The Summer Fort Greene Association Newsletter Issue’s theme will be Fort Greene Summer Staycation - Your Guide on Where to Go and What to do in Fort Greene. If you have an event taking place in Fort Greene June – August 2012, you would like for us to consider including in the guild please send your submission no later than April 30th to http://historicfortgreene.org/submit-an-event/. We are especially looking to include free events taking place at local Fort Greene stores such as food and wine tastings, clothing or nail polish swapping events, poetry readings, book clubs, story time, etc. The cost to have your event included: FREE! Our printed and digital summer issue will be distributed to the concierges at Brooklyn Hotels, Brooklyn Tourism’s Visitor Center at Borough Hall and their tourism kiosk located at Atlantic Avenue’s LIRR Train Station Monday – Friday during afternoon rush hour.

The Fort Greene Association is devoted to historic preservation, neighborhood and park enhancement, as well as cultural, economic and housing advancement throughout the neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The Fort Greene Association, Inc. is an all-volunteer organization, operating as a non-profit 501(c) (3) charitable organization that supports and works in concert with the many other fine organizations that make our community so special and vital. Follow us on Twitter or become our Facebook Fan.

Community Board 2 (CB2) will hold the following meetings this week, all of which are scheduled for 6:00 PM.

All committee meetings of Community Board 2 begin with the approval of the agenda and introduction of the committee officers. The meetings conclude with the approval of the previous month’s meeting minutes, a chairperson’s report, other business and a community forum during which the public may speak.

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Transportation and Public Committee

Tuesday, March 20
St. Francis College
180 Remsen Street (between Clinton and Court streets)
First Floor Board Room,
Please note room is subject to change

Christopher Hrones, the Downtown Brooklyn transportation coordinator for the Department of Transportation (DOT), will speak about two public plazas planned in Community District 2. Mr. Hrones will present the design for the temporary materials plaza to be created at Fowler Square. He will also provide an update on Fox Square, where a Five Guys Burgers and Fries withdrew a sidewalk café application in the face of a planned plaza there. The Fox Square plaza was originally intended to be built as part of the Flatbush Avenue Streetscape Project.
View the presentation made at the February 16, 2012 public workshop on Fowler Square (PDF)
Learn more about the New York City Plaza Program

Hemalee Patel, transportation committee chairperson, will lead a discussion to clarify whether the community board’s established co-naming submission requirements are fixed or waivable. The chairperson’s report will also include review of the most recent CompStat reports for the 84th and 88th precincts and other topics as introduced.
Read the street co-naming protocol of Community Board 2
Download the current 84th Precinct CompStat report (PDF)
Download the current 88th Precinct CompStat report (PDF)

Land Use Committee

The design of Phase 1 of City Point, approximately 50,000 square feet of retail on Albee Square, off of the Fulton Mall, was also reviewed by CB2 and the PDC.

Wednesday, March 21
Polytechnic Institute
5 MetroTech Center (off MetroTech Commons)
Room LC400, Dibner Building

Tom Montvel-Cohen, representing the developers of City Point, will present the design of the second phase of that mixed-use project. City Point is being built on City-owned land and therefore the project design is subject to review by the Public Design Commission (PDC), formerly known at the Art Commission.

Learn more about City Point
Access the PDC website

The committee will also review the following Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) applications:

• 368 Adelphi Street – Fort Greene Historic District (PDF) – Application is to replace the iron railings on the stoop.
• 220 Adelphi Street – Fort Greene Historic District (PDF) – Application is to extend the existing full-width, rear-yard extension on the garden and parlor floors by an additional depth of 9 feet, 11 inches.

Please visit www.nyc.gov/brooklyncb2 to learn more about Community Board 2.

The Fort Greene Association is devoted to historic preservation, neighborhood and park enhancement, as well as cultural, economic and housing advancement throughout the neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The Fort Greene Association, Inc. is an all-volunteer organization, operating as a non-profit 501(c) (3) charitable organization that supports and works in concert with the many other fine organizations that make our community so special and vital. Follow us on Twitter or become our Facebook Fan.