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  • image Statements of Community District Needs and Community Board BudgetRequ Fiscal Year 2021 image 11¥1: Published by: PLANNING February 2020 ,•'',' Brooklyn Community District 7 INTRODUCTION The annual Statements of Community District Needs (CD Needs Statements) and Community Board Budget Requests (Budget Requests) are Charter mandates that form an integral part of the City's budget process. Together, they are intended to support communities in their ongoing consultations with city agencies, elected officials and other key stakeholders and influence more informed decision making on a broad range of local planning and budget priorities. This report also provides a valuable public resource for neighborhood planning and research purposes, and may be used by a variety of audiences seeking information about New York City's diverse communities. HOW TO USE THIS REPORT This report represents the Statement of Community District Needs and Community Board Budget Requests for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021. This report contains the formatted but otherwise unedited content provided by the community board, collected through an online form available to community boards from August to November, 2019. Community boards may provide substantive supplemental information together with their Statements and Budget Requests. This supporting material can be accessed by clicking on the links provided in the document or by copying and pasting them into a web browser, such as Chrome, Safari or Firefox. If you have questions about this report or suggestions for changes please contact: C DNEEDS_DL@planning.nyc.gov This report is broadly structured as follows: Overarching Community District Needs Sections 1 – 4 provide an overview of the community district and the top three pressing issues affecting this district overall as identified by the community board. Any narrative provided by the board supporting their selection of their top three pressing issues is included. Policy Area-Specific District Needs Section 5 is organized by seven distinct policy areas aligned with the service and program areas of city agencies. For each policy area, community boards selected the most important issue for their districts and could provide a supporting narrative. The policy area section also includes any agency-specific needs and a list of relevant budget requests submitted by the community board. If the community board submitted additional information outside of a specific policy area, it may be found in Section 6. Community Board Budget Requests The final section includes the two types of budget requests submitted to the City for the FY21 budget cycle; one list for capital and another for expense budget requests. For each budget request, community boards were able to provide a priority number, explanation, location, and supporters. OMB remains the definitive source on budget requests submitted to city agencies. D isclaimer This report represents the Statements of Community District Needs and Community Board Budget Requests of this Community District for Fiscal Year 2021. This report contains the formatted but otherwise unedited content provided by the community board. Budget Requests: Listed for informational purposes only. OMB remains the definitive source on budget requests and budget request responses. Budget Priorities: Priority numbers apply to expense and capital Budget requests from all policy areas. A complete list of expense and capital budget requests by this Board sorted by priority can be found in Section 7 of this document. Supporting Materials: Some community boards provided substantive supplemental information. This supportive material can be accessed by clicking on the links provided in the document or by copying and pasting the links provided in the Appendix into a browser. TABLE OF CONTENTS Community Board Information image Community District Profile and Land Use Map image Overview of Community District image Top Three Pressing Issues Overall image image image Summary of Community District Needs and Budget Requests Health Care and Human Services image image Youth, Education and Child Welfare Public Safety and Emergency Services image image image Core Infrastructure, City Services and Resiliency Housing, Economic Development and Land Use Transportation Parks, Cultural and Other Community Facilities image Other Budget Requests image Summary of Prioritized Budget Requests image
    1. COMMUNITY BOARD INFORMATION Brooklyn Community Board 7 image Address: 4201 4th Avenue Phone: (718) 854-0003 Email: bk07@cb.nyc.gov Website: www.nyc.gov/brooklyncb7 Chair: Cesar Zuñiga District Manager: Jeremy Laufer image
    2. COMMUNITY DISTRICT PROFILE AND LAND USE MAP image image
    3. OVERVIEW OF COMMUNITY DISTRICT Community District 7 is a mixed residential, industrial and commercial community. Home to a diverse and integrated population, the District is comprised of two main communities: Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace. Other community identities have gained popularity and become more established recently, including Greenwood Heights and South Park Slope. Sunset Park consists of a strong residential community, two viable commercial strips, 5th and 8th Avenues and a large industrial area, mainly along the waterfront. It is bifurcated by the Gowanus Expressway and is bordered to the south by the Long Island Rail Road cut. The 23-acre facility, Sunset Park, has an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a recreation center and a large open space with spectacular views of the harbor. Windsor Terrace and the northern part of the district consist of a smaller residential community with three commercial strips on 5th and 7th Avenues and Prospect Park West. Windsor Terrace is surrounded by the natural boundaries of Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery. The Gothic Brownstone “gatehouse” at the cemetery’s entrance is a New York City landmark and the most widely known symbol of the community. The District has been home to generations of immigrants, Irish and Italian and Scandinavian in the early 20th century and before. Mid-century saw an influx from Puerto Rico, then immigrants from the Dominican Republic and from central and South America. The 1980s saw a large increase in residents from China and the 90s began an influx from Mexico, more rural areas of China and, to a lesser extent, the Middle East. Our community is extremely diverse and yet our populations live mostly in peace, making for a family-friendly neighborhood. The residents have learned to organize to fight for resources and demand change and our collective action has produced positive results. We defeated a floating power plant in 2004 that would have been taller than any building in the area and longer than the Titanic. We rezoned most of our residential community in 2005 and 2009. After a 40-year effort, we finally built a local high school in 2009 and followed that up with four additional schools and five more in progress. We finished our 197-a Plan, which calls for the enhancement of our industrial waterfront, improved environmental performance and additional recreation opportunities on our waterfront and it was passed by the City. New businesses are bringing investment and jobs to our waterfront. The Community Board, along with six community organizations, negotiated a reduction in emissions from two of our local power plants. We are home to a bio-technology center, enormous economic development investments at Industry City, Liberty View Plaza, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, Bush Terminal and the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal and we have the capacity to continue to grow our industrial sector with good-paying jobs for local residents. We have led the local effort to improve pedestrian safety and redesign our streets for safety and mobility improvements. Clearly, positive changes and investments are being made in our community, but more needs to be done for a community that had been left behind in the past. Our Board has been forward-looking and aggressive in our pursuit of investments and infrastructure improvements that will enhance the lives and livelihoods of our residents, workers and business owners. However, there continue to be sections of our community that have not received sufficient investments and improvements and this continues to leave some of our residents behind. Our community has overcrowded schools, an insufficient amount of parkland, second oldest housing stock in NYC according to NYU, and not nearly enough affordable and senior housing units. Our waterfront access is extremely limited. There are concerns that the investments being made may not have a positive impact on the local residents and may exacerbate economic pressures and displacement. Many of our streets remain dangerous to cross and have crumbling infrastructure. Public transportation does not extend far enough and is in need of upgrades. We do not have fiber-optic cable and more than 20% of households in Sunset Park do not have internet service, according to a recent survey. The Gowanus Expressway is under constant construction and continues to bring 50 million emission-spewing vehicles through our community every year.
    4. TOP THREE PRESSING ISSUES OVERALL Brooklyn Community Board 7 image The three most pressing issues facing this Community Board are: Affordable housing Affordable Housing With increasing income inequality and a tightening market for affordable housing, long-time residents of Community Board 7 Brooklyn are being displaced and or forced to live in severely overcrowded conditions. Few units of affordable housing are being built and existing affordable housing is being lost through landlords opting-out, speculative development and tenant harassment. There are a range of new insights into the relationship between affordable housing and life outcomes for children and families. Development and Job Creation With recent development and proposed development projects along the district’s waterfront many opportunities and challenges present themselves. Some of the opportunities include community-led SMART growth strategies; in the other words the planning of community development that is sustainable, compact, transit-oriented, walkable, bicycle-friendly land use, including neighborhood schools, complete streets, and mixed-use development with a range of housing choices. Billions of dollars in public and private development is being invested in the Sunset Park waterfront, potential creating thousands of new jobs with good wages. CB 7 has long sought to protect its industrial community because of the economic benefits that can come. However, there are negatives associated with proximity to industry, including heavy truck traffic and emissions. We believe the residents who must endure these hardships should be prioritized when it comes to reaping the benefits of these investments. Schools Education and Early Childhood Development Despite the construction of new schools since 2009 and new construction on six new sites, CB 7 still lacks an adequate number of seats and facilities, particularly for pre-k students, students with developmental disabilities and students whose native language is not English. The district lacks space of appropriate size for additional school development and we must think creatively to find new spaces. Sunset Park has a birthrate that is nearly double that of New York City’s. The high birthrate of our community creates the need for vital support services; initiatives to support parents, promote child health and safety, and improve access to high-quality childcare can help the district in five key ways: Positive experiences between birth and school entry boost a child’s healthy development and future prospects. Research clearly demonstrates that the “hard wiring” of a child’s brain occurs during these early years. Children who get off to a good start are less likely to be held back or to get into trouble in school. Studies have even shown that early childhood success can lead to higher college graduation rates, lower crime rates, and reduced need for emergency services many years later. Families are more stable when the needs of their young children are met. When children are healthy and in reliable care, their parents are more likely to maintain steady employment and are typically more productive workers. When children enter school ready to learn, schools are better able to meet high standards and student needs. Successful schools benefit all students, improve a city’s livability, and help develop a strong future workforce. Strong early childhood programs are a valuable asset for local economic development. In the short term, these programs can help attract better workers and support working parents. In the longer term, a city that has made the necessary investments to maintain a quality workforce over time is likely to be more appealing to businesses looking for a stable location. Early childhood initiatives that expand access to quality services help “level the playing field.” Economic, racial, and ethnic disparities are too often perpetuated from one generation to the next unless children from disadvantaged households have the kinds of early childhood opportunities that are commonplace among their more advantaged peers. Far too many cases have been reported in Sunset Park about children bused to school facilities far away from the district, in one extreme case a set of autistic twin kindergarteners commute over an hour to get to a school with the facilitates to that can attend to their needs. Nowhere is the challenge for fulfilling the promise of academic achievement greater than in the work with diverse learners (aka students with learning disabilities). All students deserve an education that prepares them for postsecondary success and a lifetime of unlimited opportunity. Related services include Occupational Therapy (fine motor skill focus), Physical Therapy (gross motor skill focus, Speech Therapy, Language Therapy. In addition to the services, school buildings should be equipped with relevant facilities like sensory gyms and other technologies such as assistive technologies. Full Funding of the IDEA is necessary to provide early identification and early intervention services. Increased and enhanced early childhood programs. Reduced class size and caseloads. Incentives to attract and retain qualified personnel, including teachers, related services personnel, special education administrators, and paraprofessionals. Parent training. Alternative placements for children with behavior disorders and school-wide positive behavioral support programs. After-school, extended-day, and extended-year programs. School- and community-based life skills and vocational training. Technology, both computer-aided instruction and assistive technology devices. School repair, renovation, and construction. Other Economic Development and Job Creation With recent development and proposed development along the district's waterfront many opportunities and challenges present themselves. Some of the opportunities include community- led SMART growth strategies; in other words, the planning of community development that is sustainable, compact, transit-oriented, walkable, bicycle-friendly land use, including neighborhood schools, complete streets and mixed- used development with a range of housing choices. Billions of dollars in public and private development is being invested in the Sunset Park waterfront, potentially creating thousands of new jobs with good wages. CB7 has long sought to protect its industrial community because of the economic benefits that can come. However, there are negatives associated with proximity to industry, including heavy truck traffic and emissions. We believe the residents who must endure these hardships should be prioritized when it comes to reaping the benefits of these investments. image
    5. SUMMARY OF COMMUNITY DISTRICT NEEDS AND BUDGET REQUESTS HEALTH CARE AND HUMAN SERVICES Brooklyn Community Board 7 image M ost Important Issue Related to Health Care and Human Services Services to reduce or prevent homelessness DHS's past failure to communicate with the local residents or even elected officials and government agencies about new and existing shelters makes the local community believe the City is hiding something, such as placing pedophiles in the community. Even after DHS has corrected these missteps, giving us six months notice in the most recent placement, the lack of trust is a terrible disservice to the clients the agency serves. Ours is a welcoming community and embraces people of all backgrounds and economic status, but the City's past failure to disclose builds distrust for the City and the vulnerable population they are trying to serve. Efforts must be made to improve DHS's negative image. That starts with communication. image image C ommunity District Needs Related to Health Care and Human Services Needs for Health Care and Facilities No comments Needs for Older NYs Under the FY20 Capital Priorities for the Board, our members call for an increase in programmatic funding for existing senior centers in the district. Our members are concerned about the proliferation of for-profit adult day services around the city and believe the city's senior centers provide a much higher level or service and more opportunities for seniors. Unfortunately, the city centers are not eligible for the Medicaid funding and therefore are not playing on an even field. CB 7 believes the city should provide additional funds to allow for the centers to increase the number of seniors the serve. Needs for Homeless No comments Needs for Low Income NYs CD 7 has a high rate of poverty (28%), a very large foreign-born population (47.2%) and well=below average for English proficiency and educational attainment so it could be argued than all services provided are for low-income and vulnerable New Yorkers image Capital Requests Related to Health Care and Human Services The Community Board did not submit any Budget Requests in this category. Expense Requests Related to Health Care and Human Services Priority Agency Request Explanation Location 11/24 HRA Provide, expand, or Increase funding for adult ESOL, adult literacy enhance and adult education programs in CD 7. educational programs for adults 19/24 HRA Provide, expand, or CB 7 believes community-based employment enhance job training training programs for special needs populations should be restored. 22/24 DFTA Enhance CB 7 believes city senior centers are now in educational and competition with for-profit facilities that have recreational access to federal reimbursement. Programs at programs city facilities should be enhanced to compete. YOUTH, EDUCATION AND CHILD WELFARE Brooklyn Community Board 7 image M ost Important Issue Related to Youth, Education and Child Welfare Support services for special needs youth (disabled, immigrant, non-English proficient, etc.) Five new schools have opened in our community since 2009, with more under construction, and still our schools are extremely overcrowded. The lack of space is exacerbated by few development parcels of appropriate size in the community and an influx of additional students through universal Pre-K. CB 7 approved one site for a new school at an acknowledged dangerous intersection, but we have few choices for new sites, even when we have a budget for new schools. We also took no position, having weighed need against safety, on a school proposed within the Industrial Business Zone. image image C ommunity District Needs Related to Youth, Education and Child Welfare Needs for Youth Education CB 7 has worked recently collecting sites for future school construction. Recent school construction belies the fact that our schools are overcrowded for lack of appropriate planning in the past as our community’s population has grown 50% in 20 years. Our lack of seats in public schools and the closure over the past decade of private schools at OLPH, St. Michael’s and Bishop Ford, put additional pressures on our existing facilities but also creates opportunities for our not-for-profits. The overcrowding makes the search for additional school sites even more urgent and we believe some of the smaller sites we have identified may be appropriate for Pre-K programs and perhaps even charter schools, which can alleviate the overburden on existing facilities. We recognize the importance of early childhood education and this deficit of seats leaves our children, who are mostly poor and/or from immigrant families, at a terrible disadvantage. New seats also sometimes have negative consequences, as well. The new PS 516 opened in the building that previously held the Sunset Park Head Start program, which had to move and whose 400 student population was cut in half. With the ever-growing and diverse immigrant populations within our community, there is an immediate need for augmented bilingual/ESL education for our Latino, Asian, Middles Eastern and Eastern European populations. Additionally, English proficiency programs, perhaps through our schools using the very students who are mastering language skills, for older residents would serve a great need for our community. Work skills and experience programs, such as SYEP and internships, must be expanded to prepare our students for the job market. We are very pleased that our high school’s curriculum embraces such learning outside the classroom and that two AmeriCorps programs serve our community through the Red Hook Community Justice Center and NYU Family Health Care. Needs for Youth and Child Welfare The population of the District has a large percentage of young people (30% under age 19) and programs for youth are greatly needed. Since our District has a minimum of public recreation space our children must rely on afterschool and other community-based programs for arts, entertainment, sports and academic help. Many of our residents fall beneath the poverty line and parents often have to work more than one job to support their families. These programs are vitally important to the life, learning and social skills of our youngest residents. The City must do more to support our children and our community-based organizations by providing additional funds. We must consider the need for afterschool and vacation care for children whose parents work. Additional funds must be available to support organizations that provide these services to create more day care slots for the local community and facilities. This could have an added benefit of creating jobs. Our local SYEP program is run through a program located at our high school and the school has an aggressive internship program for upperclassmen, but these options are not enough for a community with such a large youth population. The approximately 1600 SYEP slots are the same amount we had a decade ago, when our population was smaller. When the economy turned bad, there was increased competition from older workers for precious few jobs, increasing youth unemployment. These programs provide some of the few opportunities our young people have to gain work experience. CB7 held two gang awareness forums for youth and parents to make people aware of the local gangs in the community and alternatives. NYPD and former gang members provided dozens of people with stark information. Awareness, avoidance and alternatives are keys to combating this problem in our community. image Capital Requests Related to Youth, Education and Child Welfare Priority Agency Request Explanation Location 2/35 SCA Renovate interior Make all schools and facilities within schools building component 100% accessible to all student populations, in new and rehabilitated schools 8/35 SCA Renovate other site Replace playground equipment at PS 971 with 6214 4 component age-appropriate equipment. The school was Avenue built as an early childhood center but has a population up to grade 5, As such, the playground equipment is inadequate for the older children. 20/35 SCA Provide a new or Allocate funds for site acquisition, design and expand an existing construction of a new Early Childhood Learning elementary school Center to serve the students of the Sunset Park/Windsor Terrace communities. 31/35 SCA Provide a new or Allocate funds for site acquisition, design and expand an existing construction of a new high school in CD 7. high school Sunset Park High School opened in 2009, the only HS in the district, and is beyond capacity, as are the school in neighboring communities. It took 40 years of effort to get Sunset Park HS. The CB feels it is necessary to start the process again, given the time scale. 32/35 SCA Provide a new or Allocate funds for site acquisition, design and expand an existing construction for a new elementary school in the elementary school Sunset Park/Windsor Terrace community. Expense Requests Related to Youth, Education and Child Welfare Priority Agency Request Explanation Location 2/24 ACS Provide, expand, or Increase ACS day care slots in CD 7. The enhance primary community's need has increased significantly, prevention services but we have lost seats due to competition for to strengthen space. Head Start had to move for a new public families school and lost half its slots in the process. The popular BAT Kids contract was not renewed and the space was used for Pre-K. 3/24 DOE Other educational programs requests Ensure all children who are eligible for specialized and related programs (NEST, bilingual, ESL, ASD, G&T, OTPT, etc.) in the district receive such programs and services at schools within the district in a continuum of services from pre-K to grade 12 4/24 ACS Provide, expand, or Increase funding for preventive protective enhance child services for children. welfare preventive services slots 12/24 ACS Provide, expand, or Increase programmatic funding for youth- enhance preventive oriented diversion programs concerning drugs, services and crime, alcohol and gangs in CD 7. community based alternatives for youth 15/24 DYCD Provide, expand, or Allocate funds for after school music and arts enhance after programs and comprehensive ASP, ELA, STEAM, school programs for sports and math programs districtwide middle school students (grades 6- 8) 16/24 DYCD Provide, expand, or Allocated funding for after school music and enhance after arts programs and comprehensive ASP, ELA, school programs for STEAM, sports and math programs districtwide elementary school students (grades K- 5) PUBLIC SAFETY AND EMERGENCY SERVICES Brooklyn Community Board 7 image M ost Important Issue Related to Public Safety and Emergency Services Police-community relations CB 7 is a relatively low crime community, with a serious crime rate of 8.7/1000 residents. However, high profile events in the past, including some that have taken place outside of our community and even city, have reopened a rift between some parts of the community and the 72nd Precinct. We acknowledge that the precinct and Brooklyn South has worked diligently to overcome this divergence. We believe community relations have been enhanced with the implementation of the Neighborhood Coordination Officers. We are strong believers that positive relations between our precinct and our residents will lead to even better results in reducing crimes and particularly quality- of-life complaints. Much of the credit for improved relations belongs to Deputy Inspector Gonzalez who has demonstrated that communication and respect for the community leads to communication and respect from the community. image image C ommunity District Needs Related to Public Safety and Emergency Services Needs for Public Safety The implementation of the Neighborhood Coordination Officer program (NCO) has helped to foster improved community relations and dialogue. Residents now have direct access to their local officers, who are essentially community specialists. The diverse NCO officers reflect the diversity of our community, improving understanding, trust and communication, However quality-of-life concerns are the most frequent constituent complaints addressed through the Community Board. The top QOL complaints we recent include: * Double-parking. Changes to and construction on 4th Avenue have highlighted the need for vigorous double-parking enforcement; * Noise. Noise complaints, which are most prevalent in the summer, include residential, but usually concern noise and illegal behavior at businesses (particularly one’s with liquor licenses); * Prostitution. We have seen recent spike in our prostitution complaints, particularly on 39th Street, at or near newly built hotels in the manufacturing district; * Vagrancy/public intoxication: We have also seen an uptick in complaints about vagrancy/public intoxication, particularly in or near parks. The recent introduction of a homeless population to the district through hotels in the manufacturing zones may have led to this increase; * Nightlife. Our community has become popular for weekend raves and party boats have come to the 58th Street Pier (without community approval). This has stretch NYPD resources thin during weekends. Pedestrian safety is also a top concern and we are trying to address this issue through DOT, however, it is vital that appropriate NYPD resources be made available, including an increase in the number of school crossing guards allocated to our community. We have new schools, annexes, pre-K facilities and charters in the past 20 years, as well as a burgeoning population, but have not seen an increase to crossing guards in decades. Several children have been injured or even killed in our district in the past years making this an essential need. Needs for Emergency Services No comments image Capital Requests Related to Public Safety and Emergency Services The Community Board did not submit any Budget Requests in this category. Expense Requests Related to Public Safety and Emergency Services Priority Agency Request Explanation Location 1/24 NYPD Assign additional Increase school crossing guard personnel in CD crossing guards 7 and increase hours to reflect afterschool programs. Our population has grown by 50% in two decades and we have many more schools, charters and pre-K programs, but our crossing guard personnel has remained at 40 throughout. Several children have been hit at unguarded crossing in the past few years in this community, with at least four deaths. The allocation formula has never been explained. 5/24 NYPD Other NYPD staff Allocate funds for additional training of school resources requests safety officers for all schools, especially those serving in schools with District 75 students 8/24 NYPD Other NYPD Increase and sustained truck enforcement. CD 7 programs requests has an inordinate number or trucks due to a large industrial area and poor highway access. Truck traveling off-route in in a dangerous manner (such as speeding) have been an increasing concern for residents. CORE INFRASTRUCTURE, CITY SERVICES AND RESILIENCY Brooklyn Community Board 7 image M ost Important Issue Related to Core Infrastructure, City Services and Resiliency Cleanliness/trash collection All of the above choices are of great concern, however street cleanliness has always been a big issue for our community. Recent efforts made by the DSNY, including enhanced cleaning and additional basket pick up along with resources provided by the Councilman and Borough President have helped improve our ratings to where we are above average for Brooklyn, but still below City average. Cleanliness concerns remain on the cleanliness of our commercial strips, near transit hubs, our industrial area, beneath the Gowanus Expressway and alongside the MTA properties. image image C ommunity District Needs Related to Core Infrastructure, City Services and Resiliency Needs for Water, Sewers, and Environmental Protection The sewers, watermains and catch basins in this community are among the oldest in Brooklyn. There are a number of sewer collapses and undermined roadways reported to the Board each year. Several street reconstruction projects have been on our roster of Capital Budget requests for more than twenty years. The heavy volume of traffic, particularly on 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th and Caton Avenues, major thoroughfares and truck routes, causes severe wear and erosion on these streets and off-route trucks put an additional heavy burden on our side streets, which were not meant to accommodate such heavy vehicles. Our old streets and infrastructure are crumbling and additional contracts and resources must be made available for trenching activities. While the City occasionally paves streets, we are fearful that the underlying causes of the street degradation are not being addressed and repaving merely covers over the problems. We believe that DOT and DEP must address these concerns much sooner and more comprehensively, otherwise it may simply be a waste of funds as streets keep sinking despite new asphalt. Three years ago, a pipe thirty feet below 43rd Street broke leaving residents and businesses on the block without water, sewer and other city services, months of construction and a lack of access, as well as other hardships, on the block. Two years ago, a street collapse on 64th Street prevented travel on the heavily-used Fifth Avenue, including the rerouting of the bus for several days, causing hardships and loss of revenue for residents and businesses alike. It took over a year to repair. We believe that if the sewer and water pipes were replaced in 1988, as they were scheduled to be, this expensive, year-long plus infrastructure problem would not have occurred. We still are waiting on this work, nearly thirty years later. Needs for Sanitation Services Community District 7 continues to host more than its fair share of sanitation facilities. In addition to numerous private carters and recyclers, we are also home to the SIMS Municipal Recycling Facility, which will take most of NYC’s metal and plastic recyclables; the garage for BK-7 and BK-10 (which serves CB10); the Hamilton Avenue Marine Transfer Station. IESI, a private company that takes 1000 tons of city residential trash. We will soon be home to an industrial grease recycling facility, as well. All these facilities require additional trucks in our community and, unfortunately, sometimes we are taken advantage of. Many of the private municipal waste truck drivers take liberties by parking beneath the Gowanus Expressway, along 3rd Avenue or next to Green-Wood Cemetery. image Capital Requests Related to Core Infrastructure, City Services and Resiliency Priority Agency Request Explanation Location 3/35 DEP Inspect water main Establish a design an reconstruction contract for 5 Avenue 34 on specific street 5th Avenue between 34th and 65th Streets, Street 64 segment and repair including sewers, mains, pedestrian plazas, Street or replace as historic lighting and other public amenities and needed (Capital) include an incentive clause for early completion. This project was supposed to start in 1988. It has been repeatedly delayed to (now) 2022. DOT blames DEP's lack of a budget. 7/35 DEP Inspect sanitary Replace sewer pipes in 1st Avenue from 39th to 1st Avenue sewer on specific 58th Streets which was cut out of the 2005 39th Street street segment and street rehabilitation. Green infrastructure 58 Street repair or replace as should be included wherever feasible. needed (Capital) 23/35 DEP Inspect sanitary Rehabilitate the sewer pipe and add green 34th and 35th sewer on specific infrastructure on 33rd and 34th Street between Streets 4th street segment and 4th and 5th Avenues. Avenue 5th repair or replace as Avenue needed (Capital) 30/35 DSNY Provide new or Acquire site to relocate and construct a new BK- upgrade existing 7 garage. CB 7 strongly believes the sanitation sanitation garages garage should not be located on a waterfront or other sanitation property. Additionally, BK-10's garage, currently infrastructure housed in the same building as BK - 7, should be located in its home district. 33/35 DSNY Other garbage Purchase and place "big belly" garbage pails at collection and intersections with heavy pedestrian use recycling infrastructure requests (Capital) Expense Requests Related to Core Infrastructure, City Services and Resiliency Priority Agency Request Explanation Location 6/24 DSNY Provide more Increase funding for corner basket pick up. frequent litter Corner baskets in CD 7 are overflowing and BK - basket collection 7 has responded, in part, by reducing the number of baskets. CB 7 believe more frequent pick ups can alleviate the problem. 13/24 DEP Clean catch basins Increase funding for sewer and catch basin maintenance in CD 7. 14/24 DEP Inspect storm sewer Study water and sewer problems in area Kermit Place on specific street bounded by Kermit Place, East 7th Street, East East 7th segment and 17th Street and Caton Avenue Street East service, repair or 8th Street replace as needed 20/24 DSNY Provide more Restore 5-day-a-week pick up at all schools frequent garbage or districtwide. Many schools do not have capacity recycling pick-up for for storing garbage multiple days. Most of our schools and schools are overcrowded and have more institutions garbage that capacity. 21/24 DSNY Other cleaning Allocate additional personnel for manual street requests sweeping in CD 7 on commercial streets. HOUSING, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND LAND USE Brooklyn Community Board 7 image M ost Important Issue Related to Housing, Economic Development and Land Use Affordable housing creation There is a rising concern that new housing development is not affordable for local residents, as the median income in CB 7 is approximately $43,000/year, while the standard for affordability includes the median income from more affluent communities. Additionally, affordable units that are mandatory within a project that includes developer incentives need to include family-sized units and not just studio and one-bedroom units. Finally, unlike DCP’s characterization at a presentation on the Mayor’s affordability plan, our experience is poor people do own cars and the plan should reflect that reality. image image C ommunity District Needs Related to Housing, Economic Development and Land Use Needs for Land Use CB7 is greatly concerned that hotels are allowed as-of-right in manufacturing districts, as we believe this is a back door way to promote housing expansion. We have spent almost two decades promoting and trying to safeguard our industrial waterfront, through our 197-a study and plan, and wish DCP would close this loophole, which could have devastating consequences for businesses and local employment if additional hotels are allowed to open in our manufacturing area. Many of the most recent hotels built in our community are either being used for homeless shelters. We are concerned these uses may one day make our manufacturing zones unaffordable, opening the door for housing, and throwing thousands of local residents out of their jobs. This as-of-right loophole for hotels in manufacturing zones must be closed. When he was Councilman for this community, Mr. deBlasio promised legislation to close the loophole to allow hotels in manufacturing zones as of right. A decade later we are still waiting for that legislation. In the meantime, those hotels have now become the City's homeless plan. Needs for Housing No comments Needs for Economic Development Our Board welcomes economic development along our waterfront, but insists that any development immediately adjacent to the water be limited to water-dependant and community uses. Our waterfront is our greatest physical asset with spectacular views and large areas ripe for development. We strongly believe that any development in our community must be sensitive to our current residents and businesses. Should businesses be required to move as part of a major development, priority should be given to relocating the businesses within the community. Our priority is to bring additional jobs to the community, not to force some businesses to leave. Our community has seen much of its potential wasted in the past from the placement of negative-impact facilities, such as the Metropolitan Detention Center, power plants and waste transfer stations. The community has received a disproportionate number of these facilities while many of the other neighborhoods in the City receive money to lessen the impact of such facilities or relocated them altogether. Our community has received millions, and promised additional billions, in public and private investments in recent years and there is a concern that such developments and changes will not reach the local residents and may even have negative consequences, such as making housing unaffordable. This issue is especially important now as we will soon have to make a determination on Industry City's proposed rezoning. image Capital Requests Related to Housing, Economic Development and Land Use Priority Agency Request Explanation Location image 1/35 EDC Invest in capital projects to improve access to the waterfront Full funding for construction of Bush Terminal Park through Phase 2, including playground, environmental center and pier 5. Although the park is open, EDC has not provided all the amenities promised to this community. image 5/35 EDC Invest in capital projects to improve access to the waterfront Allocate funds for a bathroom on the BAT campus adjacent to the 58th Street Pier and available to the pier's patrons as well as a properly designed bus turn around and speed humps for the pier Expense Requests Related to Housing, Economic Development and Land Use Priority Agency Request Explanation Location 18/24 SBS Provide or expand Provide vocational training, day habilitation and occupational skills placement services for adults with disabilities. training programs 23/24 EDC Expand public Allocate funds for security in off-peak hours in programming and order to maintain public access at BAT Pier 4 activation of City- owned sites TRANSPORTATION Brooklyn Community Board 7 image M ost Important Issue Related to Transportation and Mobility Freight movement (loading zones, freight related traffic, etc.) This issue includes many of the other issues listed, including the bicycle network, pedestrian ramps, truck routes, enforcement, access, traffic, street lighting and public transportation. Pedestrian safety is multifaceted and not just physical changes and capital outlays. It also includes NYSDOT (and other agencies) as the Gowanus and Prospect Expressways have a significant impact on safety issues. image image C ommunity District Needs Related to Transportation and Mobility Needs for Traffic and Transportation Infrastructure Transportation issues are amongst our most pressing. This is because we are home to two major highways, a large industrial area that requires trucks and because transportation issues have a strong impact on public safety and the quality-of-life in our community. State DOT also plays a crucial role in how trucks access our community as most come via the Gowanus and Prospect Expressways. Unfortunately, constant repair of the Gowanus and terrible traffic on both highways encourages drivers to get off the highways and travel local streets. In addition, a lack of appropriate highway entrances and exits, coupled with our large industrial area, mean that we constantly have problems with off-route trucks looking for ways to get around traffic. These additional trucks on our streets, with more coming due to welcomed economic development along our waterfront, mean additional conflicts with and dangers for pedestrians. City DOT, however, has recognized these conflicts and has worked with the Community Board and others to develop a traffic and pedestrian safety plan for 4th Avenue that has reduced the number of traffic lanes from three to two (north and south), widened the pedestrian medians and vehicle turning lanes, added high visibility paint and plastic bollards. Additional improvements are expected, including sheltered bike lanes and planted medians. However, because the City failed to keep up with these infrastructure needs for decades, many of the projects are happening at the same time, as the City rushes to support our economic growth in the industrial area, including simultaneous lane closures on 2nd, 3rd and 4th Avenues, daily work on the Gowanus Expressway structure, and side street closures in the 40s and 50s. This leads us to worry that agencies are not properly communicating and coordinating on projects, producing extra burdens on our residents and businesses. Needs for Transit Services While we are happy that MTA is finally adding an elevator to the 59th Street station, it is not nearly enough. All station rehabilitations should include elevator and/or ramps. We are very happy the 53rd Street and Prospect Avenue stations have recently been rehabilitated, we feel accessibility is much more important than cell phone charging. More frequent bus service is necessary on Eighth and particularly on 5th Avenue, especially when school is in session. MTA failed to provide traffic agents along 4th Avenue, as promised creating a safety hazard for all traverse the boulevard. image Capital Requests Related to Transportation and Mobility Priority Agency Request Explanation Location image 4/35 DOT Reconstruct streets Establish a design and reconstruction contract for the 20th Street - McDonald Avenue truck route between 4th Avenue and Caton Avenue to make the entire corridor safer for pedestrians, bicyclists and cars/trucks 20th Street/McDonald Avenue 4th Avenue Caton Avenue image 10/35 DOT Reconstruct streets Allocate funds for the design and reconstruction of 3rd Avenue from 65th to 17th Street, to include all service roads, with safer pedestrian crossings and improved lighting at every intersection 3rd Avenue 17th Street 65th Street image 11/35 DOT Repair or provide new street lights Rehabilitate lights beneath the Gowanus Expressway and add shorter street lights to 3rd Avenue 3 Avenue 15 Street 65 Street image 12/35 NYCTA Repair or upgrade subway stations or other transit infrastructure Create secondary entrances/exits at all subway stations in CD 7. This is necessary for mobility and public safety reasons image 13/35 DOT Reconstruct streets Rehabilitate 2nd Avenue between 29th and 42nd Streets and remove unused rail. EDC was supposed to have done this in a 2005 project but removed it without community notice. 2 Avenue 29 Street 42 Street image 16/35 NYCTA Improve accessibility of transit infrastructure, by providing elevators, escalators, etc. Add 3 elevators and rehabilitate the 15th Street/Prospect Park station on the F line to improve station and ensure it is handicap accessible image 22/35 NYCTA Improve accessibility of transit infrastructure, by providing elevators, escalators, etc. Add 3 elevators and make 36th Street station on the N/R line handicap accessible image 25/35 DOT Roadway maintenance (i.e. pothole repair, resurfacing, trench restoration, etc.) Increase funds for pothole repair in CD 7 image 26/35 DOT Reconstruct streets Fund the reconstruction of 39th Street from 2nd Avenue to the Western Terminus 39th Street 2nd Avenue bulkhead line 28/35 DOT Repair or construct Replace sidewalks on Ft. Hamilton Parkway Ft Hamilton new curbs or between East 5th Street and the bridge over the Parkway East pedestrian ramps Prospect Expressway. The adjacent property 5th Street owner is NYC. Prospect Expressway 34/35 NYCTA Other transit Add shelters and benches to all bus stops on 3rd infrastructure Avenue in CD 7 requests CS NYCTA Improve Add 3 elevators to the 59th Street subway 59 Street and accessibility of station for handicap accessibility 4 Avenue transit infrastructure, by providing elevators, escalators, etc. Expense Requests Related to Transportation and Mobility Priority Agency Request Explanation Location 9/24 NYCTA Expand bus service Restore full funding for the B-37 bus to 3rd frequency or hours Avenue in CD 7, with 24 hour service of operation 10/24 NYCTA Expand bus service Increase service on the B63 bus and ensure frequency or hours much more frequent service, particularly during of operation school rush hours. The B63 serves several school inside and outside the district and service levels have not been frequent enough to handle the volume of children. We have received numerous complaints about children being late due to overcrowded buses bypassing stops. 24/24 DOT Improve parking Allocate funds to study the lack of parking operations throughout CD 7 and examine options for increasing parking availability district-wide PARKS, CULTURAL AND OTHER COMMUNITY FACILITIES Brooklyn Community Board 7 image M ost Important Issue Related to Parks, Cultural and Other Community Facilities Park care and maintenance While some of our parks have undergone rehabilitation recently, many remain in need of upgrades, including: • Rainbow playground • Martin Luther Playground • John Allen Payne Park (half rehabilitated) • D’Emic Park • Pena- Herrera Park Bush Terminal Park opened in 2014, but we still only have half the park the community was promised. Its been 5 years and the park still doesn't even have lighting or other promised amenties, such as a picnic area, playground, environmental center or even a plan for Pier 5 as part of the park. In a community that has less than half of the city’s standard for parkland per capita and where nearly 25% of our population is more than ¼ mile from a park, it should stand to reason that the few facilities we have should be kept in top condition. image image C ommunity District Needs Related to Parks, Cultural and Other Community Facilities Needs for Parks Our parks are oases within the concrete City where people of all generations, socio-economic statuses and ethnic and national backgrounds can gather, relax, play or simply enjoy a more pastoral setting within the City. They are for mental rejuvenation, physical fitness and stress relief. However, during difficult economic times our parks see an increase in use because of limited personal recreation funds, but often experience a decrease in programming and upkeep. Together these facts spell trouble for our parks as overused equipment falls into disrepair or natural settings are overtaxed. Unfortunately for local parks, the City’s main parks seem to get all the attention while our facilities become eyesores. Facility upgrades are left to our Councilmembers’ discretion and ability to negotiate and while our elected officials have done a great job bring these funds to the community, we believe it is unfair to them to have to concentrate funds in parks that should be funded directly by the agency. As such, we call upon the City to establish a capital program for local parks that does not rely on limited discretionary funds from elected officials. Needs for Cultural Services No comments Needs for Library Services No comments Needs for Community Boards No comments image Capital Requests Related to Parks, Cultural and Other Community Facilities Priority Agency Request Explanation Location 6/35 DCAS Renovate, upgrade Rehabilitate Community Board 7 rest rooms (to 4201 4 or provide new ensure ADA compliance), lobby, plumbing, Avenue community board electrical and hvac systems and security. CB 7, facilities and despite being in a city-owned building, is not equipment ADA-compliant. 9/35 DPR Reconstruct or Reconstruct Rainbow Playground. 5523 6 upgrade a park or Avenue amenity (i.e. playground, outdoor athletic field) 14/35 DPR Reconstruct or Replace all windows in the Sunset Park 4200 7 upgrade a building Recreation Center. Avenue in a park 15/35 DPR Reconstruct or Rehabilitate D'Emic Playground. upgrade a park or amenity (i.e. playground, outdoor athletic field) 17/35 DPR Reconstruct or Rehabilitate Martin Luther Playground. upgrade a park or amenity (i.e. playground, outdoor athletic field) 18/35 DPR Reconstruct or Rehabilitate Pena-Herrera Park. 4601 3 upgrade a park or Avenue amenity (i.e. playground, outdoor athletic field) 19/35 DPR Reconstruct or Rehabilitate basketball and handball courts at upgrade a park or Greenwood Park. amenity (i.e. playground, outdoor athletic field) 21/35 DPR Reconstruct or Rehabilitate Sherman Street Park at Ocean 318 Sherman upgrade a park or Parkway. Street amenity (i.e. playground, outdoor athletic field) 24/35 DPR Reconstruct or upgrade a building in a park Improve access and add trees and amenities including a spotlight on the monument around the center of Bartel Pritchard Square 27/35 BPL Create a new, or Allocate for acquisition, design and construction renovate or upgrade of an additional library in Sunset Park adjacent an existing public to 7th or 8th Avenues library 29/35 DPR Improve access to a Replace sidewalks and curbs on East 4th Street East 4th parks facility between Ft. Hamilton Parkway and Caton Street Ft. Avenue at the community garden. The adjacent Hamilton property owner is NYC. Parkway Caton Avenue 35/35 DPR Reconstruct or Rehabilitate the portion of John Allen Payne upgrade a park or Park that has not already been rehabilitated amenity (i.e. playground, outdoor athletic field) Expense Requests Related to Parks, Cultural and Other Community Facilities Priority Agency Request Explanation Location 7/24 DPR Other park maintenance and safety requests Increase Parks personnel budget for additional maintenance workers and Recreation Center workers 4200 7th Ave 17/24 DPR Forestry services, including street tree maintenance Increase funding for tree planting and pruning district-wide in order to expedite schedule
    6. OTHER BUDGET REQUESTS Other Capital Requests The Community Board did not submit any Budget Requests in this category. Other Expense Requests The Community Board did not submit any Budget Requests in this category.
    7. SUMMARY OF PRIORITIZED BUDGET REQUESTS Capital Budget Requests Priority Agency Request Explanation Location image 1/35 EDC Invest in capital projects to improve access to the waterfront Full funding for construction of Bush Terminal Park through Phase 2, including playground, environmental center and pier 5. Although the park is open, EDC has not provided all the amenities promised to this community. image 2/35 SCA Renovate interior building component Make all schools and facilities within schools 100% accessible to all student populations, in new and rehabilitated schools image 3/35 DEP Inspect water main on specific street segment and repair or replace as needed (Capital) Establish a design an reconstruction contract for 5th Avenue between 34th and 65th Streets, including sewers, mains, pedestrian plazas, historic lighting and other public amenities and include an incentive clause for early completion. This project was supposed to start in 1988. It has been repeatedly delayed to (now) 2022. DOT blames DEP's lack of a budget. 5 Avenue 34 Street 64 Street image 4/35 DOT Reconstruct streets Establish a design and reconstruction contract for the 20th Street - McDonald Avenue truck route between 4th Avenue and Caton Avenue to make the entire corridor safer for pedestrians, bicyclists and cars/trucks 20th Street/McDonald Avenue 4th Avenue Caton Avenue image 5/35 EDC Invest in capital projects to improve access to the waterfront Allocate funds for a bathroom on the BAT campus adjacent to the 58th Street Pier and available to the pier's patrons as well as a properly designed bus turn around and speed humps for the pier image 6/35 DCAS Renovate, upgrade or provide new community board facilities and equipment Rehabilitate Community Board 7 rest rooms (to ensure ADA compliance), lobby, plumbing, electrical and hvac systems and security. CB 7, despite being in a city-owned building, is not ADA-compliant. 4201 4 Avenue image 7/35 DEP Inspect sanitary sewer on specific street segment and repair or replace as needed (Capital) Replace sewer pipes in 1st Avenue from 39th to 58th Streets which was cut out of the 2005 street rehabilitation. Green infrastructure should be included wherever feasible. 1st Avenue 39th Street 58 Street image 8/35 SCA Renovate other site Replace playground equipment at PS 971 with 6214 4 component age-appropriate equipment. The school was Avenue built as an early childhood center but has a population up to grade 5, As such, the playground equipment is inadequate for the older children. 9/35 DPR Reconstruct or Reconstruct Rainbow Playground. 5523 6 upgrade a park or Avenue amenity (i.e. playground, outdoor athletic field) 10/35 DOT Reconstruct streets Allocate funds for the design and reconstruction 3rd Avenue of 3rd Avenue from 65th to 17th Street, to 17th Street include all service roads, with safer pedestrian 65th Street crossings and improved lighting at every intersection 11/35 DOT Repair or provide Rehabilitate lights beneath the Gowanus 3 Avenue 15 new street lights Expressway and add shorter street lights to 3rd Street 65 Avenue Street 12/35 NYCTA Repair or upgrade Create secondary entrances/exits at all subway subway stations or stations in CD 7. This is necessary for mobility other transit and public safety reasons infrastructure 13/35 DOT Reconstruct streets Rehabilitate 2nd Avenue between 29th and 2 Avenue 29 42nd Streets and remove unused rail. EDC was Street 42 supposed to have done this in a 2005 project Street but removed it without community notice. 14/35 DPR Reconstruct or Replace all windows in the Sunset Park 4200 7 upgrade a building Recreation Center. Avenue in a park 15/35 DPR Reconstruct or Rehabilitate D'Emic Playground. upgrade a park or amenity (i.e. playground, outdoor athletic field) 16/35 NYCTA Improve Add 3 elevators and rehabilitate the 15th accessibility of Street/Prospect Park station on the F line to transit improve station and ensure it is handicap infrastructure, by accessible providing elevators, escalators, etc. 17/35 DPR Reconstruct or Rehabilitate Martin Luther Playground. upgrade a park or amenity (i.e. playground, outdoor athletic field) 18/35 DPR Reconstruct or Rehabilitate Pena-Herrera Park. 4601 3 upgrade a park or Avenue amenity (i.e. playground, outdoor athletic field) 19/35 DPR Reconstruct or Rehabilitate basketball and handball courts at upgrade a park or Greenwood Park. amenity (i.e. playground, outdoor athletic field) 20/35 SCA Provide a new or Allocate funds for site acquisition, design and expand an existing construction of a new Early Childhood Learning elementary school Center to serve the students of the Sunset Park/Windsor Terrace communities. 21/35 DPR Reconstruct or Rehabilitate Sherman Street Park at Ocean 318 Sherman upgrade a park or Parkway. Street amenity (i.e. playground, outdoor athletic field) 22/35 NYCTA Improve Add 3 elevators and make 36th Street station on accessibility of the N/R line handicap accessible transit infrastructure, by providing elevators, escalators, etc. 23/35 DEP Inspect sanitary Rehabilitate the sewer pipe and add green 34th and 35th sewer on specific infrastructure on 33rd and 34th Street between Streets 4th street segment and 4th and 5th Avenues. Avenue 5th repair or replace as Avenue needed (Capital) 24/35 DPR Reconstruct or Improve access and add trees and amenities upgrade a building including a spotlight on the monument around in a park the center of Bartel Pritchard Square 25/35 DOT Roadway Increase funds for pothole repair in CD 7 maintenance (i.e. pothole repair, resurfacing, trench restoration, etc.) 26/35 DOT Reconstruct streets Fund the reconstruction of 39th Street from 2nd Avenue to the Western Terminus 39th Street 2nd Avenue bulkhead line 27/35 BPL Create a new, or Allocate for acquisition, design and construction renovate or upgrade of an additional library in Sunset Park adjacent an existing public to 7th or 8th Avenues library 28/35 DOT Repair or construct Replace sidewalks on Ft. Hamilton Parkway Ft Hamilton new curbs or between East 5th Street and the bridge over the Parkway East pedestrian ramps Prospect Expressway. The adjacent property 5th Street owner is NYC. Prospect Expressway 29/35 DPR Improve access to a Replace sidewalks and curbs on East 4th Street East 4th parks facility between Ft. Hamilton Parkway and Caton Street Ft. Avenue at the community garden. The adjacent Hamilton property owner is NYC. Parkway Caton Avenue 30/35 DSNY Provide new or Acquire site to relocate and construct a new BK- upgrade existing 7 garage. CB 7 strongly believes the sanitation sanitation garages garage should not be located on a waterfront or other sanitation property. Additionally, BK-10's garage, currently infrastructure housed in the same building as BK - 7, should be located in its home district. 31/35 SCA Provide a new or Allocate funds for site acquisition, design and expand an existing construction of a new high school in CD 7. high school Sunset Park High School opened in 2009, the only HS in the district, and is beyond capacity, as are the school in neighboring communities. It took 40 years of effort to get Sunset Park HS. The CB feels it is necessary to start the process again, given the time scale. 32/35 SCA Provide a new or Allocate funds for site acquisition, design and expand an existing construction for a new elementary school in the elementary school Sunset Park/Windsor Terrace community. 33/35 DSNY Other garbage Purchase and place "big belly" garbage pails at collection and intersections with heavy pedestrian use recycling infrastructure requests (Capital) 34/35 NYCTA Other transit Add shelters and benches to all bus stops on 3rd infrastructure Avenue in CD 7 requests 35/35 DPR Reconstruct or upgrade a park or amenity (i.e. playground, outdoor athletic field) Rehabilitate the portion of John Allen Payne Park that has not already been rehabilitated CS NYCTA Improve accessibility of transit infrastructure, by providing elevators, escalators, etc. Add 3 elevators to the 59th Street subway station for handicap accessibility 59 Street and 4 Avenue Expense Budget Requests Priority Agency Request Explanation Location 1/24 NYPD Assign additional Increase school crossing guard personnel in CD crossing guards 7 and increase hours to reflect afterschool programs. Our population has grown by 50% in two decades and we have many more schools, charters and pre-K programs, but our crossing guard personnel has remained at 40 throughout. Several children have been hit at unguarded crossing in the past few years in this community, with at least four deaths. The allocation formula has never been explained. 2/24 ACS Provide, expand, or Increase ACS day care slots in CD 7. The enhance primary community's need has increased significantly, prevention services but we have lost seats due to competition for to strengthen space. Head Start had to move for a new public families school and lost half its slots in the process. The popular BAT Kids contract was not renewed and the space was used for Pre-K. 3/24 DOE Other educational Ensure all children who are eligible for programs requests specialized and related programs (NEST, bilingual, ESL, ASD, G&T, OTPT, etc.) in the district receive such programs and services at schools within the district in a continuum of services from pre-K to grade 12 4/24 ACS Provide, expand, or Increase funding for preventive protective enhance child services for children. welfare preventive services slots 5/24 NYPD Other NYPD staff Allocate funds for additional training of school resources requests safety officers for all schools, especially those serving in schools with District 75 students 6/24 DSNY Provide more Increase funding for corner basket pick up. frequent litter Corner baskets in CD 7 are overflowing and BK - basket collection 7 has responded, in part, by reducing the number of baskets. CB 7 believe more frequent pick ups can alleviate the problem. 7/24 DPR Other park Increase Parks personnel budget for additional 4200 7th Ave maintenance and maintenance workers and Recreation Center safety requests workers 8/24 NYPD Other NYPD Increase and sustained truck enforcement. CD 7 programs requests has an inordinate number or trucks due to a large industrial area and poor highway access. Truck traveling off-route in in a dangerous manner (such as speeding) have been an increasing concern for residents. 9/24 NYCTA Expand bus service Restore full funding for the B-37 bus to 3rd frequency or hours Avenue in CD 7, with 24 hour service of operation 10/24 NYCTA Expand bus service Increase service on the B63 bus and ensure frequency or hours much more frequent service, particularly during of operation school rush hours. The B63 serves several school inside and outside the district and service levels have not been frequent enough to handle the volume of children. We have received numerous complaints about children being late due to overcrowded buses bypassing stops. 11/24 HRA Provide, expand, or Increase funding for adult ESOL, adult literacy enhance and adult education programs in CD 7. educational programs for adults 12/24 ACS Provide, expand, or Increase programmatic funding for youth- enhance preventive oriented diversion programs concerning drugs, services and crime, alcohol and gangs in CD 7. community based alternatives for youth 13/24 DEP Clean catch basins Increase funding for sewer and catch basin maintenance in CD 7. 14/24 DEP Inspect storm sewer Study water and sewer problems in area Kermit Place on specific street bounded by Kermit Place, East 7th Street, East East 7th segment and 17th Street and Caton Avenue Street East service, repair or 8th Street replace as needed 15/24 DYCD Provide, expand, or Allocate funds for after school music and arts enhance after programs and comprehensive ASP, ELA, STEAM, school programs for sports and math programs districtwide middle school students (grades 6- 8) 16/24 DYCD Provide, expand, or Allocated funding for after school music and enhance after arts programs and comprehensive ASP, ELA, school programs for STEAM, sports and math programs districtwide elementary school students (grades K- 5) 17/24 DPR Forestry services, Increase funding for tree planting and pruning including street tree district-wide in order to expedite schedule maintenance 18/24 SBS Provide or expand Provide vocational training, day habilitation and occupational skills placement services for adults with disabilities. training programs 19/24 HRA Provide, expand, or CB 7 believes community-based employment enhance job training training programs for special needs populations should be restored. 20/24 DSNY Provide more Restore 5-day-a-week pick up at all schools frequent garbage or districtwide. Many schools do not have capacity recycling pick-up for for storing garbage multiple days. Most of our schools and schools are overcrowded and have more institutions garbage that capacity. 21/24 DSNY Other cleaning Allocate additional personnel for manual street requests sweeping in CD 7 on commercial streets. 22/24 DFTA Enhance CB 7 believes city senior centers are now in educational and competition with for-profit facilities that have recreational access to federal reimbursement. Programs at programs city facilities should be enhanced to compete. 23/24 EDC Expand public Allocate funds for security in off-peak hours in programming and order to maintain public access at BAT Pier 4 activation of City- owned sites 24/24 DOT Improve parking Allocate funds to study the lack of parking operations throughout CD 7 and examine options for increasing parking availability district-wide