Councilman Mark Treyger announced $850,000 in funding for anti-gun violence initiatives one day after a man
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COURIER LIFE, DECEMBER 20-26, 2019 3
BY ROSE ADAMS
Coney Island Councilman
Mark Treyger announced
$850,000 in funding for antigun
violence programs on
Wednesday as shooting rates
soar throughout the neighborhood.
“Gun violence is not and
cannot be accepted,” said
Treyger. “The new investments
that we have made,
and will continue to make,
focus on a holistic, comprehensive
public health approach
to public safety and
gun violence.”
The announcement came
just hours after police found
an unconscious 38-year-old
man in the hallway with a
gunshot wound to the abdomen
at the Carey Gardens
Houses on Surf Avenue.
First responders rushed the
victim to Coney Island Hospital,
where doctors pronounced
him dead, according
to police, who have not
yet made any arrests in the
case.
The incident marks the
13th shooting within the
60th Police Precinct — which
includes Coney Island, Sea
Gate, and west Brighton
Beach — marking a more
than three-fold increase in
shootings over the previous
year, according to Police Department
statistics.
The sharp rise in Coney
Island gun violence stands
in sharp contrast to the rest
of the borough, where shootings
are down from 231 to
205 year-to-date.
In response to the peninsula’s
growing epidemic,
Treyger helped secure
$300,000 from the Mayor’s office
for an anti-gun violence
initiative in Coney Island
called the Crisis Management
System, which deploys
experts in an effort to deescalate
conflicts.
The legislator simultaneously
announced $550,000 in
Council funding aimed at education
and mentorship programs
throughout the area
for at-risk youth.
That funding includes:
$100,000 for the Center for
Alternative Sentencing and
Employment Services, which
provides mentorship, employment,
and educational
supports with stipends for
justice-involved youth
$140,000 for employment
services for ex-offenders
$100,000 for art therapy
at the Surfside Community
Center
Nearly $140,000 for high
school equivalency classes
that include free meals and
childcare
$11,000 for a therapeutic
services along the peninsula.
“We need innovative approaches
and all-hands-ondeck
partnerships to address
gun violence, and the
trauma it causes in our communities,”
said Treyger.
“I’m grateful to all of our
nonprofit partners and local
leaders for their dedication
and collaboration to healing
our community and keeping
everyone safe.”
Coney Island gets
anti-gun funding
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