2015 Issues/Activities of Sunset Park Restoration
Please Note: Dates accurately indicate some involvement with that issue on that date. But most issues are worked on numerous times, so the posted date is meant to be "representative".
A single issue - like tracking down the cause of the fumes from the Jackie Gleason Bus Depot that made 80 or so children & staff from P.S. 24 sick involves phone calls, emails, meetings, research and multiple Freedom of Information filings. To detail the process accurately step by step would be a burden taking time away from the effort to solve the problem. If you have a particular interest in an issue feel free to contact me and I will so a simple search of correspondence.
1/4 - Continue effort to get info from MTA on depot fumes
1/5 - Snow & ice removal from MTA sidewalks
1/7 - 4th Ave Tour with DOT Boro Commissioner
1/8 - Week of free Sanitation Test tutoring
1/12 - Deputy Mayor Glen cancels tour & then City Hall meeting
1/13 - Respond to Cross Harbor Freight Tunnel EIS
1/14 - Ask Landmarks to push sale of old 68th Precinct
1/16 - Extension of Section 8 housing program
1/20 - Brooklyn Bridge repair progress
1/21 - Plan for an Environmental Center on 58th St Pier
1/22 - Support fundraising for burnt out 4th Ave Restaurant
1/23 - Develop Waterfront Issues "Trading" cards
1/24 - $100 neighbohood grants to help promote kids activities
2/7 - Sunset Park song promoted
2/9 - Support Truck Safety Side Guards throught GW
2/12 - Dog Poop Signage2/12 - Protest City figures for "open space" in Sunset
2/12 - Support new schools on 3rd Ave or below
2/15 - Meetings with Industry City & Li-Lac Chocolates
2/17 - Meeting with NARS Director
2/19 - Meeting with head of EDC
2/19 - Continue seeking info on MTA gas fumes from depot
2/19 - Continue seeking improved lighting under the Gowanus
2/20 - Challenge Coins to each officer of the 72nd - 3 shifts
2/20 - DOS asked for SIMS recycling traffic data
2/22 - Renew request for 4th Ave Bike Lane
2/24 - Trip to Port Newark
2/24 - Ask Councilmember to meet with Kim about Cancer Event
2/25 - Printed safety signage for banking & parking cars
3/2 - Continue request for return of old Court House to community
3/2 - Asked Pratt to help design waterfront access at meat market
3/3 - 100th Anniversary of 4th Ave Subway celebration planned
3/3 - Submit testimony for City Council Transporation hearing
3/3 - Review City Truck Route maps & comment
3/4 - Industry City meeting - members of Congress & Bklyn Chamber
3/5 - Cyber T-Shirts designed
3/6 - We got City Landmarks to force the sale of the old 68th
3/6 - Review & protest Zoning changes requested by Industry City
3/7 - Request & Review City Parks Permits for WF park
3/7 - Proposal for federal funs to rehab all streets/sidewalks below 3rd
3/9 - Fighting new truck loading zone on 57th & 3rd
3/9 - City Council Parks Hearing - submitted testimony
3/9 - Another DOT truck loading zone on 47th & 5th
3/12 - Conference call with Transportation Alternatives
3/12 - Call for addressing dangerous intersection 38th & 4th
3/12 - P.S. 24 kids - walking tour of glacial moraine
3/13 - Photos of dangerous street conditions 39th & 2nd
3/16 - Questioning closing of Sunset Rec Center for movie makers
3/22 - Sink hole on 627 52nd st
3/23 - Dealing with Partership for NY
3/27 - Dangerous sidewalk in front of PS 169
3/28 - Get No Truck signage for 53rd/200
3/30 - Dept of Health meeting on TB & other health issues
4/2 - Fighting to overturn Parks ban on Amplified sound in park
4/2 - Clean-up of refuse from industrial business opposite WF park
4/6 - Continue on gas fumes
4/7 - Gowanus construction crews littering
4/8 - Schaffer funeral home cars on sidewalk
4/10 - FOIL WF money owed to EDC by 25th St & SBMT
4/14 - MTA will put new bus stop between 39th & 43rd
4/14 - Got construction hole fixed 4th & 51st at curb
4/15 - Went on Patrol with Asian COP program
4/15 - Met with Chinese Betterment group
4/16 - Met with Captain to discuss Puerto Rican Parade on 5th
4/17 - Painting safe cross walk in front of car wash on 4th
4/17 - Reviewed 500 police accident reports - found 165 accident 2014
4/23 - Parks Dept calls to tell us they will end the sound band
4/30 - Develop a tri-fold health brochure
5/4 - Real Story Event - Norwegian Edition
5/7 - Sunset Park Tour
5/15 - DOT stood us up at meeting - we filed FOIL
5/18 - Sink hole in path of wf park
5/26 - Get Assemblyman to attend OLPH even by Clarissa Rios
5/27 - 542 50th - tryiing to get to visit oldest building
6/4 - Push NYS Senate bill to ban school buses parking overnight on street
6/5 - Still trying to get MTA info on depot fumes
6/8 - On going issue of illegal parking of ems private vehicles
6/8 - On going issue of FDNY parking truck on 52nd past signage
6/9 - Will be need the white cap/white shirt at parade
6/9 - On going Library reconstruction issue
6/16 - On going issue with illegal art installation in park
6/20 - Honor girl who rescued baby who fell from window
6/24 - Homeless being housed at the hotel on 49th
6/28 - No help from Brooklyn Historic on 542 50th property
7/1 - Homeless on the street collapsing & causing problems
7/2 - Fighting City approving SBMT for 5,000 trucks a year
7/8 - Hosting 6 free movie nights
7/28 - Naranon effort
7/28 - Sunset Park Cook Book
7/29 - Start a community wide block links program
7/29 - 7th/45th pothole repair
8/1 - Sunset Park Real Stories
8/5 - Locked up public space at 39th & 9th Subway
8/7 - Scaffolding at 43rd & 4th
8/11 - Illegal e-bike sales
8/18 - An almost daily involvement with the 64th St Sinkhole
8/23 - Webpage Childhood Memories of Sunset Parkers
8/23 - 2015 bike map says 4th ave signed bike route but no signs
8/25 - 52nd & 5th sinkhole & water gushing
8/27 - 52nd & 5th another sinkhole 20' away
9/6 - Request changes to 3 bus routes to improve access to wf park & jobs
9/7 - Pot hole 57th & 7th crosswalk
9/8 - Speed bump request 42nd/300
9/12 - On going attempt to begin a sister city program with Puebla
9/17 - Minutes after NYPD turns to us, a Sunset Parker unites abandoned kid with parents
9/22 - NYPD shuts 58th St Pier for parking of police cars
9/22 - Nar-anon - meeting set up
10/3 - More Good Neighbor Certificates
10/4 - Decorating of the historic boulder by Sheila
10/5 - Relationship between Dewey MS and actor JW Cortes
11/3 - Event on 52nd & waterfront
11/3 - Rabbi event on 39th St
11/3 - 2 marathoners fell because of pothole at 59th & 4th
11/7 - Where is the $600,000 Carlos gave to NYPD
11/8 - Locate a tomb at GW
11/11 - Hosted photos of family members who were vets
11/13 - Rave concert on 39th St - first rejected by Crown Heights
11/14 - Where did the money from Shades of Blue fee go?
11/18 - Sunset Parker Mini-Libraries on going
11/19 - On Going - Violence Against Women
11/20 - More homeless in a 2nd hotel 39th St - on going
12/01 - Hosted a drawing for Christmas balls with pix of babies born in 2014
12/01 - Hosted a drawing for mugs with pix of loved ones
12/13 - Investigate Graffiti funding by carlos - didn't exist
12/14 - Hall of Humanity Website to support tolerance
12/15 - Seek to work with EID Awareness group from Philadelphia
This list is incomplete in that it is missing many 311 calls and individual conversations advising a Sunset Parker how to follow up on an issue on their own. Also, problems that are resolved with a single phone call will be missing.