Park Slope Civic Council

Gowanus Canal Conservancy - Composting Gowanus March Windrow Build
2014-03-23 11:00 - 15:00 UTC | Salt Lot, 2 Second Ave, Brooklyn (between 5th St and the Gowanus Canal), Brooklyn, NY, United States
GCC be stewarding the Degraw St. gardens and building a new compost windrow with up to 10,000 pounds of food scraps from GrowNYC.
For complete information on GCC activities and events, including an upcoming tree pruning course, go to www.gowanuscanalconservancy.org

Gowanus Canal Conservancy - Composting Gowanus Windrow Turn
2014-03-23 11:00 - 15:00 | Salt Lot, 2 Second Ave, Brooklyn (between 5th St and the Gowanus Canal), Brooklyn, NY, United States
Join GCC for some good old compost fun and get in shape for the Spring!! We will be using pitchforks to ”turn” a compost windrow during the week.
For complete information on GCC activities and events, including an upcoming tree pruning course, go to www.gowanuscanalconservancy.org

Gowanus Canal Conservancy - Composting Gowanus Windrow Turn
2014-03-23 11:00 - 15:00 | Salt Lot, 2 Second Ave, Brooklyn (between 5th St and the Gowanus Canal), Brooklyn, NY, United States
Join GCC for some good old compost fun and get in shape for the Spring!! We will be using pitchforks to “turn” a compost windrow during the week.
For complete information on GCC activities and events, including an upcoming tree pruning course, go to www.gowanuscanalconservancy.org

Electronic Waste Recycling Day
2014-03-29 10:00 - 16:00 | Recycling on Fifth Avenue, 5th Avenue between Sterling Pl and Douglass St, Brooklyn, NY
Drop off your unwanted or broken electronics on 5th Avenue between Sterling Place and Douglass Street. All electronics (working and non-working) will be responsibly reused or recycled at no charge.
ACCEPTING: computers, monitors, printers, scanners, cables/cords, keyboards, mice, TVs, VCRs, DVD players, stereo equipment, video gaming equipment, cell phones, and batteries*
*Please keep batteries separate from other items to be recycled and put alkaline/non-rechargeable and rechargeable batteries in separate containers.
NOT ACCEPTING: Household Appliances (i.e. kitchen equipment, air conditioners, refrigerators, microwaves, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors)
For more information on Electronic Waste Recycling Day, click here or e-mail the Lower East Side Ecology Center at: info@lesecologycenter.org or call 212-477-4022
Park Slope Civic Council
President Michael Cairl
First Vice-President Gilly Youner | Second Vice-President Jeffrey Roth
Treasurer Robert R. Gilbert | Assistant Treasurer (Acting) John Casson
Corresponding and Recording Secretary Judith Lief | Membership Secretary Cathy Sokil Milnikiewicz
Trustees-at-Large S.J. Avery | Robert Braun | Peter Bray | Darryl Cook | Joan Emerson
Elizabeth Finkelstein | Martin Goldin | Kyle Johnson | Joni Kletter
Josh Levy | Kimberly Maier | Thomas Miskel | Melinda Morris
Sarah Murphy | Chandru Murthi | Joe Rydell | Candace Woodward
The Park Slope Civic Council is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.

Vision Zero Workshop
2014-04-24 18:30 - 20:30 | Plymouth Church – Hillis Hall, 75 Hicks Street, Brooklyn
The workshops will be interactive, with participants given the opportunity to directly provide input about specific locations through mapping exercises. This is the primary mechanism by which we will be taking public input into the development of Vision Zero borough plans. Hosted by the New York City Department of Transportation.
Also see Calendar for another workshop on April 29.
For further information, please contact Assemblywoman Joan Millman’s office 718-246-4889

Spring Civic Sweep 2014
2014-04-27 10:00 - 14:00 | Da Nonna Rosa; Upstairs Room; 140 7th Ave., Fifth Avenue between Third and Fourth Streets, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Make a clean sweep of your home and your neighborhood by joining the Park Slope Civic Council at its annual spring beautification and clean-up event: the Spring Civic Sweep.
Put on your old clothes and join other volunteers in weeding and mulching street trees and picking up litter on the sidewalks of Fourth, Fifth, and Seventh Avenues. Learn more about this great and important event here.
