On a fine spring Saturday, volunteers picked up litter, performed tree care, listened to bluegrass, attended a tree-care workshop, had their soil tested, and learned how to make delicious fruit juice with a bicycle at the Civic Sweep, the Park Slope Civic Council’s semi-annual clean-up and beautification event.
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Brian Vines, producer of Brooklyn Independent Television’s show Brooklyn Review, stepped out of the studio and took the show to Fourth Avenue on Earth Day.
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After four decades, the entrance to the Fourth Avenue F/G subway station on the thoroughfare’s east side is once again open to the public. MTA New York City Transit unveiled the rebuilt entryway, on the east side of Fourth Avenue between Ninth and Tenth Streets, at a ceremony on Feb. 23.
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A group focusing on Fourth Avenue’s future arose from the Civic Council’s public forum on the thoroughfare, Forth on Forth Avenue, became a full-fledged committee of its own at the February Trustees Meeting, a move that received unanimous approval of all trustees.
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Good Cheer, Fourth Avenue Retail Rezoning Approved, Station Development, and Helping with Shoveling
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Hoboken faces a problem familiar to any Park Sloper: too many cars and too few places to park them. Members of the Civic Council recently toured the city to explore the innovative ways it is approaching these problems and how those solutions could be imported to Brooklyn.
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A comprehensive assessment and user-friendly map of conditions along Fourth Avenue will help the Civic Council’s FORTHonFourth group’s work for a better community.
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FORTHonFourth, a subcommittee of the Livable Streets Committe, seeks out opportunities to get involved now, at this inflection point of growth along the avenue, and help contribute to its future.
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The Summer 2011 issue of Civic News: A community victory at Atlantic Yards, Lovgren Awards, Fourth Avenue updates, and more
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The Department of City Planning (DCP) recently unveiled its proposal for a Special Fourth Avenue Enhanced Commercial District, an effort to remedy community grievances with previous rezoning and development efforts on the busy thoroughfare.
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