Hey Flatbush Junctioners! Know Your Storm Flood Zone!
Office of Emergency Management (OEM)
Global Disaster Interactive Map
Heritage at Risk – Beta
Environmental disasters, tourism, and political turmoil threaten the integrity of our global heritage. Shown below are the potentially devastating effects of seismic activity and climate change on our unique landscapes and legacies. For more information about this experimental new application, please see the our blog
This summer, with all of the Hurricane Hype, our insurance company of over twenty years (Liberty Mutual) dropped us because of the risk of flood damage and since we have a wood-framed home. This was a week before a re-finance from an adjustable mortgage. Convenient! A buddy sent me a flood map and there is a finger of flood water that runs from Paerdegat Basin in Canarsie down Farragut past our block and over Nostrand Avenue in the event of a major hurricane (or Nor’Easter). The OEM site allows you to enter your address to find your flood zone. It’s amazing how a few numbers makes such a difference. Location Location Location! PS: Liberty Mutual recently sent us a letter asking us back as customers- at a higher premium of course!
Updated link to Gowanus Lounge’s 4/07 posting. 1/4/08
Braking the Cycle – Bed-Stuy Blog – March Against Domestic Violence – On Verbal Abuse
Past August Brooklyn AIDS Awareness event further illustrates urgency of this issue in our community.
One of the most sobering illustrations of the disparities in health can be seen when you compare the rates of HIV/AIDS in Central Brooklyn to the rates across the city. In Central Brooklyn (which includes Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights and Brownsville) the proportion of people living with HIV/AIDS is twice the rate of Brooklyn overall and 60% higher than the overall New York City rate. To read more about these health disparities click here.
Check out the latest on Domestic Violence on Bed-Stuy Blog
The Devastating Effects of Verbal Abuse
Juvenile Protective Agency ad campaign
What this ad doesn’t say is “faggot” which is the most used word to demean a boy.
Brooklyn poet & artist Ben Trimmier – Rebecca Pollock, Taffee Place Installation
12/15/07
happy Saturday
to stay home
if I choose to
guard my health
for the week
ahead
nearly 7am
the daylight seeping
into the slip
strip sky above
my warehouse canyon
called Taffee Place
rising at 5:30
with no school day
to go to I have slept
since 9:30 last night
yes: the wild Friday nights
Benjie falling out
during the PBS news fest
halfway through Bill Moyers Journal
waking in the midst of Charlie Rose
genuflecting to sartorial king Bill Clinton
who didn’t disappoint Charlie
but didn’t engage me
I returned to sleep
I retired to dream
to sleep
my heating pad corset
strapped on
for relief
I have worn
since Monday
grateful I can sleep
with my back sprain
spasms wishing
I had pain pills for
to make it
through these days
less gingerly guarding
girding my movements
with kindergarteners’ ways
their tiny chairs
I should not
be lifting
but I do
Ben Trimmier
Rebecca Pollack
Rebecca Pollock, Become
December 2005 to December 2006
Mural for Taffee Playground, Taffee Pl, Park & Myrtle Aves, Brooklyn
Image: courtesy of the artist
Description:
This mural covers a temporary wall adjacent to Taffee Playground. The subject of it relates to the omnipresence of litter in the neighborhood surrounding the playground. The artist selected the black plastic shopping bag as a symbol of this urban problem. “Rather than focus on the carelessness that this object represents when found in the street, I’ve chosen to sculpt it into another kind of debris: a leaf,” says Rebecca Pollock, the artist. “Become encourages others to make similar leaps of the imagination with all the elements of their environment. I hope that this image will promote a spirit of making something beautiful out of something ugly and making the most out of limitation.”
Ms. Pollock is enrolled in the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts.
Fetal Disregard – Fetus Found in Brooklyn’s SUNY Downstate Dirty Laundry Bin
De Beginnin' o' de Bruckne' Boulevard – de Bronck's (The Bronx) – Pianos, Furniture, Bread, Beds, Auto Parts & Paper Bags
Hardman Duo Pianos – Bruckner Blvd, formerly Lincoln Avenue © Frank H. Jump 1997 – 2007
The liner notes on the reverse side of the record cover give no indication that Lawrence was involved in the actual recording. However, his music rolls, played on a Hardman Duo Player Piano, are in good company with accompanying musicians, Milton Hinton, Tony Mottola, George Duvivier and Osie Johnson. -doctorjazz.co.uk
Landmarks Preservation Estey Piano PDF #1
Landmarks Preservation Estey Piano PDF #2
De Beginnin’ o’ de Bruckne’ Boulevard – de Bronck’s (The Bronx) – Pianos, Furniture, Bread, Beds, Auto Parts & Paper Bags
College Glen – A Flatbush Neighborhood East of Brooklyn College
New York Avenue & Glenwood Road
New York Avenue & Avenue H
Avenue H & East 32nd Street
Avenue H & East 32nd Street looking toward the Junction.
The Junction © Frank H. Jump
When Vincenzo and I moved into the Flatbush Junction, I noticed the College Glen signs around the neighborhood but did not see the civilian patrol. I’ve done some Internet searches but not until recently have I found anything. Fortunately the New York Times has been diligently archiving their entire history of articles on the web. Here is a snippet that mentions this sliver of Flatbush.
PERSPECTIVES: New Condos in Flatbush; Tapping the Market in Central Brooklyn
MEANWHILE, the single- and two-family home market has also picked up, aided in part by the home-loan program run by Neighborhood Housing Services. The East Flatbush office has provided below-market loans for 89 home renovations, mainly in an area east of Brooklyn College called College Glen.
”It’s very clear that in this part of the area the strategy has worked,” said Philip Gallagher, chairman of Neighborhood Housing Services of East Flatbush. ”Now there is an enormous amount of new private investment that has nothing to do with us.”
Neighborhood Housing Services is planning to seek community-development block-grant funds to expand its service area to a needier northwestern area of the district that it has named Clarendon Meadows. This is an area bounded by Clarkson Avenue on the north, Cortelyou Avenue on the south, and Brooklyn Avenue and Bedford Avenue on the east and west.
Contest: What are the boundaries of College Glen?
PS: No hairsplitting!
