Atlantic Avenue is the place to be! This Saturday, June 16th, you can check out the Atlantic Avenue extravaganza from the BQE entrance all the way down to Third Avenue and then next weekend enjoy the Atlantic Avenue Restaurant Hop. All you need is a $15 wristband to land amazing deals at over 15 participating restaurants on Atlantic June 22
through 24th. Proceeds from the sale of the wristbands will benefit the Dodge YMCA's Strong Kids Campaign.
Thank you to the Cobble Hill Association - the CHA's recent $500 grant to the Friends of the Carroll Gardens Library went toward the purchase of a portable PA system. Before this purchase there was no sound system for music and presentations in the library. This PA system will allow the library and the Friends group to bring more authors, speakers, music and movies to the library!Also FYI, the Carroll Gardens Library will be closed for two months this summer due to much-needed roof repairs to our 107 year old building. The branch will be closed from June 15 through the end of August.
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| (c) Pat Cummings, NY Times |
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| Sliver between buildings (c) lostnewyorkcity.blogspot.com |
Across from P.S. 29, on Henry Street, in Cobble Hill, there's a row of residences. Taking up the south side of the block is a group of austere buildings composed of yellowing off-white stone. Composing the north end are a couple of old, wide, red-brick structures, some with ornate detailing, followed by two brownstones. And in the middle is a gap, about two and a half feet wide.Diving into the history of this detail, Lost City's entry reveals building plenty of backstory including that toy icon F.A.O. Schwartz himself owned in that area. Check out the post at this link and look our for plenty more Cobble Hill history coming your way with the soon to be released Cobble Hill History Project.
I'm looking to continue some of the great traditions that already exist and improve on other areas that need work....I don't have that many officers," said Captain Schiff. "I have to make do with what I have. So what can I do? I can make use of my community, who have eyes everywhere—including the mailman who walks up and down the street every day. So I'm looking to expand the communication and that existing intelligence. That way, we can take the guesswork out of police work."To read more about Capt Schiff check out this recent article in the Patch, or make use of his open-door policy and attend the next community council meeting, which meets the first Tuesday of each month at the 76th Precinct, 191 Union Street, at 7:30 P.M.
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| Is this sign needed next on Hicks Street? |
"The speed sign is a simple, but smart way to put drivers on alert," said Dave 'Paco' Abraham, vice president of the Cobble Hill Association. "But it’s just one small step forward."For years the Cobble Hill Association has joined with other civic groups asking our elected officials to Fix the Ditch with both traffic calming and landscaping on Hicks Street as well as bike/ped pedestrian bridges that would link the streets cut in half by Robert Moses' trench so many decades ago. Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez secured federal transportation funds to develop The BQE Enhancement Study and hundreds of residents came to workshops to help create a series of potential improvements that are a piece-meal, but practical approach. Its imperative upon residents and local civic groups to continue demanding improvements, and with the Enhancement Study now laying out a clear path to that goal, its imperative upon all of our local elected officials to secure the funds to make a safer Hicks street a reality.
