Eyes on AY
The Park Slope Civic Council, the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council, and the Boerum Hill Association have joined forces on a new website that will monitor the megaproject in the midst of all three communities.
Civic News
Butterfly Garden: A Park Reclaimed
Right next to the Prospect Expressway sits a half-acre park in a space left over from when the highway was built through the neighborhood in the late 1950s. Over the last decade, that small slice of land has flourished into Butterfly Garden.
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Sailing the Five C’s
As executive director of a nonprofit lender that has made 176 business loans in recent years to start-ups and existing businesses, I want to share the lender’s perspective. As a business owner, you will be in a stronger position to obtain financing by knowing how they think.
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Ten Years Ago in the Slope (…and 20 and 30, Too): May 2011
Civic News is nearing its 75th year of publication. First published by the South Brooklyn Board of Trade in 1938 — which changed its name to the Park Slope Civic Council in the 1960s — the newsletter has reported on events of all sorts around the community.
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Committee Updates: May 2011
May 2011 reports from Livable Streets, FORTHonFourth, and Sustainability
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News & Notes: May 2011
An Award from Kingsboro Temple, Another Successful House Tour, Raccoon Troubles?
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Spring 2011 Civic News: Our Livable Streets
The Spring 2011 issue of Civic News is out, focusing on how we view our community and our livable streets.
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Building Our Livable Streets
What is the essence of Park Slope? The answer might be found on our very livable streets.
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What Makes Park Slope a Community?
In the space of one week in March, I had two very different experiences of community, right here in Park Slope.
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A Journey Around and For Park Slope
Imagine a tour of Park Slope that’s fun, inspirational, and educational — and that benefits organizations throughout our community. Well, you don’t have to imagine, because it’s coming up soon: the Civic Council’s annual House Tour.
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