Mental Illness, Crime and Treatment
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View ArticleSecession
Every so often there is talk of one part or another of New York State trying to secede, and it always intrigues me.
View ArticleSCHOOLFEST 2015
Saturday, November 7, 2015 | 12-4 PM, Brooklyn Expo Center, FREE Tickets until November 1st, $10 after, $15 at doorNow in its 8th year, Schoolfest is a one-of-a-kind school fair for North Brooklyn...
View ArticleBlack Smoke from Chimney in Neighboring Building
There is black smoke coming from the chimney of a neighboring building with a dull chemical smell. I am on the top floor and can smell the odor in my apartment with the A/C running -- it's giving me a...
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Inclusionary Zoning ...how it will (or won't) work
http://citylimits.org/2015/09/21/read-the-de-blasio-inclusionary-zoning-proposal/
View ArticleThe details of the ambitious NYC ferry plan become clearer
http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/government/5892-cautious-optimism-ahead-of-hearing-on-citywide-ferry-plan
View ArticleNYC PTA EXPO 2015
NYC PTA EXPO 2015Sunday, November 8, 2015 | 12-5 PMBrooklyn Expo CenterFREE Tickets until November 1st, $10 after, $15 at door The 2nd Annual NYC PTA EXPO 2015 presents a fun and informative event with...
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Fatal crash involving a pedestrian, Grant and Atlantic, Monday 11/16/2015,...
https://twitter.com/NYCityAlerts/status/666347537058668545
View ArticleClear, informative info from the NYC IBO
FISCAL HISTORY: We’ve updated our NYC fiscal history page, which now provides data on city tax, fee, and fine revenues; agency spending; full-time staffing; and state and federal aid from fiscal years...
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The list of worst landlords is released again
Each year, the city compiles and releases a list of the landlords who operate the buildings with the most violations.Each year, it is often the same list of landlords. The buildings are largely...
View ArticleHousing policy, sans populist politicians
Housing a Growing CityJan 19, 2016, 6:30PM-8:30PMSince the Tenement House Laws of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, New York City has been a national laboratory for innovative and affordable...
View ArticleI need your help to fight against the evil grovernment.
I get a few of these tickets a year.Basically some jerk in the sanitation department gives me a ticket for not cleaning 18" to the street. Not my side walk but the street. Does anyone know what the...
View ArticleThis may be the summer we see fewer NYPD and FDNY helicopters and more gov...
NYPD and FDNY helicopter traffic seems to be most noticeable during the summer months, in part because residents have their windows open and can hear them operating.People then utilize online media to...
View ArticleA list of free outdoor movies this summer
https://calendar.google.com/…/spucdr1kejao…/public/basic.ics
View ArticleMusic events at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Gallery for May 29th...
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC)’s Three New Spring Art Shows:Roode Hoek—Wide Open 7— RecycleSaturday, May 28th, 2016 and Sunday May 29th, 2016The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition...
View ArticleNYC Sugary ban now applies to AmazonFresh
As of this morning, the NYC ban on sugary drinks is now banning Amazon Fresh from delivering 2 liter bottles of Coke to anyone in NYC. As of right now, Fresh Direct is still selling them. But that may...
View ArticleBody Cameras come to the NYPD
There will be lots of press over the next few months about the NYPD's implementation of body cameras. On this thread, I'll attempt to link aspects of the project that I find interesting and...
View ArticleBrooklyn Waterfront Artist's Coalition presents two Summer Art Shows: Speak...
Join us for our two summer art shows in Red Hook, Brooklyn: Speak Your Truth, and Color. On Saturday, performances by Palma Mingozzi and June Palo, “Artists With A Message” at 1:30, and at 4:00,...
View Article2016 BWAC Fall Art Shows: Brooklyn Is, Up Against the Wall, The really,...
Join us on our opening day, September 24th at 1PM, when BWAC presents the 2016 BWAC Fall Art Shows: Brooklyn Is, Up Against the Wall, The really, really Affordable Art $how, and Grand Installations....
View ArticleSeeking Volunteer Website Administrator
Behind the Book, a non-profit organization, works in New York City public schools, providing rich, innovative literacy programs in urban classrooms. Working with students from Pre-K to 12th grade,...
View ArticleVolunteer Book Designer
Behind the Book, a non-profit literacy organization serving high-needs New York City public schools, seeks volunteers to design and format books written and illustrated by our pre-K-12th grade...
View ArticleBrooklyn Waterfront Artist's Coalition presents the 2016 BWAC Fall Art Shows
Closing weekend, October 15th and 16th The Fall Group Art Shows in BWAC’s funky Civil War-era warehouse gallery on Red Hook’s scenic pier are filled with 25,000sf of art in all mediums, in a wide...
View ArticleCool map that shows where evictions happen in NYC
https://projects.propublica.org/evictions/#11.81/40.6855/-73.9937
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Auditions for THE CREW Series
Next week we start auditions to complete our Actors Ensemble for THE CREW, a series about low budget Brooklyn filmmakers trying to keep roofs over their heads while advancing their careers. We are...
View ArticleThe Brooklyn Hoodstars (ENY and Brownsville gang)
On occasion, I like to create threads that are off the usual topics we discuss. In this thread I will give some attention to the Brooklyn organization known as the Hoodstars.As a result of killing a...
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Popular Brooklyn coworking space moves to NoMad
The Associates Coworking space is now located in NoMad Manhattan. They are known for cheap prices and are maintaining that in their space in Manhattan. https://www.theassociatesincubator.com
View ArticleI experience the most brilliant dumb thief ever.
Either really smart thief or dumb phone operators etc.... and at the same time really dumb thief. I got my phone number stolen. It's a vanity number. So yesterday I went to the local tmobile shop to...
View ArticleLong-time Channel 4 NBC reporter Gabe Pressman, dead at 93
Here is his obit from the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/nyregion/gabe-pressman-wnbc-dead.html?smid=pl-share He was still working right up to his death: Earlier this year he covered...
View ArticleVolunteer as a book designer for NYC literacy non-profit
Behind the Book, a non-profit literacy organization serving high-needs New York City public schools, seeks volunteers to design books written and illustrated by our pre-K-12 students. Through our rich,...
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