Celebrating Community
Around ten years ago Councilman Brad Lander helped take an idea from Brazil and brought it to New York. Every City Council member has about $5 million each year to distribute in their district as they please. This usually takes the form of grants to groups that may or may not support the politician, such as a Lion’s Club or […]
At the end of March, the EPA filed an Administrative Order making specific demands of the City of New York regarding their unkept promises at the Gowanus Canal cleanup. Christos Tsiamis, Chief Engineer of the project, has said many times in the past that the Federal government, of which the EPA is part of, has sovereignty over city government, which […]
Linda Mariano, a lifelong advocate for the Gowanus community, shown above as Miss Gowanus on the 100th anniversary of the Gowanus Flushing Tunnel in 2011, passed away last month. Brad Vogel, who we know from the Gowanus Dredgers, wrote these words in memory of her full life: “Linda and I served on the Community Advisory Group together (she helped get […]
PS 676 held their first autism awareness day on Thursday, April 8, in the middle of World Autism Month. The PTA was excited about being at their first event since the pandemic began. Thursday was a beautiful spring day and many different neighborhood organizations and NYC based developmental and community groups came to the Huntington Street schoolyard. The United Nations-sanctioned […]