After errors related to the emergency 911 dispatch system of reporting fires ballooned last month, Councilman Vincent Gentile has requested that a bill be drafted to establish a separate number to facilitate the reporting of those incidents and expedite the FDNY’s response [...]
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Courtesy of the folks at BKCB 14 (brooklyn community board 14). Holiday Safety Tips from 70th Precinct Posted on: November 19, 2009 Deputy Inspector Ralph Monteforte, Commanding Officer of the 70th Precinct, has asked CB14 to share the following tips with our residents for an enjoyable and safe holiday season: Be alert and aware of your surrounding at [...] This came our way through Speaker Quinn’s office. Some tips from the NYPD. Below are some important tips from the NYPD on how to stay safe and what you can do if you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted on the subway:
Do not be ashamed or afraid to report the offense to [...] Over the course of the last two nights, due to construction, R trains service has been scuttled between 36th street and 95th street. Instead, shuttle buses were provided for those unfortunate enough to need the R train between the hours of 11pm and 6 am. The scene on Friday night was one of curses, anger and [...] This totally slipped under our radar here but here are the good folks at the Gothamist with the basics. Living testimony to the efficiency line in local (some might say NIMBY-istic) activism, here are some wikipedia details on the South BK paragon. Check the curiously tamed down brouhaha The bridge was the last great public works [...] The internet is a great tool, except for one little flaw. It is saturated with humans and their own personal, unsubstantiated opinions. There once was a time when that opinion might never go any further than the fool’s, who thought it, front porch. It might just be one of those family secrets that everyone knows about and are conscience enough to never mention that topic when that crazy uncle is around. When outsiders would come for a visit, they might have gotten stopped at the door before entering and warned not to mention anything about “the lake.” But now that crazy uncle has a computer with internet access and has a “Creature in the Lake” website that gets over 15-thousand hits a [...] Nancy Romer, “The purpose of the meeting is to constitute a Sunset Park neighborhood branch of the Brooklyn Food Coalition which would identify and work on one, two, maybe more specific issues or campaigns related to food justice—access to healthy, sustainable food with social justice for food workers and consumers. [...] In a bruising email circulating around Sunset Park and Bay Ridge, the organization Friends of Sunset Park speaks out against last Saturday’s bizarre raid on Sunset Park cart vendors. [...] After we ran this article yesterday, … after a two day survey of 3rd avenue and 5th avenue in Bay Ridge, our reporting team found over 25 vacated or vacating storefronts. City Cuncilman Vincent J Gentile and Republican Challenger Robert Capano were kind enough to respond with some comments, suggestions and possible courses of [...] |
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