Second Meeting - Thursday, July 9th at 7 PM

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Hi neighbors,

We had our second meeting tonight at the Raible residence at 307 Cumberland. We enjoyed some refreshing white wine, brie, fresh fruit and veggies and no-pudge brownies during the meeting.

Welcome to our new members - Loise (291), David (314) and Estelita and Lilly (29 Greene)! Thanks to our members Deb and Phil (307) for hosting the meeting in their beautiful home and Rodney (310) and Sheethal (311) for their attendance.

We started with introductions. Loise told us some great stories about our block. Her parents lived in 291 since the 50's until their passing and she grew up on the block. We learned about some of our past neighbors. Thanks Loise for sharing that info with us! Please click here to access the Block Association Contact List. Please update your info if it is incorrect. If you know anyone else on the block who would be interested in joining us, please let me know.

We talked about some block happenings -

• Planting at Seven Corners (intersection of Fulton, Greene and Hanson Place). Read more info about that here
  
• Updates on Atlantic Yards
• Updates on the Salvation Army building on Hanson Place
• Loise asked about where to donate clothes. Sheethal suggested the Salvation Army on Flatbush. Rodney mentioned that clothes could be donated to a women's and childern's shelter on Dean between Carlton and Vanderbilt.

Block Association Projects

Click here to access to the ongoing project list

Some project updates -

• Sheethal updated us on our entry into the Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest. Our entry is in. Read more about that here.
• Sheethal updated us on the beautification on the garage in front of 311 project that Tokumbo has been working on. John has improved the look by painting over the spray painted "No Parking" but we think we could get this to look even better.
• Sheethal requested bike parking on our block. Please support this effort by adding your request for bike parking by clicking here to submit an online form through 311.
  
• Sheethal requested a new bus shelter on Greene Ave (we still have the old one). Please help support this effort by calling 311 to request a new bus shelter on Greene Ave.
  
• We discussed postponing the block party until next year so we would have more time to plan something good.

We also added a few new project ideas to our list -

• Alleviate the mess of telephone wires in the backyards
• Coordinate a block trip to the Irondale Theater in the Presbyterian Church
• BAM and Mark Morris community involvement - learn about ways they are already involved or could be involved in the local schools or maybe with our block party
• Resolve the parking situation in front of Mugavero Senior's Center so that when ambulances park or folks need to leave, it is more accessible

New Project Ownership

• Rodney has agreed to learn about how to start a Neighborhood Watch program.
• Phil and Loise will work on the Church on Greene Ave. Loise mentioned a woman named Clarissa James on South Elliot who needs a space for her daycare center. She suggested perhaps the church space could be used for that if not something else productive, instead of sitting vacant.
• Dave said he would compile a list of contractors. Please submit recommendations to him or post them on that project thread.
  

Thanks neighbors for helping us get our projects going! If you have any thoughts for projects and/or would like to help your neighbors in their efforts, please email Sheethal at sheethalshobowale@gmail.com or sign up for an existing project on our project list.


Hope to see you at the next event or the August meeting!