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The Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council

Open space
Open space refers to parks, playgrounds and other outdoor amenities located in or adjacent to Prospect Heights.

Stroud Playground scoping meeting

Start Date: 
December 8, 2014 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Categories
Topic : 
Open space
Sponsored By: 
New York City Department of Parks & Recreation
Location: 
Elijah G. Stroud School (MS 353 / PS 316)
750 Classon Avenue (Entrance on Sterling Place between Classon and Washington Avenues)
United States
Description: 

Through Community Parks Initiative (CPI) kicking off this month, the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation is investing more resources- money, staff, recreational programming, and community partnership building- in parks in communities that need it the most. NYC Parks will spend $130 million to rebuild 35 community parks, including 6 parks in Brooklyn. One of those parks is Stroud Playground, on Park Place between Washington and Classon Avenues.

NYC Parks will be holding a public scoping meeting for the design of Stroud Playground. It invites community members to attend this scope meeting to provide community input and feedback on local needs and your ideas on Stroud Playground can better serve the neighborhood.

Please email emily.sherrod@parks.nyc.gov to RSVP for the Stroud Playground scope meeting.

Open to: 
General public (RSVP required)

Community Board 8 General Meeting

Start Date: 
November 13, 2014 - 7:00pm
Categories
Topic : 
Urban planning
Housing
Sustainability
Zoning
Landmarking
Economic development
Traffic and transit
Safety and security
Open space
Social services
Local development projects
Sponsored By: 
Brooklyn Community Board 8
Location: 
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
856 Pacific Street between Vanderbilt Avenue and Underhill Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
United States
Description: 

Community Board 8 represents all of Prospect Heights. General meetings of the Community Board provide an opportunity for community members to become informed as to issues related to land use, transportation, safety and security, economic development and other topics that affect the neighborhood. For more information, please see www.brooklyncb8.org.

Open to: 
General public

Street Tree Care 101: How to Help Your Street Trees Thrive

Start Date: 
July 19, 2014 - 9:30am - 11:00am
Categories
Topic : 
Open space
Sponsored By: 
Prospect Heights Street Tree Task Force
Location: 
Brooklyn Brainery
190 Underhill Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
United States
Description: 

The Prospect Heights Street Tree Task Force has ways for you to put those thoughts of spring into action. They're offering a free hands-on workshop – Street Tree Care 101: How to Help Your Street Trees Thrive, on Saturday, July 19, 9:30-11:00 am – at the Brooklyn Brainery at 190 Underhill Avenue, between Sterling & St. Johns Place. This will be a fun gathering with neighbors who also love our city’s street trees and want to know more about how to help them survive and flourish. Click here for details and to sign up. 

Meantime, the Prospect Heights Street Tree Task Force urges you to invite it to prune, mulch and aerate the soil of each tree on your block. The Prospect Heights Street Tree Task Force stands ready, willing and able to partner with you and other block and merchant associations to enhance the health and vitality of your street trees.  Even if your block does not have an active block or merchant association the Task Force can still help you to make your street trees happy and healthy. They'll work with you to choose a tree-care event date and a staging area where tools and mulch can be distributed. The Prospect Heights Street Tree Task Force will provide the cultivators, trowels, shovels, wheelbarrows, mulch, certified tree pruners, and other helpful neighbors to get the job done. If you have any questions, give us a call at 917-202-8897 or e-mail us at: phstreettrees@gmail.com.  

 

Open to: 
General public (advance sign up required)

Brooklyn Community Board Join Up

Start Date: 
December 5, 2013 - 7:00pm
Categories
Topic : 
Urban planning
Economic development
Traffic and transit
Safety and security
Open space
Social services
Sponsored By: 
Transportation Alternatives
Location: 
Brooklyn YWCA
30 3rd Avenue (corner of Atlantic Avenue)
Brooklyn
United States
Description: 

Become a leader for change in your community by joining your local community board. Transportation Alternatives is sponsoring a Community Board Join Up, where community board members will share their experiences and representatives from the City Council and the Borough President's office will walk you through the application process. T.A. will even have a notary public there to certify your application on the spot. In addition to transportation issues, community boards represent local interests on housing, education, sanitation and other matters. More information is available from Bike New York.

You can learn more about Brooklyn Community Board 8, which includes Prospect Heights, here.

Open to: 
General public

Neighborhood Tree Care

Start Date: 
July 20, 2013 - 10:30am
Categories
Topic : 
Open space
Sponsored By: 
Prospect Heights Street Tree Task Force
Location: 
291 Lincoln Place (between Underhill Avenue and Washington Avenue)
United States
Description: 

In July, the Prospect Heights Street Tree Task Force will be working on trees to help keep our street trees healthy and beautiful. Even if you don't live on the block, you’re invited to please come out and help. We're all neighbors, and we're all responsible for keeping Prospect Heights green. Join the Street Tree Task Force us for some fun and satisfying work!

Open to: 
General public

35th District City Council District Candidates Forum

Start Date: 
July 18, 2013 - 7:00pm
Categories
Topic : 
Urban planning
Economic development
Traffic and transit
Safety and security
Open space
Social services
Sponsored By: 
Transportation Alternatives, New York League of Conservation Voters, local civic organizations
Location: 
Irondale Theater
85 South Oxford Street Fort Greene
Brooklyn
United States
Description: 

Do you care about public safety? Community development? Sustainability?

Join Transportation Alternatives, the NY League of Conservation Voters and local civic groups at a forum for candidates running in the 35th Council District.

The 35th City Council District, currently represented by Letitia James, is one of a small number of hotly contested 2013 City Council races in Brooklyn. The district includes the neighborhoods of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights, and parts of Crown Heights, all of which have seen significant demographic and development changes over the last ten years.

Event co-sponsors include: Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council, Pratt Area Community Council, Brooklyn Movement Center, SNAP, Coalition for the Improvement of Bedford Stuyvesant, and Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership.

Open to: 
General public