Nurturing Community

As an advocate for our community today:

 

 

 

 

 

• PSCC committees are working to expand the Park Slope Historic District, tame traffic on our streets, promote green roofs and solar panels, support the Buy in Brooklyn shop local campaign, ensure community input in the transformation of the Park Slope Armory into an athletic center, and lots more. (The photo above is of a mass rally we helped organize against a DOT plan to convert 6th and 7th Avenues to one-way streets. The people of Park Slope won!)
  

To learn more about our community based activism on a variety of issues effecting Park Slope, go to Speaking Up.

Our ongoing projects include:

• House Tour: Launched in 1959, it helped save the neighborhood. It is now our major fundraiser, with proceeds returned to the community.
• Grants: In 2007, the House Tour enabled us to award grants totalling $10,650 to 19 neighborhood schools, charities, and cultural organizations.
• Halloween Children’s Parade: One of New York City’s most popular children’s events draws some 10,000 participants.
• Spirit! We know that having fun, mixing it up with the neighbors, and reveling in Park Slope's wonderful street life are as important to our community as fighting giant developers or demanding our say. So we've added the new neighborhood-wide Stoopendous stoop party to our ongoing celebrations.
• A Cleaner Park Slope: Our twice yearly Civic Sweep is followed by a week-long, student-school anti-litter campaign, A Clean Walk to School. We secured City Council funding to have the Doe Fund’s Ready, Willing & Able workers clean Seventh Avenue.
• Scholarships and Awards: We award college scholarships to local students and present Lovgren Awards to volunteers and professionals who have made significant contributions to Park Slope.
• Toys-for-Tots. Each December, we put out boxes around the neighborhood, collecting toys for needy children.
• Public Forums: Each spring, we address an issue of major community concern. We held the city’s first public forum on Atlantic Yards, and our 2006 forum on Traffic and Transportation led to the creation of the Grand Army Plaza Coalition (GAPCo)
• Community Brunches. We have called several community gatherings to solicit ideas for projects we should tackle. A 2007 brunch led (so far) to the summer solstice celebration Stoopendous, the Buy in Brooklyn shop local campaign, the installation of bike racks around the neighborhood, and an anti-litter committee.
• We co-sponsor the Harvest Festival and Costume Swap and the Spring Fling, with the Old Stone House and Park Slope Parents; a pre-parade Halloween Children’s Party, with the Prospect Park YMCA; Christmas Tree Recycling, with the Parks Department and the Prospect Park Alliance; Jingle Bell Jamboree, with the Brooklyn Youth Vocal Ensemble and Old First Church; Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Jamboree, with several groups including the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture; and Writers on the Rooftop, with the Prospect Park YMCA. We sponsor two  Youth Baseball Teams.
• The monthly Civic News offers features, analyses, history, news and photos.
  
• And, finally, this website is still in development, but our goal is to make it a vital community resource.