Celebrating Community
A young fellow named David Rosenberg started off the October CB6 Landmarks and Land Use meeting by professing to be a little nervous. He didn’t expect the full PS 15 auditorium. They came because of two controversial issues on the agenda. Rosenberg’s presentation involved a zoning change request for three lots surrounding the Chase bank on Hamilton Avenue. The petition […]
The South West Brooklyn Fall Festival is the Columbia Waterfront District’s annual street fair. It focuses around Union and Columbia Streets, and is scheduled for Saturday September 15, from noon to 5 pm. “I have noticed growth the last couple of years,” Ben Fuller Googgins, programming and planning director of the fair’s sponsor, the Carroll Garden’s Association (CGA). “I would […]
By George Fiala A few months ago I wrote a front page editorial about how Red Hook could be made better. I said that we really need a localized governing mechanism that doesn’t now exist. The reason I mentioned was that there are many illattended community meetings. I thought that probably with so many meetings, it’s hard for the average […]