Read the June/July issue of Civic News, including the saga of PS133 and the story about how Mack Trucks started with a sale to Prospect Park. Find out who won this year's Lovgren Awards and Civic Council scholarships.

The 50th annual House Tour May 17 was a great success. See a list of the businesses and people who made it possible.

Read about PARK Smart, a pilot program that went into effect on stretches of 5th and 7th Avenues on May 4.

May 7, PSCC trustees endorsed the designation of the Gowanus Canal as a Superfund site. The EPA is now soliciting public comments. Read the EPA press release, which includes a link to the comment site.

PSCC Trustees have passed two motions calling for significant reconfigurations of Prospect Park West and 8th Avenue, and endorsing a petition campaign by Park Slope Neighbors.

No flyer signs: Find out where you can pick them up.

Learn the whys and hows of starting a block association.

Find out more -- better yet, pitch in. Contact us or a committee doing work that interests you. Come to a meeting or help out at one of our community activities (check the calendar for times and location of meetings and events).

The Little School That Anchored a Village: PS133 and 'The Battle of Baltic Street'

IIn 1972, PS 133 was the last building standing amid six acres of rubble stretching from 5th to 4th Avenues, from Baltic Street across Butler and halfway to Douglass. The site was so barren, PS 133 so isolated, that 78th Precinct police called it “The Little School on the Prairie.” The only reason the 1898 building had not shared the fate of dozens of its neighbors — row houses, storefronts, warehouses, small factories — was that the city was going broke,...
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