Barclays Center has applied for a liquor license with no cut-off time, and it’s not limited to arena events. Here’s your opportunity to tell Governor Cuomo and the State Liquor Authority that won’t work for Brooklyn.
Should Barclays Center crowds really be able to drink all night? Read More »
New York City Council Member Letitia James and the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council are sponsoring the BK Gateway Transportation Workshop, which will lay the groundwork for developing community driven solutions to the transportation issues facing the Atlantic Yards area.
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On Jan. 13, sponsors of the BrooklynSpeaks coalition filed legal documents in order to ensure a proper evaluation of the megaproject’s construction.
Coalition Calls for Continued Review on Atlantic Yards Read More »
A while back, a few Park Slope Civic Council trustees had the idea to devote an upcoming issue of Civic News to the question, “What is the Park Slope Civic Council?”
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In March 2006, the Park Slope Civic Council devoted its annual community forum to issues of traffic and transportation. More than 200 audience members gathered in the Old First Reformed Church’s sanctuary to listen to panelists discuss traffic calming and placemaking, residential parking permits and Atlantic Yards, and more.
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If you’ve been past the corner of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues during the last 18 months, you have seen the Barclays Center arena taking shape. Whatever your views about it, the arena’s existence is now certain.
Keeping an Eye on a Megaproject Read More »
The Empire State Development Corporation and Forest City Ratner Companies have served notice that they plan to fight a July court decision ordering further environmental review of the Atlantic Yards project. The decision came after nearly two years of litigation.
Atlantic Yards Sponsors Choose to Fight Court Order on Environmental Review Read More »
The Summer 2011 issue of Civic News: A community victory at Atlantic Yards, Lovgren Awards, Fourth Avenue updates, and more
A community victory at Atlantic Yards, Lovgren Awards, and more Read More »
How should the community — and by “community” I mean the residents of Park Slope and our neighbors in Gowanus, Boerum Hill, Downtown Brooklyn, Fort Greene, and Prospect Heights — respond to and live with this project?
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On July 13, New York State Supreme Court Justice Marcy Friedman ruled that the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) acted
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