July 30th, 2010 7:36 am
The Daily News’s tireless Brooklyn reporter, Mike McLaughlin, weighs in on an issue that’s been a major local irritant:
Two dozen homeowners on one Kensington block have been slapped with orders from city officials to fix up their cracked sidewalks, residents said.
But many in the single-family detached homes on E. Third St. complained about the crackdown, saying they’re being forced to spend thousands on repairs for minor breaks.
“I don’t think this…is hazardous,” said Ahuva Spiro, 51, a college professor, pointing to one sidewalk section with small, flat cracks the city ordered repaired. “I want to do it on my own time, not because the city is telling me.”
The homeowners between Ditmas Ave. and Avenue F received letters from the Department of Transportation about two weeks ago notifying them they had 45 days to fix the broken slabs or they’d have to pay the city to do the work.
Residents ordered to fix their entire sidewalk face bills of $2,000 or more.
“That’s a lot of money right now,” said Edgar Varella, 26, a flier distributor who rents a house and will split the tab with his landlord.
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But a spokesman for City Councilman Brad Lander (D-Kensington) said it was the first time that one block in his district had been hit with so many violations.
A DOT spokeswoman said the block was targeted after the agency received complaints aboutd it.
But residents there don’t think conditions on their block are any worse than any typical city street.
“They could do it anywhere,” said Joe Leibovits, 30, a software developer.
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July 29th, 2010 8:26 am
Conditions being that it remains affordable in perpetuity, and green space is improved. He also notes that it would be possible to negotiate an easement with the buyers of the 3 parking lots, that would stipulate that the space could be used by the neighborhood for recreation when not used by the community facilities.
Full recommendation here, hat tip Joy Rich and KARMABrooklyn.
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July 29th, 2010 8:21 am
The backyards and common area at earlier SBCO project on 15th Avenue between 37th and 38th streets. Only one family has landscaped its back and front yard, at its expense. Common area is uninviting and could use an imaginative redesign with more flowers and all-season landscaping.
Below, at what appears to be an earlier Culver El project on south side of 37th between 12th Avenue and Ft. Hamilton Parkway, there are indeed side and front yards as well as 3-car parking lots. Parking is on street side, while green space is to rear. As at new Culver El, resident parking is figured at 50%, i.e.,for each 6-unit building there are 3 spaces. Here the garden at back end of parking area.
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July 28th, 2010 5:03 pm
Their Saturday night ritual is getting some love on Twitter and on Yelp, where a poster wrote last fall that it’s “the type of place where you can leave your purse behind at the bar while you go to the bathroom and nobody will mess with it.”
She continues:
Almost every Saturday night (unless there is a wedding or death in the “family” – in that case, the whole bar basically shuts down), Eddie Mac sets up karaoke and attracts quite the crowd. As of late, with the recent expansion of the G line, you’ve seen a wide variety of hipsters coming through with the wind. But it’s okay – my favorite bartender, JR, says there’s only been three incidents in the many many years he’s been at ‘Nanergans. If you’re looking for a karaoke spot with cheap booze and a good crowd, look no further. And everybody clap!
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July 28th, 2010 4:50 pm
The Brave New World Repertory Theater puts on the second of four productions of “As You Like It” at Concert Grove (aka the Oriental Pavilion) in Prospect Park tomorrow night.
The Brooklyn-based company is performing at 5:00 p.m. tomorrow and each of the two following Thursdays as well, and they’ve developed quite a following from critically-praised performances including Farenheit 451 at the Prospect Park Bandshell at “To Kill a Mockingbird” the porch of a private house in Ditmas Park.
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July 27th, 2010 3:08 am
The writer Randy Susan Meyers recalls her childhood:
What is the relationship between reader and writer? Lord knows that I know the reader side well — I’ve been a reader for far more hours of my life than I’ve been a writer. Starting at age seven, I made twice-weekly trips to the Kensington branch of the Brooklyn library nearest my home, where I’d always check out the maximum number of books allowed. Writers were gods to me. Libraries were the purveyors of that which I needed for sustenance. Food. Shelter. Books. Those were my life’s priorities….
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July 23rd, 2010 2:24 pm
Does anyone know his story? Please tell.
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July 23rd, 2010 1:55 pm
The meeting with the City Planning that I thought was going to be held at the end of August is coming up next Wednesday, and like many folks, I won’t be able to be there. So I thought I’d put my big concerns out now, and try to find a way to have them raised at the meeting.
It is a huge comfort that our councilmember Brad Lander shares most of the concerns we have raised on this blog – that Culver El Estates should be affordable in perpetuity; that large parcels like the Bergament should not be upzoned without public benefit; that we should not give away public land for private parking; and that undeveloped lots could be turned into temporary public space. Thank you so much for standing up for what’s good for the surrounding neighborhood.
So why are the issues so important?
Rezoning: Some of the area will be upzoned, allowing folks like Bergament department store to all of a sudden be able to build 6 stories on top of their store. To give away that much money (for the apartments that can now be developed can be sold or rented at profit) without getting anything back for the neighborhood does not sound right.
The neighborhood needs public green space. It needs a community center that would offer kids as well as grownups recreational opportunities after school, summer or winter (dare we dream of a swimming pool?). It needs a location for a new public school. Before $$ is given away to developers just for asking, by way of upzoning their lots, the community needs to know what it will get in return.
For the lots that are not expected to be developed in the next 10 years – how about they are turned into a temporary neighborhood space that can be used for kids to play or a community garden – we have enough abandoned lots storing derelict vehicles already.
Everybody wants more affordable housing. Culver El Affordable Housing project should be affordable in perpetuity. If you can sell a 5 bedroom apartment to whomever you wish in 15 years, it will not be affordable in 15 years.
Culver El public land should not be given away for parking. So much is given to the surrounding property owners through rezoning, that they most likely can afford to buy any land they need for parking.
Here is where I know my thoughts may be too late to be taken into account, and some neighbors will disagree, but I’ll put it out there anyway:
By designing awesome affordable housing, there is potential for completely transforming this derelict stretch of our neighborhood by creating an attractive environment that fosters a sense of community and allows for neighborly interactions. From the current plans, it looks like we will be getting more of the same and increasingly ugly – walk a block up 37th to between 12th Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway, or down to 15th Avenue and you’ll see the already developed parts of Culver El.
Does Culver El Estates need to be free standing houses filled with large apartments? This is where I think bolder planning and design (and maybe a more creative architect) could come in. I know this is late in the process to be bringing it up – but if the area surrounding Culver El affordable housing site is upzoned to 7 stories, why not let the affordable housing project be a couple of larger buildings, and skip creating awkward alleyways through setbacks and ultimately lots of wasted space. Build a bigger building, require parking underground, and an open, well designed, public green space where parking is proposed now (or move it to a corner). More apartments could be built that way as well, allowing to add a few studio, one and two bedrooms. Keep a small front yard that can be landscaped and cared for communally.
As an example to illustrate what I’m talking about I would offer to look at the large new building on one side of Dome playground, and the assorted recently constructed smaller buildings on the other. Even though neither is beautifully done, the smaller buildings are surrounded by much wasted space – space noone wants to use, spend time in, or take care of. Space that arguably could have been better used to build more housing.
By building street front for 2 blocks you have the potential to transform those two blocks through attractive facades and landscaping. They don’t have to be more of the same detached, unattractive, cookie-cutter design – imagine 17 buildings that look exactly the same. There are prewar 4-story buildings facing the Green Triangle on Church, that the project could emulate. Except – in an ideal world – they would be energy efficient, green and sustainable buildings, and have landscaped front yards as well.
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July 23rd, 2010 11:21 am
From Census 2010 website:
If you think you didn’t get a form and didn’t get a visit from a Census taker, make sure you are counted in the 2010 Census.
Call 1-866-872-6868 and provide your information over the phone today (through July 30).
You can see how much of our neighborhood has been counted here.
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July 23rd, 2010 11:13 am
Another well-written article by Sharyn Jackson over at the Columbia University’s Brooklyn Ink- Passed Over, Borough Park Gets a Recount, and it offers a glimpse not just into the importance of being counted, but also the diversity within the Boro Park:
There was silverware to change, food to prepare, and bread to burn. One thing there wasn’t, for more than half the residents of the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, was time to fill out the 2010 census, mailed to Americans less than two weeks before Passover. The eight-day holiday commemorating ancient Jews’ exodus from Egypt requires intense preparations for the observant; because of a restrictive diet that week, houses must be scoured from top to bottom for any residual crumbs from the rest of the year. “When it comes to Passover, we put everything aside,” said Chaya Konig, 37, a Hasidic Jewish resident from Borough Park who works as an enumerator, the official name for census counters. “By the time we got to the mail after Passover, it was too late.”
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For Konig, who speaks both Yiddish and Hebrew, there was no learning curve regarding dress and language. Still, she found herself outside of her own world upon meeting many Hasidim from different sects. A member of the Belz sect, Konig said one of the highlights of her job was the opportunity to become friends with her crew leader, a Satmar. “We have no way to meet,” said Konig. “We don’t meet at shuls or family affairs.”
The insularity of the sects was another challenge for da Costa Graeff, because there was no singular way to get the census’s message out to all of the Hasidim here. She partnered with Rabbi Yechiel Kaufman, executive director of the Borough Park Jewish Community Council, who translated census flyers and postcards into Yiddish and fostered cooperation with major synagogues serving the Belz, Bobov, Munkatch and Satmar sects, as well as the non-sectarian Shomer Shabbos synagogue. Da Costa Graeff trained members of these synagogues to work as enumerators at their temples as a catch-all for residents who do not feel comfortable talking to strangers at their front doors.
Stationing enumerators in places of worship is unique to Borough Park, according to da Costa Graeff, who was quick to point out that the option would be available in other places if it was needed. “There’s a distrust of the secular world here,” she said. “That’s why you have to include the synagogues.”
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July 23rd, 2010 10:36 am
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July 22nd, 2010 2:55 pm
The Church Avenue Chomp reports that there are free swimming lessons offered at the Red Hook Public Pool.
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July 22nd, 2010 10:45 am
The architect for the Culver El affordable housing project, Bricolage Architecture & Designs, reportedly has a long history of skirting city rules in some of the most notorious projects of the recent housing boom.
Henry Radusky, one of the principals, even had to surrender his self-certification privileges, reported the Village Voice, after “he was found to have ‘repeatedly failed to follow the building code and the zoning resolution in his filings,’ according to the city’s buildings department.”
If he is not responsible for all of the controversies in the recent boom, he is responsible for a great many. The Daily News has plenty of articles on unhappy neighbors, and here are some more. He was also the architect in the notorious Spencer Street Condos.
More of the same?
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July 21st, 2010 9:15 am
Sharyn Jackson reports for the Brooklyn Ink, as she talks to the folks up and down McDonald Avenue:
Now in the Kensington section of Brooklyn where he settled, Zaman, 54, is waging another battle to assert his Bengali identity and finding himself embroiled in controversy in his adopted land. As the only Bangladeshi member of Community Board 12, Zaman last March proposed renaming the area around Church and McDonald Avenues, home to thousands of Bengalis, “Banglatown.” He also suggested erecting a monument to Bangladeshi liberation “martyrs” on a traffic island at Avenue C and McDonald Avenue. While Zaman’s ideas inspire pride among Bangladeshis here, they have been seen by some Kensington residents and activists as a threat to the multicultural balance of the neighborhood.
The full article is here.
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July 20th, 2010 1:27 pm
Forgive me for getting a bit obsessed with the Cuver El, but it is hot in our sleepy neighborhood, new businesses are slow to open, and this is the biggest issue right now.
So I was poring over the plans, looking at the land the city is giving up for the affordable housing, and could not help being struck by the fact that the city is giving away public land for parking spots in an area where we desperately need green public space for safe play and enjoyment of folks young and old.
The location of additional parking lots for the unnamed community facilities right in the middle of the proposed housing development is perplexing. And that’s 24,000 square feet of additional parking, in lots of 238×50 feet, 153×50 and 90×50 feet, the latter two being adjacent.
Maybe a there could be a Community Garden?
At the hearing is was said that being 50 feet wide, these lots are peculiar and not suited to anything really, and clearly public space was not a consideration. I looked up the size of Community garden on E4th street – it is reported by the Parks department to be 0.184 acres. That would translate to 8,015 square feet – three community gardens that size could fit into the proposed parking spots! By adding a community garden, we’d be creating a gathering space, a place for the neighbors from the surrounding area, be they Jewish, Bangladeshi, Mexicans, Russians, Italians or Irish (I could go on) to get together, grow some beautiful veggies and flowers, and get to know each other. The E4th Street garden is such a fabulous neighborhood asset, and definitely large enough to provide for enjoyment of outdoor space, neighbors, and some shade to the apartment dwellers around here. (Never mind teaching kids about how the flowers grow, composting, and all those other good things of environmentally responsible living.). By adding parking spots we get … parking spots.
Or – A Dog Run?
Yet another suggestion for a better use of the space than parking lots: neighbors in Kensington have been working for years to find a spot that would be big enough for a dog run – just ask Sean Casey of the Sean Casey Animal Rescue! Any chance one of these lots could be big enough?
Or, just maybe, a place to play soccer? Currently the games are played in the street … a 40 year tradition, some residents say (see photo above).
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July 20th, 2010 12:31 pm
Came across these the other day. Enjoy!
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July 20th, 2010 11:15 am
Photo by Jole Carliner
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July 20th, 2010 11:09 am
KARMABrooklyn reminds us that the next public hearing on the Culver El project, the proposed addition of 17 buildings and a rezoning of an 8 block area right by the green triangle, on the west side of the 36th street is next Wednesday, July 28th, 10:00 a.m. More detail here.
How the public is supposed to take the time off in midmorning, midweek to attend puzzles me. Expect that the developer will have a good showing.
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July 20th, 2010 10:28 am
From the John Sprague, Commanding officer at the 66th precinct:
I hope everyone’s summer is going well.
I would like to inform everyone about a case regarding a male posing as a water delivery employee. He rings bells and has taken advantage of an elderly person by distracting her and removing a large amount of money and jewelry from her private house.
If you are not sure, or suspicious of anyone who comes to your door, please call 911 immediately! Better to be safe than sorry. Utility companies make appointments!
Bottom line: If you are not expecting someone, do not let them in!
Enjoy the rest of your summer,
D.I. John J. Sprague
Commanding Officer, 66th Precinct
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July 19th, 2010 4:07 pm
Part of Traffic calming along Church Avenue. Photo by Jole Carliner
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July 19th, 2010 3:36 pm
Two people spoke against The Culver El Estates project at the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) Public Hearing last Thursday evening (July 8th) at Brooklyn Borough Hall. Presided over by Brooklyn Borough President (BP) Marty Markowitz, the hearing was part of the approval process put in motion by Community Board 12’s June 22 43-2 vote to adopt the zoning changes proposed by NYC Planning and dispose of the last 2 parcels of Culver El railway land. That vote would ultimately allow construction of seventeen 4-story buildings of affordable condominium housing in the 50-ft. wide, two-block long Culver El right of way. The BP has 30 days in which to complete his review. Then, in late August, another hearing will be held before the NYC Planning Commission, the third step in the 5-step ULURP process, which when successful, ends in Mayoral approval.
Three people endorsed the project, including CB 12 Variance Committee Vice Chair Yeruchim Silber, and two from South Brooklyn Community Organization (SBCO, the developer and affordable housing division of Agudath Israel): its lawyer, Adam Rothkrug, and its Housing Development director, Chaim Ispael. Councilman Brad Lander (39th district) arrived late and endorsed it too, but with reservations about some of the zoning decisions and condominium resale options.
GREEN SPACE FOR CULVER EL RESIDENTS
Maggie Tobin, Kensington’s newly seated representative to CB 12, who voted against Culver El at its June meeting “because the project did not include any green space for its residents,” handed BP Markowitz photos she’d shot of the area, where she also lives. These included a photo of the 100 people who regularly play soccer Friday nights on 36th Street–a tradition going back 40 years. She told him that while she had been petitioning the city for more green space, that was not the reason she voted against this project. In spite of her efforts, she said people “still have no place to play….They have to sit on plastic milk crates because there are no benches.” According to Ms. Tobin, CB 12 ranked near the bottom (49 out of 59) of NYC’s community boards in green areas.
This reporter also spoke, proposing that the 48 parking spaces currently designated for “community service organizations” in HPD’s Culver El Estates plan be placed underground, thus freeing up space for a landscaped pocket park or plaza on its surface, with seating, café, game tables and play equipment for the kids—a benefit to the new residents of Culver El Estates and all the current inhabitants of the West Kensington/Boro Park neighborhood.
AFFORDABLE CONDOS IN PERPETUITY
Mr. Lander proposed restricting condominium resale to income-eligible families beyond the current 15-yr restriction, saying future families should benefit from this project too, thus providing our community “affordable homeownership…in
perpetuity.”
Earlier Adam Rothkrug spoke in support of the 15-yr resale restriction and discouraged any deviation from past practices, saying he’d developed over 500 affordable rental housing with little turnover.
BP Markowitz also asked HPD Project Manager Eunice Suh, “What assurance do we have that housing that starts off affordable remains that way 15 yrs down the line?” Later he asked Councilman Lander, “Why not develop Bergament as affordable housing?”
Mr. Lander explained that the inclusion of the Bergament Department store building in the approved rezoning without a public benefit requirement meant that Bergament could be replaced by a 7-story building with 150 parking spaces, plus more for residents, and ground-floor retail with no stipulation for affordable housing or public space. And it could be done without further public review. Instead, he urged that Bergament be excluded from the rezoning proposals.
DOME PLAYGROUND RENOVATION
To address the negligible amount of green in HPD’s design for Culver El estates, Councilman Lander proposed reducing the 48 parking spaces, adding a rooftop playground, and announced he’d gotten funding for the renovation of DOME playground: $650,000 recently approved in the NYC budget with an additional $300,000 from the Boro President Marty Markowitz.
IMPACT OF ZONING CHANGES
David Parish, planner at the NYC Planning Commission’s Brooklyn Office, briefly explained zoning changes involved in Culver El, and the disposal of the two Culver El parcels to the developer, SBCO. These will alter an area of mixed commercial and light manufacturing to one of medium density residential and would thus permit development of underdeveloped and vacant sites at various heights, as well as new retail along 13th Avenue. The rezoned area is bound by 36th Street, 12th Avenue, 39th Street, 14th Avenue, Old New Utrecht Road, and a few additional blocks.
Light manufacturing will continue in a special mixed-used district, similar to those in Dumbo, Tribeca, and Williamsburg. Many businesses already there will be grandfathered in but with limitations on noxious uses. The zoning changes will also allow “homeowners to modestly expand their homes.” For convenience, HPD divided the Culver El parcels into 14 lots, with 3 assigned to the 48 parking spots.
NEXT STEPS
Before this project can proceed, the developer and HPD must file an application for variances at the NYC Board of Standards and Appeals to reduce backyard size requirement and a height variance. CB 12 will hold separate hearing(s) for these.
Located on two city blocks along the south side of 37th Street, the 68-unit Culver El Estates will be built on a 50-ft wide strip starting at Old New Utrecht Road, near 14th Avenue, running north to 12th Avenue. Each building will provide parking for 50% of the units, as required by City Planning rules.
24,050 SQ. FT. FOR PARKING?
On the other hand, the Culver El Estates affordable housing proposal awards “neighborhood community facilities,” 24,050 sq. ft. on which to park 48 cars. This despite what those involved in the planning discussions at the CB 12 meeting termed a tight narrow space, necessitating careful planning. Participants said they had to reduce NYC City Planning land stipulations for front, back and side yards and increase building height to 4 stories in a 2-story area in order to arrive at the desired number of condos.
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July 19th, 2010 2:33 pm
Compost for Brooklyn folks are inviting everyone to help them celebrate the opening of their compost garden this coming Sunday, July 25th, 2 PM to 6 PM. Newkirk Avenue & East 8th Street. Here is a sampling of what to expect, more on their website:
* volunteer in the garden (email compostforbrooklyn@gmail.com)
* listen to live music by local artists
* check out the Solar Bucket
* sip lemonade
* learn about indoor and outdoor composting methods
* kids cook with chef Miriam Garron
* meet your neighbors!
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July 15th, 2010 1:29 pm
Here’s what’s known about van fire on 36th Street and man who died:
The identities of both men were not immediately available, police said, but friends gathered at the scene identified the dead man as Danny Torres, a homeless man who they said grew up in Kensington and lived on the street because of a difficult relationship with his mother.
“He preferred to sleep outside,” said Moses Rodriguez, 44, who said he attended Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School with Mr. Torres.
Workers and business owners on the heavily industrial block said the pair was likely among the handful of laborers who hang out along the strip, huddling together for company and sleeping in empty cars. Groups of men would line up early in the morning waiting for employers to pass through and pick them up for a day’s work, said Andres Beato, 52, a contractor who said he has worked on the block for 25 years. When the laborers would return in the evening, they would spend the night in cars.
“They didn’t have no money to rent a room,” Mr. Beato said.
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July 13th, 2010 2:01 pm
NYTimes explains what happened:
Nearly 400 Canada geese and goslings that had been living at Prospect Park were captured and euthanized last week as part of an ongoing effort to reduce the goose population in the New York City region. [..]
The Prospect Park geese were not the only ones removed in the last month. The goal is to remove all geese within seven miles of La Guardia and John F. Kennedy airports.
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July 13th, 2010 1:07 pm
The issues surrounding Culver El rezoning (lack of public space, impact on public services, limited public notification, and so on) highlight a number of concerns:
1. Kensington has not been meaningfully represented for some time now. Brad Lander’s election has brought us the attention we deserve at the City Hall, as well as a new member on the Community Board 12, which is the city’s body established for communicating an area resident’s needs and concerns to the city’s agencies and covers Kensington, along Borough Park and Midwood, even though it does not say that on their website.
2. The importance of looking at a neighborhood and its needs as a whole, not just in small increments when a rezoning is called for; a more comprehensive plan for where new schools, playgrounds, and public space can be built in the neighborhood, along with zoning and allowed uses.
Maybe it is time for a vision of what Kensington could be? What exactly is the unique character of Kensington and how that can be best transmitted into the future? What pieces of past should be preserved and celebrated? What can be let go and redeveloped? Municipal Arts Society did an Imagine Flatbush 2030 project a couple of years back, maybe its time for Kensington?[Municipal Arts Society is also hosting a one day free conference next week on land use in NYC, and promises a discussion on need for reform of current practices.]
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July 13th, 2010 12:43 pm
Here is our Councilmember Brad Lander’s testimony from last weeks hearing at the Brooklyn Borough Hall on the Culver El rezoning and the affordable housing project to be developed at the spot. He raised the very important concerns the neighborhood shares about lack of public green space at the rezoned area, the impact on the public schools, and ways to ensure that the housing stock that the city is subsidizing remains affordable in perpetuity, and the broader implications rezoning will have on as of right development of some of the parcels, especially the Bergament site. We salute Councilmember Lander for standing up for Kensington, yet again. Thank You!
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July 13th, 2010 12:17 pm
The City has put out yet another urgent plea for residents to please consider watering the street trees, especially the newly planted ones, and we in Kensington have quite a few of those. Newly planted trees need a lot of water while the roots establish themselves and thus are more at risk. Here is what you can do to help:
• Water each young tree 15-20 gallons once a week between May and October (that’s 3-4 large buckets).
• Using a hand cultivator, carefully loosen the top 2-3 inches of soil to alleviate compaction and help water and air reach the roots.
• Do not dig any deeper or use large tools. These will damage the tree roots.
• Water slowly so the water penetrates the soil and does not run off of the surface.
• Water at the soil level, not through the leaves of shrubs and groundcovers.
• If it rains one inch or more in a week’s time period, you do not need to water.
Additional suggestions include:
• Poke small holes at the bottom of a large trash can. Fill it with 15-20 gallons of water and leave the trash can next to the tree overnight.
• Ask building maintenance staff to water trees while they are hosing off sidewalks.
• Ask street vendors and merchants to dump water from their containers (coolers with melted ice or flower buckets) into nearby tree pits at the end of the day.
• Make sure water with detergent or bleach is dumped into the gutter, not the tree pit.
A new NYC Parks “Water the Street Trees of NY” public service announcement launches today in Times Square. The 30-second PSA runs at the end of each hour from Thursday, July 8 until Thursday, July 22. It can also be seen on NYC-TV, SNY, and NY1.
MillionTreesNYC is a cornerstone of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC, a blueprint to fight global warming and create a more livable city. MillionTreesNYC is a joint initiative of the City of New York and New York Restoration Project, through which one million new trees will be planted and cared for throughout the five boroughs by 2017. For more information, visit www.milliontreesnyc.org.
Please consider adopting a street tree, and giving it a hope to make it through this brutal heat wave we are experiencing!
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July 13th, 2010 12:02 pm
Overall, as a Kensington resident, your chances of being stopped and questioned by the police are rather low, the New York Times reports. Click on the image to get to the interactive map, reflecting data for 2009.
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