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.
This is the second in our series of looks back at items of interest printed over the last 10, 20, and 30 years. Here, without comment and almost no editorial alteration, are some of the issues of the summer and fall season in June through October, 1981, 1991, and 2001.
— Tom Miskel is a past Civic Council president, and keeper of the organization’s archives.
1981
Beth Elohim: 120 Years in Brooklyn | Ansonia Warehouse Co-ops Growth in South Slope | Toxic Waste as Local Issue
1991
Street Vendors | Haunting Music: Band will Lead Halloween Parade | Happy Birthday! Old First Church is 100 Years Young | Working Together: PSCC and John Jay High School
2001
President’s Perspectives, by then-Civic Council President Bernard J. Graham
from the September 2011 Civic News