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Brooklyn Heights/ Proposed Waterfront Development

Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Commission....
For the redevelopment of the waterfront under the Brooklyn Bridge
718- 624 6030
PO Box 021064
www.bbpdc.org
E-mail: brooklynbridgepark@yahoo.com

Brooklyn Bridge Park Coalition
Individuals, civic,and environmental groups for the creation of a waterfront park
www.brooklynbridgepark.org

Carroll Gardens

Carroll Gardens Association (non-profit)
Develop & management of low income housing
201 Columbia Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
718 243 9301

Boerum Hill

Atlantic Avenue Betterment Association
www.atlanticavenuebkny.com

WaterfrontMatters
A project of Community Board 6 in Brooklyn, New York. WaterfrontMatters ensures that you can add to the public record, in a public forum. All statements we receive will be sent by the community board to HR&A and then become part of the official public record.
www.waterfrontmatters.org

GCCDC
Gowanus Canal Community Development
Projects related to canal rehabilitation
515 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
718 858 0557

Gowanus Dredgers & Deckhands
A community activist canoe club affiliated with the Red Hook Waterfront Museum concerned with the future development of the Gowanus Canal Estuary,
e-mail dredgers@excite.com
www.waterfrontmuseum.org/dredgers

Park Slope & Vacinity

SouthSouth Slope Community Organization
We are residents of the southwestern section of Park Slope and Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, who have come together in opposition to the unchecked development in our community. We're a citizen's group advocating for rezoning changes within Community Board 7 ( South Slope South of 15th Street, Greenwood Heights and portions of Sunset Park), changes which would ban apartment construction of significant height and bulk without relationship to the surrounding communities. These zoning changes have the support of Assembly person James Brennan for one.

Check their website for upcoming community meetings.

Contact Travis Ruse at: travisruse@hotmail.com
www.southsouthslope.com

Care About the Slope (CATS)
Residential & Commercial quality of life advocates
488 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Director Ashley Thomas
Phone: 718 965-0567
info: Ben Meskin
Phone 718 965 1360CATS represents the interests of the residents and retail merchants of our community. These interests include, but are not limited to, quality of life issues, public safety, crime, the environment, sanitation, traffic, housing, economic development and recreation

Develop -- Don't Destroy. Brooklyn
People in Brooklyn may want the Nets, but... NO ONE wants a destructive, secret, taxpayer-subsidized sweetheart deal forced on the community. We want a development plan that maximizes its benefits for Brooklyn, rather than for a development company. We believe that Brooklyn and New York City deserve much better than what Forest City Ratner has proposed, which repeats the urban renewal mistakes of the past which we must not repeat. DDDb leads a broad-based community coalition fighting for development that unites our communities instead of dividing and destroying them.
www.DevelopDontDestroy.org

No Land Grab
Archives of news articles and letters from the community about Ratner's Atlantic Yards Proposal.
www.NoLandGrab.org
Keep Wal-Mart out of Downtown Brooklyn
"Wal-Mart is eager to make New York City its next retail frontier… While we haven't finalized any agreements for sites within the five boroughs, there are several store sites that we are now considering." - Wal-Mart spokeswoman Mia Maston, in a letter to the New York City Council. The New York Daily News reports that Wal-Mart wants a store in Downtown Brooklyn.
www.wal-martnoway.org
 
Big Cities Big Boxes
IKEA-RED HOOK is a suburban-style big box store, now in litigation, proposed for the Brooklyn waterfront. The Red Hook site, however, is more than one mile from the nearest highway off-ramp. Red Hook has no subway, and it has narrow cobblestone streets. To reach the site, thousands of cars would have to navigate the already-congested Gowanus Expressway and then drive through Red Hook to the waterfront. This is the most inappropriate site in New York City for a big box store.
www.BigCitiesBigBoxes.com

West Nile Virus

West Nile Virus Spray Schedules
www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/wnv/wnvspray.html

Mosquito spraying

New York Ciry Health Department
www.nyc.gov/health

For a complete listing see...
Small Town Brooklyn Health Section

Urban Spraying...

No Spray Coalition
388 Atlantic Avenue, 3rd floor
(between Bond St. & Hoyt St.)
Brooklyn, NY 11217
(718) 670-7110
www.nospray.org
email: mitchelcohen@mindspring.com

The No Spray Coalition is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed in Federal Court against the City of New York seeking a permanent halt to mass pesticide spraying. We are in serious need of funds to support the lawsuit and the organizing work we are doing. Please make a donation and mail to the address above. For more information, email us at:
listserve: sprayno-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Dial 311 - Citizens action line for complains

Care About the Slope (CATS)
Residential & Commercial quality of life advocates
Director Ashley Thomas
488 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
info:
Phone 718 965 1360

Silent Majority
An organization that campaigns against the worst aspect of New York City life: the car alarm. Silent Majority aims to give a voice to the thousands of New Yorkers who seethe over car alarms, but who until now could only complain to their neighbors or throw eggs out of their windows. As a united force, we can eliminate car alarms for good. Please join us!
www.SilentMajorityNY.org

City Wide

Tri-State Transportation Campaign
(212) 268-7474
www.tstc.org
An alliance of public interest, transit advocacy, planning and environmental organizations working to reverse deepening automobile dependence and sprawl development in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut metropolitan region. Working to reduce traffic, trucks and pollution on Brooklyn's streets...

Straphangers Campaign
a project of the New York Public Interest Research Group Fund, NYPIRG. www.straphangers.org

Tri-State Transportation Campaign
Transportation reform in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut metropolitan region
www.tstc.org

Monthly Meeting Transportation Alternatives Brooklyn
For Information
Phone: (212) 629-8080
www.transalt.org/calendar/ brooklyn@transalt.org

Boerum Hill

Ongoing Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project...
Study to improve street safety and traffic flow; Input & Ideas - attend workshops:
c/o Zerlin Communications
314 West 71st St
NY,NY 10023
e-mail: bktrfcalm@aol.com

Sunset Park - Park Slope

Gowanus Expressway Tunnel Project
Citizens concerned with the proposed rebuilding of the Gowanus Expressway elevated structure when a tunnel would better serve the local Community
.
The Regional Plan Association
Gowanus Tunnel: An initial feasibility study by a regional plan association study team:
www.rpa.org/publications/gowanus-intro.html

Gowanus Expressway Community Coalition
356 Fulton Street - 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11291
718 237 7928
fax 718 875 5728

Urban Outdoors...
This one is a must if you are concerned withthe always present threat to Community Gardens and the quality of Urban living. A monthly newsletter of Neighborhood Open Space Coalition and Friends of Gateway. It reports on citywide public space issues and the work of hundreds of local civic groups that take an interest in the spaces.

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