DailyHeights

Have you noticed that sad patch of land in front of the children’s
library entrance on Eastern Parkway?

I am a volunteer with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden who is involved with
a garden project to transform this space.

Each year, Greenbridge, the outreach arm of the Botanic Gardens,
trains a small group of volunteers to become Brooklyn Urban Gardeners
(BUGS).

These volunteers (of whom I was one this year) are then assigned
community garden projects in Brooklyn to work on.

My group is working with the BPL at Grand Army Plaza to help develop
the small patch of land that sits in front of the entrance to the
Children’s Library on Eastern Parkway (right next to Mount Prospect
Park).

On 2/11/12 we are holding our second public meeting at the library
where we are inviting members of the public to get involved and
invested in the project and help turn this very sad patch of unused
land into an inspiring entrance for the childrens library.

Let me know if you are able to help (or would like to become involved
yourself!)

Thanks

David Phillips.

Brooklyn Chief of Staff Marty Maher is coming to a joint meeting of Friends of Dean Playground and Dean Street Block Association to share plans for improvements to the playground.  A comfort station will be built this year and a little further into the future the seating area will be renovated.

Please join us to learn the details and see the plans!

DATE:  February 6th @ 6 PM

LOCATION:  Iglesia Evangelica Latina, 506 Bergen Street

Photo: Tracy Collins

The state redistricting proposal released yesterday has Prospect Heights’ District 20 drawn up with some interesting new lines. Sen. Eric Adams’ block is gerrymandered out, and–for unknown reasons–there’s a 26-block strip along Fourth Avenue, going down to Sunset Park. Amy Sara Clark writes: “District 20’s neat triangle shape now looks more like an ostrich, or a construction site digger, or, as one Brooklynite envisions it, a motorcycle.”

Read more: Spoof of the Day: Prospect Heights’ Gerrymandered Senate District – Prospect Heights, NY Patch.

Patch reports that a thieves hit 3 Vanderbilt Avenue businesses in less than 24 hours last week:

• Jan 19, 10:15 am: at The Sunburnt Calf, a bag (belonging to the owner) was swiped off a table. Contents: a $2,000 MacBook Pro. Apparently the owner left it unattended for about 5 minutes around 10:15 am in the empty, unlocked restaurant.
• Jan 19, 3 pm: at The Wine Exchange, a woman grabbed a store clerk’s bag and ran. The bag had $300 in cash and $250 in jewelry in it.
• Some time between 11 pm Jan 18 and 1:30 am Jan 19: at Weather Up, an iPad was grabbed from an unattended bag.

More info: String of Thefts on Vanderbilt Avenue – Prospect Heights, NY Patch; photo via Brooklyn Exposed.

Alert!  fjordz just reported that IDT Energy scammers were just on St. Marks and Nostrand, just a few hours ago: “A young girl came to the door and told me she was “Officer Jones” and asked me to please get a copy of my gas & electric bill…”

I told her, ”No thanks, and what you’re doing is a scam.”

Her “manager” came along and things got pretty tense: IDT energy scam « Brooklynian | Brooklyn Blog and Message Boards.

Lizell writes: “A friend of mine was in the area looking for an apartment. He was mugged at gunpoint for his iPhone at Park Place and Franklin Avenue around 7:30pm. He was waiting for the broker to show and as she called the guy showed up and mugged him.”

“The avenue is busy that time of night – I got home only minute ago. I passed 6 cops on my way from eastern to park place as well. Brazen stuff.”

via Local muggings! Look out! « Brooklynian | Brooklyn Blog and Message Boards.