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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.

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