Monthly Meeting – May 21, 7:30 PM

Held every 3rd Monday of the month except holidays

TIME:       Monday, May 21st, 7:30 – 9:00 PM
PLACE:    535 Dean Street, #313  (Newswalk)

• Block Party Planning
• Protecting the neighborhood during Barclays Center operation
• Volunteers needed to be in a short community video (very little time commitment)

YOUR INPUT IS ESSENTIAL
EVERYONE IS WELCOME

Monthly Meeting – September 19 – 7:30PM

Held every 3rd Monday of the month except holidays

TIME: 

Monday, September 19th  7:30 – 9:00 pm

PLACE: 

535 Dean Street #313 (Newswalk)

AGENDA:

• Atlantic Yards Next Steps:  future activities and setting priories 
• Tree Bed Guards Delayed

 

YOUR INPUT IS ESSENTIAL - EVERYONE IS WELCOME

One of the last block parties?

For years we’ve held block parties on Dean Street, between 6th and Carlton Avenues (See photos from 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007). Closing the street to traffic, we’ve enjoyed grilling, face-painting, games, music and dancing, literally in the street. Could our annual party soon become a thing of the past?

The under-construction Barclays Center Arena of the Atlantic Yards project is scheduled to officially open on September 28, 2012. Forest City Ratner, the developer of the 18,000-seat arena, hopes to host more than 200 events per year. A temporary surface parking lot, with a capacity of 1100 cars, is planned for the block bounded by Dean, Carlton Avenue, Pacific Street and Vanderbilt Avenue. The parking lot and the arena will “sandwich” the block of Dean Street between Carlton and 6th Avenues where we’ve held our block parties.

Will we be allowed to close Dean Street for a block party once the arena opens?

Annual Meeting – August 8, 2011 – 7:30PM

TIME: 

Monday, August 8th,  7:30 – 9:00 pm

PLACE: 

638 Dean Street, between Carlton and Vanderbilt

AGENDA:

• Election of Board Officers
  
• New officers are always welcome. If you are interested in running, please notify the block association secretary at tc@3c.com
• If you are unable to attend, you can vote by proxy 
  
• Review of the activities of last year

• MOVIE NIGHT: Saturday, August 13th in Dean Playground

YOUR INPUT IS ESSENTIAL - EVERYONE IS WELCOME

Our 2011 Block Party was a great time!

  

  

Click here to see photos

Thanks to everyone who came out and made our block party a success, with special shout outs to the organizers, BBQ grillers, face-painters, game-organizers, raffle-ticket-sellers, street-cleaners, Millie & Ed Barreto, Brad White of Primerica and DJ Felix!

Thanks to the following businesses and organizations for their generous donations!

Ample Hills Creamery
Beast Tapas Bar, Restaurant, Lounge
Cataldo’s Restaurant & Pizzeria
Christie’s Jamaican Patties
Dubai Mini Mart
FDNY Engine Co. 219 & Ladder Co. 105
James Restaurant
Kaz An Nou French Caribbean Restaurant
Maya Taqueria
Met Foods
Tracy Collins Photography
Wine Exchange

Block Party! This Saturday, June 25

Dean Street Block Party

Saturday, June 25, Noon – 6PM

Invite your family and friends! Bring out your lawn chairs, grills, coolers, frisbees, footballs and games!  The block will be closed to traffic so we can enjoy the space!

There will be a firehouse and ambulance tour for the kids, as well as games and always popular face painting!

DJ Felix will be providing the music.  Work on your moves for the dance contest!

Local stores and restaurants are generously donating food or funds.  Thank you!  (I’ll give them a proper shout-out when I know the full list)

We have lots of great donations for our raffle so far, including many from local restaurants. Tickets are only $1.

NOTE: There will be NO PARKING on Dean Street between 6th & Carlton Avenues during our block party.

More information? Want to help?
Please contact Rhona Hetsrony, 516-509-3890 or rbk888@aol.com

See you Saturday!

 

 

 

 

 

Monthly Meeting – May 23, 2011 – 7:30PM

Held every 3rd Monday of the month except holidays

TIME: 

Monday, May 23rd  7:30 – 9:00 pm

PLACE: 

545 Dean Street #1, between Carlton and 6th

AGENDA:

• Block Party: SAVE THE DATE: June 25th!

Block Party preparation

• Our Neighborhood Streets:

How our streets will be affected by the new Barclays Center traffic mitigation and roadway improvement plan.

YOUR INPUT IS ESSENTIAL - EVERYONE IS WELCOME

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This Thursday, May 19th, the traffic mitigation and roadway improvement plan for the Barclay’s Center’s opening will be presented publicly for the first time.  It is our understanding an additional ESDC conducted public forum and/or presentation will be made in June.

The changes they are likely to announce are described in the Project’s FEIS. As outlined there, the largest single change is the elimination of northbound traffic on 4th Avenue from Pacific Street to Atlantic. The plans also include the widening of 6th Avenue so that it can be turned into four lanes, and the widening and creation of two of lanes of traffic on Pacific Street between 6th and Carlton. The widening of 6th Avenue has apparently been set aside for the time being.

What will be implemented will affect traffic and pedestrian circulation in significant ways in our immediate area.  We believe representatives from ESDC and NYC DOT should come directly to our community to answer our questions and address our concerns. Together with the Carlton Avenue Association, we have invited them to attend a joint meeting ASAP. If such a meeting occurs, it will now be in June.

In the meantime, we are proceeding with our May meeting one week late. Our focus will be preparations for our block party and the traffic mitigations/roadway improvement plan.

Thanks,

Peter Krashes
President

Monthly Meeting – April 18, 2011 – 7:30PM

Monthly Meeting
(Held every 3rd Monday of the month except holidays)

TIME: 
Monday, April 18th
7:30 – 9:00 pm

PLACE: 
638 Dean Street, between Carlton and Vanderbilt

Note:
For Beautification Day this past Saturday members of our block association were out circulating information about upcoming changes to the tree beds on Dean Street.  The beautification efforts we normally undertake in the spring will take place instead in the fall after our new tree bed guards are installed.  This spring we still will be distributing free window boxes.  Please let us know if you are interested.

AGENDA:

• Metal Tree Guards:
  • Thanks to Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz’s Neighborhood Beautification Fund, many of the trees on Dean Street between 6th Avenue and Vanderbilt will be receiving metal tree bed guards!  More details to come as we get them.

• Atlantic Yards:
  • Quality of life issues:  Help us set our priorities. Snow removal and sidewalk care. Dust. Noise. Rodents. Traffic. Parking.  Security.
  • The implications of Judge Friedman’s ruling that the Empire State Development Corporation must analyze the environmental impacts of the project based on a 25-year timeline rather than the 10-year timeline it has used so far.  What is the status of the court case now?
  • Atlantic Yards Watch

• Neighborhood Beautification Day and Block Party: Setting the dates

YOUR INPUT IS ESSENTIAL
EVERYONE IS WELCOME

Monthly Meeting – January 17, 2011 – 7:30PM

Monthly Meeting
(Held every 3rd Monday of the month except holidays)

TIME:
Monday, January 17th
7:30 – 9:00 pm

PLACE:
638 Dean Street, between Carlton and Vanderbilt

AGENDA:

• Metal Tree Guards:
  • Thanks to Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz’s Neighborhood Beautification Fund, many of the trees on Dean Street between 6th Avenue and Vanderbilt will be receiving metal tree bed guards!  More details to come as we get them.

• Atlantic Yards:
  • Quality of life issues:  Help us set our priorities. Snow removal and sidewalk care. Dust. Noise. Rodents. Traffic. Parking.  Security.
  • The implications of Judge Friedman’s ruling that the Empire State Development Corporation must analyze the environmental impacts of the project based on a 25-year timeline rather than the 10-year timeline it has used so far.  What is the status of the court case now?
  • Atlantic Yards Watch

• Neighborhood Beautification Day and Block Party: Setting the dates

YOUR INPUT IS ESSENTIAL
EVERYONE IS WELCOME

Block Party this Saturday!

Invite your family and friends! Bring out your lawn chairs, grills, coolers, frisbees, footballs and games!  The block will be closed to traffic so we can enjoy the space!

There will be a firehouse and ambulance tour for the kids, as well as games and always popular face painting!

DJ Felix will be providing the music.  Work on your moves for the dance contest!

Local stores and restaurants are generously donating food or funds.  Thank you!  (I’ll give them a proper shout-out when I know the full list)

We have lots of great donations for our raffle so far, including many from local restaurants:

• Kaz An Nou has given a dinner for two!
• The Wine Exchange has given a variety of wines!
• Woodwork has given a $35 gift certificate!
• Beast has given two $25 gift certificates!
• Bark has given a $25 gift certificate!
• Cataldo’s has given a $20 gift certificate!
• Plain Janes has given green cleaning supplies with a $50 value!

Tickets are only $1!

Proceeds will go toward block beautification and next year’s block party.

See you Saturday!