Franklin Street in Greenpoint, 172 North Sth St and167 Bedford Ave in the Northside, 79 South 6th in the Southside, and 684 Flushing Ave in South Williamsburg at the Bedford Stuyvesant border. Summaries of these stories below:

202 Franklin St: A small fire in this 6 apartment building near the East River waterfront in Greenpoint, led to a vacate order that required the bui|ding’s long term tenants,
about half of whom were Latinos, out ofthe building. The Waterfront was re-zoned in 2005 and is being developed for luxury housing on the Waterfront and the surrounding neighborhood, inctuding next door to this building. The landlord and two subsequent purchasers of this building declined to repair the building for almost 4 years, and at one point offered each of the tenants $125,000 each not to return. The tenants declined the offer, and fought in Court until the landlords were required to fix the building and allow them to return, which they did about a year ago, and where they are currently fighting to get the current landlord to provide normal maintenance to the building.

172 North 8th St: The new iandlord, Jamal Alokasheh, did demoiition work in the basement without a permit in this 8 family house near the epioenter of gentrifioation in Williamsburg’s Northside. The demolition resulted in an immediate vacate order that required the mostly low income, Polish immigrant tenants to have to find temporary housing. After over a year of fighting in Housing Court to get the landlord to correct the conditions so that the vacate order would be lifted, and not until he was threatened with contempt of court, did Alokasheh do the minimal
amount of Work needed to lift the vacate. The tenants moved back in, despite the landlord’s failure to restore other basic services. However, a new vacate order was issued the next day, after it was discovered that additional demolition work had been done without permit in the basement again. Witnesses later testified that they saw the landlord’s workers enter the building and then leave with a barrel of earth. After an extended trial, the Court appointed Rich Mazur, head of the community non profit North Brooklyn Development Corporation, as
“7A Administrator,” and after significant press attention to the case, the City agreed to invest $500,000 to fix up the building so that the tenants can, after 2 years, finally return to their building before this coming Christmas. However, the landlord, with a team of new lawyers, has returned to Court seeking an order to stop the City and Administrator from completing the work. Shockingiy, the Court has recently granted the landlord a temporary stay against the City and Administrator.

167 Bedford Ave: Jamai Alokasheh, the same landlord as at 172 North 8th Street around the corner, recently acquired this building, and began the same tactics, including demolishing the apartment when the subtenant, whose status he questioned, was away from the apartment. That tenant and the other mostly Polish tenants in the building, also with the assistance of People’s Firehouse and Brooklyn Legal Services, have begun an HP action to require the landlord to correct the rapidly declining conditions in the building.

79 South 6th St: The new landlord in this 4 apartment, brownstone type building in the rapidly gentrifying Southside of Williamsburg, got three of the four tenants in the buiiding
out, leaving Elba Rodriguez, a 79 year old widow, who had lived in the building for over 40 years, as the lone remaining tenant. She had been paying $200/month, as a Rent Controlled tenant in the building. Low and behold, a fire “happened” in the vacant apartment above hers and a vacate order issued about a year ago. Fire Department records indicate that the fire was set by incendiary setting of a pile of trash on the floor in that apartment. Since then she has slept on a couch in a friend’s living room nearby her long time former residence, awaiting its repair and her return. When she observed that the landlord had almost completed the renovation of her apartment and the building, she triedI to return to her apartment, but was rebuffed by the landlord, who refused to give her a key. However, the landlord appeared to have rented her apartment to a bunch of young people, despite the fact that the vacate order remained in effect. With the help of Los Sures and Councilmember Reyna, they got the police to enforce the vacate order and put the new tenants out of the apartment.

However, those new tenants moved back in almost immediately and the vacate order was lifted shortly thereafter.  Rodriguez1 with the help of Los Sures and Brooklyn Legal Services, brought an illegal lockout case, in which the Court forced a substantial money settlement, despite Elba’s strong preference to return to her long term home. She continues to try to find an affordable nearby apartment while temporarily living in a local hotel.

684 Flushing Ave: This 16 unit single room occupancy building had been illegally Converted from an 8 unit apartment house. The landlord, identified by the City Comptroller as one
of the 25 Worst landlords in the City, was completely absentee, providing virtually no services to the tenants, despite collecting significant rents from agencies supporting these tenants. Finally, the tenants organized, with the help of St. Nicks Alliance and Brooklyn Legal Services, and began a rent strike. The bank, which held a mortgage on the building began a foreclosure action, a receiver was appointed and the landlord was barred from the building, and some services were restored. However, when the Supreme Court granted the bank’s motion for a sale of the building, the landlord’s agent, in violation ofthe Court’s order, entered with a Building Department inspector, and a vacate order issued. Just as the tenants were about to be forced out of the building, the local Councilmember intervened, got HPD –which had been working with the building for over two years and was fully aware of the building’s conditions that did not warrant the vacate order– to halt the vacate for long enough for the tenants to apply to the Supreme Court to stop the vacate. After a number of postponements, the Building Department acknowledged that, at worst, only two tenants would have to move from their back apartments to vacant apartment in the front of the building. However the landlord settled with the bank and may shortly be able to return to the building, although the Supreme Court continued the Order barring the landlord’s entry into the building for the moment.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THESE CASES, CONTACT:

Marty Needelman, Esq., (Eìrookiyn A,) 718-487-2322 or
Barbara Schliff or Debbie Medina. Los Sures, 718-387-3600;
Rolando Guzman, St. Nicks Alliance, 718-3882233 x 123
Rich Mazur (North Bklyn.Dev.Corp.), 718-389-9044 or 510-888-4757;
Kurt Hill (People’s Firehouse), 718-388-4696 x 304.