It’s that time of year again…
7th Annual 23rd St. Mega Stoop Sale
(23rd St. between 6th & 7th Aves.)
“Come one, come all to our block-long stoop sale.”
20+ households will be ready for you with our stuff!
Saturday, May 18
11:00 a.m.
-to-
4:00 p.m.
Houses will have lots of stuff for sale, at, of course, very reasonable prices! (or you can just haggle with everyone)
Community Board 7 let us know about 40 residents attended the Greenwood Park and 72nd Pct. community meeting this past Wednesday night. While we received a pretty good overview from CB7′s district mgr. Jeremy Laufer, we thought it best to hit up the CCGH and South park Slope community news groups to hear from some of the local residents who attended. Pretty much everyone’s take dove tailed with CB7′s, mostly focusing on quality of life issues, especially noise.
Seems spring has sprung and so have many long awaited speed bumps (or is that humps?) in GWH. 23rd St. between 6th and 7th Aves. got theirs on Monday (and BUMP marks at 2 AM in the morning!).
Any other new ones out there we don’t know of? Are they reducing speeders or just changing traffic patterns? We’d love to know. Post below.
Community Board 7 reached out to us to let the neighborhood folks know about an upcoming public safety committee meeting that will feature “a conversation with the owners of Greenwood Park and the 72nd Precinct.”
The folks at SPRiG (Sunset Park Revitalization and Improvement Group) reached out to us to help promote the event with Sunset Park Garden Club on May 5th as part of It’s My Park Day in NYC. We love Sunset Park and our neighbors to the south, so here’s the skinny:
We received a note for CM Sara Gonzalez’s office in regards to the continued delays to the opening of the rebuilt Slope Park on 6th Ave. Looks like it’s been bumped again till the end of June (good news for Greenwood Park). From the note:
Councilwoman González has allocated approximately $2 Million dollars in capital funds for the complete renovation of the playground. She requested an explanation [ from Brooklyn Borough Parks Commissioner Kevin Jeffrey] as to why work was delayed on behalf of her constituents who have been eagerly awaiting the Park’s opening.
Green-Wood Cemetery was chartered by the State of New York on this date in 1838. The Greenwood Heights community should be thankful to be living so close to this National Historic Landmark and fantastic place to stroll, learn and relax (heck, all of Brooklyn should!). You can find out more info on their 175th on their website.
From the South Park Slope Community Group’s news group:
Join us for a fundraiser at Freddy’s Bar to benefit Neighbors Helping Neighbors. There is no cover- Freddy’s will be donating tips & a portion of all drink sales. NHN works to empower low and moderate income residents to have and keep affordable quality housing.
Well, our neighborhood of Greenwood Hts. is ALWAYS interesting, we had another day gone “afowl” (literally) when 23rd St. neighbors Linda, Julian, Toby and Steven cornered and escapee chicken waking up the block…probably from one of the Hallal slaughterhouses in the neighborhood.
This just in from NYC DOT on rehab work on the bridge on 5th Avenue that goes over Green-Wood starting Monday, April 1.
Looks like it’s going to be a bit of a mess with only one travel lane open at a time, a temporary walkway, no parking in the work area and the improvements will go through July 2013. See the attached PDF of the flyer and the text from the flyer below. Going to be a fun spring and summer!
