CB6 Transportation/Public Safety Committee Meeting
NYPD Precinct 76 191 Union Street, Brooklyn, United StatesAgenda Presentation and discussion about Link NYC, who will be providing an update on the City’s free Wi-Fi kiosk project.
The Legacy of Jane Jacobs
Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, United StatesThe following is a Brooklyn Historical Society event. In 1960 Jane Jacobs’s book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds. Join us as New York Times columnist Ginia Bellafante talks to Matt Tyrnauer, director and producer of the acclaimed documentary Citizen Jane: Battle For the City, […]
CB6 Economic/ Waterfront/ Community Development & Housing Committee Meeting
Cobble Hill Community Room 250 Baltic Street, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesMEETING AGENDA: Presentation and discussion with representatives for the Brooklyn Borough President on the Borough President's Brooklyn Working Waterfront strategic initiative to preserve and expand Brooklyn's working waterfront to support job growth and employment for Brooklyn residents.
Book Talk: City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, United StatesThe following is a Brooklyn Historical Society event. The United States is a country built on immigrants, and New York has long been a defining port of entry for those looking to make this place home. Historian Tyler Anbinder shares the sweeping story of how newcomers have continually helped to define and redefine this city […]
Whose Park? Equity in NYC’s Green Spaces
Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, United StatesThe following is a Brooklyn Historical Society event. In our congested city, parks and green spaces aim to provide some respite for all. But do they indeed serve every New Yorker equally? Is sharing our green space more easily said than d one? Tupper Thomas, former Executive Director of New Yorkers for Parks, moderates a candid […]
CB6 Landmarks Land Use Committee Meeting
Park Slope Library 431 6th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesAGENDA: PUBLIC HEARING on 550 5th Avenue (BSA Cal. No. 2017-20-BZ). Discussion and formulation of a recommendation on an application submitted to the Board of Standards and Appeals on behalf of GTO Holding LLC for a variance to legalize a physical culture establishment operated as Harbor Fitness Park Slope within an existing mixed use building […]
CB6 Permits Licenses Committee Meeting
Cobble Hill Community Room 250 Baltic Street, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesAGENDA Presentation and review of a new on-premises liquor license application submitted to the State Liquor Authority on behalf of Sheila's at 412 Court Street (between 1st /2nd Place). Presentation and review of an alteration to a current on-premises liquor license application submitted to the State Liquor Authority on behalf of Wepa La Arepa LLC […]
Participatory Budgeting Vote Site – #GetOrganizedBK
Congregation Beth Elohim 274 Garfield Place, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesIt's Participatory Budgeting vote week! You can vote in person here, at the #GetOrganizedBK Meeting. For learn more about PB, see the 2017 PB ballot, and vote online visit the blog.
Participatory Budgeting Vote Site – District 39 Project Expo
Camp Friendship 339 8th Street, Brooklyn, United StatesIt's Participatory Budgeting vote week! You can learn about each project and vote in person here, at the District 39 Project Expo. For learn more about PB, see the 2017 PB ballot, and vote online visit the blog.
The Moth StorySLAM: Partners in Crime
The following is a Brooklyn Historical Society event. Tickets available by BHS and Moth eblasts in early March. Don't miss the emails by signing up here and here. America's favorite live storytelling competition returns to BHS! In connection with our exhibition Truman Capote's Brooklyn: The Lost Photographs of David Attie, the theme of the evening […]