1) Join Us Tomorrow for Walk Don't Destroy 5
Destroy Brooklyn's Walk Don't Destroy 5 is just $3 short of being the
walkathon's top fundraising team! Will you help put us over the
top? Better yet, will you walk with us tomorrow as we raise
funds for DDDB's legal effort against Atlantic Yards?
building a basketball arena and acres of parking lots in low-rise,
brownstone Prospect Heights. Just two days ago, the New York
State Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in the challenge to the
project's use of eminent domain. The previous day, four local
elected officials, NYPIRG's Straphangers Campaign and DDDB filed suit
against the MTA, seeking to void the sale of the Vanderbilt Yard to
Forest City Ratner for a fraction of its value.
keep pressing the fight is wholly dependent on raising funds from
people like us.
We need every walker — and every dollar.
donation in our name, please click here.
Giveaway, Saturday and Sunday
which will be demolished later this year to make way for a new, larger
school building. The creation of the new school will also
necessitate the relocation — and down-sizing — of the Baltic Street
Community Garden, which has been rooted in P.S. 133's school yard
since the 1970s. The gardeners are hoping to find homes in the
neighborhood for the plants that won't fit in the new plot, and
they'll be giving away a host of fabulous greenery this weekend.
From the Garden's web
site:
Many of our most beautiful plants came to us as gifts and
cuttings from people in the neighborhood, and we hope that we can give
back by distributing them throughout the area, for your tree pits,
front and backyards and decks.
Pictured below are some of the plants we'd like to find
homes for. We have many more, including day lilies, echinacea,
the amazing trumpet vine and wisteria vine, periwinkle, and bridal
wreath. There are several trees as well. Click here for a fuller
inventory.
We'd also like to share tools (rakes, shovels, trowels, a
wheelbarrow) and the pavers that make up the garden's
walkways.
The carefully tended soil, rich with frequent additions of compost
from our own bins, can enrich many gardens, containers and tree
pits.
The Baltic Street gardeners invite you to come on
Saturday, Oct. 17, and Sunday, Oct. 18, from 11-5. The entrance is on
Baltic Street, just east of Fourth Avenue. We have some containers,
but if you can, bring your own.
Sunday
weather, the Park Slope Civic Council has decided to curtail the Fall
Civic Sweep that it had planned for Saturday. However, they'll
still be accepting electronics for recycling at the Prospect Park
YMCA, at 357 9th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues, between the hours
of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
In addition, other neighborhood businesses
and organizations will be collecting items for recycling on
Saturday:
Electronics recycling by 3R Living at the
Old Stone House in Washington Park
Used battery recycling at J & R Television at 108 7th Avenue
Greenmarket.
The Old Stone House will also be hosting
the annual Harvest Fest on Sunday, between the hours of 11 a.m. and 3
p.m. In the event of rain, the activities, including music, face
painting, arts and crafts and Halloween costume-making, will take
place inside the Old Stone House.