Brookdale Neighborhood Coalition

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JOIN THE COALITION AND MAKE YOUR CONCERNS HEARD.
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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

2015_07_22 Final Brookdale Coalition (15) DSNY Comments.pdf

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

NYC Mayor de Blasio, Sanitation Commissioner Garcia, and other elected officials: Stop... 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…

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/

With Congestion Getting Worse, City Wants to Stem Flood of Uber Licenses | Streetsblog New York City 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…

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

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 ...

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/

East Side Neighbors Balk At Plan For Garage For 180 Garbage Trucks 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.

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!

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

Brookdale NO Residents, businesses, community organizations, and public officials opposed to the ill-considered DSNY decision to locate a garage in a hospital district, the home of the former Hunter College Brookdale Campus