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Should Vendors be Allowed on the Brooklyn Bridge?

 

The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) is proposing
amendments to their traffic rules to clarify that an elevated pedestrian walkway or a bicycle lane on a bridge or a bridge approach may not be used for the vending of merchandise or services.  

According to the Brooklyn Eagle, the new rule would specify that "vending is prohibited on the elevated pedestrian walkways and their approaches on bridges. While the existing rules imply that vending is effectively prohibited on bridges, an explicit restriction would clarify the city's vending rules and aid in enforcement efforts."

The BHA supports this clarification of the existing rules. While there is undoubtedly a need for a better system allowing for legal street vending, we do not believe that every place in the City is suitable for vending, including the Brooklyn Bridge. We believe the unchecked vending contributes to overcrowding and unsafe conditions. 

DOT wants to hear from you! You can comment and listen in during an online public hearing on Wednesday, November 15th at 10:00 am or submit your comments via this link by November 15th. If you wish to comment on the proposed rule during the hearing, you must sign up to speak via the city rules website at http://rules.cityofnewyork.us or calling 212-839-6500 by Nov. 14.

Read the latest coverage including interviews with residents and tourists in Mary Frost's article in the Brooklyn Eagle. 

Photo:  Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle
 
Drop off New and Gently Used Coats
at our Office 

We are excited to be a collection spot for New York Cares 35th Annual Coat Drive.  Our goal is to collect 50 coats during our drive which begins next Monday, November 13th and runs through Friday, December 15th.  With 3000 people who receive this newsletter that seems like a challenge we can easily meet!

Please bring a new or very gently used coat to our office at 55 Pierrepont Street, 2nd Floor (turn right once out of the elevator.)  We will be collecting coats on the following days:

Mondays: 11am - 2pm

Wednesdays:  10am - 1pm

Thursdays: 1pm - 4pm (except November 23rd!)

We hope to see you (and your coats) over the next 4 weeks!
Winter Clothing Drive

Have other winter clothing to donate?  CM Restler's office is collecting sweaters, hats and gloves (as well as coats) during the month of November. Donations will be distributed at shelters serving migrants and homeless people across our district. 

Donations can be brought to the district office at 410 Atlantic Avenue (between Bond Street and 3rd Avenue.)
 
Pies for Thanksgiving 

Heights and Hills is once again accepting pies to include in their Thanksgiving meal deliveries to homebound clients.

Pies can be baked or store bought and dropped off at Grace Church (254 Hicks Street) on Wednesday, November 22nd from noon to 4 pm. Sign up here.

Do you have an delicious pie recipe you'd like to share?  Watch our Instagram reel and DM us your favorite! 
Pizza with the 84th Precinct 

Grab a slice of pizza and meet with officers and community leaders from the 84th!

The monthly 84th Precinct Community Council meeting will take place Tuesday, November 21st at Brooklyn Borough Hall (209 Joralemon Street). 

6:45 - pizza is served

7pm - meeting begins

This is a great opportunity to hear from the Acting Commanding Officer and ask your questions about crime and safety. 
 
Volunteers Needed to Prune, Weed, and Clean Up Middagh Street Nov 14th

Come join the volunteers of the Promenade Gardens Conservancy, the NYC Parks Department, and your neighbors at a Middagh Street Clean-Up next Tuesday, Nov 14th @ 9:30am.

No experience or tools are necessary - although if you have your own gardening gloves you should bring them. No RSVP is needed - we will see you next week. Meet at the corner of Middagh and Columbia Heights, across from the Harry Chapin playground.
November 18th Tree Care

Spots are still available for another outdoor event in our community - tree care!

Join the BHA, CM Restler's office and Big Reuse on Saturday, November 18th at 10AM for some cleaning, mulching and more! Meeting location and other details will be announced soon.

Sign up here
 
Last Call for the Brooklyn Folk Festival

This weekend the Brooklyn Folk Festival will be taking over St. Ann's and the Holy Trinity Church (157 Montague Street). Amanda Petrusich from The New Yorker calls it "Diverse, spontaneous, countercultural and trenchant...one of the vital and spiritually sound folk music events in the country" 


BHA members receive 15% off full festival tickets (Code: BFF15fullpass) or full day tickets (Code: BFF15daypass) on Saturday and Sunday.
Learn more and buy tickets here
 
Welcome Wild Kind Beauty!

Wild Kind Beauty (147 Montague St #2E) just joined our Neighborhood Partners program and is offering 2 discounts to BHA Members: A gifted brow tint with any first time brow service, 5% off any other service Monday- Friday or BOTH!

This inclusive beauty therapy studio specializes in skincare, brow sculpting, body waxing, and lash lifts.  Try them out today!
 
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Brooklyn Heights Association
55 Pierrepont St, Box 17D
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-858-9193  info@thebha.org
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