Brookdale Neighborhood Coalition

10/28/2015

Pledge 2 Protect thank you for sharing!

Kelly Nimmo Guenther, president of Pledge2 Project, discusses the new documentary,

10/01/2015

JOIN THE COALITION AND MAKE YOUR CONCERNS HEARD.
sign up for our email list at the "sign up" button above.

07/23/2015

Thank you to everyone in our community who signed a letter, signed the online petition or made a phone call. The Coalition delivered 2,918 letters, signatures and comments to DSNY yesterday! Thanks to the 1,019 who have signed the online petition. If you have not yet, please do so. Now, we wait for the response of DSNY and the electeds. BTW, here's a link to the Coalition Response to Draft Scope.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2g_O8zo5jlEMWJyNW1tT1hQaU0/view

07/20/2015

SIGN THE PETITION to oppose the proposed 25th Street garbage truck garage! Be sure to share it with your friends!
https://www.change.org/p/nyc-mayor-de-blasio-sanitation-commissioner-garcia-and-other-elected-officials-stop-sanitation-department-from-putting-new-yorkers-health-and-safety-at-risk?recruiter=346595432&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink

Sign here to join the more than 50,000 area residents who oppose the NYC Sanitation Department's plan to build a 450K sq ft garbage truck garage and maintenance facility on 25th Street between the FDR and 1st Ave. This plan violates Mayor de Blasio's Vision Zero initiative and compromises the health…

07/17/2015

Traffic congestion impacts noted: average speeds dropped to 8.51 mph last year, DOT said, a 9 percent decline from 2010. Rush hour MTA buses were 5 percent slower last year and Manhattan bus ridership dropped5.8 percent.

http://www.streetsblog.org/2015/06/23/city-wants-slowdown-in-new-for-hire-vehicles-as-manhattan-floods-with-cars/

The de Blasio administration and the City Council want to slow the growth in new black car licenses over the next year. With companies like Uber adding tens of thousands of black cars to the mix over the past few years, mainly in the most congested parts of Manhattan, the city wants to get a better…

07/16/2015

Here's the article that Town and Village did about our coalition.
http://town-village.com/2015/07/16/coalition-formed-against-sanit-garage/

By Maria Rocha-Buschel Tenant groups against the proposed sanitation garage at the Brookdale campus organized themselves just in time for another public scoping hearing that took place at the site ...

07/16/2015

Great coverage of our story by CBS's Jessica Schneider, but this is just the start. The facts are on our side and we need to keep getting them out there.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/07/15/east-side-garbage-truck-garage-plan/

A fight has erupted over trucks on the East Side, as the city Department of Sanitation plans for a new garage for 180 of its trucks.

07/16/2015

Thanks to area residents and concerned citizens for such a great turnout tonight at the Sanitation's public session. Council Member Daniel Garodnick challenged the Department of Sanitation to answer the public's most pressing concerns, including adherence to Mayor Bill de Blasio's Vision Zero mandates, assurances of pedestrian safety, and critical health issues. Council Member Rosie Mendez 2013 presented 8 pages of questions about significant impacts that the project poses and insisted on answers.

The community spoke with one voice in its opposition. The fight continues!

07/15/2015

Please take a look at this site which contains a lot of important information about this proposed project. Thanks to Jim Collins for publishing this information.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brookdale-NO/634350639928068?fref=ts

Residents, businesses, community organizations, and public officials opposed to the ill-considered D

07/13/2015

07/13/2015

07/13/2015

07/13/2015

Please join fellow area residents and attend this Wednesday's (July 15) important public meeting with the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) at 6 PM at the Brookdale Auditorium, 425 East 25th St (between 1st Avenue and FDR, enter at Brookdale Security Gate)

It is critically important that the DSNY (Department of Sanitation) addresses all concerns over the next few months as they draft their environmental impact study. DSNY needs to see the community's growing resolve and hear our concerns, including:

- Size of garage
- Air Quality/Unacceptable Health Risk
- Pedestrian Risk (contrary to Vision Zero for Safe Streets)
- Increased Gridlock

EVERY SINGLE PERSON COUNTS! Please attend this meeting and let your voice be heard.

For more information, please email [email protected]