Founded in 1995 by long-time residents advocating for a safe + clean park. Restoring + caring for the best-sited park + neighborhood in all of NYC.
Southwest Brooklyn NY
Joined July 2011
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I’m voting NO on all five NYC ballot propositions. I’m concerned they would weaken local oversight, reduce community input, and give City Hall and @NYC_DOT too much control over decisions that directly affect our neighborhoods and streets.
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Looks like the NY Assembly is gearing up for a hearing on Flock cameras.
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This year 401 lithium battery fires, 74 injuries, 6 deaths
All preventable.
@NYCMayor @FDNYFC stop thinking, stop talking, stop opining.
Ban them.
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This is the culmination of decades of Organizing+Advocacy by Dozens of Sunset Pk Residents who never stopped pressuring Local + State Agencies + Electeds. Much work remains, but those who’ve pushed to make 3rd Avenue Safe for ALL, are committed to this goal for the duration!
A new, safer, Third Avenue is on its way to Sunset Park. ⤵️
Together with @nycmayor, we announced new plans to redesign Brooklyn’s Third Avenue to make it safer to cross the street, reduce speeding and reckless driving, and create dedicated cycling space.
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An e-bike battery sparked a fire that tore through a NYCHA apartment in the Bronx overnight, killing an 11-year-old boy and leaving four others critically hurt, authorities said.
At a news briefing, FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said the bike was “placed in a spot in the kitchen that made it impossible for the residents to leave safely.”
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Wavecrest is NYC’s largest PACT property manager, with a portfolio of more than 117 NYCHA buildings and 11,000 apartments. Residents report rising evictions, rent increases, cosmetic renovations that fail to address underlying conditions, and difficulty reaching management.
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Proof of citizenship. Open-source code on election machines. The SAVE Act.
Our friends at @reveal hear the conservative case for tighter voting restrictions on this week’s More To The Story—and why some of those restrictions could disenfranchise valid voters.
Listen to the full episode here: tinyurl.com/4ssdstv3
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This is corruption, pure and simple.
The biggest winner from this rule change is Texas oil billionaire Jeffery Hildebrand, whose company Hilcorp built its fortune buying up old, leaky wells and ranks as the nation's top methane emitter by one analysis of EPA data. After never being a big political giver, he and his wife poured $15 million into Trump and Republicans. Then Trump made his wife an ambassador and put his former lobbyist in charge of rewriting this very rule at the EPA.
It's also really stupid policy. Imagine your gas bill keeps climbing and the utility company finds a leak in the line to your house. Instead of fixing it, they decide to stop checking for leaks altogether. That's basically what the Trump administration just did to the whole country.
Methane is natural gas, the same stuff that heats our homes and runs our stoves. A rule on the books was supposed to make companies find the biggest leaks and fix them. Now it's being gutted.
Some of the worst offenders are small, older wells like Hildebrand's. They produce only about 6% of our oil and gas but account for up to half the methane leaking from the fields.
Families living near these wells breathe that pollution every day, and methane drives about a third of the warming we're seeing. And letting wells leak won't lower what you pay at the pump one bit.
Fix the leaks, save the energy, keep the air clean. That's common sense, and the opposite of the corruption and stupidity we're seeing.
apnews.com/article/trump-met…
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Actividad de protesta: se esperan demoras en el tráfico y presencia de personal de emergencia cerca de Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn. Use rutas alternativas.
¡Descanza en paz Dolores!
Dolores Huerta, who founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez, changing laws and the lives of thousands of laborers, died on Wednesday at 96. A skilled organizer, she coordinated walkouts and negotiated pathbreaking contracts with agribusiness. nyti.ms/4zZMDUY
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spurred partly by my reporting, the NYC Council is holding an oversight hearing on violence at homeless shelters today, & the committee report cites my @Gothamist/@WNYC investigation on chronic chaos at the Tillary St. Women’s Shelter in Downtown Brooklyn: gothamist.com/news/homeless-…
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They are running tv commercials as well. Add to that use of nyc.gov/fast that leads to a Mamdani tictoc style video, and the office of mass engagement appear to be sending texts as well. This vote should be voided if any of them pass.
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“My nerves are shot, bro … Please, Eric, I just need your help.”
“One of the mayor's favorite restaurants in Queens got shut down tonight by the Board of Health”
Recorded phone calls in the trial of an ex-buildings commissioner reveal how politically-connected business owners could bypass NYC’s typical bureaucracy
gothamist.com/news/former-ny…
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And, members of the Charter Commission went on a speaking tour around NYC (i.e. universities + Private Law Schools) promoting approval on all 5. It is assumed that they were on the payroll aka the public coffer. Is that legal? Wouldn’t that be a conflict of interest, somehow?
They are running tv commercials as well. Add to that use of nyc.gov/fast that leads to a Mamdani tictoc style video, and the office of mass engagement appear to be sending texts as well. This vote should be voided if any of them pass.
And, members of the Charter Commission went on a speaking tour around NYC (i.e. universities + Private Law Schools) promoting approval on all 5. It is assumed that they were on the payroll aka the public coffer. Is that legal? Wouldn’t that be a conflict of interest, somehow?
They are running tv commercials as well. Add to that use of nyc.gov/fast that leads to a Mamdani tictoc style video, and the office of mass engagement appear to be sending texts as well. This vote should be voided if any of them pass.
